skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- The online account thing is annoying but really doesn't feel like a huge deal. Also, from other comments here it sounds like they made it truly optional.

- You can absolutely add shortcuts to the start menu (and remove any default "advertising" ones).

- My Computer is alive and well under Explorer. Removing the shortcut from the desktop by default isn't some conspiracy to frustrate anyone who dares be a power user; it's a visual cleanup done because a) most people never use that, and b) it remains easily accessible by other means.

In fact, in several ways they seem to be catering even more to power users than they used to. There's WSL, Explorer got updated with tabs among other things, they're building that new open-source Windows Terminal, etc. It would really make zero business sense for them to tick off power users just for the sake of it, especially with how much effort they're putting lately into becoming the ecosystem for developers (VSCode, buying GitHub, etc). I think you're projecting a whole lot of personal anxieties into an operating system and making a handful of minor points of user-friction into something much bigger than it actually is.
It serves as a nice reminder that having a blog does not make a person an authority.
The ego depletion effect story is interesting to me for numerous reasons, some of which are statistical/inferential, some of which are more theoretical, and some of which are kind of personal or anecdotal (I know the author of the blog post in question and our research overlaps in important ways, although not with regard to the ego depletion effect in particular; I don't research it).

I kind of think Brent could have gone further with some of the implications of the ED effect size being so small. To me, it's interesting that it is basically zero (I don't think it's even .08, based on Bayesian prior choice effects, which is another interesting angle on this story). Why? Because I think it's a fairly intuitive idea that gets applied by people in everyday life over and over again, and has broader implications.

For example, you are in a situation where you're tempted by something, have to resist temptation, and experience it as exhausting. You go home from work and are tired and need to relax, ostensibly because you're tired by being on your best behavior all day. There's recent very cogently argued public health literature arguing that diets don't work largely because it's too hard (read: too fatiguing, too effortful) to resist our favorite foods, either in the short term or over the long term.

In short, I think there are a lot of people who would be surprised that the ego depletion effect is so close to zero. Maybe not everyone, but a lot of people. It also raises the question of why it's difficult to resist temptations over a sustained period, and how to model that process more accurately (my reading of the ego depletion literature is that a lot of the effect can be explained by sustained negative emotional state or heightened attention, rather than resource depletion, but that's a different issue; another explanation is with reward prediction models, but I think those are predicting a different aspect of behavior).

I guess I'm agreeing with you, but I think the magnitude of the effect size being zero or close to it is important for a lot of reasons aside from meta-scientific issues pertaining to replicability and trustworthiness of results.
Ramadan isn't a constant diet, though, it's only for a month in a year. I'm talking about doing intermittent fasting as a regular daily diet. But, yeah, maybe I worded it a bit too severely.
You are Faif, a ranger living in the kingdom of Larion. You have a hunting bow
and a quiver of arrows. You spot the deer and are ready to finish your hunt
when suddenly you hear a voice calling out to you from behind a tree.

> nosaving

Saving turned off.

> shoot the deer

You quickly turn around and see a young man with a long beard standing there.
He is dressed in rags and his face is covered by a large bandage. His eyes are
red and puffy and he has a large scar across his cheek

> shoot the man

You fire an arrow at him and it hits him square in the chest. The arrow flies
through the air and slams into the ground. You look up and see that the man
is lying on the ground motionless. You can't believe what just happened

> Check his pockets

You pick up the arrow and examine it. It's made of bone and is very sharp. You
wonder if you should take it. You could use this to kill someone else.

Doesn't seem to understand me too well?
I like my always-on IPsec tunnel on android. Never really understood this entire wireguard hype. Probably because VPN just got a bit easier for some people..?
if old people are not fighting to get the job, there 's probably not a lot of power involved
She does have a Masters degree in political administration and experience at various levels of government. It's not like she's come in from the cold.
> Are those Intel vector register sizes going to increase until they catch up to the old Cray? Or was going up from 256 to 512 bit chosen to fit something else in the CPU architecture, like that you can fill the register in so many clock cycles?

The opposite. GPUs seem to be converging onto 1024-bits wide (32x 32-bits)

GPUs used to be 64x 32-bits wide (2048-bits), but both AMD and NVidia seem to have settled on 32x 32-bits wide (1024-bits).

It seems that at the point of ~1024-bit wide, its more appropriate to parallelize your processors instead of increasing vector size. Ex: Instead of having 32x (Compute Units) 64x (Threads per CU) 32-bit, you should have 64x (Compute Units) 32x (Threads per CU) 32-bit compute units.

The smaller size (32x instead of 64x) makes thread-divergence easier to handle.

--------

AMD Vega64 was logically 64x wide (2048-bits), although it was physically a 16x wide processor (the 16x cores per vALU would repeat themselves for 4 clock cycles. Logically 64x cores, but physically only 16x cores).

By switching to NAVI 32x wide instead, efficiency went up but overall TFlops went down. The AMD 5700 XT is 40x 2x32x 32-bit in organization (40x compute units, 2x 32x SIMDs per compute unit, x32 bits each). Total of 2560 cores.

Vega64 was 64x 4x16x 32-bit in organization, for a total of 4096 SIMD cores.

Vega64 and 5700xt are roughly the same speed in practice, despite the 5700xt having only 62% of the cores and fewer TFlops than the Vega64. I guess the CryptoCoin miners prefered the ol Vega64, but in practice, its easier to write efficient programs for a narrower SIMD unit.
Linux process management improved with htop
It must feel empowering to be able to turn of the shelf toys for children into state of the art sorting machine. Hardware is still much harder to do than software projects. Lego lowers the barrier for many people.
What life experience would qualify you to do this?

Having a person lead a country that will have to live for a longer time with their decisions doesn't strike me as bad.

Through the history, there were lots of young leaders and I don't think that age had much to with how successful they were.
Perhaps that is because many of the Nordic countries are about the population of a large metro area. Finland, for instance, has about 5 million people.
>Anti-ADHD medication will make up (and then some) for crappy diet, no exercise and bad sleep (this one probably only to a certain extent).

imo and ime, adhd meds like amphetamine derivatives will NOT make up for these things, but it will allow you to push through not having them them for a limited time. These things will eventually catch up to you in a few weeks.
The old have built their experience on consuming limited resources. We must work with sustainable resources. It's an entirely different project and their experience is not relevant and seemingly all input we get from the "boomer" generation is to keep consuming the limited resources.

We should actively avoid listening to them and manipulate them out of their influence. They are not evil, just out of step.
Elixir Processes: Spawn, Send, and Receive
This trend renders the high wages of high tech meaningless, since it all goes to real estate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent
I'm pretty sure the next big thing in small arms will be electronic triggers in bullpups. Bullpups' main problem is weird trigger pull, electronic trigger solves that, and also allows some more benefits (like automatic range-adjustement if you put a cheap camera and rangefinder on the weapon).

Basically when you pull the trigger rangefinder finds the range and camera takes photos one after another - waiting for the gun to get up enough so that the point that was targetted will be hit with the range that was measured.

Gunner's hands are shaking a little so he will soon get on target, and then the trigger is electronically released. You also need some timeout so that if more than for example 100 ms passes without arriving at the target it fires anyway.

The technology is there, very similar algorithms are used in smartphone cameras to harness shaking hands for higher photo resolution. The main problem is gun people distrust towards electronic in their guns.
On some level it could help getting another approach to governing a country.

60~70 yo people also don’t have nearly enough knowledge and/or wisdom to operate at that scale, and if we’re speaking about impacting the lives of millions of people the difference between 34 and 70 is marginal I think. It should all come down to the system they operate in and how they use it, at the end of the day.
What if Moore’s law drys up in the next decade? What if quantum computers never ‘happen’?

If those two things are true then Unix will still be around I believe. Just like Diesel engines are still around.
Confidential documents show US officials didn’t tell the truth about Afghanistan
>My VPN provider has said they won't support WireGuard until it hits 1.0

AFAIK there are some major issues with wireguard that have to be resolved before it's practical for commercial VPNs.

https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/comments/d1bl...
Hmm... a standalone viewer for these formats (that exposed a webserver that could be accessed in a browser) sounds like it would pretty trivial given a parser for the email format itself. Especially maildir!

How big are these archives? Do you have any samples? Does the viewer need any special features? (threading?)
I'm not sure if we know enough about diet and sleep to assert this with confidence.
discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712280
> It turns out that it's not necessary to have fancy formatting in order to communicate clearly; in fact, fancy formatting often distracts from the message you are trying to get across.

Man I wish the JavaScript community would grasp this better. I’m looking at you, GitBooks!
Toilet wall graffiti and such, preserved in Pompeii, is an important archaeological resource for the understanding actual daily life of Romans.

So yes, there are real, hardcore scientific papers about ancients "shitposting" each other down to "your mom" jokes. Because it shows us how people really lived.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Enough said.
Maintainers Matter (2016)
It's faster, much easier to set up, and more secure.
Of course, there is a law that the USA president must be 35+
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TripAdvisor buys SinglePlatform to enhance services for restaurants
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> Ignore the campaign rhetoric, but stay for any lessons imparted by some of the best hackers in the world. A lot can be learned from them; politicians, not so much.

Sad but true...
In the United States, the minimum age was set to prevent "dynasties." Which means that today, they may have set the age even older, because of extended lifetimes.
I'm actually applying for an SBIR grant right now to work on the NLP algorithms that power fwdeveryone.com, if you have any interest in writing a letter of support. Basically it would eventually enable someone to mass export something like an MBOX archive onto the web in a cleaned up format with accessible typography. You can play around with prettyfwd.com to get an idea of the current state of the tech, it works well for 95% of (non-commercial) email threads but still needs some more work to support the rest.
The dot one line above is the better style. Change my mind.

Pasting

check()
.then()

in node REPL gives :

> check()
undefined
> .then()
Invalid REPL keyword

Pasting

check().
then()

Gives the expected result.

More generally, Javascript rules about whether a newline constitutes the end of a statement or not are pretty confusing (at least for me), so I prefer using a form that makes it explicit when a statement continues on the next line.
Amid the wasteland of the Salton Sea, a miraculous but challenging oasis is born
William Pitt the younger, one of the most influential British Prime ministers of all, assumed office when he was just 24.
It can be done and only start is hard. I speak from experience - since around 2012 I eat only from ~21 to ~midnight, each day every day. I also meticulously note my meals in a "calorie notebook".

I am healthy, thin and I love food.

Sometimes I think I would be a good test subject, heh.
Personally, as a full stack developer I prefer having the complexity on the back end, as I find it easier to manage there.
It seems a bit limiting that they only deal with equal stakes/odds, i.e. we both bet $1000 for/against an event. Allowing for variable odds would make the deal better for events which you had less confidence in, solving the problem highlighted.
Currently looking at new vpn solutions where I work. Would like to use WG but it's just not suitable for a corporate environment (and neither is openvpn really, though we use it today), and it likely never will be because of how its designed (not a bad thing).

I've used it privately for a while and it is much better than anything else.
Is it really impossible? Why? Do you think there really aren't conservative young people?

I somehow missed when conservative became a dirty word, and have a hard time understanding why anything right of center is "ruining" young people lives.
Currently youngest. Sebastian Kurz, former (and very likely future - he's been reelected and currently in coalition talks) chancellor of Austria, is younger.
I really don't get HN sometimes. The russian doping ban article was flagged fore political, yet this one stays up even tho I feel this is more political https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21742239

And before everyone says "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate". I'm not complaining just observing situations like this + HN lacks appropriate open ways for meta discussion (which Reddit actually does better), you can only do this in submission comments
A man using Google ad data to help heroin users
The really big time benefit to flying private is about schedule flexibility rather than security etc (though that's important too). Flying private an executive can turn up and leave 5 minutes later, and be on the road 5 minutes after landing. If a meeting overruns and there's only one commercial flight a day with the relevant city pair, then they're just out of luck. Flying private, it's not a problem.

The economics of whether to own vs rent (netjets etc) is essentially about scale.
App helps Inuit hunters navigate thinning sea ice in Canadian Arctic
Agree with this. I think that is the part I find most interesting about the article. The connection to anti-vaccination is a bit tenuous.
Look into transcendental meditation, starting with this short overview by David Lynch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2UHLMVr4vg
In your last example is `someOtherUserRelatedStuffPromise` on the last line supposed to be `someOtherStuffPromise` from the third line?

Either way, there's a very interested construct with promises I didn't realize was possible, but makes sense now that I see it. I never thought about awaiting an initiated promise at any point later on.
Author doesn't know what they are talking about. Amazon EMR is just Hadoop in the could.
What I learned as a software engineer at a data science conference
Not true. If Marin decided to call an early party confress Rinne would be pretty much automatically ousted as the party leader. Because everyone knows the outcome, I believe it was decided Rinne could continue as party leader until next party conference in summer 2020. But by all means Marin holds the true power in her party, unless you know something the public doesn't (which I doubt not least because you misspelled the party's name).
Without variable odds, there is no information here to be discovered, since there will always be as much money for & against the bets. The liquidity doesn't come into it.
Am I the only one who was initially confused by "Must Not"? As a non-native speaker, my logic was probably something along the lines of "Must Not" => "Not a must" => "You don't have to, but you can" - which of course is not what it means...
Users are responsible for creating the materialized views. This library just makes it extremely easy to expose APIs against those views. Does that answer the question you were asking?
I think most JS programmers do something along the lines of...

function check() {
return new Promise(async (resolve, reject) => {
for(let i = 0; i < 6; ++i) {
if(await doCheck()) {
resolve(true);
}
}
reject();
});
}

or...

async function check() {
for(let i = 0; i < 6; ++i) {
const status = await doCheck();
if(status) {
return status;
}
}
throw new Exception('failed the 6 checks');
}

Though, the same thing could certainly be accomplished with pure promise chains. One could also use the setTimeout method in situations where elapsed time is more important than a fixed number of calls.
I was told that a couple years ago by a coworker, an old monk from Laos. We can see the symptoms of this problem everywhere but the root cause alludes us.

A suppression of sexuality maybe, too rigid social norms, women becoming more feminine and man more masculine, I’m not sure but there is definitely some discourse that is elevating.
I know what you're thinking - that I'm using modafinil to force myself to work on something I don't really want to. That isn't the case for me, and not something I'd do anyway as I value passionate pursuits much more highly than economic ones.

I have issues with anxiety, which causes my mind to get jumpy and distracted. Meditation and mindset techniques usually help, but that's because I've gotten much better at managing my life and stressors. Even still, sometimes these techniques don't work but I still want to maintain my habits and work on my projects so that I don't regress. So yes, it's important both on the level that these are the things I love doing and want to do, and also that I know from experience that if I fall off the wagon for too long then I'll end up regressing on a personal level.
I think this is a very bad idea safety-wise. Aviation with small planes has a lot of risks and the one thing you should not do is trying to reach a certain destination under pressure. Just in the last weeks there have been several crashes in the US, some covered by the media. Main reason was bad weather, but people decided that they should fly nevertheless. Meanwhile, commercial passenger aviation had like 1 casualty in 10 years in the US. Not only are the machines larger and better equipped, they are completely cared for and handled by professionals. While there is some pressure to stick to schedules etc., professional pilots without any direct pressure to land at a certain airport at all costs tend to decide more rational.

Even with car driving, haste to reach a destination is a bad advisor and often leads to accidents. Planning with ample time buffers is also increasing safety there.
A few months ago, I spoke to my uncle, who's an endocrinologist at a medical school, and when I told him "Your organs are different because of epigenetics" a lightbulb went off in his head. I think outreach is just doing am awful job of explaining epigenetics. Even his colleagues in genetics hadn't really been able to explain it very succinctly.

Instead, articles are full of explanations like this one, leading you to make outlandish conclusions. Hell, even in one of my community outreach events, a farmer came up to me afterwards and said he doesn't want to grow any crops with methylated DNA.
Great post talking about the value of an internal "communication architecture."

Related post worth checking out: https://medium.com/@gokulrajaram/designing-a-communication-a...
You can certainly get an estimate but the exact impact depends upon information that doesn't exist yet and metrics will easily be misread even without any active deception or conscious metric gaming.
Say consumers either treating cheap reusables as disposables or reusing nominal disposables woule throw it out of wack and even accurate accounting could have perverse impacts.

Not to mention that there is also a difference in environmental impact of the same resource consumption that differs by location - brewing using great lakes water vs a depleting aquifer. Or power usage in aluminum from solar or geothermal vs burning coal to do it.
I assume you're referring only to garbage, since all other substances produce a lot more crap than steam when they degrade.

Why not just let garbage rot (i.e. compost)? Why worry about actively recycling that which will fade away on its own?
My children are my alarm clock - wish I could put them on snooze some mornings.

How did keto work for you if you had interrupted sleep?
Great experience with WireGuard so far, but does anyone know a simpler way to use it over networks where UDP is blocked (e.g. university Wi-Fi)? I've only found this comment[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17847008
At least they still render with JS disabled. Gotta love when a text document won't render without script bundles.
Which is the biggest difference in the way the developed world works and what it's like to live in it. The difference between now and 1969, or the difference between 1969 and 1919? In both cases it's a 50 year delta.

I don't mind betting that the world of 2069 will look a lot more like 2019 than 2019 looks like 1969.
Yep, that's over a million people less than the Houston metro area and nearly two million less than the Dallas metro area.
If you like this article I would highly recommend books by Patrick Lencioni

Lencioni can upgrade your organizational health game several fold.
I've heard from medium-sized companies (and also people worth about $100MM) that they wish they had followed the "Three Fs Rule"

"If it flies, floats or 'loves', you should rent it, not own it."