skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who used to regularly fall asleep to TV, it wasn't just a learned behavior. I have a very overactive mind without stimulus it tends to get to work, but with something like TV sitcoms I'm not particularly interested in my mind empties and lets me get into a sleep mode. Despite not having a TV in the bedroom for years I still have issues if I try to go lay in bed right away, so it may not be so simple for OP

What I've learned helps me is watching TV / listening to music while laying on the couch, and moving into the bedroom with a dim light once I feel myself drifting. Still, I often fall asleep next to the TV, but its better than tossing and turning half the time until I have to take melatonin to force my body to fall asleep
Radical centrism, or else!!
not doubting your experiences but just out of interest if you can tell, what security-relevant sector uses stock ubuntu and exposes themselves to the internet like this? I've never seen a setup like that before.
I wish more recipes specified ingredients by weight instead of volume.
APEX? Does it still work?
Regressive fascists don’t tend to reach their potential engineering quality.

Take that number. Subtract all women and Kurds, people who speak critically of the government. Adjust for the academics held as political prisoners and brain drained talent.

That’s your engineering base. You can’t square the engineering circle when your government is actively engaged in repressing the population.
The upside of being a psychopath is that you don't have to justify it to yourself; you sleep well as long as your belly is full. The downside is the amount of effort required to maintain a false persona that is persuasive to others. Smarter psychopaths don't get too hung up on that, instead finding less smart or well-resourced psychopaths willing to perform that work on their behalf, eg think of a cult leader who rarely appears in public or only issues bland truisms, and whose adherents maintain the reputation of the leader sufficiently carefully to assure a sufficient supply of new recruits, but not more than the cult organization can absorb without losing status or cohesion.
Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials
The opposite is true: a 10 page inquiry into what it means to be a moderate with citations and sources might not get voted up, but it'd clear the on-topic bar; that's the kind of "intellectually interesting" stuff that is the reason the site doesn't simply ban politics altogether.

Much more importantly though is what the content does to/with the community. Unless there's something truly remarkable about it, political content on HN generates terrible threads. Unlike embedded JIT compilers or linear algebra books, virtually everybody on HN can summon a strong opinion about routine political content, and a huge fraction of those opinions will piss someone else off. It's not a new phenomenon; it's why "politics and religion" is a cliche about what's out of bounds for civilized conversation.

Some political content is worth the thread drama. But this obviously doesn't clear that bar (and, again, I'm not suggesting Paul Graham thinks it does; he didn't submit it).
No writer on urban issues annoys me more than Joel Kotkin, who every six months writes some version of this exact same article in which he says media hipsters keep overhyping dense cities and downtowns while population growth evidence shows that most people move to sprawling sunbelt suburbs.

-- Ezra Klein

https://slate.com/business/2013/04/kotkin-on-suburbia-he-for...
So, you just want to have a semantics debate then, about who gets to define what certain terms mean. That's admirable, but I'm not sure is what OP's article is really about.
True. I’ve happily been living aboard on lake union for the last 6 years now, though :)
> ... or I have to add a repo from some guy I don't know or trust.

The Debian PHP maintainer, Ondřej Surý, maintains his own repo:

* https://deb.sury.org

* https://packages.sury.org/php/README.txt

* https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=ondrej%40debian.or...
Clearly, posting something to your own site isn't by itself a request to start a debate about it on Hacker News.
As Georgia rolls out new voting machines for 2020, worries persist
I still consider originating IP address to be a leak - what about private intranets, processing-only infrastructure etc? Not everything is a traditional public-hosting model.

In the screenshot posted you can see the following data is being sent out:

```bash

USER_AGENT="curl/$curl_ver $lsb $platform $cpu $uptime cloud_id/$cloud_id"

```

This is 100% not acceptable. That data is NOT to leave my environments.
No. You can write a compiler for any language in Scheme, but it's disingenuous to say that Scheme has that language's features. There are many languages with way more powerful features than Scheme if you're comparing type systems.
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12106478
GP means more openings in management track than in similar level IC-expert track.
Which makes sense seeing

1) in those 8 person teams you mention there may not always be a place for an expert IC

2) companies often reserve the IC-expert budget slots for internal IC promotions while relying on management slots on external recruitment to a higher degree
I'll skip the pretty standard advice here that basically boils down to "put clear boundaries so your brain is tricked into thinking you are at an office".

This brain hack never worked for me so I'll give you mostly the reverse advices:

1. Make a very comfy work place at home. It can be at your gaming machine as long as you don't stop work to game or browse HN/Reddit/what-have-you.

2. To build discipline, you have to change your mindset to goal-oriented and not hours-oriented. It's not about putting your arse at the chair at 9:00 and getting up at 17:30. Not at all. It's about "I want to achieve X and Y today".

3. One thing from the other advices I do like is: make sure you get social and human contact every now and then. It's extremely easy to never talk to anyone ever again if you work and rest at the same real estate. Go out for coffee or to pack lunch. Do that to refresh your brain and to have an excuse to exchange a few phrases with people.

4. If you are not a person that has an exact work and rest schedule, that's quite fine; everybody has been telling me that I shouldn't work a minute outside the work hours but I never found this to be productive. I sometimes had days during which my work hours have been all a haze and then I got a power surge at midnight. As long as working at random hours does not depress you (it does depress many though, have that in mind!) then it's quite fine to do it.

5. Dressing for work is something that I, again, found optional. I am quite fine working in my pyjamas and I never felt lazy because of it. Dress comfy! I've spent days with pyjamas and a blanket on my legs.

---

Truthfully, your biggest hurdle is NOT to think "I am at home, I can slack". There are multitude of ways to cope with that but mine was to switch to a goal-oriented mindset and not an hours-oriented one.

If you can overcome the laziness because you're at home and are not closely supervised then honestly, you'll be just fine.
Yes and no. Higher public tuition costs allow private entities to raise their tuition as well. While it depends on the college, I contend that most private colleges are not competing on cost. Schools like Harvard and Duke use price as a way to convey prestige, so they need to remain higher priced than their public counterparts. Schools like University of Phoenix compete on convenience, but if everyone else is charging higher tuition, then they can justify even higher tuition costs as well since everyone else is doing it and this new price is the de facto standard.

Now, I agree that the Feds need to cut back on loans in order to put pressure on the states to reduce their tuition costs. Essentially, the student loan system allows the states to receive free federal money by using students as the vessel of that transaction. I find that morally wrong. At the same time, there are a huge number of students who need some kind of loan to pay for college. I believe it to also be morally wrong to create a system where only those of means can enjoy public education. If the states adequately funded their universities, the universities held their tuition costs down, and either the state or the feds provided loans, then this wouldn't be an issue. However, this requires all of these institutions to agree on the principles of access to education and this isn't happening.

I don't know how to fix this. If the Feds eliminated their loan and grant programs, I personally believe that tuition costs would go down or stabilize because a large-section of the population would not be able to afford the current prices, so the universities would be forced to reduce tuition. This would benefit middle class families who have saved for education. I also believe this would prevent low income families from attending college and I'm not fine with this prospect.
It takes 5-10 years to write, test and productionize a database or filesystem. If you're planning to invest that kind of time and effort, some suggestions are:

* if you're writing a distributed database, a novel and valuable feature would be to consider the network partition case foremost. For example, design the database from the standpont of a node being down for a month.

* do adequate logging so that an operator can understand what is going right or wrong

* how can terminated nodes automatically be rebuilt efficiently and automatically?

* all configuration settings should be dynamic

Source: experienced DBA, worked with Cassandra, Influxdb and most SQL RDBMSs
Had to look up the foundation. Why would you need to do a background check to donate? Seems counter productive.
I would argue this is not completely new. But still a fascinating look into how the cities of microorganisms on/in us influence our behavior.

Toxoplasma gondii, an interesting topic if you want to read about how something in the gut can affect complex behavior in a mammal. Rodents are actually atracted to the smell of cat pee after being infected with T. Gondii.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110817175920.h...

For the human perspective;
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25223400?seq=1
this is pretty cool. i got distracted looking at the ib client repo, does it send strategies as a combo order or legs individually?
I've seen some of the worst developers commit more LOCs than others (churn in badly written code, or "cut-and-paste hell"). I've also seen developers sandbagging the metric (as well as artificially inflating code coverage measurements) by checking in fluff code; a null check on every pointer or reference parameter can get you 5-10 lines of actual live and executable code that is practically guaranteed bug-free and politically correct, even for functions you haven't really started implementing yet. Saw this being used in a USB stack once, it had been worked on by serial contractors and was a real eye-opener (when we got it, it was 5K LOC or so; we whacked it down to about 1100 LOC by removing a bunch of badly-motivated layers; removing the junk sped it up quit a bit, too).

My position is that if you're evaluating people by comparing metrics, you're probably a terrible manager.
I think I have the 1999 edition of that book. I don't really remember finding it dated. Maybe the earlier editions. I do remember it is an excellent book for learning PL fundamentals.
Utterly touching relationship stories as told by women
I’ve always heard that it inhibits REM (dream) sleep, but as it wears off, your body tries to make up for the lost dream sleep and you get the flood of crazy dreams right before you wake up.
Roads are not safety nets, roads are jointly owned means of production. Same with the electic grid, the broadband network (where I live), school, trains, sewers, water. Lots of things are jointly owned means of production.

Note the question is not "Are we entirely socialist?" but "are we partly socialist?". Yes, we are partly socialist. No, there are still things that are not jointly owned so we are not fully socialist. Hence the grey thinking instead of saying "We are not fully socialist so none of that matters!".
Both the moderate left and right are exposed to the extremes of the other side in political echo chambers where strawmen, boogey monsters and real life crazies are presented as the 'far' left and right.

There are plenty of terrible political ideas and actions that die on the vine and they end up collated into messy echo chambers. Mentioning those terrible ideas seems too much for polite company so you have to go looking to find any.
One of the promoted examples on the indieweb site for webmentions is sending webmentions manually with curl. But since it's form encoded you'll never know what the values were when you look in the logs. If it was just a URL string then you could do the entire thing manually with cURL. You'd have to agree this would be a distinction with a difference.
> interface

What are some ways that FreeCAD can solve the problem of paying the rent of people who walk around holding their users' business problems and UI frustrations in their head?
You don't have to speculate, this is reality in Europe.

An important part of these systems are the limits on the number of students admitted to most programs.

For example in Hungary there are centralized final exams at the end of secondary school (age 18-19) and you get a score at the end. You can apply to several universities at the same time, in a preferential order. Then, each year, an algorithm goes down the list of all students ordered by their score and allocates them to their topmost choice where there's still room.

(Also there's no "soft" and subjective bullshit, like essays about your motivation and proofs of "well-roundedness".)

This way the state can focus the subsidy to educational fields that will benefit the economy more, while still subsidizing a certain number of places everywhere.

(Of course if you don't have enough points, there are further, paid places as well.)
It doesn't. Power to weight of ordinary well done motors is approaching 5kw per kilogram, and top tier ones even passed 10.

Weight of a motor is not an issue for practical considerations for EVs
I agree and I would go even further.

Ideas don't exist in continuous space.
More important than how loud people are or what viewpoints they publicly claim to have is how they vote. Take a look at who has been getting elected to congress in the US recently: https://xkcd.com/1127/

Now, more than ever in our lifetimes, a lower percentage of congress is moderate. Center-right Republicans (the conservative party) have almost vanished. This isn't about a lack of choice either, because we've seen a bunch of long time incumbent congressmen lose to to people further from the center, like when Republican Bob Bennett finished 3rd in a Utah primary election to 2 far right tea party candidates.

If most people held moderate viewpoints, like you assume, then congress would be getting more moderate, no?
Oh, I see. Different version of rural then. Those are far less remote areas than I was imagining.
There might be an opening for an OSS alternative to game engines like Unity and Unreal. There are scores of open-source game frameworks out there, but there's nothing I'm aware of that comes close to the ease-of-use and cross-platform-build support that Unity has. Of course, you might have an uphill battle because both of the above are free for smaller projects and have fairly generous pricing models that scale based on income.
The progressive dissociation of financial markets from real economic activity was the primary cause of 2008 - it’s the existence of credit derivatives that made it possible to crash the world economy. That’s very much a marxist prediction come true.
Any resources on that? I assume we're essentially talking rowboats here, given the price range. I was going to say I'm very skeptical it's as easy as you make it sound, but after a quick mental rundown of material cost, I'm suddenly curious and maybe would like to build a boat!
If Tesla took Shopify's advice it will be dead right now. Every scenario is different.
It’s a hard question because of the imprecision of the law. If it’s a potential problem, talk to counsel.
Many people perceive a deep, masculine voice as authoritative. It's just the same way a big musclebound guy will be taken more seriously than a physically frail person saying the same thing. We haven't evolved as much as we like to imagine.
I don't know. I use Podcasts every day.
Sure okay but you do expect someone somewhere to debate you on it. That the forum ends up being hackernews isn't really significant to me visavis your opinion that some published writing could be free from debate.

> It sucks having to be careful about what you because of what other people will do with it, and the weird debates you'll be forced into as a result.
Does it man it's no longer safe to update Ubuntu, for the risk of getting some spyware tools?
"The Gameboy’s CPU is known as the DMG CPU. It is equipped with 6 registers of 16 bit each and they’re called AF, BC, DE, HL, SP and PC."

Those look like Z80 register names. Guess it's a Z80 and the article autor doesn't know that?
I think the shortening of "financial and business success" to "success" can be a bit unfortunate.

My big metric for success is currently how many hours I can spend on my bike a week while still feeding myself and providing for loved ones responsibly.
I use givewell ( https://www.givewell.org/ ) out of fear of this kind of thing. I have no affiliation with them but I do recommend them due to the way they evaluate charities.
There's a lot of numbers between 10% and 100%. A charity that donates 100% of the collected funds is one that only employs volunteers in their free time: I can understand they might not be the most efficient and effective. At the same time, a charity that uses 100% of it funds in administrative costs is simply a scam. There could be two solutions:

1) a law that mandates charities to display front and center the percentage of collected funds that went to charity in the previous year;

2) a hard cap on administration costs, maybe 1/3 of the collected funds.
We do those on January 2. (Or the first weekday in years when Jan 2 is on a weekend.)
Carl Baker and Howard Hughes: Petroleum History Almanac
I rebuilt a Vortex Cypher as my daily driver. Internally its the same board as the Pok3r. But I get a nice split spacebar for an 'extra' key. Swapped out the switches, added LEDs, and painted the case trim.

Rebuild pix here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/33qzHsgjVStY75F58
Version control may implemented through some sort of block chain. Block chain may be used for version control. You should get back to basics!

If you explain why you think block chain would be a good idea, you would probably arrive at some form of actionable specification. Then implement that in the simplest way, trying to strike a balance between minimum effort and maximum value.
If a person is walking north, about to walk past a parking space, and a car is heading south and signaling left, it's very surprising to see the car pass the person by, then suddenly reverse and try to enter the space. Once the car is past, most people assume it's signaling to turn farther along, instead of about to go backwards.

EDIT: To be clear, I'm describing a perpendicular-parking scenario, where people usually make a right angle turn going forward to occupy the space.
Just when you're not visiting the site, right?
A lot of what I've seen is that people in the trades will encourage their kids to go for the desk jobs because the trades are hard on your body and dangerous to boot.

It always seemed like the cargo culting around trade school doesn't come from it as a career option but rather because it comes from a bias against traditional colleges. In reality what we should be doing is making both the trades and college free so that students have their choice of career and education rather than trying to pigeonhole them down one path because education has transformed from a societal good to one purely for work.
>A bit like saying you should never use a bank or credit cards and do everything with cash.

Yes, it is. I try to never use my bank card and always pay for things (even big purchases) in cash. For online stuff I try to use Bitcoin as much as possible.
Sketch, Figma
I've seen these all over delivery websites in SF. I've so far refused to order because a) I can't look up multiple review sources to get a feel for their quality/reputation and b) I don't know their physical location, which matters a lot for delivery times and freshness in a congested city like SF.
Over the last year, I have averaged 8.95 LOC* per hour as a full time* developer.

Lines of Java + TypeScript, my two most used languages, purposefully excluding configs, html/css, etc.
Assuming 8 hours of work per day; this is less than the time I spend at work, but probably more than I spend coding, due to meetings/email/overhead.
246 workdays, which is 30 days off, some of which are public holidays and the rest are vacation.
I'm a relatively junior dev.
> sweated the details

I strongly suspect you are correct. As stale evidence of culture, I offer some writing by a software developer who used to work for Microsoft on Excel:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/24/user-interface-des...
Qualitative Data Analysis systems. RQDA and QualCoder are under development, but the pace is generally slow and many features are buggy and remain untested on common operating systems. Some products out there on the market are better than others (I use MaxQDA) but come at a hefty price, even with a student discount.

Also transcription software. Not voice recognition, but software that assists with manual transcription. I'm amazed that no open source alternative to F5 exists out there, since it's a relatively simple mechanism (keyboard shortcuts to denote speaker, paste timestamp, include annotations, etc and ability spool back to rewind 2 seconds).
OTOH, if “we can easily look that up” is never said, it’s likely you’re not asking probing questions. Or that the other side is probably more confident than they should be.
This is unnecessarily pedantic. It's rather obvious in context that "sending an SMS" means sending an SMS from your phone (you know, the thing SMS was invented for) rather than using a third-party web service to send an SMS on your behalf.
> I'd look for something higher leverage than just being a developer. Own more of the problem space.

Could you elaborate please?
Is it possible that more hours of streaming for a show somehow reduces the purchase price? In return the content producer gets more exposure (in their thinking).

From Netflix perspective, the income per subscriber is fixed, so now focus on reducing operating expenses (including content acquisition). Maybe?
I have a solution to these metric gotchas. Don't install Jira at all and then you won't be tempted by any of them. Better yet, don't hire a manager at all. Instead get one or two senior devs and include them in some business discussions and incentives.
> I've never professed to understand why many people view academia as an institution in which the end goal is to agree with the professor for the grade.

I didn't believe it either until I experienced it personally.
I mentioned it in another comment but this functionality is included with the "base-files" package:

$ sudo apt remove base-files
...
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
base-files bash
...
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
?]

Have fun with your broken system after removing that!

The best you can do is disable it (and hope it isn't silently re-enabled later):

$ sudo systemctl disable motd-news.timer
Ranger is great. https://ranger.github.io/

It supports single- and multi-pane modes.

https://github.com/ranger/ranger/blob/master/ranger/config/r...