skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I for one would feel disgusted with myself if I were to discover that I'm nothing more than the output of a reward function. YMMV.

Well we use different words for it, but I’m not sure I understand the alternative? The brain is a physical thing, and it’s (in the broader physiological/hormonal environment) making the decisions. “Reward function” sounds reductive, but obviously it’s a much more complex phenomena than all current human created AI. We’re not just minimizing a sum of squares, if that’s what you mean.
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I installed an SSH client on my phone and my life instantly got better.
It sounds like you fall into the tail of medical diagnosis. Doctors are incredible good at traumatic response, that's where they're at their best. They're not so great at chronic illness. They're terrible at prevention. If you fall into the edge case of a chronic illness, where it is tough to diagnose (i.e. a test doesn't just spell it out for the practitioner), you may as well be on your own. You have to do tons of research into symptoms, isolate your environment and diet, etc.

I've been through this, and I've seen a close friend go through this, and doctors have been far more harmful than helpful in my n=2 experience. They're quick to diagnose the most common possibility, and dismissive of any other possibility. But here's the thing: that all makes sense! Given the demands on doctors time and the ROI for quality of life for patients, doctors are, and should be incentivized to spend as little time as possible per patient and to diagnose them with what is most likely, given the evidence and previous knowledge.

I think medicine is one of the last great frontiers for the people to relaim through the internet. We don't take anyone's word for it when it comes to any other field, only medicine. I think we should all come to accept that we are our own doctors, first and foremost. We need to research how to take care of ourselves. Doctors are dramatically undertrained on preventive medicine (particularly diet), and I've had them tell me things that are flat out wrong, including outdated science: "losing that much weight is bad for you" when I dropped from being obese over a 6 month period, "that diet is very unhealthy" when I tried Paleo, "fat's will give you heart disease" when I tested with keto and wanted blood work done, "there really is no need to supplement" when my blood work showed severe deficiencies in vitamin D and Magnesium (both extremely important), etc etc.

Preventive medicine and health optimization does not come from doctors, we need to stop expecting it.
> it's utter nonsense

That's what they want you to think!

/s
My tldr client has a --platform flag that takes 'linux, osx, sunos, or common'. So there is some support there for platform-specific tldr pages at least.

Also my tdlr-pages checkout is only 19MB, so I'm not too concerned about bloat. I'm not really sure how having tldr's for irrelevant commands would be a problem, maybe with some shell autocompletions? Maybe there is a way you could prune the tldr-pages checkout?

I guess all I can really say is tldr works really well for me and I like it a lot. Nothing is perfect, but tldr is quite nice despite some warts.
I strongly recommend taking a look at first three sections in the article I linked above: 'Abstract goals', 'Rewards that are far in the future', 'A disconnect from our future self'. They will give you a lot of insights into why this is an issue for you, which can later help you find a solution.

Also, here are two techniques I discuss that you might find helpful:

- Try to find ways to reward yourself for making progress on your way to your end goal. For example, you can create interim goals that are closer in time and reward yourself for making progress.

- Try to visualize your future self achieving the long-term rewards that you're interested in.
I'm not a psychologist so this comment is just random text that accidentally might help.

Journaling, self-reflection and professional help are a good start. Journal your daily life. Triggers, foods, challenges you set, what worked, what failed. Be more forgiving of yourself as you grow. Each failure is a learning experience. Try again. Review patterns as you notice them.

If you don't want professional help, then understand anxiety is often "too much potential future" and/or "too much recycled past" and not enough "actual now". You need to gradually build up resistance and resilience to your fears/anxiety.

Look for clinical psychologists like Jordan Peterson etc. he's posted a lot on youtube about anxiety etc. Learned helplessness and CPTSD are also some other possible things to be aware of when examining anxiety.

The problem with doing it alone is the increased number of blind alleys you will waste time in. As well as prolonging anything you don't notice. But you have your reasons - they are what they are.

Recruit allies to help where possible. Self-help does not mean you do it alone.
Why does your NPD process fail?
I think PINE's ordering page is very much clear that if that's the sort of thing you'd RMA for, they'd rather not have you as a customer. My understanding is they're making basically no profit on these early run PineBook Pros and PinePhones.

This is like an $800 laptop feel for a $200 laptop price. Minor defects are worth just living with. And eventually, you can always buy yourself a replacement screen too.
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Public services like garbage trucks, police, firefighters. There are also private services that heavily depend on driving. Your electrician/plumber has to carry tools that won't fit on a bicycle.
You've stated exactly why the Tyler Cowen episode was so good. Cowen said a couple of times, look, if you think you know something about the market that everyone else doesn't, then construct a fund that can outperform everyone else. Actions speak louder than words. You can talk about theories all day long, but if you have the courage of your convictions, why not prove it. Eric just didn't pursue that train of thought.
>Everything loaded after a 1 second delay, so I'm assuming that that's how they got around ublock.

I'm not aware of any adblocker that disables blocking a few seconds after page load.

>Crazy that I saw some no-name site like this getting around my adblockers before I've seen any major site do it so nimbly. Congrats, I guess.

Not really surprising at all. Adblockers operate on blacklists, and if your site is small enough you might be able to fly under the radar and not get added to those lists.
Ask HN: Is there any free Weather API?
I appreciate you developing on underpowered machines, as it likely means the end product will not suck on the average user's computer!
I'm not a C++ developer but I really enjoyed reading this.
Kaggle should be looking to the police on how to handle cheaters. He stole 10,000 dollars, he defrauded h20.ai, etc. That's "go to jail" level crimes, not just "get banned from a competition and fired" level crimes.
In his book The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford has a section about The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

In 2012 they issued a report about the usage of Visudyne/photodynamic terapy which the Royal National Institute of Blind People objected to.
Redis gives you fundamental data structures (lists, sets, hashes - plus a few other like zsets and hyperloglogs) that represent a powerful way of expressing computation. I'm not acquainted with the full spectrum of Postgres' data structures, so I cannot do a fair comparison; all I can say is that Redis is awesome and I can't get enough of it.
Microsoft introduced a feature in Internet Explorer 11 to specifically combat this type of abusive action, that is the interference of browser settings by third parties, via extensions. It's a shame to see them on the other side of their users' interests.
It depends. OpenWeatherMap has a free plan: https://openweathermap.org
I went 35 years of managing to be a capable, but never exceptional, achiever -- in high school, college, and in my career. I've also been a terrible procrastinator all during that time.

It was never evident to me in school because I'd get the same grades as the kids working substantially harder than me. However, once I got into the workforce, and it took me many years to realize it, that performing to the "mean" was not where I wanted to be.

The turning point for me was finally getting an ADHD (particularly the attention side, as an adult) diagnosis and being treated for it. Once I started on Adderall, I finally saw myself able to put in the same efforts as others and it felt like I was able to get ahead of others in terms of performance.

Besides the chemicals helping, just being able to focus better made it easier for me to figure out what systems I need to in place to ensure I'm staying on top of things and being productive. You often hear this advice but for someone who has a difficult time starting things, the idea of "building systems" is overwhelming.

I'm not sure I'm at the point where I'm confident enough to taking the pills but I'm pretty sure if I did, I'd be better off than I was before I started.
Do we have an increase of Narcissists with the increase of Social Media?
I use OpenWeatherMap. Which has a pretty great free tier. Many APIs are "free" at least to some level, though if you are hoping to pack the API key in an app you ship to millions of people, expect to pay for it. APIs cost money and server resources to run, the free lunch is only ever going to extend to a certain amount of use.
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Looks like trello!
The gutsureness it takes to become a public figure appears to bleed into the certainty of their statements (e.g. causality, predictions). It's hilarious.

Could say we're in a certainty epidemic
I hope the cat analogy is helpful to someone. I can't help pointing out an inaccuracy though:

> The system wouldn't work if it only got satisfaction from eating.

Many predators only hunt when they're hungry, and it works fine for them. Housecats are an exception. Humans have bred them to be "good mousers", meaning they don't stop killing when they're no longer hungry.
I think about this a lot from time to time.

> facing issues with our reward function

I would say, we are facing issues with our CULTURAL reward function.

For very long now our culture have deified those few people that can overcome, achieve and excel. What if the point to our existence isn't to overcome our obstacles to productivity in "getting things done" - but instead to go out, explore, create, drink, eat & be kind to each other within a relatively small community of people. I'm not saying that I know what that looks like, but I know I've wanted to run into the woods and never come back, a good few times now.
Oh, sorry, thanks for correcting. That line from a commenter was actually an additional idea, not from you. I totally agree with you. Bundling a global visitor-visible version-control system would bring the whole idea closer to the never-implemented xanadu project.
You seed this kind of thing used by spammers on reddit from time to time. They'll get an upvoted comment which is very visible to other users and then edit it to include a link to some shady website.
Biodiversity appears automatically if you stop human intervention. The problem isn't that it's irreversible. It's that we destroy it at a faster rate than it recovers.
oh agreed - there are still some limits to this - a CEO doesn't need to understand the differences between an interface and an abstract class, know hex color codes off the top of their head, etc.
Kaggle rules routinely restrict use of datasets to approved ones, almost certainly yes but you would have to check to be certain.

The prize was $10,000, not "fun".
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I think this seems to fall into the exact trap he is talking about. You say it's about emotions, but then you launch into a bunch of time management techniques.

You talk about emotions but seem to have missed the crux of the problem, and then all the techniques you start with are all time management techniques (which he's already said don't work). You do have some emotional advice, but it never head-on confronts the problem.

That it will be uncomfortable to start, but that's ok. It passes.

Nowhere in your guide is this advice of how to just get started:

The next time you’re tempted to procrastinate, “make your focus as simple as ‘What’s the next action – a simple next step – I would take on this task if I were to get started on it now?’”. Doing this, he says, takes your mind off your feelings and onto easily achievable action.

That's about managing emotions.

Your first advice is to start making huge lists of goals, steps, etc., which can be another form of procrastination. That might be useful once you've stopped procrastinating, not now when you're procrastinating. His advice wasn't to get a list of your goals done. It was to simply to pick the smallest task you can think of now. Realise it's going to be uncomfortable, but that's life and it'll (usually) pass in minutes. That's about getting started.

Nowhere do you explain, as the article does, that it's about being able to tolerate uncomfortable thoughts and feelings.

As a persistent procrastinator that's just got 4 hours of solid work done with the simple little trick described in the article. It worked. Yours doesn't, I've done those lists many times before. Realising that yes, it's uncomfortable, but just do the first small task you can think of, your advice is too BIG. Too MUCH. Start simple, and then build those other things.
A better solution for high traffic flow is the turbo roundabout[0] which is getting increasingly popular in Netherland. Before you enter the roundabout, you select the lane for the direction you want to go. You only cross traffic when entering the roundabout for the first time. After that, you simply follow your lane and it delivery you where you want to go.

It looks complicated from above, but it's very simple once you're on it. It can handle a much higher traffic flow than other kinds of roundabouts. The only potential downside is that you need to know where you want to go before you enter the roundabout. There's no possibility to keep going around until you figure out where you want to go.

[0] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turborotonde
(In Dutch, but with images. "Rotonde" is Dutch for roundabout.)
> Everything will move in the direction of an iOS like model where the platform owner can just veto apps and ban developers, as that's the only way to deal with "abuse".

Unless the adults aka the state steps in and orders them to do their jobs instead of bullying each others and the users they are supposed to serve.
I didn't encounter that concept, so I don't know. That said, I'd argue these are unknown unknowns, but they're not unknowable in principle (except perhaps in areas where incompleteness theorem applies).
Not trying to be argumentative here, but is what they did actually against the rules? I'm not at all familiar with this competition which might be why I'm not quite so worked up about this, so maybe I have misunderstood something. Did the competition really require that they only train on the provided data?

I compare this to my favorite sport, Formula 1 racing. In F1, teams of engineers with nearly unlimited budgets spend an absurd amount of effort doing everything in their power to bend the regulations (the "formula") to squeeze out some extra advantage.

For example, in this past season Ferrari was suddenly outperforming the pack (and their own recent performance) and it was clear something had changed on the car, they had power in places they didn't before. What finally came down is a clarification of the rules around fuel-rate metering, without directly calling out Ferrari. After the clarification, Ferrari power was back where it used to be. Nothing more was said of the matter by the FIA.

What we all _think_ happened is that Ferrari, knowing the fuel rate meters ran at 10kHz, discovered they could pulse their fuel pump so that the low-end of the flow rate cycle happened during that sampling interval. This means they could increase their overall fuel rate beyond what was technically allowed, due to how that technical requirement was being measured on the car (and reported back to the FIA).

Is it in keeping with the spirit of the rules? Of course not! Does it make for an interesting engineering puzzle on top of an already-exciting sport? Sure does!

Clearly I'm in the minority here, but I think this sort of problem-solving approach can be useful. If you're looking to compete against a field of entrants who are all looking for obvious and well-understood approaches to solving the problem at hand, I think sometimes the best solution to stand out is to look where the other teams aren't looking.
I know some government contracts require that “the data doesn’t leave the US” my understanding is that this is to discourage subcontracting to non-US companies
Literally none of these are links to the sort of thing being described.
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I do agree with you on general point. However, I don't think reputations are to be dealt in absolutes. I would like to discuss your points one by one:

> Microsoft

* MS Office is still the best office suite as of today, I don't think anyone would argue.

* Windows is still the most 'compatible' and 'easy to use' OS today for non-apple hardware. I don't think penguin system users will argue. This is coming from someone who used linux with breaks for 10~ years. It is still _hard_ to get it working as it was years ago.
However, for years I heard many developers refusing to consider anything .NET, MSSQL,... related to be picked for tech stacks due microsoft history and current ecosystem. Money definitely lost on their part

> Oracle

* Same, tech people refusing to get involved with Oracle due their litigious nature. Money definitely lost

> Ethereum

* I am not the best person to talk about this and this might not be the example. Fork reduced my trust in cryptos in general as my expectations were different.

> Google

* Gmail is great email service. On top of that free. Same with Google search. However I would argue that Google new products which "lock you in" will not be as popular because of their abandonment of many services

> Apple keyboards

* This is more personal, but I saw similar experiences from others. Terrible keyboard, terrible replacement keyboard reduced my trust so much that I moved from their ecosystem. This is on top that components were soldered resulting in non modular expensive laptops (can't replace it myself fast/cheap). Money definitely lost on their part

Edit: formatting
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Not lobbying, but "Kids for Cash" is the worst case I've seen that demonstrates the conflict of interest.

Several judges took bribes from private prisons to incarcerate juveniles for minor offenses. While the judges have substantial jail sentences, the developers got off light at <2 years in jail and some fines. For wrongly keeping minors imprisoned, and leading to the suicide of at least one of the wrongfully jailed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
Seems to be struggling with some of the nations in the UK. I can get London (England) and Swansea (Wales) no problem, but Edinburgh, Dundee, Glasgow (Scotland) etc. don't work. Nor do Derry, Belfast etc. (Northern Irish cities).
> Exurb1a

I am familiar with him and fond of his videos, generally speaking. How much of his 'teachings' I can apply is a separate matter.

> Here's the hard truth: You have conditioned to feel guilty if you don't spend your time either producing or consuming.

True. Despite not being a huge fan of consumerism, I am convinced it is shaping my decisions one way or another. Since our whole system is built around this, there's no telling where the need ends and the mindless shopping begins. For example, if I get a tear in my favorite T-shirt, I'd probably buy a new one, while my grandmother would have tried to repair it.

What is definitely true is that I have conditioned myself to produce. Part of it might be simply societal pressure, part of it might be my personal ambition to 'be someone', but I think a lot of it is the realization that all the dreams I had as a child are slowly becoming crushed by the realities of adulthood, my limited energy, my limited brain. Because of all this, I realize that my existence is not special in any way. I am just some other soul lost in the crowd, not glowing in any way. Some day I will die and the world will not have been better or worse because of it.

Funny you bring up Elon. For all the criticism he is getting lately, I can't help but think of him as the person I want to be. This guy dares to not only think about a future with space exploration and hyperloops in it, but also does something about it. Say what you will, but there are not many people on the same level of audaciousness as him. With that said, I will never even be close to what Elon is and accepting this is hard.

The more I read and learn, the more disappointed I am with the world. I feel like apart from maybe 2-3% of the population, the rest is strictly concerned with how they can impress their friends at an upcoming party, sports, how good or bad the new Avenger movie is, how to remodel their kitchen and so on. The whole world is driven almost entirely by advertising, PR, marketing, influencers. It's driving me mad at times, thinking about how little true achievements are celebrated. Just a random one - China just released some pictures from the moon and seeing them gave me chills. I believe few people would care at all about this.

And I just don't know if this is the way things eventually end up or if the world could have been vastly different with just a few different twists of the historical timeline.
Great idea. Will pitch that to the council.
In my personal case, I procrastinated way too much for not being "myself". Once I fixed that.... I stopped procrastination a lot.

Indeed I agree with the opinion that it is more a problem of emotions rather than time managing and my personal experience showed it to me.

Fortunately for me I knew me and knew what was wrong and when I attended that, it just worked out as expected.
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One problem is that the line of demarcation between "document" and "application" isn't always totally clear cut. I think most of us intuit that something like Gmail is an "application", whereas something like https://people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.h... is a "document". But as soon as you introduce something as trivial as user login, now you need forms, cookies, etc. And Javascript can be used to make "rich documents" (I'm thinking of things like Tangle.js based docs, for example) that blur the line between "document" and "application".

For that matter, where does HN fall on the spectrum? It's not as "application'y" as some sites, but it's certainly not a static document either.
You could just stop reading the NY Times. They've gotten enough wrong that they shouldn't be the newspaper of record any longer. I'm a little partial to the LA Times - during the elections as I recall, they had less lean one way or the other.
No. But i don't have an need for mass access so the basic case works fine for me. I keep a backup key on a separate yubikey that does not require touch for key maintenance.

Apparently there is a new "cached" option for the touch settings "Touch is cached for 15s after use (valid from 4.3)." Which would work for your use case but also neglect some/most? of the security advantages.