skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are you approaching your product in a way that discourages your company from morphing it into a money manager that upsells your users credit cards or loan products?
they're using python 2.7. perhaps started on an earlier one. maybe there was nothing except java 1.4 when they started.
Doom is great. Here are my notes on Doom workflow: https://noelwelsh.com/posts/2019-01-10-doom-emacs.html

It might be a bit out of date now but at least 90% still holds.
>> Buckle up and get it done, it's that simple.

> Would you tell a depressed person

Yes I would absolutely tell that to a depressed person. And I have said it. I was depressed for a decade. And yet people spoke to me this way, because that's life. I was on antidepressants. I took care of my problem(s) and I still got my job done while struggling, medicating, and going to therapy. A big part of therapy was learning to separate "them" from "me" in my internal dialog.

You know what? I'm glad someone spoke to me that way. It got me up and motivated to work on myself. I can't imagine how poorly I would have turned out if I was coddled and allowed to stay in bed and read about all of these new pop-psych diseases I could blame. But that's just me. Maybe I can reach someone the way I was reached.

However, you are conflating two completely unrelated things. I am not responsible for your internal mental state, nor is anyone responsible for mine. This is a crucial skill that I believe is sorely lacking.
Splitwise would work, but another way would be to tag everything that needs to be split, and then to compare the sums at the end of the month. Basically make the "tally it up" part automatic.

The nice thing about manual entry, and using Splitwise, would be that you could pull out your phone and say "your turn to pay" and treat it like a balancing act instead of transferring money. Whoever is behind, pays today.
> There are some communities where it's competitive to get onto a SAR team. This typically happens in large urban areas right next to popular outdoor locations.

Yep, I'm in Denver, CO. D:
So help break down this claim for me:

> argument is that they had actual systematic power

That's the sort of ephemeral power I mention, and that's the kind of claim that requires both evidence and specificity. Do people have that power because of a given trait (their gender, their skin, their nationality), or do they have it by being "the majority"? Does this apply to all majorities? If men of Asian descent are the majority in your field, should you react by having non-Asian focused groups?

> minorities within a given sphere often lack actual power because their specific needs go overlooked.

Do minorities have fundamentally different needs? Sure in your case of someone who is wheelchair bound that applies, but that doesn't seem to apply to say Brown-eyed software developers (to intentionally choose a non-combustible example).

> Would you join a wheelchair users group and ask for a stairs advocacy subcommittee in the name of equality?

I don't have an issue with exclusive groups. I have an issue when only some people are allowed to form them. If someone wants to form a stair -championing group, they should be able - even though it's silly. The people who prefer stairs and the people who are unable to use them both have fundamental rights to organize.
Even just traffic analysis makes any kind of communication potentially leaky. Encryption matters, but it doesn't protect against everything. Even the lack of communication leaks information.
so if procrastination is usually sadness masquerading as inaction (and it might well be), why don't they address the root cause and just put everyone on prozac?
It seems a lot of people have used emacs for years and love it. I never saw the point of learning as it seemed cryptic. In 2020 is it worth putting the effort to learn now? I figure with vim and IDEs I dont really need it.
If a product is good, we shouldn't judge it on its inability to continuously add new features.
I completely agree with the concept of a fair trial, but the church isn’t a person, nor should they be shielding predators from facing trial.

The church is simply acting to prevent further legal exposure to what has to be the largest child sex abuse scandal in history. They’re not interested in protecting the innocent. If they were, they’d be much more transparent and cooperative with authorities than they have been.
>"I have a completely unfounded illusion of understanding" and "I have no clue but don't dare to say it"

Or "I'm tired of this droning conference call/meeting where I can barely understand some people's accents and I'd rather just clarify some points in writing later where I don't have to rely on my memory."

>"I have no clue whatsoever"

Or it really is going fine and I don't want to spend forever going into technical details the person asking isn't even going to understand and get interrogated on anything that doesn't sound like it's going perfectly, when everything is under control on my end.
Well no, tracking for targeted sales is a big use case I guess.
#2 might alternately be symptomatic of not wanting to chat with you on the matter, no?
Ask HN: Successful transition from a software engineer to a data scientist?
I finished a 2 year MSc from an Ontario university in Data science. I have about 10 years of experience as a software engineer. I'm wondering if anyone with a similar profile has successfully transitioned to a Data Science position? Importantly, were you able to keep your same level of seniority/pay?
That's interesting to hear about ADHD causing mood swings/anger/irritability and the stimulants doing away with them. Is that a common trait of the illness? I only noticed that after I started taking stimulants my temper became a lot more short. It's to the point that I have to be really cognizant of it lest I inadvertently snap at someone due to some biological response (really not good as a leader in an organization).
Many embedded CPUs with hw float (including DSPs) do not have hardware support for denormals; they trap to an ISR that implements them in software. This lets them write IEEE compliant on the spec sheet without having to spend transistors on denormals.

In addition, many hardware implementations are much slower on denormals; some x87 implementations were 100s of cycles slower on denormals, NaN and Infinity.

A colleague of mine was around during the IEEE-754 days and said the hardware people pushed against denormals and the software people won (possibly with a professor stacking the committee with former students of his? I'm not clear on the details).
After a long and respected career at MIT he’s no joke.
In my private vernacular, it was specifically visiting the Arc de Triomph that prompted me to coin the term "traffic tornado" and note other, invariably less turbulent ones that I find in life.

It is spectacular for being such a point of interest for visitors and to then be so unfriendly to our squishy bodies and a rather unpleasant assault on the senses.
Further, there are 7.53 billion people on earth. If you conclude (generously) that, living in New York City, you have the freedom to associate and deeply rely on anyone in the tri-state area, you have access to about 20 million.

That's 0.2% of the total addressable people, and living in NYC puts you near one of the largest population centers in the world. It would take large amounts of capital for you to switch to another fraction of a percentage of the total population, and in doing so you'd be abandoning much of that original 0.2%.

You are far more constrained by your circumstances, by our social organization, and by physics than it might appear because of how easy it is to talk casually with others. Some of this we can overcome with changes to our society and development of technology, but some we probably can't. Your freedom to change your conditions falls off in power really quickly. Or, put another way, addressing the full set of choices gets expensive very quickly.

EDIT: I liked doing this math and, having lived in Tokyo as well as NYC, you could increase that 0.2% to about 0.5% by moving to the center of Shibuya; about 40m people live in and around the administrative unit. It's the densest area of its kind on the planet. That said, measuring Tokyo is a bit of a fraught problem because there are multiple ways to outline the city itself.
My point is the differences are backwards. People think that they're disliked by others, but they're actually projecting their own dislike of others. This happens in hierarchical societies because the people at the top necessarily owe their position to the suppression of the people at the bottom, but since they like to think of themselves as nice fellows, they tend to push all of the emotions this entails onto the people they mistreat. So behind many of these stories of boundaries, there's usually somebody from a wealthy background acting like an asshole to some poor sod, all the while thinking they're just struggling with cultural differences.
Well, my first computer was an Osbourne back in 81, and we had an PC XT at home, so I wasn’t really impressed either. But for most of the kids, even BASIC was really new to them, not to mention Pascal. I would say those kinds of barebone computing experiences would even be valuable today, especially today, no distractions. I’m thinking about getting an 8-bit computer for my son’s bedroom :).

The teachers knew less than people like us did anyways, I’m not sure what they could have taught us.
I'm ashamed to say I've been using Emacs since 1992 but I have never been able to impress into my brain anything other than the minimal set of keystrokes to do basic editing. I feel like I need to be trapped on an island where the only thing I could do was learn emacs for a bit. There's so much there to dig into.
The rules here are that you respond to the strongest interpretation of what somebody said, not the weakest.

Trying to imagine how women might feel isn't a problem. Posting about what you imagine woman might feel to the extent that it crowds out actual women saying how they feel (e.g. being the top response) is a problem.
I've recently joined a team that focuses massively on test-driven development, and it's just such a great way to shake out dumb bugs and focus on the requirements and the problem you're trying to solve.

Also recently did Thorsten Ball's Interpreter/Compiler books which focus heavily on unit testing the functionality (I can't recommend these books enough).

I now can't imagine going back to a pre-TDD world
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For me, the greatest hope of reducing the incidence of war may come from the widespread use of psychedelics.

Use of psychedelics can result in a profound increase in empathy, division of boundaries between oneself and the world and between oneself and others, an increase in care about others, a healing of traumas within oneself that might have hitherto caused one to lash out against others who you projected your own demons on to, and an increase in a sense of the sacredness of all things.

In conjunction with this, widespread psychedelic use might result in another great religious awakening, with the resulting religions reflecting in their values the peaceful and unifying effects described above.

This won't happen overnight. It'll probably take one or two hundred years for psychedelic use to become really widespread, and it can be aborted once more if there's another major backlash against them from the powers that be who are wedded to the status quo.
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I totally see this perspective.

My hunch (no evidence) is that it was fine until people started using these groups for discussing business/politicking. So, basically the groups were corrupted. Once business or decision making starts to happen, the groups become exclusionary.

That's my best guess.
Tell me about an opinion you hold on some piece of technology (framework, language, design pattern, etc.), one you have a fair amount of conviction about and hold pretty strongly. Now tell me how you arrived at that opinion and conviction.
One of my longest standing mint mysteries is how I alone was A/B tested into them trying to bum pizza off me: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSg_ZxLU8AAF96d?format=png&name=...

I haven't been able to find any other confirmation that this was a thing outside the one time I saw it.
It sounds like you aren't looking for budgeting and just want to see categories over time (which is mostly what I want and seems like a lot of people here). However, if you are interested in budgeting, one solution is what YNAB does. You can have an expense and carry it over between months. For example, if you have a utility that's due by-monthly you can budget half every month. Or if property taxes are due twice a year, do the same. For some reason a lot of budgeting tools fail miserably at this.
The authors point is trying to make, I think, is that a particular form of "self reliance"; that espoused by Emerson (and with far less nuance by Rand) doesn't actually exist, and pretending it does is a disservice.

Roughly speaking, I think they would say that the only way you could achieve the state you speak of ('having strength unto one's self but giving freely of ...') is through a complicated web of relationships making you anything but self reliant.
Hah. I really liked parts and skipped and scrolled more than a few. It looks a lot like some very helpful reddit posts I've made in the past.

I sent the article to my girlfriend though and she'll read all of it and ask me questions about it so I can cleverly get a proxy summary. ADHD Lifehack!
Command Substitution and the Backslash Conundrum
You trained (finetuned) GPT2 for 1-2 months on 14mb of data?

I don't understand how this doesn't massively overfit. How long of these 1-2 months was the model actually training?
https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2020/01/were_bannin...

These bans have good intentions, but won't solve the actual root of the issues, and does more harm than good.
In my hometown, in Ireland, there were people who would swim in the sea every day of the year (unless stormy). This is common across many Irish coastal towns. The old people in my town who were regulars, including men in their 80s, would claim it is very healthy and that they rarely become ill.

I now live too far from the sea to do it regularly but I was just up in Cape Cod at the weekend and took a dip in the ~40F water. This was on the colder end of what I would ever do back home and I wasn't accustomed to it, so it was a little difficult but I certainly felt very refreshed after! I still usually do, as others have commented, turn most of my morning showers to cold at the end, if not taking them entirely cold, but it's just not the same... The saltiness of seawater in particular seems to be very therapeutic and might be an additional factor.
I'll let you know when I no longer feel like the chaff!

It'd probably be similar to beefield's. Present a problem with a clear success condition and see how resourceful they are in solving it. A failure would be solving the wrong problem, making excuses (or "the problem is not solvable"), confidently talking in abstractions that don't concretely pertain to the problem, or failure to ask a question/say "I don't know".

I don't know that there's a technical question or problem I could ask to make a call on whether or not they know their stuff.
Yeah, who know's what happens to the data after it leaves you. I know I seen on the news the military was advising against it, I guess if your DNA was leaked in a data breach someone could create viruses that target specific people, sounds far fetched like out of a science fiction movie though so not sure how realistic but I guess in theory it could happen. But ironically, many states like California collect newborn babies blood at the hospital after birth and stores them - even selling some samples to outside researchers, which is true if you look it up but if you tell people that they think you are some conspiracy theory tinfoil hat wearing nutcase instead of doing their own research rather they just attack you, not sure if parents are even aware. Looks like they are supposed to be informed, but the state isn't sure if that happens always by the doctors or nurses at the hospital. Wouldn't surprise me if it's just a small sign on the wall somewhere no one notices.

I have been wanting to though do one of those DNA tests but never got around to it since didn't want to spend the money right now and the whole privacy thing. I never knew my real dad, so I was kinda curious. Then on the other side of the family originally came from the South like Alabama or Tennessee and then before the US Germany but who knows if true just what I've been told by some family, but they very well could be wrong. I'm not sure how true or detailed those reports are either from these DNA test companies.
Celtic identity exists precisely because Celtic people were previously considered to be subhuman savages, fit only to be ruled over by those of more noble stock - which argument was used to justify centuries of oppression and multiple genocides.

Any Celtic person demanding 'rights for whites' is essentially ignoring their own history in favor of being the guard dog on a social estate.
In 2010 they transitioned from Yodlee to Intuits in house system, (FICDS?). I would be surprised if they moved from FICDS to Plaid, but maybe.
Even if you have a digital ELT, make sure you know how to manually activate it and teach any frequent passengers. The automatic trigger is not reliable, it's better than nothing but survivable impacts may not trigger the beacon.

PLBs tend to have pretty easy to follow instructions written right on them, but again people who'll be with you when it's needed should be told about it during safety briefing. Kids too young to learn the radio or other potentially life-saving apparatus can be shown how to use the beacon because of how simple it is.
What is the experiment?
total addressable market
I wish I could add 100 points to this.

Knew a dentist. She told me how her mentor mentored her in the art of billing to the max on everything and pushing every procedure under the sun for financial gain.

I fly 3000 miles to see the same dentist I have seen since childhood. Honest guy who has a conservative mind about treatment. It's worth the extra airfare.
How to Control Your Emotions in Tense Moments (2016)
It's not too early to think about a healthy yard
You can report that dentist to the state dentistry board. Seems like a clear cut, at a minimum ethical violation.
It would make more sense to ban tracking for targeted sales no? As this won't stop people using other methods like Bluetooth and wifi fingerprinting.
I like that, thank you.
I thought Mint originally used a third party but transitioned to their own platform years ago? I remember reading about a rocky transition for users.
Apple is slowing down my old MacBook Air [pdf]
They're considering banning the usage of facial recognition in public places, not banning it in general.

I'm fairly sure what's prompting this is the kind of surveillance state that China has built in e.g. Xinjiang [1], not stuff like face unlock on your iPhone.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveill...
Considered & implemented your feedback!

Take a look on it! https://analytics.coollabs.io :-)

Appreciate your feedback on it!
I’ve been wanting to buy a European car seat but am worried about the legality of it. I can just imagine my insurance company refusing to pay for injuries because the seat doesn’t have the right stamp on it.
Absentee ballot or any other real-world interaction dramatically increases price per vote and risks.

With electronic vote, both reward and verification can be done in untraceable way. Basically you could sell your credentials for Monero on some Onion site and vote will be done on your behalf. Low risk for both parties and plausable deniability for seller (OMG, I was hacked!!!).
So, does recycling even work?
There are some studies about certain nutrients being beneficial in the treatment of ADHD.

For example:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23495677

This particular study found that phospholipid improves ADHD symptoms in children (4-14 yo).

There's some ongoing research about the neurotransmitters related to ADHD:
https://psychcentral.com/lib/neurotransmitters-involved-in-a...

However, I don't know if any comprehensive studies have been conducted about the effects of diet to ADHD, it could be tricky to study that.
What data is known exactly? Phone number? IP?
Couldn't you just graft the old water filter's RFID chip onto whatever new filter you wanted?
Win win baby.
Total Addressable Market
"Do you think you can write your own blog posts?"

Everyone thinks they can but almost nobody actually will. I'm not a particularly good writer, but I can do what most people can't/won't, actually follow through on writing something month after month after month.
yes, same link
Before going down a road that involves powerful stimulants that have a high likelihood of abuse or misuse -- the danger is that they're fun, and one develops a tolerance, just like other similar illegal drugs -- it might be worthwhile to investigate a mediation practice, or other exercises to improve your attention. If you're already high functioning its likely not as bad as it seems.

From experience: First thing to go with the stimulants is healthy sleep; it's often hard to sleep on amphetamines. But in the morning, because you've got a script, you can take a pill and not worry about it (but the body remembers). Next thing to go is healthy eating; you simply don't need to eat when under the influence, or you do -- but you forget. Soon, those things combined could have the potential to turn a high functioning and healthy life into quite the opposite. But in the beginning -- especially if you've never experimented with stimulants recreationally -- you'll feel better than you ever have. Stimulants are euphoric. It's a trap, it wears off. Side-effects are likely. I've said it in a previous comment, but it's profound and interesting until it's not, and once the stimulants are gone a dark depression is very possible.

Attention is like a muscle, but also -- attention isn't everything. It could also be ones attitude towards these things.

Be skeptical -- understand that there might be blind spots in your thinking about your problems.
Same here. Tracking where my money was going was the only reason I signed up for it - having to put all that time and energy into making it actually do that killed its entire value proposition for me.
Ask HN: How can I convince my coworkers to start a company?
I work at a FAANG and have a lot of side projects that I'd like to try turning into businesses, but I'm having a hard time finding cofounders. All of my close friends work at <large company> however and they all say that the security of the job is why they won't leave even though the product sounds fun and they'd want to work on it. Obviously, this isn't something I can offer. I want to offer something better, however I'm not sure how I can pitch a convincing argument.

So, for those of you who managed to convince a friend or were otherwise convinced, what tipped the scale away from job security?
In-person voter fraud isn't that difficult, and especially in Washington people get packets in the mail they can vote with by returning in the mail which would be pretty easy for someone to go swiping from mailboxes. Verifying identity online is not an impossible challenge and we can't just avoid improving anything forever.
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I think it was just an expression he used for effect.
Total addressable market
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"[...] where adversaries can exploit American communications systems, cell phones and the electromagnetic spectrum." (emphasis mine)

Wait, what?