skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like with all things, laziness/conscientiousness exists on a spectrum, and it's hard to tell where normal variation crosses over into pathology. I do have to wonder if self-proclaimed laziness among nerdy types comes from a tendency to set very high standards for ourselves and to compare ourselves with extraordinarily productive people. I think the average human being might be lazier than we give them credit for. The author complains about not being able to stop browsing reddit and get out of bed? Well, it seems that's how a great many people choose to spend their time these days if given a choice, so can we really say that's a sign of pathology? You feel like you're not working hard enough on your personal coding/science/art/whatever project? Well, most people don't have any personal projects, they produce very little beyond what is required to make a living, and for the extra amount that they do produce they don't hold themselves to very high standards and they don't care if they ultimately abandon the project, so you're already way ahead of the curve there.

I say all this as someone who has had severe problems with laziness and I empathize with the author of the article a lot, so I'm not trying to make light of the problem. I'm just suggesting an alternative perspective that may be useful.
I think Mint uses Plaid, but I think the others may use Yodlee
It's what I did, and also many people in my family.

Buy a duplex, rent the other half out, your mortgage is mostly covered. A duplex may wind up costing the same as a single family house since so many people won't consider buying a duplex.
The is sort of the issue with most deviations from neurotypicality. It's a disease only when it stops you from doing what you and society wants you to do. That's why lots of people manage without treatment. But what are you recommending? That people with ADHD should just move somewhere they can live in a non-industrialized setting?

I suspect also that you may have an outdated view of ADHD. It's more about a lack of executive function than 'hyperactivity'. In fact one of the ADHD types is 'inattentive'. Did you read the whole article? The author discusses some of this.
I would be curious to know how much when we write, how much of it is self-attention and how much of it is our fore-brain actually trying to make sense? My guess is that the more tired / rushed / burned out you are, the % of self attention increases.

Sometimes watching the news, it seems like 90% of what they say when they are 'vamping' is just self-attention.

Has anyone posted any GPT / Hacker News generated text yet? Wisdom of the crowds, indeed. It'd be interesting to post using it with light editing, especially something that uses upvotes for training.

One of the things I was thinking about was training on your favorite novel, so you could have a sort of conversation with it / ask it questions. A kind of interactive cliff notes. However, as looked into it I realized it was still too much of a markov chain like thing to be functionally useful. Fun idea though.

The real win, in all of this, of course is auto completion in different mediums. Code completion demos are pretty wild - https://tabnine.com/blog/deep/ Come to think about it, you could probably use it for writing academic papers as well assuming you know the content well.

Self-Attention and Human/Computer interaction is a very brave new world. I don't think people really yet know the potential for seismic shift here.
In my opinion a lock file really is the "work around", I don't see a huge issue in using them since it's given for free by npm and yarn with no additional overhead.
yeah...the political heart of protesting would be on the steps of City Hall downtown. They should be used to it by now, logistically speaking, given Occupy and the Women's March....
Ahh that must be it. I have to ask him at work tomorrow.
I think you answered your question! And it's probably a lot easier to convince an LP to open their purse for the next Uber/Lyft than the next Applied Materials/Lam Research.

Theranos is an example of the dangers of investors that lack the expertise necessary to evaluate "hard problem" startups.
Yes, mostly behind the scenes stuff. And also just keeping powder dry, per our motto: Move slowly and preserve things.
Better formatting:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Well, he is head of the executive branch which the DoD falls under. He can issue whatever order he wants. It's up to the court to decide if they are/were lawful. SOP doesn't mean a whole lot here.
Yeah. It turns out that saying "Agree with me or you're evil" doesn't actually persuade people very well. The first side to figure that out, and actually do better, might win until the other side also figures it out.
I've been hearing from friends on Search and Rescue crews that an increasing number of people are going out hiking being completely unprepared for any possible emergency, thinking that they'll just use their cell phone if anything goes wrong.

This is so true.

I live in the desert, and it's amazing the number of people who simply don't take the natural world seriously.

The dead and rescued are almost always tourists. And for some reason, almost always from Europe (I suspect because my observation has been that Asians tend to travel in large groups on air conditioned buses). They drive rental cars into deep sand and get stuck and die. They run out of gas and get stuck and die. They never bring enough food or water and don't know what to do in an emergency.

I was at a hotel on the Navajo Reservation (Arizona/New Mexico/Utah) about a year ago and there was a British couple arguing with the manager that of course their cell phone should work, they bought it in San Francisco. I tired to explain to them that the whole reason people visit places like this is to get away from technology. Even though I'm sure there are remote places in Europe, they had no concept that there are places in the world where there's no cell service.

A couple of years ago there was an article in the newspaper about a German guy who decided to rent a Harley Davidson and drive through the desert like some kind of David Hasselhof fantasy. It was 115° and he was in full-on black leather gear. They found him dead on the side of the road, still sitting on his motorcycle with his helmet on.

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Editing to add the results from a four-second Google News search:

authorities in California launched a search for Pi-Wei Hung, 40, early Sunday afternoon... the woman’s vehicle was discovered stuck in the sand on the shoulder... and then died in the heat as she tried to walk out of the area. The high temperature that day was 113 degrees.

a 60-year-old tourist from Germany died from heat exposure... not far from his where his motorcycle was parked, upright and in working order, in the 118-degree heat.

...two French tourists got their car stuck in loose sand... no one knew their specific travel route, and they were out of cellphone range in temperatures above 110 degrees.
I sometimes feel like these articles are popular because procrastination is just a universal part of the human condition. I doubt anyone scrolls past these articles and thinks “that doesn’t affect me at all”.

I procrastinate to the point where it’s causing me real problems in life, yet it feels kinda indulgent to say that as if I’m the victim of some disease, when I’m actually just failing to deal with something that’s hard for everyone.

Perhaps this feeling is actually contributing to the problem, because I’m continually frustrated that I can’t just snap out of it like (most) other people.
How does this compare to using something like Segment (or your own server) to proxy the information to the 3rd party analytics tools?

Seems better from a performance perspective. With the 3rd party cookie changes going on, is it equivalent from a tracking perspective? It also seems "unblockable".

So is that the future?
That’s one beautiful case. Really impressive documentation too. I have some Tandy nostalgia: my first computer was a “Sensation” from RadioShack. 486sx processor that we needed to add an after market math co-processor to for floating point so I could run Calagari TrueSpace.
I believe that the left loves to tie itself in knots trying to address the right. Books like What's The Matter with Kansas[1] and The Righteous Mind[2] are all written from a left-wing point of view, explaining the right-wing point of view and encouraging understanding. These books go at least back to the mid 90s[3], and during that time, the Overton window has shifted almost monotonically to the right. It seems to me that the harder the left tries to understand and accommodate the right, the more the right takes it as an opportunity to make itself less appealing to the left. And politically, it's successful.

I don't want to run down a rabbit hole of blame here. Rather, I wanted to suggest that it's not just symmetrical, and it's not as simple as "if only we on the left tried harder we could solve the problem unilaterally" -- because I don't think I've ever heard any similar accommodation from the right. I think we've tried that, and need to try something different.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_Matter_with_Kansa...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Righteous_Mind

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Politics_(book)
> This seems self-evident to me on reflection; we are all products of the families and societies in which we grew up.

And luck. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-... (If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.)
This isn't a reasonable comparison because air is almost completely fungible; it's automatically redistributed throughout Earth by the magic of physics. Not only that, it's not scarce.

People in fact do pay for 'special' air in the form of air purifiers, air conditioning, heating, etc.

Land is both scarce and unsubstitutable.
A lot of comments here concern reading to and with kids.

For those interested in practical aspects of reading out loud to children, check out Jim Trelease's "Read-Aloud Handbook". It has advice, advocacy, and specific age-appropriate book suggestions.

http://trelease-on-reading.com/rah-contents.html
"What would that be?", what do you mean by that? What I'm trying to say is that obviously I identify myself better with other women. And I want to be able to find other women entrepreneurs specifically because we face certain common issues. I think this comment sums up pretty well what it's like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22129625.
> unless that was the majority of your caloric intake

Even if it is only 10% of the caloric intake, it works. Obviously not for losing 100kg, but a 200kcal deficit per day (one less dessert or one bottle of beer) adds up to 10kg weight loss within a year.
He forgot to mention all the innovation they've added to Mint in the way of new types of intrusive ads. Intuit bought Mint anti-competetively to protect Quicken. But they've also neglected Quicken and shifted it to a scummy subscription service. Probably they can't see a way making enough money off of personal finance. Intuit is a scummy company and I stay away from them. The real problem is banks not giving us open APIs to build our own personal finance tools.
This is a very elaborate version of the turbo roundabout, checking out streetview might help.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Energieweg,+Nijmegen/@51.8...
The financial institutions never gave mint access. What happened is that mint takes a users username and password then logs in as that user and downloads (or scrapes) the transactions.

Nowadays it’s a bit more integrated with the banks, with oauth support etc. but initially they were basically just scraping.

And yes, this is a massive security hole and likely against the banks TOS (deliberately giving your credentials to a third party).
> Even though you basically can never see the hind teeth

I notice metal in peoples hind teeth all the time. This is still a cosmetic need.

Food for thought. If teeth are constantly grinding against each other, is it good for the opposing teeth to constantly be grinding against a hard material like metal?
"reactors reach the point of commercial viability by the 2030s or 2040s"

So... 10 to 20 years. I wonder if they included this on purpose, given the long an inglorious history of predicting commercially viable nuclear fusion "in 10 years"?
And until very recently the US imported more than half its daily oil usage. Now it is a net exporter. The Saudis controlled the oil market. American oil from fracking has recently changed that, however, and gives the US a better chance of cutting ties without existential threat to its economy.
A girl i always chatted with at chipotle finally sat down with me the other day during her break. I told her I was a writer, and was elated when she handed me her phone to let me read a dark poem she had written. I asked if I could read it back to her out loud and she let me. It was nice.

I wouldn't have done it if I hadn't been reading to myself out loud recently, and also at workshops where we have the opportunity to recite after doing writing prompts. I always like hearing people nervously sharing meaningful experiences.

In Houston we have something called Gentle Hour, where people gather in a rather cozy circle, taking turns to read something they wrote. Storytime is alive and well, and not just the “Grown-up Storytime” you find at open-mic bars!
Even in these comments here, you can see there are people for whom this article resonates deeply, and those for whom it doesn't. So at the very least there's something there that impacts people differently, and since the impact is usually detrimental, that's enough to classify this as a Disorder.
I started using Actual Budget[0] and I love it. Not more SaaS that can break a any moment or sell my data. End-to-end encryption and scripting built-in is just perfect for me.

[0] https://actualbudget.com/
It's a $10 billion contract. It makes sense for Amazon (financially) to protest even if they think there's only a 1% chance that they eventually win.
Hi. Monarch co-founder here.

1. We are primarily using Plaid, but will support multiple data aggregators to provide our users with the best coverage for their financial institutions.

2. Yes. We will go way beyond what current products do. I can't go into specifics ahead of our launch, but we are confident we can help people achieve better financial outcomes cheaper and faster.

Our view is that a subscription-based model allows us to align our incentives with our users and focus on building the best product, rather than trying to optimize for advertising partners or data sales. On the latter point, we highly value privacy and will not share nor sell your financial data.

3. That's great to hear!
You make some good points; I also think we can (and need to) learn from others.

As I wrote in another somewhat related discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22096571) recently: To me, the most important thing is to fit one's career in with one's overall purpose and goals in life. Like, to make sure the ladder of success is not leaning against the wrong wall (Covey). I've written much more including a link to the 7 habits wikipedia page (a simple site, no ads or JS): http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854588981.html , in what I hope is a very browseable/skimmable format.

Edit: Also I have written about how the purpose of life translates to tasks, activities, etc. And it helps me very much to have a daily routine and thought habits that help me fulfill my goals, which I have been working on for a long time. I guess I would feel somewhat lost without those things, and others.
The Enemies of Writing
Of course it can be done, but it would be a rather crippled Lisp. If the only Lisp I had was 60s Lisp, I'd probably choose Forth instead.
Don't forget Seattle. Where progressive policies have also led to disastrous situations like a booming economy, low unemployment, and less crime.
My FastFind PLB doesn't seem to have replaceable batteries so I just left it in storage and haven't used it. Has anyone managed to replace their batteries?
That's what happens when you have no habeas corpus, or any rights whatsoever. It seems those inalienable rights that man is endowed with do indeed come from the government and can indeed be taken away. Inalienable rights my ass. The only real issue here is that we continue to call the US a democracy and free society. How can it be either when its people have no rights? I'm sure someone will explain about how being in Cuba gives the government the power to ignore the constitution completely and therefore any rights, but that would just prove that those rights are indeed alienable and only exist as long as the government allows them to. So they're not rights at all.
For a variety of reasons, I learned early in life that I couldn't really count on anyone, and I had to learn/do everything for myself. Not sure I'd choose that for someone else, but it has indeed been an extremely useful work skill. In pretty much every job I've ever had, I've ended up being the final go-to person for the hardest problems. Especially with respect to computers, there's essentially no problem I can't solve/mitigate/triage at this point in my career.

That said, this skill doesn't seem to be very useful for getting hired. Maybe I'm not marketing myself correctly. Once I'm in, though, I'm generally gold after a few months. Once had a manager burst into tears when I gave notice.

It does feel like this is rarer these days. In my current org of about 5000 people, I'm not aware of a single tech person on par with me in this respect. That might sound like a boast, but it's very much a lament.
> now the second gets to either hear Mom read live, or listen to a recorded chapter everynight before bed.

I assume mom reads live frequently, but if she can't for whatever reason the kid can still get his/her chapter at bedtime.
I haven't resonated with any article so much before as with this. I literally quit my job, because of these reasons.

I'll sign myself up for a therapist now. Thanks.
I’ve never found these account aggregators to be that useful for me.

Most people have one bank account and maybe 1-3 credit cards. Often at the same bank. To me the digital experience for the big US banks like Chase and Amex are good enough that I don’t find something like Mint would add anything for me, and worse I can’t actually do anything with my account in an aggregator so what’s the point?
I throw away rough drafts all the time for non-trivial work that I don't fully understand yet. There are different approaches to it, but I usually just create a throwaway branch to hack out a naive solution until I run into the non-obvious roadblocks and then try again. I used to try to _really_ understand something before coding a solution, but not being afraid of throwing away a rough draft has helped my mindset a bit in terms of working out difficult problems. It's not a novel or huge concept but it works for me.
> [Facebook, Google and Twitter] have asked those employees to take added precautions, such as not publicly giving their whereabouts or listing information about their family.

Ironic.

Another reason for online anonymity.
The first step should be this book because it so very clearly explains and show-cases the 4 fundamental principles of basic design in a way that is very easy for others to understand: proximity, alignment, repetition, contrast.

"The Non-Designer's Design Book" by Robin Williams.

https://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-4th/dp/0133...
Rad proteins modulate heart calcium channels during fight-or-flight response
Maybe I am just wired differently, but every budgeting program is just annoying at best. I get "scolded" because I went over my $40 clothing budget budget because I bought a coat or a suit, or took advantage of a sale. I don't buy clothes one pair of socks at a time per month, I take advantage of good sales and every few years I need a suit. One way to potentially solve this is to "roll over" any excess from month to month.

Even worse is these auto-budgets that try to take your previous 12 months of spending and use that as your future budget guideline. Thanks for telling me I have a $5/month starbucks budget, since on average I take out a coworker for coffee about that much (and again, one month I might take out 2 coworkers, and now I get an alert that I am over budget!).

I guess in general I am quite cheap, I don't need the "discipline" of being told how much I should spend in a month on things. If you don't have the self control to not spend too much on discretionary things like clothing or entertainment, I am not sure setting a budget is really going to help.
Kafka is no longer king for big data [video]
The difference now is gate keeping. Prior behavior did leave one to make choices.

Google made their favored ones easy.

Now that fails to deliver expected results. Too many people not making the choices Google would have them make.
One of many GPU cloud providers (paperspace, lambda, etc). If you want to do it for free you can use Google Colab. It won't be fun to train this on a MacBook directly.
I've been using Mint consistently since mid-2016, and it's worked just fine for me. The Flash requirement for investment charts is annoying, but you can get around that with the trends charts by account. Frankly, what's useful to me is seeing the trends in my spending, earning, and savings rate over the past 3.5 years, and if I were to switch to another option that's being recommended here, I imagine I would lose all of that trend data.

Mint can be stupid at times (like counting transfers as spending), but you can fix those errors pretty easily. The ads are surprisingly irrelevant to me (e.g. offering a credit card that's worse than the one I primarily use), but I don't really care about that. If anything, I just need more investment guidance, not more credit cards...
Interesting thoughts. I wonder if anyone here has heard of the Principle of Double Effect? [1]

On one hand, we need to be thoughtful and mindful of the ethical implications of all that we do. On the other hand, every action always has a context inside a larger system and has unintended consequences and being an ethical purist can sometimes be more harmful. Most people who are older fall somewhere between striving to do the right thing but also recognizing they cannot control all the consequences and even if they could, they cannot predict what greater harm or good may result.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_double_effect
If someone asked you to, would you delete an entire profile and all comments?
Arguably, the people aren't upset that there is a female-oriented space, but rather that the same kind of male-oriented space would likely be seen as "problematic" or "hostile."
East coast winter surfer here. After that initial shock (anyone have ideas on how to minimize this??), it's a great feeling. Almost as good as the coffee and burrito after the session. Highly recommended.
I have a very large dump of GPT-2 generated Hacker News titles here: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-gpt-2

That's just with the smallest 124M model though; on short form content especially, I'm not convinced of the value of larger models.