skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually reached the same conclusion as you after playing a lot of League of Legends. Why do I play that game instead of working on my projects? Because of all the reasons you mentioned, but most importantly because I am good at it and feel like I progress by getting better with each match. There's also the satisfaction of winning, especially when the odds seems against you.

I am also trying to find the same feelings while working, but getting the same rewards takes a lot more time than while gaming. Also, it's a lot easier to feel that you are bad at it or that you are not learning as much, or that maybe you are working on the wrong thing when programming than when gaming.

Also, I am really missing a real-life leaderboard. I am pretty competitive and seeing others that are way better than me motivates myself to work hard in order to get to their level. I am always looking for success stories and seeing actual numbers from great projects. I found that IndieHackers is a good place to find motivation from others' work.
And unproductive. We should judge each company by each own demerits, not excuse Microsoft's behaviour with Google's and vice versa!
A for profit company out of X.

For some co's the data may be worth making it free.
I am sympathetic your outrage — but I think you're insufficiently cynical if you can't figure out why he's stuck in that concentration camp despite everyone agreeing he's innocent.

To release him now would be an admission of comprehensive institutional failure at every level -- from his initial capture, through mis-identification, rendition, torture and ongoing imprisonment. The longer the error persists, the worse it gets, and the harder it becomes to admit it's all a horrible mistake. Nobody in the US government institutions that maintain his imprisonment will benefit from admitting it was all a mistake: to the military he's an embarrassment, and to the politicians, releasing him would be handing ammunition to their electoral rivals. (Democracy has failure modes: this is one of them.) So it'd be far better for everyone concerned if he'd quietly die of natural causes so they could bury him and the controversy at the same time.

(Finally, a really cynical part of me thinks that maybe keeping an innocent bloke in jail for 17 years is expedient to a certain part of the US foreign affairs establishment because it sends a message to everyone outside the USA, world-wide: "we can fsck you up on a whim and there is nothing anybody can do about it." In other words, it's dominance signaling. See also the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, imprisoned in Iran, for example.)
> I'd rather play them on things that have a clear connection to HN's core.

What have they been played on historically? Mostly behind the scenes stuff? Maybe I don't pay close enough attention but I haven't noticed much in the way new features/improvements over the past five years or more...(?)
Counterpoint, I started using SQLite with Python and after less than a day of writing SQL manually I decided just to learn SQLAlchemy. Its cut the amount of code down a lot and the learning time has paid itself back quite quickly.
Is a domain of unknowable unknowns not a sort of singularity (systems theory), and therefore a kind of infinite?
Comparing systyemd with init scripts is disingenious. I can only read systrmd unit files after learning their language, which includes all the meanings and interactions of the possible statements in them. In othrrvwords, I have to learn at least the entire default behavior of systemd up front. With init scripts I need to only know the script language. A skilled Linux user will be quite familiar with the later anyway.
You can buy mine for a very good price if you are in Europe. It doesn't have any dead pixels, and I have only used it for 5 hours or so.
Incremental solutions are much easier to implement.
You can travel both directions around the roundabout this way, if you need to get to the exit that's to the right of yours, you can do it, whilst a traditional roundabout would require you to go all of the way around, which would improve congestion I think.
I imagine the ad industry will kill DNS based ad blocking sooner or later. It's just too much of a cat and mouse game to have only the hostname/IP and a blacklist as your defense.
Or focused?

Why should it be bad not to waste your time with speculative things?
All this boils down to finding a purpose in life. At the risk of sounding sexist, I feel this is a burden that largely falls on men only. Women can find purpose through children or being dependent on their man for purpose. It is truly the burden of man to find purpose.
I enjoy it! you can avoid lots of traffic and queuing if you take a different route around the whole roundabout.

Personally never witnessed an accident, but I have heard of them.

They tend to be caused by indecision or drivers speeding -- drivers that think that they have a right of way i.e when everyone has stopped, two people go onto a mini roundabout at once.
while the article seemed interesting, all the constant repeated ads (looking at work, no blocker) is horrible
I understand what you're saying, but I'm not sure I agree.

Both articles discuss the concept of rewards extensively, though sometimes using different terms, which is what might have led to your conclusion.

For example, in the 'why people procrastinate' article, this falls under reasons such as 'lack of motivation' and 'rewards that are far in the future'. In the 'how to stop procrastinating' article, this falls under various tips for increasing how rewarding tasks feel, such as 'gamify your behavior', 'create streaks', and 'visualize your future self'.

Also, two important distinctions to keep in mind with regard to this:

- Goals and rewards are not necessarily identical. For example, you might have the goal of exercising three times a week, and get a reward of being complimented on your physical change by others.

- There is a difference between goals/rewards that are abstract and goals and rewards that feel abstract. For example, even a concrete reward can feel abstract if it's far in the future.
Ahh yes, this roundabout where I managed to enrage a white van driver who then proceeded to tailgate right up the A1
Well, I concur with the points from the article, since while I don't like Golang as a language I really like its tooling (BTW I am really craving for a more powerful language that compiles to Golang. And specially I like the focus in Golang to produce truly static binaries (they're not even linked with libc!).

And while Golang may not be the fastest language out there, it is fast enough for most use cases. I mean, Python is fast enough for most use cases, and Python is one or two orders of magnitude slower than Golang.

So yeah, I think their compiler decisions are fine. They may or may not be the best decisions, however the article is not talking about the compiler part of Golang, so yeah it can still talk about "undervalued technology".
I don't see javascript being obsolete in the next 20 years too.
A large number of commenters fundamentally misunderstand what happened. They are saying "why did he upload his scraped training data? Why didn't he just train on it and upload the resulting model?" If you are making this argument, it means that you don't understand the contest. User rahimnathwani explains:

> In this competition, the training code was run on Kaggle's system, so you'd still need to smuggle in the extra data.

The question then becomes, how do you smuggle in the data? This is a much more interesting discussion than pontificating about the ethics of Pleskov's actions. In particular, a better understanding of this problem could have ramifications for how Kaggle could combat hacks of this variety. (By contrast, "shame on him" and "aww but he's a nice guy" are both useless, except perhaps as a form of virtue signalling).

It's essentially a cryptography problem. Does anyone know if this has been widely studied?
Django's migrations are a nice way to take care of database changes. The NoSQL crowd should try this out before ranting about the benefits of "schemaless".
That one at least has the normal sign, with the small roundabouts marked as black circles.

Swindon is a weird exception for using the blue mini-roundabout sign on this type of junction. I think that makes the junction look more confusing than it really is.
> I don’t think asking for a graphical shell for TeX/LaTeX is unreasonable.

There is one: it's called LyX [0]! You take care of content and LyX will abstract away most, if not all, TeX stuff. I've used it in the past for quite extensive documents and it is quite frictionless. It is never going to be a word processor but I believe LyX strikes the middle ground quite well. This [1] looks quite "graphic-y" to my eyes

[0] https://www.lyx.org/

[1] https://www.lyx.org/images/about/aqua.png
> jobs are pay checks and nothing more.

and

> if you want to feed your family, you put your ethics aside to earn a living.

...do not leave a lot of room for interpretation.
I'm not OK with software messing with my other software.

I install Office because I need it, not because I think it and everything else Microsoft has made is the best thing ever.
I've resigned myself to a massive detour to avoid one of those beasts. After a few incidents that were a bit scary and a few where I just went round it three times trying to figure out when to change lanes I just gave up and found a different route.
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Let me guess you are an Indian?

I remember back then(2002'ish), Pretty much all CS labs had Borland Turbo C.

The funny thing was the output prompt would disappear after printing things, so to hold it there, people would add getch(). This was so common, I remember at one point people treated getch() was something you always added at the end of the main(), like a return statement.
"Don't RMA for a few dead pixels" is pretty much standard on every legal text ever, and just because it's

date '+%Y'

doesn't mean that we've magically solved every problem when it comes to manufacturing, especially with displays.

If it means that much to you, get a Chromebook. They'll probably have about as much of a chance of getting a dead pixel, but hey, it's not like you'd know that because Chromebook manufacturers aren't as transparent as PINE64.

Assuming their policies haven't changed since I checked them last, Apple still allows 7-8 stuck/dead pixels on devices the size of the Pinebook Pro. Dell six.

Apple is the richest company in the world.

PINE64 doesn't even count as a startup.
I did not mention either legality or good practice.

> MS is not forcing people to use their installer, they're not blocking you from using the default chrome installer.

That sentence makes no sense to me. The chrome installer is completely unrelated to this and MS is not shipping anything resembling a chrome installer. They are shipping their office installer (which you are kinda forced to use to install office), which unexpectedly(!) tampers with your chrome install.

> You're trying to infringe upon packaging rights

Nope.
We are sorry to inform you someguydave that you have not shown yourself to be sufficiently competent. Your voting rights have been revoked. Have a nice day!
And the truly horrible part that this is working as intended. The public has to get loud every time, while from the other perspective, getting lucky once is enough.
I have thought about this before, even without the clever hack indicated here:

Likes ought to drop off after an edit, or be clearly pointing to the previous version after any edit. IE they need to reflect staleness, and posts must better reflect that there's version history. In this day and age we ought to be able to differentiate between grammar/spell checks and complete rewrites, and update ux accordingly.

Another one is the ability for someone to change privacy level of a post from private to public. So that risky like that you thought was a safe one among friends could then be opened for everyone to see.
> Source?

Lots of hits in google.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/glaucoma-nhs-delay...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/elderly-go-blind-as-nhs-i...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/06/hundreds-going-b...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-122995/You-blind-...

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/long-nhs-delays-mean-patients-are...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10702618/nhs-delays-left-patie...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7864729/22-glauco...
since google does chrome os, microsoft should simply ban all google products from their platform altogether as a direct cmopetitor :D :D :D

I'd love to see them fight it out.
Thank you, that's way more than I could hope for. Great to see it's working for you.
How to Port from Python 2 to Python 3 (2019)
Ah yes, I'm heavily into chillstep and liquid dnb.

My favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiLCHmyAgEU -- this dnb year mix is a bit too explosive but a lot of my favorite tracks are in there.

Chillstep, no good mixes but I've got some tracks I really like to get you started (if you're into this sort of thing).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Hy0G0R3AQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKKERJpFuvo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWeL8bHij08 -- he's a professional violinist and chillstep producer (aka the violin is real)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCXuOvvWLQ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcsgA7Laxfg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_jcLeUsBa4
It should be mentioned that the world's biggest problems are not really STEM oriented, but more about the humanities: political, cultural, legal, economic, etc. I don't think anyone is arguing directly against STEM education (as suggested by many of the defensive comments). Point is that pretending we have or will have shortage of qualified techies is a bit of a scam, often pitched to gain political/financial support for tech industry.
> Do you notice more accidents than on standard junctions ?

I think the whole point of the design is that there are fewer accidents at the same time as higher throughput.
The problem was that there was a prize at stake, and everyone else was playing by the rules.
Don't forget to add the "Facebook Effect" where everyone else does everything just perfectly, and most everyone is scared of experimenting by "trying" something that might not work out.

We need to re-define what failure is.
Run it though a consortium of privacy-preserving, for profit ai at low cost vs. a set of humans? I know which I'd choose.

If warning or outlier condition identified, double check w/ alternative means if sought.
Fentanyl, heroin overdoses in San Francisco more than doubled in 2019
Mount Vesuvius eruption: Extreme heat 'turned man's brain to glass'
Thank you for this comment, it's a real value addition to the discussion for me.
As with all mathematics, this is acceptable because it's named after the wrong person; in this case, the foundational work named after Newton was first exhibited by Kepler. I do sometimes hear the phrase "Keplerian element" when talking about classical orbits, named after Kepler and not Galileo.
By what source is the claim that this is being forced verified?
who needs expensive and hard to obtain truth serum when all you need is alcohol...
The incentives are fked in canada as well.

More, short visits that align with high cost billing codes.

And a high % of doctors are walking medical maladies themselves that don't read research studies even in their own field. Simply focused on bill high, follow procedural algorithm, don't lose job/get sued.
The display is decent. It’s better than low end Chromebooks for sure. There is some backlight leakage around the edges, but it’s only noticeable when the background is entirely black (rare for me - even running an editor with a dark theme, there’s window chrome that hides the leakage). Mine has no dead pixels and no other issues that I’ve noticed. My only complaint is that it’s not as bright as my middle-aged eyes would like, but it’s still quite usable.

The achilles heel of this laptop is really the touchpad. They’ve already released one firmware update to address issues and there will be more. I’m optimistic that they’ll dial it in over time.

TL;DR: A good laptop, especially at this price point, provided you’re willing to tinker with it. Build quality is significantly better than anything else you’d find at this price (and likely even at +$100).
UK police use of facial recognition tests public's tolerance
Cars keep getting heavier too. With electric cars and energy use it would be good if there was a weight limit. It is normally safer in a collision if you sit in a heavier car. But this length and weight race make cars heavier.

I guess one factor is car test where they measure trunk capacity in liters/ back seat leg room. Cars with more space usually get better reviews.

For global warming we need ultra light cars which are energy efficient or no cars at all bikes.
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Your subconsciousness doesn't ask for your permission.
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It looks like a fairly routine Japanese highway junction though.
The goal of climate change mitigation is harm reduction. Your solution needlessly increases harm.
The joining roads in America would probably have "STOP" signs, whereas in Europe it will just be "Give Way"/"Yield", which makes the whole thing run a lot faster.

If it's a multi-lane roundabout, it's important to use the correct lane. Other drivers will expect someone in the appropriate lanes to stay/exit the roundabout accordingly.
It was the 1960s. There was a huge push for all sorts of High Modernist experimental (re)design of British towns. Ring roads, tower blocks, roundabout-only layouts like Milton Keynes, brutalist public buildings, all that kind of thing. The country is slowly recovering from this.
There's a saying. A cat get satisfaction from stalking, chasing, catching, softening, killing and eating the prey. The system wouldn't work if it only got satisfaction from eating.

People can get satisfaction from things like receiving admiration (depends hugely who gives it) and thus be motivated by it.
To my knowledge 1.1.1.1 does not offer as blocking? Or are you referring to some other cloudflare offer?
don't with usa or they'll come for your oil in the name of democracy and peace, supported by their enslaved nato servants.
Has yours had "Mad Mike" drift around it? ;) https://www.redbull.com/ie-en/videos/mad-mike-whiddett-drift...
You take pride in ignorance. That is not very constructive either
If you look at the See Also in the article, you will find 3 other roundabouts of the same name also in the UK, so it seems the country in general has some interesting traffic structures.
I'm no expert, but I think the reason they built Guantanamo in Cuba is so it's away from any legal oversight. And I also assume that this doesn't come up in debates because it would instantly by followed by accusations of being soft on terrorism.
What about the fact it has two lanes?
I read ThoughtWorks Technology Radar vol.21 so you don’t have to
Wow. I googled him a little more, and his story was fascinating.;

> Despite opposition to his concept from many in an engineering profession known for its conservatism, his roundabout designs were formally written into government design manuals in 1975. By this time his experiments had become increasingly radical. Among these were the “magic roundabout” in Swindon in 1972 and multi-ring junction in Hemel Hemp-stead in 1973.

> Such junctions comprising as many as six mini-roundabouts — like a series of cogs in a piece of industrial machinery — did cause some chaos when first encountered by bewildered motorists. But Blackmore proved that the multi-roundabouts reduced speed, increased through-put and aided traffic flow. However, the idea was perhaps one step too far for an incredulous engineering profession, and it never really caught on.

http://trbroundabouts.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Frank-B...
> What I was saying is that the whole point of an installation is to modify the user's system.

Chrome is not part of the OS.

> It is pretty unlikely that legally it would be possible to have such fine grained differentiation between replacing and appending.

It's not only possible but easy to differentiate between installing software which includes registering it in the appropriate places and changing user settings for anticompetitive reasons. Unlike some corporations' customer support departments, the court system is not only staffed by actual humans with brains, they're even allowed to use them.

> And I'd prefer voting with my wallet than to forcing tech companies to involve legal in the development process.

I prefer solutions that have a chance of working, but to each their own.
>One in five Americans cannot name any of the branches of government

When I hear these stats like these, I think about the bell curve of human ability. When you put it in those terms, the bottom 20% of people have IQs lower than 88. So it becomes unsurprising that they may not be all that up on the branches of government, especially given the irrelevance to their day-to-day existence.
had same problem trying to cancel my subscription, I've canceled payments through paypal
I bought a DEC MicroVAX on ebay a few years ago and the seller lived in Swindon. I passed through the Magic Roundabout on the way there and the way back (during rush hour). Having never encountered anything like it before it was... Well, I'd love to tell you a horror story, but to be honest it was all very logical and flowed very well.
Time to Stop the ‘Doomsday Clock’. – Lawrence M. Krauss
How's is it different to any other road with two lanes?

If you're about to turn off then be on the inside lane. If you're not turning off then be on the outside lane.
Barcelona. It's fine to have a roundabout where several roads meet, each with multiple lanes, and the circle itself to have 6 or more lanes [1]

[1] As an example https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3748215,2.1491456,232m/data=...
I was fooled until I saw "Emacs lisp"
Does it have one of those "X days without an incident" signs next to it? :)
Funnily enough, most politicians* are from law backgrounds... which while it falls on the 'arts' side of the spectrum is definitely a specialized field and vocation.

I suspect that the dichotomy isn't so much 'STEM vs Arts' but 'Accountable vs Unaccountable'. Most STEM fields are accountable to reality and future employers, and law is similarly accountable to rival scholars of law and employers of new lawyers. That makes law a rather noteworthy outlier in the liberal arts.

*in western countries
I'm not sure on the actual design decision reasonings, however you can reach many of the exit junctions with multiple routes. So if everyone drove around it sensibly, there _would_ be fewer cars stuck in traffic.
Are you in a func? OR DO YOU NEED THE PERFECT FUNCTION?!

Worry not!

Run to the highest hill in the vicinity

And call his name out loud...

into the ether of infinity

ONEFUNCMAN!!!

Whatever func you're in or need. He'll save you.

He always does. He's the best, for he is one func man.
I’ve seen the same in full-size suvs.
Ha, you do have a point here, of course. But for comparison, have you seen "AI" drive cars?
This has helped me understand why folks think that I'm so often trolling: I wish for my opinion to be shown silly, because I'm so confident that it is a stupid opinion, because all of my opinions are stupid silly opinions.

I would much rather have everything laid out, examined, and shown not to be what it is not, than to suffer under political rhetoric. It is possible to be intellectually curious and also not a tankie.

If you want a less risible formulation of this sort of mindset, rewatch "Dogma" and listen to Rufus' outlook on life.

> His only real beef with mankind is the shit that gets carried out in His name. Wars. Bigotry. Televangelism. The big one though, is the factioning of the religions. He said, "Mankind got it all wrong by takin' a good idea and building a belief structure out of it."
Who’s Liable? The AV or the Human Driver?
The existence of the gdpr is not enough. You'd also need to start reporting/suing those breaching the rules.