skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't have a shortage of things to hype up, never have, but the market dropping actually hurts them.

I'll follow the money, and not conspiracy theories.
>>One of the biggest force multipliers in overcoming depression

One of the biggest force multipliers for me was accepting myself the way I am, and living with my depression.
I was diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder, PTSD, and Bipolar. I've been on several SSRIs for a year, but I've quit it all.
I found out that drugs are good to calm me down, but they make me so normal to the point of boredom. I could no longer hyper-focus to build/design products.

When I researched it I found out that creativity is strongly linked to depression.
It made sense...I couldn't imagine Picasso, Kakfka, Shakespeare, and all the creative great thinkers/artists living a life like not-depressed-people.

When my doctor, and the head of the Psychiatrist dept tried to influence my decision I said that I love myself when I hyper-focus.

I love it when I'm randomly strolling the streets thinking about all the silly things other people think I'm wasting my time thinking about.

I love it when I read the depressing thoughts/ideas of great philosophers like Russell, Wittgenstein, and Kant.

I love it when I look at depressing paintings by Munch, Picasso, and Van Gogh.

It remains one of life mysteries to me why we are trained to reject depression and loneliness..why we, hackers and artists, are trained to live by unwritten rules of how we should live our lives..

“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.” ― Nikola Tesla.
Ask HN: What are some good problems to code test a candidate?
Basically what the title says. The places I worked for all asked for a code test before inviting me over for a face to face. There has been some variety but the Toy Robot simulator (https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/96181/robot-toy-simulator) was by far the most used by the industry here in Melbourne.

I'm curious about what other people are using? I've heard of the Elevator simulator (https://github.com/donnemartin/elevator-simulator) and Conways game of life.

What else people are using that is easy to review, a good problem to solve and ticks most of the boxes you use for reviewing candidates?
> That sounds crazy to me, in Poland there's a multitude of cheap restaurants full of students close to every university campus.

As a rule (non fast-food) restaurants are very expensive in the US compared to most places in Europe.

Poland is on the extreme end when it comes to high quality food being extremely cheap. In Berlin it isn't terribly hard to get a healthy and large meal for 4-8 euros at a restaurant for me, but even I was surprised visiting Poland when pretty much every restaurant outdid and undercut that.
Fearful reactions to the new coronavirus can put lives at risk
One Laptop Per Child fiasco -.. I fixed it
I run a couple of 'good' bots:

https://twitter.com/thehugfairy - Sends Twitter hugs. You sign up at hugfairy.com to tell it who to hug. This one get's a lot of use. The website has about 1,500 DAU.

https://twitter.com/smithsonianbot - A more recent one, which sends random photos from Smithsonian's Open Access collection.

Overall I'm glad to see Twitter clarifying their rules. I've had API keys revoked without warning, my accounts deactivated, etc. Twitter dev support is always nice and I've gotten the bots running again, but it would be great to know in advance how I can avoid getting shut down.
‘Surveillance creep’ as cameras spread on campus
In addition to other reasons, a lot of colleges are about to enter Spring Break. So, a bunch of college kids are going to all go party together, spread it to each other, and then all come home.
The map tools ran on NeXT:

http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/QuakeEd/quake_ed.html
Read somewhere that funeral services are banned in Italy. Didn't see any exception for household relatives.
ADHDer here. I can help with this.

When you are stuck, it probably means you are too focused. You should turn your attention-thermostat more toward the exploratory side of things. You also probably want to talk the problem through with a coworker whom you like who is good at being a sounding board.

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# Explanation: Working Memory and Scope of Attention

# Working Memory

You know how a computer processor has registers and it performs operations on the values stored in those registers?
Your brain has Working Memory and it can hold 4-9 "chunks" of information. More if you are relaxed and confident in your social position, Fewer chunks if you are stressed or worried about being kicked out of your social group.

A "chunk" is any piece of information that you are able to think about as a single thing.

- Your own home address is 1 chunk

- A stranger's home address is 4 chunks (house number, street name, city+state, postcode)

- A stranger's address whom you've said out loud a couple times is 2 chunks I guess.

- A design pattern you know well is 1 or 2 chunks.

- A design pattern you've not yet learned is 5-15 chunks.

Your brain decides what to hold in your Working Memory based on a whole lot of things. The mental act of focusing is ignoring ideas and stimuli in order to preserve specific information in your working memory. If you google "mindfulness meditation" or "sniper breath control technique" and try doing either, you can observe this process in action.

> I am a new grad

Great. Picture a massive undirected graph of all the wikipedia articles and their links to each other. Now picture a graph of all conceivable ideas and the conceptual links that might lead the thought of one to lead to another. When you focus, you tell your brain "If the concept doesn't seem like X, don't traverse this edge."

In your case, it seems like you are telling your brain "If adding the new idea doesn't mean that I can put together full solution from what is in Working Memory, stop." Well it turns out that code and design patterns can be complicated and trying to do the whole thing at once might take more Working Memory than you have. However, doing the imperfect solution would:

1) Take some of the complexity out of your head and put it into a text editor. Thus, it would also "chunk" it and free up space in your working memory for manipulating the rest of the complexity.

2) Cause you to traverse the graph of ideas more. With your working memory freed up, you might spot a solution which is based on the crappy version but closer to what you want.

So my advice is to ego for a walk for a bit and let your brain expand the set of possibly-relevant ideas.
Pet peeve from the first line: bemusement means confusion, not amusement.

I remember when newspapers had editors who cared about what words meant.
Not always, and definitely not whenever they want in China
Fascinating project! Anyone know of possible overlap with Firecracker? Really digging these Rust projects.
From what I've heard, if you buy Toyota in France, your car is more likely to have been assembled locally vs any of the local brands (Peugeot, Renault, Citroën). So buying a Japanese car in Europe can mean buying a local car.
Vegetarian diet may lower stroke risk
Ruby. It's the language with the most intuitive syntax and standard library, the most ergonomic external libraries and an extremely well polished web development ecosystem.

Close rivals might be PHP and Node.JS, there's pros and cons to all of them.

If something needs to be very performant you pluck it out into a little golang microservice.
The lockdown will happen when Conservative MPs (especially ministers) start getting hospitalised.

Also I'm worried about the Queen, I don't know what the COVID-19 death rate for 93 year olds is but it's surely supremely high.
I think the "calling BS" objection was to your categorical statement: "No computer-to-computer interchange format has comments," and not about whether they are a good idea or not (that is a separate argument).

How about ".comment" sections in ELF binaries, do they count?

https://wiki.osdev.org/ELF
Thanks, this is useful. I am thinking about building a UPS at home from batteries, so it can supply around 650W of DC power. I assume that using voltage of 12V on the supply side of the DC-DC converter would be too energy-inefficient for such high a power, so I'm thinking I'd better string such 12V batteries in series to get higher voltage, say 300 V. This should have minimal transmission losses, so I can lead this to my DC-DC converter via standard electric wires.
DIY Radio Alarm for Your Mac
Ha - first time I read it I didn't pick up that he was the author :P
Then why remove it anyway? It doesn't seem hard to implement and maintain.
Test and wait on the availability of a remote resource
Some people would be fired if they wore a tshirt to work. I don't think whether or not a behavior would be tolerated by corporations should be the measure by which we judge appropriateness in any context other than a corporate workplace.
N7+ EUV is 1.2x denser but also it's yield is horrible according to sources. https://wccftech.com/tsmc-7nm-euv-yield-alleged/

And you can't compare tsmc vs Intel directly because their target chip size is different. Intel produces chips size of avg. 180mm² while tsmc and others aim for under 80mm². Even the industry leader producing small chips are suffering in yield for ranges of 113MTr/mm². Intel producing huge chips with 100.76MTr/mm² density even without EUV means they are going through the right way.

With those knoledges on non-EUV nodes I expect Intel to be on par (which it already is) or be superior than others in about 1-2 years.
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/File:5nm_densities.svg

People having insight to this industry doesn't think Intel has ever been left behind in this race towards density. Fanboys and regular people influenced by the media does.
I have to wonder how coronavirus and health in general is going to effect American politics.

The democratic primaries are currently under way, both the candidates are well into their seventies. After that the presidential election starts, where the winner of the primaries faces off against the younger Donald Trump. Younger at 74 years of age (at the time of the election, now 73).

Whoever wins this election is going to be the oldest person ever to win an election for president.

What happens if they catch Coronavirus and die at an inopportune time? What happens if they just die of old age?

Maybe it won't be an issue, so far they all seem to be in reasonably good health for their age, and they all undoubtedly have access to the best medical care in the world. On the other hand they are exposed to all sorts of viruses, and they all have very high stress jobs.
If only we had a taco truck on every street corner.
> It's weird for open source because the ousted party can usually take the tree and fork

Ah, but they can't do this freely and effortlessly if they've been labeled as Persona Non Grata in the license by the previous maintainer. (See, it's genius! This is such a great idea, I can't possibly tell what might go wrong with it. "Programs, not pogroms" indeed.)
It's quite interesting to read the last paragraph on that page that lists your offenses.

"We are now looking forward to Linus Torvalds to be shown the door from the Linux project. He has long steered it abusively and has even been identified on mass media publications as a verbally insulting jerk. Him being a white male, the epitome of exclusivity, is just the cherry on top."

That sure sounds like someone on a mission (also caring a lot about other people's business).

Also (as someone occasionally working with Drupal 8) I found it interesting that commenting on the routing/menu system was one of the reasons that got you kicked out. Although I could not find any of the alleged "comments ... aimed at" Larry Garfield. On a side note this was obviously before Garfield himself was removed from the Drupal community about a year later due to violation of the code of conduct.
I've sort of wondered about that. Governments should foster entreprenuers, the most important source of economic growth, and cheap money might be more successful and egalitarian than fingers-in-the-pie subsidies or other methods.
Your risk of inadvertently allowing someone to die in your community by Covid-19
Anecdote, at one of the affected companies and we’ve been wfh. I honestly think my productivity has tanked. That’s the general sentiment for other folks that I’ve talked to, too
Why are comments saying no more paywall links getting downvoted. Some of the top comments are always hating on sources not to post from and no one mentions paywall linked.
I'm guessing the "untuned" code here is C or some other statically-typed compiled language and it's not using any "framework". I guess the point is that straight-line Python code might be 10x-20x slower than C but an inefficient architecture can be 100x-1000x slower while being more complex than a good architecture.
Best site I've found
http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/mortgage_rates/daily.aspx
The article goes out of its way to avoid describing the “untuned” setup, though the numbers look about right for a single threaded program without piles of frameworks and serializers in the way.

Apparently someone else also built an untuned setup from scratch, and got better numbers.

I think the point of the article is that if the results are surprising to you, then you should try writing one too.
I WANT to say that a Citroen DS's adjustable suspension could be genuinely useful in some situations. But presumably nowadays DSs are so old that they break down all the time, and the fact that I want to forgive them nicely illustrates your point!
FAQ on Diagnostic Testing – Covid-19
Let's just go all the way: at MIT, the Nuclear Engineering students get to operate a real nuclear reactor.

Put it on the internet?
There has been a few people I've read about proposing a solution to this on Mars. Mars is absolutely chock full of these "lava tubes" caused by old long dormant volcanos. If those could be sealed, they could be used for humans to live in effectively shielded from this sort of thing. Sure it would be difficult, but so would everything on mars. The great thing is that there are lots of these lava tubes that could potentially be inhabited.

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-lava-tubes-hidden-sites-future...

https://www.inverse.com/article/36777-mars-moon-human-colony...
I'm a little surprised. In that same comment, he says he took a swing at it and missed. He spoke about the failure of starfighter at length at the time[0]. He made it sound like there would need to be a fundamental social shift in the industry for large scale changes in hiring practices to occur.

Or maybe I read too much into it.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11691568
https://www.inverse.com/article/36777-mars-moon-human-colony...
I assume Minnow didn't use Model B addressing, then?
My understanding was that Minnow was important step towards miniaturization of the PDP-10 line, in tandem with Jupiter (IIRC?) which spearheaded high cpu speed initiative...
To do my role properly without additional hires to support me? I'd probably need 50-60. However, at the moment they are paying me for 40 so I'm working 40. Phone notifications off, no email response after hours, etc.
that is illegal and will never happen.
I was significantly more productive in that huge open office than at home, even when the rest of my team was in a different office. Open offices are significantly flawed, but productively working at home is tough for a lot of people.
Lol Carl is a hack and he got fired because of that. Reich didn't remotely say things racist wanted to hear. Meanwhile Saini's books got inputs and reviews from all prominent scientists in the field (Graham Coop, Ewan Birney etc.) none of which are HBD proponents.

HBD proponents and Pioneer Fund recipients like to cry that they're being silenced when the reality is that they suck at science and don't like being called out. From Kanazawa's "the earth is flat" paper to evopsychologists literally admitting in the acknowledgement sections that they had no idea how to look up things in gene ontology databases and had to ask an actual biologist to do it on the condition that their name wouldn't be associated to their work, everything about the HBD clique transpires hackery and fraud.
I’m confused. Are the students not mostly adults? Why can’t they be trusted to find their own food in a large city, like any other adult would have to?
My initial "initiation" (that's the jargon used) was unexpected. I was in Seattle, walking down the street, and I passed one of those shops that sells crystals, incense, and Tarot decks. On a whim I went in, and there was a sign about Reiki classes downstairs. I went downstairs and there was a kind of class going on, and the folks in the class were having some sort of exam or test. The teacher of the class looked like if Santa Claus ditched the red reindeer-hide coat and dressed as a pirate. He grabbed me and sat me down in a chair and some woman started waving her arm at me from about a meter away.

I feel a certain ineffable something "filling me up" with a kind of immaterial pressure or presence. I could feel it within the volume of my body and (somehow) extending into the space around me. It's difficult to explain in words what it feels like, people describe both warmth and coolness, presence and emptiness, tingling and relaxation, sometimes in combinations. The best I can do is that it felt like a high-tension electric field if you could somehow feel the field directly. Anyway, she started at the base of my spine and went up the center line to the top of my head at which point I felt a flower- or fountain-shaped field extend out from the crown of my head into the space around my body. Simultaneous with this I experienced a deep psychological change, comparable in intensity to a modest dose of "magic mushrooms" or LSD, that was deeply pleasant and healing. At that time in my life I was suffering from severe depression and now it lifted and I felt wonderful for the rest of the evening. The effect wore off but the depression was never as severe again after that.

So that was my first experience with this thing called Reiki. Nobody had told me anything. I had no beliefs about it going in. And it sure wasn't the "placebo effect" (whatever that is.) I had no idea what to expect, or even to expect anything at all.

After that I found a group that practiced and taught Reiki without charging the traditional fees and worked with them. I also, as I said, went looking for anyone who had "done science" to it, with the results I mentioned above.

There's a lot of variation (in my experience) between different Reiki sessions even with the same people. Most are pretty mellow, and other than a deep and abiding sense of peace and health there's not much you can point to and say, "there, that's the effect".
The "death panels" actually didn't even refer to triage, it was a reference to a proposal to pay doctors for providing counseling on end of life directives and living wills.

The semi-manufactured concern was that doctors would basically be telling people how to end their lives earlier. I only say this is a "semi" manufactured concern rather then a completely fabricated one because I have enough doctor's in my family to know that doctors generally have a view on end of life care that's distinct from the rest of the population.

Anyways, that gripe about about a detail of a bill got turned into "Death Panels" and promoted by right wing media into doctors deciding to cut care off in non emergency situations.
This applies to programming too. To remove a piece of code (or even to improve it), one must first understand what it does.
U.S universities typically have two sessions per year: the "fall semester" (usually September-December) and the "spring semester" (usually January-May). Each course (e.g., Introduction to Chemistry) typically runs one semester. A full-time student usually studies 3-4 courses per semester.

Many universities also offer a small number of courses during the summer break. Some universities allow certain courses to be only a half-semester in duration.
Reminds me of what they did with the space station in Seveneves!
Correct. One API. But chose the client (or as many) that you want.
Why should we assume the consent will be well-informed? If what you ask for was accomplished tomorrow, then in 15 years you'd be back on this site lamenting how patients were misled by their doctors into treatments that had horrifying results, and that we need better regulation of what experimental treatments doctors are allowed to administer. Maybe there'd be an anecdote about a desperate low-income family with no other options.

And, by the way, we already have systems in place for experimental treatments. There's a reason why it's hard to get in, and why it's hard for doctors to be allowed to administer the treatments: because doctors (and the megacorporations funding the research) aren't always moral. Sometimes they "will happily make ten thousand people shit out their lungs in exchange for some seasonal allergy relief" and sometimes they "would rather let ten thousand people die in hospital beds than risk a trial that may not produce results".

The "move fast and break things, so long as you have very well-informed consent" approach is a great way to take advantage of desperate people.
Google Recommends All North America Employees to Work from Home
How many <$20,000 new cars do you think are sold every year? Only the very insignificant subcompact segment even has an average selling price in that range. The average selling price of new vehicles is nearly $40,000. There's a lot of room for today's "boring" EVs in the $40,000 segment.

https://mediaroom.kbb.com/2020-01-03-Average-New-Vehicle-Pri...
My productivity has gone down as well. Because (a) I didn't have a coffee machine at home, and ended up either having to take a mile-long walk to Starbucks or fight against my morning drowsiness; (b) I now need to cook, do the dishes, etc, which are previously handled by the office cafeteria; (c) I tried to reduce my screen time by not having external monitors at home, and now I code on a small 13-inch laptop display.
This looks neat.

How does this differ from disaster.radio? More portable?

I ask because I really think these are important projects and I'm not sure which to contribute my time towards.
Ask HN: Why are Intel processors more vulnerable than AMD?
Is AMD better at security than Intel?([1]), ([2]). Why are there less security vulnerabilities in AMD?

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/10/new-flaw-in-intel-chips-lets-attackers-slip-their-own-data-into-secure-enclave/

[2]: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html
I was just describing this to my therapist the other day. There are things that you recognize at the intellectual level that never make it down to the "lower levels", which ironically are the ones that matter.

She's an anxiety therapist, so I tell her my anxiety is holding me back from connecting with others, but part of me suspects that my inability to "feel" the connections is the real problem.
That’s the Schema Definition Language native to GraphQL.
Here's an article from CBS, it seems to urge calm and reasonable containment.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/03/10/dr_drew_p...
Gatsby is doing a full rewrite in TS https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/issues/21995 -- all roads very sanely lead to TypeScript these days.