skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but where you're doing

{"msg": "eyJhIjogMTAsICJjIjogInRlc3RpbmciLCAiYiI6ICJoZWxsbyJ9", "h": "..."}

you can as well be doing

{"msg": "{\"a\": 10, \"c\": \"testing\", \"b\": \"hello\"}", "h": "..."}

and skip base64 altogether.

If you mean this as a point against the second part of my post, it's of course only in some limited circumstances you can simply dump the values in a defined order and be done with it. To make it general, you have to have delimiters for at least arrays, objects and numbers, canonicalize number representations, and probably output the keys as well, at which point you've invented your own complete serialization protocol.
You are just dodging and fudging. Let me explain why reality matters.

Those like you who have the blessing of decent mental health and do not understand - seem quite unwilling to understand in many cases - that those such as me who have to deal with this shit for all their lives can be deeply and negatively affected by you lot posting garbage.

If it were a physical disease such as cancer you might be a lot less inclined to do it as you see the immediate link, from lack of proven efficacy to a fatal outcome.

Mental unhealth, though, seems fair game to you. You are insulated from the negative consequences of your idiotic prognostications so you posting crap is like giving a child matches to play with in someone else's house. Not your house, not your house fire, not your problem.

Please grow a little humanity and understanding; it's not a game for us, it can go from our lives made difficult, to our lives irretrievably wrecked.
I think world-building games can help a little.

Making decisions and living with the outcome, letting things go and showing NPCs and other players what you built (especially if the community is supportive) - these skills are very transferable.
Incentivising exercise behaviour / data submission to insurers?
Whatever it is that you feel you should do but don't want to, do the smallest thing that you can get yourself to do, even if it's essentially symbolic e.g. if you have a yard full of pine cones to clean, pick up one.
Of course it is, but you can go about this the smart way or the less smart one.

I for one voted with my feet, because I judged this particular approach to be shortsighted.
NYC's water is high quality, but the rooftop tanks that feed most faucets are not always maintained to an acceptable level of sanitation:

https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/policy/energy-enviro...
I'm not EU/US based. Work finished 4 hours ago. I don't have social media. I don't watch TV. I've walked the dog, I made dinner and ate. I took literally 10 mins to see what was on HN and this was the first link. I'm going to jump into bed and read a book in about an hour.
Consider the argument from the point of mathematics of it all, and the entire genre of relativity which is a vehement departure from classical physics.

Newton's model captures the essence but isn't the eternal truth. Relativity proved that. Today, singularities have been proven to exist that point to missing pieces in Einstein's theory.

The point is, simpler models are a good approximation even though they don't hold true under scrutiny, so, at what point do we stop obsessing over details and complex models professionals come up with or the policy-makers seek because surely there's law of diminishing returns at play here?
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That’s the joke, I presume.
Is the Gompertz function the function behind the standard "epi curve"? It appears from the CDC web site and other places that the epi curve is the standard way epidemics are modeled. The CDC even has a simple tutorial for creating them: https://www.cdc.gov/training/quicklearns/createepi/index.htm...
Have you actually read the Wiki link you posted? His father was a Jesuit. And how many 'ordinary' people had oil paintings of the whole family at this time??
The guy who first published the technique documented that it is effective (where effective means 'more productive'), and countless others have replicated his finding that they, too, found pomodoro to be effective. Don't let your own speculation overrule actual evidence. That's what start procrastination.
Hm, maybe the word "visualize" is distracting, from what I meant. When I programm, I also do not visualize it, in the meaning, that I have a graphical picture in my head. (At least not all the time )

I mean the mental graph and flow of the program in my head. And being a visual person, I can translate it to somehing graphical, but it does not neccesarily mean it is graphical. But thinking about it, gave some me interesting insights. ("insights" again, a word from a visual dominated world)
I don't see it that way though. I have many relatives that are government scroungers. Some of them are criminals. These people just don't want to work and will do anything they can to not work. No amount of coaching will help them. They spend their time getting drunk and high (usually around their own children) which will produce another generation that think it is okay to be scroungers.

I understand these people very well (I grew up with them). I find that those that advocate for these types of programs that you refer to, to be very naive or willingly ignorant.
Doing this is generally called a "flow":

* https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/12707/

One popular one is "GUMPS":

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUMPS
You completely missed my point.

I fully embrace 100% of Clojure language features, and am pointing out that Clojure by specification fully supports OOP, regardless of some people talk about it not being an OOP language.

C++ is being used as a methapor, because telling that it is not like people use Clojure, would be like me telling that C++ is safe just because some people don't use the low level unsafe features even though they are part of the language standard as much as Clojure OOP ones are.

If anything I just get tired of many not understanding how Lisps embrace OOP, after all very few languages offer OOP capabilities as powerful as CLOS.

They should all read "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol" book, plenty of copies still available.
You can also use the following bash/zsh function to quickly set the current default profile (requires ruby):

function aws_switch () {
local env="$1"
local region="$2"
export AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE="$env"
export AWS_ENV="$env"
export KITCHEN_ENV="$env"
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$(/usr/bin/env ruby -e "require 'inifile'; puts IniFile.load(File.join(File.expand_path('~'), '.aws', 'credentials'))[ENV['AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE']]['aws_access_key_id']")
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$(/usr/bin/env ruby -e "require 'inifile'; puts IniFile.load(File.join(File.expand_path('~'), '.aws', 'credentials'))[ENV['AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE']]['aws_secret_access_key']")
if [ -z "$region" ]
then
export AWS_REGION=$(/usr/bin/env ruby -e "require 'inifile'; puts IniFile.load(File.join(File.expand_path('~'), '.aws', 'config'))['profile ' + ENV['AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE']]['region']")
else
export AWS_REGION="$region"
fi
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=$AWS_REGION
}
Performance-wise, JS is not too bad when you have lots of IO going on, as in this case... but robustness? You gotta be kidding! JS is the poster child of a language does NOT have robustness as one of its attributes. Just about every single one of its design decisions makes robustness difficult.
And their blog has gems like:

> 2. FOR THOSE LONG, working from home conference calls, block EMF radiation with air tube headsets.

https://silent-pocket.com/blogs/news/how-to-stay-healthy-and...
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For 2. you'd either be contaminated directly from those particles landing on your face or by you touching your face directly, anyway, so I'd consider 2. to not be a strong argument against masks, anyway.
#1 Not all choices lead to valid solutions given a set of constraints, this can lead to non-optimal solutions.

#3 I personally see the reality that knowledge work and life blend a bit more at the edges than traditional factory work and can accept the need for work outside of the standard hours . It's the existence of this adaptation in working time alongside the other issues I highlighted that makes it a problem. We're in the middle of changing work and these are teething issues.

I find your reply overly simple, inconsiderate and from a place of privilege.
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Hi,

This is a simple brainstorming session on what kind of problems will you wish solved and your ready and willing to pay $10/mo for it!

Let's discuss!
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I've never once heard a bit of insight from a psychonaut that was particularly game-changing. We're all connected, consciousness is an illusion, societal structures are somewhat arbitrarily defined, etc. These are the existential thoughts of teenagers. Life is just energy, energy is just vibrations, everything is a fractal, etc, these are just the existential speculations of people making baseless claims.

Consciousness as a useful frontier, in my opinion, will only have utility as it intersects with neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Producing consciousness with AI will be game-changing. Altering or affecting consciousness with neuroscience, or allowing consciousness to interact with neuroscience in such a way that interfaces with other technologies will be game-changing, sure.

But giving people psychedelics and having them explore their own consciousnesses is not going to catalyze our society forward by leaps and bounds, that has been done since at least the 60s. I obviously don't care if people do whatever they'd like, I just don't see the point in romanticizing them.
Here is a list of file signatures[0] if you're looking for one.

[0]https://www.garykessler.net/library/file_sigs.html
Shouldn't a distributed, non-centralized DB handle HN hugs without a hiccup?
Could rice or pasta be cooked without hot water?
Same as seasonal flu?

Give it time, give it time...
Ahh, web 3.0
An empty screen except a green box with the text "LOAD MORE", assuming the box might be a button, I press it.
It elegantly turns into a small green square, and then disappear completely, leaving me with a white rectangle on top of a grey background.
> I'm actually on Marc's side on this one, in that I suspect current FDA approval processes are overkill.

As I understand it FDA didn't approve Pandemrix, while EU regulators did give it fast track appeal.

Pandemrix causes narcolepsy in 1 in 60,000 people who take it. (so, for the entire US that's about 5000 with a life long debilitating illness that requires constant care.) The risk is very low, but it's there and we need to be careful about exposing a population of hundreds of millions to these risks just because we have an ideological opposition to any form of government regulation.
> wooden thingy

I'm surprised there isn't a unique name for that.

"The staff used in the churn is known as the dash, dasher-staff, churn-staff, churning-stick, plunger, plumper, or kirn-staff."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_churn#Types_of_butter_c...
The question then in context become if mask helps during those 2-3 days before symptoms appear. There is a few links above that links to the effectiveness against coughing and sneezing, but I would guess those are symptoms.
A fun demonstration of getting comprehensible sound via one bit sampling is that you can use a tight loop on a C64 to read from any number of input pins (such as the tape input) to sample sound, and play it back either by writing to any number of outputs and connect it to a speaker, or indirectly by using the signal to toggle the sound chip volume up and down.

So not only can you get comprehensible voices from a 5V I/O pin to a speaker, pretty much any CPU newer than the mid 70's will be powerful enough to drive it.

So I agree - there's not really any excuse other than that people haven't thought about the UI.
Thank you for the detailed logs,Can you please confirm if both the devices are on same local network?
You're failing to take into account the triage onto palliative care pathways of many older people.
There is an alternative method called Flowtime: https://zapier.com/blog/flowtime-technique/ where you focus on a task until you feel you need a break (I think it is still crucial that you don't let yourself get distracted during this).

Another alternative is to treat the 25m as a minimum time in Pomodoro: if you are tired or have reached a natural break point for your task then stop. If you're in the flow continue.

You may want to enforce a maximum amount of time for health reasons (e.g. to get up from your chain every now and then).
I know of at least a few in London office buildings that speak. Especially buildings with large banks of elevators that tends to have "fancier" control systems that manage all of the elevators.
Someone probably thought the title was too provocative and therefore more likely to touch off the usual back and forth between

-- those who feel they have to evangelize remote work so that there will be more/better paid remote positions for them and

-- those who really hate the current situation (who doesn't) and are worried that not coming into the office will be normalized and many of their co-workers will stop coming in as a result
Sure, and yet... why is anyone ever late to anything? Let alone why are some people persistently late, in circumstances where that matters, and they know it's an issue?

Rationally that makes no sense so dismissing techniques for resolving it that also don't make rational sense on that basis seems wrong.
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Hey everyone

Excited to launch a side project I've been working on:

https://www.goodbooks.io

Good Books is a curated collection of book recommendations from some of the most successful, influential and interesting people around the world.

Let me know who you'd love book recommendations from and I'll add them to the list.

This project started about 6-months ago when I started to keep track of all the books that I wanted to read and who recommended them. I then got (a little) obsessed with the project and ended up accumulating over 15,000 book recommendations from about 1,250 people...

I built Good Books to share these book recommendations with the world, organising them into simple categories and industries so it's easy to find your next read.

What's next for Good Books?

- 100s more recommendations every month
- Adding more interesting people (who would you like to see?)
- Writing some curated recommendation lists
- Planning a weekly newsletter with recommendations
- Adding sources to book recommendations

Thanks!
Why must atheism be articulated? Shouldn't it be the default?
This is not a "crypto currency system". It's a business method patent for shilling people with crypto when you do something.

The idea of "gamifying" physical actions has been around for a long long time, most notably Foursquare and Fitbit. These guys are just taking that concept and saying "we'll give you crypto instead".

I don't think this is patentable. It's too obvious. Even if it were to be patented, it can't be enforced for anything more than patent trolling.
Awesome!

For a lot of my personal productivity tools, I've been using Alfred, but for some of them a tooltip would be a lot more natural. Looking forward to using it!
I think that the main issue is people who lack technical expertise and just want to install macOS but do not want to buy Apple hardware. They don't understand technical manuals and they'll spread gossip knowledge.
Ask HN: Which programming language has the best `number' implementation?
Might sound like a vague question but I'm thinking here in terms of a complete type hierarchy that's faithful to mathematics, going from Natural numbers to Integers to Rationals to Reals to Complex numbers (and others?). That caters for native primitive machine number types be they floating or fixed point or whole numbers, signed or unsigned.

That knows that i is the square root of -1, that knows that √2 is irrational but π and e are transcendental. And so on. Also looking for a language that has a complete efficient implementation of surreal numbers (prompted by Conway's recent passing), or at least allows you to plug one in seamlessly/transparently if you so desired.
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That's great for the cats. But it looks a bit over engineered. Nailing a curved piece of wood to the wall would also do the trick. Cats are very good at climbing trees.
Good starter project to flex your JS muscle. But other than that - Zoom's built-in whiteboard is pretty feature-rich and meets my use-cases perfectly. My use-cases -: brainstorming with colleagues, interviews.
Yes, our servers are only for signalling.

> PS: https://show.veda.ai/demo.jpg I hate how accurate this picture reflects parts of my improvised setup. :)

Nice, we wanted to show the bare minimum required to use the tool.
They learn to work around that.
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Noble cause but not really what this is for.
Electrically controllable inductors are known as saturable reactors. One quite interesting use is in the tuning of a synchrotron accelerating cavity.

Here is a paper on using varactors to tune a loop antenna:

http://home.earthlink.net/~christrask/Varactor%20Tuned%20Loo...

He also has many other good papers on RF.
I doubt it's bots. It's just a polarizing topic.
I love this site - it's the first place I go for book recs.
> Nobody is lazy at playing video games or eating a favorite food.

I cannot disagree more. You can be lazy about something that brings enjoyment. Laziness is stagnation without regard for enjoyment or perceptions. In other words it is the opposite of ambition or progression. For example you can enjoy playing video games and yet become lazy about it through a lack of effort in that a decline of related goals does not necessarily translate into lower interest or participation.

Spinning the subject into something entirely unrelated, such as sensitivity or self-esteem, completely misses the point and could actually be really harmful advise. If you wish to focus upon or improve enjoyment, self-esteem, or emotional well being the do so with great deliberation but not because you have confused those with effort.

—-

Think of mental laziness as a lack of mental exercise. Mental exercise, such as tough decisions, actually burn more calories and impact your overall physiology. The only way to fight mental laziness is to increase your own self awareness with a goal for self improvement over time, like working out the rest of your body. Some helpful tools are reminders, taking notes, reviewing prior decisions, and advice from other people.

To fight mental laziness I recommend focusing on these criteria:

* criticality - don’t be afraid to ask questions and seek greater learning

* originality - try something new. A new approach may require a far lower effort and yet may cause anxiety. Confront and appreciate that anxiety directly as part your increased self-awareness

* empathy - empathy is the cognitive exercise of perceiving the situations of other people. Do not confuse it for sympathy, the process of sharing an emotional response. Empathy requires deliberate effort and often does not result in sympathetic state

* deliberation - own your decisions. Take credit for all decisions without fear. If you are afraid to associate a decision with your reputation then somebody will make the decision for you. It is better to make a wrong decision early than to put that decision off to a future time. A wrong decision in the short term results in learning that can result in corrective decisions that would otherwise be absent.
Yeah, there are some perverse incentives in both of these approaches.

We had a classic "glasses salesman" story going on here.

The story goes like this: there was a store that sold prescription glasses which had a few salespeople.

One was consistently better than all the others, so management took note and wanted him to teach the others.

Turns out that what he did was to observe people coming to the store and only approach those who looked rich, going as far as distracting the other salespeople so that they wouldn't get a chance.
Do you have a link about the HIV gene sequences? I remember a preprint that claimed that, but the sequence were very short, not whole genes. Two where 6 amino acid long and the other where not exact matches, but a small matech nearby a small match.

For an analogy, let's imagine that the genome of the virus were a short esay, and the whole genes were sentences. It is like claiming plagirism, because two persons use the word "banana" and the word "apple" in another sentence and then they used "co???ion" and "in???ing" in another two sentences.
Yes, that's true, if you want to propagate information about the nature of what went wrong locally (e.g. logging) you need to use something richer (e.g. Either).
If they have to row back completely and be worse off than before it would be a clear mistake. Anything in between is debatable and includes the difficult mix of economy vs. health vs. mental health etc.
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Is "bluetrace" a bluetooth-based contract tracker, like Apple/Google are working on?
Not sure what you are trying to say here. Do you mean "because we don't know why people are getting late so dismissing a solution which I know doesn't work seems wrong" ? But you do being the reply with "sure" so was that an agreement ?
You don't have to be a conservative to see how the gov't screwed up early on -- the SK gov't went against the advice of the Korean Medical Association to restrict travel from China; instead the current Moon administration made a political decision to keep their door open to China to please Xi JinPing of China. The problem for the minority party was their link to Shincheonji, a cult responsible for the majority of all coronavirus cases, and they really had to keep their head down pretty much throughout the whole ordeal.

I consider myself a newbie and neutral on SK politics and had dismissed all the criticism of Moon being a commie and all before, but I'm starting to see through the garbage now.
Vincent Le Goff, the author of the excellent "Apprendre à programmer en Python" (in French) from the french side of OpenClassRooms is blind. There is a picture of him with the Braille reader and headsets in the book version. Maybe he would be of some help ?
course: https://openclassrooms.com/fr/courses/235344-apprenez-a-prog...
profile: https://openclassrooms.com/fr/membres/prolixe-27218
It's a funky title, I agree on that. The article and method described though is interesting and has merit on being quite useful for some. AO does have some interesting content, in which they highlight obscure things, many of which tickle the imagination or mindset (of me at least). So I can certainly see how they end up on the first page from time to time.
Maybe retention is worse, but I'm still better off. Higher speeds are more engaging and enjoyable to me, as bad speakers and long pauses matter less. Therefore I benefit from watching more talks and lectures. For better retention it is preferable to occasionally re-watch good talks for spaced repetition.

The Video Speed Controller extension is indispensable part of my browsing experience, mostly for keyboard shortcuts to speed up/down and << >> videos.
Think we've a lot in common. Maybe to do with being older and more experienced; been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
I started with Assembler on Intel hardware and problems with coding that in scale aren't so different to today's environments.
As for 'Agile', yep that died as a marketing phrase, even though the intentions (and the manifesto) are entirely valid. Flexible is a better choice now. Fragile is what we often get!
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