skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favourite HN comment was about burnout:

Burnout is caused when you repeatedly make large amounts of sacrifice and or effort into high-risk problems that fail. It's the result of a negative prediction error in the nucleus accumbens. You effectively condition your brain to associate work with failure.

Subconsciously, then eventually, consciously, you wonder if it's worth it. The best way to prevent burnout is to follow up a serious failure with doing small things that you know are going to work. As a biologist, I frequently put in 50-70 and sometimes 100 hour workweeks. The very nature of experimental science (lots of unkowns) means that failure happens. The nature of the culture means that grad students are "groomed" by sticking them on low-probability of success, high reward fishing expeditions (gotta get those nature, science papers) I used to burn out for months after accumulating many many hours of work on high-risk projects. I saw other grad students get it really bad, and burn out for years.

During my first postdoc, I dated a neuroscientist and reprogrammed my work habits. On the heels of the failure of a project where I have spent weeks building up for, I will quickly force myself to do routine molecular biology, or general lab tasks, or a repeat of an experiment that I have gotten to work in the past. These all have an immediate reward. Now I don't burn out anymore, and find it easier to re-attempt very difficult things, with a clearer mindset.

For coders, I would posit that most burnout comes on the heels of failure that is not in the hands of the coder (management decisions, market realities, etc). My suggested remedy would be to reassociate work with success by doing routine things such as debugging or code testing that will restore the act of working with the little "pops" of endorphins.

That is not to say that having a healthy life schedule makes burnout less likely (I think it does; and one should have a healthy lifestyle for its own sake) but I don't think it addresses the main issue.

link to comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5630618
http://perma.pub/alpha/edward/openZRe7/fulfil

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23491587

(Make sure you're viewing in a fullscreen browser window.)
You are of course aware that Apple is soon selling computers with their own processors, I hope. I don’t think Apple is struggling with performance in their chips at all.

> If you get a PC, you get literally thousands of choices.

And none of them work reliably.
If you mean dark as in Darth Vader choke grip dark, and not dark as in subtle under the radar manipulation dark pattern, then yes.
Make sure to ask the agent where they are sitting.
The comment is interesting because it's such an exception. This community is almost fatally optimistic and has blind spots where skepticism and criticism could be. Our website should have the X-files "I want to believe" poster as the HTML background.

My counter-response to laughing at "you can build such a system yourself quite trivially" is Theranos.
A commenter talked about his experience with testicular cancer and encouraged other 20-34 year old men to check themselves.

So I did, found a lump, and because I found it early it was removed with no further issue. So that's definitely one of my favorite comments!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7120102
Why do you dwell on the past so much? Make decisions with conviction and then live with the consequences.
This is true, they definitely do have an overheating issue. That's why I was looking at other modems aside from upgrading my service.

But I do plan on modding mine so it's not something I specifically would run into.
It's less about making people physically send ships and troops to defend them than it is making sure that any attempt by the PRC to invade or blockade them would have crushing effects on the mainland money-train that is the lifeblood of the party.
The question is how few cases. I would agree at some point extremely few cases would mean not a significant risk, but because single cases can potentially case the virus to be spread widely before they are noticed even fairly small numbers of cases could have a significant impact. Many potential surface exposures would overlap with potential airborne exposure and most places with many cases don't have sufficient contact tracing to really have any idea how a large portion of the cases are occuring.

I don't even disagree that much with you, Goldman, or the Atlantic article. Surface disinfection giving a false sense of security does seem like a major issue to me (and surface coatings and a number of other more extreme measures seem like a bad idea to me). However, I think you, the Atlantic author, and Goldman (unless misquoted, it seems he makes a different argument here than his Lancet article) are being unreasonably certain about it not mattering at all. It seems like the author could only find two people, both from Rutgers, willing to publicly support that argument. It seems like a pure ego thing to be so certain based on so little evidence and potentially quite harmful if not correct.
It’s not reasonable to list every possible use. Any call center routinely uses call data to train and evaluate agents.
So instead of 淡水 (Tamsui / Danshui) more like 蛋水

(Both of these sound the same with the same tones, but I replaced the first character with the one for egg of the same sound, hence meaning egg water.)
I would add that healthy diet is not something complicated. I wish I know about it much earlier.

Here is the basic concept: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-....

Just split your plate (approximately of a hand size in diameter) on 4 parts: 2 parts vegetables, 1 is protein/meat, 1 is for carbs (should not be overcooked, just slightly undercooked to not transform it into fast digesting food). Spoon of healthy oils.

Thats it, 3 times per day. Nothing more, nothing less. Here is my diet for the last couple of months and this is the most impactful thing to the quality of my life besides walking every day at least an hour.
Dilbert’s creator Scott Adams has a rule for that: Adams Law of Slow-Moving Disasters.

Scott Adams himself would use this to mock people who are worried about climate change.

The problem with this is that if you don’t worry about it, actually it doesn’t get solved. For example everyone was worried about the Y2K bug and nothing happened because enough people in the right position got worried enough, invested in the fix and nothing happened.

So it’s a paradox.
It’s also a common sense: If you prepare for something, you can prevent it, and if it materialises the damage inflicted would be minimised and if you were not worried about it, disaster happens.

Actually, the pandemic is an example of not worrying enough. A lot of people couldn’t got worried until corridors of hospitals become morgues. Months of news and footage were not enough to convince people to worry enough to wear a mask.
It's never too late to get healthy at any age. I've realized this after many years but have finally started to take it seriously.

I follow a lot of literature and social media around fitness. I think the rise of social media has made fitness seem out of reach for most people. Seeing these fitness personalities usually being in the top percentile in terms of genetics for body weight, muscle definition and just looking amazing makes the rest of us feel like it's not something we can do easily. Having most of these people spout their pseudo science also doesn't help. It's hard for any sane person to understand what to do, whether its diet (keto, low-carb, water fasting, carnivore diet, etc.) since there is so many possibilities.

As I've grown older I've realized that staying fit has so many benefits that it might as well be the best anti-aging change we can make for ourselves.

If you're over 25% or more body fat, it's worth figuring out how to bring that down to 20% or less. See how far you can go. Not all of us can get to 12% and maintain it without feeling like we're starving ourselves but I think the higher range is doable.

I've realized for diet and exercise there is no one answer for anyone. The wisdom of eat less, exercise more seems to be the ultimate truth.

What that looks like for each person is unique. Personally for me I've tried all of it. I've done the 7 day water fast, intermittent fasting, low-carb eating, etc. At the end, as long as I'm eating within my maintenance calories relatively good clean food it doesn't matter for me which one I do.

For exercise, I've settled on three total body weightlifting sessions with half an hour cardio session on the non-weightlifting days.

So, the best thing you can do as you getting older is figure out what works for you. There is so many ways of eating and exercising and sometimes it takes a while to understand what works for your body.
The idea isn't to use the Linux kernel at all for the applications data path. You can have a Linux distro start your application and then once it's running you don't necessarily need to make any syscalls at all. You can pass through devices to userspace directly using tools like DPDK, SPDK, or NVMeDirect so that you could e.g. let Linux handle the gigabit ethernet management port and let DPDK control the 100G Mellanox card. You could boot the server off of some SATA SSDs and use SPDK to give your application direct access to the fancy optane 905P. Rather than using OS threads and have the kernel handle scheduling you can use green threads and still get concurrency even on a single core and still be able to write your code such that you can still meet any latency or throughput requirements you have.

You get all the benefits of a Linux server as far as orchestration and your control layer are concerned but also most of the benefits of running it bare metal like a unikernel.
I'm unsure how to find the studies but when G&T children are not put in accelerated programs they typically suffer from mental issues and isolation and end up underperforming their peers. Your acquaintance could have been someone great, I guess.
What PGP key server to use?
https://superuser.com/questions/227991/where-to-upload-pgp-public-key-are-keyservers-still-surviving

I was thinking about adding my GPG key to the key server. However, I get the impression that pgp.mit.edu is obsolete now, and https://keys.openpgp.org/ is more preferable.

What PGP key server do you recommend?
Scanning paper copies is the easiest IMO.
Zen 3 with 7nm has been on the roadmap for three years.

It has nothing to do with 5nm, Apple, or not.
Don't expect much of it, it sounds paradoxical but, if you do it as a hobby project using the stack you want and it's something you are excited / care about, it will make it much easier to have motivation, along with reducing your fear of failure. Assume nothing will come out of it and be surprised when it takes off.
New GitHub repos to have default branches named “main” instead of “master”
Quite interesting.
I just woke up (it's 7AM here). A quick check and everything works as before, so public pages are showing up without requiring login and with the old design.
I don't understand what kind of human experimentation we were facing.
David Foster Wallace wrote a great book entitled The Pale King that wrestles with the boredom and frustration of our modern office-work related lives. I’m not sure if I grabbed it from that book, but one of his quotes I enjoy is: "The underlying bureaucratic key is the ability to deal with boredom. To function effectively in an environment that precludes everything vital and human. To breath, so to speak, without air. The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish."

I find him to be a breath of fresh air, in his books and interviews, in describing how miraculous yet constrained our lives are. It helps me not burn-out. I think.
Colliding Neutron Stars Don’t Make Enough Gold to Explain What We See
Just by following references in the Wikipedia about the carbon cycle I found this book chapter https://scihub.wikicn.top/https://doi.org/10.1016%2FS0070-45... that contains numbers (and error bars), alas from 1985. I'm confident that our knowledge about the carbon cycle has improved since then, given the amount of research climate change has gotten in the last thirty years.
One of my favorites is a super-long one by a user named bane, about three solutions to speeding up computing: (1) "high" (more RAM, CPU), (2) "wide" (more machines), and (3) "deep" (refactoring), which is what he recommends first. More than once he has rewritten something that was running slowly even on the latest and greatest architectures (perhaps partially because of that), to running on a single machine, even an old personal computer. He reminds us that a modern computer, with its solid-state drives, gigabytes of memory, and multicore gigahertz processors, can take on many large problems, if you just stoop to give the problem a decent amount of attention first, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739
Don't put off experiences. Thinking "I'll do that later" when you have an opportunity now is a recipe for never having that experience.

I'm 43 and I recently had a reasonably bad bike wreck. The recovery time for cuts and bruises really surprised me, compared with inline skating injuries in my 20s. I can definitely tell the body isn't working as well as it did.
you switched the topic to how flexibility in cryptography

I never said that. You're replying to someone else.
The security talk is probably a better example for your point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5osiYZV8n3U
I wish dang could make it into an auto-updating list!
We should consider that the fed's methods of measuring inflation and/or injecting capital could be flawed.

If the money injected by the fed is not making it to consumers, then we should expect that inflation measured via some kind of consumer price index would not move.
Bought both Notability and Goodnotes this week; Their macOS apps (I feel) really terrible. How do you folks use across mac and iPad. (Multiplatform is a big thing which I feel missing in both apps). Any suggestion? Thanks.
Maybe scrcpy is enough for you.

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

If opening a browser tab is all you need any tab syncing app / service will do. I use kdeconnect / gsconnect so I don't have to rely on a 3rd party service, Google and Mozilla included.
Do people use tup?
Well the real issue for me is not the tool but the implied culture. I’ve worked at places that track time in Jira and for the first 3 months it’s fine, then manager dive into reports and i get pulled into a room for being too slow. Now I have to take shortcuts and think about maintainability less and write shite code. Then I leave. Employee churn is not great for teams. Churning thoughtful developers and keeping the “fast” ones is definitely bad for velocity but you’ll never notice. I’d say let this tool be a warning to all devs: what will you do to skill up so you don’t need to work for companies that track your time on the shitter.
What you feel about their macOS app?
Until Intel has real products talking about their 10nm is pointless. Intel for the first time has nothing. So tsmc’s 7/5nm is superior is every way.
We need a deep learning based build system.
Buy small houses in multiple countries.
That wouldn't surprise me, they have deliberately done things like lay gas or oil lines at the likely beaches for landing zones so they can essentially set them on fire at a moment's notice, and have extensive fortifications all various parts of the island.

There is almost certainly at least a plan to render any critical equipment like that unusable, even if there aren't wired up explosives at the fab at all times.
Remember Apple are about to ship 50M+ A14 in the next quarter of course it is going to be fully booked. And TSMC has been producing them since May / June.

These sort of headlines make people think Apple is taking over all the capacity and AMD / Nvidia cant gain much from it. And it will inevitably lead to either blaming TSMC or Apple. Which I know it would be something the Samsung PR / Marketing team likes to play with once their Foundry business is up to scratch.

The age of Internet.
Same here. I try to buy appliances as dumb as possible. I know how fast software is being deprecated and my washing machine, fridge etc. are supposed to work for decades, not months.
No.

Not because of the project management side (which ok, can be a long and specialized career by itself) but by the side of "how do you have someone manage something they don't know how it works" (which is needed in smaller projects)
Interesting that this mentions the short story The Veldt, which is also dramatized as one of the radio plays in X Minus one that was on the front page yesterday.
It's a direct followup to this -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24474830

It has no interest in itself as an article. It is HN meta.
Cough, tbray, cough.
Laws put in place by the political left open companies that don't shut down this kind of speech to sex and race discrimination lawsuits.

The utterances of these kinds of statements within a workplace can be used by a lawyer to paint the corporate culture as one that is sexist/racist/etc.

After Google fired the engineer, Damore, for his statements criticizing the discriminatory nature of affirmative action, and potential biological differences being the cause of the disparity between the number of men and women in computer science and engineering, the company actually received open letters from leading Democrats demanding that such an event never transpire again.

It's approaching something like a state ideology, with billions of dollars at stake in its tenets being upheld and not questioned.
How do you calculate the present value of it's future cash flows? You 'discount' the future cash flows by the cost of capital.. which is tied to the interest rate.

So if interest rates go down, the present value of those future cash flows increases and share price increases.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa
I noticed one from 2019 on measuring whether banknotes transmit harmful bacteria. Doesn’t seem so weird in 2020!
That’s what made Excel so popular.
Just avoid GoDaddy if you can. They treat customers like shit anyway. Trying to upswell you stuff all the time. It’s the kind of company that you can’t rely to behave and act in your interest as a customer.
I never personally used it in an interview (that's generally not how I do interviewing) but for someone experienced having not heard of recursion (and it's not such a complicated subject, you wouldn't need much "experience using recursion" to be able to understand it) would mean they haven't really dug into the art & craft of programming.

Just like I'd expect a moderately senior developer to be able to program in procedural, object oriented & functional styles even if they strongly prefer one to the others (and how would they know if they haven't tried all of them?).
> WEIRD: Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic.

How precious.
> Unfortunately the ed25519 curve is probably not really the best choice there for a primitive to optimize due to the cofactor being an extraordinary nuisance for other applications outside of plain signatures and key agreement.

Luckily you can use an optimized ed25519 to implement ristretto255, which solves this problem :)
> every one of those deadlines was a sham. The products I sacrificed so much for were in the discount bin a year later. <

Same experience here. I can't blame the companies though.

I was essentially a workaholic for decades. I wanted to believe I had a noble mission to fulfill, aka "true believer" or "clueless" àla Gervais Principle. It took me a long time to realize this attitude was incredibly damaging and wasteful. It's tantamount to smoking or other major self-destructive behavior.
Incorrect, the SB8200 has a Broadcom BCM3390: http://en.techinfodepot.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Arris_SB8200
User mikekchar on the value of ideas:

My advice is to lower the value of ideas. A lot of time people think, "If only I had a good idea I would be successful". You will see other people saying things like, "Buy my good idea!". But really, good ideas are a dime a dozen. Good ideas, bad ideas... it actually doesn't make much difference. What makes the difference is execution and timing.

For things that take a long time, timing is essentially random. The world is chaotic. Had I known everyone and their dog would be locked down in their houses for months on end, I would have built something to cater to them. But of course, there is no way to know. I find it amusing that just before the pandemic there was a thread on HN talking about overvalued unicorns and Zoom was up near the top of the list. What would need to happen to make Zoom a household name, people asked?

To be successful, really what you need is execution and to have the patience to wait until what you are doing is relevant. Of course there is the fear that it will never be relevant. However, if you accept the thesis that the good idea is not valuable in itself, then you realise that it is not really valuable to pivot without a really good reason. A good idea that is never relevant is just as worthless as a bad idea that is never relevant. However, even a bad idea that is executed very well and ready when the opportunity arises can be successful.
actually, if time travel exists..you wouldn't be aware of it. especially if one of your descendants visited you.
"Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who tells police" discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21361849 (240 comments)
Have been doing that pretty much.

I use Typora for typed notes and Goodnotes/Notability for handwritten. Sometimes I even take screenshots of handwritten and attach them in Typora.

One can ask why multiple apps?

I really like Typora for its simplicity. Found Notabilty and Goodnotes macOS app really terrible :( Would love to hear thoughts of other folks.
One of the things I look for when getting into a new venture, investment, etc is that most people don’t understand how it would succeed. If I have a deep, realistic understanding of how it will work, that’s all I need. Big gains come when you have vision that no one else does, but you know they will all see your reality as the truth with time.
Or, they could make that up too. There is no way to verify what GoDaddy says in the blog post is true.
I thought you were speaking figuratively at first. Wouldn't surprise me for someone to say that.