skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is often difficult or untenable to "step aside" and pass along the baton because there's nobody seriously available to take it on.

Then you step down. If you’re burnt out and the project no longer gives you joy, you have no obligation to fix bugs or even keep things working.

The project will be abandoned and dead... until evolution decides that it should be revived again (if it should), by someone not you, in a fork with a new maintainer who now has the drive you once had.

It may be hard for you, but it may be best for the project, and it’s probably good for your own health too.

I’ve done it to some of my projects. I’ve taken over projects who has been abandoned by others too.

If the code is useful, someone will pick it up and make use of it. No need burning out by convincing yourself of the falsehood that the person that does all the hard work has to be you, forever.
Although the USA passport is not as useful (currently) with many countries refusing entry because of COVID-19. Hopefully that changes in the next 6-18 months!
Certain crimes have multiple degrees which hinge on intent which often can’t be proved without a confession.
> I'm guessing this system gives LE cover for the same flawed systems they've historically used to target and harass people who don't have the means to loudly mount a defense.

This is exactly what happens. If we look at the evidence[1], law enforcement preys upon the poor and minorities who are not even committing crimes, but their predictive policing systems target them for harassment anyway.

[1] https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/p...
There can be a legitimate need to validate requests, for example let's assume I don't like you and email the HN mods pretending to be you and asking to delete "my" account.

I agree when it comes to bullshit like advertising/marketing where fraudulent requests cause no harm to the real data subject.
> Personally, as the owner of 25-ish acres of wooded land in this area (Marin County), I am not waiting. We are simulating fire by dramatically reducing fuel loads on our lands.

As a lifelong sonoma county resident, curious why were you not managing fuels already? It's a duty to your neighbors. CalFire is very aggressive up here in certain areas, and will red tag your property if it gets past a point.

> "No, I don't believe that to be the case. Broadly speaking, prescribed burns are thwarted by a mix of local objections to smoke, noise and traffic"

Can confirm this for Sonoma County, CA. They used to burn a lot when I was young. Not much anymore, mostly because of the $$$ moving up here and they have no understanding of the need for it. Well, this is the alternative.

Also, a lot of land is private.
Yes, and those students come from a life of lesser privilege.
For that matter, PHP is conspicuously absent, for all I'm no fan.
Paper Backup
Seems like some tree-roots are missing -- Algol??! PL/(I/M)? B(CPL)? Snobol? APL? Simula? Link between Smalltalk and C++?
They did sell to Bank of America in the 80s, then the founder bought the company back after a few years. I recently read Charles Schwab's book and would recommend it if you are interested [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Invested-Changing-Forever-Americans-I...
I might have over-emphasized the worker drone persona. But I think the potential for self-deception and long term foolishness is still there across the board.

> With meds, I find it much easier to step back and get a clear picture of not just my work, but my whole life.

Executive function boost is non-negligible for sure, but it is still bound to operate in the short term.

Think your bioeconomics as a ledger, your energy levels as income and what you want to do as payments. Stimulants alter this ledger and as long as you can use them you will think you have a lot more income and you can sign up for more things to do. But do you really do have more income in the long term? Are you borrowing from your future income? Your future dopaminergic system? Your future neuroticism levels? I know the research is either missing or contested, but everything from evening crashes to need for increasing the dosage to long term dependence risk suggests that we are borrowing something from somewhere.

> I become more attentive to my family, less irritated by distractions.

Let me play the devil's advocate for a second: How do you know being more attentive to your family is the right thing? Maybe they are real assholes taking you for granted and getting irritated with them would make them get their act together and have a better chance in long term sustainable relationship. How do you know the distractions are not irritation worthy? Maybe they are things you need to get to the root of instead of enduring continuously.

I am exaggerating to make a point, and I'm sure you're mostly fine, but the danger is that thinking you have more "income" than you do will affect all your decisions in a way that accumulates and might not be long term sustainable. It can make you more conforming, and this will be praised by your family, boss, for the case with kids, their parents, but can we say with certainty that being more conforming all the time is really in one's best interest? Anger, irritation, anxiety, depression and even boredom, they are not there just as human failings but also as normal processes that can counter-balance over-exertion, over-exposure, weakly defended personal boundaries, meaninglessness, resentment.

Only way to know how continuous stimulant use is affecting you is to take a long break after multi-year use and evaluate where your life is, which for some people can be too late.
I'm pretty sure that if you re-read your comment after some time has gone by, you'll see that it wasn't just "bringing objectivity to the conversation". I believe you that you intended it that way, but it came across as snarky and a personal attack. Intent doesn't communicate itself on the internet—quite the opposite—so the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).

It's easy to understand how DoreenMichele's post could have triggered a defensive/offensive response. I get activated by comments that way all the time. For thoughtful discussion, we need the skill of processing that activation energy in ourselves, rather than allowing it to turn directly into words. Lashing out does provide momentary relief (which is why we do it of course), but it's not a real solution and it damages the container (the community environment) in the process.

The difference with DoreenMichele's comment is that she was speaking about her personal experience. It's true that the comment was provocative. But it wasn't really an abstract generalization. If you had responded by speaking about your personal experience on the same level, that would be a conversation—perhaps a difficult one—but not a flamewar.

Of course, where to draw these lines is matter of interpretation and different people would draw them differently. But watch out for the bias where we always see our own comments as less harsh than they actually land with others. As I said in a different context recently, comments in the rear-view mirror are much larger than they appear!

The other issue of course is that moderation responses are conditioned by an account's past behavior on the site. You've unfortunately been making a habit of posting in the flamewar style and/or including harsh swipes in your HN comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24666716

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24665961

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24665856

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24654852

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24618909

...and we already asked you to stop doing this. That's why my reply to you used stronger language this time.

You're 100% welcome here. We just need you to take the site guidelines more to heart and practice them going forward: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. That isn't easy, but we all need to work on it in order for HN to be the community we want. That is in all of our interests.
Specifically, lines that begin with a word or words followed by a colon are dictionary items; a dash introduces list items, and a leading greater-than symbol signifies a line in a multiline string. Dictionaries and lists are used for nesting, the leaf values are always strings.

No doubts that there are use cases for this, but calling something that casts everything to strings an alternative to the above formats seems like a bit of a stretch.
Do you reckon AR glasses fix this issue?
You can host it yourself for free. I do, and it’s great.
I read the article and it really hit the nail on the head, speaking as someone that is also r/g colorblind.

I recently bought an Amazon Basics charger for my rechargeable AA and AAA batteries. My old one had a bicolor LED for charging and charged. The new one shows red for charging and turns off for charged. I love not having to ask my wife when the batteries are charged anymore.

Now I just live in fear of colored graphs and charts where the legend has tiny small colored squares so you can distinguish which line is which.
> Your arguments are heavily biased by your age/experience. Young people matter too, right?

I flagged your comment, this type of judgemental attitude has no place on HN.
the Foo has asked me to say "thanks" for this thread. you can read his sad story on www.bar.com. he used to answer email addressed to foo@bar.com but was completely overwhelmed by the mid-90's and has left his correspondence for me to tend to.

the New York Times included him in a story back in 2001...

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/03/technology/fleeing-spam-s...

by the way, i also was the caretaker of Microsofts corp.com domain for quite a while. they wisely decided i wasn't the best person for the job.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/dangerous-domain-corp-co...
That's how I would implement it, since Bluetooth is a lot simpler than Wi-Fi (no need to build a UI to manage networks, IP addresses, having a TCP/IP stack, etc) and in this case they don't need the online connection that WI-Fi would provide.
Space brothers did it first
Totally agree. I sense ML in general can benefit tremendously from buttery-smooth UX, something it has typically lagged behind on.

Keep it up Nidhal, you’re doing a tremendous service. Don’t let the snobs get to you.
> Even sewage, which is less complex, only makes sense in dense areas.

That's ok, as over half of all mankind lives in dense urban centers.
Libertarianism is the party supporting rule by the biggest corporation. Any rhetoric is wholly incidental, and purely a distraction, because it has no effect on policy: under libertarian government, you have rights to the exact extent that you can enforce them against Apple and Exxon by the strength of your own arm.

Good luck.
The native prairie biome has pretty much been completely eradicated in the US. Pretty impressive for what once dominated the land from Wisconsin to Montana
Mars is particularly bright right now too, it's quite striking.
Very well put. Focus is a double edged sword.

Focus and discipline is very useful when solutions to problems are known.

But put someone extremely methodical in charge of R&D and they will take a zillion years to explore a large search space. Meanwhile a neurotic will run around randomly and stumble upon all kinds of things on the map. The down side with the neurotic mind, is after a prospective gold mine is found and a lot of methodical, disciplined work is required to exploit it they flake out.

Now if you pair them up interesting things unfold.

We are quiet good at identifying people's strengths and weakness. But we spend a lot of time exploiting weakness and squandering strengths of people.

If only the opposite happened more.

With better and growing understanding of how different minds work, I think we will see people compensating for each others weaknesses more.
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Thank you for posting this, when I cloned the repo initially from the site, configure.sh was not included.
It's not just science to find aliens, radio astronomy answers so many questions that we might not even think to ask - and it is not cost feasible to do all of those observations from space. It's as if in the 18th century, you were like "do we want to spend more money on roads? or do we want to keep funding these stupid experiments that Edison is doing for science?"
> Meanwhile - AFAIK - we have zero experience in constructing anything in 0G, beyond assembling some large prefabs.

Weren't the ISS and Mir constructed in zero G? Well, in free fall but that's still zero gravity in effect.
Is the language community net growing or shrinking though? A language can be very alive and still not be experiencing tremendous growth.
A lot of discussion on this issue rightfully centers on California and often touches on the prison labor aspect without exploring the history. Anyone who wants to understand the real priorities behind California’s “honor camps” (later “conservation camps”) should compare their history and expansion [0] to the demographic changes happening in the state around the same time [1].

[0] http://archive.oah.org/special-issues/teaching/2009_12/artic...

[1] https://depts.washington.edu/moving1/map_black_migration.sht...
>mundane task

That's why we invented shell scripts and cron!

On a serious note, what type of tasks would you consider mundane that you attribute to your ADHD to cause you to not want to do them that any non-ADHD person would also not have procrastination problems? Are these specific to work like filling out time sheets or other TPS reports? Home tasks like laundry/dishes/trash? All of the above? As a non-ADHD person, I hate all of the above tasks and only do them because it's part of adulting. Can't get paid without time sheets (this is my biggest hate). I'd rather do laundry (folding/ironing) than fill out time sheets. I have no rational explanation as it is a rather simple thing.
Can you elaborate on your experience?

I have great respect for Rich Hickey and I recently saw a cool talk about a financial startup using Clojure in production [1]. I have kept track of the language for some time but have never had the chance to use it in any serious capacity.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnediEWRuyI
If it works, it'd be a great cooler for electronics that could put back into the circuit some of the electricity that had been turned into heat. CPU and GPU coolers could become built into the structure of the ICs themselves.
> What tasks of a TCP stack actually need to coordinate between processes, or in other words, actually need a kernel?

In short: You want to have something that does the multiplexing and demultiplexing of packet streams that belong to different applications. E.g. all packets arrive from a common NIC, but depending on the target port they have to a different application.

And on the sending side you want to have some fairness, and common congestion control. If all applications could write directly to the TX path of the NIC it could easily be that packets from one particular application which has less CPU time would commonly get dropped.

In addition for that having a common place like the Kernel allows for some nice monitoring/instrumentation purposes. And it makes sure peers get a reasonable response (even if that's only a RST) if the application is not started.
Facebook Slams Netflix’s ‘The Social Dilemma’ as ‘Distorted’ and Sensationalist
This is one of the most popular answers on SO. The effects of these latencies can easily become visible in pretty vanilla programming.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processi...
From a purely UX perspective, there’s a huge difference between “no lines of code” and “a few lines of code”.
It won't be long before we see more and more escalating instances of the population using traditional electronic and physical warfare techniques against law enforcement in these "battles." I predict we'll see someone in the general public shoot down a collection drone, or start to actively target these physical collection nodes installed on poles, posts, buildings etc.

There were already numerous documented cases of electronic warfare being deployed during protests at law enforcement - the jamming of their public safety 2-way radio systems.

Whenever there is an escalation of techniques against the "enemy" - the enemy fights back. There will be interesting developments in this space the next decade with regard to this. Law enforcement already needs advanced direction finding equipment - which is traditionally a military operation.
yes, yet cloud changes it as the naturally non-consumer thing - cloud datacenters - are needed by the Apple itself to serve the consumer oriented cloud based functionality. So, it may so happen that the major money saving from their own chip would be not on the consumer devices, instead it would be Apple's datacenter/cloud costs/density/efficiency/etc., and that improvement on those metrics can also enable and push Apple further into cloud business.
In my country you can't get diagnosed and treated for adult ADHD if you weren't diagnosed as a child. Which is a complete bullshit. One can only buy meds on a black market and hope for the best...
I wouldn't read it yet, Murakami is still alive ;)
That’s not true. ~100mg in a cup of coffee, 40mg in an espresso shot, the same 40mg in a can of Coca-Cola (and ~60mg in Diet Coke).
It doesn't matter if its underutilization if they are being paid market rate for the amount of work they are doing. It's a fair trade.
I’d argue that’s continued failure of the extradition treaty, and part of why it’s hard to craft them.

You can’t make it too easy to extradite, but you also don’t want it to be too hard.

I’m not sure what the right carve out would be to avoid extradition of journalists for comparatively trivial charges. A full blown journalistic exception seems too far, but I don’t know what the right line is instead.
I saw some bricklayers lay paving stones recently. A few tons of them. They also had strap-on single-legged stools and I was really surprised to see such a specific tool!
We know that Samsung TVs aggressively try to connect from the internet and that they capture fingerprints from content played on them to show you ads. I, like a good number of other people, run an Apple TV, which has some ads, but nearly like Samsung (usually ads for content).

Does Samsung perform content fingerprinting on streams not played via the Samsung software (i.e. Apple TV content coming over HDMI)? Does the fingerprinting continue to work if you run your audio through a receiver and send no audio signal the TV?

I’m looking for ways to allow me to use my non-commercial Samsung TV (a nicer QLED TV from 2017) without having it spy on me. It’s on a VLAN that doesn’t allow outbound connections on my home network, but, honestly, I don’t trust Samsung.
Create boundaries when working from home with virtual commute rituals
That is bullshit, absolutely. My understanding is that the correct clinical criteria do require that the symptoms showed up by age 7, but that it's not at all necessary for the diagnosis to have occurred during childhood.
They were mostly novel is setup and formulaic in progression. Just because the formula wasn't documented in as much detail as it has been since Save the Cat, both general storytelling and film-specific formulae existed and those films are logically consistent with them.
I use Hugo a lot. I'll admit it does have a learning curve.

Once you figure out how to really effectivity use it you can be productive and build out some huge websites and it's fast as hell.
There is nothing misrepresented here. I am simply presenting facts and a conclusion based off of those facts. Other people have different facts and different conclusions based off of those facts. You think, philosophy is legit? Great, I respect your opinion, but I disagree and I will show you with pure logic why you are wrong and why I disagree.

If you disagree with my conclusion don't become emotional and call it a "misrepresentation." Deconstruct my conclusion and break it down to prove me wrong.

Any comment on my character or my actions is illogical and constitutes a personal attack. Focus on my conclusion. If I say philosophy is illegitimate than rather than say that I am "ignorant" or "misrepresenting" philosophy, stay logical and state that the conclusion is illogical and incorrect. Going into personal territory than running away like a scared cat by saying you have nothing more to say is a complete admission that you cannot win an argument by being logical or impersonal.

What's really going on here is that have nothing to say because logic has utterly defeated any capacity for you to deliver a counter argument. You cannot say anything because you know you are completely and utterly illogical and irrational and wrong.

If you had an argument you would present it, but of course we both know you have nothing.
Did 'African Americans and Hispanics' invade, plunder, rape, kill and convert the local US population at any time in History?
NoBugsHare has an amazing chart https://twitter.com/NoBugsHare/status/1022129373292445696?s=...
Yep. If a language has too small a standard library, you end up with NPM for JavaScript. Too big a library and you end up with C++. Can’t please everyone...
Fun article.

> With four CPU cores, small becomes 4N, or nearly 200 million items.

Memory channels do not scale with number of cores, and indeed, peak DRAM bandwidth is often observed with less than the total number of cores (e.g., one core per CCX on Zen2).
Mutex lock/unlock 25ns
Main memory reference 100ns

Honest question: how can this be right? Surely living a mutex requires synchronising across the cores of a CPU, which requires at least as much time – probably quite a bit more – than an uncached access to memory?
Ideally, people shouldn't live in high risk fire areas. However, there's already a shortage of housing on the west coast. Removing housing stock from fire areas will reduce the fire risk to human life but will also make the housing shortage worse.

Short of resolving the NIMBY problem that prevents higher-density construction in fire-safe areas, paying residents in fire-prone areas to harden their communities is the best choice out of a selection of bad options.

Also keep in mind that keeping people away from fires does nothing to reduce the smoke problem, which is very severe in its own right. The solution needs to be fewer fires, whether they pose an immediate risk to human life or not.