skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had this pretty bad for decades, but I don't have it any more. I'm not sure how that reconciles with its being a genetic mutation, but if anyone were to tell me that I am genetically nocturnal I would absolutely believe it. Starting in my teens for decades, I would regularly be wide awake at 4 in the morning, and if I had a choice, my clock would drift so that I would naturally wake up around 1 in the afternoon.

I read an article on, I think it was LifeHacker, back when it was a new thing years and years and years ago. The title was something like "I taught myself to be an early riser" and the advice changed my life. If I could find the article, I would write a personal letter thanking the author. Given my experience, I suspect that even if you do have a genetic predisposition to stay up late and sleep late, that it can be reset, so you can wake up as early as you want. Nowadays, I rarely sleep past 7 in the morning, and I never need an alarm to wake up. I wake up reasonably cheerful and clear-headed. Here's the advice, as I remember it. It may work for you.

1. First, want to be an early riser. In a way, that's the only step. When you wake up in the morning, your desire to be an early riser must override the physical pain and exhaustion that you will inevitably feel. You're going to want to roll over and go back under those warm, warm covers. No. Get up. Because you want this.

2. Stay up as late as you want! Yep. Read, play video games, code, do whatever it is you want to do as late as you want to do it. Heck, don't go to sleep if you want. Go to sleep only when you're ready.

Those two steps are basically it, and anything else is just elaboration. If you stay up late, you will feel miserable the next day, but that's okay! Grind through. There are worse things. That night, when you start feeling peppy again, great! Stay up. Stay up as late as you want. But stick solidly to rule #1. Get up, because you want it.

Eventually, after the inevitable bouts of backsliding and days of exhaustion, your body will adjust to the new schedule and ... go to sleep at a more normal time.

You should start to see results within the first week, but I can say that I only could reasonably say I'm an early riser after several years of wanting it.

Edit --- this is it! This is the article! https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-e...

I modified his method, in that I no longer use alarm clocks, and I allow myself to wake up slowly as long as I'm out of bed by 7
Most people (especially those who have built up some "reserves") can survive for a long time without food and would safely last months on just liquid. (treated water or herbal tea + some vitamins & minerals).

I did a water only fast which is documented here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16533514

The mental benefits in terms of ability to concentrate are hard to put into words. It's different than with micro-dosing which gives you a false sense of your abilities. The long fast showed me what kind of energy gets unlocked when we feel like we're close to snuffing it. It's like the body gets ready for a final push so that you can hunt and find food. I stopped doing these crazy type of diets after discovering IF.

IF gives me a similar result (the highs and lows on the graph are less extreme but at least it's sustainable) without landing myself in hospital (in retrospect the kidney stones were most likely legacy/cruft that needed to be refactored anyway, and who knows what kind of cancers or other long term illnesses my body "ate" while I pushed him that hard). I understand this is all pretty mental to read but back in 2013 there was no IF and all I had was the theory that dogs and rats that were kept on an IF survived longer.

!!!

Disclaimer: this is the most extreme one I ever done so please don't start out with this if you want to try... try 7 days or 2 weeks are enough time to do some extreme diet. But don't go overboard - which is way too easy after 2 weeks because you'll be so high on your own achievement and you won't feel hunger. It'll feel like you're able to continue for 2 or 3 months. (you won't). the key is in recognizing this and to quit regardless! Also knowing your own body is key. E.g. if you do sports and have a 20 year history of pushing yourself to extremes probably yes. But I understand why doctors bail and give the "blanket advise" that this is irresponsible.

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Each year ~1.3 million people are killed on the road (worldwide). (interesting to compare to covid deaths).

Giving people the option to sacrifice their lives to contribute to solving this problem is an amazing thing when you think about how many million people the capability could save over the next century.

These are the risk taking explorers of the modern era.
In the case of PHP (a language I've used as day job for the last decade on large enterprise projects and other stuff) the speed of PHP isn't its issue.

Building the world to throw it away on every request is..compounded by the sheer size of the stack between the PHP runtime and a response (laravel is a particular problem here out the box).

You can do sorts of interesting things to get around this but there is no free lunch, they add complexity (caching, shared state, connection pooling) or change the execution model in ways you don't expect.

For all that modern PHP isn't a bad language, it's not C# (my favourite pragmatic language) but it's also not as bad as 5 was and certainly not 4.

It's biggest 'issue' on a wide scale is the massive disparity in skill levels covered by "PHP programmer" and how hard that makes hiring.

My advice is if you are building a small system or one that is tightly constrained then Laravel isn't bad but if you are building a big system or one that will grow over time, go with Symfony, it's more work up front (though not a huge amount) but in every other way future you will thank you.
For the third time, the solution is to just save money by ditching the intermittent sources and only using nuclear. Nuclear makes renewables redundant, not the other way around. Nuclear generates power round the clock. Nuclear doesn't suffer from the duck curve, so it doesn't need storage or gas backup plants.
Exactly!! Thanks for pointing this out.

Caste is the way of life in the Indian society. Segregation and discrimination is so normalized that it needs an outsider to point that out.
What if increasing marketplace efficiency is just a by product instead of cause of great change? I mean main objective of business is wealth maximisation of shareholders and management (in modern times). It has nothing to do with efficient allocation of resources. The country that alleviated most people from poverty is a communist country. Communism uplifted a poor nation Russia to become one of the Superpower in 20th century.
Given that the rendering on the screen is supposed to be showing the inputs the car thinks it is receiving, it is even more concerning to learn that what the car actually does isn't correlated with the inputs it is receiving.
We live within many systems where what the majority wants determines what we get. Some things, if you can't build up enough support, you either live with or create your own environment where it is possible.

If I live in a neighborhood where it takes 7/10 households to vote to improve the paved road, or install fiber internet, if only 3 of them want it, we're not getting any of those things. I can move to a different neighborhood, or pay for my own solution.

This is life.
How else are you meant to take a dip? It's not like you can open a hatch and go for a swim deep underwater
Visual Studio -- itself a fully featured IDE, even back in the early 2000s -- used to run on machines with less than 1 GiB of RAM.
I adore OpenFaas, it gives you the best of 1) serverless, 2) containers, and 3) portability.

The OpenFaas Function Store is a useful way to mix and match runtime components very easily! Example: use sentiment analysis to automatically mark new Issues with rants as bugs: https://github.com/openfaas/workshop/blob/master/lab5.md
To be fair, 75% of their population is in Europe.
It needs a source of water to run heat exchangers, but it doesn't need to be fresh water. It can run on seawater (which can also be used for desalination with the waste heat), or on wastewater.
Protection from whom? Never in the history of time has Russia ever attacked Germany...

If we learned anything post-WW II it is that you cannot win wars with technological superiority and they look like a huge waste of ressources. Vietnam, Afghanistan anyone?
> senior engineers read this book

How does one become a senior engineer if you don't understand concurrency?

Mutable state is most easily solved by having cpoies of everything, but then that's a tradeoff between performance and infrastructure/resource costs, but I guess that if you're in an all-Java shop that isn't much of an issue.
That's true to some degree - especially for something that happened centuries ago. But the british role in india is relevant today since india gained "independence" only a few decades ago and is still ostensibly a part of the "british empire".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Commonwea...

But ultimately you are correct. India's problem isn't with dead british people, it's ultimately with their traitorous elites who sold out and rejoined the british empire rather than fostering a bit of nationalism and progress in their own country. How can any nation succeed when their elites would rather be subjects of another state than independent leaders of their own people. It's not just political leaders, it's their business/cultural/academic leaders as well. It's insane that india, a country with 1.4 billion people and a civilization stretching back millenia, is still part of the british empire. You think the chinese would let hong kong back into the british empire let alone join wholesale?

India should have done what south korea did after ww2. Completely separate from their former colonial masters and demand reparations and used that money to develop. But I guess it's kind of hard to demand reparations when you willingly rejoin your colonial master. They could have followed japan's example. They could have even followed china's example. Anything would have probably led to better outcomes.

Instead, they just wasted the past 75 years doing what? Playing "commonwealth" games? While hundreds of millions of indians have no electricity. No toilets.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-24/living-in...

By any logic, india should be a permanent member in the security council as india represents 20% of humanity. It should be a major economic power. It should be a major world player. Instead it's a lowly member of the british empire. You would think india of all nations should be working to dismantle it, not perpetuate it. How can india be part of the security council ( a leading nation ) when it is part of the "commonwealth"? Would anyone take france, russia or china ( other security council members ) seriously if they were part of the british empire?

Is there any nation that has failed to reach its potential more than india? And by doing so caused so much human misery just by the sheer size of its population? Not only was it shocking to learn that the "british empire" still exists, it was even more shocking to learn that india was still part of it. I just don't get it.
The fact that centuries of printing settled on black text on white background tells me that that is very likely how humans read best.
Tesla aren't the only car company to dabble with a business model based on what the FSF calls antifeatures. [0] Mercedes and BMW have done similar things. [1][2]

[0] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/antifeatures

[1] https://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1121248_mercedes-benz-...

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/03/business/bmw-options-soft... , discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23763560
Yes, it is hard because even here in supposedly enlightened and fair minded Hacker News, even just making comments about his unequivocal support for slapping women, it is met with ridiculous downvotes, claims that there’s “a time and a place” to criticize abuse (and that this apparently isn’t it) and various other mental gymnastics that either tacitly support misogyny or try to deflect rightful criticism of misogyny into some meta debate about good vs bad, remembering the good in people and other plainly irrelevant platitudes.

And that’s just the vitriolic response I’m getting as a commenter on an internet forum. You can start to see the ways in which abuse and rape victims, for example, are dismissed, blamed, insulted and ignored.

As for the article you linked, it’s very specious to suggest that is a defense or mitigates Connery’s endorsement on national television of slapping women. It’s obviously a quick PR filler piece to run interference on his choice to decline that Holyrood interview knowing he would be grilled on his abuse comments, purely and obviously self-serving and obviously not any type of sincere apology or retraction of his earlier remarks.

It would have been trivially easy for him to make a press release specifically apologizing for and retracting the earlier remarks. Any little Scottish press article where he doesn’t even explicitly apologize and retract is just simply not something relevant to consider at all.
Yes. And Kerala was able to do that among all the castes. I am sure not being able to guess the caste of a person from their name should have defintely helped the cause. The fact that the students wont be descriminated by others students because of their surname. Not having to goto a hospital worrying about getting discriminated on basis of your name. All of these things add up and have a big impact in long term.
Yep, sounds like a class action lawsuit that sounds easy to win. It might be tangled in with right to repair lawsuits as well. Also, I think the first sale doctrine should apply. Usually the VIN itself maps to a complete list of specifications. Supercharger access seems to be a harder one to sort out.

It is amazing that ludicrous performance mode is a software upgrade. That makes for amazing margins.
Not instead, both are good. The more data the better.
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I find comments like this extremely interesting. What you've written is deranged and comes across like a programmed response similar (I would say functionally identical) to that of a devoted cult member. You've just rattled off what come across as very hackneyed almost childlike talking points.

However, based on your profile you're obviously an extremely intelligent and productive person.

It really shows the importance of having a well ordered society with a ruling class that has the general welfare of the citizenry in mind. The world is too complicated and complex a place for every person, even the most intelligent and productive among us, to have to concern themselves with these sorts of things.

We have a right to live in a society where we can trust our institutions. Unfortunately we are living in a time where our institutions are completely and utterly corrupt at almost evert level.
The US east coast does not suffer from earthquakes. A tsunami is a geological event, not a weather event.
Tesla released data for autopilot, FSD beta has been out for ~1 week so there's not much real data.
How often can one reuse a medical mask? What would be most effective use for prolonged life?

eg: wear a mask 20 min at a time, then change with another while leaving the previous in open air to dry. Cycle 3 masks like this. Total mask lifetime (until effectivity drops to <75%) with this usage pattern: 10 hours.
Fantastic stuff that doesn't exist and won't exist for a long time at the humougous scale we need. We need to get out of fossil fuels now. Be realistic for chrissake! We need dense, powerful power sources.
> Choosing opinionated and well supported languages & frameworks is essentially the lesson there...

There are strong benefits to opinionated frameworks, and reaching an initial version of a code base is absolutely one of them. But the trade-off comes in the next version, when you get customer feedback, and the devs start saying things like, "No, we can't do it that way because that isn't how the technology works."

That doesn't make it the wrong answer for a MVP or a V1... but this is an academic course. I'm hoping they cover the longer-term consequences of early choices in software development. Because that is what is really hard - not getting a first working version, but maintaining delivery speed over the long haul as you realize the limits of your choices.
> It could very well turn out to be the case that this system is purely positive, strongly net positive, or neutral in harm reduction

It could also turn out to be negative, right? Certainly the anecdotes shown here would point much more to that - for example, its inability to turn sharply enough is indicative of some deep flaws.

> If you think it's wrong to do and are not doing either, you ought to articulate what scenario in terms of data would justify the action vs not, even if that data is unknown right now.

It's wrong to do as long as you rely on CUSTOMERS to ensure safety. There is no further argument to be had: as long as the system is not PROVEN to be safer than a human driver even in the absence of human attention, it can't be put into the hands of customers.

That is not to say that they shouldn't be developing it, and paying and training people to operate it safely. That is what all other companies are in fact doing - taking a safe and responsible route, which is apparently too much to ask of the most highly valued car company in the world.
> can only make filament rolls that are small enough to fit on your bed

I suppose you could print filament of arbitrary length by doing batches that get pieced together.

Here's my best idea so far how to do it:

(1) Instead of a spiral, print in a double spiral. Meaning a spiral that starts on the outside, goes to the middle, makes a u-turn, and then goes out to the edge again. (For the u-turn, I assume filament has some minimum turn radius and as long as you stay above that, it's workable to straighten it out.)

(2) Pause printing, put a clamp over one end of the printed filament, yank the rest off the bed and wind it on a reel.

(3) Resume printing, and repeat as many times as necessary.
Lets do a simple test:

You are in between two walls and there are two straight lanes. Lane 1 has Tesla FSD coming in at full speed. Lane 2 has a human driver coming in at full speed. You can choose to be in one lane. The FSD and the human can both see you only 50 mts out and if they brake as soon as they see you, you will survive.

Which lane will you choose?
This back and forth appears in every single thread about PHP on HN:

- PHP doesn't deserve its bad reputation!

- Well, it used to be pretty terrible...

- Ok, so first let's talk about the relativity about the definition of "terrible". The Oxford English dictionary defines [...]

And from there it goes nowhere.

It is true that PHP improved drastically over the past decade or so, it is also true that it used to be a garbage fire of a programing language and ecosystem.

For the PHP proponents in the comments: I think you'd save you a lot of trouble if you didn't try to dismiss the history of PHP and pretend that it was just unfair criticism from haters. It was warranted. You can't win this one.

But who cares? If PHP really is good now you're way better off arguing about that, because while you'll never manage to convince me that it was a good language in 2005, you might end up convincing me (and others) to give it a try in 2020.
And Connery has now died too. RIP.
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Am I the only one thinking about cascading the output of 4 of those machines into the input of another? You could achieve 8, 16, 32 color prints!
Where does cheap energy come from?
can you be a bit more specific what are your requirements? Certainly services like twilio and firebase can help you, but still you need to write some lines of code.
1. Isn't an issue. They make inference on a sample by sample basis. The network has no memory so it won't expect a 50/50 distribution on the test set just because its trained like that. Having a balanced distribution is the exact right thing to do because you do not want the network to be biased to one or the other class for any given sample. If it were unbalanced the network could achieve almost 0 training error by just predicting negative all the time. This is not what you want.
The ending was the best and it seemed like Connery teared up a little at the end too.
Why is this being downvoted? It's the truth.

HN needs to only allow downvotes that have an accompanying explanation comment.
I assume your correspondent is referring to the studies in which the same resume, with different names, were sent out to help wanted ads and saw lower response rates for "black" names. Obviously the correct solution is that the people making those decisions shouldn't be, or should be otherwise relieved of their discriminatory behavior. But I think it's reasonable for someone to feel bad about society forcing parents into choosing between identity and financial well-being.

The reality, naturally, is likely even more complicated: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-study-suggests-resea...
Inside the stacked RAM modules used in the Apple III
Validating DKIM doesn't tell you much. It doesn't tell you who was sitting behind the machine when the Send button was clicked.
> I don't think GDPR differentiates between sensitive info you asked for, and sensitive info that somebody chooses to put in a field not meant for it.

I know GDPR doesn't, my point is if, as a business, GDPR is a requirement from your ticket tracking then you might need to rethink the data you, as a business, are putting on there. Something like this is not intended for tracking customer data. It's intended for assigning work and tracking throughput.

If you need to log customer data then you need a different type of issue tracking and something that project managers et al don't all have visibility of.
Yes. Proportionally, I'm far more likely to have a bad encounter with a Da'Qweezishan than a John. It's my observation that the eccentricity of the name is somewhat correlated with the dysfunctionality of the person's background and childhood environment.
Facebook ($750B), Slack ($15B), and Etsy ($15B) would beg to differ. But whatever, your arrogant, gatekeeping and elitist mentality is primarily a roadblock for your own career growth.
Yes. Perl has had taint mode since 1994, and for setuid scripts for longer.
Totally disagree - the public is complacent about death insofar as it is not reported on by the media. If the media reported on daily accidents, and the carnage they bring, nobody would drive. In general, unless you assume this is going to be so bad that it can't be ignored, your prior should mostly be informed by how much you think the media will try to capitalize on a moral panic about self driving cars or not.
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Aren't we going through a golden age of all types of fiction right now?

I'd say it's about individualized discovery and recommendation allowing the balkanization of interests.
This probably had more to do with the practical fact that ink is black
There exist no feasible plan to build out the storage required to make renewables work within 5-10 years. The US consumes 11.5 TWh of electricity every day. About 500GWh every hour. We have about one Gigawatt hour worth of battery storage. We need terawatt hours worth of storage. The availability of battery storage remains off by several orders of magnitude.
It’s the same complaint made against the ending of Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galáctica.

All this has happened before and all this will happen again.