skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a ton of useful ideas in Luke Prog's "How to Be Happy" post over on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZbgCx2ntD5eu8Cno9/how-to-be-...
Buy some weights and do them at home?
Show HN: Apache H2 Database SQL Driver for Go
I'm no expert, but from personal experience, when you only manage to eat toast and a hot dog at lunch, or a granola bar + yogurt and some pasta at dinner along with multiple liters of water for a day because "you just don't feel hungry" and you end up losing so much weight you need to buy new jeans and t-shirts (which you're too depressed to pick out, so your wife buys them for you)- there's something going on.
The author mentioned that his house is made of stone, so running wires to the lights is less easy than in a hollow walled house.
I don't get it. What's the point in these systems? Genuinely. Why would I ever need this? Just like a "smart" doorbell, fridge, meter. I would love for someone to be able to explain the benefits to me over the normal, cheap, completely working "dump" version. The only "smart" device I own is a TV and it is crap, worse thing I've ever bought.
As I commented above, very poorly. It's still early days.
Out of curiosity, what kind of questions do the non Vim/Emacs folks keep asking?

The most frequent questions are things like "how do I edit files remotely" or "how do I make it work with Git" or "how do I make this function a keyboard shortcut" and so on. Basic stuff. The rest is about which of a dozen competing plugins is better for something.

They can't help each other because they are all using something different, but they would be incredibly indignant like their human rights had been infringed if they were ordered to use a company standard editor.
I have a 850 W Moulinex that I inherited from my mother thirty years ago. Same interface as your Argos one, still going strong except for the interior light.
I was mildly depressed for about 8 months, I self-diagnosed. I think I'm actually out of it. I once read a HN comment that depression is that your mental model of how you think the world works is severly different to how it actually works. For me, that description was a lot better than anything I've heard in my psychology classes [1].

That's why I got a mild depression, my view of the world was not suited for the switch from fresh EU grad to working person (long story short: no FAANG interviews, and the one that I did clear at an SF startup later said "not enough experience, good problem solving skills though").

So I got a lot of jealousy/envy to my American counter parts when looking for a job. Combine that with not finding a job for 12 months, because of FAANG expectations (I just wanted a shot, never got one at FAANG, it used to feel really painful as I worked 8 years to get all qualifications -- CS bachelor/master, TA stuff, professional software dev stuff -- but now I'm fine with it). It weighed me down. Some people on HN offered referrals, but I always doubted on cashing them in, because I want to feel super certain, which I never do.

Ironically, I got a job during COVID (May 2020). The job offer was a mediocre one, but a job is a job, especially after a 12 month search. My contract didn't get extended though (I was offered a demotion to a junior role, I didn't take it, IMO I'm not a culture fit), but it doesn't matter. The job gave me perspective, it pulled me out of my mild depression (along with some self-applied CBT, meditation, identifying my cognitive distortions, etc.).

I have an amazing runway, so I'm probably going to do a lot of side projects. I've always wanted to do it and it's hard to give yourself permission for it, because the risk is insane. Or at least, that's how it feels now. Survivorship bias, or lack of it, will tell whether it was insane ;-)

I'm not cut out to be an employee. I'm too interdisciplinary and want to stay that way (otherwise I'm going to have some psychological/emotional issues). I might be an amazing early employee fit for certain companies, but Dutch startups aren't really that entrepreneurial. Which is another part how my mental model doesn't fit the real world. As a Dutchie, I'm too Americanized while not being an American citizen. And I'm noticing some strong psychological issues (and benefits) with that.

So yea, this story goes to show that in my case it was a mix of having a wrong view of the world, checking expectations and learning to not compare myself to others as that gave me chronic stress.

I hope it helps someone. If you identify with it and want to talk about your situation, feel free to email me.
The biggest problem is the form-over-function design. The same applies to the new one as well, though it's not as bad. In both cases, they are missing out on the business market who need a workhorse. Both are priced out of most people's budgets. We end up buying Mac Minis and struggling with their limited capabilities and expansion options. Their whole strategy here is poor. They don't have any midrange options between the two extremes.
What place does "russian collusion" have? because "2+2=7" is provably true/false... but Russian collusion? not so much... meanwhile, it's "truth" that's allowed to be spoken of without repercussion...

Because life isn't as simple as "2+2=7"... it's opinions and people saying "my opinion is valid and yours is banned from open discussion".

Because I can find plenty of examples of stuff that isn't as clear as flat-earthers or pizzagate that's being blocked from public discorse.
There is no so much "waste" left from sugar cane.

The bagasse is already used as free fuel to boil cane juice.

Only places where electricity, or natural gas is really, really cheap have surplus bagasse.
But can you easily differentiate between something which is pushed by the wall and something heavy that is on the shelf ?

Also granted you can, my instinctive reaction, the instinctive reaction is IMO try to get out, not push against the wall.

Seems to me it's not such a simple problem to solve unless you are ok with (i) some level of discomfort (ii) getting pets stuck inside and traumatised for life (granted the device does stop it's movement before crushing it).
In case someone wondered what does the title have to do with logic, it’s just probably a (common) malapropism.

premise
(noun)
a previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion.

premises
(noun)
a house or building, together with its land and outbuildings, occupied by a business or considered in an official context.
Apple has since explained that M1s are slightly different between the Air, Pro and Mini, accounting for the different thermal chassis. (In the case of the Pro they enable an 8th GPU core.) It sounds like they are three different chips rather than the same chip in different configurations --I think he said that in marketing speak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lK0ySxQyrs

Apple makes it clearer that in the real world, these machines are only going to offer their incredible performance on Metal, iPad/iPhone apps and for any Mac apps that happen to have been ported over to M1 by their developers (using Xcode). These machines will only offer similar performance to existing Intel Macs when running existing Intel Mac apps because the incredible performance will be reserved for Apple's Rosetta2 software to make those unmodified apps compatible.

But what went unsaid, except during the part where they say they 'learned from their experience in the past processor transitions', is that by introducing the chip at the low-end of the lineup first, they create a market for the (few remaining relevant) Mac developers to invest in porting their code over to ARM and likewise, because these new machines run iPad apps at full speed on upto 6K displays, there is incentive for the iPad/iOS-only devs to expand the functionality beyond what their wares can do on a tablet/phone. (Any Mac dev that drags their feet porting may find that there are 50 iPad apps that now run fullscreen performing 75% of their functionality, costing them sales in the big volume accounts where they buy licenses by the thousands.) Meanwhile, the type of users who can get by with two USB ports, 16GB of RAM and a single external monitor probably don't run many third-party Mac apps and are going to have an awesome experience with the iPad apps and Apple's native apps.
Spend a whole post writing about the mistake it was to invest in an overly complex solution in search of a problem and conclude by doubling down and redoing it all over again but with Wifi instead. Perhaps the problem wasn't with the protocol, but with the fact that something that just works became a months long project worth thousands. What a rabbithole.
I thought the alternative to twitter would be maston[0]. It's 'uncensored' federated twitter clone that anyone can create a node and create a social community of their choosing.

Not sure how "Parler" is going to be better than twitter with a central point of failure. More political fodder I guess.

[0]:https://mastodon.social/about
I just use a set of dumbbells to do biceps and triceps. It really helps to pull my mood up in the morning.
The muller report found collusion between the trump campaign and the Russian government. It also found obstruction of justice by both the Trump campaign and Trump Whitehouse. What is up for discussion is if it found criminal collusion on the part of Trump, which it might have but stopped short of explicitly stating for political, not criminal, reasons (Muller did not feel he was able to indict a sitting president).
I installed an automatic sprinkler system with several "regions". I struggled with that thing for years. Programming it required reading a hefty manual. The user interface was near the worst I'd ever seen (the worst is on my automated cat feeder). I was constantly repairing the lines, the heads, the valves, the control box. I'd winterize it, de-winterize it. The coyotes would chew on it.

Finally I simply turned it off and let whatever would grow without constant watering grow, and the rest died. Makes me a much happier man.
I had the almost complete opposite reaction: the user is telling something isn't working, the author interprets that he needs to fix something for the specific use case of the user. The user might have found a bug or edge case that's useful for the authors own usage. Perhaps even something the user doesn't need to function, but just stumbled upon.

Not saying that this is often the case or the author should dive into every question (the author doesn't have any obligations at all) - there are just too many ungrounded assumptions in the interpretation.
Ever tried smoking?
I thought it is already difficult to make people report damm bugs? I could kind of see the point with demanding that bug is fixed or feature is made. But is reporting bug really same as "demanding free support"?

Also, maybe it is about culture of platform, but I regularly watch few java open source projectals and had one own. The insulting or super entitled exchanges were quite rare. So i don't know, if majority of those exchanges turn into name calling, then either local culture is awful or there is something else at play.
I assure you the black hole is more thorough than the wood chipper.
First demonstration of phase-matching between electron wave and light wave
>it feels like "the gap" was closed by Apple, by letting their system degrade.

While there is some merit to this claim, I don't agree with it entirely. In my experience using these systems side-by-side for over 10 years now, it's pretty obvious that Microsoft has stabilized while "stealing" Apple's good parts, and that Apple hasn't really evolved any further than they got in about 2010. In essence, Apple has allowed Microsoft to close the gap, although by about 2005 Apple managed to become so high quality on the computer market, and so ahead of its time (by "stealing" the good parts from Linux) that it's hard for me to say how they could possibly keep that position for long. (I'm not saying that they literally stole things. Obviously they've done a lot of innovation themselves, but there are also some pretty obvious signs of "inspiration" going on too.)

There has for sure been downgrades with Apple too, but not really in regards to pure stability. In my experience most of it started in the 2010's, when Apple decided to turn away from the pro market to focus more on the trend consumer market instead. At first it happened slowly with a few technical changes that put off web designers. However the first major blow was against Final Cut Pro. I guess it turned out well in the end, but in the beginning they stumbled badly and gave away a large market share to Adobe as media pros started fleeing from Apple. Soon after came system changes that made Adobe crash more often (I'm sure it was just a coincidence...), only resulting in customers fleeing from Apple as a whole. Today Apple Mac's are decidedly more of a tightly controlled trend brand than the prosumer brand it used to be. (Kind of like Hasselblad has gone from the photo engineer's brand to an almost purely luxury brand by now.) (Also I really miss the MagSafe lol.)
and it works better. There's no timer on it, you just set the amount you want it to toast. I'm surprised nobody has ever tried to replicate to it, not even on kickstarter.
> Was the determining factor in the election Russian interference? No, it was almost certainly the NYT covering the James Comey investigation into Hillary's emails in the last week.

Keep in mind the entire Hillary's emails thing may have stemmed from Russian foreign intelligence work.
You simply don't understand.

Do you suffer for thinking on English?
Do you suffer for driving your car and changing gears?
Do you suffer for using a pen for writing?

You can try to write with the hand you don't usually write with. You would suffer if you try to write the same things you write with the other hand but if you improve a little every day over time you will be capable of writing with it well.
Hearing new stuff like https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.20.20215863v... every day and witnessing the stupidity of the populace at large does not help.
Chrome uses CRLset, which generates a cut down CRL when the browser is updated, I don’t see any interaction with OCSP

HN doesn’t set OCSP must staple so we’re still a while away from being able to trust it.
It's a shame, but it really does feel like "free speech" has become a near dog-whistle. Almost any time I hear of a service billing itself with free speech as a primary selling point, a quick visit is more than enough to turn me off of ever returning.

Besides this, there's a clear feedback loop that happens regardless of the intent of the service's creators. The people most likely to get kicked off of social media platforms nowadays seem to be far-right kooks. So when they are looking for a new platform, they'll go somewhere that advertises for no moderation. What happens next is pretty obvious; the more those sort of people migrate to the service, the more visible their content will be to any visitor. And that content tends to be pretty effective at driving away non-kooky users, which leads to a reinforcing cycle that, over time, turns you into yet another take on Voat.
As someone who done open source for a long time now, I think the newer generation of maintainers is missing one of the most powerful tools we have available as maintainers.

Ignoring others. You don't like the question? Ignore them. You don't feel you have the time to support them right now? Ignore them. It feels like they are entitled? Ignore them.

I don't think people asking others to work for free is anything new. The recent outrage about others asking you to work for free is relatively new though.

You're publishing open source code because you feel like it. This also means you can run the project however you want. Tell people to fuck off if you don't like them. Or don't tell them anything if you don't feel like it.

You'll feel much better as a maintainer once you act exactly like how you feel like it, no more and no less. Don't pay too much attention to what others say. Time is much too limited to be outraged at everything. Calm down, and ignore people you don't like.
My house had a kitchen extension built by previous owners. I count 27 lights in total, mostly in-ceiling spotlights.

At least they're controlled with a normal switch. With decent quality, high powered LED bulbs like we have in the living room, 2 or 3 would do.
> I found it quite surprising that they were capable of reading that I have some IDA Pro experience, because it's in the fine print of my profile and not at all readable when you skim it.

Wouldn't searching profiles for "IDA Pro" find it?
I agree. In the typical usage of the word, Apple has owned all of its users.

Imagine if the notarization certificate for your old version of Photos is revoked (for security reasons) and now you need to update your OS to regain access to your photo collection. But sadly, upgrading requires you to purchase new hardware.

In effect, it's like a Bitcoin ransomware trojan, except that this system is operated by trustworthy good guys. Or at least you sincerely hope so.
I use Shelly devices with Tamota, they talk to my Home assistant setup with MQTT.

When I can get power (with a neutral wire...) to something then WiFi is the best, but uses too much power compared to Zigbee and Zwave for running off batteries.

I have some climate sensors in each room to control heating, they're too awkwardly placed to get power to, so I use Zwave for these - they were just as big of a pain to setup as TFA describes, but at least I only have to replace the batteries once a year
I have a wifi access point in the house to supplement the lan, and so I don't have to use the data plan for my phone.

The durned thing needs to be power cycled now and then. No way I'm putting the lights on wifi. The wired lan is 10x more reliable, but even it needs the router rebooted. (I've had lots of routers. All needed rebooting.) Never had to reboot the lights or the power sockets.
Is different. Bash guy cannot find it. Other guys didn't know it was missing. If it was missing for four years and then found it would be a better version.
Look at Google X. They have some workstreams going on right now that combine agriculture and ML.
I feel the same way. I am a voluntarist so I do not think forced wealth redistribution is the answer. But it’s clear to me that there are ways we can move to different businesses structures and property norms so that massive wealth has a tendency to be distributed throughout the population rather than concentrating in few hands.

It’s a challenge, for sure. And some proposed solutions may cause more harm that good. But it’s absurd to me the level of wealth inequality we have today. That there are individual humans worth over a billion dollars while so many even in developed nations are hungry and overworked.

More cooperatively owned firms and less intellectual property control are two voluntarist ways we can reduce this inequality.
This election wasn't extremely close. It was a clear Biden win, it just took a week to count all the mail in ballots and figure that out.

There've been 6 elections over the last ~20 years.

Popular vote count

1. Obama-08 7.27%

2. Obama-12 3.86%

3. Biden-20 3.4%

4. Bush-04 2.46%

5. Bush-00 −0.51%

6. Trump-16 −2.09%

By Elector College

1. Obama-12 365

2. Obama-16 332

3. Biden-20 306

4. Trump-16 302

5. Bush-04 286

6. Bush-00 271
I’ve started thinking about it like there’s 3 kinds of people who I interact with in my opensource work: collaborators, customers and leeches.

Collaborators contribute their time, energy and skill into the opensource ecosystem too - either by submitting good code to my project or donating their time to other projects I might reciprocally use.

Customers / benefactors make money using my project and pay me some of that money to keep the lights on.

Everyone else is a leech. They just want something for free and get irate when they get called out for it.

The trick with support requests / issues is they can be opened by anyone. You can tell the customers apart from everyone else easily, but is the person filing an issue looking to contribute in turn, or are they a leech wanting free support? A well written bug report is also a love note, after all. I still don’t have a good metric; but I’m definitely drawn to some filed issues more than others.
Stuff like this is the reason the only smart devices I have got so far are a Chromecast Audio, a Chromecast TV and a 2nd gen Google Home Mini (free from Spotify Premium). Those things are low impact if they don't work properly, and they do stop working with alarming regularity. I have spent less than £80 on the set up.

The Home mini has trouble with my regional British accent. The Chromecasts are within 2m of my router, and still manage to get disconnected randomly.

I'm not anti-smart home, but the stuff has to be 99.9% reliable for me to consider going forward with it. I've never had a light switch fail on me...
It’s as if DB want to be hated even more. Is their business model tied to doing the most evil things possible?
I'm depressed, anxious, and lost.

I'm 38, married, and I have two daughters.

My career seems to be stuck. I work in IT, but I don't think I'm actually very good in any specific aspect of it. I suck at debugging. I write Python but I never learned how to use the Python debugger. I'm no good at project management either. Every time I'm asked to give an estimate for something I feel like I'm pulling a random number out of my ass. It's even worse when I'm asked to make long term planning with a Gantt chart. I don't know how to advance my career. I don't know whether I want to pursue a technical path or a (project) management path. Just in terms of programming languages, there are so many out there that I don't know, but that I think I should know - e.g. rust, haskell, elixir, clojure, kotlin - and I'm anxious of missing out. Or shall I forge ahead and try to become a Master of Python? I tried to learn TypeScript and React and I just can't get it. Out of necessity, I do code review for a project written with TypeScript, React, and Next.js at work, and I just can't help falling asleep because everything seems incomprehensible. I don't really know how to get better at any of this.

I have no idea how to spend my free time. I have over 1000 games on Steam, GOG, Epic Store, EA Origin combined, but I open my game library and don't even know what I want to play. I bought most of these games from Humble Bundle, mostly when the bundles come with soundtracks because I just know I won't really play the games. I just listen to the soundtracks while I work. My wife isn't a gamer and there's nobody to play with me. I also have hundreds of ebooks bought from Humble Bundle and Story Bundle, and again, I have no idea what do read.

Since even before the COVID-19 pandemic, I have deleted all my classmates and ex-coworkers from Facebook, except one friend and his wife because he's more like a big brother to me than just a friend. Nobody tried to reconnect with me, neither via Facebook, nor by e-mail, nor by giving me a call. I have no friend to talk to. I eat the cheapest fast food lunch alone during work days and I just spend time mindlessly wandering the streets and the malls until lunch time is up.

When I'm off work and get home, I take care of watching over the little one do her homework, I have supper and I do the dishes, and then it gets late and I have no more energy to do anything useful.

For reasons that I would rather not say, I can't talk to my wife about my depression.
I bought one of the philips wireless lights working on wifi or bluetooth, can't remember. It worked fine after 2 minutes of set-up, and then stopped working about 1-2 months in. The light still works with the regular switch, but I can't get the connection back whatever I try, to turn it on/off with my phone.

Definitely won't be coming back to this until 5 or 10 years to see if the tech has reliably moved.
Something like that would be happening very gradually over time.