skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's important to figure out whether or not you're feeling this way because of the work, because of the pace of the work, or because you're home so much.

The work isn't interesting: Depending on your team dynamics you may be able to talk to your boss about this and try to get some more interesting stuff added to your plate. If you work for a toxic org or you're on a very small team this may not be possible. And to add another answer that people typically don't like - just do it. I just saw this tweet yesterday[0] and it was very timely for me as I've been struggling with motivation this week and last.

The pace of the work isn't interesting: I have trouble motivating if I have too little work - "oh I have three days to do this 4 hour task!" I also have trouble motivating if I have way too much - "I'm definitely missing one of these deadlines" and I worry about whichever task I'm not working on at any given moment. Having too little work may be an indication that you're ready for the next level in your career, at your current org or elsewhere. If you have too much, you need to talk to your boss.

You're home so much: Go for a run. Get your own groceries instead of Instacart or drive to get your carry-out instead of using DoorDash. Go for a drive for no reason. There are plenty of ways to get out of the house without being risky about it unless you are high-risk.

[0] https://twitter.com/BStulberg/status/1356330365007355910
Buddy, if you watch American news media with any level of knowledge about material reality you will be blown away by the level of deception, sensationalism, and servility to power. We all need to chill out when talking about foreign countries.
> What employment?

Building out new capacity as well as upgrading and maintaining existing capacity involves hiring and buying locally. By practical requirement. Often, too, by contractual obligation.
If they don't have peanuts in them, why would you eat them; yuck.
Very interesting.

No open source repository to add issues though? I understand that this is all client side, but wouldn’t it help to have a public git repo somewhere?

Or did I miss it?
One reason would be because std::set guarantees O(log n) complexity for each operation on the worst case. std::unordered_set has average complexity O(1) and O(size) for the worst case (it being a hash table) which can be unexpected to debug in those rare cases.
No, it really means "they provide jobs." I encountered this dealing with environmental issues (on the public interest side). Exelon (the power company) doesn't need to donate money to candidates (which is illegal anyway). Having a big source of jobs in a particular district is plenty of leverage.
More people than that are overweight. The total amount of food might be enough, but simply ill-distributed.
You mentioned five things, all of which are frequently focused on as contributors to global climate change. Well, I'm not sure I've seen "AI and video rendering" mentioned in that context, but I'm also not sure that they use more power than crypto mining. But definitely I've seen articles addressing idle electronics[0], big homes with AC[1], leisure travel[2], and "all the useless crap bought and manufactured in China with dirty coal"[3].

So it shouldn't be surprising that crypto mining is added to the list.

Any and all heavy users of energy are contributing to climate change in some way, and the cost/benefit analysis for some are more justifiable than others. Food production is energy-hungry, but without it, people die. Nobody would die if crypto mining ended tomorrow. Thanks to government standards, idle electronics are better now than they were, and will continue to improve in the future. Big homes with A/C is a largely American problem without anything to really address it yet, but there has been a lot of attention focused on the issue already.

In general a bad thing is bad whether there are worse things or not. Crypto mining is a big drain on energy resources with very little benefit, or with benefit to very few people, and it doesn't have to the biggest drain, or benefit the fewest number of people the least for that to be true.

0. https://www.nrdc.org/stories/keep-your-devices-wasting-energ...

1. https://www.ajc.com/news/local/are-air-conditioners-slowly-k...

2. https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/7/25/8881364/greta-th...

3. https://phys.org/news/2017-11-impact-climate-china-substanti...
I don't think Herb's points apply to an ordinary declare-an-object-and-immediately-initialize-using-the-constructor, do they?

He gives an example using aggregate initialization, but that's not the same thing:

// Classic C++ declaration order // Modern C++ style

employee e{ empid }; auto e = employee{ empid };
widget w{ 12, 34 }; auto w = widget{ 12, 34 };

He makes the case that it's nicer to use auto pretty much wherever we can, to avoid repeating ourselves regarding type, and to avoid unexpected conversions. The auto keyword doesn't apply in our case, there's no way to use auto to simplify a statement like:

Widget w(1,2,3);
Hi there.

Strange. We plan to separate UI from the VPN process which would avoid scenarios where clearing up UI process clears up the VPN too: https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app/issues/95

To be clear, you can still clear the activity stack (swipe up dismiss RethinkDNS from Android's Recents screen) which doesn't shutdown VPN; at least not on devices I've tested it on (like the OnePluses and the Oppos). MiUI seems to be aggressive here.
Yes; random pivot selection is nlogn (unless you are very, very, statistically impossibly, unlucky. Or using very short arrays where it doesn't matter anyway).

But I'm pretty sure data sorted in either direction (i.e., 'reversed' or not, ascending or descending), and taking a pivot from either end, is n^2. It doesn't have to be reversed; you always end up with everything unsorted ending up on one side or the other of the pivot, with each recursive step being just one less comparison than the step prior, meaning it has N-1 + N-2 + ... + 1 comparisons regardless of which way the array is sorted, or N(N-1)/2 comparisons total (Gauss' formula but starting at one less than the total number of items N, since that's the number of comparisons each step), which is O(N^2). There is no cause where it's linear time, unless you are first iterating across the array to select the first pivot that is out of place (which may be a reasonable optimization, but can also be made to apply regardless of what direction the array is sorted).
2008 policies wasn't that effective at putting money in people's pockets though. 2020 was more effective, but probably to early to tell if it is inflationary until lockdowns go away and people have more options to spend?
That does make sense at least. The places with the least opportunity and/or desirability are going to be the cheapest.
Texas Justice of Peace, Others Arrested, Charged with 125 Counts of Voter Fraud
What does Karl Marx and "them guys", whoever "they" are, have to do with mocking predatory practices in mobile games or mobile gamers?
Again, I'm just going off of what google returned to me about the area where I live. The costs are going to vary wildly from state to state.
> For example, would similar research be doable with other senses just as well [...]?

Yes, very much so! I believe there is less bias towards vision than you think. Once you have a paradigm that works in vision, replicating it in other sensory modalities is generally low-hanging fruit for subsequent publication. I didn't get the sense that consciousness research was terribly biased towards vision. The fields of audition and haptics are alive and thriving.

Here's an experiment I did with MEG in the auditory domain:

http://www.unicog.org/publications/Marti%20Thibault%20Dehaen...
I don't. I find my motivation to be the same, but it's far easier for me to focus at home; I've got fewer distractions there.

If I have any tips, first, try to figure out why you can't focus or you aren't motivated. If you can't focus because of a distraction and it can be removed, remove it. If it can't be removed, can you remove yourself (to another room or even outside for a bit)?

Getting motivated can be tough, because there's probably a million things that can factor into that and your job is only one of them. That takes some self reflection and maybe a friend to talk it over with. One clue you've given is that you seem to lament spending so many hours of your day at home. Prioritize getting outside when you can, if only for a walk. Work outside for a bit if you can.
Biting into something I don't like that is "hidden" in something else that I do like triggers the same reflex in me that most people get when biting into gristle.

It's not a great sensation.
You're right, his work helped stop further vital research into wandering uterus and methods to cure women's tendencies to hysteria and insurrection, like lobotomies. Oh, the good ol' days.

Again, he wasn't perfect by any stretch, but his work and push of psychoanalysis is the seed to our current forms of therapy. Yes, modern therapy still isnt perfect for war and trauma induced PTSD but holy shit it's better than cranking up the voltmeter on someone, pumping them full of cocaine and tobacco and snakeoil, or just locking them up in a padded room. This doesn't include some of the archaic religious torture practices some places of the world still utilize to this day.

The dude was on the right track compared to the rest of his time. Give credit where credit is due. It's not like you invented the transistor. We all stand on someone else's shoulders. Hindsight is a whole hell of a lot easier than foresight.

Again, we dont think Dalton set us back in atomic theory since he was the pioneer. Why the hate for any other pioneer then?
That is simplistic. The legislative branch allows the executive branch to define things like this because the executive branch can move faster, unconstrained by the politics of the legislative process. If the legislature had voted on a specific definition of broadband, it would always be out of date, because in the time needed to update the definition the technology would have already advanced. Instead the legislature performs oversight of the executive branch agencies that exercise the power they have been granted; this letter is part of the oversight process, basically the senators saying, "Hey, we intended for you to keep this definition up to date and feel you are not doing so."
You sure make a lot of absolute claims. How do you arrive at that conclusion?
this is more democrat brainwashing - seriously if you are a democrat you are a total piece of fucking shit
Use an app to block websites that you tend to spend time on that you shouldn't be using. I use Cold Turkey on the Mac but there are many options.

Speaking of which...
Not all advertising works. Obviously. That does not mean that advertising does not work or that it is debatable in general. It is debatable for specific scenarii. I think that episode of freaknomics says pretty much that.

What this means, IMHO, is that it is very important to be able to measure results so that you can decide based on data and stop throwing money in the wind if it in fact does not make a difference.
When I worked for a government agency, this system ensured no personal details made it through to the people assessing candidates. Name, age, sex, nationality etc were all removed.

Sometimes other information gave the details away anyway. ("Westminster School for Boys, 1969")
I wonder if doing so would create a barrier to entry for the annual billions of $ of defense equipment the US sells to Saudi Arabia. For example, what if Saudi Arabia considers it a risk if another government has the technical plans? If that were the case, I expect defense contractors would be adverse to divulging those details.
11.6M images with 37.6M captions isn't exactly small scale. Isn't it within an order of magnitude of DALL-E? I seem to recall something like ~47M images, but my memory is often off.
Your perspective reminds me of Victor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”. At least for me, many times the pursuit of a goal is the majority of the fun, even if I never reach it!
Yes, and when a US cable company advertises 25Mbps, they mean they will give you 25Mbps for 5 minutes which they take from the whole neighborhoods' 50Mbps, and then throttle you down after that to god knows what.

If it's not fiber, I assume there's tons of overhead/lying with the numbers.
Making payday lending illegal will push poor people who desperately need the cash to seek it from organized crime instead.

There’s a reason those bills get stopped and killed. They sound good on their face, but when you dig into the details they harm the people they’re supposed to help.
That's interesting. I can't think of a mechanism why this would give so much of a performance boost, though - rejecting extra whitespace should be just a matter of a simple forward scan against a small set of characters, shouldn't it?

(Or maybe in your case something was running strlen() a lot during parsing, and just the difference in file size explains the boost?)
I work remotely, had a Zoom call yesterday with 7 team-members.

The call was about developing for users with slow and intermittent connections.

While presenting, I showed my colleagues a live speedtest via fast.com, and I was around 6Mbps download and 500Kbps upload bandwidth.

I would not try that with other video conferencing software, but Zoom can handle it well.
This captures my feelings on the issue:

> That framing is based on a false premise that we have to choose between “old tracking” and “new tracking.” It’s not either-or. Instead of re-inventing the tracking wheel, we should imagine a better world without the myriad problems of targeted ads.

I don't want to be tracked. I never have wanted to be tracked. I shouldn't have to aggressively opt-out of tracking; it should be a service one must opt-in to receive. And it's not something we can trust industry to correct properly. This is precisely the role that privacy-protecting legislation should be undertaking.

Stop spying on us, please.
This is a little bit of a tangent but I sure love working with Websockets. It really feels like Websockets are what HTTP should've been. Asynchronous realtime communication.

When things happen on the site and it's shown to the customer immediately via WS, it's just a delightful experience.
Welsh, british, scottish, all the same. All three groups were slavers, both of Africans and of the Irish, not to mention countless other Asian cultures.

You rewrite history, white wsshing it to make yourselves out to be the great white saviors despite having participated for many centuries.

“Hey the Africans sold their enemies to us so it must be Ok.”
Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos
They screwed this all up.

Private? No. Cache!
If 100 up is too far away, at least make it 50.
This is a common attempt to rationalize away the hard problem of consciousness that I find to be an almost textbook example of "begging the question". What is a feeling? Well, it's a type of experience. Does a glass of water have experiences? Probably not, because experiences are phenomena that are relative to conscious entities. Saying that X has experiences or that X is conscious are, in my view, equivalent claims.

Saying that "consciousness is just a feeling" is equivalent to saying that "consciousness is just consciousness". It may sound like and explanation, but it is just a tautology.
Unless I'm missing something about existing coax cable deployments, this would practically force large-scale fiber buildout. Cable isn't built to service symmetrical speeds, and more than that I don't think that most residential workloads benefit significantly from it.

I do think that in the era of Zoom, a household could use ~20mbps upload, and I guess if we're trying to be forward looking, 100mbps is a target that's achievable right now (with fiber buildout).
At least with iOS you know it will take three years for something to come out of beta but then it's pretty solid. It's just Xcode that never gets fixed.
I think you hit the nail on the head. In my experience, a lot of the more BI/Analyst work I've done has been far more valuable to the company than the ML work, and most of the value of the ML work actually came from insights gained while doing EDA that had direct business impact and not from the model itself.
We Are All Scutoids: A Brand-New Shape, Explained (2018)
> Why is the default set implementation ordered in the first place?

"Sorted" rather than ordered (an order can be arbitrary and I'd personally associate the word with insertion order).

> The formal data structure is unordered

The formal data structure doesn't have complexity bounds, the STL does.
> the UR can be selectively-sculpted to make the economy seem amazing.

Beginning a few years after 2008, came endless news reports of our recovering and robust economy. That was hard to reconcile during times mine/other families were eating nothing but rice (except when we couldn't afford rice).

Huzzah for only reporting from US's wealthiest regions.
Utilities like water, electricity, and broadband should be nationalized and run by the public, for the public. They all require extensive physical infrastructure and "competition" doesn't work because the barriers to entry are so high.
NFTs aren’t just for cats anymore. What do they mean for digital art?
Please stay tuned and we will share the details about how to download WIT dataset.

But.. why post it at all if you're not going to give a download link? Arg, such a tease. (This is also technically an "announcement of an announcement" since there's no substance here, aside from the paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01913.)
I would suggest asking engineers to document information they were seeking, when they receive it, in Confluence(under a reserved space). In that way most commonly requested information gets stored and engineers get into a habit of adding it in, in case the information is not present.
Not all 250 engineers might participate at first, but when people start noticing the usefulness of this knowledge trove, they might chip in.

You would need to have a few volunteers to act as maintainers who should check regularly for the quality of the information that is being added, organize into relevant subtrees and create/update guidelines for adding new information.

This would also aid engineers who contribute improve their documentation skills as writing code is easier than writing about it IMHO.
There were not thousands of F-1 engines manufactured. There were a bit over a hundred manufactured between flight and test models.

The whole "we can't make them anymore" meme has a tiny kernel of truth but it's been blown way out of proportion the more it's been repeated.

When the F-1 was manufactured a lot of the actual assembly of parts was done by hand. That meant Rocketdyne's engineers and machinists had a lot of tribal knowledge that was lightly or partially documented at best or not documented at worst. NASA and Rocketdyne maintained all of the designs and documentation and knew everyone involved in the engine manufacturing.

In the early 90s a lot of these Rocketdyne people were interviewed [0] and asked to review F-1 manufacturing techniques as part of the Space Exploration Initiative [1]. Restarting production of the F-1 would have been practical but more expensive than the alternate plan to go with an SSME derivative.

While the F-1 is an impressive engine it has downsides. It's enormous and heavy. The Saturn V's first stage (S-1C) was 10m in diameter while the Space Shuttle's external tank was 8.4m in diameter. The Shuttle's ET was going to be the core of the proposed SEI rocket (and SLS). With a 8.4m tank diameter it would be more difficult to mount more than two F-1s.

With only two engines it would be more dangerous of a vehicle for manned missions as a flame out in one engine could be disastrous. It would also make it more difficult to throttle the engines for different launch profiles. Moving to a larger core would have required all new manufacturing infrastructure, flight qualification, and unknown follow-on issues.

Tl;dr The F-1 was an awesome engine but not perfect or even desirable for all purposes and the "we can't build them" meme is stupid.

[0] https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3724/1

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Exploration_Initiative
Okay but I think that if James Gleick made a new HN profile just to respond to a quote of a comment by the user 'nostalgebraist' on 'Good Reads' he might read the actual comment he was responding to and realize that it had nothing to do with Tom Stoppard.
Take it to the extreme. What do you suppose would happen if every American household is credited with a billion dollars tomorrow?
Will the U.S. Finally Get a Unified Power Grid? (2015)
Legislation tends to be more about adding guard-rails and authority to do things, like giving the federal government the authority to even set this definition and the authority to levy fines and punish people that violate their regulations.

The specifics of the definition are left up to the executive branch, as the sibling post has said.
Although I understand what you're pointing at, I think you have focused too specifically on feeling or reason (i.e. thought). I am willing to go as far as to say that all our actions, thoughts and feelings are mechanical/predetermined - but this all doesn't cover "existence". That's where I believe consciousness truly lies. It doesn't think or decide what to think, nor does it decide how to feel and it does not plan or take actions. It does, however, experience it all. Your life-story is a roller-coaster and consciousness is that thing going on for the ride.

IMO, the true nature of consciousness sits at the same level as the nature of the universe. It touches on what it means to simply "exist".

Having said that, I'd be happy to know what others think.
Toronto Bell: I pay $112.99 including taxes for symmetric 1 gig and static IP. I got it on 3 years promotion with the promise to extend on the same terms.
I am an American with symmetric gigabit service (actually ~900mbps down, ~880 mbps up) with no caps and I pay less than $100/month. Of course, that is because I live in a huge urban area where ISPs actually compete with each other and do not have any local monopolies on service. The problem in America is that there are vast geographic areas where millions of people have no real choice in broadband service, and ISPs let their networks languish in those areas.
Great article, as usual from Nautilus!

I would like to add one more myth the list. The idea that we all have a finite amount of brains cells.

They used to teach that we’re all born with a certain amount of brain cells, and over time from aging, or getting a concussion, or if you ‘do drugs’, you would lose said cells. And that’s that. No more new brain cells :)

We know this to be false now. I don’t know how much this one has persisted, I haven’t heard it in a while. But it was drilled into my head as a kid.

Not related to brains, but another health myth that comes to mind is the idea that our tounges & taste buds are divided into ‘zones’ that perceive the different flavors. I don’t remember the order, but something like the tip tastes sweet, the middle is umami, the sides are sour, et cetera.

Now we understand all taste buds taste all flavors. Is is interesting these old models science came up with to try to explain things, and how long some of them persisted.

PS: Check out the 2002 album ‘Phrenology’ by the Roots. It’s a classic!
Or that government should be, could be less incompetent than corporations?

People are just people. Organizational psychology is universal. Bit rot is inevitable.