skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not easy for sure. In my case I found a girlfriend and started living somewhere else. So another change in life helps a lot.
Maybe you could search for something like that. Go live in another city albeit for a temporary period.
A pet programming job might also help. You might be still behind the pc. But at least it is not wasted with just gaming, movies etc. You could also try to search for a coach/psychologist who can support you going to the change process. Go for it. You will be rewarded.
That is an unnecessarily angry article that seems to attack people for doing grocery shopping differently.

Things change and people are always lazy. This is a great system when you need shopping done but can't leave your home for whatever reason.

There are also shops around here that will pack your groceries and put them in the back of your car, if you don't want to have them delivered to your home. This is super convenient and something I hope they keep up after the pandemic.
Tool to generate a random order of a popular food delivery service in The Netherlands. Wanted to discover new local restaurants instead of eating the same 3 things always.
http://thuisbezorgdroulette.nl/
Oh hey, I’ve been thinking of doing this too. Do you have a repo or anything?

I took frontend bugging in a new direction for me as well—decided to add the file name as a prop to every element on the page (in dev only, just takes adding a Babel loader for it). Helps with unfamiliar areas
Win at Risk simply by going first. The first player always wins through attrition.
Thanks for the information. Does dark matter ever enter the discussion in terms of "there isn't even close to enough asymmetry to explain the amount of matter and the lack of antimatter we observe."
I'd really like to develop better abilities to identify and prevent burn out my self. I thought I was just too dumb to keep up. Too lazy to keep focused. It wasn't that, constant quotes that didn't land, unhappy clients and extreme hours that resulted in unhappy management due to the project being over due. Hard work over a long time with nothing but negative feedback left me so drained I was very unproductive, embarrassingly so. I thought I'd never be a good developer but a change in jobs instantly changed that. Long hours, harder work but loads of positive feedback. All of a sudden I could focus all day, learn quicker and get so much work done. I thought I had more self control but it turns out I require certain things from my environment to perform.
Stereotype Embodiment Theory
It's actually "hlyab" / "hleb", without the extra "k". We are not Arabs.

On a related note, an old friend of mine was really into Norwegian back in the day. He used to say Norwegian is very similar to English. Is that true?
I feel alot of js developers could benefit from learning other languages like rust :)
> If you wanted to argue that getting shot at is a major quality of life concern in the U.S., you would need to show that it actually is a major concern for a large proportion of Americans that affects their quality of life, not just that the ratio of occurrences compared to Europe is large.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. I optimise my uploaded images highly and when WP created the various sizes, the smaller pixel sizes often end up heavier in kb than the original.

So I have to optimise them all, now it is done automatically.
Club Necaxa, NFTs and the Funding of Communal Institutions
True. But we weren't talking about getting an education. The article is about Ivy League, and the immediate antecedent was about Harvard. Sure, you can get an education anywhere. But Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League are all about prestige and social connections. You aren't going to get that at A&M.
Quake 1 wouldn't even run on a 486, and Q3 needed a GPU, one of the first games to have that requirement.
I worked at a place using pg_queue (the person who created it worked there before going to Skype IIRC) and maybe it was working well operationally but it was not a great experience to develop on it. It was hard to generate events and debug/observe them (it was height years ago so the details are a bit fuzzy).

MS also moved from it afterwards when they acquired Skype but I guess it was more because of the shift to SQL Server.
Looks great! It's always awesome to see another GTK developer out there doing their thing in the wild!
we will soon put the necessary certificates FDA on the site, so that you do not worry. we do not encourage you to refuse to go to the doctor, if you have such an opportunity. and as for your scenarios - the app has the ability to refine the measurements. if your mole is healthy and the doctor has confirmed it, specify it in the application. then, if there are any changes, the device will show them. especially if there have already been precedents with melanoma or other types of skin cancer.
FinTech 3.0 Re-Architecting Financial Market Infrastructure and DeFi
How often and to what extent did you build using Qt? Your arguments against using Qt don't align with its actual capabilities. Qt has an extensive API so perhaps you weren't aware Qt possesses such capabilities which would be understandable if your exposure to Qt was transient.

>If your Qt app has single C++ line of code cross platform builds become much harder.

As I mentioned, Qt has an extensive cross-platform API; indeed that API is Qt's value prop. If you've the need to write arch/platform-specific UI code, then it's very likely you'll find the solution to that problem somewhere within Qt's docs. If not, then you cannot expect to be able to write such code using Electron/JavaScript.

>Also regardless you still have to solve packaging and updates for Windows, macOS and Linux.

What's to solve? Qt has had these capabilities. If you describe a specific issue, you may have an argument, otherwise this statement makes no claim.

>Also it's much harder to do QA and it's take much more effort to maintain cross platform Qt app in general.

How so? This is such a broad and unspecific claim to the extent it isn't possible to form a counter argument. State specifically the issues making it much harder to complete these tasks using Qt.

>For Electron apps it's all much easier because all native code is heavily tested by other commercial software

Qt's testing suite is extensive. Qt is and has been deployed and "heavily tested" around the world for years. Qt is also deployed as an embedded technology.

>PS: I shipped C++ apps built using Qt and cross-platform part is huge time sink.

I'm not sure you spent much time doing this because Qt makes shipping cross-platform software so simple it sometimes feels like I'm cheating (there are exceptions when dealing with very specific platform/arch-specific items as I mentioned above; there is no solution in JavaScript.). There must be some specific issue(s) you came across, but without specifying what specifically made you perceive using Qt a huge time sink, the statement makes no claim.
It is very confusing to me that you've been downvoted in this thread. Anyone who did so want to explain why?
I wrote a program to help me archive my google mail. You can query it like a database (group by senders, subjects, etc.) and perform the archive operation.

Useful for when the inbox gets to 1k unread messages.
IMO the best way to think "clearly" is to be patient. I find that when I try to figure out the best way to do something, just waiting on it I come up with a better way or at least get more confident. Even when I didn't consciously think anymore about it, and especially after I sleep.
Inform7 has very educational error messages:

(Each time Go or Replay is clicked, Inform tries to translate the source text into a working story, and updates this report.)

Problem. The sentence 'This is a book' appears to say two things are the same - I am reading 'This' and 'book' as two different things, and therefore it makes no sense to say that one is the other: it would be like saying that 'John is Paul'. It would be all right if the second thing were the name of a kind, perhaps with properties: for instance 'Abbey Road is a lighted room' says that something called Abbey Road exists and that it is a 'room', which is a kind I know about, combined with a property called 'lighted' which I also know about.

Because of this problem, the source could not be translated into a working game. (Correct the source text to remove the difficulty and click on Go once again.)

http://inform7.com/
If I discover a new movie trailer on my phone, and I want to watch it on my bigger TV screen, it's much easier to immediately cast the video that I've already pulled up than to try to find the same video with my TV remote.
You mean people have plans and agendas that sometimes work and sometimes don't, like Coke's plan to switch to Classic Coke that didn't work out because they added more salt and sugar to make it more addictive but it ruined the taste? Or do you mean secret groups that run the world behind the scenes?
Completely unrelated but I would love a CLI/GUI type tool on my laptop that I could control a youtube client with. Most youtube clients on smart TV's, consoles, and streaming sticks support being controlled by a phone. I'd love to control it from my laptop instead of solely my phone.
My uber driver in Los Angeles was telling me about how his parents bought a house in the seventies in the west side and now it's worth it a million or more and he inherited it and wasn't sure what to do with it.

My Uber driver was a millionaire by equity.
I mean if you are calling it "shacking up" that might explain why it doesn't go well.

I don't think most would say men have it equally available but I'd certainly say it's more available than it was in the past just like women having jobs that can allow them to be the primary breadwinner are much more prevalent in 2021 than it was in 1981.

I do know some male stay at home dads but not as many.
I made https://paymewith.xyz to share my social payments faster. Got tired of the “do you have Venmo/Square Cash/Paypal” dance.
I wrote hbr (handbrake runner) [0]. It takes a global config, a per-file config, and individual outfile sections then calls HandBrakeCLI to encode video. I use it to encode movies/series from optical media.

Additionally there is hbscan.py to generate a list of potential outfiles from handbrake's --scan argument. One day I'd like to integrate it with hbr (in C) using peg/leg [1]. Currently using pyparsing.

This is still a lot of manual work, but it saves doing it twice. When you find a mistake in an encode there's a log with the file, and it's easy to go back and modify the keyfile and re-encode it.

[0] https://github.com/epakai/hbr

[1] https://www.piumarta.com/software/peg/ (not mine)
The amount of woodworking jigs and tools people develop on their own is fascinating. Some of these woodworkers on youtube spend more time creating jigs than actually building things. Matthias Wandel for example is a wizard. It's really similar to programming tools. Often, tinkering is more fun than finishing large projects.
Mostly analysis. If you understand section 1 notations, you are obviously set. But even if you don't you should still be able to get the ideas with a bit of mental translation. In a word the notation seemed unnecessarily heavy for the level of discussion.
I have found that writing a function and then using `typeset -f` is a reliable way to pass code over ssh. It is also nice because the function call provides a clear boundary indicating which variables come from the source/configuring system and which come from the remote/executing system.
What stops someone from installing a virus to those locations so that they're automatically whitelisted?
> The solar roof was just some hyped up product ...

Musk style. Still not sure if all the hype is worth the results.
C arrays are nothing more than convenient pointer math. array[1024] = &array + sizeof(element) * index (in that case 1024). And while there is some weird post-facto "one past the end" bit in the standard (added long after Quake 3 was made), in any modern compiler you can happily get pointers for illegal indexes. If you have a literally sized array and a literal offset it could warn (e.g. Warray-bounds), but for the vast majority of cases it won't flag at all. Nor would this cause any runtime issues. Because it's just math.

And the truth is that without runtime memory protection you can dereference those illegal positions.
look, let's be honest - will it make you feel better if they punish the doctor who missed your cancer? yes, you will not care about it, and all thoughts will be about how to achieve remission. I personally communicate with several people who have missed melanoma and they are now at stage 4 with brain metastases. yes, the doctor's license was revoked. but the cancer hasn't gone away
mental toughness/endurance haha!
My point is not on how well it performs, but more on the fact that it is designed and tuned to maximise the screen time, which results in very unpleasant effect on young and children.

And to my view, when you are the largest player, by far the one with the biggest market share and you exploit children weaknesses to make some more money, well, then you are the lowest form of life on earth.
I think that traits have to be sufficiently detrimental to reproductive success for evolution to remove them. For example a genetic predisposition for cancer in old age is unlikely to have an effect on reproductive success. Whilst a gene that reduces fertility in young people would.

It is possible that things like art and music are the result of traits in our genome that are beneficial in other ways. Or the traits just didn't inhibit reproduction.

Maybe a hypothetical "gay gene" could have survived in women simply because they historically lacked choice about reproduction.
I always bookmark these idea mining threads, has anyone ever made use of them?

My though, because I haven't, is that if you want to essentially work on someone else's idea then go be an employee, otherwise the first actually passionate person will steal the show as soon as they show up.
This is like looking at the behavior of RL agents as their policies improve/stabilize.
> The F-35 can see and shoot down the F-16 with radar-guided missiles in BVR well before the latter is even aware the F-35 is in the area.

what's stopping the f-16 from turning around and going cold as soon as it hears a lock or senses enemy radar?
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.io domains are mega expensive - I'm sure they used to WAY cheaper?
Tangentially related, but veering off-topic very quickly:

We define "matter" to be what there is in greater abundance in the local neighborhood. Thus we define protons and neutrons (or up and down quarks) as matter, along with electrons.

But what if that's wrong? What if electrons are anti-particles? That would go some distance toward "matter and antimatter in equal amounts" (though not, I think, all the way there).

Is there any physical reason that, if we identify the up quark, say, as matter, then the electron also has to be matter rather than antimatter? (I think there is reason that if the up quark is matter, the down quark has to also be matter, but I could be wrong on that one, too.) Can anyone with better knowledge than mine shed some light here?
Some years ago I regularly played Risk with three friends. It always started with a fight about the three southern continents. Of course, only three can get one. The left over player tried this strategy to stretch across Asia, Europe, and maybe even North America. Always careful to not cover a whole continent and raise attention. South America and Africa are in constant conflict with each other so they are busy with themselves. The problem is Australia. That player also needs a card every card and will constantly tear into Asia.

At some point the balance between South America and Africa will break and the northern player needs to intervene there as well. So it is impossible to not be dragged into fights and some armies need to be spent.

With four players there is always someone who will point out to your neighbors what they are overlooking. That makes the game drag on because whenever one is about to overpower another player, two others will intervene. Apart from the cards on your hand there is no hidden information in Risk. So if you play for world domination everything is very obvious all the time.

What ends the game is that the card bonus armies become so huge that every turn there is some crusade across the whole board until some is the lucky winner.
I’m not sure I agree with your takes on frameworks. It definitely depends on what you’re building, but in React to have composition and reuse for free immediately sets it apart from any bespoke solutions. I’m also struggling to imagine how you propose to out-scale the React framework with early & tough design decisions... these are Facebook engineers that made those same decisions, and they managed to scale the framework to Facebook levels. You understand that they may be the UI leaders of the world, yes?
It’s the first thing I thought of when I read the headline. Capitalism has turned me into cynical asshole. How people spend their money is no concern of mine.
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I set up wifi on 130 acres on a mix of solar and grid, wired Ethernet, "wireless" Ethernet, and mesh wifi. We have two shakey ISPs. I ping all network devices every ten minutes and plot the results over time. Has helped me tremendously when troubleshooting
Proprietary and Git don’t really go well together. Anyone can use Git and you certainly don’t have to use this or any additional software with it. I’ve never used Tower, as everything I’ve wanted to do in Git has been accomplishable via the command line.

The necessity of this article is debatable however. As with the majority (all?) of software products (excluding games), there’s often always that “this tool solves a problem we had ourselves” component. A somewhat shallow piece of content marketing is what this appears to be.
If there is one genetic quirk that I am extremely envious of, it's definitely this one. From the article:

> But natural short sleepers actually seem to benefit from this quirk of their biology. Fu says researchers have found that short sleepers tend to be more optimistic, more energetic and better multitaskers. They also have a higher pain threshold, don’t suffer from jet lag and some researchers believe they may even live longer.

I'm the opposite, I guess I'd be categorized as a "long sleeper" - the "natural" length of my sleep is ~9 hours. I feel pretty chronically lethargic, and if I go under 8 hours for multiple nights in a row I feel completely awful and often end up getting sick.
There is no reason to believe that matter and antimatter was produced in equal quantities in the Big Bang.

2 particles, one of which is the anti-particle of the other form a system where the sum of all quantities that are conserved can be 0, so a transformation generating or destroying both particles is possible.

Nevertheless there are also other systems of particles where the sum of all conserved quantities can be 0 so there should exist transformations that generate all of them simultaneously.

Besides the systems of 2 particles, where generation and annihilation is well known, there are systems of 4 particles with zero sum of all conserved quantities (e.g. a quark, an anti-quark, an electron and an anti-neutrino) and also systems of 8 particles e.g. the 3 kinds of u quarks + the 3 kinds of d-quarks + electron + anti-neutrino.

The systems of 4 particles can actually be generated and destroyed in weak interactions, similarly like the the systems of 2 particles can be generated and destroyed in electromagnetic interactions.

For the systems of 8 particles, there is currently no theory about a mechanism of generation or annihilation, but my bet is that this is how matter was created during Big Bang (those 8 particles aggregate into 1 proton, 1 neutron, 1 electron and 1 neutrino).

For now we have a theory of Big Bang not from the starting point but from a little later when there already was normal matter as we know it.

There is no theory yet for the origin of Big Bang, but there is absolutely no reason to believe that at the beginning there was an electromagnetic interaction generating simultaneously equal numbers of particles and anti-particles. For that to be true, the matter and anti-matter should have been preceded by electromagnetic waves i.e. photons, of equivalent energy with the mass of the generated matter and anti-matter, which would then annihilate restoring the previous photons. Such a theory goes nowhere, so it does not match reality. Whatever started Big Bang, it was not an electromagnetic field generating pairs of particles and anti-particles.
Look on ebay for decks with ps/2 keyboard inputs.

Check minidisc.org
It seems like this can leave the reader with the wrong impression. Calculus really is "the mathematics of Newtonian physics". This is just "some mathematics that might help a bit in your intuitions of deep learning".

IE, Deep learning is fundamentally just about getting the mathematically simple but complex and multi-layerd "neural networks" to do stuff. Training them, testing them and deploying them. There are many intuitions about these things but there's no complete theory - some intuitions involve mathematical analogies and simplifications while other involve "folk knowledge" or large scale experiments. And that's not saying folks giving math about deep learning aren't proving real things. It's just they characterizing the whole or even a substantial part of such systems.

It's not surprising that a complex like a many-layered Relu network can't fully characterized or solved mathematically. You'd expect that of any arbitrarily complex algorithmic construct. Differential equations of many variables and arbitrary functions also can't have their solutions fully characterized.
True until you look at gambling and other products engineered to maximize addiction.
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Finding solutions in your sleep is so incredibly satisfying when it happens.
While amateurs can do an amazing job of detecting satellites, I think it is pretty likely that there are smaller satellites which are operating in extreme low power mode, waiting until a conflict where they are required. Whether there are enough to replace GPS and comms lost due to anti-satellite attacks and resulting debris is a bigger question.
You are right. The one big difference though is even a French person living in poverty will get the best cancer treatment the country can give as far as I know. In the U.S he will be left to die if he is not insured.
Why America's post-vaccine summer is off to a slow start
Are there any similar projects that would help newbies like me to learn a bit about any real area of life sciences, e.g., biochemistry, cell biology, neuroscience in a fun and engaging way? This project looks like tons of fun, but I am too ignorant to judge whether it would teach me anything applicable beyond the scope of this particular bit of software.