skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I learned after tracking key life criteria for a few years is it's easy to be hyper-focused on tracking at the detriment of living your life. If you sample more than a few times a day, you'll wind up 'living to track' instead of 'tracking to live' because of the constant diligence it requires. Also if you ever track pain, you wind up bringing attention to it, which you might not want to do too much.

Personally I only found one clear trend after tracking for years: my energy levels determined my mood, but not visa-versa. If I was fatigued, my mood plummeted. A very useful insight for future behavior, especially rest/sleep, and one I had to learn through tracking to really it get to stick.

I still track things every day but I do so as a form of accountability to myself. I use it to get perspective on my day and week, to identify and address trends early that I might otherwise dismiss, etc. Useful for behavior change, not data analysis.

Overall, it's a good practice like a form of journaling, but one you want to do somewhat infrequently - I wouldn't track any one thing more than 3x/day, and for everything you should be able to fill it in later (usually the eve) if you are too busy living life.
It's not a bailout.

It's money that's either contractually owed by the renter, or constitutionally owed by the government, as a private taking.

The landlords are being made whole, not getting "free" government bailout money.
That is different: he is pinching the sword with his hands. And FWIW it is far better to have your hand cut by a sword than to suffer a fatal wound.

In my situation I'm grasping a handful of utensils blindly (they're under soapy water), some which are knives. I can pull them up and sort them out w/o damage. Why?

The hand, and the combination of hand + eye, are remarkably facile. But in a suds-filled sink the eye is useless and the hand alone governs.
This sounds like a dishonest way of bypassing payment for Google search API by impersonating a request from a user.
Well in that case Russia should indeed just give up their access to Black Sea and let the US set up yet another sphere of influence! /s
CRT is the new 'cultural marxism' of the right. It is completely bogus scaremongering and propaganda.
This approach saved my bacon on a migration just yesterday. I had gotten to testing files after having done a big baseline rsync, stopping file services on the old server, and doing a catch-up rsync incremental. Oh shit - one veracrypt container is corrupted and won't mount. Turns out rsync diff updates and mounted containers being written to don't play nice together.

Since the old machine was still sitting there with all the data accessible, I was able to just blow away the corrupted volume, confirm it was unmounted on the source, then copy the whole thing over. If I just had a one-time copy that I'd thrown at b2 or something, I would have been very sad.

So, yeah, test restoring your backups. Even fancy checksumming filesystems and shit won't save you from bad assumptions about the integrity of your data.
ai is top-down and physics is bottom-up.

physics is also mostly deterministic (attach probability distributions for stochastic/quantum stuff) and there are well defined rules (energy, symmetry, noether, etc).

at the end of the day ai has some space for models and so does physics. because physics has well defined rules it's easier to apply constraints to that space vs ai/ml where it's informed guesswork.

of course there will be a correspondence between parameters in a model and emergent physical phenomena ... and i'm sure really nice scaling laws, etc will come out , this is just coarse graining.

onsager and the likes were onto this stuff way before deep learning was a thing. i think this connection is uninteresting because optimization in it's heart is physics. dl is just one aspect.

- a physicist (escaped to the greener pastures of swe, shame really, i miss it but not the wl balance)
>If you think that Russia has a reliable access to those keys, then USA military has FAR bigger issues than hypotetical spoofing.

btw, i don't think it was Russia, to me it looks like China who has much better access in particular to the technological layers of the US defense systems. Sailors on these destroyers at night were looking at those screens with "confusing UI" - you don't need to spoof GPS/etc. if you cracked the access to the UI, and that it was the same destroyer type fits well into it.
100% agree, my non-tech jobs I worked were horrible, I had a manager scream in my face and throw stuff onto the floor for a messy shelf(retail job I worked at a bit before college). I then worked at a lower level IT job where the the manager called all the workers sh!theads and then insulted us further while we were all in a meeting.

Contrast that with having coworkers now(work at a FANG equivalent) who went straight from prep school to ivy league(or stanford etc) and who have no comprehension of how a vast majority of the country deals with jobs or bosses, they think catered lunches/breakfasts are the norm and free massages are at all jobs.
"Don't eat lead paintchips, they cause brain damage" is an example of honest and beneficial propaganda
The flip side is what exactly do you need to say that you're silenced from saying. Our natural instinct to enter debates and "win" them really leads otherwise smart people astray as well.

Let the activists yap. And you do what you want to do.

We've evolved to speak not to win arguments, but to coordinate our actions better. And actions still speak loudest.
I don't know about that. It's probably driven by the need to for a short attention* gathering title.

* I see what I did there.
1. I own a 4 unit building on a decent sized lot in a big city.

2. I make housing available to 3 other families

This is the point - the second sentence does not actually follow from the first. The person who built the building, either the actual builders or the investors, make it available. At this point, it is a normal service-provision kind of relationship you see across the economy.

Except, with landlords, it isn't that they provide the building. It's that they provide the land. The land is parcelled out in a manner which, at best could be compared to if we just gave rights to parts of the electromagnetic spectrum to whichever radio stations started pumping waves into it first. Of course, in reality, land ownership is usually rooted in much more brutal and sordid stories in America.

So you essentially end up with a class of people who take no risks, provide no service, and add no value, employ nobody, and often literally do nothing.
I know, my first question was a joke; you're causing clickbaity headlines and inline ads by bypassing their paywall. You still haven't explained why it was worth your time to manually edit the frontend in Inspector when the article is such poor quality it's not worth paying for.

Google and Facebook ate the ad market. It doesn't matter if you win Pulitzer prizes or not, you need another source of revenue.

There's plenty of profitable paywall models, Wired, NYT, Economist. You haven't heard about any of the profitable models in the last 20 years?!
Read up a bit on ADHD. That 'hyperfocus' that occurs either with deadlines or on a passion project is a symptom, as is the inability to get excited about projects you simply don't want to do - especially given your otherwise positive reviews and your ability to clear your mind and hyperfocus near a deadline, it's something to consider.

I was diagnosed at 33, and it changed my life infinitely for the better. YMMV, and you may not have ADHD, but if you do, it is nothing to feel guilty about - it, in fact, gives you some insanely useful abilities that others simply don't have, as evidenced by the number of comments on this post explaining you have no guilt to feel, and your positive performance reviews.

But being able to understand why we do these things, and being able to understand how to adjust for them (whether through medication or coping mechanisms) is, alone, insanely relieving.

Consider picking up 'Driven to Distraction,' or 'Delivered From Distraction,' or check out these posts by Mark Suster which was what led me to get started on the path:

* https://bothsidesofthetable.com/how-to-know-if-you-have-add-...

* https://bothsidesofthetable.com/why-add-might-actually-benef...

* https://bothsidesofthetable.com/developing-an-action-plan-fo...
When I was ~14 yo, my father used to get his friends over most nights.

They were usually 1 or 2, and they would stay for dinner.

One of those nights my younger brother brought some sort of survey from school, regarding the family and related assorted questions.

I think it's important to note that every night my father and his friends would down a couple bottles of cheap wine.

So, my father got to the task of filling the survey, with the assistance of his friends.

Eventually he got to a question where he had to fill his current occupation.

¡Malviviente!* yelled my father, and he and friends burst out in drunken laughter.

He filled the question with such answer.

He - and my mother - were promptly summoned by the school to explain that answer. Rest assured my mom was not pleased at all.

* This word can be roughly translated to thug, but taken literally can mean "One that does not live well".
That rule would be a problem for any company operating in China, not just Chinese companies.
1) I don't know if I can pinpoint it... I have some notes, but it's mostly just little moments of frustration with the docs here and there. Functions that are undocumented, the docs glossing over important parts of the framework, etc. Can't put my finger on it, it's just constant frustration. I'm eager also to contribute to the docs: but specifically a tutorial for API development. This is an area where the docs are severely lacking.

Best practices is also another one. I feel they take too little opinions on how to use the framework, and it's difficult to find a best practices source (think a book like Two scoops of Django). This can be jarring to beginners.

I get that they're trying to be configuration first, but... People who use frameworks like Phoenix are trying to escape the freedom of systems that take too few opinions.

Phoenix strikes me as trying to be Flask but also trying to be Rails. I'm not sure it gets that middle ground right.

On the prior knowledge assumption: the tutorials for Phoenix assume too much Rails knowledge. Where Rails takes a beginner friendly approach with RailsGuides, Phoenix immediately assumes you're moving from Rails and the docs can be confusing for that reason.

The docs are sometimes made exactly for people who use Rails and that's very annoying for everyone else.

2.I'll be keeping an eye on Ash, that looks fantastic. An API framework that feels like Rails or DRF would be a killer app.

As a note, it's also baffling to me that Phoenix is trying to go the Rails route and completely ignoring modern API development. There's zero tutorials, just a generator. I really don't believe in LiveView: moving the UI state to the server is just a recipe for disaster.

I feel if Phoenix doesn't try to move where the industry is heading (API-first), they'll rapidly fall into irrelevance. Rails can afford to take that risk, they're too big to fail.

Phoenix and Elixir can't. They're too small and the incentives to move are not huge. They didn't kill Rails.

4. I haven't written extensively about it, but you can read my journey at my Twitter account (link in profile). I haven't been too active though, taking a break.
College's changed; It used to be free speech focused with debates and exposure to a wide set of ideas being seen as critical to a well rounded education. Now you can't even get vaguely controversial speakers on campus.

Tech workers tend to be younger so the more recent changes to the political views of colleges effect them first.

Hell famous comedians won't even preform at college campuses anymore:
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/jerry-seinfeld-reve...
Just took a cursory glance at the list of speakers but if I'm not mistaken this is exclusively Protestant commentary? Is the app particularly aimed at Protestants or is it just availability?
Likewise. A few weeks ago someone took enough of an exception to me writing here that (COVID) masks are trivial that they went to my blog and vented quite unpleasantly. I know others who have had it much worse than me.
Mostly it convinces me that they've never been a janitor in the US.

Minimum wage work in the US is brutal. The federal minimum wage is $7.25, amounting to $14,500 a year if you can manage to work a steady job. That leaves you very little money left over for traveling to those national parks.

Being a janitor is actually a step up from a lot of retail jobs, where your schedule is variable and it's hard to work the same 40 hours per week. It might even come with health care, another thing rare among minimum wage jobs. It's less likely to come with retirement savings, and at $14.5k per year you're not putting anything away. Certainly not if you also like to take vacations.

Being poor in the US sucks. Being janitor is not the worst job, but from context I think they meant it that way. I think few people would take janitor in the US over engineer in the UK, and practically nobody sane would take jobs in retail or food service if they had any other option. (Part of the reason they pay so badly is that those are the jobs occupied by people who have no other option.)
Just added a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27596422

Figured I'd also comment it here since it has some useful resources that led me to get diagnosed and improve my life :)
Because he didn't have much of a choice? I have a feeling he'd much prefer being back in the US or somewhere in Europe or any other number of places, but all of those lead to a jail cell.
It's not a current news event. It's old news. Why are you so desperate to cancel him... again?
Why Slack is More Evil Than Fox News
If you can't afford this antioxidant, try the slightly cheaper alternative: gold.
You don't own the number that is your private key, just as you don't own the number that is your bank account PIN or balance. What you own is space on the blockchain.

And just as you don't need to tour the mint to have confidence in the dollar, or implement Diffie-Hellman to have confidence in your TLS connection to Amazon, you don't need to understand elliptic curve cryptography to have faith in Bitcoin.
Reads like an undergrad class project and not a real study
> I wonder how Snowden reconciles his position on self-censorship with his current country of residence.

By remembering that he got only got stuck in Russia because the United States revoked his passport while he was on an international flight that was to make a connection in Moscow?
And yet, thanks to Stylus[1], I have a darkmode HN: https://imgur.com/a/TayEsyS

NB: I also have an extension to run some javascript to edit some of the layout.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylus_(browser_extension)
Yes. Private school do have 'propaganda' - but that's perfectly ok if it aligns with the parent's wishes. As the parents, we have the right to chose how our children are raised.
It is so interesting to think of this dilemma in tech/computer oriented jobs vs something that requires one to be present(retail/customer service/etc...).

I work as a dev now, but worked as a gas station clerk for 6 years starting at the age of 16. If I came in for an 8 hour shift, I honestly think 7 of it was spent doing 'work'. I would have to pretend to go to the bathroom for a #2 just to get a 5 minute breather(and thats not to say the environment was oppressive, but the work standard was high and we felt valued at the company).
Physics is simple in a certain sense and the paper explains this. In theory the force acting on something you drop could be a function of the state of every particle in the universe and each one could contribute with a different weight. But this is not the case, things are only influenced by things nearby and the weights involved are not arbitrary, the charge of each electron, for example, is the same. In that sense physics is unbelievable simple as compared to what it could be.
Here is some data to
support the assertion that nothing is going through their head during their performance:
https://sports.ndtv.com/football/neymar-s-brain-on-auto-pilo...

“Brazilian superstar Neymar's brain activity while dancing past opponents is less than 10 percent the level of amateur players, suggesting he plays as if on auto-pilot, according to Japanese neurologists.”
Author has it completely backward. [edit: on further reading, the title is clickbait but the article content is consistent with my point below)

With only a few exceptions, ML is incredibly simple (there is no AI). The math is simple, the mechanics of evaluating it is simple, the reason it works is simple, and it only really works well if you have absurd amounts of data and CPU time.

Physics is... determining the mathematics you need to know on the fly while discovering and explaining many phenomena.
You can spend decades focusing on matrix multiplications and other fairly straightforward trivia to analyze your particle trajectories, and then suddenly, you need to know group theory or some completely different field of math just to understand the basic modelling.

Personally I think the most impressive thing in physics and stats so far is our ability to predict the trajectories of solar system objects far into the future. After some very serious numerical analysis over the past 50 years, we've reached the point where there aren't many improvements we can make, and most of them come from identifying new objects, their position, and mass (data/parameters), and the real argument is about whether the underlying behavior is truly unpredictable even if you have perfect information.

Of course, the last best work in this area was done by Sussman who has been an ML researcher for some time: (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6039194_Chaotic_Evo...)

As you can see, physicists pretty much invented all the math to do ML whilst solving other problems along the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_of_the_Solar_System

in fact many of my friends who were physics people, when I show them the code of a large scale batch training system they wonder why they did physics instead of CS because the math is so unbelivably simple compared ot the tensor path integrals they had to learn in Senior Physics.
I think the vast majority of this thread agree with you that what we saw in the article was incredibly dangerous to the employee.

In my example these sites are unmanned 99% of the time but if there was an operator on site and someone back in the head office went on the loud speaker to tell off some trespassers I can't imagine OH&S or the on-site operator would be the slightest bit impressed.
I think libraries are complicated so that they can be flexible and support many different use cases. You could release one library for authentication that works for one specific use case, but it would be useless for all others.
I would have thought that basic economics would let you reason out that much, without even the need for advanced courses in diamat.
Snowden's publisher was sued and prevented from paying him for the work. What's the deal with the paid subscription option then? Will substack end up just pocketing the money, or is there some legal workaround? For that matter, could the government try and go after any paying subscribers?
> have a point that is optimal for growth, above or below which, they are bad for growth. As taxes approach zero, for instance, you live in a mad max society and nothing can grow because there is no stability.

You are mis-equating a cost for a benefit, when it is instead that a cost is required to achieve a separate benefit.

The point is that taxes are a cost. They are a cost that needs to be paid, in order to pay for certain things, such as government services.

Setting taxes to 0 would not be bad for growth, because of taxes being 0.

Instead, it is that having taxes be zero, means that we are unable to pay for government services. And the reduction in government services is what causes growth to go down.

It is a subtle, but important distinction.

And if you do not take into account this distinction, then you would come to the incorrect conclusion, that the government taxing people, and then wasting those resources entirely, could actually be good for growth, which is nonsense, outside of some extreme edge case situations, regarding extra-oridinary macro-economic scenarios.
We have physical machines that could do the (physical)work of thousands of people, in a much more efficient way.

That is, a single person can lift, move, and manipulate tons.

Recently we have machines(computers, electronics, AI) that could do mental the work of thousands of people. In a much more efficient way. This is happening right now.

There are places in the world with incredible amounts of concentrated capital, like China (Shanghai,Shenzhen,HongKong),
Silicon Valley, New York, Switzerland, Dubai and Singapore.

If you try to compete with those just putting more hours and exhausting your body in manual labor(and not using machine tools and capital like they do) you are on the losing track.

It worked for millions of years and is in our DNA. Like two males going to a fight for leadership (like has been done for millions of years) and one of them has a gun and kills the other with 0 effort a la Indiana Jones.

Doing more effort and working harder is what your DNA tells you to do.

I recommend that you write down a log of the quality and quantity of your work, just like Henry Ford did with his workers but with yourself. Work more hours and work less hours and log your output in specific things you did. Add things you like over your week like going mountain hiking, log your output, do nothing in the entire week that you like
(sacrifice) and log it.

You will be surprised by what you learn about yourself.
> I often wonder how many nobodies disappear for some string of comments on some no-traffic forums/blogs.

Maybe a bit conspiratorial. Even dictators need to prioritize their actions. And they'd go for speech that has impact (like said high-profile journalists), and less so for random noise on no-traffic forums with anonymous authors.

A lot gets lost in the internet noise. Nobody cares about it.
There's a good example of just this thing happening right here[0]. A group of young climate activists disbanded because despite the good work they were doing they decided their group was too top-loaded with white people and should be led by POC.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/schoolstrike4climateauckland/posts/...
Getting to the Product Manager interview stage
You are right, they aren't related per se.

I was alluding to replacing the idea of holding on to a Pentium 4 with buying a modern, more eco-friendly, but ultimately just as anemic, CPU.

Not a perfectly representative test, sure, I just felt that it was a good compromise between "test your code on weak machines" and "be environmentally responsible".

So yep, I did conflate weak CPU with low-wattage CPU, you are right.
> How does one go about opening the minds of those already deeply influenced by propaganda? I have their trust, they still come to me and voice their ideas, however farfetched they may seem. Even if they know I don't believe them, they still open discussion with me. But I cannot seem to find a way to engage in their arguments while involving reasoning.

Maybe you can checkout their single source of information, and make them promise to checkout the other side too...

Both will benefit from checking out alternate sources that opine opposite to our current biases.

We will disagree with most of them, but then, one can basically find out what is factually true or not from a simple comparison, see which facts have been omitted in the reporting, and then make up their minds.