skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you may have answered your own question, at least in part:

> I always seem to find an excuse as to why it's not worth continuing, *right before actually accomplishing anything* [emphasis mine]

Certainly "diminishing returns" and "the skill of consistency" are real issues, but is it also possible there's something psychological going on here, like a fear of success?

This is something I've struggled with for all of my adult life – not with success per se, but with the way succeeding at something defines who/what you are. For instance, way back when I was a freshman in college, I poured myself into a big assignment with singular focus, and created something that got a lot of attention and notoriety. Important people took notice, I won some awards, and everyone started asking what I was working on next. It felt great and I did start another big project, but quickly found myself crushed under all these perceived expectations... And although I finished it, the result was underwhelming. I sort of dropped off everyone's radar at that point, and I'm not sure I've ever really recovered.

Like other commenters have said, you could have written your post verbatim about me. I get into things with an initial boost of motivation that often borders on obsession, go deep down the rabbit hole, cobble together some sort of proof of concept, and then suddenly lose interest, as you described, right at the point where I could actually produce something.

So how do we get past this? Figuring that out may be my life's work. But speaking of life, one of the best tips that has helped me is, "If you want to figure out what to do with your life, work backward from your death". Which is to say, think about what your obituary will say, how you want to impact people, what your legacy will be. Then think about what you need to learn/build/accomplish to get there, and work your way, step by step, back to now.

It's not a perfect system by any means, but it does help keep me "on track" when I feel like tossing something aside because I suddenly lose motivation. I tell myself, This is how I get to point B, which goes to C, to D, to E. And the fact that I want "point E" is very unlikely to change.

The other tip I'll leave you with is: Trust your past self. You from [some time ago] decided [activity] was worth doing. So it probably is! It may not feel like that now, but trust that Past You made the right call about things, even if they may not have known the full scope of what they were getting into. I often struggle to put in another hour/day on some project I don't really want to do anymore, because the alternative looks so enticing: Start something new! Dick around on Reddit! Watch someone else do the thing on YouTube! Etc. So I remind myself that, for me 1) life isn't about relaxing; it's about doing stuff, and 2) when I do relax, I enjoy it so much more if I feel like I've "earned" it.

Anyway best of luck, friend. At least you've already learned you're far from alone on this!
Memory bandwidth is a complex beast, one should be able to get 50GB/s for short decodes of single to double digit k on modern hardware. The author measured 11GB/s ish in their memcpy benchmark, but only half that for decode. If memory bandwidth was the wall, then it should be closer to memcpy in perf. I could see fusing base64 decode and json parsing into a single function.

It would be cool to show a demo of a processor maintaining good IPC on one hyper thread while the other hyper thread running on the same core was able to do a base64 decode.
> The only way you are going to safely allow a drug like heroin on the streets is to have it be prescription based and ideally paired with free mental health services.

If that's your standard, it's already a failure. You are never going to "safely" allow heroin on the street. You're never going to "safely" allow children's playgrounds.

All prescription heroin is going to be is something that anyone who wants to ever have a better life (free from the record of having taken heroin) will avoid. Imagine if alcohol were only available by prescription, ideally paired with mental health services. In fact, you don't have to, because prescription alcohol was available during prohibition.

edit: Hell, prescription opiates are available everywhere, and it turns out to be a bit of a problem.
Nice concept! It might be nice to include the Corruption Perception Index and/or Global Corruption index as well.
Degenerate speculation in cryptocurrency is responsible for the lackluster adoption by technologists in former years.

Here's hoping this is the peak — it seems to be, from my studies.
This hasn't caused jobs to disappear in Colorado, which has a similar law.
> They didn't change it much.

They changed the percentage of time you have an OS overlay on the screen drastically. That's the metric I was using.

> No one is saying it needs to be bulletproof.

When you accuse people in situations where the dot matters of "leaving their livelihoods up to chance" for using normal output, you basically are saying that the notification-stopping part of the system has to be bulletproof. Swap 'bulletproof' with 'nigh-perfect, far in excess of all the other parts of the system' if you want.

And no, that's not going "by their own logic" or anything. Refusing to accept a constant dot in the corner does not mean a single notification would ruin their career.
Can it reverse engineer a diagram?

It would be kinda neat to store only the output in, say, a readme file or whatever, and not have to have a second file with the input.
He was willing to put some percentage of the 650SOL into the risky project, we don't know how much he intended to invest/gamble, but it seems doubtful to me that he intended to spend his whole wallet on it.
I currently use Keybase for this purpose, and while it's not entirely dead yet (slow-but-present maintenance at https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/24636#issuecomment-...), the writing's been on the wall since Zoom acquihired them. If I can figure out how this works, I'll be happy to give you my money.
Well... yeah? It would make no sense to try and do that on the frontend.
Show HN: Hide the Orange Dot in macOS Monterey
That's a really interesting ethical question. It's what the right wight asks: most immigrants are fine, but 1/20 will be radicalized, even commit terrorism acts such as mass murder, do we take the bargain? French president Francois Hollande testified in court that he knew and took the bargain, then, we had Bataclan, Samuel Paty, and so on (please don't make me do the exhaustive list).

Now the question is, what would make one decide to apply whatever answer they give here, but not there? Definitely food for thought!
In most hardware stores in Sweden you can borrow them for free.

Or rent them for like a few euros/hours on a gas station.

So you don't really need a parking space.
Generics Facilitators in Go
I am not really arguing because more image formats can only make my life easier but I have to wonder what is the point of this new format when I have to compile it into the existing complex-infrastructure format. If you tell me that we should add native support for this format, does that mean that we remove support for the complex-infrastructure formats or have we simply created a wider surface area for bugs? Finally, what makes this format preferable to the many existing format other than SVG?
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Easy to miss line in the article says it’s due to avoiding spoilage in harvested food.

Absolutely labor bashing.
Your cite says that

>Americans cite cost savings as the most common reason to go abroad for health treatment, as medical procedures in foreign hospitals can cost thousands of dollars less than in the United States. This is especially true for those without health insurance—for an uninsured person, a knee replacement can cost
$30,000 in the United States, compared to $12,000 in India. Many health travelers also go abroad for elective procedures such as cosmetic surgery that regular policies may not cover.

In other words, they largely go outside the US to save money on either cosmetic or routine procedures that, for one reason or other, US insurance won't cover.[1] Not same thing as the earlier discussion of rare or difficult conditions.

[1] Or they've chosen to not get health insurance. Post-Obamacare, this means that they are willingly paying the tax penalty for not having insurance. 91% of Americans have health insurance.
Instead of having to curry favor with bankers, you now have to do so with a clique of developers, lest they hard or soft fork your crypto out of existence.

“The development community is proposing a soft fork, (with NO ROLLBACK; no transactions or blocks will be “reversed”) which will make any transactions that make any calls/callcodes/delegatecalls that execute code with code hash (ie. The DAO and children) lead to the transaction (not just the call, the transaction) being invalid, preventing the Ether from being withdrawn by the attacker past the 27-day window. This will later be followed up by a hard fork which will give token holders the ability to recover their Ether.”

Vitalik Buterin in response to the DAO Vulnerability on June 17
Personally I never had trouble reading code without ligatures. I tried Fira Code and other ones in the past but it felt like a purely cosmetic thing that looks ugly.
> That’s always struck me as pretty lazy, despite proponents insisting it’s some sort of principled stance.

You don't need the comma before "despite", but I don't think you're lazy because of that.
This is a pretty bad comment, so I'll take the opportunity to mention great trend: web3 means bug bounty programs are finally properly funded, and both webapp, communication, and cold storage security will absolutely flourish because of this.
ArrayList(u8) exposes a writer. You can write things to writers in various ways. Probably more than four ways!

"appends to an existing byte slice" is not a completely coherent thing to ask for. If I give you a byte slice, the byte after the end it might belong to something else. If you want to deallocate my byte slice and make a new, replacement byte slice, you'll need an allocator to do that. An ArrayList(u8) has a byte slice, and knows how much of it is unused, and has an allocator so it can make a new larger byte slice if needed, and exposes a writer so that you can call std.format.formatInt to write into the byte slice (or allocate a new byte slice, copy the entire contents, and write into the new one, if appropriate).

> strconv.AppendInt can convert a number to byte slice, then it appends to an existing byte slice. formatInt cant do that.

As we have learned just now, we actually can use formatInt to append a formatted int to an existing byte slice (to the extent that that's a meaningful thing to ask for), by passing it the writer exposed by an ArrayList(u8)!

Is your complaint that you're not aware of any function in Zig that takes a u32 representing a Unicode codepoint and encodes it to UTF-8 and writes it to a writer (which is what "appending a rune" seems to mean)?

Is your complaint that people do not, by convention, allocate new, larger byte slices without an explicit reference to an allocator?

Is your complaint is that Zig does not have a garbage collector?

Can you share a Go program that uses the Go stdlib functions and cannot be trivially ported to use the Zig stdlib functions instead, for some reason other than that Zig programs must decide where the bytes will live, and Go programs need not do that?
I worked at a startup with three employees (and six C-levels that were too busy suing former clients to sell the current product) that tried to start acting corporate at that scale. It was an atrocious experience and I'm glad I left.

Sounds like it's time to jump ship and find something new.
Is this how it's like at all large companies?

Yup, for a large portion of them.

What should I do?

Quit.

And pat yourself on the back for finally getting a chance to learn, up-close and first-hand, what this industry is actually like.
> What does it mean to have “mild” swelling of the heart?

Not being a medical specialist, I would assume mild means that hospitalization isn’t necessary and it’s probably treated with anti inflammatory drugs.

> Do those cells heal back as they were before?

Who knows? Probably, but that’s why they’re studying it. Another relevant question is whether myocarditis from COVID is worse or has longer term effects. And is someone more likely to get n myocarditis from the vaccine or from remaining unvaccinated
Posting that comic without any particular context seems distracting. Do you see any evidence that the authors paid no attention to FPR corrections?
Yes, to start out, we're providing 2GB of free storage. Beyond that our costs are inclusive of multi-device sync, egress, and storage.
Titanpointe: The NSA’s spy hub in New York, hidden in plain sight (2016)
Exactly. Last group of researchers that tested directly on humans happened to work for a certain political party that unfortunately managed to dominate Germany around the 1930-1940's.

Their "testers" happened to be people unjustly persecuted by their bosses, ranging from children to women and elderly.
> Isn't the 3/5s still used as the basis for the number of representatives and electoral college members? If not, i'm sorry, i was mistaken.

No. That was removed, by amendment, right after the Civil War. That language is no longer part of the Constitution.

So this gets to the question of what to do with that crufty old COBOL program. How many bugs are you going to introduce by re-writing it? How many interfaces to other programs are you going to break? Sure, it's a pain to patch it - it's difficult and time-consuming. But re-writing it has a lot of downside, even though programmers keep assuming that it will be easy and painless...
Is this sarcastic?

Abbott has used the border to attack democrats despite nothing of substance changing there since Biden took over. It's just another issue that has always been, but is drummed up when they need to attack the other team
>“The next day, I enjoyed pan-roasted oysters with a tomato sauce over rice and broccoli salad, followed by bread pudding with chocolate sauce.”

Your version is even more ambiguous:

Were the oysters separate from or included in the tomato sauce, and was said sauce served over rice, or was it served on the broccoli salad as well? Or perhaps it was a salad comprised of both rice and broccoli, over which a tomato sauce was poured - either with or without the pan seared oysters?

Just use the freaking commas - it makes everyone's life a lot easier.
That's a routine & enjoyable commute for a lot of people (usually that weather means more packed snow than ice though). Along with doing a lot of recreational outdoor stuff at that weather. You want proper clothing of course.
Right now the DNC panders to us during elections then forgets we exist after they win. So let them lose a few; maybe then party leadership will be open to some new ideas. The last two elections have proven the dems can’t win without the left.
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I use the proper dashes, too, in prose (but when using TeX I use Unicode input these days). But even though some programming languages (such as Julia) would allow one to use the different dashes for different purposes, I don’t think that would be a good idea: they look too similar in, as you say, in monospace fonts.
My trick tip is to not sweat it when I want to put something down for awhile. No guilt, just relaxation, or working on something else for a bit. Inevitably I get a hankering for working on the project that I paused, and I pick it back up.

Not sure how to encourage the return of that hankering feeling, unfortunately, but I think the "no guilt" habit has been life-changing.
The "two spaces" thing also complicated by the fact that in so many contexts the extra space is simply ignored, as browsers ignore additional whitespace by default and so much writing and reading takes place through a browser or some other thing rendering HTML these days.

Of course you can do things like "pre" formatting or insertion of non-breaking spaces to force their rendering, but that's somewhat rare. I wonder if HN does that? Doesn't look like it.
These things just keep happening, don't they?
What is the abomination of a webpage that removes the scroll bar? Pass.
Facebook rains money on engineers that produce value, more than anywhere else in the industry. Clearly you don't know about this
> Lest we lose perspective, this law on the books of the State of Maine applies to people who work with perishable foods, and the point is that pokey employees should not be rewarded for taking their sweet time getting the goods to market.
>"you should see what happened to a financial system in the bad old days, when there were banks but no deposit insurance, and there would sometimes be a run on the banks, and they lose all their customers' cash, and the shock waves ripple through the whole economy."

It is my understanding that there was never a run on a solvent bank; runs were the consequences of bank failures, not the causes of them. It should also be pointed out that most bank failures were clearly caused by so-called 'unit banking', where the government prohibited banks from having multiple branches in diverse areas. Less-regulated banks (such as those in Canada and Scotland) suffered fewer failures, and had no issues with runs.
This is a blatant lie however

Here is the simplest possible sed program:

sed 's/foo/bar/'

It's obviously:

sed ''
https://youtu.be/xFFs9UgOAlE?t=2354

Timestamp of the zucc talking about privacy

"We care about it, because if people feel like their information isn't private, then that screws us in the longterm, too."
It’s just my opinion on OPs argument. It’s quite a stretch to say that tor is compromised. The network is actively attacked sure. Nation states and sophisticated groups may be able to deanonymize users of high interest.

A single vpn provider would be way lower hanging fruit to powerful adversaries.

There’s a reason high profile criminal groups are able to operate over tor. When they DO get caught, it’s usually through some other unrelated opsec blunder.

I use tor, ProtonVPN, and mullvad in addition to self managed wire guard instances. There’s no reason to be binary and you should use the tools which fit your use case.
The question is whether people shooting up outside with dirty needles somehow improves that situation.
You can't feed your family with a shitcoin.
I do wonder how an economic system would function if people worked for 50 years and then had 200+ years of retirement. Perhaps the production/consumption ratio will work out as automation/ai/robots increases labor productivity. Of course it’s wildly optimistic to hope for this outcome, and some sort of wage slave or indentured servitude arrangement is more likely for the masses.
But why would one single country tamper with their own reports - that is, what would motivate Japan, more than other countries, to tamper with their reports?

Like I see the argument for why all countries would want to make themselves look good. (It's weak, because if people start dying in ways they're not tracking they have bigger problems, but I can see the argument that the motivation exists.) And I can perhaps see the argument that the more autocratic a country is, the more likely they are to do so. But none of that explains the observation "Japan is reporting a low number of covid cases compared to other similar countries" - and especially not "Japan is reporting a sudden drop in covid cases compared to other similar countries." You need to multiply a lot more entities to get there.
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Stuff like this is why I'm trying to get out of the industry and just write games by myself or with 1-2 other people. It's such a complete... well, ball-drag working in this environment, and I'm so burnt out on the fast movement of startups despite having enjoyed it previously.
> web3 means bug bounty programs are finally properly funded

Can you provide some reference? Doesn't seem very feasible to me.
To my knowledge, there is no AEB system in production, other than Tesla's, that filters out stationary objects in the path of the vehicle.
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> Why, commas not withstanding, should Maine prevent people in the food supply chain business from getting overtime.

This provision doesn't prohibit overtime pay, it excludes that group of people from government-mandated overtime pay. A company could still choose to pay it's workers overtime, or workers could demand/negotiate that.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-06-19/bitcoi...
I guess the most difficult part is modeling all possible interactions related to an infinity of chemicals, DNA variations, environment influences, past medical issues, etc, etc.

I bet this would require computational power equivalent to whatever is "processing" the govern of real-world interactions in our bodies.
I try to have smaller projects that I can finish over a weekend in between my larger ones.

For example my Bluetooth Midi Pi project took about a few days to finish, was posted here and was well received.

My upcoming game, Project Haze has been in some development for about 18 months or so. I'll often take long breaks with it, my goals are vastly different since it's a commercial project.

Instead of pushing it to GitHub and sharing it, I have to get it on Itch or Steam, etc. If possible I'd love to take time off to focus on shipping the first version. Before this game I also shipped a small mobile game.

My best tip would be to start very small. Make the smallest possible project you can this weekend. You can always expand upon it later.
because the security engineers will be able to withdraw the funds out of any security hole and keep it for themselves as the bounty
I just found out my neighbor village dropped a letter in it's name in the last 150 years, nice.
Can't take this seriously because it's missing the ubiquitous ZF-1.

https://fifth-element.fandom.com/wiki/Zorg_ZF-1_Pod_Weapon
- Switch over from centralized storage to decentralized storage [completed],

kind of looks like they are already there?
Just because things are funded doesn't mean they'll flourish.
I'm an american citizen currently spending a bunch of time expatriated in Colombia. I've been all over latin America and talked to people from all walks down here.

The most surprising thing you'll notice down here is most people dont want to go to america. They want to be with their friends and extended family. Making lots of money isn't a huge motivator for them.

What is a huge motivator is violence driven by economic calamity. That caravan of hondurans? While Fox news is victim blaming juan for bringing his kids over the border, they overlook that people in juan's neighborhood were being killed and juan's daughter was being scoped out by a local bang for forced prostitution. They are coming out of desperation.

And who's the reason latin america is in this situation? Well its complicated but it certainly doesn't help that US run international corporations spent decades sabotaging labor rights or the cia arranging coups and assassinations.

The best way to be safe is to be in a safe neighborhood. That means making sure our neighbors are economically developed such that migrants will stay put in their own countries and not need to move to chase opportunity.

Of course we don't do that because the US economy is also very much dependent on cheap exploitable immigrants to do the labor americans won't do. So instead we create this strange immigration policy that lets conservative white supremacists treat latinos as subhuman while we allow them to work at exploitation wages under the guise of progressivism.
Furthermore, why brute-force crack crypto when you can inject code using the log4j exploit which transmits the private keys.

Sure log4j might have been recently patched, but it's not unrealistic to think that a nation-state has access to similar exploits.