skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been attempting to solve this as well. I think stress is particularly difficult to measure as a simple number, as there are multiple forms of stress. For me, I've noticed urgency (stress on time), difficulty (stress on cognition), uncertainty (stress on confidence), and guilt (stress on emotions) make up my 'stress matrix'. I'm often able to identify the key strain during stream of consciousness, but only once I've made the conscious effort to backtrace.

I'm also a musician, and ironically, I will often increase my total stress levels by procrastinating certain tasks, using an instrument as my weapon of distraction. Sometimes this has instigated negative feedback loops, causing me to avoid playing for an extended period.

So my plan is to allocate a few minutes in the beginning and at the end of my day where I will reflect on the previous and upcoming cycle, including tasks and goals. Here I will have a -1, 0, 1 flag where -1 is "I am stressed," 0 is "I am relaxed," and 1 is "I am excited." I can either set these flags for an entire period (hour, day, week) or I can set them per object (task, goal). The default state is 0, as I'm more likely to set a flag if I'm experiencing emotion in either direction. Importantly, I will also set these flags retrospectively; so in the morning, I might flag a task as -1, but in the evening, it might be +1.

There are some useful data points here that I should be able to achieve with minimal friction. 1) how often am I stressed or excited? 2) how often can I easily identify the source(s) of emotion? 3) how consistent are my emotional flags over periods of time?

I also wonder what quantifiable data must exist in any form of extended journaling that can be unlocked via NLP or simpler heuristics. When I'm excited, do I tend to use more or less punctuation? When I'm stressed, does it take me longer to complete a journal entry?

Thanks for the inspiration to jot these thoughts down. They've been lingering in my head for awhile.
> my internet connected coffee scale

Why?
A simpler solution is to embrace lazy tracking.

Apps like RescueTime (time spent online) and Withings (sleep and steps) are simply running in the background of your life, with no additional input needed from the user.

I'm always impressed when I see people who maintain these massive data-entry systems, I know personally I would never be able to maintain them which is why I opt for lazy tracking. The less data entry I need to do, the better.
Nice, similar exp. Check Bernardo Kastrup. Good friend of Spira, computer scientist who worked at CERN, now pushing idealism which is essentially western Advaita Vedanta.
Listening Villa-Lobos and Bach.
That's fair. I have not fully digested Sapiens yet, and was arguing against the smaller point of clear belief communities versus engagement in the abstract mental models we call society writ large :)
> In the modern occidental society, Christianity, which was the spiritual tradition, was abandoned and rejected by almost all the teenagers and young adults at the end of the '60s and by the following generations.

>All the next generations until now, in its majority, were declaring to be atheist and rejecting all spiritual side of life.

This is contrary to pretty much all data (for the US). Easiest one is to try and see how far you get running for US President being a non Christian.

https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christ...
I agree that definitions matter, and it’s important to have a clear discourse on policy implications of public health research.

But my point is that it’s incorrect to call the current Covid vaccines “not vaccines” just because they don’t 100% prevent transmission or infection. That’s only muddying the waters at the expense of a real discussion of the evidence and trade offs for any given policy position.

See pre-pandemic wiki, for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20170403082447/https://en.m.wiki...
Day starts with prayer and studying scripture by myself for awhile, then briefly as a family before everyone goes their way. Part of the personal prayer time includes seeking direction on who I might help that day. Throughout the day I try to take little breaks for a brief prayer, longer if I'm stuck on a programming bug whose solution eludes me and for which I need extra inspiration. Also I try to go on a daily walk to appreciate nature and to recognize blessings in my life. Each meal includes a prayer of thanks. Before bed there's a brief family scripture study and prayer, then a prayer with my wife, then a personal prayer to round out the day where I try to reflect on how things went and what I hope to do better tomorrow.
> She has never demonstrated that she can repeat her success after driving numerous companies' valuation into the ground post-google.

Company, single. But yes, it would also be nonsensical to say Steve Ballmer excelled at failing upwards. That's not what that phrase means.
> For me, the indexed from 1 rather than 0 is a big turn off.

I can't understand why people complain about that.

If you're using 'pairs(table)' iteration then the index doesn't matter.

If you're accessing indexes directly you can have the index '0' in a table.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
The Brexit addled PM essentially killed the UK toehold in the EU. They are now a pimple on an elephant. More and more EU buyers and sellers with both with the added paperwork for Customs and VAT and do not forget label and electrical standards are just not going to both and will not buy/sell to the UK.
Here in Canada we see many ebay sellers with "not shipped to Canada" for simple added postage/UPS/DHL procedures - which cost extra. UPS and USPS will ship to Canada - but it needs more labelling, a pro-forma customs invoice, and a different process to ship.

The UK is already ruing the day that they let Johnson and the Brexit RA-RA stampede them into leaving. Labor and manufacturing are already being hammered - which Brexit blames on Covid....after Covid...it will not be coming back.

Time for a new PM/Party/whatever!!!
You don't think class enters into it?

Tell us you grew up in an middle-upper class environment without telling us you grew up middle-upper class.
Like a stream?
I'm just finishing Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life a 2016 book in which he proposes that half of the Earth's surface should be designated a human-free natural reserve to preserve biodiversity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Earth

A great read, I think we should make real his proposal. I believe we will eventually.
King Ashurbanipal
> Software: Directory Opus

Did you buy a lifetime license or are you stuck paying for annual updates?
I witnessed this once. A larger than usual murder of crows on the roadside looking at a road-killed comrade. It was surreal.
> integrating their NFT's (if they are open and not in a closed ecosystem) would be beneficial

How so? It is just another way of giving away in-game content to attract new players. But it would be technically more complex and would make your game dependent on a market that is controlled by a competitive third party.
You're missing the point that this would motivate a marketplace where Ubisoft is not the only portal for these NFT-owned games. nftgamingportal.com could exist which accepts these NFTs (in addition to many others) despite whatever restrictions Ubisoft decides to impose (which they are free to do... they own the walled garden).
Unfortunately the Linksys E8450 is unavailable in my country (Poland) or is ridiculously expensive. I settled on a Totolink X5000R which supposedly is supported by OpenWRT and has a Mediatek MT7621A. I will receive it in 2 days and test it.
They'll be overwhelmed because there are so many photos and movies.
I honestly already struggle to share them all with my kids aged 13 and younger.
They banned Epic Games store, which seems similarly high profile.
Intricate knives requires high precision manufacturing. There are lots of small makers out there. Sharp By Design[1] is a one-man knife shop. He operates a CNC machine out of his garage in New Jersey. while his designs may not appeal to you, he puts a lot of time and effort into his knives.

But his knives are expensive. He can only work so fast, and he has to charge a living wage for his time. Many people will scoff at paying several hundred dollars (perhaps over one thousand) on a knife.

The rise in high-precision manufacturing in China means that Sharp By Design can partner with Reate (a well known Chinese knife manufacturer who does very good work) and offer his knives at a much more affordable price. He doesn't have to simplify his designs either. Other Chinese companies like We and Kizer are doing similar work. More and more custom knife makers are getting a deal with a company that allows their designs to be purchased by more and more people.

Hell, there are people who are making a living as a designer partnering with Chinese manufacturing. They don't have the knife maker background. They have a good eye for design and understand the market.

Thanks to Larrin and other prominent knife people, knife users have a better understanding of knife performance. We now know that geometry and hardness are important. Companies are slowly responding, Companies across the board are upping their game. Civivi (owned by We Knives) makes budget knives. Their quality, fit and finish, and steel choices are great for what you pay. You don't have to spend a lot to get a good knife. Everywhere you look, people and companies are getting better and better at making knives. Titanium used to be an exclusive material. Titanium frame lock knives are everywhere, and they have a price that is not prohibitive.

Finally, Triple B Handmade Blades (Big Brown Bear on YouTube) is importing some of the highest quality diamond stones (not aluminum plates, but actual resin-bonded stones) available. They are very pricey (start at $350), but they allow you to easily sharpen high-hardness, carbide-packed steels.

[1] https://www.sharpbydesign.com/
Its on a public chain: https://tezos.com/
They should be using: https://assets.tqtezos.com/docs/token-contracts/fa2/2-fa2-nf...

True they could implement arbitrary restrictions.
Edgerouter X
And see how well it works. 2 hours after airing everything is online. The only ones they're giving any hassle are legitimate consumers.
> Contribute nothing, and nothing will be left uncontributed.

- Dao de Dang
Yes, no longer a 'domestic cheesemaker', now they are a more less barred by the protectionism
My very first reply to you was to point out that your generality - “a typical spectrum is the exact same thing as gradients of frequencies” - does not appear to apply in this case, and I am glad to see that we now seem to be in agreement on this.

Your second paragraph appears to be broadly in agreement with my point (which is merely a paraphrase of the author, believe) that, in this case, the gradients of quantitative test scores are largely orthogonal to the spectrum’s categorical variables. Even if one could combine them to get a meaningful aggregate score (which I suspect you can do, though only to some extent), you cannot tell from that score what aspects of the spectrum describe the subject.
I periodically practice attempts to interpret perceived reality as an interface to adjacent nodes in an abstract network of consciousnesses.
Done.

Good suggestion
How Paid Experts Help Exonerate Police After Deaths in Custody
For the last few years (and especially since the pandemic began), my most regular practice has been the Liturgy of the Hours, particularly Lauds and Vespers, which are the morning and evening prayers of the Roman Catholic Church. Each one is two psalms and a canticle, followed by a short reading, another canticle (the Benedictus in the morning and the Magnificat in the evening), intercessions, an Our Father, and a concluding prayer. I have been trying to pray Matins more regularly as well (also called the Office of Readings), which is three psalms followed by a longer reading from the Bible and reading from one of the Church Fathers.

I have found praying the rosary beneficial as well since it is more meditative than the Liturgy of the Hours, but I haven't yet been able to regularly work into my schedule.
Some of the drawings do seem to show how different soils impact root growth. For example, see https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/id/1288/rec/... Is there another explanation for the root structure in this drawing? It would have been nice to see this reflected in the metadata to make it more easily findable.
I recommend that you pick up a copy of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki. It may really resonate with you as well as deepen your insight. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0834800527/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_MK...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_9aVzf5fC4&t=6m36s
What you are describing is an experience sought after by those practicing "nondual" meditation. Tibetan buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, and Taoism are the major traditions in the east that practice this, though zen could also potentially be considered nondualist. I'm currently in a class taught by Michael Taft that takes a syncretic approach to teaching nondual meditation [1]. One of the best books on the subject is "Nonduality" by David Loy [2].

Michael mentioned that some people can achieve it right away with a single meditation and others take years. Sounds like you are in the former category. Unfortunately I'm in the latter.

[1] https://deconstructingyourself.com/nondual-awareness-meditat...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Nonduality-Buddhism-David-R-Loy/dp/16...
Going beyond anecdotes, the data is clear that there is no economic benefit. Wages are stagnant and job quality is in decline alongside the rise of post-secondary attainment.

While there is no doubt an entertainment benefit to be gained, that is not likely the best choice for someone without the means to take on nearly a million dollars of opportunity cost.
I don't know. If you are a "little" autistic, you don't have as many issues. I get that you have lots of issues, just not as many as say, someone who is non-verbal.

What would be the point of doing away with the word "mildly" because aren't you then downplaying what severe autism looks like? So aren't they just saying that the support structure for "mildly" autistic people isn't strong enough?

Seems like a really indirect way to say such a thing.
I built a real-time personal dashboard for my life which primarily relies on lazy tracking (requiring little to no manual data entry from me) - https://github.com/Andreilys/personal_dashboard

I do journal as well, using vimwiki (Where I implemented some simple tagging for things like happiness/productivity/stress/etc. ratings from 1-10).

However one of the side projects I'd like to work on at some point is a mood recognition project using a camera that I can put beside my door. The idea being to take a "photo" that then uses an ML algo to determine my mood (from 1-10) and record it whenever I enter/leave my home.
"middle class immigrants from East Asia"

That is just a small part of the entire picture. Plenty of Asians arrived as low wage manual workers or refugees (boat people) from then-strongly underdeveloped countries. Sometimes as orphans or incomplete families with all male relatives killed.

Or you can look at Jewish people, terrorized, oppressed and killed by their neighbours for centuries. Expressions like "pogrom" and "ghetto" come from a long, bloody history of violent antisemitism.
"I wonder how someone 40 years in the future would look back at 2021 iPhone pictures of themselves? "

I make so many pics and videos that I really hope it will be something like this: "Hey locally run AI that guards my data and privacy, please show me about 100 pictures and videos of holidays when the kids were in the age of 5-10, project them on the wall.", "Yes, that one in the mountains is nice, where is that? Can you show me some more of that holiday?", "How about some videos taken around that era in and around the house?" "Did we have a dog back then?" "Ah yes, there is Bello, what a nice dog that was, when did he die?" [Star Trek computer voice: "last picture of Bello was may 5 2014".]

No way I'm ever going to sort this mess manually. TBH, a simple import in Shotwell already works wonders, and I absolutely love the "For You" section in "Photos" on my iPhone, I can get lost in there for a long time, but that's just a bit too much tied to Apple for my taste though, I'll be archiving all those files at some point (to 2 local hdds and then rsync them off-site (aka "my parent's house")).

Edit: Maybe, at some point, you can construct an interactive narrative about your life like done in The Orville in "Lasting Impressions" [0]. Why are you all so negative about the future people, you need more Star Trek (or The Orville) in your life ;) Nobody is going to get overwhelmed, we're creating a rich source of information about ourselves and the time we live in, which we will probably never really consume as a series of Photographs, that sounds pretty boring indeed, we can do better, show some creativity!

[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7826096/
> One nugget of knowledge I’ve worked out though - Zig is not a replacement for C. It is another replacement for C++.

While comptime is a potential source of complexity, I sort of think C++ developers won't accept a replacement that has no RAII or automatic invocation of destructors.
> And/or a lot of misconceptions.

I've tried too. I have an article about some of these:

- https://pyjarrett.github.io/programming-with-ada/clearing-th...
There's a couple reasons this is currently happening:

1) The Starlink Constellation only looks for your base station in it's allocated cell and isn't setup to scan and discover mobile stations

2) Right now there is no communication inside the constellation (they might have launched a few with the laser links but it's not turned on broadly) so the satellites are linking down to another base station that has access out to the wider internet. They need to provision access on those so they don't get overwhelmed.

3) The base station itself needs to know where it is well enough to hit the active satellite for it's cell. You might be able to do that without GPS but it is an issue you have to address.

Both of these are supposed to be solved eventually and they've said they are planning to allow roaming base stations eventually.
Where does one go to learn all these optimization strategies and tactics? I really want to take a more deliberate approach to optimizing my (Go) code, but I’m currently stuck banging on things with a wrench between benchmarks.

Frustratingly, most advice I get is non-actionable, and amounts to restating general principles like “be aware of cache”. Are there any books or online resources that can help me build a more principled approach to runtime performance?
Microtek hands down the best value for money.
Evolutionary biologists are divided on his work. His own research and published works have been used by racists for example to readily explain the social origins of intelligence, poverty, crime, and violence regarding POC. He never actively fought against such tendencies, even though he was aware that he had become the darling of white nationalists, and even fascists globally. I believe that ALL "traits" can be explained by social environment rather than by biology. I respectfully refer you to many of Gould's work on sociobiology. We are not insects we are human beings.
In the history of labor, this would rank as a minor infraction in terms humans failing to treat other humans fairly. The only way out of the mistreatment of employees has historically been enacting laws such as the fair labor standards act of 1938. Without that law we’d still have children working in mines and the 40-hour workweek wouldn’t exist.
I practice mysticism and magick. Essentially it breaks down to Raja Yoga-style mysticism and Western tradition occultism (i.e. in the style of the Goetia and Book of Abramelin). I tend to view things through a Thelemic lens:

'Every man and every woman is a star.' - AL. I. 3

'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.' - AL. I. 40

'The word of Sin is Restriction.' - AL. I. 41

'Thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay.' - AL. I. 42-43

'Love is the law, love under will.' - AL. I. 57.

'Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains.' - AL. II. 9.
Ada is a bit verbose for my tastes. Nim [1] is fast like C - I have yet to really find anything rewritten in Nim be slower. It's safe-ish like Rust { there is an easily identifiable subset of unsafe constructs }. It's kind of like Ada, but with Lisp-like syntax macros/meta programming and Python-like block indentation (Lisp folks always said they "read by indentation" anyway). Nim also has user definable operators and many other features. Compile times are very small while the stdlib is big-ish.

Small sample statistics, but three or four times now I have re-written Rust in Nim and the Nim ran faster. Once you can do inline assembly/intrinsics in a PL, most "real world" benchmarks reduce to a measure of dev patience/time/energy not the language. They also become "multi-language" solutions (if you count SIMD asm as a language which I think one should). Even slow Python allows C/Cython modules which in the real world are absolutely fair game, and you can call SIMD intrinsics from Cython pretty easily, too. Since we have few ways to quantify dev patience/attention objectively, these "my PL is faster than yours" discussions are usually pretty pointless.

[1] https://nim-lang.org/
Poorer countries tend to have high birth rates. As they get richer, the birth rate decreases.

This comment seems to state that poverty is a result of high birth rates, rather than the other way around. There are very good reasons for families in a society without a strong social safety net to have many children.
Yes I had this list already in 1960's. Because of it I could still remember every year in 1976 when I had a computer in personal use. The list was still around on the first MSDOS-machine 1983, but I cant figure out where it might be hidden in various zipped DOS-directories. It might be even in some handy database format, but unreadable now.

A video camera 1984 solved the remembering problem totally. I know exactly what happened thereafter.

Anyways various archives seem to be more and more important with age, as human physical memory is only 7 years long. Thereafter there are only memories of memories, which often get twisted in the weirdest of ways.
There is something amusing about weaponizing the key revocation process like this...
Can confirm.
My oldest daughter roomed in College with a girl who came from a structured boarding school. She was a mess.
I also recall a similar experience when I was in College.
I see many posts here mentioning the Bible.

If you've struggled to get into the Bible before, consider reading the NLT translation.

Read it slow. Maybe one chapter a day. (They're very short chapters.) It will take you a few years at that rate.

Start from the beginning. Read it in order.

NLT can be read online:

https://biblehub.com/nlt/genesis/1.htm

Don't let anyone tell you what it means. No church, priest, or pastor has a monopoly on these teachings. It's your journey.

If you don't feel comfortable going to a church, don't feel pressured to. If you ever sit down with even just one person to discuss your feelings on the Bible, then that is a church.
There's more than one tape drive, so they could have "sharded" on gender, for example.
Just to be clear, they are not using their own chain, its on https://tezos.com/
What's the best place to get started with testing? As a newbie brogrammer it's intimidating enough writing software that works, let alone suites to comprehensively test it. Is there a testing 'bible'?
https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
Windows 95 theme for XFCE