skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mentally:
I have a therapist that I talk to once a month no matter what. Even if I don’t have anything really going on in my life, it is a good check-in. Through a monthly conversation, I can usually cut off falling into historically bad patterns of behavior.

Since you bring up side projects, I used to put so much pressure on myself to always have at least 1, if not 2, side projects that could be money making. In the last 5 years, I’ve given that up. The pressure, after work was done for the day, to be productive for 2 or 3 more hours was just “killing” me (slowly - I wasn’t exercising. I was eating fast food so I could get back in front of the computer). So I went cold turkey. If something is interesting, I’ll read about it. If it causes an itch, I’ll scratch it. But I don’t put any pressure on myself for set amount of time to look at it. 5 minutes one day, 2 hours the next. Doesn’t matter. As for the feeling of working on something better? I have that to. If something more interesting pops up, I move my time to it. But for that to work for me, I had to come to terms with that I’ll probably never finish anything. And that’s OK for me. I have plans for apps all the time. But the 2 that I actually built to completion? A budgeting app (when Simple bank shutdown) and a barbell app (calculates my warm up sets for me and which plate combinations to use).

Physically:
Get a primary care physician. Get blood work and a physical every year. If you end up at urgent care or something else outside of your PCP, send them the records. If you like data, there is something magical about looking at your past blood work results and watching your diet and exercise change those numbers.

Move more. If you’re doing absolutely nothing, start with walking. Just you. Rain or shine. Cold or hot. Everyday. If you can make a habit out of walking, other physical habits are easier to form. I take 2 walks every morning. The first is with my incredibly skittish dog. We don’t walk far or fast. After I return her home, I go back out for my walk. Just me. No podcasts. No music. Just a brisk 1 mile every 15 minutes for 30 to 45 minutes. But don’t start there. Just go our your door, walk 10 minutes and turn around and walk back. The next day, add a minute. Don’t worry about distance or pace. Just get in the habit of going out your door and walking. Once I developed the habit for walking and learned to love how walking made me feel, I started adding simple workouts - push-ups and air squats. Eventually it lead to barbells. Your journey might go in a completely different direction. And the only other piece of advice I can give you - don’t follow fitness people on Instagram or YouTube (or any other social media). Those 30 second clips are their BEST workouts. They don’t show you the years of training they endured to get there.
Most likely nothing serious, but given their remote location, if they get unlucky and even one person needs hospital treatment beyond what's possible at the base, that's a big problem.
Again, this is a security issue and doesn't in any way reduce the proven efficacy of cryptography. It's pedantic at best, and I am going to stop replying to your comments.

Happy new year.
> And TCHAR was the dumbest of all of them. “Not all of our libs/tools/editors support Unicode yet so use TCHAR

The reason for TCHAR is not "libs/tools/editors" not supporting Unicode, but the operating system itself. With TCHAR and related types, the same source code could target both Windows 95 and Windows NT, you just have to change a single #define (ok, IIRC there are actually three #defines: UNICODE, _UNICODE, and another one I can't recall at the moment) and recompile.
This character?

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fordprefect
I don’t. Unfortunately.
What would be a reason for using the module?
This poem was used for the penultimate episode of the phenomenal TV show, Breaking Bad. It showed the downfall of Walter White, aka, Heisenberg, who came to believe he was invincible, much like Ozymandias did.
> Modified frequency modulation (MFM) is a run-length limited (RLL) line code

So floppies are RLL too.

If you look at the end of the table[0], you will see what a practical limit increased with SuperDisk in '96/97 and the actual floppy (ie not a separate standard with the same dimensions) capacity increase was achieved only at the end of 2000 [1] when nobody cared about floppies as a means to move "massive" amounts of data.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#Sizes,_performance...

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2000/10/23/32mb_on_a_humble_flop...
Science can almost never determine truth. Usually the best it can do is a high level of probability.
In a VM or an old notebook you bot laying around.
Be amazed by the speed.
Article IV of the Treaty states in part, “No acts or activities taking place while the present Treaty is in force shall constitute a basis for asserting, supporting or denying a claim to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica or create any rights of sovereignty in Antarctica.”

https://www.asoc.org/advocacy/antarctic-governance/overview-...
"I wonder why Coppola chose If."

It's quite a decent poem and it lends itself to being read out loud. You can fiddle with the rhythm, volume and all sorts. Basically, it is extremely malleable, which is probably not a Eng Lit term but it works for me.

It also has quite a formidable message.
I see my former self in much of what you have written, and I still have those traits to a degree.

I have found men’s groups to be surprisingly helpful.

I also hew towards the Buddhist and Neo-Advaita spiritual traditions.

Wishing you good health and equanimity in the coming year.
I love the obviously disconnected fuel line with the fuel selector valve bobbing around in plain view. As a pilot, this guy did nothing pilot-like in response to the engine out, even making an effort to get the engine to STOP turning over by intentionally reducing airspeed to near stall. There were suitable landing strips within range at his altitude if you look at the map( the view of the river pinpoints his location). Also, he was going paragliding but did not bring his paragliding gear? Not his plane either, he left his plane at the airport he picked this one up at?

This was an intentional act 110%.

The FAA will pull his ticket. He’s an idiot. Hopefully there’s insurance involved so he can go to jail too.
If it’s not clear to you, the original claim probably sets critical context. The first thread was spawned by the photographer claiming there were no leaves in the foreground, and that the post processing software had picked some random background content and used that in place of a human face.

Clearly, what you say is in some sense true; digital zoom and post processing have left some artifacts. To me it sort of looks like there’s another leaf on the same branch as the first.

But when you are digitally zooming a tiny iPhone camera to photograph someone 50-100ft away and there’s multiple depths captured, it seems hard to imagine how the photograph would be crystal clear in that circumstance, and even further it’s crystal clear the post processing only failed to add clarity, and it certainly did not introduce a nonexistent leaf / twig / branch connected realistically as some software bug.
As a non-US citizen, the more I read this thread, the more bonkers the whole system is. How the fuck does healthcare even work at all?
For me the most important thing is to stay physically active.
The CDC recently admitted as much. People can test positive for covid weeks after initially testing positive. Which implies they still are shedding the virus.

https://twitter.com/abc/status/1476189028982702080?s=21
Also, "surge" is a hype term where something more modest would be indicative and or reputable reporting.
Frame it this way: would you rather waste less time and feel ashamed or not feel ashamed and waste more time?
Imagine you have an Numbers document and you want to read it using Python. Maybe put some data into a dataframe
In order:
1. Moving more means
2. Sleeping better means
3. Stressing less means
4. Eating well

Treat your brain and body as biological knowledge engines. Decades of research have shown how exercise, sleep, stress, and nutrition affect learning, memory, attention, and decision making.

Start with taking seriously how you feel. Professional athletes know they can’t train for more than a few hours each day or else they increase the risks of getting hurt. Be consistent in your efforts but not compulsive, life is a marathon not a sprint. Slow down and breathe to focus on your best efforts in small meaningful steps.
You should buy an electric mosquito racket. Basically any standing mosquito is a dead mosquito because you move the racket over the mosquito, the bug gets scared and flies into the racket, game over. The only problems left are those invisible mosquitoes that manage to hide and fly only when the lights go off. Notwithstanding that a racket greatly improves the quality of life.
Couldn't that damage the eardrums of someone who stood in the wrong spot?
> as your comment comes off a bit like an ad hominem attack

I don't think they meant anything mean or critical by it. Just curious like myself. Thanks for answering btw.
When you cut out a man's tongue, you do not prove that he is a liar. You only prove you're afraid of what he has to say.
It's Antartica. If they aren't recirculating, they're dying of hypothermia.
The Self Provisioning Runtime
The insight that the only serious constraint is R1 << R2 is clearly the point of the lab exercise, and it might be missed entirely in numerically searching the space. But adding a flip-flop to the output to divide frequency by two yields an exactly 50% duty cycle, regardless of R1/R2, so you may then optimize for some other quality. The right question to the TA would have been about which of the specs mattered more: duty cycle? power consumption? stability against variation in parts, temperature, supply voltage, noise? absolute frequency? parts count? parts cost? Each different answer yields a different design.

Nowadays a microcontroller might be best, e.g. if it meant you could get away without the resistors and capacitors.
My advice to my 22 year old self, in order of priority, would be:

1. Get financially literate. Before any "hobby projects" make sure your money is working for you.

2. Take care of yourself physically. Join a martial arts gym. It will give you a community "outside of programming", keep you fit and you will have the pressure to show up no matter what.

3. Don't forget the basics - data structures, algorithms & distributed systems. Most companies asks for this. It may be a FAANG impostor syndrome but it's there.

4. Keep work as work. Do not develop a "passion for your job". Herculean efforts developing a CRUD app will not translate easily to more money at another company (see #3).

5. Impostor syndrome is real. Do not fall for it.
They would otherwise not have existed in the first place. As long as they are killed humanely, i don't see a problem.

While i'm against killing wild animals for food (such as fishing in the ocean), i'm completely fine with farmed animals being killed for food - after all, that is their reason to exist.
the blockchain is a solution to the Byzantine generals problem.
Ah, so this is what privilege and luxury of time looks like. Thanks Seth - I'm sure the 99% will heed your wisdom to go surfing.
Indeed, I have chronic back pain due to years of computer work with bad posture. I used to go to a chiropractor and I can understand the purpose. There are times where my spine seems to get really out of whack. Maybe I will sleep on my side and my neck will be really tight on one side. What I now do is yoga to stretch and loosen the muscles around the affected area, and then through regular circular motion of the affected joints I will usually, after sometimes a couple of days of stretching, get the joint to "pop" (again, just from slow movement that eventually loosens things up) and I will feel relief.

It may be better to do the slow yoga approach, but there are times where I am in a lot of pain for days in a row. Having a trained professional to look at my body, find the tense areas and apply heat to loosen things up before giving it a good push seems like a valid mode of treatment for what can be debilitating pain. Similar results could probably be achieved from massage, but a masseuse will never give the joint a push to try to reset things, and in my non medical opinion it seems like that could be a useful treatment at times.
If I've learned something about people during the pandemic, it's that the average person is far less intelligent and far less compliant than I previously believed. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find out this was caused by people not complying with protocols. Or at the very least, not having an understanding of the fact that COVID transmission is aerosol, and that breathing reshared air even for a few seconds is a high risk activity.
They could start by not terminating perfectly capable doctors and nurses who have decided, for whatever their reasons may be, to refuse vaccination. I’m vaccinated (and boosted) but I cannot understand why it was okay for these people to be on the frontlines of the fight for over a year but suddenly they are no longer acceptable. And I find no convincing argument as to why actually recovering from infection counts for nothing, but the vaccine does.

The decision to terminate unvaccinated individuals reeks of bureaucracy, not an understanding of science or medicine.
Hm. Margins between 2% and 10%, a team of 45 and revenue 3m doesn‘t seem like a goldmine to me.
Cool that he grabs opportunities though…
The bolts I worry most about coming off are this in my car wheels. I’m not sure I could use washers there and they are recessed in the rim so the gap isn’t inspectable. That seems to be the biggest benefit of these, that the only part of a bolt that is always inspectable/servicable is the top and that’s where the indication is?
Sometimes you have to crawl through a river of shit to come out clean on the other side. I have suffered from overachiever syndrome / high functioning assholeness for most of my life. Constant doing, constant striving, constant movement, rare moments of nothingness, rare moments of celebration. More hobbies than I can count. It all led to some decent career and life success. And also stress. And anger. And rage. And self-defeating patterns.

Eventually I began to learn how my mind works. Backed off the gas a bit. Took steps to do less, not more. Made a commitment to either go hard on an activity (new biz idea, project, hobby) or kill it. Focus became my north star. Free, open play with no agenda is my Atlantis.

Meditate. Therapy. White russians on a Tuesday morning. Read some Bukowski, some Vonnegut, maybe some Easton-Ellis.

The real breakthrough happened when I removed the attachment that had grown like an umbilical cord between me and work. I love work. I fear being anything less than perfect. Those were hard fucking opponents to tussle with. But I write this from the other side, and it's really comfortable here.
There are basically no houses next to GOOG and MSFT. There's the big 101 highway and the other side is the Bay. South of it is Moffatt, north the nature preserve and then more companies and Palo Alto airport etc.
Exactly. And there are certainly masses of data collected by Western countries’ intelligence agencies on China. It’s what they do.
I read it as more of a "note to self..."
The de-facto standard for dependency discovery is pkg-config. CMake being its own little world with its own finding system is annoying and part of the reason why the ecosystem has not migrated from autocrap to CMake en masse. Thankfully Meson came along, which does everything correctly.
In the US, most women who become violent crime victims are victimized by someone they know. More men are victimized by "stranger danger." At least according to the FBI’s uniform crime report. I’m skeptical this proposal would change existing crime patterns much.
Interesting, although I struggle to see how this could be. The collapse (from our point of view, at least) of the wave function is pretty necessary in the math of QM. You can only observe the eigenstates of a wavefunction, which is what collapse is. To me, it seems that other theories are just disputing what the "collapse" fundamentally means. For example, Many Worlds theory (from my admittedly limited understanding) says that the wave function's eigenstates each become the new reality in different universes. Please correct me if I'm wrong here though.
I’ve always loved this poem and wish I understood all of it. Is there an annotated version you’d recommend?
The technote linked by the parent has a note saying

> The characters with codes in the range u+2000 through u+2FFF are punctuation, symbols, dingbats, arrows, box drawing, etc. The u+24xx block, for example, has single characters for things like "(a)". The characters in this range are not fully decomposed; they are left unchanged in HFS Plus strings. This allows strings in Mac OS encodings to be converted to Unicode and back without loss of information. This is not unnatural since a user would not necessarily expect a dingbat "(a)" to be equivalent to the three character sequence "(", "a", ")" in a file name.

> The characters in the range u+F900 through u+FAFF are CJK compatibility ideographs, and are not decomposed in HFS Plus strings.

The bit about the u+24xx block is misleading, the decomposition of the characters I looked at there (such as ⒜) are compatibility canonicalizations. However the CJK compatibility ideographs is a working example. U+F902 (車) decomposes to U+8ECA (車) regardless of normalization form but the technote says these must not be decomposed.
It sounds right but I'm still dumbfounded as to why these particular games. I'd imagine games, of all sorts, could be categorized as "cause for negligence" with this rationale, no?
Wait I didn’t read anything about requiring a subscription to a cloud service before I can tighten the bolt. Nor how my phone will be involved in the process. And no blockchain?

This isn’t “Smart” as I have understood we define it now.
But this is just this just doing a forward evaluation of a NN, not training, right?

Ironically, I remember the first Javascript demos (from 1996) I ever saw was a neural net demo:
https://web.archive.org/web/19961226105339/http://www.ozemai...

Probably could be ported easily to ES 2.0 which still runs in most recent browsers. Just like in the late 80s, there was a hype cycle around neural nets in the late 90s.
> It also means you struggle in life, resulting in suicidality, aggressiveness and anti-social behaviour.

This is the stuff that seems like it could be dealt with by society being more accommodating rather than drugs.
Major versions of Gtk are, for all intents and purposes, different toolkits entirely. They are always parallel-installable, they don't conflict with each other.
Man, it probably won't help, but I could have written that. I recognize myself in your description. I am working for 5 years and I burned out 8 months ago. Unfortunately I am still in.

I have no magical formula. What I can say is that done is better than perfect when it comes about Software Engineering (also applicable for other domains). You will have to fight against yourself and attempt to get things done before you lose motivation. Of course that won't be easy, specially if you are perfectionnist.

Don't hesitate to have break, don't hesitate to abandon projects for a time and resume later. Follow your inside will. Life is too short to be bored.

Don't stay at work late, even if you enjoy it. Always be looking for perfection is exhausting, and your team probably won't be as concerned ad you. Your managers can help you with good "definitions of done". Communicate with them.

Be careful and take care.
Good luck :)
Most likely corps saw the pandemic as a risky era, raised prices. Saw that demand remained high, so they just kept raising it.
Happy New Year HN
Wish you all a good 2022 and hope for this community to continue to thrive
He must mean "surfing" hacker news.
Haha so true.
How about scale up the hospitals, or at least covid capacity in a meaningful way. How long does they public have to bear burden of insufficient health infra.

EDIT: Sorry that might have come off a bit blunt. But the entire pandemic response has been frustratingly insufficient in my opinion. A variant like Omicron was long predicted and expected. How are we not prepared with a plan to end lockdowns?

And blaming unvaccinated or anti-maskers is not a good answer. Modeling of acceptance should’ve been done. It’s not like these contrarian sentiments were surprising either.

All together it feels like this response to omicron is a public health failure.
The line “if you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same” is above the door entering Centre Court at Wimbledon. When I was younger I didn’t understand it, but with the context of the rest of the poem I believe it’s about keeping a level head. When you win you don’t want to become overly confident, and when you lose you don’t want to become depressed or lose hope. Either way, you just keep on going as best you can.
how is that worse than ipv4 firewall exploit?
Wow thanks for sharing.
> some very common caste

Per 2019 statistics [1], 41% of Indians belong to OBC or Other Backward Class. Dalits are 20%. Scheduled Tribes are 9%. Forward/Upper Caste is 30%. So which caste should they navigate to per your opinion?

Also, is the person willing to give up all the benefits Constitution guarantees for lower castes? Especially give up Caste certificates that give scholarships, subsidies, affordable housing, Government jobs, Education quota etc? I don't think so.

> taking a new name

Even if you take a new name, Indians are by nature curious. We would like to know your background some way or the other.

That fact of the matter is that it cannot happen unless the Caste System is itself abolished and Varna System adopted. But this change has to happen through society and not through Law (because if you try to do it through Law, Lower Castes will be the first to revolt as it will affect their Reservation Opportunities which they don't want to lose). This change will happen when Indians read translations of our scriptures written by Indian Sanskrit Experts and not Western Indologists (who took assistance from conniving upper castes in the medieval times as well as having their own self-interests). This requires a social change that should percolate to the grassroots (especially rural areas).

Merely changing your name might only take you down the path for sometime. But sooner than later someone will discover your past somehow. It probably would have been possible 20-30 years ago when we had no internet and connectivity. Now everyone is on social media. You have a social graph available at your fingertips. There is no way to wipe off your past so to speak. This is probably possible with Personal Data Protection Bill that Indian Government might bring in sometime in the future. But until then, at least your digital footprint is left behind.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1001016/india-population...
even if its a foreground tree it still looks blurry and strange doesn't it?
Physically condition yourself, enjoy quality sleep that is enough, observe the religion of your parents, study, learn and hopefully become wise, expose yourself to sunshine, eat high quality food, drink only water or wine, don’t do to others what you don’t want for yourself.

Edit: please, articulate why you downvote. If you are a nihilist atheist and can’t stand that somebody suggests religion, please say so.
I think the chances of a quarter’s reflection aligning to your eye while the laser is on and pointing at it are pretty damn slim. If that’s still too high, you better eliminate all corners in your kitchen because someone is going to lose an eye. And don’t get me started on forks.
I make a fortune buying up abandoned shipping containers