skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PS. The task of random dataset generation is surprisingly deep and interesting, I welcome more tools in this area. Already digging into your repository...
Exactly .... Agile works pretty well in the "execution" phase when all of the requirements are known upfront. For any kind of R&D agile is not a good fit at all. R&D fits the waterfall model better. Ideally it should be like you do your R&D with waterfall and the agile for execution.
Empower the community is not a bad idea.
I miss keyword syntax. It has its warts, but I liked the clarity better than the whole funarg() list mess.
The last ones I want to "help" with this data is the police, known for misuse of tech since forever.
So I guess Common Lisp, Raket, Scheme, C++, C#, F#,... just lost a couple of features.
So just take pics of the pages and convert the pics back to a PDF
Some different things you might want to try:

- Take a day off. Allow yourself at least one full day of not thinking about whatever you are struggling with.

- Take a long walk. Like 1 or 2 hours.

- Listen to some music you love. Maybe even go see a concert (covid permitting).

- Call up a friend or family member you haven't talked to in a while.

- Take a walk with a friend, or have a beer or meal with them.

- Shoot some hoops or pool, or do some manual labor, like shoveling snow or raking leaves. Get your body moving and focus on something concrete.

- Try to dump out all your thoughts onto a pad of paper (or a txt document).

- Draw, paint, play music.

- Get out of the city. Or go into the city.

Basically, get your brain and body working in a different mode. The only thing you know is that doing that same thing every day isn't working for you, so you have to shake things up a bit. Good luck!
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Uff, the question why you are not motivated? Are you afraid your results are not perfect enough? Are you afraid you will fail? Do you think it’s boring and you need to do something more interesting? Or is your body just exhausted?

Think about that and try to fix the reason behind it.

Also accept your body sometimes is not up to the task and that motivation comes and goes. It is pretty normal to have stints of high motivation followed by low motivation. Sometimes it is bad nutrition, sometimes the weather, sometimes just a fluke in your metabolism, sometimes your brain is just exhausted.

If you beat yourself up for not being motivated you will kill the remaining 5% of energy inside u with beating yourself up. That you so not what you want. Be kind to yourself.
Capitalism here is what you are doing once the accumulation of further capital becomes the principal objective of you activities.

If you generate a lot of profit, but you use it all to finance a luxurious lifestyle of even just to keep you and your employees comfortable then you are not necessarily doing capitalism.

The pursuit of captial accumulation is always dependent on the exploitation of someone's labour / time somewhere.

If you really care about freedom why are you happy with a system that means all but the very rich must spend the majority of their lives in toil?
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Ashby (YC W19) hiring engineers who want to own product
On the macro scale more things are going on, and deflation isn't really considered to happen that way.
I wish this would work but it won’t. They’ll just get shittier reviewers who’re willing to do it. ImmigrNt researchers use reviews as evidence of expertise so there’s at least one group of folk who are incentivized to review for anyone.
Is technology and software a deflationary factor? Aren't there so many parts of the economy that get mach cheaper over time?
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Samsung flagship phones are excellent, their customer service is attentive, and the devices aren't assembled in China.

I admit that Bixby is a ridiculous barnacle whose eradication would improve the product.
1. Not enough blue light in winter - Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)? Un/der-managed depression? Medication was the only thing that brought me out of the funk as I had severe depression in college, combined with undiagnosed/unmanaged ADHD-PI, it was the 10-year-plan to sheepskin.

2. If it's existential: Watch Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement about the realization of the certainty death as a motivator. [i] What would you do if this were your last day? Last week? Last month? etc. What do you really need vs. want out of life?

3. "If you had a million dollars, what would you be doing right now?"

4. Map your Maslow's hierarchy of needs (inputs, contributors, stressors, and goals). Is there anything big missing?

5. Experiment and try new things. Volunteer. Read a new genre of literature. Make something. Explore the nearest library or museum. Get a telescope and look at the planets and the stars. Take up powered paragliding (PPG). :) Or learn how to longboard.

6. Exercise.

7. Healthy distractions. Keep yourself busy on anything else, even if it's chores.

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i. https://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc
Kings didn't have any. They didn't even have clean water.
I didn't say anything else...

I was sketching the path this research has to go for the benefit of a lay reader, provided nothing show-stopping occurs. The small molecule they propose may actually go all the way to Human trials, even though there is a high probability it will not turn out to do something useful.

They already used it on some kind of CDK20 activity assay. Maybe they modify it somewhat, but the next step would be to find out what it does in some kind of cell culture? I'm not an expert in drug development or this specific cancer.
Yeah, and there's the difference - putting it on a blockchain is incredibly permanent, and might not be easily attributable to a person.
Everyone deserves care. It’s unpleasant to think about giving emergency care to people who actively refuse preventative treatments at the cost of canceled appointments and surgeries for non-COVID patients. Triaging really sucks.
> the existing amount of in-person voting fraud is something like a few dozen cases per decade

The number of cases we've caught might be low, but when your safeguards are so lax that it's easy to get away with fraud without a trace, that doesn't mean much.
That's a fairly common attitude in poorer countries - there is an expectation that if you are wealthy, you have (at the very least) an obligation to provide employment.
I'm surprised how bad Google Maps still is at things like this. No I don't want to take the theoretically slightly shorter road through several small neighborhood roads, let me simply follow the main road. Taking intersections into account it's often not even really faster in practice.
> - pkexec should not exist, even without the vulnerability it's really easy to mess up using it

We already have sudo and su (and doas) for such things. But those programs need to reinvent the wheel.
'Actively' seems to be accurate for the scenario when one is choosing to make body conducive to incubate virus, or already incubating them (albeit unknowingly if asymptomatic).

[Edit] And if you meant active in context of 'Active shooter', then still use of the word active is not wrong. Virus laden body is like carrying a concealed gun which is on 'auto pilot', it is actively spraying bullets; it IS active all the while.
The unfairness of a terminally ill person that's not eligible for a regular heart transplant receiving an experimental treatment that might just as well kill him, but in the long run might save many more?
Or is it the unfairness of never being able to escape ones past?
I wouldn't be totally surprised if the reason Python disallows custom operators is because it either requires a lot more context in the parser or a lot of care in how they're used (or a hack re-using existing operators like TFA). Neither option is without its costs. Languages that have them usually opt for the former.

E.g., in Python `foo|bar` is totally unambiguous right now, give or take some nuance as to whether it's in a string/comment/whatever, but outside that tiny bit of context it's clear what's a variable and what's an operator. As soon as I can define `oo` and `|ba` as operators though it's a lot less clear what's going on, and all parsers (including editors, not just the cpython interpreter) need to be able to understand those semantics to work reliably.

Edit: I'm having a tiny bit of trouble finding it, but my memory just came back to me, and there's a PEP floating around where Guido's rationale was just that there wasn't a solid use case so it wasn't worth implementing. Later the numpy folks introduced the @ symbol as a solid use case (matrix multiply), but nobody could come up with a sufficiently convincing argument for arbitrary operators -- we gained the @ operator and don't have the rest.
Easier to just strip out the metadata
I recently switched to multirun [1] which in my case is superior to supervisor. I don't have to create any config files anymore, and it behaves exactly as i want it to: If one on the processes dies the complete container will die and docker's restart-policy takes place.

[1] https://github.com/nicolas-van/multirun
When humans compete with television, the liveness of bodies wins out
Pre-K Lowers Academic Achievement. Effect Worsens from 3rd to 6th Grades
It's an attack I've contemplated. If you started sending a whole bunch of plain text Tiananmen Square remembrance stuff you'd very quickly have China cracking down on whatever it was.
can we kindly replace the link with the ARS original link?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/an-old-falcon-9-rock...

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TL;DR: there was a falcon 9 rocket that launched something in 2015, far away to a LaGrange point, but after completing mission, could not come back to earth and is floating near the moon and will strike it on ~March 4th.

I guess bookmark the date and let's wait and see if some science can pop out of it.
Sounds interesting. Pricing?
WebPKI certificate revocation doesn't work anyways. It fails in exactly the case where TLS is needed: MITM.

All certificate revocation-checking schemes "fail open" and proceed happily on their way if the MITM blocks their communications with the revocation lists.

If you somehow don't have to worry about MITM you don't need anything remotely close to the complexity of TLS.

Certificate revocation is mostly security theater.
And it didn't immediately become a tech hub? How???
Modules also bind data and functions together.

Not all object systems use inheritance, and even those that do, we can speak about delegation, interface/trait/protocols/type classes inheritance, regular classes inheritance, or some weird stuff like object patterns from BETA.

That is why we have CS literature, to put the right words in place.
> huge levels of inequality necessarily means that a small group of people are consuming vastly more of the available resources than everyone else.

Why would you think so? Inequality means wealth inequality, it does not measure consumption. There are still people starving in the world; that is because they cannot afford to buy food, not because Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are eating 1000000x more food than the average person.
Open Sourcing the App Engine Standard Java Runtime
Hi

Sound like an interesting idea. I haven't tested it yet but from description and example how this could be of any difference to using code snippets?
I assume NSO group operates in their own best interest. If them buying a bug and reselling it hurts them, then I think they won't do it.

Although I guess one reason they might buy a bug that would lead to financial harm is to prevent a competitor from getting it, which might be an even worse financial harm.
> That's just now how it works. Most of the new tech billionaires got rich entirely on the value of companies they created or invested in.

That value doesn't come from thin air.

> Tesla has been pushing the old automotive industry that's built around internal combustion into the EV era

Telsa routinely overpromises and underdeliveres. It sells best where governments use tax money to pay for it. As a company is insanely overvalued. And while it made some actual progress, which is hard to avoid with billions flowing around it had created nowhere close to the value Elon Musk is free to command. A lot of that money came from taxes, a lot from pockets of people (both customers and investors) that could use it way better but were duped by wonderful fairy tale. And Tesla working culture has plenty of worker exploitation vibes.

And Tesla is just the best case scenario. Other stuff is way more obviously costly to the social and ecological environment.

Let's take SpaceX. It's just a venture based on occupying different point on price/quality curve. His rockets are so cheap that they blow up routinely for reasons that are no mystery for people that were involved in rocketry on govenrment dime. And btw his rockets are still paid for mostly by tax money.

> allowing companies to provide more connectivity and other satellite services to more people

Have you heard about Starlink? It allows ordinary people to sponsor acceleration of progression of Kessler syndrome, through the use of crappy saltelite internet that will only get worse as more people use it. Not to mention screwing up scientific community of people who chose to look into the sky.

None of what billionaires do are absolute wins. They are just absolute wins for them. They do some good by disseminating some useful technology and finding ways to automate making stuff making it cheaper. But that's just some of them and that's just part of what some of them do. What all of them do is democratize doing damage to our planet and to society. Thanks to billionaires, you too can exploit workers, you too can benefit from child labor, you too can generate irreverisible environmental damage, you too can accelerate the end of sattelite era.
I prefer fairly non-technical engineering managers who stick to their lane. Their job should be to help manage the project schedule (in coordination with and guided by technical leads and product leadership), coordinate with other teams, coordinate with middle and upper management, and help their reports with whatever career development they need.

They should not be making technology decisions or specifying how the work gets done. They should trust their reports to not bullshit (and if that trust is broken, those reports should be fired). I think having a technical background can be helpful for these managers, but I don't think it's strictly necessary, and they should be doing essentially zero technical work as a part of their management job.

I've found managers who are like this to be incredibly useful and productive, and a pleasure to work with. Managers who want to get involved in technical decisions just get in the way and cause problems. Unfortunately a lot of newly-promoted former engineers can't let go of the technical work.
The only part that was off-shored was the voice, because apparently a computer couldn’t simulate one well enough. The voice actors just read from the provided script and didn’t change anything.
Author here. I was going to include a section on NFT gaming, but the article was already running long.

NFT gaming is some of the worst of the NFT ecosystem, but time spent researching this area and the people running it is simply rage-inducing. NFT games combine the worst qualities of child-labor, pyramid schemes, false advertising, and having some truly horrible human beings in charge.
> what do you do if you lost your wallet the day before voting day and have no other accepted form of id?

What if your car broke down on the way to the polling place, and by the time you got alternate transportation they were closed? What if you send in your mail-in ballot but it gets lost in the mail? What if you suddenly end up hospitalized on voting day?

> from what I read, lots of people cheat the vaccine card system

Lots of people get caught cheating the vaccine card system. When you have stricter security measures, you catch more of the people who break the rules.
I think its common in Singapore too from what I've seen.
That's what google did for my nexus 5x when it broke - and that was over 2 years after I purchased it and out of warranty. I did get it from the play store though, and so may change depending on where you purchased it from.

Still annoying, and phones shouldn't die like that, but it was probably the best thing they could have done by that point.
I originally downvoted you but then removed the downvote since what you write is correct and not trollish.

That said I have though about it more than once, simulation in the head style and a world were PETA wins turns in to a uglier world in most cases.

Note: this is specifically about PETA, some other animal rights/welfare organizations are somewhat reasonable.
This comment is a great example of why social media doesn't work. Factual, cited, but totally irrelevant to anything around the technology. It's the top comment because it brings up the controversial elements that spur more comments, and it's in a positive feedback cycle from there.
With refined product image. Their products have less features for the higher price and it is only the Apple image that sets them apart. Sure, later on they refine the product and most of the time it is their competitors that stumble or degrade their products in order to imitate or differentiate and due to that Apple stands out. Example - iphone - it was an amazing and revolutionary marketing of a sub-par imitation of other available touch screen phones. It wasn't until 3rd or 4th hardware release that iphone gained parity with other devices (tried copy+paste before then?, how about multitasking?) and other companies jumped on the bandwagon of locked down slow phones with short batter life. I had n900 and it was a great device with good batter life and all the software anyone could want but maybe a bit low on RAM. Still light years ahead of iphone at the time...and it died due to MS trying too hard to differentiate from iphone and android.
In satori I have been conscious of a usually unnoticed "time" which is certainly orthogonal to the "time" of daily reality. In such moments I see that the creation of the observable cosmos (the Firmament) is continuous in what I shall now call imaginary time; the whole course and history of our cosmos is created at once. I have also seen that the Firmament arises from the Void (which is formless; which seethes with potential) through the desire of the Void to be like the beautiful Light, which is the light in the eyes of the Creator, whose nature is Love.
If a collapsed lung from a gunshot wound was contagious you sure would.

If having your head split open in a DWI accident was contagious you would.

Like 99% of the arguments against vaccination this isn't nearly as pithy as you think.

After seeing what going through the initial wave of COVID in a medical provider in the ER did to my mother I could not care less about how many loopholes in efficacy people want to tout.

Vaccines help reduce severity in some capacity. If you can be vaccinated (and not everyone can), and you chose not to because you know better, ask your YouTube doctor of choice to patch you up.

Honestly - shame on you for treating self-preservation as some sort of moral judgement against people someone doesn't like. People don't like to risk their lives for people who won't help themselves.
For sure. I was just trying to make the point that it's not such an easy comparison.

Comparing 1919 London to 2022 London really is like comparing a Model T to a Model S.
On modern Macs, you can also use the Secure Enclave for SSH private keys:

https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive
The Curious Case of Dropbox and macOS 12.3
I'm curious to know how much was wiped off their balance sheets during the recent drop. Surely, holding such a volatile asset would have some impact on their credit worthiness, but IMF is joke reverse robinhood institution.
Testing the tap water comes to mind
Most people in North Korea believe the party is actually really popular.
Why do you say this? Most economists I've read do consider technology, automation and demographics as the primary underlying deflationary forces, beyond the to-and-fro of business and financial cycles. I could come up with a lot of citations if you'd like.
Funny, I'm sitting at my desk with no motivation to do anything this evening. I have to force myself to change. And I'm just about to get up and go tackle a chore I hate. When you recognize that you're doing that thing again, just get up, go do something else. ANYTHING else. Get up and move.

Me, I'm going to move into the kitchen and work on some dishes.
"Academic Journals Doing Crime"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F9gzQz1Pms
Yes, there is a career incentive to review, but it's much weaker than the one to publish, and comes later in career, so hopefully more people can afford it.

And yes, there will probably always be people willing to do reviews for free. But if the quality/delay/expertise of reviews from commercial publishers starts to degrade, it encourages authors to look for alternatives.
The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

-Carl Sagan
They'd rather come here. I've met Afghan refugees here, and refugees from the Middle East. You bet they'd rather be in the US.
It probably happens more than you think. Organs are doled out based on a rating system as evaluated by a small review board

In the case of ties, the question of who “deserves” the organ is relevant to the board members. Uncomfortable but true.

Also doesn’t really apply here as this guy had a last ditch experimental operation. The family in the article just wanted revenge.
Apple are bastards because they lock out users from modifying hardware. Google are bastards for not supporting older hardware. Microsoft were bastards for not having apps. There was the opportunity for a triopoly but snapchat was, depressingly, more important at the time.
Every time I read these stoic comments on fear, or suffering or what have you I have to think of this comic, summing up Nietzsche's take on the topic https://existentialcomics.com/comic/69

There is such a life denying smugness in addressing fear as the article does, for example saying. "Our imaginary fears harm us more than reality ever does.". I think that depends pretty heavily on your reality. Detachment from reality or fear is a pseudo-cure that just attempts to skip over true existential problems.

Over the last decade or so stoicism keeps popping up in 'business leader' and tech circles and blogs like this trying to sell people 'timeless wisdoms' which I think is very on-brand. It's always been less of a philosophy and more of a ruling class handbook on how to conduct oneself.
The issue is as a semi disingenuous researcher (which honestly most are) you actually want reviewers who are not experts because they won’t ask the hard questions and do a thorough review. So if you can get your nat neur submission reviewed by a bunch of desperate postdocs aiming to please then you’re hitting jackpot.
Video games, social media, Netflix, screen time, and similar passive activities can zap real life, sociability, and mental health right out of you.

I have electric fruit fly traps that produce blue light. Two flies with one stone. :)

I take a multivitamin, D3 + K2, zinc, magnesium, iron (deficiency), and fish oil. Low T can also cause many problems (a medication I was on caused it). Diet is important too.

Cardio exercise ^ 3.
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