skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big ass display, Microsoft Surface keyboard, fancy chair, silicone based lube
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Childcare, housing, climate change, the usual. I'm sort of joking, sort of not. The first two affect 99% of my day to day, the last only when I will run out of water or there's a fire nearby.

Edit: in the childcare and education side, something more informative than Greatschools. I know some neighborhood schools that have been gentrified and test scores have gone up, but it's still the same teachers, admin, and available resources. The ratings aren't a great signal. Things like how well resourced the district is for IEPs would be super useful as a parent.

Edit 2: tie in something better than Greatschools with a search engine for preschools, after school programs, and the rest, and you would have a compelling product. The service would be to get your kid on the wait-list for the places you want them to attend :)
Have you considered emailing @dang with this feature request on hn@ycombinator.com?
I believe that DJI just opened up their developer API for it, so some third-party apps (or maybe your own, if you're technically inclined?) will hopefully start offering things like waypoint missions as well!
At my company, we started using Figma for creating presentation and slides. Found that even though Figma isn't really designed for making slides like PowerPoint is for example, but folks picked up really quick because it was intuitive. Bonus points for being able to have a library of all of our company assets to use in any slides you were creating. Overall, whatever we lost from not having PowerPoint/Sheets, we gained from not having to pull your hair out fighting it.
I second this. Love my optane.
The way I usually do it is any time I'm asked to fix bugs, make changes, or do other maintenance I first try to find out if the affected functionality is still relevant, or if the easiest fix is to throw it out.
If we are going to start saying "but it hasn't achieved X yet when Y said it would" as a way to classify a field as overhyped then I don't know what even remains.
This depends on what you are using R for. Tidyverse is focused on handling data.frame objects and everything that comes with them. Even ggplot2 uses a data.frame as a default input. And tidyverse has a competitor - data.table, which can be substituted instead (given that you are familiar with base R).

However, some data are better suited to be represented in the form of matrices. Putting matrix-like data in a data.frame is silly, since performance will suffer and you would have to convert it back and forth for many matrix-friendly operations like PCA, tSNE, etc. The creator of data.table shares this opinion [1]. And similar opinions are generally given by people who are familiar with problems that fall outside the data.frame model [2].

[1]: https://twitter.com/mattdowle/status/1037949621773844480?lan...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Objw9Tvhb4&t=225s
Sometimes that type of response can actually be helpful at putting your current situation into perspective.
Some things for me:

- A large water bottle. I don't drink enough water and this has been game changing for me. I first got a 1 gallon (which I never finished) water bottle but learned that .5 gallon is the right size and I always finish it and often refill. I'd say pick one that meets your needs, but I've tested a number and can highly recommend this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B094X6N4PG/ It's easy to carry, has a built-in straw and cheap ($20).

- Multiple MacBook chargers. I purchased additional charger for my MacBook Pro at different parts of the house where I sit for long periods of time. Not having to go get my bag and dig out a charger is surprisingly rewarding.

- A second set of AirPods so I have one dedicated for work and one for the gym that I keep in my bag, rather than occasionally forgetting them. It also helps that I can swamp pairs if I have a particularly long day of meetings.

- A robust case for my MacBook Pro. I take my MacBook to and from the office, use it all around the house and have small kids. I've been through multiple cases, including the sleek expensive ones. For me, nothing beats this cheap one I found on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083XZ3HP3/

- A rowing machine. The latest Concept 2 is ~$900 which is surprisingly cheap for a great workout I can do at how and relatively quietly while listening to a podcast or watching a game.

- A lapdesk. I use this daily and have multiple around the house wherever I end up sitting. They have fancy ones, but I've found the simple one is the best: just a piece of wood and a pillow: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K1L3RNK/
Verus vel interdum mendacium.

Poor Veritasium. Makes a wild claim that everyone else is wrong but doesn't back it up with experimental evidence.

It reminds me of how cocky people, like doctors or conspiracy theorists, are able to seem convinced/ing while professing a claim with gusto but are actually full of shit. Seems like something Mark Rober would do, i.e., staging scenes like a reality TV show.
So what? What does this add to the conversation other then throwing a scary word into it?

The Boston Tea Party was an act of terrorism, yet we teach it in schools and celebrate it.

MLK was considered a terrorist in his time by many. Now he's widely celebrated.

Jan. 6th was just as much of an act of terrorism. Yet many who condone this molotoving will support that. And vice versa.
It's "quite different" but still a tiny number even at 50: 0.4 deaths / 100k per week for the entire 50-64 age group (https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-s...): that translates to .02% chance of death per year from COVID while vaccinated at all. To contrast, overall mortality rate for the 45-54 age group per year in the US is just under 400 / 100k = 0.4% (page 27 of https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr70/nvsr70-08-508.pdf).
Self-documenting code
Can you elaborate more? I want to how you'd want them to update the API to suit your needs.
I get 14,823s for python3 and 4,667s for jo on my system.

I also wrote my own tool, xidel [1]:

time for i in $(seq 1 $count); do xidel -se '{"name": "JP", "object": {"fruit": "Orange", "point": {"x": 10, "y": 20}, "number": 17}, "sunday": false()}' > /dev/null; done

which gives me 1,575s

But if you actually want to repeat something a thousand times, you would use a loop in the query for 0,017s:

time xidel -se 'for $i in 1 to 1000 return {"name": "JP", "object": {"fruit": "Orange", "point": {"x": 10, "y": 20}, "number": 17}, "sunday": false()}' > /dev/null

(a python3 loop gives me 0,029s)

[1] https://videlibri.de/xidel.html
> perfectionism is doing things the right way and make the best out of the limits you encounter

This is 'being a reasonable homo sapiens'. Perfectionism is having absurd expectations and refusing to do anything unless they're met.
I only watched the first video, but I really can't see the difference between his experiment (with the soap at the beginning) and his control. I'm not convinced.
This is a wonderful post, and really represents my lived experience for the past few years. It's like having to start all over again - a complete dismemberment experience - only with 1/10th the energy and 100x the responsibilities (ie: kids).

Your words inspire me and help me to feel that there's an after, because it's been a very long and grueling few years.
High quality, low latency, whole house, distributed wireless audio without a disposable speaker tech business model.
The fundamental human right to be free and their pursuit of hapiness is most definitely being violated when being detained. A police officer can choose to not detain someone or they can choose to detain someone. It is within their purview.
+1 though I disagree about Gimp. Tried to use it recently too and found the UI to be as much of a mess as Inkscape. All I wanted to do with Inkscape was open an SVG and change the color of one of the paths and re-export it and I could not make heads or tails of the UI.
And they add more and more "standards" to keep everyone out of the browser game who is not in it. Most (all?) new browser are therfor build on top of an existing browser (render engine). There is no real choice (Mozilla user since around 1993).
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Not just America, but the world has shown just how fast it can move in the last two years. We went from new virus causing a pandemic to over 60% of the world having at least one dose of a vaccine in 24 months. Far faster than anyone thought possible.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
Internet advice is just that, advice. Sometimes given from experience, often repeated with good intentions.

There are no “12 rules for life” because we didn’t come off the conveyor belt in some factory. We’re variable creatures and the solutions to our personal problems require tailored solutions.

See a therapist. They’ll do more good than reading the posts here.
One thing I've been working on lately is to derive a series that can be used for constructing generating functions for superexponential sequences. Did you know that any GF, ie. OGF, EGF, DGF, etc.. don't exist for these sequences? Because these GF don't converge. The growth of the series needs to be balanced with the growth of the coefficients in order to provide convergence. We need to find a new series if we want to allow for Combinatorial species and Analytic Combinatorics of fast growing sequences.
Other submission is censored.
You can use mine:

https://roastidio.us/claim

It will send emails to you and let you choose which one to show the world. All email addresses are hidden so everyone stay anonymous.
What are these "stops"? Bits?
As you said, weather prediction and climate modelling are two entirely different fields.
I tried Twos for a week, here's what happened
I remember when my husband brought a TiVo 1.0 to the house and hooked it up. This was 1999. I didn't understand why I'd need one.

Within a few days, I couldn't live without it. I could pause Live TV, and watch shows when I wanted to. I can't imagine any other way. When I see my 88 year old mother watching "live" TV, I get frustrated.

The second piece of hardware that was a "game changer" was a Toto Neorest toilet. No more wiping!
if you want a quick and easy way to put comments into a small free postgresql instance including auth you can try https://github.com/malerba118/supabase-comments-extension
Properly designed landfills will not leech into the ground water.
Not sure if this helps, but there's many userstyles you can apply to hide reputation points.
He actually has content on how to stop a low-deficit diet once your happy with your weight.
We are actually working on this! https://dryft.se but so far we're only in Stockholm, but expanding fast :)
> ranging from three 24" 4k displays

An option that I think might be interesting is 3 displays side by side, but with the center display in portrait mode rather than landscape mode giving overall an inverted T shape to your combined display space.
So, it was legitimate political discourse then?
Can you say a bit more about what happened when you confronted these feelings?
The empire is over. Building it was a travesty. Slow down and enjoy life.
That's a rather handwavey statement.

The hypothetical presented is essentially a highly regulated walled garden. "Bad guys" would be blocked or cited. If all content is tied to an ID, yes it would work.

China has shown that for the most part you can regulate the majority of discourse in an online space if you wall it off to the bit you control. Not sure how this is different.

Not that I agree with it. Not a fan of the suggestion myself.
Agreed. Also right wing extremism fueled and amplified by the internet. It's sort of technical problem, right?
> It seems like a lot of folks just want to pooh pooh any possible outcome. I'm not sure why this is. Possibly because of animosity toward big tech

It's much more simple, and more deep: most humans believe they are special/unique/non-machine like spiritual beings. Anything suggesting they could be as simple as the result of mechanical matrix multiplications is deeply disturbing and unacceptable.

There is a rich recent anti-AGI literature written by philosophy people which basically boils down to this: "a machine could never be as meaningful and creative as I am, because I am human, while the AGI is just operations on bits".
Build your own funky steampunk display with EMDs
I suspect VR workstations will help with this. Many ergonomic constraints come from ease of mounting monitors at eye level. With VR this problem no longer exists. You can be in any position you want - lying down, standing, sitting cross-legged on a cushion on the floor, etc. - and as long as you can type with separated keyboard halves for each hand you will be productive.

Perhaps we should not be chasing the One True Ergonomic Body Position but should instead rotate through various positions during the day.
Beep (YC S14) did this and made a gorgeous, inexpensive volume dial that lives on top of your speakers and speaks wifi. Unfortunately the company shut down but it was great while it lasted.

It looks like there isn’t market demand for this without the associated speaker business or intelligent assistant.
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I cannot edit this comment but I obviously meant "I didn't sign up for..."
Could you elaborate a bit? I must be doing something wrong because most (9 out of 10) of these look negative (single stripe) to my eye on my monitor. Am I wrong about that? Or are you trying to point out that obviously negative tests still cause confusion and conflict in many of the users?
Moving fast is only good if you're not mistaken.

Mao, Pol Pot and Hitler moved fast. But they were wrong. It was some of the largest disasters the world has ever experienced.
>Nobody responded and I'm not entirely sure why.

Timing probably. What else was active that day that kept the Eye of Sauron from looking in this stories direction? Lots of things can contribute.
What did you mean by this part, then?

"I have to wonder at the quality of people over there"

What quality are you speaking of?
These are some fair points, but I have some objections:

> mainstream consensus now absolutely includes the possibility...

I don't think this is the case... Your belief is obviously different to Ralph Baric's which is yet different to the belief of those who worked in the Wuhan laboratory.

I.e. the scientific consensus was that it was extremely unlikely, Baric now says that this is less likely than the zoonotic origin, and you say "entirely possible".

You can use the catch-all "includes the possibility" to treat all of them together, but if you had to pick numbers for the probability of the lab leak, you'd likely pick different numbers than Baric or others.

I.e. just because something is not impossible but merely "extremely unlikely" it's still reckless to have our media talk about it in the way it has.

If anything, if the real consensus is that we don't know... The media should not carelessly talk about any hypothesis without also mentioning the others, and why they are more/less likely.

This is not a topic that needs to he hashed and rehashed every few weeks: the consequence of treating this like it has been done, is that now a bunch of people think that the lab peak is what actually happened, and just today I've seen another article which defends Joe Rogan by saying that there's "consensus on the lab leak hypothesis"...

I.e. if there should be censoring about this, both me and you should be censored, for not being concrete and impartial enough.

> I'm pretty sure he disagrees with you on this matter

I'm not sure what this appeal to authority wants to imply. Of course the decision process for how/when to censor it's a delicate one, and ideally left far away from millionaires who think that they are more competent than they actually are.

To clarify, just because a private person owns a platform, it doesn't mean that they should be the only ones to make rules on what contents are allowed. They can make things stricter, but they shouldn't be able to make things laxer by allowing what's otherwise illegal (obviously, that depends on jurisdiction, which is why countries censor websites via DNS or routing)

> I assume you're aware that the host and guests on TWiV have advocated for and performed exactly the kind of high-risk research

The only people who describe this as "high-risk" are also the people who believe in a lab leak being actually what happened

Do you think that EVERY "gain of function" experiment is high risk?
Personally I've had good luck with the following:

-Herman Miller Aeron

-adjust height of chair so that feel are flat on the floor

-adjust desk so that keyboard is at elbow level and arms don't have to be raised

-raise monitors to put top 3rd at eye level

-scoot back and sit straight in the chair

I find if I check all these boxes I can work for 12 or 14 hours, stand up, and feel just as good as when I sat down.
Focus on your health of course, find some hobbies u can get immersed in (away from the computer), spend time thinking about your spiritual well-being. Spend more time outside.
Hey no worries. I'm turning 30 in a couple days and have zero fucking dollars left. I hear philanthropy makes ppl feel better :)
> The machine learning techniques that were developed and enhanced during the last decade are not magical, like any other machines/software.

You might be using a different definition of "magical" than what others are using in this context.

Of course, when you break down ML techniques, it's all just math running on FETs. So no, it's not extra-dimensional hocus pocus, but absolutely nobody is using that particular definition.

We've seen unexpected superhuman performance from ML, and in many cases, it's been inscrutable to the observer as to how that performance was achieved.

Think move 37 in game #2 of Lee Sedol vs. AlphaGo. This move was shocking to observers, in that it appeared to be "bad", but was ultimately part of a winning strategy for AlphaGo. And this was all done in the backdrop of sudden superhuman performance in a problem domain that was "safe from ML".

When people use the term "magic" in this context, think of "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" mixed with the awe of seeing a machine do something unexpected.

And don't forget, the human brain is just a lump of matter that consumes only 20W of energy to achieve what it does. No magic here either, just physics. Synthetically replicating (and completely surpassing) its functionality is a question of "when", not "if".
> We’re not close to AGI but I’ve never heard an actual researcher make that claim or the orgs they work for.

The fact that the researchers were clear about that doesn't absolve the marketing department, CEOs, journalists and pundits from their BS claims that we're doing something like AGI.
Eutierria[1] may be what you're looking for. Never heard it used in real life though.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-green-mind/20160...
#snugLife
After few years of training and being lead by a personal trainer and a dietician I'd add one thing:

It's crucial to have a high BMR - basal metabolic rate, when going into a deficit.

Any deficit will cause body to lower the BMR and, if it's going into < 1800kcal/day (for man) it will generally result in problems.

Body is very adaptable and will just shut down any energy hungry "facilities": lower body temperature ("I'm cold all the time", "I always have cold last two fingers"), increase sleep duration, decrease immune responses ("Why I get flu all the time in season, while others don't?") and so on.

It will loose fat, but if BMR is low, then it's also in the shock mode, where it will want to get that back as fast as possible, with some extra. That's how the yoyo effect work on physiological level.

So, start cutting on BMR of 2500-3000. It won't drop into dangerous levels and will be lower impact on the body
In the short term you can just not log onto the outrage-o-verse. Long term solutions to the current state of affairs elude me.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned procmail.

Could help automate some tasks for you. Maybe even some kind of review/publish mechanism depending on how far you wanted to automate things.
They didn’t get identifying information on everyone if that’s what you think. They worked with Google to narrow it down to two individuals.

That doesn’t seem like an abuse of a crazy law from patriot act. It’s not like they swatted someone’s apartment for hate speech on Twitter without a warrant, someone tried to burn down a police building.
Change positions.

Standing. Kneeling chairs. Posture ball chairs. Laying down (what's lower stress than this?).
You may feel lost, but what you are not is old. Ask yourself what you want to do with the other half of your life.

You sound professionally successful (you've done different things, so you have learned, you've got savings), but perhaps left without a purpose. It's good that these questions come up, maybe your brain is alerting you to the fact that something is still missing in your life. I encourage you to initiate that search, there is a lot more out there under the sun beyond technology - the other commenters contain many suggestions about activity, however I would like to focus on people.

Your description focuses on yourself (not sure if this is a random effect or systematic, since I don't know you); I wonder if you could benefit from looking around you and helping and caring for others. That would put you in a position to make forming your own family more likely, and make it more likely to remain a stable bond that provides fulfilment and purpose.
I tried this a couple of months ago, I found what it's trying to do very pleasant to use but the tooling around it is very annoying. The up-to-date version 2 isn't on pypi, conda is thoroughly unpleasant to have as an environment. There seems to be a drive to using it inside it's own editor https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor while nice seems like wasted engineering effort in developing an editor when the language needs so much work. I didn't have much success structuring cad into modules as they wouldn't import well.

The point IMO of parametric cad in an existing language is to use the ecosystem. Lots of choices in this project make that really hard.
"So wait...

Just to be clear"

The intro to an always disingenuous comment.

"If so, wow."

Yet more.

Protests throughout time have been at hardship and discomfort of the participants. When your "protest" are sleeper cabs (in vehicles regulated through monopoly by the government, which seems like an easy lever) and hotel rooms, now with saunas and food prep rooms, funded by the American right, and your "protest" is laying on horns 24/7, there is zero legitimacy there.

Canada had railway blockades in early 2020 that were groups of people literally sitting in the cold for days on end on railway tracks. And the interesting paradox is that the Canadian "right" were demanding that the police go full stormtrooper on them. Now this same group is cheering on parking a transport truck in the middle of the road and blasting horns around the clock. Bizarre times.
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I'm surprised that so many here justify dragnet surveillance (let's call the method by its proper name).

By definition, hundreds of innocent persons will now be in an FBI database and will be investigated. Once you are in that database, you won't get out of it. After all, perhaps you'll be tagged in another dragnet operation.

Even if you aren't interrogated or harassed otherwise, perhaps you'll be searched more often by the TSA or magically stopped more often for "traffic violations". Or perhaps you won't get that job at a government agency.
Yeah, about two years ago I was trying different vector-based apps. Started with Sketch, tried Inkscape, but ended up with Affinity Designer too. The UI feels much better, and it’s far more stable.

One small gripe I have is that it doesn’t support many transforms in SVG without rasterizing them, where Inkscape often does.