skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Waking up earlier is a secondary effect of going to bed earlier and/or getting better sleep. If you go to bed earlier and sleep well, waking up earlier shouldn't be a problem. Here are some strategies that I employed:

* Drug yourself if needed (benadryl or melatonin work pretty well for a lot of people - if you use melatonin, https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th... is of interest)

* Stay away from alcohol. It can help you get to sleep, but the quality of your sleep is materially worse. For me, as little as half of a beer can absolutely wreck a night of sleep.

* Get away from bright screens before bed. No TV, no computers, no phone, etc. If you really must, try an eink ebook reader (kindle, remarkable, etc). Read a book. Write (on paper). Practice a musical instrument. Listen to an audiobook. Literally anything other than staring at a screen.

* No caffeine intake after ~3pm ish (if this doesn't help, try earlier cutoff times).

* If you snore a lot (and especially if a partner tells you you stop breathing or sound like you're choking or something), get tested for sleep apnea. Sleeping with a CPAP changed my life. I genuinely can't remember a single day in my life where I woke up feeling rested until I was 28 years old, which is when I got my CPAP.

* Lower the temperature in your home about an hour before bed if possible. A few degrees (Fahrenheit) will do. For extra effect: take a really hot shower right before going to bed. The temperature swing from hot to cold can help you get to sleep faster.

* If you don't already do so, try taking a short walk during the day (15-20 min or so). A tiny amount of exercise during the day really changes how I sleep.

* Go to bed and get up at the same time every day (even weekends). If you feel the need to sleep in on the weekends, you're probably not sleeping enough.

* Gradually darken your environment at night, brighten it in the morning around the time you want to wake up. Smart light bulbs (Phillips Hue and the like) are great tools for this, especially when paired with something like home assistant. I shift all of my lights a bit warmer/more red toward the end of my day, then ~30 minutes before I want to wake up, I start fading up the lights in my bedroom to full brightness (over the course of 20 minutes so that the lights reach full brightness ~10 minutes before I want to wake up). Most days, I am awake before my alarm goes off. As an added bonus, waking up this way feels much better -- I am always slightly startled by my alarm, so I start the day mildly grumpy if that's how I wake up.

* If you silence your alarm and then go back to sleep in the mornings, I find it helpful to move the alarm across the room so that you have to physically get out of bed to turn it off. Once you're up, stay up. Don't let yourself learn that it's okay to wake up and then immediately go back to sleep.

YMMV, I'm not a doctor, etc, etc.
Same here, the relief I felt when it completed the riskiest unfolding steps was huge. I'm so excited to see the results it provides.
Ooh! I have a mockingbird in my yard that I can try this on! I counted 20 different songs the other night, and it was probably a lot more, I just stopped being able to distinguish. They can have a repertoire of over 200! I was actually wondering if something like this project existed, or maybe just an app really, but then hadn't thought about it since (I'm just an insomniac, not a bird watcher). Very cool.

If you don't know about the North American mockingbird, they fly up to a high perch at night and claim a yard sized area of territory by reciting all the songs it knows, as loud as it can. Over and over again, until it is exhausted. The little psychos. Thus impressing all the lady mockingbirds in the area. Apparently they do a little dance as well, but given it's usually the middle of the night when this happens, I haven't seen it.

They used to drive me nuts until I read up on them. Now I try to count how many songs they know.
It's weird. We only have like a 20-30 year window where we've attained the most knowledge and experience we'll ever attain and be the best mental version of ourselves and then we go down the shitter.
Tell your team about the situation and that you need to disconnect immediately to help with your mental health. They will need to understand. You'll feel guilty but treat it as an emergency. I would take a vacation of 2-3 weeks, now. Get away and make sure you don't deal with anything work related, no coding, no email and even contact with the team. This applies to any personal projects. Basically, take a vacation to a Club Med type of resort with your suitcases and that's it. No electronics. Don't let your work know your contact info. Keep in mind that nothing bad will happen just because you decided to take a vacation.

Once you come back, reduce your hours to just working hours. Close your mind to anything coding after the day is over. This is a must. Otherwise you'll fall into the same situation. If your work won't support you then you'll have to start looking for a new job.

For the time after work look for a hobby that you can do where you can have fun and disconnect. Your goal is to use the hobby as away for your mind to disconnect from work. Do not obsess over it since then you'll fall into the same mindset that will lead to burn out.

All this will only help the situation but only time will heal you but you need to reduce your obsession over work. Otherwise you'll be in the situation again, relatively soon.

You can continue without doing anything and in 2 years from now you'll be in the same situation. The best thing you can do now is start the process of healing.
It is allowed in specific circumstances, namely you own the rights to the work you are breaking out or are a researcher. The interpretation of the law that cause GitHub takedowns is overly restrictive and not right.

In theory if you are deprived of your ability to access a paid for work you can sue. The problem is, as you might expect, this usually happens once the company is defunct.
Depends on whether the people living in 5022 have ties/connection to us or not.

"Clash over telescope at sacred Hawaiian site"

"It is the burial grounds of some of our most sacred and revered ancestors"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clash-over-telescope-at-sacred-...

Strange how hawaiians care about these ancient burial grounds and we don't? Perhaps because the US has no connection to these ancestors while the hawaiians do?
How can you judge what is the "more meaningful experience" for someone else? I think that's entirely disrespectful of people. And I honestly don't care about having respect for media being consumed.

This reminds me of the (probably protestant-inspired) way that some people hold all books in reverence, afraid to scribble in them, dogear them, or rip any pages.

Media is just stuff. The people are what matters.
A good reference?

https://countryeconomy.com/taxes/tax-revenue

I'm not sure what other things to take into account. For example it says tax collected in Luxemberg is $44k per capita. Vs USA at $16k per capita. I'm sure another issue is 20% of USA taxes going to military?

Of othe places I've actually spent significant time, Singapore and Japan seemed to have pretty great government services and their taxes collected per person are lower than the USA. But I also know their cultures are different and that there are less people that need government support
They only have to be friendly enough to not have to spend the massive amount of resources necessary to travel between solar systems simply to kill off beings you don't know for no good reason.

People seriously underestimate how difficult it would be to travel between solar systems. The scales involved are so far beyond human experience that we can't properly visualize them. Short of discovering a practical FTL (which seems likely to be impossible thanks to the Fermi Paradox) it is unlikely that humans will ever visit a distant solar system.
No, we want wider adoption of electric vehicles. Don't lose sight of the goal
Well, the advice is intended to allow saboteurs to remain undetected - it's entirely intentional that these seem like things we often see in organisations.

The sabotage field manual contains plenty of other advice [1] - but nobody recounts advice like "start fires in rooms with gas illumination", "issue tickets slowly close to train departure times" and "two or three moths will disrupt enemy propaganda films when they are drawn to and block the projector"

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/26184-h/26184-h.htm
I agree 40 and 60 can look similar but from what I've seen, being young at 60 is due more to taking care of yourself than genetics.
> No country likes itself to be split apart

That doesn't morally justify forcing thousands or millions of people to remain in a political situation that they are opposed to.
>The arrogance of this kind of armchair quarterbacking is breathtaking

How dare someone have an opinion on a topic that is not mine!
Let's be clear here, since the headline is misleading: he didn't sue them just for the party. It was a wrongful termination suit, because they fired him for having a panic attack in response to the party he told them not to throw because it might trigger a panic attack.

As someone with an anxiety disorder myself, if anyone ever fired me for having a panic attack or other anxiety-related episode, you're damn right I'd sue them for wrongful termination, even though I'm generally not the litigious type. Because fuck that.
Just scroll past the 2nd picture and start reading.
That was it! Couldn’t for the life of me remember what it was called.
Also, cars have gotten a lot brighter over the past 20 years or so. Since ultra-bright halogen style headlights became standard, it's become much more difficult for my eyes to adjust back to darkness after passing oncoming traffic. I always considered them hazardous to other drivers. My car's from the 80s and after passing some of these monstrous lit up things it's hard to tell if my own headlights are on. It seems like there's been some kind of race to have the brightest headlights on the road.
Actually I've heard the contrary. There is less degradation (broken things, trashing glass bottles, etc), because people don't want to be in places they can't easily see themselves and move to more lit places.
The point is that if people estimate their abilities at random, with no information, it will look like people who perform worse over-estimate their performance. But it isn't because people who are bad at a thing are any worse at estimating their performance than people who are good at the thing: they are both potentially equally bad at estimating their performance, and then one group got lucky and the other didn't.

It would require them to be _even worse that random_ for them to be worse at estimating their abilities, rather than simply being judged for being bad at the task. It is only human attribution bias that leads us to assume that people should already know whether they are good or bad at a task without needing to being told.

The study assumed that the results on the task are non-random, performance is objective, and that people should reasonably have been expected to have updated their uniform Bayesian priors before the study began.

If any of those are not true, we would still see the same correlation, but it wouldn't mean anything except that people shared a reasonable prior about their likely performance on the task.

People will nevertheless attribute "accurate" estimates to some kind of skill or ability, when the only thing that happened is that you lucked into scoring an average score. You could ask people how well they would do at predicting a coin flip and after the fact it would look like whoever guessed wrong over-estimated their "ability" and a person who guessed right under-estimated theirs, even though they were both exactly accurate.

This comment section clearly demonstrates the attribution bias that makes this myth appealing, though. And this blog post demonstrates how difficult it is to effectively explain the implications of Bayesian reasoning without using the concept.
here's a link directly to getting started

https://dataherald.com/get-started
A huge part of "culture war", uh, discourse, seems to be driven by inability to agree on common terms and a complete ignorance of how labels relate to reality (so most participants don't even act like they know it's a problem). A better understanding of how slippery identity and "is" are, even for everyday things that seem very certain, would really improve communication there, I think. I'm thinking not just of the extremely obvious topic related to this (trans issues) but also things like abortion, where arguing over essentially arbitrary definitions by treating those definitions as per se important almost entirely crowds out substantial discussion.
DTD is the only game that ever made me stay up hours past my bedtime. So awesome.
If we are talking about a SFH charging one car at a time (or slow charging 2), sure.

My comment was more focused on the gas stations, apartments, condos, etc that others have brought up.
> `panic` is not for business logic.

Neither are 500 responses. A perfect HTTP server never responds 500 and there aren't any situations I've ever encountered where there's any valuable error recovery or business logic left to be done once the server has run into a 500-worthy issue.

IIRC, the HTTP server in the Go standard library recovers panics and issues 500 responses, which is what I would expect it to do.
Ya I was like there’s no way google spend 10B on this.
I'm also interested in what microphone would work best for this project, which I absolutely will install on an unused Pi :)
That's not necessarily right, in my reading.

Taking a bit longer to think before speaking / acting is not the same as avoiding challenging / novel situations.
First of all, I commend you for recognizing what you're going through and reaching out for help. The HN community often has very good feedback related to mental health and burnout so I'm looking forward to keeping up with this thread.

It sounds like you're taking other very good steps (exercise, eating well, social life).

That feeling of not wanting to get out of bed/watching Netflix can also be associated with depression. Most of us experience some form of depression throughout life (brief or chronic). Have you considered seeing a doctor about this?

"Should I just take a couple of weeks' vacation?"
My sense is that two weeks would be bare minimum. Can you take 3 or 4 weeks off? And as others have recommended here, resist the urge to do side-projects and spend as little time online as possible.

Regarding your team, in my experience people respond really well to honesty about what's going on. "Hi team, my energy and motivation are not where they usually are and I'm experience what I think might be burnout or a small bought of depression. I've decided to take X weeks off of work so I can recharge. This might mean that you need to step up and do XYZ while I'm away but I know you're more than capable of it. I look forward to seeing what you've all accomplished when I'm back and feeling better." This helps others understand that it's OK to not always feel 100% and that they too should prioritize their health (mental & physical). You're giving your team permission to be a healthy version of themselves in a world where that often isn't a priority.

This is a journey. You got this.
Oh, and while we wait. I thought of a much better way to express this. So I'm going to drop it here, and then wait for your response and then proceed.

One area where technology is not a good idea is civics. Our votes the law things like that. At the present time, humans are best at managing human Affairs. That includes things like cheating crime who will be the leader oh, what's socially acceptable downtown, all that kind of stuff.

With voting in particular, we are in a position of forced trust with technology. It is going to be cheated, exploited, and has multiple times, and we really don't have options. We need people to physically vote and deal with the votes, or we're going to be under the thumb of the people that own the machines. That's pretty clear.

I am open to the idea of cheating not being in that collection of stuff that humans are best at dealing with. I also think we should have more options like we used to, setting up her own servers and what not like what used to be possible. And frankly still is possible. From time to time I like to play a little Q3A, and I just set up a server and run with friends. I don't think that game will ever die for us.

I want a lot of us, myself included, oppose is the very blunt instrument currently being used to manage cheating. It affects us in ways that really hurt the open Libre software causes. We can't know what's running on our machines, we can't run what we want on our machines, and so forth.

I did this on voice fall in the car, so please forgive typos, but perhaps this puts the chat in a better place. We shall see.
Not answering what you're asking, but: there used to be many many many Tower Defense custom maps for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. I don't know if pure-original-non-remastered-RoC is still buyable or installable, but that could scratch your itch.
On a related note, I seriously recommend everyone to set their merge.conflictStyle to diff3 (or even zdiff3 on newer Gits). It shows you all of your version, thier version, and the original, common-ancestor version. It really should be the default, and, as far as I know, the only reason it isn't is because there are some older diff(1) implementation that don't support three-way diffs.

See https://blog.nilbus.com/take-the-pain-out-of-git-conflict-re... and https://stackoverflow.com/q/27417656.
you can only edit your comments for a limited duration, like one hour. Otherwise open the link for that comment (on the date) and there should be an edit link next to the parent link.
I would write a script in PHP to iterate over the CSV (though most languages would work here). In the first pass, scan for the rows that should be merged. On the second pass, when a merged row is encountered, write it if it hasn't been written yet. If you do this, just be sure to make a demo or two first to ensure that the behavior is what you expect. Also make use of buffering since reading and writing a file line-by-line will probably be very slow compared to reading it in at blocks at a time
I take yellow cabs in NYC all the time and if the service isn't perfect, I don't tip a cent. If they drive well, are polite, and don't try to scam me (the biggest one), I'll tip a couple dollars.

If they try to tell me the meter's broken I just plainly say "I know you're lying, you can turn it on or I'll get out." Then I'll pay them what it says on the meter, to the cent, and say have a nice day. What are they going to do, assault me for not tipping?

A 25% tip for a bad cab ride is a joke, I don't really care what they "expect". This is NYC, there are literally thousands of available jobs in this city right now. If someone isn't pleased with their wage as a taxi driver, I'd happily point them towards any of the dozens of businesses in my neighbourhood with a Hiring sign in the window.
I always assumed it was Maxwell's demon [1]. The little hypothetical creature that exists to manage the state of a system to maintain order is a fitting description.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon
How? Other than focusing our efforts at communication with alien species I don't think the day to day life of your average person would be at all different. They are basically a curiosity. Even if we did finally find some, they would likely be so far away that round trip communications would take decades or centuries.
I think you just recreated what the USB Forum is already doing?

The standard as a whole has a version number that increments with the entire standard document.

Port layouts are named A, B, C (and deprecated Micro-A, Micro-B, and Mini-A).

The transfer rates are now named: Gen 1, Gen 2, Gen 1x2, and Gen 2x2. (These names are stupid, but they are names. Gen 1 is all the transport capabilities from USB 1.0 to USB 3.0 {including the now "classic" "superspeed"} and Gen 2 is new starting with USB 3.1 and the even worse named Gen 1x2 and Gen 2x2 are new starting with USB 3.2).

> Obviously this is too long to have on the port itself, so we can stick with just the port type and transfer speed (eg. USB C T2) as the short name.

Marking the port type is redundant because USB has been good about giving every port type a very different physical silhouette. USB A ports look nothing like USB B ports look nothing like USB C ports. (Arguably there are legitimate complaints that USB Micro-A and USB Mini-A had some visual at a glance issues in practice, but you couldn't insert the wrong cable into the wrong port.)

So yeah, that just leaves finding a better way to mark the ports (and cables!) with the transfer speed. "Gen 1", "Gen 2", "Gen 1x1", and "Gen 1x2" all take up a lot of space and maybe aren't the friendliest names to mark on/near ports/cables, but are in theory potentially the only bit of information that ports need to be marked that cannot be assumed by physical port shape. (ETA: Which the USB-IF Marketing names like SuperSpeed 40 and logos like an arc around the number 40 next to the USB symbol are designed to do, though the fact that people don't recognize them and they don't seem common enough in practice that people know they exist is a marketing failure more than a technical failure of the standards.)
Take a look at The Thought Leaders Practice. It might not be quite what you're looking for, but it's a bit of an eye opener.

https://www.amazon.com/Thought-Leaders-Practice-work-people-...
Then if you're in that situation, consider counseling or divorce.

Otherwise, shut up.
Way back when I first saw the 10x engineer proclamations I actually thought they were … a joke. Like a meme or something.

They described a lot of anti social and strait up toxic behavior and seemed to glorify it. It was absurd. It seemed like the kind of behavior that would all but ensure someone thinks they’re so much more productive than everyone else, and would prevent them from ever seeing that they aren’t.

I was a bit dismayed when I realized they were serious…
Couldn’t a program just do this automatically?
Out of curiosity, what bothers you with the UI/UX?

I tested it for a while and liked it, but the price is too high for my low volume of personal email.
TIL… Probably no one has heard of it.
Except that Edison didn’t invent the electric light bulb (first invented in 1806).

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/or-not-thomas-edison-ligh...
Going to give a +1 for FreeTaxUSA. Significantly cheaper than H&R Block and a user interface that is just as good.

The large tax companies are engaging in regulatory capture and ought to be sidelined in favor of a healthy society.
> This is precisely how the system was designed to work. They just didn't foresee someone building up a large enough stake to amass the voting power needed to undermine the system. And that is simply a failure of imagination and goes to show how naive these folks were.

They also didn't do any research on why a mountain of legislature, regulation, and case law that protects minority shareholders exists.

By the time you're playing with nine figure sums, one would expect that to be something they should have looked into!
A company called Violin Memory used to make one for servers:

http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-23.html
Taxes? Yes.

No reason that most people shouldn't have the government do their taxes for them.
Lobbying is a two-way street: it would be good if for once the reporters that investigated this topic would name the politicians on the other end of it, rather than just (albeit deservedly) condemning Intuit for the thousandth time