skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I probably would if I could make it my day job. Like if I could just work on games and stream myself doing it, great.

But streaming myself making games in my spare time while working a full time job that has to be in private because it's for a corporation? It's been a bit too much work for me to keep up with it.

The few times I did it, it might have kept me on task more but it also slowed me down doing development because I was trying to explain what I was doing and not just being silent while coding. Also if anyone was watching and did talk to me it tended to get super distracting.

I'd have to do it, and do it regularly, in order to find the success I'm hoping for with my games and/or get to the point where I could do it full time, but it's been tough to maintain.

Still hoping to give it another shot at some point, though. Maybe if I can cash in some investments and take a few months sabbatical, I can build in public while I was doing it, and get in the habit of doing so / streamline my environment to make it easier to keep up with it.
> Show me a dictionary that actually refers to it as such.

Here you go: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/chow-mein

Note how it is listed as "noun", not nouns.

Just like living room: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/living-room

Note that there is no entry for "brown pants". Do you understand why both living room and chow mein are listed, but brown pants isn't?

> and it's most definitely two words in English.

No, it is not. Again, consult a dictionary.

> It says to select 10 nouns.

Yes, and "chow mein" is a noun. That the site doesn't seem to allow open compounds, but allows highly technical wording (despite saying to not use technical wording) would seemingly be a bug.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts :)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904
Fascinating. Seems to me that it would be a comorbidity with a common cause though, rather than the myopia being the causative factor?

My (somewhat loosely informed) intuition suggests to me that in the same way that not spending enough time exposing the eye to light outdoors increases the severity of myopia, it would likely be causative in those other degenerations. Use it or lose it!

Not that I know anyone who spent all of their childhood with nose in a book then graduated to a computer, cough... I say this having quite mild myopia, although I wear glasses still, can't stand a blurry world.
So one of my armchair interests is to what degree the modern "move to eight different cities for school, work and adventure" lifestyle is a historical anomaly, and how to maintain communities when half the residents are temporary.

Friendships, like community, requires proximity. If you live where you grew up, it is easy to maintain the friendships you made in highschool. If you move to a city to go to school there, then take a job there, it is easy to maintain friendships with your friends that do the same. Work friends are more easily maintained while you work together, or at least work nearby afterwards and frequent the same recreational venues in your free time.

If you move around a lot, jobs and cities, it takes quite the effort to maintain friendships.
A previous blog post - Find the Hard Work You're Willing to Do

> Maybe this is what people mean when they tell us to "find our passion", but that phrase seems pretty abstract to me. Maybe instead we should encourage people to find the hard problems they like to work on. Which problems do you want to keep working on, even when they turn out to be harder than you expected? Which kinds of frustration do you enjoy, or at least are willing to endure while you figure things out? Answers to these very practical questions might help you find a place where you can build an interesting and rewarding life.

http://www.cs.uni.edu/%7Ewallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018... // https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26209541
That gallon of water used to grow an almond doesn’t actually end up in the almond.
It is incredibly common in transactions more complicated than buying milk for both parties to communicate over time the many and varied factors that could effect forming a final agreement including both parties thoughts on price without intending to or forming a final agreement then and there or listing every possible contingency in every single informal communique.

The salesman and the buyer discuss the merits of the car one says they think they could pay 25000 and other 28000 but the buyer intends on test driving and having it checked out mechanically. Meanwhile the seller expects the buyer to have acceptable credit, sufficient down.

Whereas price could enter the discussion along with other factors both parties expect there to be a formal step in which paperwork is signed which actuates the sale. This could even in less formal situations be a handshake and a check but the difference between one and the other is clearly expressed intent to complete the sale.
Hi all! I'm the main dev, although, @philipp2310 is mostly stearing the boat at the moment. Thank you for all the comments and interest in our Project
Such things are not in the food supply. No doubt it is possible, and there has been research, but there are exactly 0 available GMO tomatoes available to buy as food in the US.
Yes, of course. Glad you're enjoying programming in it. I'd love to learn it for fun if I didn't have any time constraints. Dabbling in a bit of StandardML and F# at the moment. Just to get a basic understanding of functional programming. I'm a data analyst, not a developer. So as you can guess, I write Python and SQL mostly. These languages are quite different from what I'm used to.
Thank you for sharing, I did not know that before.
Yandex is at least a year younger than Project Alice
I think that tells you a lot about their metric... dew and atmosphere are a lot more related than amoebae and rhombi...
Detecting account sharing and repeated trials in Firebase Auth with Userwatch
Mirror in case the attack successfully picks up again: https://web.archive.org/web/20220502013024/https://fastertha...

As a treat, this is a testament to a logic error I made in the caching code (inserted uncachable versions of pages into the cache for a little while). Enjoy!
Under Kover. Digging into coverage tools
LISP 1.5
It was two Dual-Core 2.5GHZ CPUs. I have one sitting under my desk right now. ;)

Pretty advanced for 2005. Four 64bit CPU cores, 16GB DDR2 RAM, and liquid cooled. It's still usable today 17 years later and it could work for 90% of what I do on the computer. It draws nearly 1000 watts under full load tho....
I'm an anglophone - en_AU.

The rest of the world seems to have never got the memo about the affectionate uses of the word cunt.
Do you not think it affords anything at all, though? I agree that being well medicated is essential, but it's not like it makes it go away; there are for sure still differences in how I think, and when harnessed properly through meds and routine, those differences are a boon.

It's not really a brag, but I'd rather be medicated and keep a routine than lose the things that make me different as a knowledge worker. I'm a more lateral thinker than my peers, and that comes in super handy, for example.
Welcome to the World PyScript
They won't necessarily taste better. One of the things we've been breeding for is better flavor. Also yield and shelf life, so some will definitely taste better.
I had a similar experience at that age, but I spent the years at university. I don't think I did it right, but I didn't have competent people lining up to give advice, and I had no Internet access in those days.
Hmm,

Any relation between this Alice project and an earlier Alice AI project, alicebot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Linguistic_Internet...
Thank you for sharing! What were your thoughts before when you said "Avoiding specifics to not turn this into a pseudo therapy session"?
In being the devil's advocate, and in being somewhat serious, is this what people actually want?

It seems that everyone these days is aware that friendship is on the decline, but so few actually seem willing to do anything about it. Maybe people really do love their Disney+, their Oculus, their Doordash, and their Cheeto-dust more than they do their relationships with other people. If so, that seems to be the way of the world from which there is no turning back.

The reason that college works in forming friendships and romantic relationships is the artificial environment it creates where people are obligated to show up and mingle with people who are from different backgrounds, and for at least 2 years. My experience was that as soon as college ended, most of my peer group effectively dropped out of existence. The excuse is always business, yet when I did meet friends it seems they had plenty of time to binge watch the Netflix show du jour.

I'm sure someone is going to respond with something along the lines of "maybe they're avoiding you". Umm... I can't really argue against that other than by stating that said people do in fact initiate getting together with me, albeit rarely.

Some people truly desire strong bonds, but it seems that most people decide that the strong bond with their spouse is good enough. Can't it be?
A cost/benefit analysis is how we usually find these answers. It's a harsh truth.
Agreed.

"There's too many kids being diagnosed with ADHD."

Um, just maybe those kids would really like to not be made to feel absolutely worthless in life because they have struggles with their attention that was previously written off as them being naughty or not trying hard enough?

Don't get me started on what a horrendous environment a school can be to someone who might just operate a little bit differently.
I believe one of the ideas behind the evaluation is being creative enough to be able to imagine the scenario with those details, and then being able to select the words that best fit the scenario you've created. If you know words that encompass more disparate concepts, then the "cognitive distance" between them is greater. If you haven't told us which shade of green the car is, how do we know that you're not imagining everything to be the same shade?

If you're the most creative person in the world, but are incapable of expressing yourself, are you actually creative? It could be the same logic as "I've never played this game, therefore I have never lost, therefore I am the best in the world "

All this being said, I'm not trying to necessarily defend the usefulness of this survey. By their nature, none of these tests for "creativity", "intelligence", or "personality" will ever be able to perfectly capture or categorize or numerically label what is at heart a subjective quality.
for someone complaining about a lack of evidence, this response is dripping with bias and unprovable speculation

we simply do not have access to an "alternate reality where these products do not exist" (so talking about it is misleading at best) and to claim that platform issues are "inevitable outcomes ... of human behavior" is a dangerous fallacy; what we can talk about meaningfully is what these companies and platforms do and are doing, and no amount of specious talk can (or should) cover for the astounding negatives that they have imposed on society.
Yes, but at the time I did it wasn't really usable. I shall have a look at it again, thank you
Try out the Programming Languages Coursera by Dan Grossman. It starts with SML and then moves on to Racket.
Multiple pages? Finally! I started making slide presentations in Inkscape, and the option of exporting to multi-page PDFs will come in handy!

More info: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes...
> Now is the perfect time to join. There's tons of open chat-rooms filled with people excited about the space. Computing resources are basically thrown at you.

Any pointers on where one has to stand in order to be targeted by said computing resources?
Sure, I agree, politely explaining what went wrong is good. Just saying "I told you so" (or similar) is different, though, and doesn't provide any actionable information. But I get the motivation to say it, so I suggest just saying it internally to let off some steam.
Oddly enough zero of my current friends were made at college. All of them were either before or after.

Part of the reason is college lacks structured socializing time and I am really bad at unstructured socializing. So it wasn’t helpful at all for making friends. Work has been much easier given you are spending more hours with the same people and there are frequent “team bonding” type events that make it easy to get to know your coworkers.

Another part of the reason is many people go to a different area for college so afterwards you live apart and stop being friends.
I love it - thanks for sharing :)
Considering the US has an obesity epidemic and scurvy and rickets aren't common, is this a problem?
The Great Resignation is becoming a “great midlife crisis”
Because science IMO is something ultimately good (even if not legal sometimes) and my example is something obviously bad (despite absolutely legal).
Deep in the Swamps, How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom
Will do - thank you for sharing!
Also very interested in this. AFAIK, the best alternative to DALLE-type generation is CLIP-Guided generation (such as Disco Diffusion [1] and MidJourney[2]) which can take anywhere from 1 - 20 minutes on an RTX A5000.

[1]: https://github.com/alembics/disco-diffusion

[2]: https://twitter.com/midjourney?t=-kKC5UE-gjIkMvAb709SyQ&s=09
Thank you for sharing! I also remember a blue and black genie - where one was malevolent and the other benevolent. No idea where exactly that was mentioned though ^^
I just finished a whole month with no caffeine. I observe Ramadan, and so no food or drink during the day, and no point to take caffeine after sunset.

The first 1-2 days were hard, I had a headache and couldn't focus. After that, the body adapts. I have less control over my level of alertness. So if I don't get a good night's sleep, I'll probably need a mid-day nap. Luckily, my job is flexible enough to allow this (I'd say it happened once a week or so).
The definition of friend is “person you see regularly in more than one context”. So anyone you only see at work won’t be your friend. If you start inviting the same person to lunch every Sunday then that would work.
My grandfather almost bought property on Signal Hill. Just before this:

https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/620710

Which is why you've never heard of Bright Oil Co.
Yeah, I have a keyboard of theirs. It works, I'll get use out of it but come time to replace I will avoid Razor like the plague thanks to that software.

Next keyboard will have onboard firmware to store settings.
This is entirely true and I have a few solution I could deploy with some work, the problem is a caching like this consumes power, as you literally listen all the time, as for a wakeword, to cache the audio data in memory and use it ONLY if a wakeword is detected. Now big companies do it in the cloud, we could do it locally, as an option. The path I chose to mitigate that unatural feeling is to use a human answer, bit like at home, you in the kitchen, wife or kids further away, not communicating. At some point you'd call your wife "Alice?" and you'd wait for her to reply for a "yes?" before talking as you are unaware if she's focused on you at the moment or playing with the kids whatever
I've never used any of the above in my entire life. I've never been let go from a job due to poor performance.
Have had to do lots of technical / latex-y drawings in the past as academic, and found Ipe [0] to be incredibly useful.

It is very minimalistic and easy to use. The images produced are simple to embed in latex documents, and they fit the style/font of the rest of the document. I think this tool should be a lot more popular than it is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipe_(software) -- using the wikipedia link since the official site doesn't have many screenshots
> You jump from Rails project to Rails project and they all work the same way. You know where everything is immediately.

Except lots of projects today use very diverse structures and the meat of the code is often on complex libraries like ActiveInteractors, Trailblazer Operations, stuff from the Dry-RB ecosystem, etc, or sometimes (hopefully) simple Service Pattern classes, if you're lucky. Sometimes all of them at the same time. For lots of companies, Rails projects in the real world has ceased being easy to grasp for a while.
Why not have some ML-rendition of BitTorrent designed for sharing pre-trained models? At least then you're not paying for AWS egress ha
It is a great book. I'm planning to use it to teach an 11 year old how to program.

We've had one lesson. So far the format of me skimming SICP and giving him little challenges til he gets the content is working out.

As an adult sure it's great. Just do it. It's more scheme than racket though, but that's plenty.

Racket macros are important too and you won't get that from SICP.

One does not (ever?) finish learning racket. Even its creators are still researching it.
They've moved from robots.txt to blocking by headers.
Went through the Twitter thread and these look really great.

Clear, understandable, just enough detail and context.

Congratulations on creating this book and putting it out into the world.
>5. automake documentation discourages developers from globbing source files in source directories, and insists they list them individually. It's silly and just results in needless running of configure.

No it's not silly, realistically you can't actually do that anywhere without re-running configure. Any build system based on directory trees will have this limitation. See meson's docs for more on this: https://mesonbuild.com/FAQ.html#why-cant-i-specify-target-fi...

I also came here to comment that libtool is totally useless on modern systems and I hope it gets removed or made optional, but you beat me to it :)
Seriously, just say "I like money and interesting technical problems and don't really care about the bad stuff FB has done/is doing/will do." At least people who work at Exxon and Raytheon and Altria (the artist formerly known as Phillip Morris) don't publish little screeds about how important their work is, and how they're just misunderstood.
Ukraine Is Now America's War, Too
Nowadays Inkscape is really getting better. I rarely encounter any crashes (on Linux or Windows).
"The clinical diagnosis for a mental illness is that it impacts your life in a negative way."

While ADHD has a large part to play in causing mental illness, and is often misdiagnosed as bipolar, BPD, anxiety, etc, ADHD in itself it is not a mental illness, but a disability. I know this is somewhat a semantic debate, but it is important.

"If someone is managing their ADHD it doesn’t mean they don’t have it."

So someone who is managing their ADHD via medication doesn't have it? What about changing their occupation to one where intricate planning is no longer required of them, so they cease to be constantly failing?

Someone can have ADHD and have it impact their life to a much greater or lesser extent based purely on the life situation they are in.
I tried, long ago, using ssml to mod google wavenet, but got nothing concluant
I have never heard anyone complain about a MacBook trackpad before.

I have also never used a Windows Laptop the comes anywhere near the level of perfection of a MacBook trackpad.
That doesn't seem to have anything to do with what I asked.
I interned at Lab126 in college. They advertised quite heavily, and weren't very secretive about their projects, except for the two new ones: the echo and the fire phone. Those were pretty heavily locked down.
So why not decaf or tea instead of coffee?
> Any mental performance ascribed to caffeine in studies is always due to removing withdrawal symptoms. It doesn't increase them past their baseline.

That tickles a memory of a book series that I've enjoyed. (digging about in the ebook reader for the right passage)

> Pip shambled into the galley as the coffee gurgled its last gasp and gave up the ghost with a sigh. I handed him a mostly clean cup and grabbed one for myself before pouring for us both. We sat on opposite sides of the galley table. I for one stared into my cup and tried to wake up as the magic molecules worked their way into my brain.

> “You know coffee doesn’t wake you up?” Pip said.

> “Speak for yourself.”

> “No, it just reverses the effects of caffeine withdrawal. If you didn’t drink coffee, you wouldn’t need it in the morning.”

> “If I didn’t drink coffee, I wouldn’t need morning,” I said.

From In Ashes Born by Nathan Lowell... book 1 of the 3rd trilogy (start with Quarter Share if you're going to read it - coffee plays a role throughout the entire series).
My guess: High vocabulary is correlated with high Openness to Experience (a personality trait in the 5-factor model). Openness in turn correlates with creativity.

I will note that Openness to Experience can be broken down into two aspects: Intellect* and simple Openness. The former is more closely correlated with vocabulary, whereas the latter is more associated with creativity. Thus I also have some doubts about the quality of this test.

*Intellect here does not mean intelligence (though there is a modest correlation). In this case it just means a preference for intellectual activity.
Worse. They patented red dye #36 in a vegetable burger.
Upcoming feature in PostgreSQL 15 – MERGE statement
I don't know. I met a large array of asshole and douchebags at college. And they look even worse when their made up fake social media posts show up..every once in a while. And I am only talking about people who I would call 'friend' in college.

It could be that third world hustle in getting on with life did not leave much time or space for making deep bonds. Or may be my cynical nature just see through that superficial nature of deep friendship wows.

So how did people live in communities before modern college phenomenon took over?
One thing that worked for me is to set up calendar appointments with friends to check in. Even if it gets postponed or cancelled most of the time, it still will work. For me it has been working extremely well the last 4-5 years, even across continents.
Let's just bite the bullet, end the water rights system and auction the water, using the money to pay back the cost.

The thing is, peaches, melons, etc aren't going to double in price. Just stop growing alfala: https://ucmanagedrought.ucdavis.edu/Agriculture/Crop_Irrigat...
It's worth little but it's "the largest agricultural user in California" because their water is free.
Maybe it's the cause of it? Calories aren't everything, there are other nutrients, and presumably we need to eat more to get them.
Caffeine does very little for me, which is odd because I have a Monster Zero in the morning instead of coffee, mostly for the fun of it. If I forget or don't have access, I don't really notice. No withdrawl or anything most of the time. Even if I get caffeine withdrawal, things are back to normal in a day. I can't imagine how cutting out caffeine would lead to getting fired unless one had some really bad adrenal dysfunction (speaking as an armchair non-doctor).
I remember a while ago hearing one theory on sleep is that one common manifestation of a natural sleeping schedule is 4 hours (8 - 12), followed by being awake for 2 hours (12 - 2) and then another 4 hours (2 - 6) of sleep, for a total of 8 hours.

I've also noticed in myself often I will get tired around 8:30 or so. But I usually stay awake and then don't end up falling asleep till 2.

This is anecdotal but it seems to fit this pattern of needing to get one round of sleep in (which I blow past), being awake late, and then falling asleep from 2am - 8/9am. I suspect the 2 - 8/9 is that instead of 2-6 since I missed also the previous window.