skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that there are remedies to overcome your situation.

First of all try to remove the source of distraction and force yourself to take only one thing at a time. Open a webpage and read it entirely, read a book from start to finish (not necessary in a single day), try to work on your tasks without background music or podcast. Eliminating the distraction usually improve productivity.

Second try meditation. You can think that is a "radical chic" rubbish, but it really works. Start reading "Zen and Japanese Culture" and "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" and try to practice meditation, maybe with the help of an expert. You will see an improvement on focus and clear thinking.

Third, take time off your pc. If you understand that most of what you doing in front of the PC is not valuable, just close it and go out, or read a book, practice sport, cook, etc. Learn to recognise when you're waisting time and do something else. Try to make time at the pc more valuable. Use it for coding and research, not much more.

Improvements take time and consistency. We're used to get everything fast, but your cannot buy self-improvement in a course or a book. So start with basic steps and stop complaining.
Godin was writing books like this before linkedin existed, a true bullshit pioneer
Excel VM
I guess, maybe I misunderstood. I was just surprised to read "it's better to have a ton of deaths, rather than a few deaths we're on the hook for".
The difference is that search engines will generally redirect to the external website while archive.org lets you browse the page on their domain.

As an added exercise, maybe try translate.google.com to see if it's blocked as well.
Analysis of noise on construction sites of high-rise buildings
I dunno man, I live next to a school... And based on my observations, I think the actual occurence is probably closer to 1/100 than 1/10000.
I'm excited that this feature will allow open source and academic research communities (both of which I'm part of) to make content more easily accessible. Zulip provides a convenient mix of persistence and immediacy in chat software, and now things like help threads and discussions on new features can be viewed by people without an account.
How efficient are these solvers?

The article makes it sound like they are guaranteed to find the optimum solution. However, the amount of iterations/execution time implies they don't simply use brute force.

So how do these solver guarantee an optimal solution? My first thought is that they somehow model the problem as an equation whose minima/maxima they can determine analytically but I'm unsure of how to build such an equation automatically (especially when multiple constraints like food, gold, wood etc. are involved).
I love using neovim but switch over to vscode for debugging. I’ve heard of vimspector and other plugins that are similar but I’m curious to hear what debug workflows do people here have with neovim/vim.

Also, do you have any plugin recommendations for debugging?
True, it was more "the company would rather have 100k accidents it's not liable for rather than 1k accidents it is". Doesn't make it much better for me.
The other party can be multiple people who are internally having their own negotiation.
> can be removed at the request of the user

We’d be pissed to no end if Google deployed an opt-out arbitrary content filtering module in Chrome.

Why would you expect an ISP to get a pass for it ? (except for it having precedents)
383.512 is divisible by one, the answer is 383.512 ... :)
My team has been experimenting with this -- using Jupyter notebooks to document processes while also providing the scripts to implement those processes. Jury's still out. We haven't been doing it for long enough to know all of the possible pitfalls and ways of making it work better.
I'm sorry Dave. There's a 60% chance of rain today. You're going to have to drive yourself.
check out Temporary Secretary, in 1980 I never heard anything like it
You have all the right ideas, in my humble opinion. You found an interest in Python, so that's worth pursuing. C is an amazing, powerful language that you should spend some time with. Other CS concepts like algorithms and data structures are valuable to learn.

If you like Python and want to learn C, you might want to check out CPython or Python packages written in C. Maybe try writing your own Python package in C. This would strengthen your knowledge of both languages.

Just my 2 cents :)
Amazon Kindle book purchases are the next Google Play billing casualty
Average speeds in London are below 20mph. Accelerating absurdly overweight, overpowered cars to anything over 20mph in between stops at lights is just a moral hazard.
I can think of a single case where the debugger changed timing enough to make a problem I was working on not show up. I can think of dozens of times when logging did, though. I guess it’s dependent on the type of problems you work on.
The “Fight Club” math is incomplete for the sake of a good story. Regulators can force a recall on manufacturers and insurance companies can make a car uneconomical to buyers by appropriately pricing in risk. You may argue that the former has been undone by regulatory capture (something I would dispute), but I think we all recognize that insurance companies aren’t particularly charitable.
Really? In 2022 you still think this, when people had the option to use any language they wanted to on the server side and yet Node's popularity is clear for even the most blinkered rubyist or pythonista to see...
I've listened for decades while Python & Ruby advocates whined about how JS was terrible and should be replaced in the browser and yet when people had a choice on the serverside, they chose Node and proved you all wrong.
You write this in a tone of extreme contradiction. But I don't think I actually said anything that you are contradicting. Did you mean to reply somewhere else?
"The man who skied down Everest" is a great read about this achievement.

Miura is also a character at a later age in "Skiing zen" by Rick Phipps. The author ski-bummed through Japan and not only met the legend, but he also started working for him.
My 99.99% was just a number for the sake of argument. The real accuracy of classification networks is usually in the range of 90-99%. It's not bad for a lot of tasks, but for self-driving I'd say it's far from sufficient.
Heck I would join a church for the community if the faith part and Trumpettes weren't involved. Unfortunately all of the churches around here have more red hats than not.
It's free :)
Plus our receivers have gotten more sensitive allowing us to reduce transmit power and a lot of systems use much higher frequencies, which are attenuated more strongly in atmosphere. With another 100-200 years of progress it would probably be pretty hard to pick up a radio signal (that isn't intentionally broadcast) at all from the nearest stars.
Indeed, all the actions tell you to use them via tags.

And then GitHub comes and recommends you (in a doc that you're unlikely to find unless you know to look for it) to use SHAs to protect yourself from the attack that they themselves enabled.

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/security-...
"ETA 27 minutes plus a few minutes to park"
import logging
import threading

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

def log(fn):
def log_inner(*a, **kw):
logger.info('%s(%s, %s) @ %s', fn, a, kw, threading.get_native_id())
return fn(*a, **kw)
return log_inner

It's pretty easy to grab all the arguments and thread, but grabbing the return would depend on you not mutating anything permanent, so that probably needs some special casing.
I'm glad you've read enough to realize how that image was made, but we did publish a lot more than just the one image.

The raw data will be published eventually.

Thanks for being interested in our data.
For the same reason they shouldn't have firearms. People shouldn't let their kids be unsupervised with even a very useful item where the risk is high and they haven't yet developed the self-control to use it wisely. Eventually you have to let go, but that transition time is critical.
The concept of the Great Filter is a shallow view on evolution.

Humans are likely at the end of our biological evolution. The next steps of human artificial evolution will accelerate which means extra terrestrial intelligence is unrecognizable to us currently.

We look for modern human-like civilizations, and those obviously won't exist much.
No. IAC absolutely absolutely solves problems (repeatability and a source of truth you can put in source control, among others) that GUI management has no good solution for.

What OP is getting at is that IAC is often not /sold/ this way, it's sold as way to make managing complex systems simpler, in the sense that someone with less expertise can use it effectively, because marketers and salespeople love promising something that will remove all that pesky setup work and let you start on whatever it is you actually want to do. This can be true for some tools (e.g. I don't have a great deal of knowledge about compiler internals or assembly, but my compiled code still does what I wrote it to do), but not necessarily all.

Managing an AWS environment is an inherently complex task, and IAC tools can't reduce that complexity without being prescriptive. We may in the distant future get to the point where prescriptive configuration is fine (I trust that my compiler will make better assembly optimization decisions than I ever will), but we're not there now. What we have now addresses UX issues with using GUIs for these tasks.
Any civilization that cares to travel to you to make contact is very likely expansionist. Or at least may have some plans on the space where you happen to dwell.
Text messages exist
How about we just start respecting the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution as a starter?
Good luck doing this at a minimum wage job.
Would love to see supporting evidence for this. That’s a great little tidbit if true.
Perhaps OVH?
If you did not have a significant following, you're shit out of luck.
Boston's Big Dig is an example of this. Surface space is now a series of green parks with limited car access, and the cars moving through the city are underground. It's quite lovely, though it's detractors will ask if it was worth the cost.
When the threat is an action repo becoming malicious and force-pushing its existing tags to malicious code, the policies of the action repo preventing force-pushes is not a safeguard.
Also, how does copyright apply to social media sites. Like if someone posted the recipe on facebook or instagram.
Seems to me like this is more of a law problem rather than a company problem.

Here we have a telecom service provider law, which states, among other things:

ARTICLE 57. - Network neutrality. Prohibitions. Service Providers shall not:

a) Block, interfere, discriminate, hinder, degrade or restrict the use, sending, reception, offering or access to any content, application, service or protocol except by court order or explicit request of the user.
Is there any way for someone with an undergrad level background in special relativity and QM to understand why GR and QM don't work together?

I've heard something like "the Feynman path integrals spit out infinities" many times but I'm wondering if there is a deeper explanation I could grasp without reading several books.
Not sure what you mean: the movie scene has the same property. It's not about the risk of individual failures of components, it's risk of a payout

Strong indicator I believe my anti-flood machine is good at preventing floods is I'm willing to take on paying for any liabilities you incur from flooding
That seems like it would make for a pretty precarious living situation for people who can't find ways to pay the correct market rate, eh?

The bottom line (no pun intended) is that the corporation that owns Park Merced has (presumably) done the math and they expect to make more money by keeping the apartments empty and eating the losses now (and paying the overhead of evicting gangs of squatters) so they can rent them later at the "correct" market rate (a pretty likely speculation, I'll grant them) than by renting them at a market rate that fills them up again now and getting locked in to rent control at the new, lower rates later on.

So, in other words, the poor people can't live there because someday soon the rich people will almost certainly want to live there again.

What you suggest would instead let the poor people stay in the apartments until the rich people wanted back in, so I guess that's an improvement?

But I don't follow how getting rid of rent control would incentivize supply increases?
Recent and related:

Former Facebook, WhatsApp employees lead new push to fix social media - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31267218 - May 2022 (155 comments)

also:
https://twitter.com/neerajarora/status/1521964283466113024
> as majority of below 40mph driving will be in city streets with pedestrians, frequent turns and more variables

What this article fails to mention, but other articles on this system mentioned in the past, is that this system can be enabled only on designsted highway streteches. So no city driving.

Here: https://group.mercedes-benz.com/documents/innovation/other/2..., page 18, Operational Design Domain.
An electron passes through a beam splitter. Thus the wave function is now in two parts (pieces). We wait a week.

Question 1: Now where is the source of the Coulomb field of the electron?

Question 2: Where is the source of the gravitational field of the mass of that electron?
This guy is real insightful….given it’s already happened
These version as name contortions remind me of the Boeing 373 MAX debacle. All to dodge very deliberate agreement/certification scoping?
I used to say that emacs was better than vim at everything except editing text files, but with undo-tree and evil-mode I have less and less of a reason to reach for vim.
Don’t worry too much about whether to learn language A versus language B. They all do the same things. Focus on learning theory of computation. A bit of complexity theory is also very useful (but don’t get carried away with it).

Learn discrete mathematics. Learn differential equations. Learn topology and algebra. Don’t worry about it being too much, you’ll be surprised how similar they all end up being.

Read and understand The Analysis of Algorithms by Paul Purdom. It’s very dense, but it will serve you well.
I don't really see the problem with animated image formats, but I agree that they should respect the autoplay settings. Even plain animated GIFs.
Apparently it’s normal to have an attorney when buying or selling real estate in New York. I found this pretty surprising, because in California the contract is a generic form where you literally just check the applicable boxes and write in numbers.

Another tidbit: in NYC, most people use an agent when they rent an apartment. They charge one month’s rent.
weird they are blaming the UK for this also, it's one company with a particular product offering.
Not to pew pew your suggestion, but apparently sleep, diet, and, exercise effect test levels as well, so more things to check at and rule out before committing to lifelong trt. Although I keep reading testomonials where people say they don't mind jabbing or applying creams.

Also test levels vary drastically during the day in a two peak fashion, when you get tested can affect results in a misleading fashion.
Will some number of people do it on a black market? Possibly! But I think that's worlds away from broadly accepted eugenics for non-dangerous characteristics. So I think eugenics is only inevitable in the same sense that slavery is inevitable: we may not be able to eliminate it totally, but we can certainly keep it very much to the margins.
It all depends on the goals behind leaving ones star system. If the goal is biological colonization, sending genetic material (or even better a gene database) across large spans of distance and time is far more practical than a generation ship or suspended animation. If the goal is to let your sentient machines explore then you don't even have to be burdened with recreating biological life.
It's too bad the SEC doesn't have more fangs/fines to regulate corporate excess. SEC settlements and fines are basically a small costs of doing business at this point. Does the action generate x amount of revenue above any expected fine or settlement? Pay $x, settle out of court, and never admit wrongdoing seems to be the modus operandi.
Unsure about "enabled by default". I don't think I've ever been offered (explicitly) a parental for my home ISP (not EE) that I opted out of. Archive.org isnt blocked on my home internet.

Archive.org is also available on my EE phone (when using mobile connection) - it's possibly I explicitly opted out of parental control filter, but I don't think I have. I'm less sure about that.
> What causes this 'consumption' of spacetime around objects with mass?

> Gluon color confinement

This seems rather unlikely, given that not all particles interact strongly[0] (i.e. have color charge) but still interact with gravity.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chromodynamics
> [...] as an exercise to the reader, go to archive.org and type in the URL of your favorite porn website.

And then, what? You get the content and you consider that problematic?
Actually, it's about opening 10 different books at different pages and similarly upwards... There is no GraphQL mechanism for it outside some hack in individual libraries that does more server roundtrips, and it seems like GraphQL authors simply avoid discussing it.
That's the point of prototypes -- they give you the power to do OOP in any way you want to do it. You manually write the procedures to do inheritance through prototype manipulation and generation.

See https://www.crockford.com/javascript/inheritance.html
To be fair, we know exactly where Voyager is and know to look for it. It would be pretty hard to detect otherwise.
It's not a binary choice between runloop with callbacks or threads, that's why you should probably take the time to learn about Erlangs actor model implementation, which Dart's Isolates also implement to some degree.
I don't know if the submitted title ('Like Facebook, but smaller and “private” and “free” with no “ads”') was intended to be sarcastic, but since the OP itself does not include that language (with or without quotes), we've changed it above to something it does include.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's how my colleague described it to me, seems he misspoke or I misremembered.

I checked the documentation and it says now() is evaluated at most once per request.

The point was now() and friends prevents optimization on the server we use, because they're not treated as constants.
I… wow. Thank you.

Also: thank you for building a tool that actually works. I used it first in 2010, then switched to EndNote for better web integration, but I’m back to Zotero now that there’s a Safari add on. The PDF functionality in 5.0 has made apps like Notability and Goodnotes for the seemingly trivial task of managing and marking up highlights completely redundant.

It’s one of those OSS applications that genuinely works well and can be approachable to everyday people without feeling like a half-baked product.
I just switched to an 8GB raspberry Pi 4 for a ZFS storage solution, so maybe that is an option if you only need a couple VMs?

Are you doing transcoding or other CPU-heavy tasks? If not, Atom chipsets in laptops will be the lowest power consumption that has significantly more RAM than the Pi 4. If you have CPU-heavy load then Ryzen Zen3 generation are the current winners at performance/Watt.
There is also the annoying confusion that some attacks involve spoofing the victim's ip to other hosts so the reply goes to the victim while masking the attacker's ip(s).
Re-read parent comment. He agrees with you. I also misread at first.
> they convert less than 1% of their mass into energy

Isn't that about typical for fusion reactions? What are you fusing in your hypothetical reactor?
The government has a money source and a money sink, and the idea that input and output must balance is an anachronism dating to days of physical currency. Under MMT, the government spends the amount it needs to spend to fulfill its obligations, and taxes the amount it needs to tax to prevent inflation. Under this model the purpose of taxation is not to collect money so that it can be spent (since government spending comes from the money source), but rather to collect money so that it can be destroyed by feeding it into the government's money sink. In a growing economy with a growing population it's implausible that balancing inflow and outflow would be ideal, since over long time scales that would result in the number of dollars per person and per unit of economic activity to decrease, leading to deflation.
In my experience, the anticonsumption crowd has the most of everything

Its an amusing juxtaposition because you cant tell if they are obnoxiously out of touch or intentionally trolling at their amazing properties and parties

(while actually not eating meat)

I would say it is economically advantaged people with the privilege to do these things, choosing to. The industry that caters to the diet and health preferences overprices everything. This exacerbates the odds that less well off people will opt out of trying non-meat diets.
(We've since changed the title - more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31290944)
There are ways (called heuristics) to solve some NP hard problems faster than exhaustive search.

Of course, for theoretical reasons, a heuristic is not guaranteed to be faster on all problem instances.

The general idea is to do some engineering and find a heuristic that works well for your problem. More sophisticated algorithms will try multiple heuristics at the same time (I believe OR tools has options that falll in this category). There is even research by now that aims to use ML to find good heuristics for a given family of problems (where the common characteristics of the problems might lend to a dominant heuristic).

These heuristics can still have guarantees of correctness. A good place to start is by looking up "branch and bound" algorithms, e.g., for ILP problems. The idea there is to narrow the search space while maintaining some theoretical guarantees.

(Not an expert but i did a project on this once. I'm sure someone more expert can come along and correct where I'm wrong.)
>you can dramatically improve your microbiome health (whatever that term actually means) by eating a high fiber diet

Is that (primarily) because high fiber food takes so long to digest that it gives more time for "stuff" to propagate in your gut?
Gotta love internet diagnoses. Probably well-intended, but you don't even know if they are male or female :)
I think that platforms like Reddit and Twitter have been designed and tuned to keep people in "violent agreement". I found myself engaging in conversations that ultimately were just a time sink.

I have better things to do with my time. I think I wasted two years of my life doom scrolling. Time to be done.

We'll see about HN. This might be my last comment here.