skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have to agree. His motivation was interesting but also could have been left out.
Maybe it sucks for Bitcoin, because it is becoming a little less relevant, but privacy coins are clearly the best fit for darknet markets.

To me, Bitcoin is already commoditized. Wallstreet is already using it. It would be unreasonable to expect darknet markets to use the same system, especially when it makes privacy hard.
Good to know - this is why HN is so great. Did Jony Ive head up Apple's design group at the time or did that come later after the iMac, etc.?

(If HN didn't have its stupid edit locks I could edit it to read "say what you will about 1990s Apple.")

In any case, the eMate looks like an amazing design and now I want to see more Meyerhoffer designs!
I didn’t question the math, but what made me intuitively believe the Monty Hall problem was this:
Me: I am thinking of a number between 1 and a million. If you guess correctly, you get a prize.

you make your guess
Me: Ok, I will reveal that the number is either $YOUR_GUESS or 452,871. You may keep your original guess or switch to 452,871.

Of course, you would switch, because the chances you guessed correctly originally were 1 in a million.
This is why I've hung onto my same number for... nearly 20 years now.

Besides "looking" fake, the entire prefix was _just_ assigned when I got my number. No one's had it before me.

I get next-to-zero spam calls, wrong numbers, calls for past owners, or anything else.
Don't be fooled by the name. It's not limited to PDF. It's possibly the best ebook reader for windows.
There’s a rather important semantic difference in what you wrote: a++ produces the value before incrementing, whereas (a := a + 1) is like ++a and produces the value after incrementing.

Presuming this is indeed what behnamoh meant by a++, that `(a++ if a==b else b++) + 1` would be better written `++a if a==b else ++b`, which would then become the clearer `(a := a + 1) if a == b else (b := b + 1)`.
> I think its ok that we have innovation at legal front as well. And innovation requires exploration, choosing road not taken...

Chosing to release software under a non-FLOSS, proprietary license is hardly innovative, and I'm afraid trying to frame it that way sounds like you want to have your FLOSS cake and eat it too.
Thanks. I just left Spacemacs for vanilla. A distro was a great way into the Emacs ecosystem, but now I'd like to configure the thing to my use cases specifically.

I might look at the doom config and try to divine how they're getting such fast loading times. Thank you for the suggestion.
The survey uses the word "Latinx" to refer to Latinos. That's a neologism despised by many of them. [1] So, the rest of the survey is probably pretty woke too.

Also, they've refer to girls as a "historically underrepresented in computer science". You could argue that it's not quite accurate. [2]

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1285916

[2]: https://psmag.com/.amp/economics/happened-women-computer-sci...
The Wikipedia article you linked to says that work was not peer-reviewed and four academic reviews were published criticising it (with only one positive review which still said it had shortcomings). You can choose to believe that Chernobyl killed just shy of 1 million people but that's at odds with all peer-reviewed research on the topic (which projects it will reach the mid-to-low thousands in total, with the current death toll in the hundreds at most).
This kind of problem can be solved without threads. Single threaded programs can do things instead of waiting for I/O to complete.

In a Lisp you should have continuations and whatnot to be able to the event-driven programming for that without the inconvenience of having to express all the background tasks as transitions in a state machine.
It seems that Emacs does the check automatically, no? I have looked briefly on how to disable that but I didn't have the prerequisite knowledge at the time to understand what was happening. I'll look at that again, thank you.
What part of it? and why?
When working too hard doesn't work, I guess you better work less and focus on what is the most important
What does it add to plain mupdf (on which it seems to be based)? I love the clean, elegant interface of mupdf, and I can't imagine how could you ever improve on that.
Engineers and drug developers working to change childhood cancer’s calculus
Building near the coast is pretty useful to get access to seawater for cooling. You could build near the coast and not near known faults, but that doesn't prevent faults from being discovered later as happened to Diablo Canyon.
Is the first floor the floor at ground level or the one above that?
Each dollar diverted to nukes from renewables brings climate disaster nearer.

The big booster of nukes today is Big Fossil, because each nuke project started represents at least ten years of solid sales of NG, or worse, while construction is delayed again and again. With any luck, it will be cancelled before completion, and none of those dollars will have gone to panels that would immediately displace their product. Certainly none will be refunded.

No nuke has ever been built with money not coerced from somebody.
It's not hard to explain why you feel terrible working those hours considering what you get out of it.

What is more interesting/worrying is how you describe yourself as a loser, despite doing very, very demanding work and actually still succeeding at it. (At least by the standards of your company, else they would've let you go 3 years back)

Your own standards, however, seem to be so high that it's clearly harming you psychologically. I know some people will scoff at the suggestion, but in my experience that almost always comes from childhood.

Grab yourself the book "The Tao of Feeling Fully" by Pete Walker and see if you resonate with it. Even if your first instinct is "No way, my childhood was great", I would still (maybe especially) suggest you give it a read. If it's not for you that's 15 bucks gone, if it hits the nail it might literally save your life.

I wish you all the best.
Internalize that human worth has no connection to ability. Easier said than done. As a thought exercise, think about individuals you care about. How strongly does their productivity correlate with how glad you are they are alive and part of your life? Why do you apply different standards to yourself?
We can only hope so.
it is architecturally different. DF has the orchestrator underneath. The general. The guy that handles all the incoming requests and makes sure they execute atomically. Redis cluster is an orchestra without the orchestrator. Everyone to himself. It's share-nothing that is exposed outside. To actually hide the complexity in a *transparent way* is a difficult problem. Researches write articles on how to solve this problem efficiently.
It doesn't sound like you're a loser at all. Granted, it isn't the purpose of your post, but I was wondering if outside of the work situation you have enough interests and are seeing anyone. For me at least, getting my love life in order when I was your age provided me a lot more purpose.
I'm especially proud of adding Command Palette (Ctrl + K).

And you can now customize keyboard shortcuts.

And created https://sumatrapdf.canny.io/feature-requests so that you can vote on features I should implement next (people really want the dark theme).

And I'm making https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/prerelease daily builds with seamless auto-updates so that people interested in latest features can get them as soon as they are implemented (I've already added .avif support, and commands to re-open last closed file and clear history)
Bible Gist
This reminds me of how chess tactics feel so obvious when I’m on a tactics trainer, yet I can’t identify them in games where they actually happen.

Or code that “obviously” has a bug only after it caused an issue in production.

Would be nice if someone warned me before I do a PR: “ok, fyi there is a subtle but devastating bug in the new_feature.cpp”
I agree since greed is reliable. Every time I incentive behavior with a person's self interest in mind then I generally get what is needed.
Is fiber an option for you?
Yes, RL is mostly about learning from rewards (Reward is Enough
- https://www.deepmind.com/publications/reward-is-enough) and GPT-3 has been used so far only to augment agents, not to do reward based learning. The current obstacle is speed - it needs to run in real time. Maybe we need more efficient algoritms, maybe we'll have better hardware. It will come soon enough.
It’s because one of the researchers works at Microsoft. I will assume they have contact who work at all the aformentioned companies, contact that allow the security report to escalate to the appropriate channels. I have reported the same security problems too in the past to several companies, and the majority of them have been closed as “informative/non-actionable” too.
> If typical science PhD programs reduced their admittance by a factor of 3-10, you would still have a highly competitive field - but one where students, and in turn faculty have a career path should they produce results.

I don't know about that. A 3-10x reduction would mean grad classes of 1-2 students. In the grad classes I took, there was never "dead weight," everybody contributed in study sessions. Even those students who would go on to get tenure were learning from those who wouldn't. I'm not sure professors would even be motivated to teach such small courses. The price of graduate tuition would also go up by that 3-10x factor, so PhDs would be exclusively for the rich.

Several of my coworkers have PhDs, as do I. We all bring special skills, and working together, we combine those skills to great effect. None of us are faculty. That's not the only thing you can do with a PhD. Should ta/ra/sessional positions pay a living wage? Absolutely. But don't cut the rest of us out because you don't see our value.
Xylitol and many of the sugar alcohols have fantastic health benefits.

And they prevent cavities so well the California Dental Association did this report where they recommend and explain how it works:

https://www.cda.org/portals/0/pdfs/fact_sheets/xylitol_engli...

TL;DR: Bad bacteria “choke” on xylitol and are greatly reduced.
We did not disclose the algo yet. Once I publish the doc in the repo, I will tweet about it. (soon)
No to the first, yes to the second.
Thank you. I'm not using many packages, so I'm not sure what to change. Using csv for example:

$ grep csv ~/.emacs
'(package-selected-packages '(csv-mode org-evil dash)))

If I want evil all the time but csv only when needed, I should change that to the following?

'(package-selected-packages '(org-evil dash)))
'(use-package '(csv-mode)))
> Sucks when a reviewer says "Unoriginal. Already saw this last month."

That’s a systemic problem where we end up chasing the latest fad not because it’s interesting, but merely hoping to end up before someone else. Luckily, not all fields have that short-term outlook.
I start Emacs every few minutes, for Org mode notes.
> The article author was basically asking "How can we make new friends?" and mentions sailing, brunch, and borrowing a neighbor's wifi. Whereas you're talking about... going to war. It just feels like you're discussing something quite a bit beyond the article.

He also says "one way to create a shared context is through shared struggle."

> I had some close friends among schoolmates, but I wouldn't characterize our relationship as "sacrifice and obligation". What does that even mean to a 12 year old?

I think it's pretty clear that there are multiple paths to lasting friendships, and some of those paths might not be available to twelve year olds.

Though even at twelve, I'd still expect a certain about of "sacrifice and obligation" from friends (e.g. if they got hurt, I'd be obligated to help them, and vice versa).
To me the second version seems not only clearer/more direct to follow but also is a few characters shorter anyways.
This depends on how you look at financing and budgeting (duh). But Firefly III was originally designed (by me) to lower your running expenses. It doesn't feature a lot cool budget automation because that leads to more charts but less money.

The original idea was to make it hard (or at least with some friction) to create transactions. This also excluded any way of importing data. That way you feel your transactions twice. Once when you spend the money, and twice when you have to enter it.

Making you finances tangible is a very good way of spending less money. Importing all your shit just gives GIGO but with nicer graphics.
Reducing total energy consumption by 80% isn't going to happen short of a nuclear war or equivalent event. Even with fairly extreme energy conservation efforts, the total amount of electricity used is likely to go up as people switch to using electric vehicles for transportation. I think we need a lot more renewables and probably more nuclear too. Whatever it takes to not be burning coal and gas. (And there might be an argument in some cases for building gas plants to replace coal plants. But I'd rather than money and effort were spent on something better.)

I don't see a realistic path forward for hydrogen, except maybe as fuel for aircraft. Batteries are good enough for most things, and a lot more efficient.
Lots and lots of additional features.

More formats supported, more view options, remembers the history of files, command palette to quickly access all functionality, way more keyboard shortucts, customizable keyboard shortucts, more customizability of the UI.

Maybe I shouldn't comment on the competition but mupdf on windows is very bare bones.
Spend a few years in Germany! I come from a very indirect culture by Western standards, but now after living in German for a while I just come out and say it, although not as harshly perhaps. It certainly makes getting things done easier.
This looks neat. How long does it take to get REACT code. Do you have any explainer video?
Sounds like you are doing the job of 3 people.
The version with real juice ("Saft") is the best IMO.
That was an outstanding reply. Thank you!

Great work on the till and 8 hour keeper.
Unfortunately some of these designs aren't feasible because the cuts won't work. It isn't possible to cut 'into' a piece of glass (imagine the 'mouth' of pacman) when making leadlights. You can see something like this in the first image where the flowers overlap the blue pane in the middle of the image. That blue pane is an example of an 'impossible' shape. At least this is according to an uncle of mine that has decades of professional experience designing, creating, and repairing stained glass and leadlights.
> Yes, they could steal the front wheel, but it's hardly worth the effort. It's difficult to sell, and you can't get away quickly.

That doesn't seem to be the case where I live (South-central Indiana). It's common to see abandoned bikes locked to the rack with the front wheel missing. I once went to the public library for an hour and came out to find my front wheel had been stolen. I'd rather lock my frame and front wheel than my frame and rear wheel.
> I don’t have a field guide for what this community might actually be about.

It's part of "online rationalism" which is supposedly a community based around lesswrong where they practice thinking about things logically, with some techniques that work and some that don't.

More accurately it's a new religion that ascribes untrue magical powers to Bayes' theorem, probability theory, computers and AI research, gives people a life mission called "effective altruism", thinks if you program computers really well they'll become "superintelligences" and take over the world which needs to be stopped, and so on. This is why he says things about "rationality" in the post and is so approving about that Yudkowsky guy.

SSC years ago had some undeserved drama where the kind of online humanities-degree activist types who call you "tech bros" yelled at him, so I think the community also has people intentionally trying to make themselves into their image of a "tech bro" as a reaction to that.

(nb "religion" is not meant as an insult or a metaphor, starting new religions is what people do in Berkeley and this is just another one of them.)
But that's the thing.

LibreOffice works okay with OpenDocument formats.

Word works okay with Office Open XML formats.

The problems start when you have any program that tries working with a different format than the one that it was initially written for, due to all of the complexity.
Some valid business use-cases allow eventual consistency. Think of social apps, for example. FB and TW have excellent engineering teams and they built huge systems that rely on caching layers. Similarly, with gaming companies.
I spent years using Excel but I mostly use Google Sheets now. The cloud integration just feels much more effortless compared to Microsoft’s Office products ported to cloud. I’ve seen departments using GS as a system of record for quickly setting up master data like budgets and forecasts. I wish it had database connectivity the way Excel has ODBC.
You could send them to Fracture (https://fractureme.com) and while it wouldn't be stained glass, printing a picture of stained glass on actual glass is at least modern art.
> I'm a loser, burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around.

Have you considered going into politics?
My experience with monk fruit is it's not really that expensive, so long as you go with the 25% or better mogroside-v concentration. The sticker price of $25 for something measured in ounces doesn't seem great, but you really don't need much of it. Erythritol, which I use when the bulkiness of sugar is helpful, is way more expensive sweet-for-sweet in comparison.

As far as taste goes, I have no complaints, but I'm also pretty easy to please. I tend to use dissolved sucralose in things that don't get mechanically mixed, and I don't mind that taste at all.

I don't think any of the ones that people still use today have any sort of health problems. Not like maltitol, the famous sugar-free gummy bear sweetener which made everyone crap (or whatever sweetener was in those fat-free chips that was the real culprit behind people's digestive trouble, not the olestra).
The extra soft version is that verbal languages are interchangeable, but there are differences between verbal languages and nonverbal, like sign language.
It's not gambling and I cannot take it seriously if they cannot even get it correct.

Gambling is when you receive money back. What they are describing is a black hole--you put money in and it's gone.
It sounds like a Shepard tone https://youtu.be/BzNzgsAE4F0
Although I agree that working weekends is common in academia, I believe that academia has more freedom in how to organise your time.

Are there any other jobs where someone can take a month off at a time to travel to conferences, meet with international colleagues, and go on long visits to other institutions? Compare this with any tech or high powered job that has much more sensitive deadlines.

The only real deadlines for academia are: PhD graduation (4-6 years), postdoc fellowship ends (2-4 years), and tenure (5-8 years).

Between those selection cutoffs you are absolutely free to structure your life however you want.

If it doesn’t work out, oh well, you go into industry and collect double pay.
I did solve the paradox: it emanates from falsely looking at the switch as doubling or halving the money.

If the envelopes contain, say, $50 and $100, it looks like a doubling/halving. But nothing materially changes if we add $1000 to each one to make $1050 and $1100. The probabilities don't depend on what is in the envelopes, and the win/loss is just a spread of the difference between their values.

Why would anyone, while solving some problem, worry about some unspecified more complicated situation which supposedly resembles that problem?

Give me the specific of that more complicated problem and I will knock it out of the ballpark using whatever reasoning fits that problem.
It seems to work a lot better when a big company's flavor chemists handle it with other flavors, versus when I try to do it at home. Like MyProtein's vanilla/chocolate stevia-flavored soy protein. Beats the pants off of my own attempts with unflavored soy protein.
It captures the zeitgeist, the hype perfectly.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nMuh33BMZYY
Please, seek opinions outside of this orange site too. Best of luck for your recovery.
Genocide singular, or plural?

The path is thousands of years old, and like other ancient features the pre-Conquistador locals likely did not know its origin. Because if you consider the massacres and assimilation perpetrated by the Conquistadors to be genocide, throughout South America there were over a thousand years of other genocides by the Mayan, Incan, Chimor, Aztec, and other empires against smaller kingdoms and tribes.

It is misleading to pretend that knowledge was perfect anywhere in the world, because verbal and written history is flawed and brutal disruptions were regular.
State has its own Linux distribution for students: https://kite.kerala.gov.in/KITE/index.php/welcome/downloads
Two of them, just like in French or Spanish: a standard one and a polite form for people you don’t know. Social rank does not factor in this.
> brain fog

No one's even mentioned covid? Have you had it?
The main problem is that shit is to cheap
It is not incompatible, the time scales involved are different.
There’s 112 waking hours in a week, give or take, if you’re getting reasonable sleep at all. So, working 70-90 hours per week leaves literally no time for anything else. If you commute and eat and so much as watch a tiny amount of YouTube or Netflix, that uses all the remaining time. It’s very important to realize that working 80 hours per week is trading your entire life for your salary. Not just some of your time, but all of it. It’s not possible to do any self growth or change things when working that many hours, so turning it around requires working fewer hours.

I’ve done stretches of 80 or even 90 hrs/week for months, and can verify that does induce brain fog and self doubt and a lot of things you’re describing. I have a strange and maybe contradictory take on this - I don’t regret it but feel like I shouldn’t have done it, and I wouldn’t do it again, if that makes sense. I take responsibility for choosing to work that hard because I’m sometimes perfectionist and sometimes people pleaser. Maybe you are too. In my case, there were usually other people around me also working hard, and I eventually saw some financial benefit, and I did get a good reputation. If you don’t have any upsides like that, it’s time to shake it up and defend yourself and your time. At some point I realized that salary is not linear, that overtime can’t pay enough to make 80 hours/week worth it for me. Also I saw more benefits by changing jobs.

Solving code problems from scratch and learning data structures and algorithms and writing libraries are things that generally happen as a byproduct of other goals, people almost never do these things purely for the sake of coding. If one of your goals is to go deeper into code, consider doing a graduate degree perhaps. You can get paid to learn and think about algorithms. LeetCode is not designed to help people be better at algorithms nor coding from scratch, nor is it designed for educating people how to architect solutions. Do not measure yourself by LeetCode.

Last but not least, it takes time and effort to be social, and can even be scary or painful, but it’s maybe worth leaning into that discomfort a little and making it a goal to develop some social muscles. It may take going out on a limb and inviting other people to do things, and when others are scared or busy it might feel like rejection. But this is how networking happens, people spending time with each other. One of the potential benefits of going back to school is a certain amount of built-in social environment, but if more school isn’t your thing, try meetups or a job in a bigger company.
Being on github alone means it is not open