skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean this is funny but this isn't at all what the post is about. What it means by "productivity porn" is only tangentially related with the hustle sigma male trillionaire grindset stuff.
> 100% your own boss

I don't think those words mean what you think they mean.

A more accurate description would be that you are your advisor's slave.
Well, that's an insane background, so that can't be the issue.

One question though: how many of those years 10 years have you worked in a full-time position?
It depends, there's obviously a happy medium between the two extremes. Optimising for family happiness, sure. Optimising for making money and expecting that to return family happiness, probably not.
Most of the comments are from past versions of the document. I debated removing them but the issue with ping acting weird remains so I decided to leave the comments for now.

But networking in general appears to work, aside from the ping strangeness.

For example, using pkg to install packages works fine. Likewise, portsnap fetch extract, and when you build packages from ports the system is able to fetch over the network without apparent issues.

Edit: I cleaned up the comments on the gist a little, leaving the ones that are still relevant (the ones about ping), while removing some comments that were talking about problems that are out of date.
New ways for users with disabilities to get the most out of Slack
Can you do that without water? That would be the ultimate so the little that is available doesn't have to be used in construction materials
https://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australia-winds-up-2021-wi...

https://electrek.co/2022/06/27/tesla-megapacks-replace-hawai...

https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/articles/powering-grid-for...

Arguably, we’re ready enough (citations above). The only way to prove it is to do it, although I think these tests can occur in parallel vs serially.
How can I take my kid’s drawings and do the same?
Someone's antique pay packet in New Zealand pounds which had been taken out of circulation.
These institutions are irredeemable

Let them fail. It will take a while but there’s nothing else to be done
Heh. I'm writing a custom tool for a security product that pulls configs down and looks for deviations from expected config values.

Instead of running the script against the client config and validating it works correctly, I thought to myself "Hey, what if I made a sample configuration with known good and bad values, and have a known result output to quickly validate the script's function?"

I just invented testing. No, large scale programming and devops is not my primary job. Yes, I have built validation before, but it isn't habit and this is a bespoke project so I didn't think about it at first.
I use wget from it for health checks [0]

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47722898/how-to-do-a-doc...
There was recently a proposal to send rovers to explore them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Diver_(spacecraft)

Check out the video on this page for a ton of details:
https://www.kiss.caltech.edu/lectures/2018_Moon_Diver.html

That particular mission concept was not funded, unfortunately, but I'm hopeful that we'll do something like this soon. As others in this thread have said, aside from just being really cool these lava tubes on the moon (and Mars! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_lava_tube) are an interesting candidate for human habitats.
They will never teach something like this because you would need to define what a scam is and lots of shady business practices that we tolerate as legits would fall into the category of scam.

You would probably set a line between scams allowed by law and scams not allowed by law and this would certainly brings attention to the fact that the law allow certain kinds of scam depending of who is the scammer and people would start questioning why this is allowed by law in the first place.

The outcome would be bad for politicians.
In 10th grade I wasn't sure I could register to a chemistry with one teacher so I didn't. But when school started, the teacher who was supposed to teach the class was different and accepted me into the class. However, I didn't anticipate needing the textbook, so she sent me back to the class library where there was some hard-worn copies of various classbooks. I was in luck that the book she wanted me to have was there, but it was really, really worn out, and written all over. But beggars can't be choosers, so I took what was there for me.

Well, going through the class I've discovered that all the writing on the margins was actually incredibly useful! I followed them whenever I could, and when we were doing routine chemistry experiments measuring pH of acids and playing with precipitation, my experiments miraculously came up with new varieties of teflon coating! While everyone else's salt crystals looked boring, I was able to grow fabulous Bismuth crystals. My class mates grew suspicious of my prowess since previously I showed no aptitude to chemistry. After an altercation with one of other jealous students, I realized that I had to hide the book somewhere safe, and it is likely still sitting in the back closet of the school's cafeteria waiting for next lucky student.
would love to see this run inside a browser. how do you create ps1 texture and lo-poly models like this? I so badly want to create a PS1 style game in the browser.

For lot of us, our childhood was defined by this console. N64 as well but just something about the PS1 graphic that really speaks to me. Anybody else feel the same?
Found a space between two pages to hide money - so good a place to hide money I myself never found these bills again.
If you're interested in the history of Luna Park and Coney Island as a whole, I recommend checking out Defunctland's video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C5kxkBPhpE

Edit: Also, we need to hear more about this UFO book!
This is in the "git log" from the CLI not the browser. But yes, that may be the way to go.
Do you use a VT-420?
Nothing about it jumps out to me as obviously "not American". It's not a distinct regional accent to me but that's very common. It sounds mannered, like a TV presenter who has worked on developing a recognizable voice. What stands out to you?

EDIT: The voice actor who performed it is Australian. I'm not hugely surprised to learn that. Australians seem to be pretty good at credible American accents.
History rather suggests that both antecedents will occur, assured or not. MS isn't known for keeping tools around for decades.
I can’t wait until we set up base, blow up a large sporting arena and get the moonball games televised! If everyone on earth wants to watch something, then it can make money. And then, finally, we have a financial incentive for moon infrastructure. Moon sports ftw!
You can be successful, whatever success is to you.

If you have a dream, go for it. Don’t let age stop you.
I know in the library and some bookstores, I have found notes about finding "god" in books on evolution and atheisim.
yes, `FROM scratch` may be better most of the time. I just use `alphine` for many years, and have not tried `scratch` before.
That is at least 40dB over my level of insanity.
You know nothing about the choices I make and your condescending manner is rather insulting.

I've been a paid programmer for over 40 years. When some code has seriously gone off the rails I can help.
The moon is in general a better place than Mars for a first attempt at a space settlement in part because there's more options for monetization. It might not pay for the whole thing but it would at least offset it a bit.

There are other big reasons too, like help being only days away instead of months away in the event of a catastrophe.

Once we figure out how to do a space settlement on the moon, then we could try Mars. Mars is likely a better long term home for humans but it's about 60X as far away in terms of travel time.
Access to tables/procedures is limited by the role assigned by the token (or a default role). Access to data/rows is limited by RLS (row level security), which is built into postgresql and limits what rows are visible to each query.

You can pretty much make it as locked down or as open as you want.

One thing that is great about RLS is you don't need to think about the authZ when writing the query since the policy on the table restricts what is visible to the current authorized user.

If you are building a product in a similar space I'd recommend you take a look.
"They" have usually been very grateful to have the disaster mopped up.
Survivorship Bias in WWII [video]
Because anytime I search for literature on basic tweaks to the structure of decision trees, I find nothing.

Another example: modern GBM implementations all use binary trees. How would they perform with ternary trees? Or k-way trees for larger k plus some additional soft penalty that encourages minimizing the number branches, unless the information gain is really worth it?

(You can simulate ternary trees with binary, but the splitting behavior is different because ternary can more easily identify good splitting regions in the middle range of the histogram values.)

This seems like such a basic structural question, but the only relevant search result was this downvoted Stack Exchange question from 5 years ago: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/305685/ternary-dec...

There are lots of papers on ternary trees in old-school contexts like Ternary Decision Diagrams etc., but nothing relevant to the context of modern tree ensemble performance. Or maybe I'm just bad at searching?

(I implemented this and saw a small accuracy increase from ternary on large datasets, but much worse training speed because you get less mileage from the histogram subtraction trick. Maybe the accuracy would be even better with a more clever choice of soft penalty.)
Surely it's sufficient that someone else forgot the $100 in the book.
Your comment really intrigued me to google this interesting person I had never heard about before. This may well not be used to you, but Kai has a not-a-blog blog that I stumbled upon on here http://kai.sub.blue/en/sizemo.html.

Some really interesting reads. I especially appreciated his articles on the passing of Douglass Adams (apparently a close friend of his!) and Then vs Zen.
In the late 90s in Atlanta I got my first ever Mac computer (Performa iirc??) at an estate sale for free because it was "broken". The way we established that it was broken was because the power switch on the back of it did not do anything. I got home, did some light digging on the internet and determined that the power switch on the back is the main power, and that actually turning on the computer involved pushing one of the keys on the keyboard.

Booted up just fine.

I miss estate sales.
$1 trillion = 10^12 = 1e12. 1e12/320e6 = $3125 per person for just the credit card debt portion.
We trust readers to be smart enough to figure things out. Anyone interested enough in the comments to read through them will soon put the pieces together.

Eventually we'll have better software support for this, so related links won't need to be scattered across various comments, possibly pinned.
Have you considered a career as a pharmaceuticals lobbyist?

"Let's fuck around and find out."

Counting on people to act responsibly is, from a civics standpoint, one thing. Creating the attractive nuisance, distributing it, and then still expecting people to act responsibility is, if someone is feeling charitable, chaotic neutral behavior at best. And if not, top-shelf mischief-making that would make Loki's mouth water.
Make the Python interpreter 0.8% more efficient. That would help a lot. Really meaningful impact.
I really like how AI research is all about empirical analysis of mathematics.
Yeah I generally agree with this take. Of course on HN and other technical sites the opinion "lol engineers should run companies" gets a lot of play, but plenty of engineers tank companies and don't get posted here with the alternative viewpoint.

Intel made a calculated bet, lost, and furthermore made a handful of other bad business decisions. We focus a lot on the latter part when in reality it's unlikely the "business" decisions were the primary reasons for failure... it very well may have been technical problems led by engineers in the first place.

I don't think Intel acted irrationally.

Last, this is the journey of almost all industries. The titans become too complacent, set for disruption by other smaller companies / outsiders. This is just the natural course of business due to inertia. Intel is hardly alone here.

EDIT: All that being said, the right man for the job is in the CEO chair. I personally believe he always should've had the role. We'll see how Gelsinger turns it around. I am optimistic.
Survivalist vi
True fact, but in my experience there is some really shoddy wordpress code in the wild.
Nothing "stands out", but as an aussie myself I could hear particular vowel sounds (especially the 'ee' in sunscreen, after "One tip for the future") that were a giveaway.
Are there any open source elementary school textbooks? That seems to be a demographic that could use them.
I know, but if you get in there first with the authorities, this is a good way to build a relationship where you win and they lose. Some people out there can't possibly bear any other breakdown than that.
Hackers Loot Blockchain Bridge for Millions in “Frenzied Free for All”
'How Fast Did T. rex Run?' and other questions about dinosaurs examined in book
Dope. I've very optimistic about the new paradigm of spectrometry + ML for metabolic biomarkers. I don't care about the level of any one analyte! I want to know the overall picture of my metabolic health inferred from 100's of weak signals.

The ML model is also very defensible, so congrats on that.

I've been told by people who would know that bio_age estimation via transdermal Spectrometry isn't going to happen this decade. Do you agree?
What's a "loose" partner?

Does Docker Inc promise to overlook trademark infringements if you're a "loose" partner?
I think it has to do with posting a high volume of low-information comments on provocative points.

For example, "I was told that garbage collection knobs were an antifeature" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32323019) could easily be mistaken for trolling even if you didn't mean it that way, and indeed it derailed the thread.

Trolling, despite the original meaning of the word, is more about effects than intent (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). If it wasn't your intent to derail the thread and turn it into yet-another programming language flamewar, then you should have disambiguated your intent (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).
In a sense, finding security bugs is a very specialized QA sub-discipline, which often requires a far deeper understanding about security than many QA engineers or developers possess. However, there is also a part of that organization which does feature work to systemically address the kinds of security issues they find.

Also, many large organizations like MS don't have many QA teams, preferring to push QA tasks onto developers, but still need specialized security teams. If you dig into the deep history of morse, they barely escaped being sacked when MS laid off the QA org circa 2017.

(I used to work on that team, but now work at another company doing a similar job)
I'd love to query HTML in the browser with SQL. I'd really love to join data across websites in the browser.
That they have released any version of windows without 100% consistency is itself an abomination. We’re not even talking about a nit, there are literally completely different paradigms within Settings itself as you click around, and that’s just one example of many. Perhaps it’s my Apple-bias, but every time I go to use Windows I just go “wow how could they say yup ship it?!”
Worst "book" I've ever read, legitimately. I would read almost anything else over that. I've never read the review and I only read 5-6 chapters of the fanfic, but everything in that review rings true. The story was so hollow and lifeless that I couldn't bring myself to read further.
So... that's me. FCUK. I really need to listen to these "work life balance" types more.
I worked with a guy who spent $55k on a new truck. We were both making $18 an hour. He was in his early 20s living with his parents.

That was in 2017… I wonder if he’s still paying it off.
Otoh, how much time have you wasted customizing your editor? I know it's a lot for me! :-)

It's sort of a palette cleanser. "Ehhh, I don't feel like working what I'm supposed to be working on, I think there's this urgent emacs feature I should figure out..."
You're welcome, always happy to help if you're stuck!
I didn't say who the aggressor was. With the west, "we" are pumping in billions of aid and the US DoD and the State Department finally getting to fight Russia without having to fight Russia, we have a proxy war.

But ignore I said that, because it tangential to the point I was making and the point you ignored.

Good technologists are everywhere on the planet. This is a supporting comment in that "the good guys" don't have a monopoly on the ability to create hyper-lethal, extremely low cost automated weapons.

The point which didn't land, is that the war in Ukraine, regardless of how we got there is funded by two parties and is being technologically participated in by many more. America is really good at blowback, like that is all we export. The low-cost, high-enough drone and autonomous weapons that are created during this war will have huge implications. Something we should have thought about before going down this path.
One of the original, and most effective, competition hacks is to convince people that you sleep less than they do.

When someone tells you they sleep 5 hours a night then run two miles and take a 15-minute cold shower then start their work day, 85% of the time they are lying, 10% of the time you will have already noticed the effects of chronic sleep deprivation, and 5% of the time it's drugs.

But this has been a surefire way to put your competitors on the back foot for hundreds, probably thousands of years.
If only we had some other long term home closer at hand.
Everyone had a lower risk of death due to such things even if only a small percentage of the population needed treatment. Using hypothetical numbers:

Set A with modern medicine out of X people: 40 get seriously ill, 30 get hospitalized, 20 of those end up in intensive care, and 10 of them die.

Set B wihtout modern medicine out of X people: 40 get seriously ill, and 20 of those die.

People in set B are twice as likely to die even if most people in set A didn't get treatment. This holds true even if your personal odds of getting seriously sick might have bea well below average, the odds of surviving if you had gotten seriously sick improved.

The important takeaway is hospitalization was mostly limited to people who got really sick.
I dropped from my PhD program after 2 years because I could not afford it. I didn't even get the masters, even though I had no problem maintaining class work with an external job.

There was too much pressure for funding and I was excluded from a lot of good research because I was "paying my own way". They offered me a 13,000/year stipend if I was an RA + teaching summer classes. I could not take this because even with my wife's salary we would not be able to pay rent. In addition, with taxes, healthcare, and other small university fees removed I'd net around $10,000. The only benefit was getting ~$6,000/year in classes but that wasn't a huge sell for me.

I wish universities would pay more. The selection process for a PhD deserves justification for a living wage (~45,000/year or better). I would abandon my day job in a heart beat to go back if they offered me this despite it being astronomically less than I make today. I wanted to be a professor so bad but the cards life dealt me had me needing a job since I was a kid, and healthcare for just as long. I just never had the opportunity, and when I tried the system was so broken I could not navigate it. There seems to be far more opportunity for H1Bs, who are capable of making such sacrifices. The vast majority of my cohort in school were foreign-born visa students which also made me sad for the state of my country.
I started with zmacs in '87. it seemed so old and such an established part of the canon even then - I can hardly believe it was just a baby, and that I'm still using it as a daily driver 35 years later.
Got it working :) You can now use the 2B models in FauxPilot as well.
Yes, sorry, I meant immutable, not idempotent.
Yeah, I'm not too sure that either Basecamp or Coinbase's systemic business issues are going to be resolved simply by an absence of political discussion.
Honestly it’s worth the money to take them to a dip and strip shop. They’ll get them back to you pristine and ready for repairs/sanding. The downside is it’s not cheap. I pay around $60 per typical home sized sash. Saves me hours though.

Also if the old window has lead paint layers, I don’t like to scrape on my property.
Cool. I'll give it a try then.

I didn't even know you could remove comments on a gist. TIL.
I think we might just have different definitions of productive. To me, writing code or reading a paper can be productive, but so can a conversation with my dad or a nice meal out. Basically I see "Productivity" and replace it with "Productivity towards producing more personal utility" where that utility can be anything - happiness, relaxation, actual goods and services, etc.

Furthermore, I think putting on the hat of "productivity" can sometimes reveal unusual things. Like how a conversation with a friend is just repeating the same old dreary boring stuff, and if you put a little effort in you can have a more "productive" conversation.
What seats are changing party: In November there are 50 tight races for house seats alone. The house and senate play a huge role in legislation so this election will have massive impact.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/...

Even if you live in WA/CA your vote still matters. At the federal level there are 4 elected positions, 14 at the state level, and more at a local level. There are also primaries, so even if your Governor is guaranteed to be a Democrat you can at least pick which one.

The people that do vote have an outsized impact because, like you, most Americans are too lazy to vote.
NFTs aren't art – they're just the Cult of Crypto's latest scam
This is called "drip pricing" and is actively targeted by the EU, UK and Australia.
> This is why Intel’s shift to being not simply an integrated device manufacturer but also a foundry is important: yes, it’s the right thing to do for Intel’s business, but it’s also good for the West if Intel can pull it off.

It's good for the US, not "the West".
Ask HN: How to Find a Hobby?
The only things I enjoy are work, socialize and traveling. After I finish work, I start to experience hell. The boringness, the absurdity of life. It's literally hell. Maybe it's a sign of ADHD that I cannot finish work and then just stare into the walls for an hour. I couldn't even run on treadmill for more than 5 mins as I got super bored.

Anyway, how am I supposed to find hobbies to do after work? it feels like everything is boring to me if it's does not contain some dosage of computer science or socialization or traveling.

P.S: Prefer not to work on self-defined coding projects, prefer to get away from computer after work.
Don't know whether there was an update to the fine article, but the article currently seems to mostly refute your points.

> Pine formula is that it reliably gets brand-new hackable devices into the hands of the community at an affordable price point

I guess this depends on the definition of hackable, but the revelation that I got from the article is that Pine actually doesn't operate that way, they just sell the cheapest hardware they can instead of "hackable" hardware.