skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. The discussion rarely add something really useful to the topic compared to what you would find by skimming through a book, an article, or by doing your own investigation.

But it gave me a good, if sad, insight about crowd behavior. Write something that people want to hear and you get upvotes regardless on how true or insightful it is.
Write something people don't want to hear and you get downvotes.
As a grandson who's witnessing the complications of the old age of my grandparents I agree with 100% of what you've said.

There's an increase of dehumanization of ER services, and most of the times they don't need a diagnostic of a doctor - they need care and attention, plus to be worked on (rehab, nutrition, etc). They need support on their daily routines. They need human interaction.

The problem seems to be that sometimes nurses and caretakers work in the field for so long they create a callous surface that makes them sometimes inhuman (which is understandable) - and we, family members, don't have that neither should we have that emotional barrier towards our loved ones.

If elders with family support still have a hard time, imagine the massive group of elders who are alone and left to die.
I agree with everything bug

> - absolutely do not smoke marijuana, it is known to make many people lazy and demotivated

This is largely a myth whereas I can easily find citations and scientific research to back every other advice. Smoking a lot of marijuana is bad because it messes with your pleasure cycle but overall motivation is hardly effected (citations provided upon request - please do ask or look at pubmed yourself).

Also:

> - try different times of day (eg. sleep early, wake then work early AM before sunrise)

Messing with your circadian clock is dangerous (as in cardiovascular desease dangerous) and I would not recommend anyone to do this. The other advice (like sleep more) is important.

> - meditation / yoga / exercise

This a million times, meditation and exercise are great at motivating you.
Stop. There are better things to think about.
Pretty standard. Political posts are heavily downwaited.
Look at the criticism section of the Wikipedia page of ego depletion (the term for finite quantity of willpower): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Reproducibility_...

Like most things the true is probably somewhere in between and the effect is probably there, just not as strong as the original publication implied. Sprinkle a bit of placebo effect on top of that and that could lead to people (e.g. you) using the concept of ego depletion with a lot of success.
> 1. Do the “Productivity” sessions in the Headspace app.

If you haven't done so already - do the "Motivation" pack too - it literally teaches you how to summon motivation which is phenomenal.
You're not suffering from ADHD. You're using a motivational skill! It's a very valuable skill to have! Boring work can be made interesting, life changing even. This requires vigilance, as you've noticed. Motivation is ongoing, requiring you to revisit the feelings and rationale that gave you that productive burst.
You know what they call software organizations that don’t have time to do this? “Fast paced”
The Chinese, The Russians... spies, spies everywhere!
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The orientation settings let you choose left or right wrist and, separately, left or right facing Digital Crown, which means you can turn the watch "upside down" and wear it that way. But it doesn't have a setting for wearing it on the inside of the wrist.
The Data Science Design Manual
The original this is taken from is better [0].

0. https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/2...
I was actually looking for something like that last week. Thanks OP!
> The zip family has more names than just `map`, but boilerplate? You have to select the right name for your code but you don't have to select more names.

Well, you have to select one of the zip functions in addition to map. Those are more names.

> Also, Haskell has an `apply` function. It's the `$` operator

That isn't what apply does. Apply takes a function and applies it to a list of arguments, (f x y) is equivalent to (apply f (list x y)).
don't people use JWT because they don't want to have some external dependency like a database. i'm not sure what using JWT + storing authentication state in a database gives you. couldn't it just be easier to store the authentication state in the database and give the user a 128 bit random token pointing to the state. if you are worried about someone compromising the DB you can also key the lookup by cryptographic hash instead of the storing the plaintext token.
> Whilst there was a bit of criticism of Windows XP, most people were fine with it and it was widely praised.

It didn't start out that way. It was heavily criticized in the first instance. Certainly until SP1 was released.
I still use paper :)
That somehow makes it even more special in my mind.
I had a long period of time where I couldn't get motivated to do anything after a business partner screwed me out of millions of dollars from an acquisition. I would try and try, but I just couldn't get started on things, or I would start and never finish. I later learned that after this incident, I was suffering from "learned helplessness" [1]. This is a phenomenon where after experiencing a trauma that you were powerless to stop, the brain generalizes that powerlessness and applies it even to situations where you do have control. Essentially, you no longer believe that your efforts can yield positive outcomes, and you stop trying.

Learned helplessness is believed to be a major driver in depression and obviously is a source of issues with motivation. It's a really interesting and treatable condition. If anyone reading this believes this may be an issue for you, you should look into a therapist that is experienced with CBT, as this can be an effective treatment for learned helplessness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
Nicely balanced! However what's this about disposable income for toothpaste? A tube can last a long time; most people use far more than the pea-sized amount recommended by dentists. And what's the balance between using toothpaste (even bicarbonate + salt works well, if pushed) and the cost of visiting a dentist? Of course you can skip the latter and unless you're very lucky, enjoy a shorter lifespan. Recently we've become much more aware of the definitive link between rotten oral health and vascular (heart) disease.
I love stories like this. I learned to bust my butt when I was younger. And eventually I made a business work. I had plenty of support and help from people in my life, but no one was going to do it for me.

There may be minor issues with details of the story and missing plot holes, but the foundation is useful as a lesson in life and in business. Go for it, put everything you have into something, don't get caught up in appearances or require unrealistic responses or results, the universe owes you nothing. If you don't make it, you still get a great story to tell the grandkids and/or learn a lesson to help you succeed the next time.
The nervous people were the telephone workers inside the building, presumably not experts. By having having his own wife and child inside the building, the responsible engineer puts his money where his mouth is, so to speak.

This is similar to the Chinese government ordering airline executives to be on a flight on new year's eve Y2K, so they won't cut corners to save money or whatever to make the fixes required.
Keeping our users safe
All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?

Sorry, it was the only thing i could think of when I saw the question...
Neo-Nazi wealth is rapidly growing. Why? Bitcoin
In addition to the people, the party, the Republicans is also being pushed towards the far-right.
> Kafka is much, much more than just distributed pub/sub

In between 0% Kafka and 100% Kafka: Kafkas REST proxy gives a minimalistic API surface for using the system. Recreating that API in another language with a simpler backend is highly achievable...

My Kafka installation has a parallel relational backend that provides an onboarding story for smaller apps and groups, for example. It provides about 13% of Kafkas functionality and can't scale meaningfully, but provides baseline data streaming in a pinch and is API compatible with how we use Kafka most of the time.
HN is the nearest thing to a tech community you can have if you live in a place where there is no much IT scene. This site allowed me during half of my career to have somebody interested in the things I care, to talk, exchange ideas, and read very smart things from random nicknames that often I wish I could know in person.
I am very lazy and can only motivate myself to work to avoid more work in the future. If you are smart about it (debatable if I am) you can get an awful lot done to avoid worse outcomes.
In Sweden and in other places, everything, including the universities, is nowadays run by economists. Since university professors don't produce anything that has any immediate monetary value it of course make perfect sense to save money by replacing administrative personel that costs money with the professors time, which is free since the professors pay their own sallaries with external funding.
I've used asciinema extensively over the years on my blog and for demos, and am delighted it's still getting attention.

Thank you Marcin Kulik!
He, by definition, is gender neutral and fine for use when the gender is unknown or irrelevant.
I wonder how long his assistants lasted.
I'd vouch for this. It can make things worse at first, but if you are healthy and exercise regularly, it can help increase your focus and energy levels, then you don't have to fight your body so much to preserve them.
Community.

Inspiration to pursue big problems.

Inspiration to always be learning.
Also make a pointless, positive statement about a popular technology and you get upvotes.

Point out that a clever solution is not that useful or applicable and you get a lot of downvotes.

I wish I could have a comment ranking system not based on sheer popularity.
Hiya. If I may, a couple more things to add to considerations... Firstly while, rightly, you concentrate on the design impact of article 17. I guess most of you live and work in the US. What that almost certainly means, if you deliver SAAS, is that personal data is exported from the EU for use. You guys really need to understand GDPR Chap 5, articles 44 to 50 inclusive and get hold of something called "treaty 108" which is about the idea of "adequacy".

And secondly, I am going to ask someone I know who is a legal eagle to sign up to this site. She is very clever and knows this stuff backwards. She also has an aspiration to come and work in the US....
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/05/23/typewriter-art-laur...
I am with you. It is. And assuming a male gender isn't really helpful - but we all fall for this trap sometimes.

I try to stay with the gender neutral "they". Especially if it just isn't of any relevance for the topic/discussion at hand.
I second zoom. I found it has the clearest video for screen sharing. I use it alot for pair programming. At least once a day. Really easy to share control and read the other screen.

The 1h cap is no issue. Great time to have a 5min break before starting again.

Every person i talk to who sets it up the first time always struggles to click the "audio by computer" button and i have to spend the first 2-3min explaining how to get their mic working. But it saves the setting after that. Only ever an issue once per person.
People are funny. I am the complete opposite. (Not that I don't get lonely working alone)
I'd love to hear your thoughts on what you'd like to see beyond Erlang. I'm new to Elixir/Erlang, so very curious to see it in a broader perspective.
Exactly!

Your coworkers just want you to leave your religion and xenophobia and or mild racism at home.
I guess it completely comes down to the individual. For me personally, having deadlines with someone depending on what I'm delivering does help to get myself rolling with work I find boring. Of course, I've also noticed that I can do that for only a short time and if I don't get some interesting work to regain my motivation, I'll end up getting depressed.

Right now, I've structured my client work in a way that allows me to switch between things every week. That way I can do a boring thing for a week, then do something interesting, and then back to the boring. If there's no interesting paid projects, I just work on things I can find enjoyment in - learning new things, working on things I enjoy and dropping them as soon as the "fun" goes away.

For personal projects I avoid breaking them down into smaller steps. With smaller steps I can see the mountain of work ahead of me (most of which isn't that fun) and the motivation to work on it goes away, even if there's still plenty of enjoyment to be derived for said project. That's also one of the reasons why I rarely release anything personal I work on - the fact that once its out there and I would need to maintain it, kills the fun.

I also try to limit my working hours to a certain range; the only reason why to work outside of those hours is if I've been slacking off previously and need to catch up to hit a deadline or if the project is so much fun it's already as relaxing as anything else I could be doing to wind down after work.

Getting 8 hours of sleep is also very important for me. Any less for an extended period and I'm beginning to inch towards a depressed state of mind. Any more than 8 hours and my procrastination goes up.

But yeah, finding out what works for you is always difficult, and I think it also changes with time.
The English pronouns he and she are gender-specific third-person personal pronouns.

The English pronoun they is an epicene (gender-neutral) third-person pronoun that can refer to plural antecedents of any gender and, under certain circumstances, to a singular antecedent that refers to a person.

Source:
https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21719768-prais...
Yes that’s what I’m doing but it’s not that strange, because it's what I would expect. It is too slow to load many such large images automatically.

But FYI, this is Safari on OS X.
> - absolutely do not smoke marijuana, it is known to make many people lazy and demotivated

This irked me too. I think it's because it's basically medical advise.

I don't want to tell people that they can't comment on the use of chemicals etc but the way they effect people varies considerably and unless you're a doctor with experience in prescribing marajuana then your advise is... hard to trust I guess.

This is regardless of popular opinion. Lots of people can be wrong at the same time.

Stick to personal anecdotes? E.g. I used to take marajuana and I found that it blurred my thoughts and made it hard for me to be motivated so to for me, stopping taking marajuana allowed me to focus a lot more.
It is worth noting that Paul Halmos was an assistant of von Neumann's:

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Halmos.h...
I think your version of "fun" is my version of "proper abstraction and factoring".
>even bicarbonate + salt works well, if pushed

If you don't need fluoride, even water works well:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27513809

"The cumulative evidence for this systematic review demonstrates that there is moderate certainty that toothbrushing with a dentifrice does not provide an added effect for the mechanical removal of dental plaque."
Could you confirm that first statement?

That is, when I visited Sweden for a consulting job about 15 years ago, there was definitely a secretary for the group I visited. She helped organize the paperwork for the visit, booked my hotel and taxi, etc.

The word for secretary in Swedish is "sekreterare", and a search of the Uppsala University domain find things like https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev... :

> Being the Secretary-General's secretary means helping coordinate, plan and prepare meetings, travel and reception of foreign and domestic guests as well as coordinate, prepare and plan other commitments. For example, involve helping to prepare information, book and plan trips and meetings, and to be responsible for the calendar as well as ex. certain world surveillance.

> You will also be responsible for calls, mailing and agenda appointments, and telephone answering services as well as daily office tasks such as copying, billing, updating of records, ordering office supplies, and providing easier computer support, etc.
anxiety
The idea that anyone is entitled to a secretary, that a secretary is a kind of status symbol, is rightfully falling out of fashion, and not just in Sweden.

But it's not being replaced by nothing, it being replaced by (non-personal) function staff that offloads specific tasks. The department has student relations officers that deal with scheduling, enrollment, tracking grades etc, the university has a travel office, email and digital calendars, available on mobile devices, simply removes a significant part of the need for secretaries in the first place - and professors have TAs (who would probably be responsible for a good chunk of the tasks described today). They just don't have general-purpose personal staff.
I had the same problem you do. I used somewhat of an out of the box solution, which is to listen to subliminal audio. I do this while working, so it costs me no time at all. You can find some free ones on youtube.

It changed me from someone who would want to mess around all day, to someone who actually enjoyed working.

People underestimate the affect of what they listen to and see on a subconscious level and how it affects us. There is a reason that advertising is such a huge business.

If you are listening to melancholy, nihilistic music, especially, change your habits. Constant exposure to people complaining about how bad their life is, in verse, is really not good for your motivation.
This is basically medical advise too right?

I would encourage reading about potential afflictions but I would strongly suggest getting a second (beyond your own) opinion from a medical professional.
> then you are sexist

As somebody that spent significant amount of time mentoring females, getting such a blank statement from a random person on HN feels absolutely motivating to continue to do so. Thanks!
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I didn't see it mentioned there, so I have to ask: what about the cabling? Depending on where the telephone cables entered the building, they would have to get up to 12 meters longer. How did they make that work? Did they splice every cable? Or did the cables already have enough slack?
US, Japan, India, Australia Mull Alternative to China's Belt and Road
Pretty much par for the course for graduate level maths.

Linear Algebra
Multivar Calculus

They underpin most of which is practical in maths, or so it seems to me.
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An experience of a community that is respectful, mature and is one of the few places on the internet where I read the comments, and don't feel ashamed of humanity afterwards.

It's also linked me to all kinds of interesting tech I would otherwise have missed, which in turn, indirectly, helped me get a new job last year. I probably never would have bothered learning Vue.js if there wasn't such a buzz around it on here, and I got a job out of it.

Lastly, HN has made me nervous of using the word 'electron' in a sentence
HN is a watering hole for well intentioned smart people. I have learned a lot from the community and try to give back.
I can relate a lot. I'm still burning through self-motivation hacks at 35, some of which are helping while most don't.

Eventually, the hack with by far the largest impact (which brought me to currently being cofounder and CTO of one of the more successful German startups) was realizing that while I simply suck at self-motivating, I never had a problem getting stuff done when working for others. I effortlessly produced two albums for other artists, while I still haven't finished my own single release after 20 years. I tried to build my own company three times and failed miserably.

Eventually, I "just" found the right teams and eventually cofounders with a great vision and lots of focus who constantly pull and motivate me to do the stuff I'm really good at (which is building teams, sharing knowledge and architecturing systems).

So I've just made my peace with the fact that I need someone else to get me started every day and just stopped fussing around it. My talents are somewhere else and I've got lots of creativity and intelligence to make up for my lack of structure.

Stop focusing on your weaknesses. KNOW your weaknesses, but don't beat yourself up for it. Also know your strengths (which is often times the other side of ADHD). Practice self-love every day. Don't be afraid to ask for help.

Let me end with a quote of probably one of the greatest procrastinators out there:

> "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

You're not alone. And it's gonna be fine.
That used to be true, but not in contemporary usage.

Either "they" or "the author" is a much better choice today.
Not. Even not so regular people can't afford to buy. So there is a fairly large contingent of people that rent at exorbitant prices with both parents working and the remainder moved out to more affordable places.
There's another HN article trending right now that holds your answer.. https://capitalandgrowth.org/articles/859/book-summary-the-p...
While academia is a place of good ideas and discussions, the power-distance and the use of students as very cheap labour with the promise of a higher place of importance someday is a dark side of it

Low skilled workers are treated better and more fairly than Graduate Students in a lot of occasions
This approach has helped me significantly.

Another aspect that is also useful has been my experience of Pomodoro technique. At a job where we were practicing Pomodoro technique, I realized I don’t struggle with concentration anymore. The minimalistic explanation of the technique is to work on a task inside 45 minute intervals; then walk away from the computer for several minutes.
I've been wondering, is there a todo / task tracking app that can somehow aggregate tasks across multiple applications?

Currently my tasks are spread across emails and email drafts, Github issues, iOS reminders, Slack, my head, etc. It's a lot of work to keep track of them all.

Maybe I should just carry around a paper notebook and make that the authoritative source of tasks.
The main page is incredibly ambiguous and confusing. Full of market speak and totally unclear.
In November Shenandoah turned biased locking back on [1].
Otherwise super post.

[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/shenandoah-dev/2017-N...
Thank you for such a detailed response!
> Am I suffer big from some form of undiagnosed ADHD.

Possibly but I would take that question to a medical professional.

I have this problem when my tasks lack a clear answers to "why are we doing this?" and "what are we trying to achieve e?".

Without clear answers to those questions it's hard for me to motivate myself on work.
At my company we used Jitsi (and also tried with hosting our own instance) and Appear.in. Both worked kinda fine and appear.in has limit to number of people unless you go to pay option - with more people quality would simply drop and we do have 20+ people in company meeting.

We decided to try old school - we hosted our own Mumble and while maybe not nice UI/UX, it works perfectly for 20+ people. Also I recommend as well having good headphones (with integrated mic) to avoid potential echo (jitsi echo can be annoying without headphones).