skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote something on a related topic recently: https://dimitarsimeonov.com/2019/02/13/how-people-turn-their...

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We like to refer to that effort as willpower. But, from the point of view of looking at emotions fighting for dominance inside our brains, willpower is simply the strength and effort of the constructive emotions. The emotions which lead to long term happiness and comfort, even at the expense of short term pleasure. Logical, sober thought is one such constructive emotion, and we call it willpower whenever we are able to make our actions agree with the constructive emotions.

Yet… there is such a thing as “destructive” willpower. You might have seen it under the name of “rationalization”. It is what destructive emotions use to take over our action. If people say and think “I’m gonna be OK to drive with one drink,” that’s their drink addiction emotion convincing them to drink. That’s destructive willpower. It’s not the absence of willpower, but the redirection of willpower towards a destructive emotion.

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I know people doing this in the Bay Area, but likely a) they have reduced rental/property cost b) they watch their budget like a hawk.
This looks pretty cool, well done! I use rsync.net and am very satisfied, but yours looks great as well. I'm not a big fan of the initial price hike (the first 100 GB is 2 cents per GB instead of 1), but it looks like the service is well worth it.
Gathering the Magic (99% Invisible)
The OP said society, not a doctor in residency. The average amount of TV consumed in the US per day is somewhere around 5 hours. How much time do people spend on Facebook or Twitter every day?

Yes, people work a lot and some of those people have terrible commutes. But, that is generally not society as a whole. Just because there are exceptions does not invalidate that the simplistic view is the right answer for most.
Or even at the office at all. Not at all surprising how many execs decide to carve out policy exceptions to "no remote work" policies that apply only for themselves in such environments.
Apple “Show Time” event live blog
Exactly this. I worked at a large corp. where they decided to implement an open office plan. Usual speech about how it will make everyone more productive, etc. All of the directors and above remained in offices with solid closing doors while everyone else was forced to essentially lose all pretense of privacy.

If it enhances productivity so much why is it not good for everyone. It was absolutely a cost cutting method allowing them to shove more peons in the same space and keep an eye on them all from the safety of their high towers.
If it wasn't for the urban dwellers flyover usa's subsidizing water, electricity, mail delivery, telephone, etc they would have a very different about the free market.
Any hardware updates?
I hope there’s new iPhone se.
How to Set Password Policies in Linux – OSTechNix
Kaspersky has the MAC address list so they probably know who was the target.
Has anyone ever been harmed by Google Analytics? I am skeptical.
If people want to do more to help the environment then they can use reusable stuff. I know poeple who use paper plates and plasitc forks for EVERYTHING. Bring your own bags to the store instead of getting plastic. There are other methods to reduce ones individual waste.

i really have no point except we can find other ways.
The correct answer here is actually to use a standard caching plugin like WP SuperCache (https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/), which will effectively cause your CMS site to behave like a static site and handle high traffic without problems.
I've been using NHL.tv and MLB.tv for at least the last half-decade to watch ice hockey and baseball, respectively. I've been looking at F1 TV for this season, but haven't jumped in yet as there isn't an app for $STREAMING_BOX (you have to send video from another device to get it onto your TV).

It's less a question of technology and more a question of business at this point.
How this was framed irked me, so to play devil's advocate, I looked at your comment outside of corporate life - the analogies I'm using in my head are factories and kitchens.

You need Steel-Toed boots and Earplugs for some locations - I'm not sure how much of that is compensated. For waste processing, you either "deal with it" or have a purchase some form of smell-cancelling equivalent (peppermint oil on a cotton swab is an example I've heard used in a hospital). What about slip-resistant shoes for cooking in a kitchen?

By all means, I don't enjoy the open office layout - I literally spent 20 minutes this morning talking to my immediate neighbor about NOTHING.

HOWEVER, I suppose what I'd like to ask is - "what makes a white-collar job's comfort more important than other occupations, to the point they should be either compensated for purchasing items to maintain it or isolated with [cubicle] walls put up?"

[Slippery slope fallacy incoming] Maybe that music or podcast is distracting you from work, I mean we wouldn't want you to see a 20, but think 10 because your podcast was simultaneously playing their 10% Squarespace ad. You are right, noise is distracting and corporate is now providing all employees with noise-cancelling earplugs.

EDIT: Since I've been downvoted, can I have an explanation, or is this a simple I'm saying something the HN community disagrees with?
Isn't this the same crap Elon Musk was talking about when the media was roasting him for unsafe conditions at Tesla and calling rescue divers pedophiles?
My jobs have ranged from heads-down engineering work to constant meetings, phone calls, and impromptu chats. For all of them, I much prefer a private office or at least a private cube. I can't wear headphones for an extended period of time due to physical pain (yes, I've tried lots of form factors; no, none of them have helped), so open office plans where the "solution" is to just tell people to wear headphones and blast music are nonstarters for me.

I also hate with a passion having people walking around behind me where I can't see them. It's not a question of having things on my screen that I don't want people to see; it's a question of feeling safe and not being constantly startled/on edge.

I'm 34.
Put Comet Cache and Cloudflare in front of it. Comet Cache generates generates static files from wordpress, and Cloudflares "keep my site up if it goes down" keeps copies of the static files.
Please note that these are galaxies, not stars.

While stars can do gravitational lensing, due to both the fact that we can see more galaxies, and they have larger mass, it is easier for it to happen with galaxies.
The encryption in Borg is weak but otherwise it works well if it fits your use case.
It's a secret ballot but many people have phones.
I would assume its the rise of the 8-12 week bootcamps that essentially mock all those who have spent so much more time in the field.
> 2- people who need to be on their phones (aka sales) are in a different office

I'd like that
There are a number of different options. And today, yes, code is tied to one of them. But, and it’s not stable yet, futures and executors, the two traits, are being added to the standard library. This lets your code be generic over executors, and there are already more than just tokio. Including an embedded one, for example.

Tokio wraps epoll/kqueue/iocp.
Building Spotify’s New Web Player
Yakuza are tolerated by police unless they cross certain lines. They perform an unpleasant but important function of keeping foreign gangs out.
This is a good reminder that you better disable auto-updates if you don't want to become auto-backdoored.
If anyone's interested in some context, this is apparently class material for a course taught by Thomas Schelling, who Wikipedia describes as:

> an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, College Park. He was also co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He was awarded the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Robert Aumann) for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Schelling
Ugh, I hate everything about this. They claim to be privacy focused but collect metadata for ads.

The app appears to have 15 fake 5 star reviews that don't at all accurately review the app as an ephemeral messaging platform. One compares it to Whatsapp.

there is no website explaining how this app works.

they're forcing users to provide a phone number for no discernable reason.
433.92 ISM is only EU/Africa. So yeah in the US it would be illegal to use encryption. There are quite a few lower frequency ISM bands that might offer much greater range.

I'm interested in this stuff because I just started playing with these: https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/a/a/0/b/5/DS_SX1276-7-8-9_W_...

They do spread spectrum on ISM bands with extremely low data rates for insane sensitivity. I want to see what kind of stable distance you can get with lower frequencies and possibly even lower bitrates.
iPod touch refresh is rumored but I'm doubtful.
What corruption do you think you see?
I hate them, and I'm from Europe.

I also don't really see them being "the norm" - the software development company I work for since 8 years puts 2-4 people into an office, and that's it. We had some experiments with up to 8 or 10 in a room, but everyone really hated it, and management listened. We just moved into a larger building, but we still have only 4 desks maximum per office.

But then, maybe I'm just lucky. Our company staying away from open offices because of abysmal feedback by employees is definitely one of the reasons why I've been there for almost a decade now.
I just tried in Evince and you can print an annotated document to flatten it just fine.
From TFA:

"Horseplay," a term used to denote child rape, is, says Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, part of a sinister glossary of euphemisms by which the Catholic Church's bureaucracy obfuscates in documents the church's "pattern of abuse" and conspiracy of silence "that goes all the way to the Vatican." "Benevolent bishops" are those who allow predatory priests, shuffled from other dioceses, to continue as priests.
Wide-spectrum recycling efforts in the United States has only been in practice for about 20 years. Earlier metal and glass recycling efforts existed prior to that but the widespread implementation of plastic recycling programs is only a couple of decades old.

20 years is not a long time to solve such a difficult problem. 20 years after the invention of the transistor the first microprocessor had not been invented-- and determining how to handle millions of tons of plastics is a lot harder than figuring out how to shrink down a transistor.

One of the problems with recycling programs is that most of the outputs of electronics and plastic recycling are in foreign countries, countries that cannot cope with the ecological impacts of being the dumping grounds of US and EU recycling shipments.

One simple way to decrease the costs and increase the effectiveness of recycling efforts is to require that packaging be made of easily-recyclable materials.

Assertions about an activity like recycling based on an economic argument makes as much sense as applying capital-M Market theories to healthcare, nutrition, and environmentalism.

In places where capital-M Market theories are applied to those areas, what occurs is that the rich enjoy outstanding healthcare while the poor are discharged from emergency rooms onto the streets in hospital gowns and slippers after being stabilized, people die ten years sooner than those in equally-industrialized nations because they are addicted to high fructose corn syrup, and fracking firms poison West Virginian watersheds because jobs trump the need for clean water.

Plastics and e-waste are difficult to recycle, and absent massive investment in research and development will likely be difficult to recycle so long as there is an infinite variety of them and potential consumers are on the other side of the globe.

People who argue from economics will continue to do so like cult members convinced of the infallibility of their prophets as a metaphorical line of misery and destruction keeps rising and engulfing the less fortunate, so long as the line does not rise to their level.

But it will, and when it does the "job creators" will realize that you can neither eat nor breathe an investment portfolio.

One day, humanity's addiction to plastics and the near-perpetual problems they create (the persistent presence of microplastics in sea life and the human bloodstream being just one) will be seen as a mistake as grave as leaded gasoline.
Well, I'm sure conversation on this thread is super dead, but:

What you're saying all makes sense in the context of house-as-investment. But unlike other investments, you need housing, and if your house's value appreciates, you can't just sell and put that money in something else -- unless you're moving out of the area. You could sell your house and rent, but rents and house prices move roughly similarly, so you don't save much doing so. If you sell and buy another house in the area, you just end up moving your money from one "investment" to another and probably have some tax problems (from Prop 13, in California).

"Wiping out my entire investment" is less of a concern when all that means is that you can buy another equivalent house at the new price, and appreciating is less of a benefit when it means you need to buy another equivalent house at the new price.

Going actually underwater on your loans is of course bad -- though most people shouldn't be so leveraged that modest drop puts them underwater. And those who are about to move out of the area or downsize, sure, they have much more of a traditional investment mentality. But if you're 20+ years from that? If you might never move away or get a smaller house? The value of your house means very little.
Writing 29.99 € or 29.99 EUR is still super common even if it's English. This might be in part because the UK never really used euros (and will probably never use them).
I normally don't read NYTimes articles but this one was pretty good with a couple of useful external links.

But then they dropped this line:

"On the other side of the coin, Ms. Rubin also suggested that we make the things we want to do as easy as possible for ourselves."

So what you're saying is I should tweak my vimrc file to make it easier to write code instead of working on my next project, got it!

Jokes aside though, it's worth a read if you're afflicted by procrastination and its related friends.
Digital textbooks are technology’s answer to obsolete and heavy textbooks
The most important question is not which subscription offerings or bundles Apple will announce today, or if the content will be any good, but if they will be mainly available on Apple's hardware or provided on other platforms.

Apple Music is available on iOS, Mac, Android and Windows (including in Window's App Store) but that's partly due to the legacy of iTunes and acquisition of Beats (which already had an Android app). There has been encouraging signs in the past year as iTunes content has been made available on more non-Apple platforms.

So I'll be watching closely during this for the availability of the Apple News service. When Apple acquired Texture they kept the Android app alive but immediately shut down the Windows 10 app. What will Apple do next with this service?
It is weird to see this mindset on a site that is basically founded on the idea that taking on debt can be valuable. What would the startup scene be like if everyone avoided debt at all costs?
yep life was wasteful, time to wipe it out and start over amirite?
Just recently saw an ad on the web that I actually clicked. Was pretty surprised, because it happens maybe once a year or so. The ad said: "New restaurant in [hometown]" (big text) with simple yet captivating graphics. It had a few additional points (smaller text) that I read after I got interested. Worked really well. The noiselessness of it felt pretty refreshing.
Are mortgages really debt though? Because even though you owe, you also own as much as you owe (except during a market downturn of course). Whereas debt for a depreciating asset (like a car, or most things that go on a credit card) are what I would consider "real" debt. In other words, keep your net debt low or non existent (when looking at a balance sheet).
I think it was an intentional play on words.
Still going to pay transport costs on getting raw materials to space, although I imagine raw mats will be densers and the volume savings will reduce costs.
Icons: Avoid temptation and start with user needs
I didn't know that. I'm not too familiar with amateur radio around the world. I know people were able to contact other people around the world, so I assumed the bands were similar.
Living in a Microservice World: Why Kubernetes Security Matters
have someone walk up behind you and tap on your desk

I've got two colleagues that are horrible about this. Fortunate enough to have an office with a door, and play music quietly at my desk so I'll hear it if someone knocks--since I face slightly away from the door.

Except they'll skip knocking and just walk in and around my desk to do the shoulder tap if the door's open.

I've been training them out of this behavior by saying "oh hey did you knock? I must have missed it, what's up?"

Time will tell how this goes, heh.
Even the densely populated UK has significant proportions where nobody lives:

https://artplusmarketing.com/nobody-lives-here-united-kingdo...

Edit: I suspect the grid squares being used are of different sizes, but even so - the crowded bits of the UK are even more crowded than the overall population density would suggest.
You do have an alternative to work for yourself in one form or another. You lose this alternative under socialism.
Not sure if it occurs around individual stars or galaxies, but halo lensing does occur around black holes.
> I don't think people who create things are generally dissuaded by this advice or they probably wouldn't be creating in the first place. You kind of have to be an engine of positivity to self-motivate in the first place, which is why falling in love with your own bullshit is a common trap.

Hmm, I've anecdotally known some people, myself included, who have gone through dramatic ups and downs of in terms of creative output which correlated with swings in mood/depression. Sometimes creative output is even negative; I've burned more poetry than I've saved. I can imagine people's creative output being negatively affected by well-meaning advice.

Edit: s/input/output
Git won in the same sense that chrome won or windows won, there's value in having alternatives and I would like to have the option of mercurial in more settings.

I am not advocating for use of git or mercurial, use whatever suits your needs! But I think having a platform like bitbucket support alternatives to git is a big plus for developer freedom to chose.
bingo. I can't wait to leave to find my dream job that is outside of IT and Software Development
Google's Gerrit Code Review stores its special permissions and such in a meta/ references namespace, which has restricted permissions. So instead of refs/heads/ for branch names, there's refs/meta/*. The meta space has config files specifying the permissions.

Also the config and permissions changes are logged, because they're git commits too.

The same could be done without forking git. One could also just have a parallel git repo with config files.
The way we currently do it doesn't work, but that doesn't mean that it's not a worthwhile thing to do!

If we were all slightly less lazy and were willing to separate things more like other countries, it would work much better. Or, be willing to pay the true costs of many of the materials.
How so? When I glanced over it it looked trustworthy enough.
Yeah that's what stands out to me as well. I wish the author had put that sentence at the top. The biggest feature of Rust is it's safety. If you don't care for the biggest feature of a language then it shouldn't be a surprise that you don't like the language.
Didn't read the article but surprised 5-HTP not mentioned?
Yeah I looked into also, it appears to pretty much just be Chrome.
Idea for weekend project: it would be better if you could specify the facetting resolution in the latitude/longitude directions and then generate your own custom blueprint based on how much time you want to spend on cutting/assembly.
There is still technology issues with streaming. Take DAZN for example. They are the provider of NFL streams and they started with a ton of issues with quality of streams, to the point where it was unwatchable. They actually refunded everyone a month's worth of service ($20) because it was so bad.
A rule at my current client is that every department gets 0.7 desks per member, and facilities sticks to it. The rationale is that we're all flexible and not everybody is in all the time, and that might be for managers and other people who live in meetings, but for product teams it can mean you can't sit together. We had to fight for a spot of our own. It's not the best spot, but at least I'm sitting with my team.
I'll wait for the write ups but I'm excited to see what Apple's pivot to services entails. I don't own a iPhone but definitely have been envious of some of the services that are included with the Apple ecosystem. Apple's reputation as a luxury tech company can definitely help them turn into a services giant imo.
This will hopefully change in a few years, esp. with low-latency GEO satellite internet coverage (SpaceX, and other competitors).
I think it was a mixture of column A and column B. Open offices became a trend in cheap office buildings, sure, but there was also the fad among early "Agile" proponents/consultants that were very vocal that open office "communication" was some secret sauce to "Agile" that produced better or faster code somehow.

(The Agile consultant fad seems an interesting telephone game from the ideal of "pair programming". Devolving from "pair programming in offices setup up for two and only two developers to closely share code without other distractions" to "pair programming is easier in open offices than cubicles" to "open offices enable ad hoc pair programming without dedicating people to actually learning/using pair programming, right?" bokum.)