skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't take any medication for it, but music can help, and over the years, I've gotten better at focusing by simply willing myself to do it. There are definitely a lot of days when I'll end up blankly staring at my screen for an hour while my mind runs through a bunch of unrelated information, but I'm stubborn and have been able to push through this the majority of the time.

I also try to always write down a task so I don't forget it later. For my own personal projects, I like to use Trello to organize my tasks and plan out what I need to work on for the next release.

I can definitely understand the difficulty to focus on something you're not interested in. Maybe you could try listening to a podcast or something about something you ARE interested in while working? Depends on how bad the ADD is, because for me, I would end up completely focusing on that and tuning out my actual work.

Also, if you're seriously trying to work on something and it's usually an issue for you, put your phone somewhere where you won't be constantly reaching for it.
Just like the all the university sweats that are so popular. Some of those that wears it are wearing it for fashion reason, and not because they have attended classes there.
If half of the media tells it's a hoax, why would the population want to endure inconvenience for it.

Denialism has a real effect.
Humans causing shrinking of nature as larger animals die off
Perhaps publishing bad research should be punishable in some way. Also the system of citations does not work because negative citations also count as citations.
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It's currently ending up in kmalloc(). The compiler handles the new[]/delete[] element count and I don't ask any questions about how.
the scientific method is about hypotheses and experiments. we're running a global experiment now, with potentially disastrous consequences, which can't be repeated, and you're saying you're fine to wait for its outcome because it's unscientific to do otherwise, basic thermodynamics notwithstanding, and you dare to tell others that science is turning into a religion, where in fact you have an irrational approach to the problem at hand which you're rationalizing as 'scientific method'.

i'm afraid that in fact your stance on climate warming is a question of your identity instead of logical thought.
If the increase in homogenization comes from everyone keeping their packages up to date and secure, I'm going to see that as a net win for the community.
Microsoft Basics have support for value types since MS-DOS.

QuickBasic supported value types and AOT to native code, and while Visual Basic used P-Code, version 6 introduced a proper AOT native compiler.

Modula-3 was also a big influence, at least accordingly to some papers.

There was surely demand for AOT, given that most commercial JVMs had it in some form or the other since 2000.

Even Sun actually supported it in Java Embedded variant for OEMs, probably grudgingly.

Common Lisp certainly has support for value types.
Some ACM conferences are now handing out "badges" that mark papers where the associated "artifacts" are publicly available or have been independently reproduced or replicated: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-ba...

The main issue with that right now seems to be the lack of real incentives: those badges are nice to have, but in the end you're evaluated by publications in highly regarded journals and conferences, citations, and funding brought in. Those things of course tend to let people focus on novel, fancy, exciting work, instead of the time-consuming process of making things easy to replicate by others, or even replication of other people's experiments. Incentive-wise, the publication business follows the principle of fire-and-forget.

What's needed, but I believe very difficult to introduce, is the strict expectation of independent replication. That would mean replication as part of the core review process, which would A. create a lot of work for reviewers B. initially reduce the attractiveness of whichever conference introduces it first.

One thing that would be easy to introduce in computer science would be to make it mandatory to share all code used in experiments - if you cannot/won't do that, you should not able to take part in this game.
> and the next version is ".NET 5" (without the Core moniker).

And that single thing will eliminate years worth of confusion. About bloody time.

A nice byproduct is that it will finally convince everyone in my org that we have to go all in on migrating from "traditional .Net" to .Net "Core", on everything we do.

Also about bloody time :)
I think you underestimate the EU, if Microsoft couldn't escape their wrath back in 2007 I'm pretty sure Facebook and Google won't today. The EU is even stronger than it was in those days, too.
You'd be surprised I think. In my job, EOL noticed are all it takes, often, to push people onto the next version, even reluctantly. I imagine many situations where Python 2 is still used are not developer driven but, rather, business value propositions. Many of my clients wouldn't understand a discussion about upgrading because of Unicode strings, but if I were to mention to my clients that Python 2 is no longer receiving bugfixes and officially has reached EOL status you can bet they would all throw money at it.
It sure did, as long as you were a Windows shop.
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Taking money in people's names and forwarding them what they feel like forwarding, for one.
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It got the anti-environment pro-coal Liberals reelected in Australia last weekend, for sure. That, and fear of taxes for the stupidly rich.
I want to be mad that I can’t play Firewatch on my phone but I hope I can never play it on my phone.
Clueless morons from the EU are scoring big in the court of public opinion - “the government protects us and at the same shakes down the rich Yanks,
oh yeah!”
The further north you get, the friendlier people are, and the more distrust for Government there is. This however does also include cultural and sectarian divides, so the split isn't as simple as north/south.

With that said, I'm Scottish and living near London and find this distasteful. But it's easier to configure a VPN then whine about it, so maybe we're just lazy?
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Another interpretation is, that the mines cemented that border.
That Blub paradox was insightful. However, you do realize that people using Emacs might be Blub programmers as well!
Machine Learning Reproducibility: DVC Tool vs. Git-LFS and Git-Annex Limitations
You mention this ad hominem so you can extrapolate beliefs that may be completely fabricated.
What a loss in an otherwise nearly informative article, it’s all based on how to look yet next to none of the images were of what to wear
Lol you're way off
> lots of people around the world want "something to be done" about crime

I do too, but executing potentially innocent people on the spot is not "doing something about crime", it's crime. That innocent could be you (unless you're rich and/or white I guess?).

> most of the first world has managed to build little non-authoritarian enclaves where the police are subject to the law too, and enough of the public accept the idea that all life is valuable.

But why not the US? Surely when you see the ideas behind the US Constitution, Americans should be completely on board with this. They should be leading the charge.
Is that a one off cost? Is there a yearly cost for keeping it in the datacenter?
Can you try with tomorrow’s/today’s update when it gets approved to see if it fixes it? I fixed a URL encoding issue for the special characters and should be available soon when they approve it.
I work for a Fortune 20 and you couldn't be more off.
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> Governments will not oblige their citizens to make steps on their consumption if it means reducing their comfort and their economic power.

The effects climate change has and will have are doing that for them.
No need for Windows. There was an official Linux implementation back in the day, codenamed Kylix.
Funny enough, as I was reading this I was thinking the users and non-users of Blub were switched.
Yep, already submitted that feature update and waiting for Apple’s approval hopefully today! Let me know when you try it!
Gos: Armed Golang ( solutions for go module, goproxy, cross compilation, etc.)
Address: https://github.com/storyicon/gos
I think an 80/20 solution is documentation UX. Just take all these old modules and put them into an "old modules" section and preface that section with a short discussion on what this all means and what the wisdom is.
If you said the same thing of a European country your comment would be flagged already.
>Battlestar: Galactica is a proper sci-fi and happens to be set in the past

Battlestar Galactica - the Christian allegory with angels and gods and literal miracles reskinned with robots and spaceships?

Everyone is entitled to their opinion but that's all anyone has here, including myself: opinions. There is no objective and universally accepted definition of science fiction which requires rigid conformity to scientific principles, or a lack of mythological or religious themes. The lines people draw between "science fiction" "science fantasy" and even "fantasy" are based on marketing and personal taste.

Star Wars is sci-fi, no less so than Galactica or even Star Trek, and all of it is also science fantasy. These aren't separate categories, but poles on a spectrum of speculative fiction.
What gave you the idea that other places would not be allowed anymore? How would safety be impaired by photographers outside fences?
A reasonable person can parse the info I've outlined, do their own research and come up with their own conclusion. It is not my responsibility to spoon-feed you data or write a research paper. Do it with that what you want, it doesn't matter to me.
You're right it's important to unpack these allegations, but I don't think they are just random cynicism.

> US companies were, collectively, fined slightly less than their share of economic activity in the EU,

I can imagine why you would control for economic activity, but I have no idea what impact that had on the results relative to other reasonable controls. If we're wondering about punishing bad decisions, you could have instead controlled for the number of decisionmakers from these companies in the EU. Or you could have controlled for the number of different endeavors or types of products or lines of business (because each different source of revenue is a source of malfeasance moreso than each individual euro earned). I'm really mostly concerned about that last one. What is the chance each revenue stream will get more scrutiny by being foreign? Court cases don't target individual euros earned, they target a certain product or way of doing business.

Regardless of controls, it doesn't change the tortured logic in some high profile cases comparing US and EU institutions under the same standard. If the Spanish media publicizes something as widely as it can, that's great, because it's good for the public to have that information. If an American tech firm allows people to access those publications, that's bad, because it's bad for the public to have that information.

I'd love to change my mind about the bias in the EU, I'm open to new evidence. All it would take is a few EU cases where they found that the big American company was blameless, but the small European company should be fined.
Yup, the roof curves but in the middle it's perfectly fine to stand straight at 6'4" and with some leeway. The time you get stuck by the door, well it's going to be a sad 20 minutes
Why do you try to read my mind? It violates the laws of physics and I explicitly wrote why I mentioned his political views. I don't think he has the views I extrapolated, which is why I wonder why he has the ones he says he has.
Happens quite often on the Jubilee line, and whether it’s the brakes being applied or motors cutting out, the upshot is the train comes to a very abrupt stop, seemingly with no action from the driver.

This is usually followed by a frustrated driver coming over the PA system to implore people to stop leaning on the doors, because they are unable to move the train until they do so.
> Isn't this true of other nations?

Not as a general rule, no. What makes the distinction for me is the dialect they speak and their way of speaking. Then I'll have them firmly identified as 'from that town', or 'that particular part of the country' and there's no way for me to think of them differently. Where their parents came from has no part of it for me or for most people. It's just not possible for my mind to think of somebody who speaks like a native (as they will, when they were born here or moved here as a child) as being any kind of "outsider".
In my experience small children never make any distinction either, anywhere in the world. That comes later, and they learn it from their parents. That's when the problems start.
They have a directive to move it to .net core - assume I assume this will make it cross-platform?
I feel the same way, honestly. Thinking of it in a different way - torvalds and gregkh get paid by the Linux Foundation. Say it went bankrupt, they would surely need to get other jobs, unless they were sponsored by the community. Many developers of the kernel today are sponsored by their employers. The question is, how many of them would do it (out of sheer enthusiasm) if they aren't getting paid to?
American is a nationality, it is not an ethnicity. There is no "ethnic american" due to historic reason.

You are half-korean, so what is your other half? White? So you are half korean and half white.

You wouldn't say you are 100% korean and 100% white. That would be ridiculous right? Your ethnic history and composition can't add up to 200%. Even if you claimed to be 100% korean or 100% white, neither white nor korean people would consider you to be 100% white or korean.

That's my point. There is nationality and ethnicity. Those are two different things. A chinese person could move to germany and become a german citizen or national. But nobody would consider him an ethnic german.
It's a smart looking design. But that recessed speaker grille is going to fill up with fluff and grime pretty quickly. Especially if kids use it!
This just gives an easier option.

These features are a disincentive for users to look for alternatives, which in turn is a disincentive for people to start businesses to provide alternatives, which altogether has a cooling effect on the tooling ecosystem.

That's not to say GitHub shouldn't provide these options. They're useful additions to a great platform. My remark is simply about the economics of a supplier with substantial market share adding a new feature. It has a wider impact that being 'just another option'.
Nope, this was a factual account of my experience
This is kind of a good thing. China has shut down nearly every rare earth mine by price gauging. So if they cut the US off, well see these lines open up in other parts of the world. This will remove the Chinese monopoly on the metals.

Also cutting the US off does not mean refineries stop working. Their current supplies will still exist.
Cameras, everywhere, surveillance state is the future.
> I believe, in a few years, when historical data from the fines is available, it will become clear this regulation is disproportionately affecting American companies.

Affecting the companies with the most revenue, biggest influence and worst track records for mishandling personal data? That just shows that the law is working as intended. The fact that most of these companies happen to be based in America is irrelevant.

If anything it highlights just how poor the culture around the handling of personal data actually is in America.
All dates stored in UTC, so if any other country raised a ticket, we just told them to update their timezone in their profile, and the client was happy. Japan is the only country that this required incident reports.
Aka "security".
If you view Github as just a Git (and occasionally static site) hosting service, then there's not lock-in whatsover; you can always move to somewhere like Gitlab or host your own. But the point is: Github isn't just a Git website anymore; it creates a community around it. Right now the reason why people aren't easily moving out of Github is because by moving to somewhere else, they have to risk getting less views, less recognition, and less pull requests for their libraries. Also, if you were a Sponsor in Github and earning $30000 a month and then had disagreements with Github's policies and want to get out, you now have to risk shaving off all your sponsors to switch to a different service like Liberapay. Maybe some of your passionate existing patrons will go towards the extra effort to switch alongside you, but the reality is: most won't.

There were lots of promises and hopes for the patron economy (or I would extend this to call it a "distributed economy"), where people can directly give money as reward for their work while avoiding the traditional hierarchical structure of corporations. However, because of the nature of the current society we live in, the ideal version of this economy would never come to fruition. Think of examples such as Patreon, Youtube, and recently Github; they're an enabler for diverse communities, rich subcultures, and innovative ideas, but the users still have to live under the guise of huge capitalistic forces. It seems that the distributed economy still has to live under the current technocratic system (where huge tech corporations have much higher leverage than small companies or non-profit organizations). To see this relationship between users and corporations as either symbiotic or exploitative is up to your choice, but I think the status-quo will stay for quite some time.
Why? The Windows desktop is by a gigantic margin the most popular desktop environment. Mac and Linux combined cover perhaps a 10% or less, so if 90% coverage isn't enough for such a renaissance, why would a +~10% change that (especially considering that most of that 10% is Mac where anything except Cocoa feels weird and wrong to a very picky userbase)?

Also why would C# and WPF do that instead of the myrriads of other languages and desktop tech? WPF alone wasn't exactly popular on Windows itself.
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Yep - and in the town I used to live in Japan there were yearly festivals showcasing various immigrant (or even visitor's) culture. All amateurs, just getting together to create something from their various home countries and doing a performance. And then a nice party afterwards, with everybody (audience and participants). And there are food festivals too.
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That is because people on HN are the general public in a lot of ways. Just because most are specialized knowledge workers doesn't mean they are inherently more intelligent in other areas of life.
The gulf of Finland is 80 kilometers wide.
Sec policies.
What would happen if we added (5 or 10%) more water to the Earth today?
Not really once you realize how much of the fearmongering is completely baseless.

There is literally no scientifically demonstrated consequence of climate change that we don't know how to deal with today let alone in 10-40-100 years from now.
The worst are these who don’t answer the question at all but “helpfully”’give you the link to the man page. If the answer contains an example which matches the question it is useful.

(And I too actually consider awk much simpler than e.g. bash)
I'd be tempted to sign up and just donate $5k to myself to get the 100% match.... #freemoney
>The constant downvotes and endless snarky comments that ignore the fact that 2 of the biggest companies on the planet are ad networks which have provided tremendous value to both customers and shareholders, and are a key ingredient in the marketing and growth of basically every business.

I think wording it as "tremendous value" is a stretch but that's just me. Also, businesses are fully able to grow without the likes of the two biggest companies. So, not every business has those companies as a key ingredient. It's not a "too big too fail", doomsday scenario, where the (business) wold is entirely dependent on the two companies to exist, yeah?

>The ignorance that advertising itself is a fine model that subsidizes 99% of the content on the internet and allows for fast, easy, and egalitarian access for billions of people, as well as increased opportunity for creators of all kinds.

You're delineating in your own retort and creating double-speak. Advertising, as a whole, can be fine but the two aforementioned companies can be total shit. That doesn't create a dichotomy or ignorance.

You're already speaking about your audience as unwilling to view your arguments but you treat them as ignorant, which means you're unwilling to be malliable in your own view and see it from their perspective. Isn't that ignorance, in and of itself? :)

>And finally the(y are) obliviousness to the technical and business solutions that already exist to make the experience better instead of going down an endless arms race where nobody wins.

I don't think taking a stance that your solutions are the only ones that work and because no one will accept them, it's an arms race to the bottom is conducive to anything. If anything, that leads directly to your aforementioned arms race to the bottom.

To spin it a different way and benefit your supposed enemy in discourse: Advertising markets worked fine before the two big companies, yeah? The internet still existed? Pages were able to be reached in a fast, easy, egalitarian, and free way, yeah?

Aside from that model being "dead", simply because it's no longer used, why do you believe that this is such an implicitly binary situation of the two companies must exist and be allowed free rampant growth or nothing at all?

I hope that you take this as constructive criticism but it would seem to me, from this exchange, that it's you who's coming to these conversations not willing to listen.
No one denies that the climate changed before and that it's a natural thing. The problem is that in 100 years we went from slow changes to 10 times the amplitudes ever recorded.
The questions isn't "Do these cycles exist ?" it's "Are we sure we want to trigger one early ?"

Greenhouse effect is a very well studied effect. CO2 / other gases level are a very well studied field. CO2/other gases dramatically increased since the industrial revolution. Are you also denying that ?

When you study something you have to look at the settings in which it happens and look at the time frame. Sure changes happened 10k+ years ago, that's not invalidating anything related to our role in the current change.

> Thinking humans are responsible for global warming is like thinking humans are responsible for the rise and decline of tides because we drink water.

You won't win anyone over with such nonsensical arguments.

https://www.climatecentral.org/news/the-last-time-co2-was-th...

https://theconversation.com/the-three-minute-story-of-800-00...

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/global-warming/last-2000-years

https://xkcd.com/1732/
Yes, but I rarely even come across negative citations.. If they are slightly negative it is only to differentiate their work from the cited one to "get their own paper out".

It is more common that the cited papers have not even been read.
Say a sponsored developer Bob has some software, that another person, Alice forks. The fork becomes wildly more successful than the original for some reason, and Bob loses many sponsors in the course of time. Would a situation like this force developers to use restrictive licenses?
(I get that Bob can just integrate Alice's fork into his original - assume that it's too much work for Bob to do so)