skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Organizing Complexity: Behind the Screens of Software Developers
I started coffee late in life. 2 cups a day is my thing, all before lunch because after that it messes with my sleep.

But I've worked with people where effectively there wasn't a moment in the day they weren't drinking coffee and they were going to get more pretty much constantly.

I didn't realize how much people drink until I started.
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The “arrival fallacy”: why accomplishing goals won't necessarily make you happy
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I can work fine in a coffee shop but for some reason I’ve never been able to work in a library. Or maybe it’s just the ones I’ve been to; they all had dim fluorescent lighting, a musty smell, and lack of decorating/design.
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Nice! Spreadsheets are pretty good CMS as well, so people can use it to create websites without code.

I made an app called https://Sheet2Site.com which takes your spreadsheet of items/objects and translates it into an app, with filters.
> Professor Metin Avkiran, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, said in a press release: "There are several conflicting studies saying different things about coffee, and it can be difficult to filter what we should believe and what we shouldn't. This research will hopefully put some of the media reports in perspective, as it rules out one of the potential detrimental effects of coffee on our arteries."

They aren't saying that drinking coffee doesn't have problems, all they are saying is that it doesn't appear to affect the arteries. They aren't trying to provide an anecdote about simple living, it's testing a hypothesis.
Learn Git concepts, not commands
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Europe Has Invested €1B into Graphene–But for What?
I wonder whether any mechanical watches could cope with this technique (and maintain any semblance of accuracy).
What do you want them to do? Better themselves - Are they not already trying? Accept they were born unattractive - then what, suicide?
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Microsoft shows off its 'Centaurus' dual-screen laptop ahead of Apple's WWDC
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The youtube channel Technology Connections and its #2 channel is doing a series on this right now. The potential is exciting, but the reality of how little development is going into the area is disappointing.
Two is my general limit as well.

I've had conversations about an issue with someone at work and the response was "Three cups today huh man?"

I get a bit worked up sometimes with that third cup.
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I have run similar workshops and find that kids this age respond to technology that they can "program" in the broader sense. Setting up a microboard with LED lights that they can change via manipulation of switches or simple programming, and things of that nature. Programming is so abstract, I find kids respond to making it concrete.
Facebook introduces Avatars, its Bitmoji competitor
Climate change requires government action, not just personal steps
I believe in personal responsibility as much as the next guy, but my generation (i'm about 29) was heavily taught two things by our parents 1)Having a degree is better than not having a degree and 2) You should pursue your interests and passions above all. I am thankful that i became interested in computers at a young age and make a decent living but that guy could have totally been me if i had been interested in something unemployable. Mental models that we are taught about the world growing up have a huge influence on our behaviors as we venture out into the real world. This guy might have doubled down on his "follow your passions" by getting a unemployable masters degree.
Teaching new languages to our bot
I'll remain a skeptic until they stop treating their Windows customers like children, implementing deliberately deceptive dark patterns and exfiltrating data on a scale that rivals Google and Facebook.
The truckers flagged my cocaine comment how do I make them stop.
>The research also showed that moderate and heavy coffee drinkers were most likely to be male, smoke and consume alcohol regularly.

So this shows an obvious problem with the study. They did not rule out co-factors. If the moderate to heavy coffee drinkers are also smoke and consume alcohol regularly, then this already puts them at a higher risk for heart disease, and likely completely dwarfs any effect of caffeine.
The down side is that this can have bad effects on company wide morale.
My wife's company has a strict no remote work policy. But one or two managers go against the company policy like you have, and let their dept. work remote from time to time.

It's great for them, but it kills morale in the rest of the company as people in my wife's department kill themselves to come in day after day (despite good/bad weather, missing personal commitments, etc), while they notice empty desks in the dept. down the hall. Makes for some miserable workers.
One small thing I want to add is that as someone with many hobbies and goals not related to my job I love the idea of getting X amount of work done and then being done as early as 2 or 3.

Those extra hours to make more progress on whatever personal project(s) I'm working on at that time keep me motivated and, more importantly, happy. Which means I'll enjoy doing my actual work more (or just tolerate it better) and you'll probably get better results from me.
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This is definitely worth recognizing. Some conditions like ADHD are understood to be the extreme of "normal" variation rather than a specific change in functionality, and many conditions are explicitly defined as being diagnosable only when they interfere with everyday life. We should absolutely expect the rates of such illnesses to vary as the meaning of 'everyday life' changes - I mention ADHD because changes to education and job structure have made focus and executive function increasingly important. And of course, there's the entire debate around increased access to diagnosis and broadened diagnostic standards over the last few decades.

That said, it's also worth talking about which things aren't derived from changing standards, or at least recent ones. The perception of something like schizophrenia or suicide may differ between cultures, but both have been pathologized in the US and Europe since pre-industrial times. Less dramatically, any psychological condition which leaves a person largely housebound (e.g. extreme depression or some presentations of OCD) has been pathological since at least the end of the Victorian Era.

To the extent that we see a rise in suicide rates, debilitating depression and anxiety, and patterns like hikikomori and its international analogues, it really does seem like something has changed about behavior as well as society.
> First, before a propaganda campaign or disinformation spreads, we usually observe that there is a point where they are doing some kind of limited testing or A/B testing, and that's before it became really popular. It's just testing the meme, the variation, to see whether it would go viral, so to speak.

I have definitely seen this happen in real time. Suggest it publicly and you'll be accused of being Alex Jones, but it happens. Glad to see a public official acknowledging this.

> Our observation is that if we do that, then most of the population reach this message like an inoculation before they reach the disinformation, and so that protects like a vaccination.

Strange that I've just come across a paper related to this notion: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.5090268

An interesting approach, might be an oversimplification of real-world dynamics though.

> Once they do that, Facebook promises, by June, that this will inform the Facebook's algorithm so that it will stop being preferred to show on people's newsfeed, but it's not censorship. If you look specifically for that friend, that post is still there, but they have a warning that says it's already fact-checked as false.

This is much better than removing the post, but it still makes me nervous. Just imagine that we're in the early 2000s, and you can envision a banner saying "The claims in this article are FALSE. As confirmed by the intelligence community and the New York Times, Iraq is actively working on its nuclear weapons program." Perhaps they should have a policy limiting the use of this tool when it comes to issues that may lead to war.
VScode is not open-source. Even when Microsoft do open source, it's not open source... It's bundled with closed source proprietary telemetry/spyware. If anyone care, there is VSCodium which is open source
Thank you. It's fascinating that people used to consider the chest as a seat of higher thought. I guess even now we strongly associate it with emotions.

Based on that article I would say Hume's overall body of work is by a wide margin more contemporary than Epicurus' if not more subtle and sophisticated. The passions-slave-reason quotation is really only a tiny part of his writing. For example, Hume provides an intricate and judicious account of epistemology in which causality is reduced to a kind of anthropic pattern-recognition. This reconciles his account of psychology with the enlightenment understanding of the scientific method, which did not exist at the time of Epicurus.
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Just because people disagree with you doesn't mean they're being paid off by people you don't like.

Though in the case of companies that have a track record of just that[0], it's not outlandish to jump to that conclusion.

[0] The reader is free to look up "Microsoft munchkins" as an exercise.
YouTube's Recommendation Algorithm Has a Dark Side
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> Well, the third part never came

It did in some cases.

In others, well what was the old adage? If at first you don't succeed...
People who sell physical goods bake the cost of these losses into their pricing. In fact, any large business will have financial analysts whose sole job is to calculate exactly how much they'll need to inflate their prices to make up for losses due to fraud, theft, accidents, and the like. It's kind of like being your own insurer, except the customer pays your premiums.
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When you look at companies Walt Disney Owns 'A whole new world' gets new meaning
> even those who drank up to 25 cups a day were no more likely to experience stiffening of the arteries than someone drinking less than a cup a day.

Stiffening of the arteries was not what the doctor at the emergency room mentioned when he told me that I needed to reduce my caffeine intake.
Understanding the Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy: The Albright Doctrine
Wow that is just terrible.

"We've tried nothing and we are all out of ideas! LOCKED" is basically their response.

I'd complain on Twitter just to see what happens.
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Google’s Anti-Trust Case Is Building Momentum
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I have found that novel novelty is the key to feeling good.

Too much novelty too often becomes hard to cope with, too little is too drab.
The issue is more about why not than why they should.

The biggest reasons are the loss of domestic experience curves [1] to other countries when we shifted to a service based economy. The second is the hyper politicized process of even creating a factory, let alone operating one, even when you have the direct backing of the executive branch [2].

The other one (allegedly) is the idea that the local labor workforce won't want to do any of the hard/dirty jobs or can't do them cost effectively, often because 1 and 2 but other reasons. So there are higher initial costs for automation.

But otherwise there are plenty of good reasons to operate production domestically once the technical and political environment supports such a thing. Which might happen in the future, although few mainstream parties seem to actually want that to happen without their idealized or prior worldview being appeased.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-06/inside-wi...
I love how clean and professional looking this is, and how difficult it is to tell that it's being monetized. Content like this is why the internet exists! I can definitely see the value in having this app on my phone too.
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You can take a look at what we are building at https://snips.ai to do a 100% on-device and private-by-design Voice AI, it works in english, french, german, japanese, spanish, italian, and more coming

It is 100% free for makers, and it is very easy to build your own voice assistants which work with it. I'm sure that the kids will love it ;)
Last time I looked to an article for caffeine advice it said 600mg per day was the number to not go over.

Common caffeine contents:
Double Espresso ~100mg
Starbucks small coffee ~200mg