skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: My Bedroom Is a Trigger for Binging Reddit/HN?
Hello. I am trying to reduce my reddit/hn binging. It's starting to affect my studies. But it's only when I am in my bedroom?

Now it gets better when I'm not in my bedroom, or my house. However it still takes over. For example: I go to the gym, come home, and change my clothes. There is a sudden urge to lay in bed and browse the internet. Sometimes it's not an urge for social media, but instead it's nostalgia for my ex.

I literally cannot use my desk in my bedroom for work, studying, etc. I want to change this so that I can actually get work done without having to go to a coffee shop everytime.

- I tried the Pomodoro method
- I tried a siteblocking extension
- After reading the NPR article on heroin addicts, I tried forcing myself to binge read only using my non-dominant hand.

Nothing seems to work for more than a few days. It's harder when I'm sleep deprived. Unfortunately, my schedule means that I don't always get a good nights sleep.

Are there any other suggestions?
> and as a professional you'll have to deal with it.

Yes, by not supporting those users. If you want to use IE 11 that's fine by me, doesn't mean I need to go out of my way to ensure it works for them.
They aren't supposed to. Which is why when it happens a lot of people speak out against it. I mean there's still plenty of talk about gitmo (which I'd also put suspected terrorists as a different level than suspected fraudsters). There's even politicians that have talking points of shutting it down because the people aren't happy.

In the West we openly complain when our government is doing things that we don't like and doesn't align with our personal beliefs. But like all countries, China included, we do have internal propoganda that causes people to be quiet about or support things against their own interests and beliefs.

It really isn't just so simple and can't be boiled down to a "got you" phrase. But neither is China (and I'm happy to so the "got you" remark in this thread about China is also down voted).
How easy is it for companies to dodge terms like this by claiming not to know what their clients do with their products?

I’d say most social media platforms check most or all of those boxes in some form, but I can also see them claiming not to know how their platforms are being used.
Personally I don't see the problem with code that's verbose in this manner. If the right names for things are chosen then the code written with those names will read like prose, which makes it pleasant for a programmer and approachable for a self-styled non-programmer. And it's not like it's much more typing, what with modern completion systems in modern text editors...

One of the reasons I like lisp-like languages more than the rest is because hyphen-separated-symbols are a lot easier to read than camelCase, which feels cramped by comparison. (underscore_separated_words is an improvement over camelCase, but for some reason people seem to shy away from it. In any event I think hyphen-separated is superior, since hyphens are used to conjoin words in English prose, while underlines typically aren't.)
> I'm not even sure if their detainment is for the purpose of investigate, cohesion or they're merely being made an example of to others.

This is the crux of the problem. We have no idea whether they are legitimately being investigated, or if they are innocent people being held in the country to apply pressure on someone else.

A low-level employee who travels to the PRC for work might end up in the same situation if his company faces accusations, and anyone who travels to the PRC, or an HK citizen who might face extradition for trial in the near future, needs to be aware of this.
https://aliexpress.com/item/32933638584.html

(shamelessly stolen from the other comment)
No mention of whether BPA problem was solved. (All drinks contain acids which attack aluminium, thus thin plastic lining is used inside cans. It is suspected to be harmful to health.)

https://www.treehugger.com/plastic/if-bpa-so-terrible-why-ev...
sigh that is what I loved about Pebble
3D Ken Burns Effect from a Single Image
Great... order of magnitude-ish higher than a really high end x86 box with pure flash storage...
Maybe it's just me but the terseness is beautiful.

I've been changing my style to be more terse but that makes it more readable or easier to see the abstraction concept rather than the details.
> TC39 has nothing to do with DOM APIs

Doh! Yeah you are right (and I feel dumb). I suppose that would be more of a w3c/browser vendor thing wouldn't it?

Appreciate the support on the rest of it. :-)
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05483

Website: http://sniklaus.com/kenburns
Changepoint analysis of historical battle deaths
"The EU" means both the institutions and the whims of a handful of national leaders. Nothing about what it does has anything to do with the will of its people. Where is that even measured? The text of the Withdrawal Agreement was written by the Commission, which controls the negotiations.

And by the way, none of the things the UK is being asked to agree to have been presented as requirements to other countries. The only thing the UK really wants is a free trade deal. That is explicitly not on offer from the EU: ruled out immediately. That's available to countries not geographically near Brussels, but not to the UK.

And that sadly will burn itself into the minds of many Brits (at least the leavers) as a story that the EU bullied the UK without any reason, just to be mean.

The British press, despite what you may believe, is mostly pro-EU. Many Brits have concluded that about the EU all by themselves, based on the actual actions it's taken.
I'm a little worried that this only studies channels and not the original content itself. I've personally used most of these channels and have found a rather "bucket-of-crabs" sort of reaction, unless I'm very, very careful to release an absolutely perfect post.

There generally seems to be only a level of tolerance for projects released by big companies. If you have a FANG coolant behind your name, it doesn't matter what you're releasing, how long you've been working on it, or even how big your team actually is, you'll grab a ton of popularity.

But as a solo dev releasing under my own name, the only things I can get attention for are basically hacks in niche topics. The long-standing, well designed work I do, that is used in real projects, with tons of documentation and proven results, at best gets ignored. At worst, I get accused of "re-inventing the wheel", even for things I invented.

I've never gotten anyone to join me on a project. There are a lot of self-fulfilling prophecies that "solo-dev work won't be around in a year, so don't bother even starting". Either I release too early and people don't want to join because nothing is finished, or I put a ton of effort into documentation and contribution guidelines and then things just get ignored. Just when is it a good time to go from code I've written on my own to sharing with others?

It just really makes it seem like FOSS is only for people who have a big, recognised company backing them. I've even had a project or two copied by recognized companies, with no larger team than one or two people, and watched their half-baked early releases quickly eclipse my own efforts just because they could get people to join the effort and work for free.
Would you also respect a CEO more if he'd commit suicide? Because that's what this captain did.
It doesn't emit light, so you still have to pair it with a backlight. There are some pretty bad ghosting issues, so things that refresh frequently have readability issues. This also makes it bad for all the "smart" watch things - for a regular watch, e-ink would be acceptable, but could be replaced with a traditional watch face which draws even less power.
And 7 more polyfills later and you've ended up with a hacky and incomplete version of jQuery.
Wish it was on edx
It's also getting more expensive in China and they've mentioned that they can't work in China anymore (and have been relying on their videos as their sources of income). I'm not sure if that's because they changed from having work visas to marriage visas or because they are on tourist ones, but they both had a lot of work experience in China.
Check for notifications, as there is no web push for Safari (or other browsers) on iOS.
I found that a disappointing description of the work. Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I don't see enough description to match the brief mention of that photographic working being shocking, showing america as it really was, breathless etc. It just looked like unposed pictures of real people?
Does the survey make clear what "using the internet" means?

It doesn't state explicitly, but it does not appear that text messaging, or anything you could do with a feature phone was counted. The term used in the study was "online," not "using the internet."

The study looked at things like "buy products," "pay bills," "listen to music," "watch movies," "follow celebrities," "post videos," and "buy groceries."
Why not dim the screen _and_ have more efficient wipers? ;)
Do you consider the exit ban placed on Huawei's CFO as obvious?
Imagine this, now substitute "audio system" with "hellfire missile-equipped drone"
That's a really cool and super inexpensive long range drone! Thanks.

The Houthi models are jet powered, cruise at 450mph, and can fly for 2 hrs on 500 lbs of jet fuel, which requires a 10 cubic foot volume fuel tank. The interior of the fuselage has around 70 cubic feet of capacity, which is more than enough for the fuel (even enough for a 900 mile each way round trip if desired), the controls, and the payload. They have a solid fuel rocket booster on the back as they are sled launched. Once up to flight speed the jet takes over and the rocket element drops off. They are really cool drones and within the scope of what the serious amateur community in the US and elsewhere is experimenting with. Some guys even are building their own jet engines from scratch.

The guidance systems are a done deal. Can DIY or can buy off the shelf. My kids build drones and program the guidance systems on them themselves (one started at age 8). It's fun and there's even online classes telling you everything you need to know. Ours currently use inertial guidance and GPS and have no problem getting somewhere with great accuracy. We've also got a celestial navigation system under development which works even when there is no GPS.

Houthis mentioned they have local assist at the end of the flight which makes sense to deal with GPS jamming. The region they hit contains significant Shia populations who hate Saudi Arabia and have even revolted against the Kingdom in the past. Once you're at the last mile if for any reason there's a question about the target, local observers can and do provide guidance assist.

People saying Houthis are too dumb or primitive to make drones are warmongering anti-Iranians, IMHO. Houthis have systematically and incrementally been developing this technology for years now to defend their homeland and have shown off their drones. There's no question the Houthi drones have the capabilities we are seeing.
I don't really mind that people are getting punished for drug offences, but a scenario where someone is framed for it concerns me.
That's different, this would only apply if there was an observed trend of the population abandoning the internet.
This article might be helpful.

https://medium.com/@firt/progressive-web-apps-on-ios-are-her...
> There are many things considered facts which are really little more than fictions which have been accepted society-wide.

[…]

I AM NOTHING IF NOT LITERAL-MINDED. TRICKERY WITH WORDS IS WHERE HUMANS LIVE.

‘All right,’ said Susan. ‘I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.’

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

‘Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little-’

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

‘So we can believe the big ones?’

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

‘They’re not the same at all!’

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET— Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME… SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE
JUDGED.

‘Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—’

MY POINT EXACTLY.

[…]

— The personification of death, and his granddaughter Susan; Hogfather, Terry Pratchett, 1996
In my scrappy work environment I have to help set up some subscriber emails on the side of my main production engineering work. We’re short-handed.

Every week, sometimes multiple times in a week, I get effort approval emails. For each item in the approvals list I have to file a ticket, filling out the details expressed in the email.

Doing this once maybe takes half an hour. Doing it every week, or more often, gets annoying, frustrating, etc. Writing something to take care of it in some spare moments is making the process just that much less of a burden.

In short, if you do it only once in a while—sure, not a big deal. If you’re doing that banal half-hour task on the regular and it blocks you from getting something else done that benefits from more attention then the effort expended to automate it makes a lot of sense.
From the blog post: "Beyond the technical work to develop this model, we’ve also taken several steps to anticipate and mitigate malicious use cases where possible."

From the preprint, this seems to be doing some review before release and having a code of conduct in the GitHub repo.
I have heard two stories told to explain this. One is, it used to be that acting and movie-making was considered a "low" thing to do, so a marginalized but white-looking minority got pushed in to doing it. Hollywood was low-status so long ago that there's no way the ethnic bias could still be around so I don't believe that theory.

The other one is that Jews have a high IQ average, so you find them in important positions more than you would otherwise. I used to think that was a fringe internet blog theory, but apparently the mainstream pop psychologist Jordan Peterson professes it: https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/psychology/on-the-so-called-...

Jewish people get more Nobel prizes, have higher SAT scores, and are overrepresented in so many things that the average IQ theory seems like the most reasonable explanation. This comes with the mandatory disclaimer that the variations between individual people are much larger than the differences between ethnic averages: making it useful for sociology on a mass scale but useless for understanding any individual person.
As someone with several thousand-star+ repos, I can say that the majority of traffic (and stars) on each repos is strongly correlated with a Reddit/Hacker News submission (although lately Tweets have been much better).

GitHub has deployed a project discovery widget on their logged-in homepage, but I've never used it to discover a project.
What People Say About the Economy Can Set Off a Recession
Yxv6: Push-Button Verification of File Systems (2016)
While I agree with you and am excited for whatever improvements can be made, I think the most likely retort to this argument is "While you're worrying about 10 0.5% savings, your competitor is focusing on optimizing things that actually matter."
As a person for your hobby project or whatnot? Sure. As a business? Yeah nah, that's not how it works. Imagine turning away 7% of your customers at the door of your shop.
What evidence of bad faith are you referring to? Interesting how you and "other people" going through my comments have no actual objections to the content of what I say. Hard to have a productive conversation when all you have are dismissive remarks and insults.
Yes, I don't know the maths but this study surveyed 2,000 people from a pool of around 54 million (18% of Britain's 66 million people are under 16 [1]). I don't think those numbers qualify as being enough people within a population of a certain size to avoid unintentional bias.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...
Ask HN: Is there a way to automatically refactor a vue.js app?
So Salesforce could never use it?
Oh interesting so ITA is really just a retail front-end for TPF then? I guess I was misinformed about it as well.
No, it does not make it okay. If it is morally questionable, then no matter who does it, it remains so.
Statistically, the older you are in the UK the more conservative you are. It's something like 17% 18-28 but 75% 60-70.

The privacy worries are weird. In my experience this is the same group that love to use loyalty/reward cards, coupons etc. To me, those are far more intrusive to my privacy than a properly set up internet connection.
> Oscillation damping is "control theory 101", but in a complex system like this it's not so easy

This is a nice understatement.

My first gig (summer after freshman year) I worked with D. Van Ness, who had an inquiry from he Bonneville Power Administration to determine why their frequency was oscillating (yes, the frequency). This oscillation would rapidly get worse until something tripped and the whole network in the Northwest would go down.

He modeled the system with a state vector and interconnect matrix. The matrix was 500x500 and the path to understanding it was to find Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues of this system. If there any poles to the right of the y-axis, you have an oscillator. Over time, they changed enough to get it stable.

And you make some good points about the synchronization available if everything is a classic generator, and these other power sources are not.

And this was many years ago, so the power systems of today are likely much harder to model.

You put this nicely:

> They act to maintain the frequency by transferring more energy from the shaft rotation to the generato

Another way to think of this is that in a system with more than one generator, a phase difference anywhere in the hookup causes power to flow in direct proportion to the difference in phase angle. In other words, the slow generator becomes a motor.
Are they insinuating that Amazon has tried to avoid keeping a permanent record of their most important communications?
This is something I often think about. What is the difference between me, accepting some scientific theories as fact, even though I have no physical means of testing all of them myself, and someone deeply religious who chooses to believe in some higher spiritual ideas? There are things I can be reasonably sure of, maybe because I see what the theory behind it says and predicts, and it agrees with what actually happens in real life, yet there are also things that I just have to take for granted (and I guess hope that the other knowledgeable people alive will make sure it's actually correct).
Ah bummer. I would have thought they'd have kept the PSD lying around somewhere like I do and it would've shed some light. Maybe someday someone will figure out something that looks right!
The number of years of service and usefulness of Hubble is truly astonishing. I even remember news, almost joking about its initial mirror flaw which inflicted ironically an almost blindness, so much so people thought it would be fatal. NASA & Hubble seem to have had the last laugh on this one. Long live Hubble!
> It's blamed on the population living longer, yet the average lifespan has been decreasing recently. The government failed (or ignored) the fairly obvious result of modern medicine making people live longer and did not plan for it

Contradiction.
Two points.

First, software "engineering" is not an engineering discipline. You might as well call novel writing "literary engineering", but calling it that won't make it true.

Second, the 10x software developer is very much real. People try to ascribe their performance to this or that technology or methodology, but in reality what makes a 10x engineer is a special psychological predilection, not their tools.
I guess it's theoretically possible to emulate the x86 Widevine DRM plugin while running other browser code natively.

However, there's already an easier way to run Netflix on a Pi 4 natively. Someone figured out to just to grab the armv7l libwidevine binary from Chrome OS: https://blog.vpetkov.net/2019/07/12/netflix-and-spotify-on-a...
A story about Go untyped constants
The primary benefit of jQuery was to provide a compatibility layer on top of the bugs, omissions and and inconsistencies in the browsers implementations of the standards. The solution here is for the browsers to iron out these issues, not to provide a brand new API for ding the same things which would probably have the same amount of issues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Meteor_F8_%22Prone_Pil...
>Makes me wonder about the details of that arrangement. What promise could possibly make the minister return from such an expedition?

Something like: "Don't forget I have your parents, brothers, sisters, wife, kids here, and I'll behead them or worse if you don't return".
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Yeap, This one is indistinguishable from reality
Your post doesn't cover all the cases where there is no valid reason for this ban on people who did nothing wrong and are just being denied because of the trade war.
Not sure. Where the company I work for operates they have some very weird proxy setup (not my company’s rule but the host). Largely it seems only effective at blocking legitimate content for nonsense reasons. My own site gets blocked on occasion, though I’ve lazily let the cert expire. That reminds me....

Anyway I wouldn’t worry too much. It’s likely just stodgy corporate environments that put those kinds of controls in place.
I feel this strongly.

I've been a software contractor for the last ~18 months. I do it because it affords me the ability to spend my time exactly how I want to, mostly reading and researching. But I also have reduced my contracting time as much as possible and this year my income will have been ~30k.

I've gotten to the end of my rope, and it's stressful and weighs on me 24/7, especially with my fear of an upcoming recession.

I decided to find a job again and in just a month I've been able to get multiple offers lined up for 5x my current income.

On the one hand, I use my position to its fullest--and I've spent the better part of a year learning things I never would have learned in a University or employment setting.

On the other hand, I recognize that this is an incredibly privileged position, one which I don't feel very deserving of. I understand the market forces, yes, but I can't help but feel a tinge of guilt knowing that I can be somewhat irresponsible financially just to pull myself out within two months of a new paycheck.
Can anyone recommend an algorithm Mooc with a functional programing focus (i.e., not Java)?
E-ink is not necessary for a long battery life - the Amazfit Bip, has a long one (up to 45 days).

An Amazfit Bip equivalent, with an open system would be a great product at least for a niche (Amazfit's interface and functionality is arguably poor).

edit: has this post been downvoted with information at hand? The statement above is technically correct: the Bip has an LCD (see specs), and it lasts very long; therefore, E-ink is not the only option for a display of a long-lasting device.
No Longer Under Pressure: NIST Dismantles Giant Mercury Manometer
The GitHub weekly popular projects/interests email has been getting me to discover some really good projects as of late.