skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alt combinations (other than alt+esc to activate) don't work for me. I thought it was because they were captured by the browser or something, but it also does nothing when clicking on them.

And isn't alt+space a global combo in most major OSes? (Window operations in Windows and most Linux distros, and some system dialog in macOS if I'm not mistaken, though that might have been cmd+space.) I use it frequently (mostly to minimize windows but also for other things), and while most people may not do that, I think this extension targets exactly the audience that would. Seems like an odd choice.
I made a change to go to bed when the kids do, i.e. around 8-8:30 and wake up naturally, which happens around 4-5. This gives me the same number of hours to myself as if I were going to bed later, but: they feel more productive because I am freshly rested, I can sip my coffee, and don't fall to the same distractions as at night. At night I feel my brain is a bit tired and more susceptible to just giving up and watching a bunch of TV or playing games. Also, at night there is no hard stop so I often end up eating into valuable sleeping hours.

Easier said than done though, been meaning to do this for 20 years and only managed to do it now.
On windows: java dev tools(git,jdk,intellij/vscode), irfanview, notepad++ and total commander is a must have.

On Linux: vim and my .vimrc .
There are hundreds of examples for popular streamers that tried to change games but needed to go back to keep their viewer base what makes the statement that its 90% the streamer not sustainable.

This does not make your statement wrong, but there are several other dependencies that do not allow this to be generalized.
There is. It's called an attorney.
Very few people have a problem with so-called dumb questions, especially from someone who genuinely wants to learn. They take issue with low-effort, unresearched questions, and those from people with no interest in the subject, who just want someone else to do their research (or homework) for them.
Price is not the only factor for me as a consumer. The other is availability, or time to wait for pick-up. That is determined by how many drivers are around.
Similarly, drivers like to have their next ride soon after their current one ends.

Thus, you have economies of scale for multiple reasons (big upfront investments for app and marketing, network effects).

As such, there are high barriers to entry.
necessary evil == net positive compared to the alternative
Best resource would be a manual from this trial https://mct-institute.co.uk/self-help/

But I couldn't find the manual anywhere in the study paper and by googling it. I wonder if dr Wells would share it if someone kindly asks, but I haven't tried it.

Wells (2009). Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression is a guide for therapists but I am using it to learn techniques myself. Not sure if psychologists would approve
The name of the "owner" of the Google Drive document is Dylan. Not sure if that's the original author though.
Thousands of volunteers specifically map remote areas they don't live in through the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team
Yeah, it's funny to argue over opinions about what is beautiful. It always annoyed me immensely and I never knew how to avoid it until I found a hero in Dan Gelbart when he talked about prototyping and how including adornments opens you up to arguing about if it is beautiful or not, but "If it is 100% functional, then it is beautiful."
Ask HN: Nonfiction books to control anxiety, depression, uncertainty
There was a death certificate, but it was from Jaipur, where corruption and bribery are apparently fairly common. I don't have any dog in this fight, but the story is pretty interesting.

The certificate: https://www.coindesk.com/indian-death-certificate-crypto-exc...
>Obviously, there's a complex set of problems and incentives at work here. For one thing, these contractors are often paid by the hour - so they make more money if a project is late or unreliable.

You are right about a complex relationship with numerous contractual obligations and SLA's etc. in place; usually loaded in favour of the big contractors, but it is extremely rare for them to be paid by the hour. They might parachute individuals or a team of IT contractors/consultants and pay them on a hourly basis, to clean up some mess or cover up their ineptitude and provide a level of plausible deniability, which almost always involves political machinations.
Architect Has Painstakingly Standardized the World's Subway Maps (2014)
I guess I'm the only one who doesn't seem to have any problems with wiki[1] or SO.

Every time this comes up people will shout about how unfairly they've been treated, and sure I've seen questions closed when they shouldn't have been, but often they're closed because they're dups or just homework which could have been found with a dab of googling.

Odd that these complainers never seem to link to a question of theirs to show us an example.

So I'll present my challenge again, to the parent @kstenerud and anyone else, if you say it's happened to you, post a link so we can judge.

[1] One exception, did meet a gatekeeper on a wiki article I questioned, in the end we sorted it out civilly.
The great G.-C. Rota quipped:

Probability theory = combinatorics divided by n

In this vein let me add:

Information theory = log(probability theory)
I am btw still maintaining VimFx[1], and you can run it in current versions of Firefox with a shim[2].

[1]: https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/vimfx/releases
[2]: https://github.com/girst/legacyfox
That's how Vimium works; f + letter clicks the link.
Sure it is. Asking a question has several dimensions along which to afford skill. General social skills aside, question-asking specifically has the extra challenge of "get someone to give me the information I need", and some people are demonstrably much more effective at this than others.

I've certainly witnessed people who really needed to know something and were completely unable to express what they needed. If you're talking to a skilled question-intuiter then this is less of a problem, but if you're not, then you need to be correspondingly better at asking your question so as to get an answer that is useful to you.
Corollary: There aren't 'dumb' questions, only 'dumb' people.
Psychology talks about 'agreeable' in the same way as Physics talks about 'hot'. In our everyday context, 'hot' is quite vague, and people will have widely varying opinions about something being hot, depending on the context and on their personal experience.

To cope with that problem, science needs to detach the term from everyday use, and put an artificial definition in its place which allows to make repeatable statements. In its wake, the term loses a lot of its meaning. That is the price for preciseness.

Imagine there was a unit for agreeableness, so you could say 'John has an agreeableness of 4.4 Ag'. Then it would be clear that this statement refers to a formal definition (based on a standardized questionnaire), instead of our common vague understanding.

Now you could still argue that this new definition is so detached from what we usually mean with agreeableness that it becomes useless. However, you can't simply dismiss the method, you need to bring concrete arguments why the proposed definition does not capture what it is supposed to capture. For example, you could show that people with agreeableness below 2 Ag are married happily more often than people with agreeableness above 4 Ag. Do you have such concrete objections?
Many European jurisdictions have this, a so-called day-fine. It’s a just fine, and just fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine
My wife is going to give birth in a few days. Yet I experience everything PG writes before he has children. I dread it. I'm afraid that it would hurt my project. I don't like my experence with children. It is the best time for me to read this essay.
How many F150s does Ford sell in Western Europe as compared with America? Not sure it matters.
Popularity can be said to be independent of the quality of the work - popularity is linked to fashions. Quintessential concept of large followings not being so concerned about what they follow.

So the Bach v Potter argument is really arguing about whether a typical Harry Potter fan is more motivated by fashion or intrinsic interest. We know Bach isn't fashionable because the music has survived something like 300 years of musical fashions ebbing and flowing.

On a purely technical ground, the great works are usually interesting examples of a particular ... something ... and often capture the culture in a unique way. Eg, Don Quixote still gets read because it introduced a tonne of literary techniques with style and really hits a note at the peak of the Spanish empire. Shakespeare defined a big portion of the English lexicon. Jane Austin is an exemplary example of concise, relevant and interesting storytelling (she packs a lot into a sentence). Tolkien tied together cultures through their languages while setting the standard for what high fantasy worlds should look like with an unreasonable amount of worldbuilding. The Harry Potter series is certainly well written and a really good example of a certain genre, but it isn't obvious if that is enough to compete with all the other well written books out there. It certainly isn't the first of its kind and it isn't clear it showcases any literary tricks. It is a hard argument to say it captures anything about the culture of the day. It looks like one of a very large number of good books that will struggle to be remembered with the passing of time.
> the best quote I have is, a computer makes very fast and accurate mistakes.

The thing is, a computer doesn't generally make mistakes. Not unless some hardware failure happens, or a photon flips some bit in an unfortunate moment. It's always humans who make mistakes - computers are just executing them blindly. They're very good and fast at it.

Now I know it may sound trite, but I don't think it is. The problem isn't people thinking computers can't make mistakes. The real problem is that people are thinking that the output from the computer is something else than it is. Taking m0xte's example[0]:

"Well the thing that returned the state of the asset did a SQL join on the history and returned the top row’s state without sorting by date."

The mistake number one is, the function that did this was probably called "getCurrentAssetState", or something else which implied it's getting the current state of the asset. Some programmer made a mistake here. Then that description was taken at face value and the problem traveled all the way to end-user level, probably to some label with "current status" on it.

But that's not the only type of mistakes that can happen. Another possible mistake: the data in the database was wrong, or stale. Another: eventual consistency. Another: configuration error. Etc. And regardless of that, the computer was always doing the thing it was told to, without any error: SELECT state FROM asset JOIN asset_history ON asset.id = asset_history.asset_id LIMIT 1;.

My point is: once the discussion stops being about whether or not a computer can make an error (generally, it can't), people can start to appreciate that they're dealing with large systems designed by humans - and both in the large and in the small, these systems do something resembling what they were designed for, but never exactly that.

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21795557
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> You must have work life balance and you must go out on sunny days, which is great until it feels again like pressure to be something you don't want to be. Hiking? You will find another zillion people on that mountain because again you are supposed to go out on sunny days.

Eh, that's mostly because wandern/hiking is basically a national past time. There is no pressure though. You'll find lots of people doing other things outside too. The only pressure is to be respectful of "Ruhetag" (often Sundays) and avoid work, especially loud work outside. In the US, this isn't respected and can be quite jarring.
If you're looking for expert guidance on layout design, https://every-layout.dev is superb. It includes axioms (fundamental rules or precepts) and a coherent, standards-based system for implementation, based on first principles. Highest possible recommendation.
The Adventures of OS: Making a RISC-V Operating System Using Rust
The authors discuss this in the paper's Discussion.

The prevalence of ramen restaurants is suggested as an indicator of general food preferences in the regions studied. Regions that have a higher prevalence of ramen restaurants also tend to have a higher salt intake in general. This can be seen by the increased use of soy sauce and miso compared to other regions in Japan (from personal experience, these regions are famous throughout Japan for their high-salt diets).

So I'd say that the authors are very careful to clarify that they are not implying any sort of causal relationship between ramen restaurants and stroke mortality, and I don't think anyone reading the paper would assume that either.
Was curious who created it but there doesn't seem to be any information.

Google Drive says the author is "Dylan". Not sure if that's the original author though and it was created on Adobe InDesign CS6 (Windows).

Reminder that files (Especially PDF) leak a lot about an original author if not scrubbed: https://gist.github.com/dewey/2b2987e06c0a292364a9ae783885b8...
True. If they can discern a newbie question from a idle do-my-homework for me question, people tend to be very good. I grant there are some exceptions, but few (though irritating).
Excuse me but Jeremy Clarkson would beg to differ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbU0UJAdFj8

If we remove the requirement about the concrete, then Geoff car would also tick all of the boxes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCSNCs7bwCw
Conscious Perception Of Vision Occurs Outside The Visual Cortex
Another possibly related factor in univerity cafeterias: The kitchen personell are public employees, underpaid but unfireable. As our cafeterias head chef told me, this causes them to not caring one tiny shred about anything. The chef can't discipline or fire them, first because of the protections as public employees and second because he can't find replacements. Therefore, even simple stuff like properly cooking noodles, checking if the chicken is done or basic hygiene is a challenge...

With the obvious consequences. My suggestion for cafeteria food is: Avoid anything that could be harmful if prepared improperly, because it will be.
Is there an alternative that you feel works better?

The most common alternative that I can see is "you can do whatever you want as long as it follows the letter of the law". However, that doesn't seem to work well either.
you can misuse maths if you're not very, very careful

That's what nobody ever addresses in these studies.

Even assuming all this linguistic questionnaire stuff passes for a measure of something (certainly not biology, it really falls apart on indigenous populations), the further mathematics gives the joke away. Factor analysis is done just wrong. Questionnaires are mostly positively correlated and no thought is spared to how Frobenius-Perron theorem produces spurious factors, that also are dimensionally invalid to boot (which, one imagines, is not unwelcome, as scaling the data may give a stronger result). Then the methodology manages to fail confirmatory factor analysis on its own terms anyways. https://sci-hub.tw/10.1007/s11336-006-1447-6 Clustering validation is not even attempted beyond trying different number of clusters (anywhere from 4 to 13 results in fits only marginally worse than 5).

Denunciations of Big Five (and friends) go far and wide decades back. Then there's a flood of reassertions as if nothing happened, and again some refutations of that new wave. Ascent of data science made things comical. One year they do a metastudy with one million respondents, some dude asks some basic questions, the next year they do it with two million as if this answers anything. It is an endless war of attrition and not worth anyone's time.
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Signal: Communication Tools for the Information Age (1988)
Maybe it's language-dependent? Dutch isn't spoken by as many people as English for instance, could be the algorithms just don't work well enough yet.
> Try closing a tab or switch while the current tab is loading.

Simple: use the default shortcuts for this. The normal shortcuts coming with the browser out of the box are always available. Yes, they are not as nice to use as vim-bindings, but they are working.
Traveling expands horizons and gets people out of their bubbles. The world would be a much better, less hostile place if we could all experience other cultures firsthand from time to time.
Aka as “marrano” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrano) I’ve been told a telltale sign you might have such ancestry is having a surname named from a city.
I became completely disinterested in my career and decided to make a career change.
lol, reminds me of a chat I had with a friend last week.

He said, he read a book about rock'n'roll and the author tried to define what r'n'r is.

In the end, for the author, r'n'r was created when a specific album was released somewhere in the 60s and stopped with a specific single released in the 70s. So he was arguing that r'n'r was a music created in a period of less than 10 years and everything befor and after this had nothing to do with r'n'r.
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Yes, call it inflation. Money/points earned in the past isn't worth as much as money earned today.
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I think a lot of responses in this thread are taking the author’s words literally. In my experience, it’s not about being more or less angry. Germans are more restrained with regards to showing strangers their true feelings, while Australians are more comfortable sharing their emotions. It goes both ways: if an Australian is feeling happy, he/she will smile at you but if he/she is feeling frustrated, it’ll also show.
Yes, he moved assets around and clearly did not operate the exchange lawfully. His wife could very well be a co-conspirator. It is also possible he's the victim of a homicide.
Cool Project Idea: Make a tool that converts Twine projects to those Twitter-Adventure threads that got viral this year[0].

Last I'd checked, this was complicated by the state-feature (health/features etc) in Twine. But for simple adventures, this should be doable.

[0]: https://twitter.com/CORNYASSBITCH/status/1142591156884127744
There's no need to know where you should start before asking a question.

Continuing to expect spoon feeding quickly gets tiresome, but deciding just based on a sentence or two that a question is low effort or not is usually not the way to go.
This guy is so wrong. Truth is that innumerable closed source programs are abandoned (and that's actually what "abandonware" stands for). However, contrary to open-source, they're nowhere to be seen.

When you're depending upon some piece of closed source abandonware, you're without recourse. If by any chance, you'd be depending upon an abandoned open-source software, most probably it has been abandoned because there are better alternatives; or in case there aren't, you're still free to salvage it from oblivion.

The whole article reeks of bad faith.
I ploughed through Francis Fukuyama's Political Order series this year. I wouldn't say it's my favourite, but it was in some sense uplifting. He writes as though rule of law is a evolutionary certainty. As much as that's largely BS in my view, it's still nice to read.

After 4 years I also finally finished Capital in the 21st Century. My opinion: worth reading by jumping around, not worth reading in linear fashion.

Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu is worth a read too. It's well researched, but the author does occasionally blur the line between opinion and facts. I attribute it to writing styles. Similar in nature to another book I quite liked in the past - Wisdom Sits in Places, but less focused.

Narrative Economics by Robert Shiller would be unfocused to people who are in the tech industry. Nonetheless, the book serves to give context to people who are textmining. Hopefully some changes to economics arise from this. His understanding of genetic algorithms and selection could do with some work.
Ouch! A recent Reddit post immediately came to mind:

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/ea86jt/users_re...
While I agree on a couple of things: Primarily how scrum and company are complete bastardization of everything the manifesto stood for and that the tall poppy syndrome against more dedicated developers by pretending they're not "team players" or are "prima donna"s is absolutely ridiculous; that's where my agreement ends.

Agile malpractices doesn't mean that writing software with more agility is bad, and I found odd that he derides pair programming but at the same time derides TDD because of the misconception that it means that a second pair of eyes is no longer needed.

And, of course, the pretense that the biggest reason MS was successful after it was no longer inside a garage was due mainly to anything other than scummy corporate and monopolistic practices is... Suspect, to say the least. MS, from all appearances, became awful once it was more than ten people, but that's got nothing to do with agile practices.
And Application Menus as well have been forcefully disabled.
I moved to KDE after that and surprisingly, it's lighter. Considering that I don't have to rely on Gnome Shell hacks for basic functionality, my KDE system is even more stable.
What, what?! You're right... how have I used Macs for decades and never known this!

Does that always work for third-party icons too? They don't get re-added every time you start up or anything? (Curious what you do if you change your mind and want one back.)
This is ridiculous; so Amazon aren't supposed to use open source software or offer services that compete with startups?!

It's suspect when papers side with accusers and adopt their rhetoric wholesale, this kind of advocacy delegitimizes all their other reports IMO.
I am not a fan of Dropbox. Stories like this are why I don’t use it.

A couple of years ago I inherited managing Dropbox for a company I was at. I’d never really used Dropbox in a more daily use company.

I discovered Dropbox wasn’t very IT admin friendly. If you share out a personal folder as your team folder, IT can’t find your folder to share it to new members of your team. The person who owns the folder has to share it out. So when new employees ask why IT can’t access and share the folder, we had to explain that’s how Dropbox works.

The other crappy thing I discovered about Dropbox from that time. I have no way to audit or tell who has what folder. If someone was sharing something illegal from their folder, I had to turn on the auditing capability and download logs as they were generated. It was confusing because if someone were sharing something and I was the admin of that account, I should have access to all files and accounts. Nope. So we dumped Dropbox before I left to avoid scrutiny down the road for any acquisitions of the company.

Dropbox is still a consumer product trying to be a workplace tool IMO. Maybe others have a different opinion.

This is a good story to tell on Monday.
That may be true, but only for people who made their fortunes themselves - and even then you have some amount of luck involved. It doesn't work for those who inherited their fortunes, or simply won $100M in a lottery.
>We that have a family name that references an animal, like Lobo, León or Aguilar, are probably descendents of jews.

If I remember correctly, that is an popular myth. Why should it be the case?
looks like a big f_ckup...

From comment #26:

> why it was missed: test apps that don't happen to use local storage will not have a file created :(
I have used https://eviacam.crea-si.com/ on a laptop successfully.