skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wholeheartedly disagree. I would much rather have some sort of warning than to have the decision made for me. If an indicator in the dash turned on saying "the oil is not the correct viscosity," then I would be able to decide to not run the vehicle.

Imagine you were stranded somewhere and the only option was to use the wrong oil. Sure, it may destroy the vehicle, but at least you would be able to run the vehicle and (hopefully) get to safety before your engine block melts. My issue is when the decision has been made that "you _might_ break it, so we've taken the choice away."

Another example might be, should users not be allowed to install programs on their computer because those programs might interfere with the computer's performance?
How to Fight Loneliness with a Remote Workforce
Ok noted. In the phase of learning to write technical blog , hopefully will soon be able to come up with one. And once again thanks for providing your valuable guidance.
This is a soft, absolute minimum viable product "launch". Mostly looking for some feedback and validation.

I'll probably repost if/when Chrome Web Store approves the extension, especially since I've gotten zero feedback (so far).

I created TestFront to solve some pain points for me when creating end-to-end and/or UI tests. Awesome tools like Cypress are still too tedious for me and take way too long.

TestFront is free and open source, MIT licensed. Check the issues on GitHub (notably the high priority ones) for what's next on the agenda. Issues will be prioritized based on user feedback so feel free to give issues a thumbs up or thumbs down and/or create issues of your own: https://github.com/testfront-io/testfront-devtools/issues?q=...

I did a short screen recording yesterday, covering every user join/login/update possibility in under 4 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifkaptIYeL8

You can probably watch it at 2x speed to get the idea. At the end, you'll see me commit the tests I made to the https://github.com/testfront-io/starter-kit-app repository, which you can clone and run yourself to get an idea for how easy it is. (Note that for the API, I used the `serverless-dynamodb` branch of `starter-kit-api` for easier installation and data resets, but the `express-postgresql` branch should work roughly the same.)
I was told by my doctor that since I have a successful career as a software engineer I do not have ADHD. I'm still fighting to get a prescription. What he doesn't understand how my coping mechanisms are probably more unhealthy then the drug. I have allocate recreation time to work, use a lot of caffeine, and sleep deprivation to overcome my ADHD. Sleep deprivation is probably the strongest tool to combat ADHD but as I get older it takes a greater toll on my body.
Somewhat pedantic, but ADD and ADHD is a distinction. Both probably have the hyperactive thought, but ADHD is the hyperactive outward activity.
Many of us don't care about the ads. It's the tracking.

They could offer a no-tracking tier. When you consider how little revenue most ads generate per user, the price increase wouldn't be very much.
Ah yes, the KantKooler 2000: Can you really be sure the chicken is thawing if you've never eaten chicken a priori?
As with so many things these days, the internet gives people the ability to speak to millions of other people. The idiots and extremists seem to garner more attention, and therefore, generate ad revenue; so they have an even louder voice. I don't think there are actually more idiots and extremists, but merely that the few that exist can get together and try to indoctrinate others into whatever bent world-view they have.
He says while typing in the comment section ...

(commented in the wrong place earlier)
Along similar lines, there's a fantastic video by procrastination researcher Tim Pychyl here: [1]

I've watched a ton of videos on procrastination, and read a lot about it, and this video is head and shoulders above everything else. Highly recommended.

He also has the iProcrastinate Podcast[2], which also has some useful and interesting episodes.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFQA998WiA

[2] - http://iprocrastinate.libsyn.com/
Maybe you better read something about the "New Theory" and the "Frankfurt School" before you lecture other people.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to check it out. With that said, just because it's a paid app doesn't mean they can't also sell your information as an additional revenue stream.

Edit: Looks like it's been said already.
Every time Orwell's 1984 is mentioned on the Internet it gets this exact followup comment about Brave New World. Not saying it's wrong, but this is just some kind of law of internet discussions.
The content being a dynamic webpage where if you change a single byte (ads, page logo, anything) the hash changes? Try to load any webpage twice and see if you can get exactly the same bits.

And just imagine how much of the internet FB would have to periodically hash, and what impact it would have on those sites too.
I think it's more accurate to call it a language with high-level features
I'm also have a similar background (although the first computer I used was my school's PDP-8i via a teletype). I still have my Model I and all the assorted accessories. I remember moving from EDTASM to Microsoft's Macro Assembler for the Z-80 assembler I write.
Yes, that's what I meant. There's so much about the 1800s that seems so modern. Especially the engineering. So I tend to forget about religion.
What I don't understand is - why is it a problem that somebody performs better on medication? Life isn't sports or a game. It's not a competition. Shouldn't people be happy that someone else can keep their life together? That's less of a burden on society.

>Ever spent a day off staring at a wall dreading the possibility that you might waste a day until you realize the sun has gone down?

That sounds silly and boring. I was daydreaming instead of looking at the wall.
Is it me, or has the HN user-sphere changes significantly this year.

I feel as though comments are less informative, more judgemental, and chalk full of emotions.

...as if a younger crowd of users has started using it.

Have the older-wiser HNers started using another site?
Would you mind sharing this list?
RIP Jim Lehrer. A news anchor from a more civilized era. I really appreciated his matter-of-fact delivery.
That's a good point. I'm reflecting on my own experience as an adult but as a child I was definitely more active than most of my peers. As an adult I've put considerable effort and practice towards controlling myself in social situations.
My fear is that the only way to get decent industrial design, like the nest, is to finance it with consumer spying.
Tencent to Acquire Funcom
Monitoring utility s-tui version 1.0 released
I have switched to treemacs a while ago (for a file/project explorer), and it's really powerful and mature, with interesting features like "workspaces", which allow you to have multiple directory views (which can be anywhere on your disk), and is managed with a convenient Org mode configuration (I wish more Emacs packages had nice Org-based configuration systems like this).
In before "blockchain"
they aren't using it for classified conversations so it doesn't really matter
Didn't Bezos' phone get hacked through a WhatsApp message? I know they're not talking operational comms, but how confident are we these two apps are exploit-free?
They’re great, but they aren’t super quick with features and I wish the product had more, especially when it comes to the graphical reports.

It’s also an expensive product for most people. But we do need more of these sustainable low-growth non-VC style SaaS companies out there.
I should also add that I remember seeing some poll of Americans and this sort of "political correctness" or whatever you wish to call it, was the primary reason people said they voted for Donald Trump. Nothing official, some news station or something, but still. It's not harmless.
No mention of Braille so I was confused.

Looked it up. It's a quote from the Bauhaus song, "Small Talk Stinks".
Contender for Song of the Year sits on nominating committee
Point taken, thank you.

...but I am concerned that HN is changing for the worse.
Using https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec to evaluate code as I save.

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/dotfiles/blob/master/zsh/a...
>One place to aggregate all financial accounts and give a clear picture, including bills, investments, categories, trends, credit score checks, and budgeting. Everything is easily synced. I don't need a desktop app, just a web app and an iOS app.

Most big US financial institutions offer it for free. BoA/AmEx/USAA are just a few named in this very thread.
Seems to me that there is a huge opportunity in open source programmable home appliances. I only want the hardware from the manufacturer, and I’d be willing to pay a lot more if it could run open source software. It seems theres no way a monolithic supplier could compete, but why don’t we see anything like this?
Easy fix: Someone buys used filters and turns them into bypass filters. Then use a filter on the water line. The water line filters last for years.
Maybe it is just a metaphor. Then it is one I find enlightening.

However, stress (yes, including work stress) kicks your sympathetic nervous system into high gear, as you put it. (With all other effects, from hormone levels to heart rate.)

Sure, effects of short-term and long-term stress may be different, but the statement "because it's nothing like actual" is far from obvious.
More so, or less so, than other belligerent states it combats?
Six Famous Companies Using Elixir–and Why They Made the Switch
Ritalin in the 90's was pretty brutal for me too - when I was first put on it it was a big morning pill and I think two separate afternoon boosters - this meant that I was constantly cycling between overly sedate, level, and apathy - but I've found that switching over to a single XR pill has helped out, I think I've also benefited from being able to clump my active hours according to my own schedule so that I can be productive semi-reliably and sort of trail off in the evenings.

If you're able to get by without it then good on you - but I thought I'd mention that things have improved somewhat.
When those disposable multi-blades were getting too costly for my taste, I just got my father's old safety razor out of storage, purchased a packet of 10 Wilkinson blades for it at ~2-3€ and still haven't used those up today.

Seriously men, do away with the cheaply made but expensive plastic trash and invest once in a nice safety razor. It's worth it.
Totally agree. Microsoft Money was close to perfect sometime in the 2000s. I am really sad that it got abandoned.
> (the OS window manager does fine for me, I don't need much help from Emacs)

Embrace the power of "and": EXWM.
actually, what i was thinking of is more like https://rebrickable.com, where i can select a model and the buy the bricks for it.
To put more concretely, I've observed, especaily among tech circles, the tendency to assume "if the system works for me, it must work for everyone". I'd propose that that kind of mindset is what is what drives a lot of the negative reactions in this thread. It's the kind of mindset that drives thoughts like "we;re not hiring many women it must be [their abilities | the funnel | ~biology~ | etc]" never "maybe our process isn't set up well". There;s value in having a space where you don't have to start every conversation explaining your struggles from first principles (very clearly given the user count the community has a need for this kind of space, so the "why is this needed" question feels spurious).

My thoughts from the uncomfortably unique prospective of a trans woman in tech; I can only speak for why I find these sorts of spaces valuable.
>In fact, loneliness increases the risk of health problems.

Just like sleep. Working remote you have to care about sleep and loneliness.
I recently sent the following message to Fiat Chrysler Automotive's privacy group:

I was considering purchasing a 2020 Jeep Wrangler, but after
reading the terms of service for your "UConnect" monitoring system,
I no longer want to. I will consider it if I receive satisfactory
answers to these questions:

Can a Jeep Wrangler with advanced safety be purchased without
Uconnect?

If not, is FCA willing to state in writing under penalty of perjury that "Opt Out for Privacy Reasons" causes all data communication between
the vehicle and any other party to cease? Actual severing of
communications, not some weak claim that you will not use the data.

Currently the owner of an older Jeep Wrangler.

I have not yet received a reply.
Show HN: When you documentation is spot on
Voter turnout is much higher than 1% on the November elections. Sure, reducing the effort of any given vote would help turnout; but also aligning this election with the general election would likely help (it also helps with the cost of elections).
Wickr is not open source. An implementation of its crypto protocol is available on Github, for review only.

Wickr and Signal have protocols with similar goals (in that Signal invented the goals/service model of all modern secure messaging protocols). Wickr's is clunkier and based on NIST primitives. Signal's protocol has been received peer review "organically"; it's important enough to be an academic target. Wickr has paid to have competent cryptographers review it.

I'd have a strong preference for Signal Protocol over Wickr's but, unlike something like Telegram, I wouldn't see the cryptographic gap between the two as dispositive in and of itself. Wickr is cryptographically "fine".

The bigger concern for me --- and this applies to all secure messaging systems, not just Wickr --- is that Signal remains unique in its fanatical avoidance of serverside metadata. Signal has deferred core messaging features simply to avoid collecting user data in a database. User profiles are a good example, now resolved, but the canonical one is "usernames instead of phone numbers", which looks like it'll be resolved this year.

Compare that to something like Wire, which effectively keeps a database of every person that any other person on Wire has talked to. It's not doing that because Wire is evil, but rather because Wire wants things like contact lists to work seamlessly across devices. That's understandable but is a major privacy tradeoff.

As I understand it, Wickr is better than Wire in this regard, but worse than Signal.
It also boggles my mind that people are willing to give others their login credentials, even so far as to give all of their login credentials to one entity!
Heads of departments who sign off on trash like this should be summarily fired.
Thanks for the details! Now I'll be busy a few hours researching all these, therefore procrastinating :)
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I've used Emacs for decades and still feel like I'm barely scratching the surface.

What would really help me with articles like this one is more narrative on _why_ these particular modes are so useful. For example, it took me a long time to learn org-mode because I just didn't know what to do with it! I feel like Helm is similar, I've tried it briefly, but I'm not sure if or how it would fit into my workflow.
I agree with your point about regularly noticing metal crowns but note that dental ceramics are way harder than metal. Dental ceramic is a 7 on the Mohs scale while gold and silver are in the 2.5 to 3 range.
Angelina Jolie to Produce BBC Show to Help Kids Spot Fake News
Damn. US sounds like a shithole
They're both labeled ADHD nowadays clinically. The ADD you're talking about is called ADHD-PI or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Primarily Inattentive.
Something tells me these articles on procrastination are generally permanently relevant to the people that view HN during business hours (me included). I am curious if the number of hits per day has dropped as a result of posting them a lot this week!
The problem is that infinite growth is impossible - there’s only so many people who need a smartphone, washing machine, etc. Once they all have it then your revenue will only be the average replacement rate as the old devices fail.

Businesses should be happy with stable revenue once they reach that point, instead they desperately try to get more, risking the company’s reputation and/or legal issues (not specifically in this case but I’m sure there are companies that did illegal stuff just to get more profit).

The current idea of running a business is absolutely unsustainable.
That's definitely the problem - I'm lucky enough to never exist in a minority, so I don't know what it's like. I guess I'd like to understand what some of those challenges are, so that I can avoid causing them myself.
You might well be right. But a diagnosis of what?

I’ve often wondered whether I have ADHD, but I don’t have the other symptoms of forgetfulness, disorganisation and hyperactivity.

Procrastination is a huge problem for me and I’d love to have a label for it, but I don’t think procrastination alone qualifies as a mental disorder.
I put a piece of black tape over the filter light on my refrigerator. (It's not a GE.)

You can probably find some tape that matches the color nicely on Amazon for a very small amount of money.
Seems like all the big banks already have that functionality.
Creating a new community with the purpose of helping a set of people who experience harm in the wider community is not abusing people of the wider community.
Reddit's /etc/passwd (joke)
No application is exploit free. Freedom from basic framework- and language-level vulnerabilities is not an option with any modern messaging protocol, secure or not.
It's not a paranoid fantasy, when you look at the (very real) religious education wars that were being waged in the American South.

The meme of "Science is no better then religion or magic" is why schools mandated equal time into teaching evolution, and particular flavours of evangelical creationism.
- There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion

- To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.

and most poignant of all :

- Your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is.

I remember the exact moment of my life when I read "Self reliance for the first time, I'll never forget that moment.
Announcing Plotly.py 4.5
Does it ingest transaction data from all major credit cards like Mint can? It only says "banks" on the landing page.
The big questions from FTI's report on the Jeff Bezos hack
Yowsa. Do I spent the additional $100 and go with a new one? I wonder how much technology has changed in 10 years since I bought this..
On a side note, people really need to replace the filters more often. The number of people I have run into who never have replaced any filters in their kitchen disappoints me.
I have started doing this on days I go to the gym (3x per week) and anecdotally it has positive effects on how I feel mentally and physically. (And these effects have lasted after about 6 months of this practice.)
Detroiter settles discrimination case, then bank won't cash his check
The companies paying for a FT subscription for their employees are going to have well compensated employees, hence valuable eyeballs for advertisers.
(not actually a qualified filter expert) actually I think bacteria will infect opened, even unused, filters over time. So just wait until you actually use it to replace it.
That's the sad reality. Not just on the DoD side, but from the entire federal IT workforce/teams.

With the exception of:

18F
https://18f.gsa.gov/

USDS
https://www.usds.gov/

The motto seems to be: "Open Source is BAD! How are we going the get support?! Let's just buy a product or solution from a vendor" Even though they have people/teams who were hired as developers. I have so many horror stories, it's not even funny.
From years of amateur neurochemistry - As best as I can tell - ADD & ADHD are two sides of the same coin resulting from a dopaminergic deviation that serves the tribe but not the individual.

Most people think of dopamine as the "pleasure chemical," but in reality it is the "anticipation chemical." Dopamine says: "You got this. Almost there!" And it is up-regulated when an uncertain profit presents itself, implying that all you need is a little bit more focus and practice.

Too little dopamine and you get OCD and hoarding: the inability to decide. You can think of a hoarder's room full of stuff as decisions left unmade. When you can't decide, you open & close your car door 45 times until it sounds "just right".

And when you have too much dopamine, you do stuff with zero anxiety, but you don't stop to consider the best course of action because you pick the first, best path. Useful when running from a predator, but not when solving complex problems. Just look at people on cocaine to see how this pans out.

The best personal advice I have to handle the ups & downs of ADD/ADHD condition is to build supportive todo & reminder systems around the bipolar highs and lows. Exploit the manic highs and outsource as much rote work as you can. Find ways to help you remember and reward life-sustaining tasks during the lows.

I've been working on some software that helps me get the most out of life in this manner, which would also potentially help older, mentally-compromised patients. If this is something you are interested in, please do reach out.
Shit, that actually sounds like a pretty good strategy for some easy publicity and networking
It has things called pointers, but they are significantly different than pointers in C. They can't return memory addresses and so there's no pointer arithmetic or other difficult to optimize actions.

And after writing a significant amount of fortran 90 code I didn't even know the feature existed...
Oppression by comfort comes first, oppression by boot comes second after you decide the comfort isnt worth it.
The medication is just as personal as other options in how effective they are.

As a diagnosed sufferer of ADHD, my experience is that Adderall works better than Ritalin, but the extended release stuff shortens my temper. If I'm still having a bad day, an energy drink can help.

On boredom: I can be bored, but lack the drive to do anything to make me less bored. When I'm having fun, it is difficult to switch to the next thing I need to do.
This website cost me a weekend once :-)
Maybe not DoD, but perhaps NSA.

If the NSA can make it secure against themselves, that's not a bad start.
I have problems with anything involving green. So yes, greens and browns. Many US green signal lights look dull blue. Also with red, but less so. I can't tell some pinks from grays. And in any mixture, reddish vs greenish.
Out of curiosity, why do you prefer Personal Capital to USAA?
Just make us meat batteries and plug us into the Matrix already.
The Technical Report Suggesting Saudi Arabia’s Prince Hacked Jeff Bezos’ Phone
Refrigerator filters have a giant markup. They're a textbook case of an overpriced, short-life consumable.

You can buy much cheaper filters on Amazon that go on the water line, that last much longer.
"Don't patronize others"
or they miss-estimated their market size and growth. I don't think most people care about DNA testing.
Then the state AG should go after him for fraud, if it can be shown that he never intended to honor his bid.
Thanks for this! Any news on increasing the risk of Alzheimer's by taking dopaminergic drugs?