skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone can have this scorched earth effect and yet not have adhd, yes? In particular if they can sometimes return to a system after tidying it up.

I do have a large trail of systems and nothing has worked permanently. However, I’m nowhere near as unfocussed as the author of that article. That one section resonated however.
Making it very customizable is key. Different teams have different workflows.
Not sure how vs-chromium's search is, but I use helm-projectile-rg for searching, and it's pretty nice (and super fast)
Pushing the idea of talent into a finite computer simulation like stats in an RPG can't replicate real life. The talent humans have doesn't neatly summarize as a one or a zero or a biological quantity. Pulling on the right conceptual thread in life simply isn't chance. It's a responsibility that can't be delegated to going with the flow or randomness.
You would be wrong. And in the unlikely case that you're right, you can organize and/or vote to do something about it.
The more... feminine among us would disagree about magenta being ugly. ;-)
Excerpt:

"System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) – defines how the BIOS interface of x86 architecture systems is represented in CIM (and DMI)."

Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NC-SI

"NC-SI ("Network Controller Sideband Interface") is an electrical interface and protocol defined by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), which enables the connection of a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) to a set of Network Interface Controller (NICs) in server computer systems for the purpose of enabling out-of-band remote manageability."
They just changed the cigarette packages to this colour here a few weeks ago. When I seen them I said to the person who showed me 'that's like the ugliest colour I've seen, that was on purpose wasn't it?' I guess, according to this article, it was. It really is just unappealing to look at.
'AI, biotech will give us godlike abilities to re-engineer life': WEF
It's a chicken and an egg problem. Developers won't come until you have marketshare, and users won't come until you have games. Paying for exclusives is a way to bootstrap a chicken without an egg.
Agreed. I like Walkie Talkies -- both real ones, and virtual ones. Push-To-Talk is a great way to communicate, and deserves to come back! It was very popular in the 70s, and remains useful among "hams" and people who work on movie sets, construction sites, etc.
Beathoven WAV MIDI
I lived in Baltimore for two years. Sent my daughter to preschool downtown; still go back to attend our favorite church downtown. Love the city, but yeah, it’s a damning indictment of Democratic governance. The city manages to spend more than the wealthy maryland suburbs per student and still get abysmal results. It’s a national disgrace.
Just 6,000,000 topics of interest to cover all of history. That's about 1 per 1,000 people on the planet.

There are 5.6 million small businesses in the United States alone. [1]

Imagine a Wikipedia that had more like 6 trillion articles. I'm enamored with a startup named Golden (https://golden.com) which aims to do just that.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/257521/number-of-small-b...
As long as people who have next to nothing (a large portion of the world) can access valuable resources for free in exchange for looking at advertising, it is quite necessary. Even those who do have disposable income in first world countries are not interested in paying for a subscription to resources they rely on a daily basis. Ads are a necessary evil.
It feels like we’ve taken a step backwards. I remember years ago when the UK government could only communicate over blackberrys with custom certs/encryption keys. Now the UK government/cabinet seem to share everything with each other via WhatsApp groups. I don’t really see that as progress.
Great point! I should have phrased that differently.
Maybe flip that around: iOS and macOS sales (even if just via the 'store') seem to be plenty for developers and complete studios to build entire businesses on or at the very least invest and get a functional ROI for a business to run on.

If that works, then what do those developers on the other 'stores' do that makes it so hard? Almost all games are effectively assets + scripts executed by a portable runtime. The only reason you might get in to trouble using that portable runtime effectively is when you start hacking on that level and reducing the portability to a point where it no longer works. That's a choice, not an inevitability. As a bonus (like posted earlier); in software engineering you get to discover a lot of issues by writing abstractions (to support portability) that you otherwise wouldn't be able to catch ahead of time. And no, day-1 patches are not the solution, they are the symptom of the problem.
Ideas from "data structures" will keep you stuck in the problem GP is talking about. The problem being lamented isn't that we don't know clever tricks for representing the training that a machine has undergone (as well as various tricks for having 'memory'), it's that for there to be a meaningful output for certain domains, there needs to be a thoughtfully implemented model that codes what it is to be (for example) a DM. Said model is, of course, ridiculously complex, so we won't see anyone coding it by hand anytime soon. We'd sooner have ways to copy the relevant bits of a human brain.
Thanks, I remembered it was part of the Tory/Lib Dem Coalition Agreement and that it didn't happen but I didn't realize there was a referendum that went down in flames.
Ask HN: How to turn a sprawling Slack nightmare into a productivity machine?
I joined a company recently that's going through several corporate mergers and our sprawling Slack environment has pretty much zero standardization. I've been given reigns to a portion of the environment and I plan on turning our jungle into something truly productive. What tips have you found to be exceptionally helpful for large sprawling corporate structure? I haven't looked into apps or bots much yet, but I'll be insisting on channel prefixes such as (alert-, team-, proj-, triage-, event-) going forward.
Try offering a reasonable (big enough for people to consider and not big enough for then to agree to everything) reward for people to set #FF00FF for their computers and phones (and keep it for e.g. a month) background colors and see how many are going to agree. I can bet much more people will agree for Pantone 448 C.
I don’t think so. Without updates it could lose compatibility with the services it integrates with, if the service is changed.
Precision in thought and expression can often hinge on such pedantry. A word itself deriving from pedante, "teacher": https://www.etymonline.com/word/pedant

The roots of average come from shipping, "any small charge over freight cost", from French avarie "damage to ship".

The notion of which average specifically is meant varies, the association with "mean" dates only to the late 18th or early 19th century.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/average

What's ironic in the argument between mean and median is that they do in fact share the same root of the Latin medius

https://www.etymonline.com/word/mean

https://www.etymonline.com/word/median

And again, in current dictionary usage (as well as my several uni stats courses), you'll find that "average" applies to any of the measures of central tendency, though yes, "mean" is probably most commonly (and ferverantly, as you demonstrate) understood.

Merriam Webster, first defintion:

average: 1 a : a single value (such as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/average

Which makes the argument of your initial comment, that the median is not a meaning of "average", again, false.
Really? Gait recognition seems a far easier thing to spoof via a limp, change in shoes...
One of my favorites is creating a seperate backup dir where all backup "~" files are created and versioned and rotated in and out etc at specific intervals, so I no longer get the random files in the dir I'm working in but can still go find backups if I mess something up.
One of my favorites is creating a separate backup dir where all backup "~" files are created and versioned and rotated in and out etc at specific intervals, so I no longer get the random files in the dir I'm working in but can still go find backups if I mess something up.

(setq
backup-by-copying t
backup-directory-alist
'((".*" . "~/.emacs.d/bu/"))
delete-old-versions t
kept-new-versions 6
kept-old-versions 2
version-control t)
They’re literally in the speaker business, how do you get this argument?

I also have to be on my wifi to talk to my speakers. They don’t need to keep servers running on the internet for me to talk to my speakers.

They have one job.

If they’re requiring internet connectivity for everything control or local-stream powered, they’re absolutely doing it wrong.
This reminds me of the "heightening the contradictions" political arguments.
It's the other way around.

There would be little incentive to port games to Linux without an existing gamer pool which can buy them, and there would be no gamer pool without an initial range of games...

The only practical way to break that vicious circle was the emulation option. Linux gamers play on emulation, but appreciate native ports and form the (initial) buyer pool for Linux games.

So Proton and co are the only reason there's any viable Linux gaming at all. Without Proton, every Linux gamer would have had a Windows install and play with that alone.
Thanks for sharing your experience Tom! I DM'd you on Twitter, would love to learn more.
Different platforms are better for different things. That's just a fact. This is why I use a desktop PC with windows 10 for PC gaming, Linux machines for my servers, and a Macbook Pro for programming work during the day.
Sorry for your loss.

Being alive is a pre-requisite for success, but doesn't make it guaranteed.
We hardwired our Sonoses to speakers when we installed them in 2006 — the whole wireless thing was irrelevant. We got them purely for the convenience of the wireless controller for playing music from the file server in the basement and the occasional internet stream. There wasn’t anything else like that at the time at a reasonable price.

This is an opportunity to revisit that decision. In 2020, what should I replace them with that’s equally convenient (including for visitors), letting you control all the rooms from anywhere on your phone, can handle all the random streaming services, and can still play my library from the basement?
Ask HN: The Wachowskis Question
I am curious to know why for historical reasons there is no reference to the directors of The Matrix birth names. I was really confused for several minutes swearing they were two men who directed the movie, but the Wikipeida article [1] had no reference whatsoever to that effect. It only contains female names. After googling for a while I finally realized the Wachowskis are now transgender and have female names. I realize there is a strong case to be made that people should be called what they desire, but are we simultaneously saying history is irrelevant and past is mutable if we desire it to be as a society?

I realize this is a hot topic and many would shy away from discussing it, but I think it's a vital question and I'd appreciate HN's take on this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachowskis
It would be a much different debate if Kerry had won Ohio (and thus won the Presidency without winning the popular vote) in 2004 but at the moment the Electoral College has given Republicans two of the last four elections where they lost the popular vote so I don't think it's just perception that it would hurt them.
It has not been edited near whole cloth. I added two sentences and modified two others. I think I've been very understanding of your skepticism, but at this point you're literally making stuff up.
> but we should take every winning battle we can, no?

It's treating the symptoms not the cause though, and this little victory will likely serve to dampen resolve to continue fighting against the root cause: increased surveillance, invasion of privacy, and the overall devaluing of privacy.

Facial recognition may be a battle that gets won, but it could be a key moment that results in the war on ubiquitous surveillance being lost.

Additionally, this is only a 5-year victory. Must we repeat it again every five years? At least the victory in the war for encryption lasted 20-odd years.
Take a look at the section "Solving Distraction: Presence + Statuses + Calendar" in the article - I dive into our attempt to solve this problem.
Not sure if it has changed, but I was given the choice for them to keep or destroy the sample.
I regret doing my 23andMe testing. I stopped trusting them when I realized how easy it would be for bad actors to abuse the system. I wish I could take it back and have them destroy the records and DNA sample but they literally won't let people do that (for some completely bullshit "legal" reason that makes no sense and is clearly a lie).
Rogers source code and internal keys found on open web
Does Anyone Use LinkedList?
Wikipedia also is dominated by a elite class of early contributors, PC censorship people or people working directly for the cooperation or on their behalf. There are many accounts with more edits a day the humanly possible or 356 days of the year or article edits from IPs directly from government agencies whitewashing ... they do not even try or know how to hide it. When it comes to info outside of like nature science then wiki is NOT a re

liable and unbiased source at all.
If you haven't already, take a look at the section "Solving Distraction: Presence + Statuses + Calendar" in the article - I dive into our attempt to solve this problem.

Do you think our solution is insufficient? If so, any ideas on how we could further solve it?
This is why manufacturers wish they could set the price and prevent retailers from undercutting like this. That regulatory battle is long lost, so I think we end up with an environment that sacrifices service for price.
I would not say Yang's campaign is struggling. He literally was an unknown guy right before this election cycle, who made a low millions from selling a test prep company and then ran a non-profit for 7 years. Never even ran for a political office before this. And he's outlasted many senators/governors.

About twitter and Yang, I created a twitter account just to follow him. Did not create any bot. And I also donated to his campaign multiple times. And I'm over 40 yrs old.
Hrmn. I suspect many rich people were born that way, and paid no income taxes in utero.
While I don't think Walkie-Talkie metaphor works for remote teams in general due to becoming an open invite to interruption, it may work for teams that need to work in tight collaboration, like in rapid emergency response and battle management even when everyone is in the same building.
Rather irrelevant considering the increasing chance of dying if you're hit. That's nothing to do with phone or pedestrian signals which can only affect the chance of being hit.

Speaking as a car driver, in nearly all of those situations a car driver would be deservedly held responsible, as you're expected to be able to stop short of unexpected hazards. In built up areas that's going to include pedestrians. Drive slower.
You just described email.
I'd argue that there's a difference in what colors appear "unappealing" between print and screen.

Staring directly into a bright, magenta-colored screen would certainly be unpleasant. Printing it onto a non-emissive material like cardboard, though, would probably look quite nice.
This comment is a rare gem. I'm not sure how you're an expert on all this, but even if you made it all up, it's presented very well with strategic sarcasm to boot.
I'm pretty sure I didn't give them my birthdate. I also didn't give them my full name. If birthdate is required, I would have given a fake one.

I don't see any reason to give them your exact birthdate.

They could obviously dig into the billing data and get my info, but at least it's not right there together.
You probably mean well, so as a usual lurker, I'll make an account to offer my genuine point of view in return.

I'm an artist and a programmer, the kind of 'creative' you are talking about, and see myself mirrored almost exactly in the original post. There are many things I care so much about I 'will likely always be motivated by them'. I am in love with all of these.

The problem is that same motivation likes to vanish for weeks, months, years at a time. I have no control over this. That's what ADHD does. That's why it's a disorder, not just misunderstood creativity. We ghost on our own dreams, inarticulately.

I already consider myself "blessed" to know what I like. I would just really like to be able to like it for more than one maniacal sprint at a time.

A solution to the problem of our clumsily entering and exiting a role (above the level of temp work, turking, etc) would be nice - in no small part because it seems like this would help people without ADHD too and, therefore, scale. I've been looking for a solution to this for most of my adult life. The only remotely consistent one I've found is 'long tail' type things - things one makes once and doesn't have to think about, like resources (books, writing, references), assets ('crafts', reusable design, etc).

That isn't enough to build a career off unless you get astronomically lucky - or come upon the necessary resources to delegate the less ADHD-friendly parts of this kind of business - promotion etc - to someone else.
[dubious—discuss]
Hi Dangus,

thank you for noticing my post and investing time for such long reply.

I see a different metaphor for my case. Look at and electric shaver. If the only bad part is dead battery and everything else is working well as when it was new, I want to have the right to use it when connected to power source. My article is about Apple blocking me to do that.

and the intent of my article is not about getting a new battery from Apple, but about Apple to admit, that they not only slow down old iPhones, but they slow down old MacBooks too.

Jiří
Wikipedia is so incredible because it’s that sliver of intersection in a Venn diagram of what’s ideal and what’s real – a rare phenomenon.
I really like ynab, but they stopped importing my discover card months ago and they have basically declared that there is nothing they can do since their partner can't do anything about it. There is a contingent of their users who claim that it's better that way, but if I'm manually adding transactions and categorizing everything my self, then why not use an excel sheet instead of paying 90 dollars a year.
Fertility Inc.: Inside the big business of babymaking
A person with 20% less brain capacity would be aiming at a different form of success, with different tools. Dragging his place down to lower situations doesn't change the life changing potential of properly applied hard work.

We are not victims of our circumstances.
Thanks. Only one result comes for my state. :(

Sad reality.
Nah, half is plenty to identify someone. If one of your kids sent in a sample today with a fake name, it would pair you up immediately and identify that they are your children.
Does anybody remember knol from Google ?
The Fed and to some extent the Prez are "the deciders," and we know which direction they'll support. But, you probably know that already.
First love: Books

Second love: Wikipedia
https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
I agree with you; Personal Capital is very good. I use both. But they aren't interchangeable. Personal Capital is pretty good for tracking investments and net worth, but Mint is much better at budgeting and tracking monthly expenses.
Did you know most DMVs are selling your data to private companies?
Just to clarify terminology, my 8-channel amp is a dumb device which takes analog RCA inputs and connects to 8 speakers via banana jacks and speaker wire. This thing weighs like 60 pounds and sits in a rack in the basement out of sight.

The Denon receiver is the HDMI switcher + 7 channel amp + Dolby/DTS decoder + AirPlay endpoint which has Ethernet and WiFi etc. It’s in the living room connected to the TV and all the peripherals. But it has a “Zone 2” output which sends analog 2 channel line out audio to the amp in the basement. There are hard-switches on the amp where I have switched 4 of the speakers to be “Left” and 4 to be “Right” from the line-in.

So I can AirPlay to the receiver (most any new receiver will support this) and it will send that 2-channel audio to Zone 2 out to the basement amp.

IMO the best system is a dumb amp which is not on Ethernet or WiFi or Bluetooth or anything. That makes it totally future-proof. It’s also stupid cheap. $45 per speaker, $30 per channel of amplification.

The receiver in my living room I would assume is going to have to get upgraded every few years because it runs software that I have to touch and needs to support the latest HDMI standards, etc. That’s the device which you can connect to via AirPlay or Chromecast or even Bluetooth.
It's all tradeoffs, I want some privacy, but I also like crimes being solved. In fact, I'd see that as a benefit even if I'm related to criminals. Of course this assumes it is used correctly and fairly, which is the hard part.
Can't you be content with the fact that your work impacts and improves the lives of billions of people? What gives you the right to maintain a stranglehold over a market and drive off competition simply because you were lucky enough to be first to implement an idea, or had the fortune to have enough resources to stick it through the hard times?

Also note that companies are far from honest in this work - just look at what Google is doing to erode the web platform, and how it is leveraging it's search monopoly to drive businesses towards paying for ads.
Do what I did and move to Mexico. Then you’re constantly aware your Spanish isn’t improving.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjekz/the-california-dmv...

That's just one small example.
It's common for contracts to have a time-in-lieu clause. I worked late so I get some time off later.
Yeah but you're much less likely to buy that crucial first pack.