skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Beating Factorio quickly is not the primary point.

Maybe, but once you get into speed running it, it certainly feels like doing things slowly is against the point. (That and everything before robots feels so glacially slow... hard to adjust with Seablock and robots and good logistics chests being so far down the tech tree...)
I generally agree with all of that. And all of that, to me, suggests even just a fundamental level of involvement by parents is what's important. This doesn't seem to have anything to do with screens being a problem.
What is the difference between this and being a senior startup employee / adult supervision?
I think it was just sarcasm
I went and looked at a few studies. I did not find the same weakness of evidence that you described. E.g. [1] seems decently strong, to take just one example, although I'd be happy to be shown my error. I do agree that folks should examine the research for themselves, since it's so easy to do once you get practice. I also agree that the research on screen time is extraordinarily weak, and that there isn't really a good reason it has a causal negative impact on children as yet.

[1]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199308053290601
I think it depends on the topic and intensity. For example, significant anger over poor freeway design and traffic is extremely common and not a sight of a psychological disorder. Same with terrible UI on common apps
Automating business processes such as archiving incoming invoices or sharing blog posts on LinkedIn.
It's harder to be a good parent in the sense that the bar has been raised much higher. Go ask your parents' generation how much time their parents spent with them. Then compare to what's seen as the minimum now.
Well, the quoted sentence comes from the article. Of course with time it gets easier, but the first time you submit your app to App Store an awful lot of time is spent on the provisioning aspect.
Funny to use the word transcendental there, since the Pythagoreans held ratios to be divine but couldn't figure out irrational numbers, like pi. They had trouble squaring that circle.
Windows 10 seems to run faster on older computers than even 7 did.

Not saying it's my favorite thing, but rolling updates and decent built-in anti-malware make it a fairly good option these days, and with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and Multipass, there's a lot of Linux stuff that can be done on Windows.

IMO, Windows 10, the separated kernel stuff they're doing, and their current support for Open Source software is the best thing Microsoft has done in a long time.

Hopefully they don't get to Extinguish this time.
Ah interesting! Thank you for the context, that makes a lot of sense. I notice all of them (well, haven't checked all 24k, but many of them) link to https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list, and I wonder if that's ensured by some sort of policy or CI rule
Private Internet Access VPN Open Source Repository
Cooking is orders of magnitude harder for me than making an app, so I’d think we’re already there…
Boredom is not having anything interesting to do

Not true of everyone.
Yes I heard this too. Frankly something doesn't click for me, I can't say what exactly. The brain is far, far more complex than that, we can't boil "child language development" down to "read them 1+ hour/day" and "limit screen time".
There's this story about the two shoe salesmen. The first one visited this hot climate country, and nobody was wearing any shoes. He got really depressed, said "Nobody is wearing any shoes here, goodbye" and left hurriedly with the next train. The other guy smiles arriving while looking excitedly around, and then exclaims: "Wow! Everyone is a potential customer. Nobody has even one shoe. I must set up shop immediately!"
it's double-shipping

https://zachholman.com/posts/double-shipping
I'd say you have to view it differently. You said, "So, for the sake of helping me, please just assume that my assessments of certain designs are accurate, and that they are undeniably awful, and had the designer(s) attempted to use their design once they would have realize this -- and that it's not just me." So, you'll have to enlarge your context on this. You can, perhaps, try to empathize with people not exposed to the notion of good design, or people that can't conceive of it, or live impoverished enough inner lives to have no concern for it at all. You should realize that you yourself certainly have equally large and glaring blind spots invisible to you, and sympathize with the human condition.

If you continue to view it as simply indefensible, you'll never solve anything. If you feel strongly about it, perhaps you can start teaching design, or raising awareness about design. But, in the end, you have this restricted circle of concern, this bad design attacks you personally and you cannot forgive it.

This piece seems insightful about this point:
https://www.concordmonitor.com/Bertrand-Russell-conquest-of-...

“I am persuaded that those who quite sincerely attribute their sorrows to their views about the universe are putting the cart before the horse: the truth is that they are unhappy for some reason of which they are not aware, and this unhappiness leads them to dwell upon the less agreeable characteristics of the world in which they live.”

“Gradually I learned to be indifferent to myself and my deficiencies; I came to center my attention increasingly upon external objects: the state of the world, various branches of knowledge, individuals for whom I felt affection.” - Obviously, you've already directed your attention outwardly, but in this case, I think you need to widen your perspective and circle of concern until these issues seem small. You get tunnel vision on them.

“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”

“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all. . . . It is amazing how much both happiness and efficiency can be increased by the cultivation of an orderly mind, which thinks about a matter adequately at the right time rather than inadequately at all times.”

Anyway, my $0.02
I went through the early parts of French Duolingo pretty intensively, but gave it up around the end of level 1, because it seems far too grindy -- not a good use of time. The part I did was good for bootstrapping to the point where you can start profiting from more real-life sources like the Harry Potter books.
America's Epidemic of Despair
Nit: this app was distributed via TestFlight, not the App Store. (It still has similar signing requirements.)
Gendered sets and conflict sets is something that LEGO wrestled with a lot; they both run counter to the ideals/politics of the founder (and hence company).

However, after investing heavily in research around it, they have basically come to the conclusion that;

1. Girls and boys play differently (as a rule of thumb, not universally obviously)

2. Conflict play is healthy (although they will probably never include contemporary weaponry/military).

Related article - https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/05/le...

(your comment comes across needlessly agressive)
No that's not the point. The point of agile development is not to get stuck in the water with long releases and no feedback cycle. It doesn't mean you blindly follow customer feedback and guesses until something works. It means you incrementally release your vision.

tldr: agile tells you how to release, not what to release
Yeah, speaking french is hard. You speek with the front of your mouth whereas english is more about the back of your mouth. Totally different muscles.
So you make an effort to take time out of your day for informal, one on one conversations with members of your team? Over lunch, and directly in passing?
That description reflects a degree of similarity to salarymen that I've never noticed before.
The CIA ran a fake vaccination program to catch Bin Laden.

That doesn’t make vaccines bad though.
21 April: “There was a wiring hack in the disk kludge...”
You can upload the parts list to Bricklink. They have a feature that attempts to find the cheapest combination of sellers to minimize cost.
Relevant well-known case: when Munich switched to Linux and then switched back to Windows 10

https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/26/linux-pioneer-munich-swi...
I added one letter (and one space). Somethings not adding up with your logic
There's a difference from a blind guess and an educated guess.

And honestly yes, you shouldn't have product management. Projects should be coordinated by product leads and their engineers. The only people that can plan a vision for software are the people who make it. You're paying these engineers for their knowledge, use it in all capacities.
Great concept and interesting demo, however the title is pretty misleading. This isn't what I would call "thought controlled" more than the old Thalmic Myo or any EMG [0] is thought controlled.

This is reading muscle signals with electrodes and translating those muscle activations into a variable voltage signal. One could argue that because you're not reading mechanical action it could be considered "thought control" but I'll leave that up to the individual to gauge for themselves.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/10/ctrl-labs-first-dev-kit-is...
Assuming you mean a digital lowpass filter; this won't work. The ultrasonic input is saturating the microphone. In this situation, no amount of digital filters can recover the desired signal (the speech). If there was a physical low pass filter (not sure if these exist) that was placed over the microphone, that would work
> I suspect it's because Firefox exploits have looked the same for the last several years -- there has not been a lot of novelty required to implement an exploit, given an arbitrary read/write primitive.

Surely other browsers do not differ from this significantly?
Not noticing that someone can't breath when their face is visibly swollen isn't a matter of being overworked its rank incompetence. If its caused by fatigue one has to wonder how the facility managed to collect the most money in the world for the same situations and manage not to afford enough personnel.
And whether or not you have similar interests outside of work.
It makes it harder to read without it. It sounds like broken english that I keep tripping up over myself trying to read it thinking that I misread a word
You're obviously right about badly formed science, and of course stuff should be verified before it's shouted about. I also have personal experience (well, personal via my wife!) with the whole breastfeeding thing - you're right, there are some BreastNazis out there and they do need calling out, for sure.

Having said that - people have managed to parent their kids for ever without screens. Why are we suddenly so reliant on this shit like it's some kind of third arm? I just don't get it.

It's kind of blindingly obvious to me - even without the evidence of science - that putting a screen in front of your kid falls short in so many ways compared to how it used to be - maybe encouraging them to play, properly, with blocks / Lego, soft toys or books. This is so obviously more likely to enable them to build their spacial awareness or encourage reading than staring mindlessly at YouTube Kids, surely? Not least of all it will give them some understanding of how to interact with the real world around them. Plus - and this is a big one for me - real, quality time with parents actually interacting, properly, with their kids - talking to them, reading to them, playing with them - is lost! You can pretend you're "browsing YouTube together" or whatever but we all know that's b/s - there's no meaningful interaction between you and your kids in doing that.

You want space in the evening to be an adult? Sure - get your kids to bed at 7pm every night so they have a routine and you get to have grown-up time! You don't need a screen to do that shit - you just need to parent with conviction and stick to your guns. It's hard, really hard, but it's never been anything else. Expecting it to be somehow made easy with an iPad is a fools game.

Final thing - we gotta be really careful with the "I don't believe in experts any more" thing. That way ...is Trump.... ;-)
How do they account for the correlation that kids on screens are the ones that have less parental involvement?
That's not scale, it's the opposite of scale, and it's very much more the way things worked a long time ago.

When communication was expensive you could only talk to people in your physical vicinity. If they had stupid ideas, you had stupid ideas. A town even a few dozen miles away would have an entirely different set of stupid ideas.

What's different now is that the clusters aren't based on geography, so there is more overlap and you encounter people whose set of stupid ideas are different than yours. That's actually a good thing -- it's how a lot of them get stamped out because they're so obviously bad that they can only survive when no one is even attempting to challenge them.

The problem now is, instead of there being a third world village full of people who think crazy things and whose children die of preventable causes but nobody else has reason to care that they exist, now there's a few of those people in every town getting infected with measles and then showing up to school with your kid. So now we have to care more about idiots being wrong because said idiots live closer to home than they did before.

But the way to fix wrongness isn't censorship. That's how you make wrongness increase, because as soon as you erroneously censor something true, nobody can say it in order to argue that it shouldn't be censored.

The way to fix wrongness is education and debate. Which is real and continuous work instead of a switch you can flip and make the problem go away. Sorry.
Great metaphor, I think it's implying that bad designs could be a potential opportunity if viewed from the right perspective.

If you see a bad design, that you know could be better then don't be sad, you have a business opportunity!
For generate BrickLink Parts List[0] for created model using LeoCAD, in LeoCAD go to menu "File > Export > BrickLink..." and save its XML-file.

Then you could use this XML-file for order all needed pieces.[1]

[0] https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=207

[1] http://guidetobricklink.com/uploading-a-parts-list
Of course, but in my case it's as simple as sending an e-mail "Could we talk at your earliest convenience?" Unless of course the issue is not really important - in that case it can wait for 1:1.
> theatrical demonstrations of disgust near smokers outside on the sidewalk

I'm with you completely except for this one. Cigarette smoke feels like it sucks the air out of a nonsmoker's lungs from quite a wide radius. A nonsmoker can smell an outdoor cigarette from a block away, and it doesn't smell good even at that distance. Up close it makes people involuntarily gag. Not recognizing that seems pretty blind.
I remember when I first tried to schedule my days after we became a family of 3, thinking "A bit of organizing is going to sort this madness right out!". Cue my dismay when I realized that no, I'm simply 1.5 hours short each day of getting everything done and sleeping 8 hours.

It did get better later on as the kid grew up.
Business processes which are repeatable, time consuming and not possible to do with native integrations between tools (or when native integrations just don't exist)
An interesting fuzzer called fuzzilli two links in: https://github.com/googleprojectzero/fuzzilli
Seconded! I've been looking around, but nothing seems to press both of these buttons. It's a deal-breaker for me, as I often think by sketching. In my notes, doodles are first-class citizens.
Putting the 'personal' back in computing, this is great!
>So, I think to myself, is the whole world just lazy? Stupid? Apathetic? Why would somebody make this thing the way it is, and think it is acceptable?

In my personal opinion, yes, the designers probably don't care about your use case, or about the product at all.

The designers were probably happy to collect a check and go home.
Rule #2: Do not work at a company that can't appreciate or value how good you can become.

Rule #3: While working, make every effort to learn new things and improve yourself.
This should be required reading in HS. When I was in high school everyone went into a computer lab to read this document . Not everyone did but I looked for the best paying job that had high growth that I would enjoy.

Although I thought about being Mathematician or a professor in college when I was there I saw that a bunch of people in those disciplines becoming web developers and or low paid Adjunct professors at community colleges . Reading that website changed my life significantly .
Ha! I was waiting for someone to mention Joy! You can find a bunch of stuff on Joy hanging around if you know where to look:

http://nsl.com/

http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10000360

https://vector.org.uk/conquering-recursion/

It's a neat concatenative language, and everyone reading this thread should at least give it a cursory glance!

NB. Joy is a bit more APLJK-inspired than Lisp-inspired.
I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm saying it gets brought up plenty and is tangential to the point of the article
They're not threatening to kill anyone, are they?

Yes, that's kind of the point.
I said this 10 years ago: if government from many developed nations pool their resources together, we could have a serious alternative to Windows and Windows Server. Most of the base elements are already there.
When did you last play? They frequently release updates/bugfixes so you might want to pop in again to see if things haven't improved.

Also that's where creative mode really shines - to test out ideas because getting the proper ratios plus fighting bugs can take a lot of trial and error i.e. "debugging".
Everything!
It's important to realise that your customer IS your business. Most employees don't know/care about that but every business owner should. When your customers lose faith it's `Goodnight Charlie'!

[edit] O.K. It helps also to be aware who your KEY customers are. Suggest you get a sign made with this printed in LARGE letters --> PARETO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
Is the TiddlyWiki experience at all like their website? I found it immensely confusing. Rather than navigate between pages (which is how a wiki is supposed to work?) every link I clicked on that page opened a new sub-window right below, which both messed up the existing page structure and also made the current page URL useless for bookmarking.
How the Internet Made Us Believe in a Flat Earth
>The last three years of being a parent have left me disenchanted with experts.

That's a valid sentiment. We should be suspicious of experts in non-hard sciences (in hard sciences a proof is a proof). They often get things wrong, they are often paid by industry, and they often follow ideological or other fashions.

But the suspicion should also be cautious, and you don't seem to have much of an argument, just "I dislike what the experts say".

>I watched first hand the harm that was done by the medical community obsessing over "breast feeding is best and formula feeding is basically admission of failure.

What "harm" was that, and who said they are wrong? For one, there are several 100s of millennia of evolution backing beyond breast feeding, and feeding a baby is at the very core of evolutionary processes, so if anything one should began being suspicious of any novel industrial formulas made for profit...

Not sure why screens wouldn't be bad for "young brains". Evolutionary speaking almost everything that's not part of 1000000s of years of evolutionary history and takes such a huge time each day and such huge changes in lifestyle (from eyesight/brain used outdoors to eyesight/attention devoted to a backlit screen for hours each day), will be bad in one way or another -- unless it actively corrects for another bad thing (like how housing corrects for exposure to raw weather elements).
I wouldn’t say this is an expectation. Depending on the size and quality of code, you may be able to identify what’s going on in a code base within a day, or understanding it may require weeks. Then you probably want to document what you’ve found, so you can delegate whatever new features you need to implement or modify. And this can stretch longer if the nature of your tasks requires a deeper investigation of whatever dependencies (lets say other services or libraries) the code base depends on.

I’ve been at a couple of the large FAANGs. You don’t need to be able to do all of this on a day. If you do, your management fundamentally doesn’t understand what’s going on. If you’re at a senior level, it’s your job to communicate. If you have non technical stakeholders, you must be able to take complex topics and break them down and influence your stakeholders to agree to the right thing or at least explicitly accept the cost of what it is you lose by doing A over B or C.

Edit: I did work at a company before where something like this was an expectation, and not just from senior folks. The underlying issue was the manager chain upwards was all people managers who fundamentally don’t know the first thing about software development. The best you can do in that situation is break down the problem, size components, and communicate.
Then perhaps a more adversarial approach.

Let's make software that generates content that to the big-media-bots looks like their copyrighted content, but to a human arbiter looks like anything but. This can be done automatically, by continuously gauging the response of the bots to variations in our generated content, and adjusting accordingly.

We'll spray this content all over, using throw-away accounts. Then dispute all the claims. Could we increase the volume of all claims n-fold this way? If so, at some point this would have to affect the trustworthiness of these bots with Google.

I refuse to accept that there is no way to fight back. If we could abuse the system in some way as to make this a problem for Google, I believe change can be achieved.
seek professional help
Ironically, as a user I'd use it more if it were more effective and less grind-grind-grind. But I suppose you're probably right. An efficient, effective learning process feels more challenging and frustrating, which must drive a lot of people away. It must be a solvable problem, though.
What about Trillium? (https://github.com/zadam/trilium)
What "license" was sub-licensed?
War over Being Nice (2018)
Which is, of course, the canonical example of why all governments should do it.

The project didn't fail, it was on pace to succeed, which made Microsoft swoop in and basically bribe them to switch back.

The lesson being, switch to Linux. Either you'll switch and save money, or Microsoft will bribe you not to and you'll save money.
If you're an apple device user, Bear Notes is pretty good. You can link to any note from within any other note, so it's wiki-like in that sense. And it does have sketching.