skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too.

One way to look at it is that it's a signal that you're working the wrong thing.

Something that's worked for me is to think of the contexts where you feel like you are motivated or productive, and then try to put yourself into those contexts. For example, on my own I have a hard time getting started and I get paralyzed by indecision. But when I'm on a team I feel like I can't let the other people down, and somehow the paralysis just disappears.

Good luck, and don't be too hard on yourself. You're a normal human.
> Presuming that SF is representative for the US

It's not.
His page on variable inductors had me going "ohhh" quite a few times.

If anybody knows about non mechanical / solid state variable caps / inductors, I was trying to find how to learn about them.
Is it better or worse regarding those 5 items?
Great reply, thanks, you are restoring my faith in the humanity.

I fully agree that we have to build build build, to surpass technological level of Star Trek. And yes, I do want to live in science fiction.

"Early retirement" is the most retarded concept to me. Yes, I will retire when I will be a retard. Retired = retard.

People in the late 1800 actually hated the idea of retirement; corporations forced them to retire to give way to young people.

Out biggest problem compared to people of 1800 that we have a facebook (or twitter, or instagram). So instead of building, we outjealousing each other with beautiful vacation pics.
I've come to understand that this is actually a very powerful reason to actually use tabs instead of spaces for indentation. I used to have the irrational preference of using spaces, but once I learned that screen readers work better with tabs, it was a no-brainer from then on.
OTOH, you could look at it like using NSTextView. A basic building block that you add cool stuff atop.
My friend was actually one of the grad students working on this project. I’ve wondered what progress had been done, glad for the follow up
The current daily case rate in South Korea has the whole population getting it after about 100 years (the post I saw said 141, I'm rounding).

We should probably look for mitigations that are not economically harmful and keep them in place. Mask wearing seems to be one of them. Then we can use the time that gives us to look for treatments and maybe even a vaccine.

I wonder if you are giving any consideration of the economic consequences of the virus? Those are going to happen regardless of imposed lockdowns. There's a tweet about reservations at restaurants in Seattle declining 60% prior to the lockdown. That's plenty.

BTW, New York is nowhere near herd immunity. If you assume 1000 cases per death, they would have ~1 million people that have been infected. For a virus this contagious, you want 50-60% for herd immunity, not ~12%.
> some kind of crazy change in public behavior

It's already happening with protests in several states.
Of the things you listed, tap water is highly variable across the US; no city or region would be representative of the rest.
PS5's Launch Aiming to Be Simultaneous Worldwide
Sorry to hear about what's happening to you. Read once about this guy who's using screen reader to code:

https://www.vincit.fi/en/software-development-450-words-per-...

One of the interesting things here is the mention of web frontend frameworks which may make the frontend work possible even without seeing the frontend.

Hope you'll get through the life change. Take care.
Good to see iCab is still around. For reals, kudos for perseverance!
It’s a Great Time to Transition to Microservices Architecture
The tap water in NYC is amazing. In two of the buildings I lived in there it was also the coldest tap water I’ve ever had.

I sometimes make butter from raw milk, which available in h th he state I live in now. It is very good. Most of the time I just keep finlandia or kerrygold around. I cook with Cabot butter.
Agreed! Have you ever built anything on it? Like extensions or plugin of some sort
The NUCs with CPUs comparable to the one that the Mac Minis offer are a lot cheaper (since they're a few generations old). Around $500 or so if you bring your own memory
I worked with a blind dev and his screen reader is incomprehensible by everyone but him. It had to be at like 5-6x. Guy was a wizard. Sure he had some disadvantages with vision but the guy was wicked fast and would pump out the most code
It's certainly helpful to see more of the great tools in this space, and I appreciate you sharing those.

I prefer collaborative editing for meetings as well, but my use case for this is more academic. I'm using it as a stand-in for a board that I'd usually use at the front of the classroom to make a quick diagrams or notes during a lecture, so collaboration isn't especially important to me. I simply wanted something clean and distraction-free.

It'd be sweet to add collaboration to this, but that's obviously an order of magnitude more complicated than what I've built. Perhaps I'll get around to it eventually.
A while back I worked for a team that had wired up Jenkins to a speaker in the office. Each type of event would trigger a different Zelda sound effect. Victory music for successful deployments, game over music for breaking the build, etc. Notably, dev server exceptions were connected to sword clashing sounds.

It led to debugging situations like this:

"Okay, so that's two clanks when we click on this button, but if we do it on this other page it's only one clank. Hm."

Turns out, there are some bugs that are easier to detect this way. Looking at timestamps doesn't really give a "sense" of whether two events are in a tight causal link. With sound, you can immediately "hear" that two adverse events are occuring at identical intervals every time. What's great is that the sound information doesn't take up any additional attention. It just fades into the background if you don't need it. When there is a pattern, it stands out.
The tap water comment surprises me - I've found SF water to be quite good, presumably due to its (major) source in Hetch Hetchy [1]. This does not apply to other nearby cities, e.g. East Bay.

[1] https://www.kqed.org/news/11674188/hetch-hetchy-waters-epic-...
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-c...
Can you build things on it? Btw any reliable estimate on their current # of users and their geographic locations?
Reliability in the context of networking protocols means a specific thing to me - guaranteeing packet delivery (to the extent that it is physically possible of course).

This does seem to be a technical term with a defined meaning that matches my assumption too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_(computer_networki...
Seek out HN user CAMLORN. Quoting from a response in an old thread about screen readers:

I'm the blind dev who refactored a huge chunk of the Rust compiler [0]. I'm at roughly 800 words a minute with a synth, with the proven ability to top out at 1219. 800 or so is the norm among programmers. In order to get it we normally end up using older synths which sound way less natural because modern synthesis techniques can't go that fast. There's a trade-off between natural sounding and 500+ words a minute, and the market now strongly prefers the former because hardware can now support i.e. concatenative synthesis.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20883169
in a world where everyone has a charger at home and at work there's little to no need for Shell and BP

hence their push for hydrogen, where everything remains essentially the same (and they keep their vertically integrated business)
> if you had asked me 20 years ago I would have said hell no, but now I have managed to taste some really good butters and maybe it is worth that much, just like a good cheese would be.

I had the same thing occur with wine, I'm from California but I went to Catholic school so wine to me was this forced ritual thing that tasted horribly. I even did a short in upscale catering while paying for University and still didn't 'get' wine despite tasting what I was told was 'good wine' all the time. I like(d) aged single malt whisky and vodka.

But when I went to Italy and Croatia I learned how a cuisine can be entirely built around the seasons and that wine played a big part of its enhancement.

I've had really good butters from Switzerland while doing my apprenticeship, not sure the costs but it wouldn't surprise me if that was the rate, and despite my affinity for comparing seasonal/aged cheeses (especially with fruit) I simply couldn't tell the difference. It made logical sense for the same reason it does in cheese, the grazing and vegetation/feed pattern varies, but my palette couldn't tell the difference in finding the 'lavender and wild flower notes' these artisan guys went on about. Then again, I'm more of a olive oil person anyway, and that easily exceeds $50/liter so I understood their is a market for that and just nodded.

As a chef later in life I had the same experience as hearing the sommelier talk about 'after notes of butter scotch, and whiffs of toffy' when describing what I thought was a rather mediocre chardonnay during pre-service with food pairing once: a lot of is just branding, but I'm glad it exists as its a big part of restaurant sales. But I just shrugged it off, and never ordered it myself.
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Can One Sentence End the Financial Crisis?
Singapore has mandated masks effective April 14, and cases have recently exploded largely due to unchecked transmission in dorms for foreign workers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_S...
Could you expand on how you skip it for programming?
"Then don't read them" is like saying "then don't eat it" if someone objects to garbage with dinner. It's also not practical advice, because it takes energy to distinguish signal from noise, and the more noise there is, the worse the site becomes, making it less worth it to spend that energy.

Believe me, I'd love to be able to reduce every category of low-quality comment on HN. That's not possible, or even close, so we have to pick our battles. The guidelines single out certain classes of comments, like ones about voting and insinuations about astroturfing because those are particularly common and particularly prone to make discussion degenerate. Ditto for ideological battle, shallow dismissals, and so on.

We downweight off-topic complaints about website design being broken, etc., especially when they're sitting at the top of a thread. Ditto for shallow dismissals like "didn't read past". But it would take time and energy that we don't have to post the same sort of moderation replies to all of those. Also, I don't think the community would support it—the threads would likely fill up with many more backlash comments.

I don't recognize most usernames—again, there are far too many for that to be possible. If you're "constantly chided" the reason is that you're constantly breaking the rules. Why not just follow them and use HN as intended? It's not so hard, and since you care about site quality it seems weird to be flouting rules that are specifically intended to protect that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Almost everything in my to do list these days can be executed in under 10 minutes.

That's pure genius!
James Clear in book `Atomic Habits` talks about the Goldilocks rule,
https://jamesclear.com/goldilocks-rule

which recommends to work on problems slightly higher than your capability
Tap water I can see assigning a city value to but milk and butter have so much brand variation from your corner store, to big box grocer, to farmers market that I fail to see how such a city wide generalization can be accurate.
That is certainly not true of all cats. I and my family have never had a cat with a problem being indoors, even the one who spent his first year in and out.
It is advantageous to get a foot hold in competitive markets, for sure.... but these actions are also heavily motivated by ulterior motives: tax credits, PR/marketing, lobbying, undermining competitive threats, etc.
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Where are you getting these numbers from? Gwern[0], citing this paper[1] and John Bradshaw's book "Cat Sense" (note: I haven't read this book myself), gives much smaller numbers than that. Still much larger than what you'd find inside, but nowhere near the 500m (average!) or 1500m that you claim.

[0] https://www.gwern.net/Cat-Sense ; search for "91 meters"

[1] https://www.gwern.net/docs/catnip/2020-kays.pdf
Filled with bullshit jobs and a lagging technological scene, we've set our economy up for vulnerability and i hope even if it opens we dont go back to bullshit as usual.
Hetch Hetchy Water’s Epic Journey, from Mountains to Tap
Speaking to my family who lives in Sweden, while there is no official lockdown, they sure seems to be mostly confined to their homes. It's based on recommendations rather than regulations, but the effect is the same.
Tap water in Bay Area is terrible, but that is geologically dependent. California tap water generally is the worst I have tasted anywhere in the US. Tap water in the Pacific Northwest, for example, is delicious, clean, and usually lacks any chemical flavor. It is like drinking out of an alpine spring, which is pretty close to the reality.

Cheese is a case-by-case basis, the US produces some very good and unique proper cheeses. But I would give the edge to Europe. I would also agree that the default quality of butter is higher in much of Europe, though similar quality is produced in the US if you want it.

Bread is largely done better in the US in 2020. There was a time when that was most assuredly not the case, but it seems to be consistently the case today. I spend a large part of my life in Europe and the bread quality is not what I am used to in Seattle. Similar bread experiences exist in many other parts of the US. American bread has become remarkably good over the last few decades.
> "Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect comment from the Pentagon."

> "As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matters. However, in the interest of transparency during this current public health crisis, we can confirm that media reporting about the existence/release of a National Center for Medical Intelligence Coronavirus-related product/assessment in November of 2019 is not correct. No such NCMI product exists," the statement said.

It doesn't seem likely that they were watching in mid-November when according to

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/first-covid-19...

China "may" have retroactively found the first patient to be some guy on Nov. 17. That part could be entirely made up as well, I don't trust anything they say.
A piece of this is to eliminate the friction of legal text by open sourcing legal templates, in a graph, on GitHub. The key word here is "source." Legal documents currently are blobs, not source. See github.com/CommonAccord/ Lots of exampless, including the YC SAFES, Series Seed, GA4GH data sharing, etc. It's not full algorithmic, but compatible with algorithmic approaches, like Mike Genesereth's and Meng's.
While WebM usually contains VP8 or VP9, it isn't impossible to throw an h264 stream in there
All about lambda functions in C++(from C++11 to C++17)
Maybe not far from reality. From Oscar Wilde's Impressions of America (he toured the US in 1882) :

From Salt Lake City one travels
over the great plains of Colorado and
up the Rocky Mountains, on the top
of which is Leadville, the richest city
in the world. It has also got the
reputation of being the roughest, and
every man carries a revolver. I was
told that if I went there they would
be sure to shoot me or my travelling
manager. I wrote and told them that
nothing that they could do to my travelling manager would intimidate me.

They are miners — men working in
metals, so I lectured to them on the
Ethics of Art. I read them passages
from the autobiography of Benvenuto
Cellini and they seemed much delighted. I was reproved by my hearers for not having brought him with me.
I explained that he had been dead for
some little time which elicited the
enquiry "Who shot him?" They
afterwards took me to a dancing
saloon where I saw the only rational
method of art criticism I have ever
come across. Over the piano was
printed a notice : —

PLEASE DO NOT SHOOT THE PIANIST.

HE IS DOING HIS BEST.

The mortality among pianists in
that place is marvellous. Then they
asked me to supper, and having accepted, I had to descend a mine in a
rickety bucket in which it was impossible to be graceful. Having got
into the heart of the mountain I had
supper, the first course being whisky,
the second whisky and the third
whisky.

I went to the Theatre to lecture and
I was informed that just before I went
there two men had been seized for
committing a murder, and in that
theatre they had been brought on to
the stage at eight o'clock in the evening, and then and there tried and
executed before a crowded audience.
But I found these miners very charming and not at all rough.

... So infinitesimal did I find the
knowledge of Art, west of the Rocky
Mountains, that an art patron — one
who in his day had been a miner —
actually sued the railroad company for
damages because the plaster cast of
Venus of Milo, which he had imported
from Paris, had been delivered minus
the arms. And, what is more surprising still, he gained his case and the
damages.
What do you think would happen if we just let every business simultaneously collapse?
Think the chromium one is called "blink"
Look, Shell is the third largest company in the world. They have many, many business interests. The idea that more EVs means Shell goes broke is pure fantasy.
“Law is subject to interpretation, and that’s great.”

I’m not sure it is always great.

Studies show racism[1] and hunger[2] and can impact sentencing judgments.

> When bugs are discovered in law, they can be retroactively corrected.

How is that different than software?

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/16/black...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/apr/11/judges-lenient-b...
> I simply hate using screenreaders to use applications which are not designed with accessibility in mind.

I can understand that. I think many of us have just accepted that it has to be this way, because we're a minority and we want to have all of the advantages of using mainstream applications (economies of scale, active development, not being at an extra disadvantage compared to sighted peers, etc.).

Of course, you don't fit the profile of a "mainstream consumer" when it comes to computers. In particular, I gather that you take full advantage of the hackability of free software. So using custom TTS plugins as opposed to a clunky generic screen reader is just an extension of that overall approach to using computers.
Building in World 2.0
I have a friend who didn't know how to code in C++ (although he graudated from CS major) but still got into samsung as a developer, got trained how to write code there. It's a typical conglomerate thing in south korea though. The main strategy here is to assetize(they call them selves as samsung family member) their in-house trained developer. He's going to spend rest of his life there as a samsung developer, enjoying social prestige as a 'samsung employee'.

I recently heard they are now considering to move their code base from svn to git, and write some test code to stabilize the firmware that goes into the ssd products.

I don't think I can explain in short how a mediocre developer who never actually coded something into reality got a degree, and got a job in allegedly the biggest company in south korea... All I can say it is a complex korean thing that requires some cultural understanding of our society.
It looks like a pretty good strategy is to allow people who believe this to go out and kill themselves. On the other hand, what if they’re right and no ones going to die over this? You could require that they pay into a hazard bond that pays out back to them if they don’t get sick.
Ask HN: Any Literature on History of Database?
There seem to be a lot of texts on history of computing, internet/web and OS. Are there any counterparts in database?
Help! I'm the guy who writes those docs. I want them to be better. Nothing strikes terror like "I read through the first 4-5 pages of the docs and saw it mentioned these, but didn't pick up that it used them."

To me, that's like "When I ordered beef, I didn't know you meant a cow!" lol

Seriously, help me help you. Where did I fuck this up?

The very first paragraph of the Quick Start page:

"A great user experience can be created with Rails alone. Tools such as UJS remote elements, Stimulus, and Turbolinks are incredibly powerful when combined. Could you build your application using these tools without introducing StimulusReflex?"

https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/quickstart

What is the thing you could have read and understood right away? I really appreciate whatever you can suggest.
You should consider setting up a well known and repeatable folder structure for your email inbox.

You will need to file everything into a phonetically distinct structure for efficient navigation through your folder hierarchy. Nested directories in this case is not a bad idea.

I have seen this type of structure used very efficiently with a screen reader and Outlook in person.
Just google "bet on anything". There are a number of websites all listed on the first page.
The difference being that anhydrous ammonia doesn't need to be ignited to be extremely hazardous to health.

Gasoline spills are not uncommon, but most of them go unignited.
Since they didn't have Reddit as a source, they actually had to put some effort into stories!
Sorry to hear this Zach. Best of luck and I hope you will pull through this stronger.

I would look into positions at Microsoft. Since the current CEO Satya Nadella took over, there has been a big push to improve the accessibility of Microsoft products, and I know that there are quite a few blind developers working there.
Completely agree. Prices are required. What hospitals are doing now basically amounts to fraud.

In no other 'market', since it's not a market, do customers have no idea if what the price of goods and services are.
someone on reddit found some disturbing astroturfing

https://old.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/g3sw2l/the_user_udr...

lots of new facebook groups like pages asking for reopening, then retweeted by the president

crowds are so weird
I think modern browsers could be a baseline for network based OS in couple of years to come. It is really complex and has zillion features that not many developers know exactly know
>California tap water generally is the worst I have tasted anywhere in the US

Flint, MI probably has a thing or two to say...
Let me look into what effort it would take to clean up the code and put it on Github. I'd be happy if it helped others starting a project. It heavily utilizes ReSwift and SnapKit, two libraries I wanted to gain some more experience with.
> constantly chided with when i bring up that

there's a conditional there. what i'm expressing is that when i bring up the fact that i'm sick of people commenting about mobile websites or posting shallow dismissals then people often respond with "don't read them". so therefore i take your response to mean that i'm at liberty to respond to those people (those that take the refrain that i just shouldn't read) with something something "garbage mixed with dinner".

> Why not just follow them and use HN as intended? It's not so hard.

personally i think your rules are dumb and completely unenforceable except at great personal cost to you (making you even sillier for playing the role of hall monitor). but that's just me - i guess we all choose or own stone to roll up the hill.