skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome. Exactly what the all-but-abandoned "services" concept was supposed to do in MacOS (replaced by the all-but-abandoned extensions).
Elias Bareinboim [1] mentions "we are beta-testing a tool called ‘Fusion’, which offers an easy-to-use way of doing causal inference from 1st principles" [2]. Tantalizing, but I've not yet seen anything else about 'Fusion'.

[1] https://causalai.net/
[2] https://twitter.com/eliasbareinboim/status/11916094504628838...
There was an episode on Planet Money that ran cost benefit analysis and their conclusion was that it makes sense to lock down because just trying to get to herd immunity will cost more.

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/15/835571843/episode-991-lives-v...

So even by the standard of the argument you are making, it makes dollars and sense to lock down.
Solving the mysteries of pure CSS dropdowns
I think each one have to find where those 2-4hours lies.

For me they start between 5pm and 6pm.

I can spend the day in front of my screen doing (almost) nothing or admin stuff. And then it kicks on and I’m (a lot more) productive.

The problem is that it’s around the time I have to take care of the kids when my wife can’t...
Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience
Sorry, I can see where you're coming from, I just think you're seeing a difference that isn't there.

Specifically, these programs are totally normalised. We've had them for decades. They're supported by both parties in the the whole English speaking world. They've grown and expanded since they were revealed. At this point, total surveillance is normal.

If anything, making an app for coronavirus is a good thing. It's easier to ignore this if it's done server side than if your carrier suddenly compels you to install some shitty slow battery draining app. I don't know if that qualifies as normalising it, but if it does and get people up in arms (or encourages even 1% of them to move to tor or signal or something) it's a good thing...
The closest thing I have seen to this is motocoin, where the proof of work is represented by a procedurally generated game the user must win to mine the coin: https://motocoin-dev.github.io/motocoin-site/Motocoin.pdf

Long dead now, though.
Nostalgic! Very fast and interesting, and I like the style of it. I used that and Camino but Omniweb was my favourite browser. Had features I wish other browsers had now, and if they do it's not as easy, the interface was great.

I actually paid for it. Sad that there's not much to choose from nowadays.
It's great to see this article at the top of Hacker News, my number one source of procrastination.
>> But it looks a bit over engineered.

Welcome to Switzerland, the origin of the Swiss army knife :)
I’m using Roon, which is widely supported (and supports AirPlay and Sonos outputs, plus dozens of RoonReady outputs): https://kb.roonlabs.com/FAQ:_What_audio_outputs_or_devices_a... , https://kb.roonlabs.com/Roon_partner_programs

Usually the DAC handles streaming, but some powered monitors and streaming-only devices also do.
There’s actually some science behind procrastination and the steps you can do to beat it: http://nickswan.net/procrastination/
These are my notes from Tim Pychyl’s lecture that was posted on here a few months ago. Link to the YouTube video included in my blog posts. It’s a really good watch.
Construction Equipment Manufacturers
Bull India is the leading Construction Equipment Manufacturers in India. We provide heavy doze suppliers equipment. Bull India which also helps in Road construction machinery.
This Upper East Side school still has boot scrapers
Rock Chisel
TFA says the government introduced a legislation that forces this change. If electric cars are the answer why do they need to force people to accept that answer?
If all you take is bleakness, then perhaps. But Hobsbawm's bleakness is more specific, it's about the demise of actually existing Communism as a pole of the world order. And I would say that putting that anywhere near the top of your list of world events to feel sad about seems even stranger now than in 1995.
> It’s hard to integrate non-engineers – they aren’t valued.

> But, we ship.

That in particular meant I viewed the article as a cry for help.

But it seems like all the commentary here thinks it is sincere and not an ironic piece?
I switched to Dvorak after I got RSI about 10 years ago. It was so bad that I couldn't type anymore. So I taught myself Dvorak because I did some research and it seemed it could have been helpful. I was pretty desperate to solve my problem, and it seemed Dvorak could help since your hands travel less than Qwerty.

Fortunately, I haven't had RSI ever since I switched to Dvorak.

Switching to Dvorak is quite tedious, and I wouldn't recommend it unless you have a good reason to do so.

Regarding internationalization, I write in English, Spanish and Italian in Dvorak with no problem. It really doesn't any difference to me as compared to Qwerty.
I wonder how beating procrastination can be bootstrapped. A professional procrastinator will also procrastinate reading this article even though they know it's exactly what they need. For example, I clicked the "how to be ultra spiritual" video in that article and was then curious about other videos made by the same person and pretty soon found myself in the usual procrastinator's state, forgetting the article or the fact that I got to this article in the first place by procrastinating implementing an algorithm that I've been wanting to complete for a couple of weeks and instead checking what's new on HN ...
I guess one needs to get to a certain point of being determined enough to make a strategic change in one's productivity, and the incentives required for such a change are probably specific to each person
I guess I should've clarified - have they been using their desktops more than before was my intention.
I've seen some in the outskirts of Zürich, e.g. in Affoltern. I'm not Swiss so it took me a while to figure out what they were for ..
A Mob Torches New York’s Quarantine Hospital
You should probably check out the debate between Zizek and Graham Harman (the object oriented ontology guy): https://youtu.be/6GHiV4tuRt8
Although ooo is not directly oo, you can probably pick up on where philosophers are more concerned with the problem of properties ( universals, nominalism, etc) in ontology a lot more than language designers are.
Ctrl+F "Dusseldorf"

http://www.peterfrase.com/2011/08/the-big-short-germany-and-...
Write your distractions down. Look at them at lunch / end of the day (and by then you'll find they don't seem so important).
Can vouch for colemak being hard to type correctly with on a phone. Normally with qwerty I felt I didn't rely so much on autocorrect, but with Colemak I make certain mistakes quite frequently. Especially given eio are all next to each other a lot of times when I want to type o I type "i" instead. I think it's gotten better in recent months but certain combinations on Colemak just seem to be very sub optimal for a phone. Especially the placing of the vowels.

I'm used to it now and it doesn't quite bother me enough to relearn qwerty on mobile. Kinda stuck in this weird limbo of relying on autocorrect for every 5th word. Hahaha.
I assume this http://erlang.org/doc/system_architecture_intro/sys_arch_int...
Construction Equipment Manufacturers in India
What about afternoon/evening people?

I seem to have a pathological inability to get much done before midday/afternoon/evening/night (depending on severity)

I wonder if this is a belief I'm self-reinforcing by identifying as an "evening coder". I mean, I doubt there's a physiological reason for this. It's probably a matter of this being a habit of a lifetime that I've never fought back against hard enough.
Amusing story - when I was in uni I decided to learn dvorak and since I'd just got a shiny new smartphone I set the keyboard in it to dvorak too.

I was never able to get over my qwerty touchtyping skills and gave up very quickly but I left my smartphone keyboard that way as I thought people's reactions when they tried to use it was funny.

Six years later, I bought a kinesis advantage and discovered to my horror that my touchtyping skills were useless with the alien key layout and I couldn't remember where any of the keys were because I'd not looked at them for so long.

However - the kinesis had a "dvorak" button and after having used it on my phone for so long I found it easier to learn that then re-learn qwerty. 4 years later and I get hopelessly lost every time I try to use qwerty.
Moiboy
Perhaps you are using a mesh wi fi extender?
What makes you believe that "ownership" is even a meaningful concept in the absence of a social and a legal system that recognizes property?

If you're at the point of trying to install discipline collars on your formerly-hired goons, maybe that 25% capital gains tax rate starts to look pretty reasonable in retrospect.
If you are have a lot of procrastination problems and if you have always had those problems from an early age, don't dismiss the idea that you may actually have ADHD.

There really isn't adult onset ADHD, but there are a fair number of adults who have undiagnosed ADHD. Take an online screening test and that will tell you if you might want to see somebody about a full test.

This article is talking about the idea that we can train our brains to act like we have ADHD and how to break that brain plasticity cycle, but these techniques would be helpful if you also have ADHD.
In a similar vein: put your guilty pleasure accounts in a browser that you hate, log yourself out of there. Make fake accounts on your primary browser, so that whenever you have the urge to log in or are accidentally logged in, you find nothing there.

I do this for Facebook. I'm considering to do it for YouTube.
Then you would much enjoy reading this (I did).

The secret Pakistan masters of Tekken: Pakistani players seemingly came out of nowhere to dominate the classic fighting game this year.

https://theoutline.com/post/8447/tekken-pakistan-lahore-figh...
How can I tell if a game is playable via Proton versus being natively supported?
I included that study but it was retracted later. I believe that it is still valuable in the context of the bigger picture of research and the conversation on the subject.

There is other peer-reviewed research which is included
The deep learning library “Apache SINGA” 3.0.0 is released
I successfully used the pomodoro method during my PhD. I just couldn't bring myself to do the really boring stuff like the nth iteration of corrections on a section of writing. I developed some features for emacs so I could have my pomodoro timer right there at all times. It also means I have logs of exactly what I worked on and for how long.

But by far my most productive times are when the problem is clear and I feel compelled to solve it. I've always thought that I'd be overall a much more useful person if I could hack my brain to be compelled to do what needs to be done rather than whatever random thing has taken my interest.
I remember seeing a finger movement optimised keyboard a few years back, it was incredibly alien and based on gestures
There were certainly artists in that book who could only work in the evening or at night, it's just the most common pattern seemed to be the one I described which also happens to work for me.
That being said there were times in my life where I would only get productive at 11pm till 2-4 in the morning.
If you are looking high end cases they are out there, just hidden.

Such as,

Dune Pro: https://www.dunecase.com/
InWin lines: https://www.in-win.com/en/gaming-chassis/z-tower/
Lian Li, Cases that are desks, and other high end designs: http://www.lian-li.com/

If you have money, you will find people looking to sell you high end cases.

I personally use Fractal Design cases, they look good, made of thick steel, and are cheap enough I can replace them more often without feeling bad.
> And if you don't have a garage? Or park on the street?

Use a charging network; there are plenty (and there's far more investment in expanding them than hydrogen). Many malls and grocery stores have chargers in their parking lots reserved for EVs; you can charge while you shop.

> I doubt those tests you claim really exist.

Saved you the Google search: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell#In_practice

> The goal is to use that nearly free electricity to make hydrogen

Sure, as an alternative at grid scale (which is what the link you posted references). But BEVs are more efficient, and simpler, for consumer cars. We already have an electrical grid. Even just transporting the hydrogen from the generator to the theoretical thousands of refueling stations would be inefficient and wasteful.

> Right now, the problem is we are producing too much, not too little, renewable energy

Less than 15% of America's energy comes from renewable sources. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewab...
I believe natively supported games still receive the "Steamplay" icon, whereas proton-supported games will show the Windows icon, but will install and run on Linux. (assuming proton is configure)
Harming or offing yourself isn't as a big of deal as being a food/beverage producer and handing what you make to others (even free). Distillation is one such bulk method.

Distilled alcohol with a cut of methanol will make for a very sad day for anyone who imbibes.
IMHO, this relates to your own personal way of attributing value.

Future happiness holds more value for you personally for whatever reason - this is great! i am happy for you.

an alternative view point which is also sometimes correct is that future happiness holds zero value as you may never get it.

I don't know whats really going on but i basically agree that laziness is not a thing. whether its explained by different weighting of future values or different weighting of the value of doing nothing (also highly rewarding) i think is a moot point.

The advice given by the original comment to me holds true regardless. Also the way it is stated is especially important (as i think anyone who has benefited from such advice would see): step 1: beating yourself up doesn't work, you need a logical argument against that to help your brain adjust, step 2: find a way into doing things without a set end goal in mind, this is to learn the pleasure of doing the thing, not getting to the goal.. that way you are triggering different value / reward calculations in the brain.

Please note i firmly believe there is no one explanation that will work for everyone, you have to factor in their view points and biases while finding the specific language that will fire the right neurons for that person... we are all hear to share perspectives in the hope that they are of value to someone else.
I see lot of people focusing on some kind of lifehacks and tips to beat procrastination. The truth is(in my opinion) that it doesn't really matter how ergonomic your workflow is, or how distraction free your office/desktop/phone becomes. In the back of your mind you still know about these things. You know you can open youtube any time you want and browse for videos aimlessly.

For me, it's all about stress. Procrastination is a good sign when I feel too much pressure and there's too much weight on my shoulders. Procrastination becomes a way of self-medication, shutting your mind off and forgetting about all the issues you might be facing in daily life. For some people, the only time they have the luxury to be alone and not disturbed, is when they are at work, sitting behind their computer, headphones on -- and that's the best time to procrastinate.
It's about being mindful, the blank page gives him an opportunity to "catch" himself before he swipes and does something that may be time wasting.

If you don't need anti-procrastination advice why did you read (skim?) the article and why are you commenting here?
It will disincentivize work to some extent, among a comparative minority of UBI recipients. But the flip side is that by keeping the break-even point at a reasonable level and not pushing it too high, you actively slash costs for the program as a whole. The effect of having moderately-high clawbacks at the low end ripples upward, saving a comparable disincentive for every income above the breakeven point. This is a key insight about non-linear income taxation which is borne out by computer modeling of the "optimal" (utility-maximizing) tax rate structure, and economists who are knowledgeable about the subject do agree on this. It's not really controversial.
Anti-vaxxers: Coronavirus is changing some minds about vaccinations
Nice work, thanks finally can get my personnel site up. Pretty much never have time to complete it, this is usable an quick. Responsive too.
My only computer right now is a DeskMini A300W (6 inches X 6 inches X 3 inches, 1.92 L) with an AMD Ryzen 5 2400G. It is fine for older/simple games like GTA 5 and Rocket League and also connects to my 4K TV with a long HDMI cable and works for watching movies and stuff.

For work I normally am just in an SSH session or maybe in Visual Studio Code for my Ocaml experiment.

Here is my "advanced cooling system" https://i.redd.it/d3ssbzfl1ri31.jpg
Have a cognitve dissonance about fat-shaming in Japan when i think about Sumo wrestling. Seems more like glorifying it.
Democracy is wonderful and all but it's simply too slow to use it for absolutely everything. Plus, I would argue that, when it comes to highly-specialized fields like virology, the "ignorant public" does still exist - Boris Johnson just demonstrated that even the best-educated in the world can be incredibly ignorant in this or that area of science.
I may be able to make a difference on butter (I used to manufacture my own dairy, my grandparents had a small cow farm), but I can distinguish wine. Nobody can distinguish audio by the type of cable unless you use a defective or extremely thin cable, so the wire coat hanger test is not needed.
Build the Next Generation of Python Web Applications with FastAPI
To me this is one of the great mysteries of computers: Why don't people use these features more? I have tons of Services that I use all day, for me they're one of the most important features of the OS (archiving text, opening all selected URLs, and converting the selection to title case are some examples). Yet Services don't seem popular, why is that? People seem to customize their shells (e.g., write Bash scripts, make aliases, and customize their prompts), and even non-programmers seem to be able to accomplish complex automation in Excel, or with a tool like Zapier. So why don't people customize their OS similarly? I find the gains to be greater, because if I customize at the OS-level, my customizations are useful in any app, and forever, instead of being tied to a particular app or project.
Germany’s largest paper to China's president: You're endangering the world
Definitely a much better choice
Building Real Time Applications on Streaming Data with Eventador – Episode 129
Surprised and fascinated by the response here. Without this plugin, every website I visit pops up a giant banner that has to be dismissed before I can simply read some text. Why is this a good thing, it completely killed usability of the web for me.

Cookies are a built-in feature of web browsers, if you don't want them you can disable them or periodically flush them, otherwise yes, I want to automatically ignore this problem. I don't see why killing web usability was overall a good thing, even if it brought this tracking problem to the forefront, it certainly isn't fixing it, it's only making the web harder and more annoying to use.

GDPR may be well intentioned but what happened to the web as a result was a total failure imho.
Technically it would not be "this is what the camera saw, guaranteed" but "this is what the possessor of some signing key asserts they saw".

If a single shoddy manufacturer of cheap webcams somehow leaks a key that should have been on that webcam, then any software can easily encode a video stream with signatures asserting "this is what the camera saw, guaranteed".
> I agree. But that still doesn't mean you have a right to take from those (through the form of taxes) to give to those that are unwilling to work.

You aren't seeing the forest for the trees. That bit of welfare going to people who maybe don't deserve it? It's nothing compared to the money that goes to corporations to keep people working in jobs that make no economic sense.

That money is not only taken from you, it's taken from generations to come through debt. You're the sucker, either way!

Now, do you want to make things worse to enforce some idea of "fairness"? That's the essence of socialism.

> I run my own business, I took a risk. I didn't need the government to help me. The willingness to take risks and better yourself doesn't need the government to be involved.

That's survivorship bias. Depending on the business, it would be unwise to take all the risk, relative to the limited reward. I hope you managed to save enough for your retirement, unlike most small business owners.

> I hate it when people use this rationale. You get paid for going to work. You have plenty of rights at work. You are not exploited. You sign up willingly to work. It isn't exploitation. I don't buy into this whole "capitalism exploits the workers" marxist thought process.

If you want real capitalism where workers don't have all these rights that prevent an efficient economy, inevitably some workers will be in a dire economic situation and will have to take any job, lest they starve. That's an exploitable situation. I suppose you don't want that.

I'm not arguing for Marxism, I'm arguing to get rid of the entitlements and most of the worker's rights, but in turn give them a simple safety net, a very modest means of living, so that they don't have to take or keep a bad job - especially not those artificial jobs created by corporate welfare.

You must understand that keeping people working in uneconomical jobs is more wasteful than just giving them money to do nothing, because on top of it costing taxpayer money, it also costs people's time.
Yes, good point. I ended up removing the variable cost.

Hello from Hungary! :)
I can’t edit this anymore, but I should have said to post them here, and to send them to the New York Times. My mistake.
I'd agree that it's easy to compose but the API of the properties the components expose are inconsistent in certain cases and if I can get a native build out of it, I shouldn't
be complaining about a minor issue
Just curious: the companies you work with, where are they located? And how did you get in contact with them?

I’m also in Germany and working remote full time since ~1 year, I’m interested in your experience if you’re willing to share.
Same in New Zealand. Pretentious restaurants print "grass fed beef" on the menu. I don't know if there are any non-grass fed cows in the entire country.
So how do you know if a game with only the Windows icon is supported (via Proton)?
We're talking about people in the ~155-180 IQ band; In a city the size of Chicago you have 20 or so people in that band.

The reason it's called "Gifted" is because you get born with it, just like your skin color. I didn't choose to have a high IQ. Frankly, with the way people have treated me in life and all the pain I've gone through due to it, I'm not so sure I'd want to be this way. I'm sure you know that feeling.

You want to explain performance differences in racial groups, look at complex trauma and cultural phenomina. Conduct an similar ACE study in the south-side and see what you get.

I think what you're going to find is 50% of the population has generational complex trauma they are trying to escape, and their outcomes would be improved draumatically by specialist intervention and I think one that is done, you are going to find out IQ isn't altogether different between racial groups in a country like the US.
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You can check for individual games or run a check against your whole steam library (by authenticating with Steam) at ProtonDB [1].

[1] www.protondb.com