skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that in general it’s better to persuade than it is to order. But once you cross a certain organizational size, it becomes indistinguishable from just not planning at all. Once your company and product crosses a certain size, planning on persuading every single team in the critical path to care about every single product feature is a fool’s errand; a certain amount of “we need X by Y” must come in to play.
Yawn. When I read such low-effort comments, I wonder if the people writing them ever read the article or if their job is just to spout off uninformed opinions.
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This is cool.

I went to Japan regularly for twenty years, and always saw this, but never thought about it.

Thanks for that!
I wonder why?

Cavium ThunderX; Now under Marvell, has a newer ThunderX2 and an upcoming X3 [1]. Since they explicitly mentioned ARM64 it seems they are giving up the ARM64 Server business as a whole.

I was surprised when they launch C1 / ARM Offering so early in 2013, and would have expected the experiment to end in a few years time, but to discontinue ARM64 after AWS announced they are going All in, seems something. ( Sigh, my limited lexicon. Cant find the right word. )

[1] https://www.servethehome.com/marvell-thunderx3-arm-server-cp...
True, stress is the central motivator of procrastination, but if you get a handle on it, suddenly other things become important as well. Such as not being disturbed or eating well or task management or whatever. It's like oxygen: if you don't get it, you feel like it's the only thing you need. Once you have it, there's a whole bunch of things you need.
It's easier to automatically detect in large scale if you're reusing someone else's pictures, so for some social media sites this will immediately flag you as a potential fake profile and escalate to requirements to e.g. use a mobile phone number verification, etc.
I own a copy of "The Letters of Mozart and his Family" and they are a wild bunch, especially the letters addressed to: "Cousin Buzz Fuzz".
Because HN is primarily the realm of scientism : science as a religion. Anything that deviates from that will be -4'ed within an hour. And it even appears that discussing such will also incur the wrath of non-comment -1 voters. Without requiring a justified reason of a downvote, I don't expect this to be fixed in any reasonable timeframe.

It's an emperor's new clothes problem.
Are those actually usable as a primary/only browser in 2020?

Unfortunately, I think the best way to fight the monopoly at this point is to use Firefox. As bad as 2½ browsers is, I'd much rather have 2½ than 1½.

(On desktop, webkit is also fine, they need marketshare there. Anything that isn't Chromium.)
And the home of hand-crafted mechanical watches.
Is there link to this story on something other than ultra-mainstream media?
> I grew up in a high pressure environment, where a lot is expected from you.

Talk to a therapist. You should find out which experiences from the past trigger your “laziness”. The past high pressure situations trigger a pattern in you. Discover the pattern, you’ll be able to understand why certain tasks cause the anxiety. Once you know where it comes from and why it happens, you can overcome that. Sometimes just a simple talk with a therapist can help, no need for pills.
I wonder if a lot of these issues would just go away if CEO compensation of a straight salary that was a reasonable amount.
Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Talks About Building Companies and Products
The paper is linked from the article.
Where do you get the idea that masks are only about the person's own good, and not to prevent damage to others?
I think this is more or less obviously wrong. Imagine a primitive society inventing the microscope and then making it illegal, perhaps going so far as to make all types of lenses illegal even those used for eyeglasses. Now you might have small numbers of people willing to experiment with lenses and microscopy in secret but if the society wages a war on glass and actively persecutes and imprisons anyone involved in the lens business it's going to make it very difficult for anyone to make any progress and those that do are going to be people on the fringe with little ability to pursue their research or communicate it to others.

It seems possible to me that psychedelics may be a form of "microscope for the mind" that makes clear details and inner workings that we were not able to see otherwise. It won't revolutionize our understanding over night since we would still need to build a science around it just as we did with the microscope when we discovered a world we had only inklings of before.
Check protondb.com as well
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Exactly! In the end it is the man who's the culprit. Birds and cats and coyotes (who occasionally eat cats) learnt to live together for millions of years.
Masks could have prevented the quarantines, and will be needed again when they end. The quarantines are a last resort, after the failure of public policy and non-medical-interventions to contain the virus.

I made a video which shows that masks are the answer, there is no shortage, and that our government leaders were wrong in telling us not to wear them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppiPaYI-x4E
gRPC in practice – directory structure, linting and more
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"Ties to each other" is one thing. The same person registering all the domains within minutes of one another, and populating them with cut-and-pasted content, is quite another.
Making sense of the coronavirus, and how to avoid more quarantines
The vegetable lamb of Tartary: a curious fable of the cotton plant
Mine does in Kent in the UK. I'd say he catches more mice and voles, but I'd say he gets a bird a week. Especially in the Spring when they are fledging.
The way I look at it, you can push past your ordinary daily soft limit in this area, but there will be a cost, and the more you disrupt your routine in pursuit of your goals, the higher that cost will be-- past a certain point (likely different for everyone), you will get diminishing returns & risk of a breakdown goes up.

The balance to strike here, I think, is to give your mind & body a chance to recuperate before you get too close to that breaking point. Or phrased another way, look at 'pushing yourself into a second wind' as a critical tool for certain situations, but one to be used sparingly (preferably when you have some open calendar spots ahead).
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> Ask myself : What negative emotions do I have associated with project or task x,y,z?

That's a valuable tip. Drilling down to what stresses you out and finding a way to integrate that into self is central to overcoming procrastination.
When I listen to audiobooks or podcasts, I can easily bump up the speed by 25% until I hit 2x. Faster, depending on the reader and the type of book. If it's a good non-fiction reader like Edward Herrmann, I can go faster. If it's a fiction book with an expressive reader using accents and emoting, I sometimes can't get beyond 1.5.
Gamers Nexus has a lot of reviews for cases of all sizes, it's how I ended up with mine: https://www.gamersnexus.net/reviews/hwreviews
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For those confused by the headline Carnival is a cruise ship operator, not a festival.
"All-remote is the purest form of remote work, with each team member on a level playing field. 43% of remote workers feel that it is important to work for a company where all employees are remote."

This is interesting as it runs counter to the opinion you hear a lot that is in the vein of live and let live/give people a choice/different people have different preferences. I do think there's some truth to it. While I don't really have trouble under normal circumstances as someone who is mostly remote with a bunch of people in a conference room on a call, it is a little nicer with everyone individually on the video call. [ADDED: But the company is about 50% remote so there are often people from a variety of locations on a call even if some are in a conference room.]

I think it's certainly true, if only a few people are remote, that can be challenging.
Gifs work on iPhone
Proton has been a game changer for me: after many years on Linux only I ended up building a gaming rig a few years ago as I wanted to get back into gaming.The plan was to dual boot and only use Windows for gaming, but in practice rebooting all the time is just too much of a pain so I was using Windows almost exclusively there, with all the related frustrations. About 6 months ago I got myself a new SSD and made a fresh install of Linux with steam and Proton and I've been amazed a the performance and game support. Of course not all games work out of the box (and some not at all), but I haven't had to boot to Windows in months. And for the games I play the frame rate is at least as good as what I used to have on Windows (on a couple of games I do get occasional drops, but nothing too distracting). I play a lot of Assetto Corsa Competizione and my G27 steering wheel even worked out of the box!
Carnival isn't solely to blame for the situation.

Check this story from CNN on Feb 13th titled "Why it's still OK to take a cruise amid the coronavirus outbreak"

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/cruise-safety-coronavirus...
That's not a real problem. Facebook public posts can be edited, shared, and liked. No one complains about that. I frequently edit my public posts to correct typos and such.
That's very useful, thank you.

EDIT: Clickable: https://www.protondb.com
I agree that developing "lifehacks", when taken too far, can be a form of procrastination itself. ...and that the underlying cause is emotional.

Nevertheless - we still need to do them.

I think the answer is both simpler and more difficult than most people are characterizing here.

1. Discipline takes training (preferably from a young age). If you practice overcoming those mental blocks, you will be more accustomed to doing them and recognizing and avoiding those escape behaviors that we call procrastination.

2. Visualizing and regularly reinforcing the Goal - that final benefit that puts all the work in between in context.

3. Planning/chunking the work. It's a form of gamification - but don't let it itself become a form of procrastination. 99% of people _already_ _know_ what needs to be done, right now.

Personally, I have a simple system. Three Google Docs. 1. Is a short, somewhat vague list of goals I revisit every year at tax time. 2. Is a list of projects in a rough order of priority (actually it's a folder of Docs with one doc for each project). ...and most importantly, 3. The daily journal, where I add to the top each day the date and a rough list of things I'm working on.

People get lost in making sure their prioritizing is perfect, or adding too many things to their daily TODOs. In fact, in the context of doing what's important, I find that one of the key skills is being militant about things you're NOT going to do - and ignoring requests from others that don't fall in line with your own goals.
Probably just took the name out as per HN guidelines:

> If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link.
“You’re not actually being hurt by this corruption” has always been the argument of the corrupt themselves. It’s not a convincing argument.
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You can do it in SQL, stop writing extra code for that
This is more than individual protections. Just as you aren't allowed to drive drunk because you will damage others in addition to yourself.
A charitable read would mean that no Western country was able to contain the virus without dramatic action such as shutting the entire country down, vs. the two examples in the East, Taiwan and South Korea, who have been able to keep their countries moving.

And it's a really stark contrast: I remember reading about the Taiwanese man who was fined a bunch of money for violating quarantine. What caught my eye, however, was that he was fined for going to a nightclub. During the height of this, Taiwan hadn't even closed their nightclubs, one of the first places I would think you could and should shutdown.

Germany may have done a good job, but I would love to live in a country right now we I could eat at a restaurant and go to the gym throughout the whole crisis.
Third party data geotracking helps against the Coronavirus
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No. I'm not a fan of the format either, but if that's the way that someone chooses to disseminate informative content then style concerns are insufficient reason to forego it. The bikeshed doesn't have to be blue.
These laws are not “for their own good”. That is the massive mistake that caused Mike Pence and health officials to urge everyone as late as March 2nd not to buy masks, while the virus was spreading.

The masks are not to protect you - it’s to protect others from you!

Let me put it this way: every infected person who wears a mask reduces R0. The outbreaks and pandemic can be stopped. The quarantines and economic damage won’t be needed.

We don’t know who’s infected, so everyone has to wear masks and washing hands when entering a building. People should be fined by private businesses and buildings for violating this.

And on a public level, this is like getting a DUI.
What I've been personally and voluntary communicating over and over for couple weeks, is that the minimum volume achievable without exotic parts is _3.9L_ using "SGPC K39 ITX" case, which is one whole liter less than Intel Ghost Canyon NUC that measures almost 5L.

(It'll be dense as a lead block, and loud and hot though)
Hah, that IS a coincidence! Really nice solution you have there - very minimal, and achieves exactly the same job with regards to the README.
Mathematica?
How do people handle async communications when in differing time zones? The team was forced to work remotely as opposed to an office as a result of SARS-CoV-2. I'm a core developer back in Sydney, with the rest of the company in San Francisco (I'm essentially -7 hours). A lot of team members don't like me not being able to reply when they send a message because they don't like having to context switch from tasks that they're blocked on, meanwhile I have no problems with this aspect as I tend to like to work on things simultaneously and can context switch quickly (could it be my ADHD being a super power here?). How do remote teams deal with this effectively?

We currently have org/dev planning meetings every other day (Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:30am PDT, which is 3:30am my time until sometimes 6am) which I'm up for, but I can't maintain that every day as it gets too much (I wake up around midday Sydney time).
It's inferable from the fact that the writer saw both chains and produced a new node that merges these heads. So that writer "resolves" the conflict - according to whatever strategy it is programmed to use. (It might be as simple as just storing a JSON that says {"conflict": true, "values": [4, 6]} , and the user will have to pick.)

If it's possible to model operations in a commutative way (eg. instead of assigning values to keys one just stores differences), then the conflict resolution is mathematically proven, just apply all operations in whatever order, they're commutative, great. Of course it doesn't help with "real world data", but that's where mathematically we can use and oracle (the user, or whatever linearizer service we choose).
Backpropagation and the Brain (Geoff Hinton et al., 2020)
>Yes, and English does that job much better because you can actually communicate with the world and multiple generations.

That's a misunderstanding of Treuer's point. English is able to define English nations and express the English cultural perspective. He's not arguing that language, generally, is a tool for communication - he's saying that specific languages each yield their own specific identities.

To address the point more generally - languages do, for most speakers, have an influence on thought. People acknowledge that effect to varying degrees, from "you can't think what you can't express" to "language is intertwined with culture and culture differentiates thought" (i.e. not quite Sapir-Worf).

As an anecdotal argument - monolingual speakers often expect translation to be one-to-one, bar idioms. The fact is languages differ in nuance for different kinds of terms, to the point where a mapping might be one-to-many, many-to-one, or completely absent - and those nuances can and do reflect different cultural attitudes. For example, there is no English equivalent to wel[1], the Dutch word for reinforcing a positive sentiment.

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wel#Dutch
> If you use docker (which uses overlay2) for every application you can easily track these changes

No: it can only create a serialized sequence of changes that cannot be reordered. Also it's not aware of the context and meaning of a change.

> That said, yes, something like that would be great. Using overlay + namespaces/cgroups could get us close to that. Then we'd have to detect which packages are completely passive (read only, shared dependency of many others) which are shared but have their own state, which are shared but their state is a mix of per-dependant states (so if multiple packages/apps depend on a DB service then the schemas/tables ought to be isolated), and so on.

apt-get based distribution already track which files and directories are related to which package.

Also systemd unit files already can ensure that daemons are not making changes elsewhere.

Indeed, what's missing is tracking dependencies across applications and across hosts.

Linux distributions got most of it right decades ago (before the container dumpster fire)
Age is a pretty strong confounder here, for more than one reason.
Astroturfing by its definition cannot be emergent behavior. If it’s emergent, then it’s grass roots and not astroturfing.
As someone who used to love flying and relied on it for income, family, etc, but stopped as I learned how much it polluted, pleasantly surprised to find how much my life improved without it, I read articles on the cruise industry as applying to flying. Ticket costs don't cover the costs of cleaning their environmental damage. Few people could afford it if they had to pay for that damage.

In the case of contributing to pandemics, flying spreads viruses incredibly effectively. Boats trap a few thousand people at a time. Flights bring the virus to population centers of tens of millions in hours.

For the time being, people associate flying with seeing loved ones and making money, so they associate not flying with never seeing their moms or losing their jobs. Experience shows the opposite. The more people fly, the more dispersed their families, so the less they see loved ones. Flying forces companies to fly people everywhere.

I predict the vitriol people are starting to show for cruises will eventually make it to flying, however hard to conceive today.
Can we craft a theory in which space and time aren’t assumed to exist?
Anecdotally, my cat has a balcony deck that he hangs out on from Apr-Nov, it’s about 4m off the ground. (no stairs or cat ladders down)

He has managed to kill two birds over a few summers. There are no bird feeders or anything a bird would want on the deck, cats are just very good at killing things.

The corvids like to hang out on the utility wires near the deck and yell at my cat, he doesn’t mind too much hehe.
That's exactly what it is. Maybe "self-rewriting" isn't the best summary - it's the repo that does the rewrite, not the README file itself.
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Authors can always remove/delete their own posts from a thread, and threads also have a set of moderators. This needs to be set in the thread configuration.

More advanced moderation tools can be built on top, too.
No Paywall link, to get around Nature's Paywall: https://sci-hub.tw/downloads-ii/2020-04-17/0a/10.1038@s41583...
Thanks for linking this propagandistic PR puff piece. Long on opinion, short on facts, and likely pushed by a cruise industry association. It's a helpful reminder of how media works today.
the full app will be ready in the upcoming 2 days. I guess that is better than screenshots ;)
Why is 420 weed day?
That’s the same problem we have with beer. Why can’t we make decent industrial grade beer? I don’t want to drink a triple hopped chamomile infused artisanal IPA, I just want Budweiser not to suck so bad.
I found that putting the large case (standard μATX, for low noise) on a stand under the desk (carpet+dust considerations) with a small homemade wooden box for IO on top of the desk worked well. No reason to have the big box visible when you only interact with a percentage of it. Just like a power distribution board is in its own closet and you interact with it using power outlets, the desktop computer was away and I interacted with it using USB devices and the on button. The only reason to get near it is for maintenance.

The on button is just two copper wires that need to make contact in order to boot the computer. You can use any old button from a store or make one yourself, or use a wireless one if your computer is really far away. The USB hub's case can be removed, and if you use the motherboard's internal audio chip you can find ready to use AUX extending cables for nothing.

Of course if you don't want to make a custom IO box you can just use a regular USB hub and a remote.
I think within the next decade, the beer will become much better. It was only recently any micro-brewing started.
Not only more cores, but up to 16M of L3 per core (on the EPYC 7F52), and a whole lot of memory bandwidth to make cache misses more bearable.

A lot of builders try to strike a balance between price and performance, but if you are OK with spending a lot of money on one box, you can have a LOT of power.

That's waaay more compute power than I'd be able to use (which is why the last time I built my own machine - not including adding memory/storage to a pre-built one - was in the late 90's). My main personal laptop is an aging Core i3 that was chosen because I needed a laptop and this one was the one that could be delivered in two days) and my server (from where I run VMs for testing) is a low-end Lenovo server that was being sold at an unreasonably low price at the time.

> On mobile, AMD's IPC absolutely savages Intel with the 4000-series.

I haven't found many machines built on those. It's a shame.
I hadn't heard of Proton before and the article doesn't explain. Here's what the GitHub repo for it says [1]:

> Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system. It uses Wine to facilitate this.

My question is, what's the "secret sauce"? If this is in fact that much more successful than Wine, what's different? Is Valve putting lots of dev time into it? Or is it just pre-configured for ease of use?

[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
The tomato sauce/umbrella rant is worth visiting the first one just on its own.
Interesting you say that, literally every lift in a public space that does any sound at all around here announces each floor with proper spoken speech, not just a ping.
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Who determines what is a reasonable amount?
too long didn't read
:)
For years I was a major procrastinator to the point that it was really affecting my job performance and my relationship.

That all changed when I got a sleep evaluation and realized I had severe sleep apnea. My quality of sleep was terrible. As a result I had zero motivation.

I got a CPAP machine, and after an initial period of adjustment, it was a profound change. The year after I received the machine was the most productive in my entire life.

Take sleeping seriously. It may help you in ways you never imagined!
It's valve putting a lot of dev time into it. Part of that dev time was spent on making it pre-configured for ease of use