skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is downvoted because many people who lack philosophical and historical culture believe in the myth of productivism. Largely debunked during the 20th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement
I think an interesting question is whether we are respectively good judges on the "real" value of those ten saved seconds vs more abstract quality of life issues such as mental health or reductions in stress.
Is there an easy way to stream it to Zoom/Slack etc...?
Will be nice to use it as a virtual camera source
I love it’s always sunny, but I agree. I think “Seinfeld is a bit terrible people” is really heavily influenced by the final episode. The true core of Seinfeld is having a violation of minor social norms blow up in your face, and funny word play.
This is pretty much my life to the extent of how much I can control it in society.

I never do any singular thing with the exception of work.

I won’t leave the house unless I can divide and group that time into multiple objectives thus spreading the overhead of time lost against many achievements.

If not in a meeting I have my pleasureable conversations via car phone when I commute some where. If I’m not in a meeting when commuting or talking to friend / family I’m streaming a new pluralsight tutorial over Bluetooth.

I work through any meeting that doesn’t maximize my output to 100%. (I’m remote most of the time)

I listen to self growth audio books when I shower.

When I head to the bar if I’m not killing two birds with one stone networking or meeting a client I’ll bring my laptop to get work done.

Tasks that I cannot streamline and time intensive I pay for.

Blah blah I can go on and on.

Ironically the one thing I haven’t mastered is how to delegate to achieve bigger goals leveraging employees.
> Yes, this means you could theoretically make an analog keyboard which reports the level of key depression.

There is at least one company making analog keyboards, mainly for gaming: https://wooting.io/
> At least on recent Android versions the apps only ask for permissions when they actually need them, not on install time, and you can grant/refuse individual permissions.

Still, this is not practical enough. A true user-centric strategy would be to offer "mock-permissions" to an app, so that if an app says that it needs to read your home dir, you grant mock permission to the app, and it sees an empty home dir, not yours. From the point of view of the app, it should be impossible to know if it has been granted the real permission or just a mock permission.
Actually it's about a Janet binding to IUP. The key difference is that on Windows, IUP uses native controls, whereas GTK does not.
Nvidia have had automatic "greenscreen keying" without a greenscreen in some sort of beta for a long time, but it still hasn't moved beyond that: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/09/26/nvidia-rtx-broadcas....
We've had a divide for over a decade now, where serious computing is done mostly on x86, and mobile mostly on ARM.

ARM devices have become associated with App Stores, touchscreens, locked-down and dumbed-down systems. And there's a very real risk that Apple will take this as the opportunity to completely lock out any software that's not been censored and taxed by their App Store.
I'd really like to get better at touch typing, is GNU Typist a solid recommendation, or are there better ones?
> - Purchase and checkout items while you shop, rather than waiting in line at a cash register.

In Sweden, this has been a thing in most larger grocery stores for more than 10 years, e.g. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
Move away from one-size-fits all, but have the UX adapt to user behavior. Personalized UX is pretty close to perfect.
Interesting thought. The GDP would be replaced by GDTS, gross domestic time saved and the country with the highest GDTS would have the most flourishing economy. An ounce of gold would be worthless.
No matter how many times I read articles like this I always manage to learn something new. For example this time I learned about brace expansion. Will save me retyping a bunch of commands with different text.
Make sure to stop and smell the roses. Research shows people on their death bed always regret working too much and not enough time with loved ones (if you’re a data driven sort of person).
I was just answering the question "What does Mac hardware have that others don't?" in the most direct way possible. Do you disagree that everything else in Mac hardware is matched by other manufacturers?

And your beliefs about what you presume other people imply should probably stay out of this discussion.
> is not really a product offering

I don't know - I have a lot of colleagues who love meeting a wacky host and their dog, and like the varying accommodation styles.

It's not my cup of tea either, but a lot of people genuinely seem to love the vibe and don't want to go back to hotels.
Differ in Smartphone and Superphone. – KB Web Developer
Arithmetic Shifting Considered Harmful (1976) [pdf]
Preventing Software Rot
Unfortunately, in essentially all big corporations, the incentives encourage developers to waste as much time as possible - Mostly by focusing their attention on creating elaborate and ever-changing development processes and constantly adding unnecessary software complexity at the same time. This doesn't work well at all when you also allow individuals to detach themselves from any responsibility over the code that they produce.

The culture of wasting time is so pervasive that the vast majority of developers who practice it don't even realize that they're doing it - Ironically, they're often the same people who write long articles about how to be productive and who brag about how organized and full their schedule is and how they're using all the latest productivity tools and how high their test coverage % is and how good their workflow and CI pipeline is... I call BS on all this.

People who spend most of their time explicitly thinking about processes are bureaucrats. Truly productive people don't need to think about processes, they evolve naturally through sweat and tears; good processes are the byproduct (emphasis on the word 'byproduct') of a focused mindset of desperately wanting to achieve specific goals, not the mindset of ticking-off boxes from a static checklist where you don't even understand the underlying purpose of the work.

You cannot be productive without a clear sense of purpose and goals. Unfortunately most software jobs today lack purpose - In this case it makes no sense to even talk about productivity. How can you know how productive (how fast you're moving towards your goal) you are if you don't even know what the end goal is. Finishing something is not a goal, it's a task. A goal is about a deeper purpose.

Also if your goal is to help your company earn more money, this is only a worthy goal if you have a way to check your personal progress towards that goal. Usually this is not possible to do in a big company because there are too many people working towards different goals within the same company (sometimes even conflicting goals); the reality is that your work probably doesn't matter so there is no such thing as productivity in a corporate environment because it's not possible to measure the impact of your work in relation to achieving a real company goal... However, if your goal is to maximize your personal ranking or salary within the company, this is a goal against which it is easy to measure progress; that's why personal goals trump company goals every time.

KPIs are a ridiculous, completely futile attempt to fix this problem.
Economies of scale. A 'high-end Chromebook' is an extremely niche device, they aren't going to sell many.
I thought this about the Tesla truck with broken windows too. I'm unsure about the intention, but I definitely paid more attention to it and shared it more because of this.
If your opponent is playing poorly, it’s unethical not to take advantage.
Downloaded this and tried it. As popped up on my second adjustment. Nope. Nope nope. Would rather pay than use adware.
To me a lot that's bad with Google's politics is epitomised by the move from "don't be evil" to "do the right thing". The first was a neutral stance: just abstain from behaving so as to cause harm; the second is an active position, where the company is encouraged to act in pursuit of whatever it thinks might be good. Thus mixing its role of technological medium with that of publisher and of political advocate.
It's extremely rare to find someone of your age with this pattern of thought and such a well developed appreciation of beauty and truth. If I were on an admissions committee I would admit you on the strength of this comment alone. One thing you may not know now: you will enjoy a happiness throughout your life, strangely resistant to circumstance, that will elude, and sometimes confound, those around you, because of the bond you have with abstract forms of beauty.
We could optimize (probably we will) lot of things like you mentioned.

But then, we will still waste 20 times more looking at stupid things on internet.
Somehow the idea that time is our only currency is conflated with efficiency. Yes, time is the most limited resources we have, and therefore the most precious, but does this mean we have to squeeze every last bit of productivity from our time? Do we really have to keep running all the time, always optimising for more efficiency?

I would say the exact opposite. If time is our most precious asset, let's rather spend it on what's really important: family, friends, community, environment, happiness, harmony. Let's pass our time doing things we love just the pleasure of doing it, rather than chasing after money, success of whatever. Let's live in the moment, for the moment.
Yet another individual who can't separate a quote from a definition. I had to stop before finishing solely because this author insists on claiming "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result." is not only the definition of insanity(at best you could consider it an anecdotal indicator) but also incorrectly attributes it to Einstein. I know the quality of most medium articles is suspect to begin with, but please stop force feeding people obvious bullshit.
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare
Being a programmer won't save you from this particular style war. If there's a comment in your code with a sentence that begins with a double space, your code formatter probably won't flag or remove it in the same way that MS Word will. And it's likely shown in a monospace font, which makes it more noticeable.

How many spaces do people put after a full stop in comments in their code?

I go with one, but Vim's J and gq commands annoyingly insert two spaces when joining sentences from separate lines. I'd love it if someone could tell me how to fix this.

Edit: found it, the command is "set nojoinspaces"
> Of course it means if the other person is playing the strategy, then you want to play the strategy to beat that strategy, which is just as simple. But if they realise you are doing that they might switch to the one that beats the one that beats the one.

Reminds me of Iocaine Powder: https://web.archive.org/web/20100131080653/http://ofb.net/~e...
> When I started the project, realtime over WebSockets were a huge consideration. Additionally, we weren't doing anything revolutionary from a computer science perspective. Phoenix came in with a clear story for all the work I wanted to accomplish.

Incidentally, my app uses websockets and real-time updates based on RethinkDB changefeeds.

But more to the point of this thread, one of the major advantages is that I use a single language for both client-side code that runs in the browser and server-side code that runs in a JVM. Same language, same data structures, no impedance mismatch, no crippled transit format. All the domain code is shared between both environments.
Parameters of the universe are currency. Time is one of them, space (or area on earth’s surface) is another, and energy is a third. How these three things are used is what generates value to human beings. Each of the fundamental items can be traded individually, but money is used as a proxy for value. The most common trade is when a person can trade their time and their body’s energy. They produce some level of value using those two inputs, and receive money (a proxy for that value) in exchange. A person who can generate more value with the same amount of time and energy should be receiving more money than someone who generates less value, as money is only a proxy for value.

People can also secure space. We’re used to thinking in terms of real estate, which always prices in the value of a structure or natural resources or potential on top of the raw spatial resource. But the raw three dimensional space can be traded as well, just like time or energy, as it is finite for humans.

Money is just a tangible abstraction later on top of these fundamental parameters of the universe we trade. Providing lots of energy in a small space in a short period of time is incredibly valuable to humans, and so money reflects that. Using energy and time and space in a more efficient way to produce something in a factory is valuable, so money reflects that.

It’s not that money isn’t real currency, it’s just an abstraction layer for tradable natural commodities like time, and energy, and space.
Quite frankly, this all sounds pretty sad.

Being able to stop and just do nothing once in a while is important. And I do mean "nothing". Not play on one's phone or be idle in front of the TV. Nothing, as in sit down and just be left alone with your thoughts.
The Age of the “Donkey Enterprise”
They said it was a false premise in that it didn't add up.
The two snaps I had to interact with so far, dotnetCore and microk8s are ridiculously bad. Why they have so many stupid quirks and nonlogical interfaces are way beyond me.
Ok, so ZecOps say they have a working POC for the 0-Click (which doesn't seem to be in dispute). What does seem to be in dispute is whether or not either vulnerability was used in-the-wild. Apple responsed that it would need to be chained. ZecOps points to a Project Zero blog. Some are questioning about why if it was able to delete the email why it did not also delete the crash logs. Not an iOS expert but the original claim was that the exploit was able to run as maild etc - is that level of access able to delete crash logs?
> we use two hyphens to signify an en dash

That depends on whether this functions as a poor man's input method (e.g. like in LibreOffice Writer), or is to be mentally applied by the reader.

The former is a very agreeable solution, the latter provokes flaming.
It also works the other way around. Hitler never got promoted in the army during 4 years of war but showed decent leadership skills afterwards.

GRN
I’ve been using Retouch for a long time. It’s $1.99. Worth it many times over. https://adva-soft.com/app-pageTouch.html

Love removing my dog’s leash in otherwise cool photos.
In NYC the Neue gallery has a number of Schiele and Klimt pieces.
Probably. But at least I try and spend some of my phone time doing Anki cards.
Also what is odd is that we seem to have gone from “social distancing and lockdown to slow down the progression of the disease to within the capacity of the healthcare system” (flattening the curve) to “this virus is the new ebola and anyone who doesn’t have extra protection is putting their life at risk”. While at the same time the additional testing and antibody testing are confirming that the virus is marginally more lethal than the common flu.

Now I understand why medical staff would need extra protection as 1) we badly need them healthy now, and 2) they are facing heavy viral exposure which apparently really increases the risks. I can understand why clerks in grocery stores, bus drivers, anyone with frequent contacts with the general public would also want extra protection, as they may have much greater exposures than anyone else. But employees in a warehouse? Really?
People don't have room for any more subscription fees in their lives. Especially to pay for something like this (or game streaming) that offers an inferior/laggy user experience, when owning a reasonably powerful laptop or games console isn't all that expensive.
What does it matter? Companies don’t build software to last forever and they especially do not care about what happens after they go out of business.

Things don’t last forever. Software vendors won’t support everything forever. Middleware and operating system vendors won’t keep the albatross of supporting old things around forever.

If you want, you can keep running an old version of Mac OS X as long as you want. Just don’t expect Apple to support it.
The only currency you're born with is time. The rest are acquired by the application of time.
I've really enjoyed J so far. Pointless has been fun. Brat was an interesting one to work with. Pony and Nim are both pleasant. Hy was a fun way to do Numpy lisp.

I'm digging in to Chaos and then Janet after that.
Yes sure, it's a mainstream movie and meant as entertainment rather than educatively. But for being a mainstream movie, I liked that it made me think about this.
If true this is Crony Capitalism at its finest ... I almost think a competitor planted operatives inside Amazon to pull this off - Pure Evil
The screen and the track pad are the best out there. From a coding perspective, the Mac is one of the few 16:10 ratio screens still out there, which means you get a bit more vertical height than 99% of the other 16:9 ratio resolutions. While 16:9 makes for better movie watching, coding/surfing/etc is far better on the taller screen. As a bonus, it is a really quality screen too.

I'm less enamored with the rest. My daily driver laptop is a 32G i9 from 2018(?). While I have enough RAM to run a couple docker containers, most of the folks I work with are stuck with the 16G version, which are constantly out of resources and have no upgrade plan. For being a 'pro' spec machine, it does not have the cooling it needs to be pushed like I do.
2.5 Admins 01: ZFS Love-fest – 2.5 Admins
I blog about fun, lesser known, languages on my site.
The whole “donate to local business” trend is perplexing to me.

I know some folks who are collecting donations for local bars in the area. It sounds noble right?

But then think of the reverse of this situation. Let’s say times are good for the bar and I lose my job, as a loyal regular at my favorite bar. Will they pour me drinks and serve me food for free until I get back on my feet?

Nope! They sure won’t. Maybe I’ll get one on the house? But that’s about it.

Ultimately, it’s not our responsibility as customers, and it’s not even remotely practical, to make sure everyone surrounding us has planned for fiscal emergencies. Nobody’s donating to my savings account to support my three to six month emergency that every financial expert recommends. Why is this different for small businesses?

Why can’t these businesses hang on for a few months when they’ve now got zero payroll and likely have a lot of leeway with their landlords and mortgage lenders? (I’m not saying it’s easy)

A small business without that basic emergency fund is going to inevitably go out of business, isn’t it? COVID-19 just accelerated the process.

And much as I don’t like the big chain stores taking over the cool hip trendy local weirdness, I also think there’s a very clear demand for that sort of thing. The corporate scapegoats outlined in the article weren’t really responsible for any of this, they’re just sort of thrown in as an emotional appeal.

And the whole idea of “these stores used to be everywhere, now they’re a dying breed” emotional appeal should apply equally to Sears and Macy’s right? Should I donate to them as well?
>You directly implied that people are buying Apple products for the logo.

Apple makes kick-ass machines, but I see Macbook Pros everywhere. How many people in the real world need a $2000+ computer? If these people aren't buying it for the logo, what are they buying it for?

Apple has positioned themselves as a lifestyle brand. How can you deny that?
Would that correspond to piping the output of the additional command to fzf?
My guess is that the problem with sending events is that if you miss one you're in trouble (in this case it's especially bad if you miss/lose the "key up" message). Given the potential complexity of USB topologies making the protocol stateful might have caused more problem than it would've solved.

Besides is there any use for NKRO besides being a meme feature for overpriced keyboards? The only use case I can think of is if you play two player games on the same keyboard but doesn't seem very common these days (and you can probably buy a decent gamepad for the price of a NKRO keyboard).
I don't think this is a sound argument. How does it demonstrate attention being not equivalent to time? At best it shows the professor's attention / time / money can be wasted by dull students. Was this ever under dispute?
I use Visual Studio on Windows with Android (NDK) integration.

Debugging is working smoothly, I was surprised how good the experience was.

My setup is that Window run in a VM (Parallels) from macOS.

I can then open the iOS code from XCode and the Android from Visual studio and switch very quickly between the targets.

In that way, I always commit versions that I already tested and debugged on all the targets I need to support.
I wonder how tihs compares to FUZE https://www.fuze.co.uk/nintendo-switch.html
Lifelong Democrat and I will never vote Democrat after watching them work together to maximize economic damage over a 0.1 death rate virus.
The single best shell productivity tip for me was to use z:

https://github.com/rupa/z

It automatically makes a list of directories you frequently use in your shell and if you type `z a-small-substring-of-the-directory-path` it does a cd to that directory. (e.g. I type `z and` and it changes my current directory to $HOME/Work/Projects/android`). Saved me tons of typing.
- Most of the regulation of prior permission paperwork submit is abolished. Whether somebody meets the regulation standard will be evaluated after it was done.

- Customer service is not free of charge after used the up free quota.

- Telephone, video/voice chat are deprecated because these communication require people to use time at specific point rather than in the convenient time they choose.
I feel like “Destroying Chromebooks” requires competing with the Chromebook price point of around $300, despite the link near the top of the article to a list of “the best Chromebooks in 2020” that goes up to $1200. (https://www.tomsguide.com/best-picks/best-chromebooks)

Apple is picky about what it puts in its machines and what it makes them out of; can they make one of their signature milled aluminum cases cheaply enough to be a part of a BOM that lets them make a decent profit at $300? I can’t find much data on estimated BOMs for the Air (I feel that’s the closest thing in their line to this category) beyond a 2010 estimate of about $750 for machines sold starting at $1000. That price to users has remained consistent so I feel I can assume the cost to Apple hasn’t changed much. Some quick and sloppy searching shows that Intel’s prices on the CPUs in the current Airs are somewhere in the $150-300 range, if I make the best-case assumption that the cheapest Air’s CPU costs Apple $300 and that the cost of a desktop-level Apple CPU is zero, that’s still a BOM of ~350 for the rest of something built with the same specs as the cheapest Air. I guess you could bring in a mid-range Prestige Chromebook at that cost? Maybe? I have no idea what the Chromebook market is shaped like.

A plastic enclosure would probably lower the cost, but would they do that? I think the last time we saw plastic MacBooks was the “toilet seat” iBook back in the days of the gumdrop plastic iMac.
They are obviously good enough for a ton of software
Great idea, great UI, very intuitive, but unfortunately the AI just doesn’t work that well.