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The trick is to go and sit at your desk regularly until writing comes on its own. Its all right if you don't write, but you're not supposed to do anything else. And write anything you feel like ignoring grammar, content quality or even subject. Given enough time, practice will ensure that you'll become a good writer.

Link to article (shameless plug)[1]: Write, Write and Write should be your Mantra - Procrastination is the Writer's only enemy in 90% of cases

[1] https://freelancemag.blogspot.com/2019/11/write-write-and-wr...
> I strongly suspect the rational amount to spend on it is "everything we can".

By saying “everything,” you’re dodging the question of what sacrifices we should make to speed up basic science research. How do you draw the line between what we can and can’t afford?

Should we require everyone to pursue a Master’s degree? A PhD? Do we shut down university humanities departments? Do we halt all production that doesn’t directly support the basic sciences? Do we reduce food production to only that which is needed to support the scientific staff?

Some or all of these suggestions are probably beyond your idea of what’s acceptable. If so, you agree that there is some price that is too great to pay. The interesting question isn’t whether there’s a limit, it’s what it is.
RUUUUST
> Do you have an explanation for this except the genes?

Yes of course - the environmental/experiential conditions in which the carrier of the genes find themselves.

Remember, ADHD is just a culturally defined description of behavioural tendencies, not a genetically hard-coded outcome like the shape of someone's face, so it's a mistake to think of them as being genetically determined in the same way.

Of course the genes someone inherits from their ancestors will influence their behaviour, but genes express differently depending on many conditions, and for behaviour it's highly contingent on one's own life experiences; indeed it's extremely important for survival and continued evolution that one can adapt their behaviour to the environment in which they live.

Even recent twin studies [1] don't find anything more than about 75-80% heritability of "ADHD" diagnoses, so you still need to explain the other 20-25%.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0070-0
One does not have to overcome racism

The public in the country need to organize to change the law and enforce them

America isn’t losing standing in the world because of Trump

It’s losing standing in the world because it does nothing to sustain a protest against him

The US military is the largest polluter in the world

It’s effecting all of us

Putin is getting the upper hand by highlighting to the world how vain and unorganized Americans are, despite all the pretense and pomp

Here they go bloviating at their screens like usual for America

Meanwhile, truly exceptional masses in Hong Kong protest a vile tyrant

Americans have found it difficult to protest a sentient Cheeto in terms of relative intelligence

The nation of exceptional people full of grit look like muppets. Deeply controlled by their luxury lifestyle and indoctrination against self agency. “Be better by buying X.” With money and emotional acquiescence of agency to the habit. Now make buying into our managed system your goal for life

Who wants to determine life for themselves? May as well have a company get us to design, implement, build, and then charge us for our gadgets so they can keep control of the value store that is finance

The gadgets, you see, are a means to an end. To keep you screaming at the gadget not the old git Americans seem to believe is going to spank them for not going to work at scale

Traditional values is alive and well in America. The language of religion has faded. But obedience to a hierarchy demanding fealty to imagery emotional objects at scale is very much alive

Look at people that are concerned about going back to work but they may have no choice

It’s cowardice to think that’s the only option. Stay home, don’t login except for essential biz

Oh no, not only would we have to give up salons, but our iPhones and cloud apps for a bit? Too much!
Yes, the conspiracy being unmasked just means it goes from being unknown to being a conspiracy theory, and that's a long ways from it being accepted as mainstream history.
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky#Ideas
As walnuss says below, these things are already being worked on. If you tried Julia a few months or couple of years ago, you'll find that stacktraces have already got quite a lot better.

One of the things that the Julia community could greatly benefit from is more compiler contributors. Languages like Rust naturally attract compiler folks, and those like Go have the backing of Google.

Julia has more complex compiler due to our dynamic type system, which the users absolutely love. But it also puts a lot of strain on the compiler team, which is quite small. So if any folks with experience in compiler technology on HN are looking for interesting projects to contribute to, please do look into Julia.

We've done better over the years increasing our bus number on the compiler codebase overall. More contributions in all areas of the toolchain would be great to have!
https://archive.md/wggSS
The positive attitude towards this project is a great reminder of what the internet could look like (and often DID look like) without the extreme commercial exploitation and the consequential cynical and cautious user attitude.

When Google Maps bothers me with inane questions about my village pub, I'm annoyed, I won't be their unpaid data entry worker. But I'm more than happy to do it for everyone on the internet, I'll even install an app, voluntarily!

Last time I got this feeling was when I first joined what.cd. I'll never forget that "Whoaaaa, so this is what an internet music service could be like if there was no profit involved"
Ask HN: Should companies create an app that flags if employees comes within 6 ft
I think these behaviors are toxic and off putting to other men too, but men seem to be more willing to put up with them.

I don't see an equivalence to nursing or primary school teaching since by and large it's not the toxic aspects of these careers that puts off men, it's the lack of pay and status.
It also censors Charles Dickens and peacock. But add some random capitalization, and you can swear all you want.
I don't understand your dig on Tesla EVs. Do you not agree they are the best EV on the market? I doubt Elon has had much to do with their quality, he's one person and his companies pull great talent, it's all about his ability to underpay great workers who want to build personal brands around his visionary company missions. I'm not saying he's a great CEO, but he does pull great talent for cheap.
In this case it's probably fine because you can manually verify the .cmd file and all of the .appx files are digitally signed by Microsoft
The problem of course is that Tesla is ardently anti-union - the workers have no one to speak on their behalf
Tangential, but I recall a pop sci write up of a paper that claimed the experience of pain was lessened if the experiencer was allowed to swear.
Fact-checking this claim is left as an exercise for the reader, sorry.
At first I read: Every prisoner is specific to the platform. It seems to clarify the point anyways.
youtube-dl is a command-line tool which downloads a webpage (not just youtube), finds the audio/video media link(s) on the page, and downloads them to whatever format the links are in, or a container format that is compatible in storing them in. That's your basic usage - open a command shell (cmd.exe on Windows) and run "youtube-dl <url>".

The basic usage might give you a file format which isn't entirely appropriate, like a .flv/.mp4 of a audio file.

It has special handling for lots of different sites, to be able to parse site-specific Javascript, navigate custom media players, etc, to get the media that you request.

Additional options like --extract-audio do some additional processing to get exactly what you specify - I think it needs ffmpeg installed which you'd need to download and add to your %PATH% environment variable on Windows - I haven't tried on Windows myself.
The Results Are in for the Sharing Economy. They Are Ugly
Airbnb slump means Europe's cities can return to residents
It's strange because the words written on the website are actually "f* * * ", "c* * * " etc. which are "censored" just like the actual swear words.
You literally claimed that women working in an industry means women are interested in working in that industry.

That's not necessarily true. Hence the analogy.
Obviously there was sarcasm there. However, I do see a large percentage of his crowd saying negative things about him now like this was their final straw. It wasn't back when he called that guy a pedo because he didn't like what he said about him, or when he was facing fraud charges from the SEC. It appears now he is is untouchable in that regard, because a lot of his activity recently whether negative or positive seems to get him media attention.
> Eh, cry me a river.

Such substance.

> To put things in contrast: the Russian Empire, home of many great writers, such as Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Checkhov just to name a few, had a literacy rate of about 24% overall

Like another poster commented, Russia had serfdom until well into the 19th century. Look at central and western Europe, if you want to see a literate society in that time.

Also, what is your point with this? Poor societies had bad literacy levels? Illiterate peasants don't care for books? I struggle to see the point with that observation.

> The truth is, reading has never really been the pastime of the masses, save, possibly, for a brief period in the 20th century.

Not dying of diharrea before the age of 5 has also never been the pasttime of the masses until a hundred years ago. What the hell does that mean? If people start dying of preventable diseases again that we should not worry?? If indices of progress start stagnating, or in this case, regressing, then we must wonder how on earth we are doing so badly.
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Fuck yeah it does. Actually I think it's the slightly below average places that are some of the worst. I've tended to find that technical quality correlates to better behavior, probably because insecurity is what drives so much of it.

In my experience, those below average places where people tweak payroll software (where I started out in my career) are the worst. I would expect the below average people in Uber and Google to be among the worst of the worst too, though (they are the most insecure, I think). A lack of psychological safety is what drives a lot of this.

As always there are exceptions, but as a rule, mediocrity breeds insecurity and insecurity breeds toxic behavior and no, none of this can be fixed in five minutes.
He's a deluded SV billionaire. These people have no grounding in commoners lives, he has been worshipped and lived a ridiculous lifestyle for over a decade. However brilliant or visionary his ideas, it's clear he has been sipping the same libertarian, SV mumbo jumbo that so many other SV techies have fallen into.
Full agree.

In the great scheme of things, making environments safe for human levels of tolerance is extremely wasteful. You need the right atmosphere, temperature, radiation freedom, freedom of toxic materials (and guess what, many chemical processes create tons of them), noise freedom, etc. This causes huge costs already now because industrial processes need to be engineered in ways to reduce emissions, it makes nuclear energy unavailable, people not wanting to live near airports, etc.

Even gravity is an extremely wasteful thing. In order to have it, you need a giant planet full of precious construction material for dyson spheres, anything->iron fusion/fission reactors and hawking radiation matter->energy converters, all unavailable because some individuals chose to colonize the surface of it...

The optimal approach for intelligent life is to architect computers that can run in the vacuum of space with minimal shielding and then deploy them across the galaxy to convert the available energy into intelligent thoughts and experiences. What the computers will run is up to us.
Around middle school, I decided that I would stop using swear words, because it seemed like getting myself in trouble by letting one slip out at an inappropriate time was more of a bother than just avoiding them and coming up with more inventive ways to express myself.

Refraining from curse words has been part of my character ever since, and just about everybody who knows me knows that I don't swear. And you know what? I have never missed those words. I have some of the most foul-mouthed friends you can imagine, and the words don't shock or scandalize me. They're just not a part of my vocabulary.

I have never, so far as I know, suffered a single negative consequence because I don't curse. But the benefits have gone far beyond never getting detention at school or grounded by my parents because of the use of salty language. For instance, it's led me to stretch myself creatively when I really need to express exasperation or any other strong emotion. And it's led me to notice that some swear words, far from being innocuous, can be really debasing, and to have empathy for those on the receiving end.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15815226
One alternative I could think of are chunks or clusters of centralized systems which are then inter-connected among themselves to form a decentralized whole (kinda how the internet works!).
It might make sense but the problem is this “6 feet” thing is basically “BS.”

Any virus that spreads thru moisture in the air that you breath and lives on surfaces for days can travel far more than 6 feet [1].

[1] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200414/cdc-covid-19-can-sp...
Bitch has a common use/definition that is not vulgar.
Why is (no, kafka is never the answer)?
A typed event emitter for TypeScript
Is this an example of "cultural bias"? That would mean the behavior doesn't predict job performance, but is used to filter out candidates from different cultures.
> The trouble is, this isn't even remotely close to feasible. In order to find a useful proportion of cases via testing, you need to test pretty much everybody with cold-like or disease-like symptoms

I was surprised how at quickly my local health authority got to this point. A couple months ago, they had flat-out stated that it would be impossible for the foreseeable future, but cold/flu symptoms have decreased over a regular year by an order of magnitude, they expanded testing to everyone with any symptoms a couple weeks ago, and even with carpet bombing contacts in outbreak locations they're still only running testing at about half capacity.
Congrats on the launch. I remember seeing a company working on this same problem in Startup School and can't remember if that was you guys, but looks like you did a great job.

I'm wondering why you need to launch in each city? Curious what is city-specific about the software.
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In the real world, we are all making choices that involve a degree of risk. Whether to fly for that business meeting. Whether to eat at a restaurant. Even if you dont think it, there is risk. Yes, even going to work entails risk.

What is important is that (a) it is voluntary and (b) it is disclosed.

Your comment is very insensitive. You come from a position of priviledge. Not everyone has the option to stop working. People have mouths to feed. Debts to pay. Parents to support. I am sure there is more than 1 tesla worker that is anxious to return back to work.

Why would you hold them back? Do you really think you know better than the person affected ?
I always go into interviews with a prepared list of thoughtful and insightful questions to ask for this moment. Not because I care about the answers but because it’s part of the script.

In real life, if I have questions I’ll ask them and if I don’t I won’t. Making the fact of asking of questions relevant for important decisions is a preposterous charade, one that I am used to playing along with by now.
Ask HN: Framework for parallel data mining in Java
I want to process between 800GB and 4TB of binary data, divided in different files. The current software in Java is already parallel and can be executed in different nodes. Basically it receives a chunk of data and can merge 2 chunks.

The problem is it depends on a quite messy code to run in parallel. Is there any open source framework that could run my code in parallel? It should do the same as the current framework.

I have thought about Spark, but I'm not sure if it's the best option. Each entry only need to be accessed once, and the main goal is to extract a bunch of statistics in a grid.
You've gone on a veritable expedition to make this argument, and somewhat wrapped two ideas into one.

Someone's motivation is enough to lose respect for them, especially if it's under the guise of something else. It's conniving to deceive in order to get your way.

So lets say we consider the action a net good, we can totally support the action, recognize the bad sides, and still lose respect for the person for the way they have conducted themselves.
sqlite, definitely. It has a multitude of possible applications and you can built on top of it to make a more advanced use-case possible.
Oh, it's actually 'zigh'. What's wrong with 'ksee'?
Don't tell me Vi is not pronounced 'vee'...

Very interested in Xi and especially in Druid. That old talk about it was very promising. Too bad there's not much activity surfacing from the project.
It's quite simple: any conversation is a two-way street. Teacher and pupil, interviewer and job seeker, parent and child -- every conversational partner should be curious and thoughtful about the other person.

Just extrapolate the above advice to a first date. Should you ask your date questions? Obviously you should! So why not your interviewer?

Tennis isn't exciting when one player plays against a wall, conversation is a collaboration.
One can use AWS::Include.

See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...
If you could put your mind into an octopus, could you learn to use your 8 tentacles? Probably not without no longer being a human mind and becoming an octopus mind.

Our bodies (and culture & environment) are part of our minds. They cannot be separated without destroying that mind. Also, most of what we think is our own “intelligence” actually exists outside our brains, in our culture & civilization.

“Uploading our minds” only seems plausible if you have a cargo cult understanding of what is actually happening.
I once worked for an online game aimed at children. With some limited messaging and a forum, we needed to automatically filter swearing especially when it started to reach millions of users.

The initial limited English only blacklists were useless. Kids are creative and terrible. So we replaced with big processes of failover with several external swearword filtering services. Costly...

But kids are creative..., they write single letter messages that circumvent any automated filtering. Or rearranged their "room" with decoration that spelt out letters, or simply drew cock and balls, etc.
This font might have reduced the need for filtering. But kids are creative...

Thankfully it was not instant messaging. Direct near-instant messaging came in later products... Car-crash every time. Never write a messaging app for kids. There is always a mean-time-to-dickpick or worse.
That would be phones within 6ft? I expect quite a lot of false-positive if pinging every second during a working day. And remember not everyone has a smart phone, or cares for one.

If people via a hardware widget strapped to them, I imagine that could create some regulatory hang-ups and class-action lawsuits via various state or national laws on information security, and that a lot would refuse to wear it anyway. Or leave it on their desk. Or find other creative ways. This would be true with phones too.

No. Wouldn't work.
You can also just skip that step if you don't use the Microsoft Store. It's what I do.
That's sad but understandable. I started using org-mode via the Android app Orgzly, then I used vscode to edit the files Orgzly produced. I found that the vscode solution wasn't able to do everything I wanted, so I switched to Spacemacs.
Ansible and Terraform is like Apples and Oranges. They’re completely different tools completing each other.
...is it not possible to build the app from source yourself?

I will install this app happily from F-Droid, and no other place.
Those are some serious accusations!
Sure! Regarding creating characters and using the party, they are very few things I do differently from when I play play-by-post games, actually. Mostly, I sometimes roll a dice to decide who will react to a given situation if I feel some characters start to overshine the others.

The main difference is on the DM side, about how to build the campaign. I run the game in Faerûn, using the awesome Forgotten Realms wiki [1] to provide material. I don't try to follow everything from it exactly, but this provides a source of outside content, so that when the party reach a place, I discover much of it as well. I have also a high-res map of Faerûn that I load in inkscape to put tokens on it to show where the party is, and what there is around.

I made myself a NPC generator, based on the suggested rules in the "This is your life" chapter of Xanathar's Guide to Everything, with personal additions for commoners' life. When my party reach a place, I'll generate about twenty characters, and look at their generated lifes. Quickly, there'll be groups of characters that have similar events in their life, and imagination will take the relay to explain those similarities and produce a story for them. I change everything I want in those characters, the generated content is just a suggestion, but I think randomizing the most things possible is key to keep entertained in a solo game - that and adding outside content you discover on the go. It allows to emulate the exploration aspect of a game as a player. Plus, as a programmer, building generators/randomizers is half the fun :)

There are also difference in gaming rhythm and splitting the party. Since I play alone, I can play whenever I want, I don't have to synchronize players. So there will be evening when the story move forward a lot, then days without activity. If nobody is waiting for you, that's OK. Also, when you play alone, it's OK to split the party - because here as well, nobody is waiting. So it means I don't have to force characters to stay together if they don't get along, and I can imagine more complex scenarii where multiple things happen at the same time and various characters will follow various paths.

Regarding preparation, just like regular DM work, you spent way more time in preparation than in game. Maybe a bit more, because PCs are more than just NPCs, and you need to know them well and constantly refresh your mind about who they are.

A last thing about battle : I make maps in inkscape, with tiles, and play it as a tactical game. The one thing I noticed is that I have to make the difficulty level way harder (I play twice the difficulty of the "deadly" level for a normal difficulty encounter). This is because the coordination between PCs is insane, since you play all of them. I could force on them ignorance of what the others try to do, but since I like a lot tactical games, I find it more fun to just raise the difficulty. This also means they get way more XP than usual, so I use milestone progression instead.

[1] https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
The thing is, people everywhere want to work, with extraordinarily few exceptions. A government doesn't really need to incentivize work in general, only some specific kinds of work which are underperformed.