skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ofc it is not only good faith but I guess it is also a factor. They did it because:

- It makes their platform more secure.
- Good PR
- Assisting LEO prevents future problems with new laws etc.
- It is good faith

In general decisions like this, always have multiple dimensions. Always it is calculated decision.
Agreed. External factors aside (e.g. ADHD) to me procrastination is a good indicator of whether what I'm working on is meaningful or not.

Quoting some other post I've read on HN:

> Remember that you are going to die. Time flies, have you noticed? Is that status symbol that you are pursuing really that important? Is it ever going to make you happy?

> There is more wisdom in one of your cells than in all self-help and management books combined. Maybe you can't focus for a good reason? What could that reason be?

> Remember the last time you felt glad to be alive? Was it related to being productive?
Based on the typically strict Corporate 5-minute auto-lock you find on work computers, that would get tiresome REALLY quickly :(
New Smartphone Distraction App LetMeThink.io launches crowdfunding campaign
Audience from Scratch Course
Flex [0] is the open source CLI compiler.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Flex
Why is the upside only to Nintendo? If Nintendo can maintain a proper "hack free" device more third parties will be willing to release their games on the Switch - as a consumer my upside is that I get the games.
The A220 is a certificated airliner. Neither China or Japan has done that.
this is one of those cases where people on here will look through the github repo and say "how could this cost 20 mil?? I could build that..."

maybe they can build a toy version, like everyone else.
Is there a level cap for fish intelligence where an individual fish won't gain any more benefit from increased intelligence? Being the smartest fish may not help you as much as swimming with the pack would help you.

Are humans the same way? I feel like human intelligence is just on the verge of "knowing thyself" in a much bigger way. There are plenty of examples of super-intelligent people that can have a global platform now thanks to modernity, but until 100 years ago they may have suffered in their communities. How many would-be geniuses died without procreating because their brains were wired differently and it happened that any use for skills in which they excelled were not available to them at the time? You can't be the next Einstein if you died in the Steppes of Asia in 1292.
this is obsolete as systemd has it built-in .
check https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-ana...
> there’s a hotline for getting codes when the laboratory can’t get you one

This cannot be overstated and is generally underestimated by developers. Setting up a hotline infrastructure (actually it's two hotlines, one which is more like a helpdesk for customers of the app and one for the lab stuff) and operating it produces significant initial and ongoing cost.

Also they will still have additional ongoing cost for infrastructure (server operation, traffic) and cost for support regarding the still-to-be-performed process of interfacing the lab information systems of the 140-or-so labs in Germany with the Corona App Backend infrastructure (which is necessary to allow for the lab hotline and TAN stuff to become replaced by direct transmission of test results to the user via the app and its backend).

If those operating costs even just for the near/foreseeable future are included in the 20M€, I consider that a fair sum.
In any big organization, the more you try to "share", the more bureaucracy is involved, because you have to get people to agree. You can hardly get agreement on how things should be done in a company, let alone in the EU.

In any big organization, it's better to ask for forgiveness than for permission, meaning that it's better to build it first, prove that it works and then seek to establish it as a standard, than vice versa. And if there are multiple competing proposals, then competition is healthy.

Do all countries have the same commitment to privacy? No. Are all countries willing to work within the limitations imposed by Apple/Google? No. Disagreement is natural and it would be pretty stupid for everyone to stand still until an agreement is reached.

Besides, 20 million euro for a country like Germany is peanuts. All EU countries have spent far more than that during the lockdown.
What a clickbait title and shameless self promotion.
That guy should really pay his "friend" Mubashar now that he has achieved something.
Srsly Ben. Pay him.
White House May Suspend H-1B, Other Visas Temporarily
Indeed you did. My apologies.
Theres this thing called "the 80/20 rule".

Story time:

My dad used to work at Sainsbury's (big UK supermarket chain). One day the CEO (Lord Sainsbury I think he said it was) popped over to his desk.

"<Dad's name>, you do great work. I know I can always count on you."

"But... You spend so much effort on details that don't end up being important. The first 80% of your work takes as long as the last 20%."

"The thing is, that first 80% is more usually good enough for what we need. Why don't you try and hit 80% and then wait and see if we need that last 20% next time? It might save you some time."

Caveat - I may have made the name up. But it quite often works in practice.
Typically in this context "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy"
I'd review healthcare too...
The vulnerability should have been disclosed to Tails developers as soon as Hernandez was arrested.
> told to destroy the blueprints

Same thing happened to the British TSR2; a program that shares a lot in common with the Avro Arrow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2
Sounds like the last part of the book "Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall. How to catch an antelope. Explained by natives. Very worth reading!
This is not anti-consumer as consumers don’t care, nor running homebrew or pirated games are supported or advertised features. This is something that target precisely people who doesn’t want to be consumer: those that want to get and play games for free. Now, there is also the very very minor homebrew community, which should buy a devkit instead if running code is their main goal.
Same in Ireland -- outsourced to to some App Dev company with SAP links.

The definition of soft corruption -- very angry with our government. A text book example of an app/software that should absolutely be open source.
Susskind’s Stanford videos are a treasure trove. While not shunning the math, the lectures are extremely accessible.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Good point on responsiveness; perhaps layout could be HTML. I guess this is a bit black and white, but I’d rather embrace a single tech entirely and simplify the whole design, interactivity, etc process. Then tooling could be more easily reused; libraries would generate potentially complex SVG path vector components that would take a bunch of CSS hacks and :before/divs on divs.

To address the second paragraph; I have a feeling that the limitations of HTML/css influence to a degree some of the result UI design. If you look at some stellar native UI’s, there are many little details and also more complex interactions which would be very bulky to implement in a web app, with probably prohibitively bad perf. It’s hard to think of examples, but maybe the JetBrains IDE’s, CAD tools, MS office (their online versions use almost all SVG, at least in PowerPoint).
Source code of Italian Covid-19 tracing app
I've seen ublock causing CPU to be pegged at 100% making various js heavy applications completely unusable.

https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/issues/1829
It's amazing the number of things which have been top priority for some time which them drop off the list never to be heard from again, or at least modified beyond recognition.

It is probably a poor defence of procrastination but it certainly does occasionally pay to put something on the back burner for a while to see if it actually needs doing.
I recently had to download an image attachment from Gmail. The download button didn't work and the context menu (the proper route for saving an image) had been disabled. I had to go into Dev tools to get it.

The internet is broken.
My memory may be rosy - anyway, it's seems it's unclear how well it sold.

Better than Nokia expected, which may not be a high bar though.

https://www.slashgear.com/nokia-n900-has-sold-well-in-excess...

Anyway, Microsoft was not interested in Linux on cell phones.
I see debts of African countries are mentioned. Of course that has nothing to do with racism.

That debt exists because these countries borrow. Even if Western countries decided to forgive that debt for the sake of helping development these countries would still seek to borrow more (all countries do).

This goes to the heart of the problem: Poor governance. This is 2020, the colonial past cannot be used again and again to explain poor governance. It is for the people of Africa to improve things at home.
A shift in optimism: Healthcare is down, media and communications is up
Walmart looks to remove all cashiers from stores
> Interesting to contrast with Sweden, a country of 10m people, having a domestic fighter program to this day.

That's mostly driven off Sweden's postwar neutrality. Were Sweden a NATO member it's hard to imagine the country deciding to pay the almost prohibitively expensive cost of maintaining an indigenous aircraft industry, instead of buying from a larger ally. The Netherlands and Italy are among those NATO members that once produced their own fighter aircraft but no longer do so, instead joining multinational alliances or buying from elsewhere.
Huawei/trade war: dialling it back
JavaScript creator Eich: My take on 20 years of the world's top programming lang
The claim seems to be: (i) if you are economically independent, procrastination is an indication that the postponed task is not worth doing after all; (ii) if you are forced to do it for money, procrastination is just a natural reaction to being forced to do something one doesn't want to do, namely not doing it for as long as possible.
DARPA taps Wyss Institute technology to ID drugs for Covid-19 treatment
Agreed on that. Also, sometimes it is both. One does enjoy the parts of the job that provide satisfaction because most decent programmers by heart do enjoy fruitful creation. And then sometimes there are shitty pieces of work or dealing with people who are a piece of work. In such times, it actually helps to disassociate a bit from the work and look at the monetary side - until the sky clears. The key point is _sometimes_ and the expectation that the sky _does_ clear.

To be clear, I don't suggest this to those who are in the throes of software engineering passion and their work is part of who they are - sometimes may be too many times for them.
Germany has done better than most countries, and we need to throw everything at the problem including the kitchen sink. This is noy time for meanongless bickering, its the time to enable folks with a plan and then access them on their merits.

The well of criticism is endless. There are voices arguing that masks are useless, that 'Churchill wouldn't wear one' and that 'social distancing is communism'. Dealing with all of them will result in brain damage.
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I read it as 'we performed on our supercomputer (AWS?) the same number of calculations as would have taken 35 years on a normal PC'

But yes, even I tried to rewrite that twice and still cannot get the grammar to come out correctly.
Procrastination is an act. The pop-psychological theory that assumes that everyone procrastinates for the same reason is as ridiculous as theory that would assume everyone is violent for the same reason.

What about one person procrastinating without any difficult emotions just cause she is lazy and other people procrastinating for variety of reasons from difficult to simple.
I've experienced that on the other side; I ended up procrastinating a lot because any effort I did would already be done by someone else, and faster or with more insight, or the work I did would be done over by someone else in half the time. It also didn't help that the work and technology weren't giving me much satisfaction.

I'm the sole developer on a new project now, it's giving me a lot more satisfaction. I do run into procrastination and analysis paralysis though.
I see I wasn't clear enough. With object-style polymorphism, the vtable is looked up on the object, using some means or other. With typeclass-style polymorphism, the "vtable" is (effectively) looked up on the type.

Perhaps gpderetta said it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537639
EV range as a blended efficiency using the same test cycle we use for ICEs is not a very useful metric. EVs are already insanely energy efficient so we don't really need to measure that. What people want to know is if they go on a road-trip how far can they go until they need to charge. Just testing the highway range at whatever the normal speed is in your location would be a much more useful number. It would be nice if we had a standard rating for highway range in winter/summer at a continuous 120/130/140 km/h for example. For a Model 3 this can easily be 60-70% of the rated WLTP range. When you're in the city the car is parked most of the time and may as well be connected to a charger, range on city cycles and short trips is not nearly as relevant.
Depending on where you live and who you use for a VPN, you're at least swapping a known bad-agent ISP for a potentially non-bad-agent ISP.
Microsoft can now import your banking activity into Excel
For me the biggest help has been David D. Burns (the author of feeling good) technique called the TIC-TOC technique(1).

It's basically like a Pros and Cons list but targeted to cure procrastination but identifying the cognitive distortions in the TICs (or task-interfering cognitions). It has been so helpful for me that I ended up writing a small web-app for myself to do this whenever I don't feel like doing anything!

(1) http://www.elizakingsford.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/TIC...
Fighting erupts on India's border with China, three Indian soldiers killed
Jet fuel is kerosene, which doesn't flash easily. So this would probably put out any fire. Perhaps that was the idiom they were going for?
SwiftUI Suitability for macOS App Development
VW's defeat concept was set to function only at the exact RPM's used during the test. If a real-world customer were to use those RPM's and conditions, it would activate too. In fact a CCC talk showed that 5% of regular driving activated it.

Perhaps about 5% of regular vauxhall driving was in those flat spots...

Seems the same to me.
Ah, then I may have misunderstood the sentiment. In that case, please excuse the (passive-?)aggressive tone of my post.

And yes, the link is just the result of some hyperactive copy&paste.

I'll now try to enjoy the thought that the Germans are bickering about the price of this on HN. It's sort of a return to normalcy: the luxury of caring about pointless details precisely because the government isn't quite as incompetent as always assumed, at least compared to some others.
i found that at least in relation to tech and software engineering, procrastination happens when you need to do mundane work, or worse - work on code you know is ultimately meaningless. another factor is stress, which is usually generated by management via deadlines or constant harassing to get things done (tm). it's basically oppression, it's just hard to see or admit because you're being reasonably compensated, and not doing hard labor. but it's oppression nonetheless.

free yourself, before you have a nervous breakdown or get fully domesticated by the system.
> Amazon runs virtually everything on AWS.

Does sable, the internal nosql database used for practically everything in retail run on AWS nowadays? Cause it didn't back in 2018 which and partially why they couldn't scale up on prime day and got overloaded [0, and have friends who worked in retail].

[0]: https://www.cnet.com/news/report-why-amazon-crashed-on-prime...
You didn't read the article, which explicitly disclaims against conspiracy theories of the US ordering the Arrow's cancelation.
These sort of simulations, like much evolutionary biology, feel like they ought to come with a '... in mice' warning.

We simulated 300 million years of evolution, using our own model, and proved that evolution happened because of ...

... in simulated mice ...
https://www.dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-17
I'm the guy in the interview...Mubs was helping me as a side project for fun. We've done a bunch of things together over the years. I offered to pay him but he didn't want anything, I gifted him stuff that he wanted instead.
Valuable nugget for first-time founders: "I wanted to build it in a way that could scale, which was far too early. There was no need to be doing that."
I'm cynical about a lot of 'trends' that have popped up over the year, because oftentimes they're just compromises or marketing to get employees to join them. Notably, in recent years, a LOT of employers / recruiters will stuff "IoT" or "Blockchain" into their job descriptions, knowing full well they do nothing with it - or if they do, it's a couple hours a week they give up on to keep the employees happy, interested and motivated. It's a weird theater.

Most of those jobs are generic Java work, but it's hard to find motivated / qualified people to work on just that.
The sad thing is, what are they going to do? Change it? Leave? Let's pretend each of these individuals are making $2M a year. They'll just be replaced with someone else that'll take the humongous paychecks. They could take a moral stand and leave, and I think continuing to work in that environment would be hard, but I don't fault the individual to the point I'd consider them a "bad person." Their complicity in these activities is not bad enough to warrant being angry at them, but I do feel a bit sorry for them. It is a hard choice they wouldn't have to make if there was a bit more oversight of these internet behemoths.
The worst case is that this app has negligible impact and even if it did, trying it as a strategy that helps fight Corona is still worth €20m.

Paying students €500 a month as emergency help will cost hundreds of millions and this is a single miniscule effort in a package of several hundred BILLION Euros.

Discussing the cost of this app with the given circumstances is a complete waste of time. It's a literal rounding error in the overall Corona bill for Germany alone.
GM closed the Lordstown auto plant. Now Ohio may force a $60M repayment
Huh, that's a really nice way of looking at it. I suppose I was thinking that it's my device that I've paid for so there shouldn't have unnecessary restrictions imposed on it. But it's true that I'd prefer a restricted device with a greater game library over an unrestricted device with no games!
My point was that JSON doesn't even reliably store _integers_. If you could only store a single datatype outside of strings, it should be integers, and JSON doesn't even do that.

I'm guessing a lot of software are storing 64-bit integer ID's in a JSON numeric field. How many people know that this is unreliable and when it fails for larger numbers you won't even get an error message but silently get the wrong number?
It sounds like burnout

Which seems kind of boring

But nonetheless

I got out of it a couple times by being unemployed for months

Found new jobs and realized after the first couple of days that

Even though the "don't care" still seemed to be there

I was actually fine doing whatever garbage I used to do

I do remember reading lots of advice that did not at all seem to engage with the seriousness of my condition

A lot of it was tweak this, start doing that, etc

I just thought, "yeah, fuck you, too. Assholess."

General advice would be start reading and youtubing like crazy

As soon as the person suggests you just need to 'put yourself in your happy place' or dismisses your condition in some other way, just move on to the next page/video/book/therapist.

I'm guessing burnout is still so common for a few reasons -- one being that as a society we just don't take it seriously yet, even after all this time

Reminds me I just saw mini doc on AJE or something about burnout in Sweden or something

And they are taking it hella serious, in part because of its combination with covid, I think.
Even fixing the discrimination in primary/secondary schools would not fix the apparent discrimination at universities though - poor people and especially poor black people will still be under-represented on campus, as they do not have financial help by family to attempt education (not just tuition which is coverable by student loans, but also things like moving to the university and other travel costs), or they are needed to work to help their parents make rent.

Affirmative action and targeted help/assistance for these groups automatically goes out of the window as soon as the focus is entirely on prior achievements/grades.
Show HN: I Made a Superhuman for Chrome
i type quickly.
Because the most popular browser is made by a company that makes the vast majority of their money from ads.
For anyone glancing by: Note that this is uBlock, not uBlock origin.
“ > Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficult emotions, says expert”

That makes sense for some procrastination, but other procrastination is laziness.

Mopping the floor, taking out the garbage, mowing the lawn types of procrastination... those are under your own purview and don’t involve big emotions or decisions...

So I think it explains some kinds of procrastination but not all.
Why does actual EPA range numbers matter, when we all know they aren't perfectly accurate? They aren't accurate for ICE cars either.

The point is Tesla has increased their range yet again. There is no disputing this fact. If people were buying Teslas before, they're getting even more value out of it now.

It seems most people here find this EPA discrepancy a great justification for criticising Tesla, but I highly doubt anyone owns a Tesla who is doing the criticising.

Most Tesla owners were happy to buy the Model S at 265 EPA range. Now its 400, almost 50% more. Who cares if that actually means 300 miles? That 300 miles is still awesome, and if its good enough to buy a Tesla, buy one. If not, don't.
Mubs helped me as a side project because he's a friend, I offered to pay him but he didn't want anything. He works on a ton of side-projects for fun. Think the interview piece in this section definitely came across badly.
How to Better Remember Spring and Resistance Equivalent Constant Formulas
Making the uppers look stupid is a dangerous move in the corporate world.
The Death of Engagement [US-China Relations]
Completely agree. If its artificial (all software) and its in some way intelligent p, or appears that way, (a lot of software, or features thereof), then you could argue its artificial intelligence, based on just those two words (ignoring the definition technical people give AI). That’s why machine learning is usually more useful from a technical discussion viewpoint.

> From the other end

Yeah, using wongarsu’s example of chess: brute forcing chess was once a highlight if AI achievement and now its just a crude search algorithm.
I'm sure the original paper has the equivalent of that, but yes, pop-science articles should start adding the IN MICE warning for sure. Also to many other categories of research findings, actually
> If you get paid 20% more

I think you are possibly massively underestimating how much it is possible to get paid as even an average software developer in the US. Like literally off by an entire order of magnitude.

I would guess it's more like 100%-400% more for equivalent jobs, and many people at. Plus your US job covers your healthcare etc.
I didnt know what was meant. I thought they meant it was poison for evolution.
Ain't this because crosdsomain.xml came before CORS?