skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, agreed. For me avoidance of tasks was just the visible problem; the root was avoidance of feelings.

I don't really struggle with procrastination much any more, but it took all sorts of work that would have seemed apparently unrelated to me. E.g., a regular sleep schedule is really helpful, and that required an automated lighting system that helps me keep in sync with the sun. Regular cardio helps keep my baseline anxiety level much lower. Meditation, therapy, medication, food choices, and an awful lot of introspection and self-experimentation were necessary. And time, just a lot of time to unwind the bad habits and bad associations.

I get that it feels hopeless sometimes, but I hope you'll continue. Note that you can't catch up if your baseline is some arbitrary standard. But the right way to measure it is improvement from where you are now. Then there's no "catching up". There's just today, and whether you're going to make things better by one day's worth.
No, they cancelled that to focus on the Canuck as per the article.
Why protocol and browser vulnerabilities should be regulated via laws instead of being fixed?
Stratechery - Apple, ARM, and Intel
Diet & exercise have been the cure for me, simple as that.
Potential energy is energy associated with a system's configuration. For example, arrangements of charges can be more or less energetic, as in, you need to perform or can extract work when you go from one configuration to another.

This is a rather abstract notion. However, as energy (or rather, stress-energy-momentum) is the source of gravity, you actually do need to know precisely where that energy is located if you want to do general relativity.

In case of the example above, the energy will be stored in the electromagnetic field.

The gravitational field itself is an exception to this: While it can be used to store energy, in the general case, it's impossible to locate it. I'd argue this is a consequence of general relativity's unification of gravity and inertia.
Miro and Mural are popular for this.
Wow. This is gonna be bad.
The product was used for arranging formal approval processes for things like drugs and government contracts - the definition of what documents were relevant was often quite strictly defined in a practical sense but less so in sense that a bit of software could make sense of.
Thread from two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16557128
>I want to know why implementing this isn't a national debate in US, it seems like such an obviously good idea.

Because it would involve respecting blue-collar workers, and beating up on Labor(TM) (really: wage suppression for the working class) takes priority in America over doing what's economically and socially rational.
Amazon Introduces 'Distance Assistant'
I agree with your sentiment. All major companies are assholes, but most of them in different areas. Likewise they are also angels in others.

Don't complain Apple is an asshole in category A, when you yourself are an asshole in category B.
To be clear, I’m not arguing against CA’s ban on non-competes. But the problem of rent prices isn’t due to SF running out of space, it’s due to increased regulation around permits [1]. And this directly affects the rate of innovation unless there is enough room to house the people needed for the innovation in the first place. Further, and this part is unclear on your position, the foundations of teleconferencing we’re made outside of SF, and used by SF companies to create things like zoom. To say SF invented teleconferencing is a stretch. And lastly starting a company isn’t hard. Invest time into another project, and eventually you’ll create a business from it. VCs shouldn’t be step 1. New scenes have also popped up elsewhere, Hyderabad, Austin TX, Tel Aviv so Im not sure where that part is coming from.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_housing_shortage
doesn't that depend on where you live, though? A Software Engineer in the bay area gets paid a lot more than a Software Engineer with equivalent experience in the mid-west.
> They have quite an ambitious space program, several successful satellite missions, and 2 astronauts (so far). Their Mars orbiter is launching next month.
You're missing dozens more, if not hundreds.
Unfortunately no. I've been reverse engineering it from their BSP. It's slower than I'd like.
It's a very fun hobby with CAD software.

Without CAD software, I could see it being an exceptionally difficult chore.
There may actually be a study which says what you claim, but what you've linked is a HCQ shill site, and tracing links I was not able to find a link to an actual study.

Again, there may actually be a study which says what you've claimed. I'm not anti-HCQ, I'm anti-propaganda-posing-as-science.
Do you have some links to news about these?
Corporate databases become government tools of surveillance
damn..war is disgusting..
Eh...says the company that buys up formerly free shows, and makes them an exclusive for their paid service.

Spotify buys intellectual property (a podcast) and proceeds to sell access to that for a profit.

Apple invents intellectual property (the iOS ecosystem, App Store) and proceeds to sell access to that for a profit.
Kafka without Zookeeper and metrics in Kamon
What’s the difference between a bad person and a person who consciously makes unethical choices?
Last I checked, it has 3 layers of included BI/reporting tools. Plus a lot more.
I know most people on this forum are computer scientists but take a minute to think about engineers and scientists that require physical labs to learn. Bio/chem labs, machine shops, wind tunnels, research facilities... not all university degrees can be moved online.
Both pmOS and UBports are 2 of the examples I have in mind demonstrating the conceptual resilience of non-iOS ecosystem: these projects have small and fluid teams and yet manage to support dozens of devices with different HW requirements. iOS devices are so homogenous, and yet, so hard to them to be the center of these aftermarket efforts.
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I guess it all depends on the type of software that one is writing. If there is a bug in NASA's software, it will cost them tons of money and might put them back months or years in schedule. It makes sense to be extremely careful. Same applies to software used in medical devices, cars etc where lives are at stake.

If my todo app has a bug or even goes down a full day, the impact is not severe. I guess it is okay to change specs within reason - if a project is managed well and communication between the parties involved is great, some amount of flexibility in specs can be accomodated in most non-life threatening projects.
Extreme WebAssembly 1: pushing browsers to their absolute limits
How much would hit the fan if Microsoft changed Windows, even just on Surface hardware, to ensure that any time you bought something from Amazon it had to go through their payment gateway and they got a percentage?
That's really not the argument though is it? Saying "so what if someone are left out of X, Y is a comparable alternative" doesn't change the fact that X is being shut out. If you remove these "objective" measures, it starts being reliant on "holistic factors", and feels like this inherently gives an advantage to well off kids whose parents can send them on different summer schools or labs or whatever. Harvard (and the Ivy league) still maintains a reputation and the industry still does care about it (especially in liberal arts / banking etc), so these fields will reduce in accessibility to those who can't develop "holistic skills".

The other problem you point to is very real, but that's independent of the issue currently being discussed in this post.
I hereby rename NaN to Nun in her honour
Imagine that you are standing on the equator of Earth, facing North. Now imagine a friend is also standing somewhere on the equator -- not too far away, but a fair distance -- also facing North. Now, if you both start walking you'll find that you begin to move closer together. The distance between you shrinks as you walk, until eventually you meet at the North Pole. The "force" that is pulling you together is like gravity in that it is caused by the curvature of the Earth's surface as you travel across it.

With gravity the curvature is intrinsic to space-time itself and is affected by mass. Generally more mass means more curvature. So if you sit two objects in space, at rest with respect to one-another (but still travelling forwards in time), you will find they are pulled together and eventually meet in the same way you and your friend were pulled together and met at the North Pole.

You might ask why mass affects the curvature of space-time? That I don't know the answer to.
This is the RECOVERY trial. They have already likely killed patients through gross incompetence (see below). If you aren't asking the strongest lifesci researchers you know to read the fine print on every word coming from RECOVERY, you should draw no conclusions. How dare Landray even speak to the press at this point?

From 2020-06-15:

A large UK COVID-19 trial, the RECOVERY trial⁽¹⁾, likely killed patients with a 2400mg dose of hydroxychloroquine⁽²⁾ after one of its main authors confused hydroxychloroquine with hydroxyquinoline. This author was quoted in an interview by FranceSoir⁽³⁾⁽⁴⁾ on the topic and the project team is now running damage control, trying to claim that he was misunderstood etc. The amoebic dysentery answer in this exchange⁽⁵⁾ indicates the confusion with hydroxyquinoline and the "six to ten times" answer removes plausible deniability with respect to the administration of lethal dosages.

¹ https://recoverytrial.net

² https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1272209860512419840.html

³ http://covexit.com/recovery-covid-19-research-blasted-for-to...

⁴ http://www.francesoir.fr/politique-monde/interview-exclusive...

⁵ https://files.catbox.moe/s9qc7v.png
Perhaps you're aware, and I missed the nuance... but, geany uses the scintilla engine as its editor component¹. I was once a pretty heavy SciTE user, and it surprises me how often you can spot it in other tools when shoulder surfing or watching live demos.

1. https://github.com/geany/geany/tree/master/scintilla
This whole subthread reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiIlJaSDPaA
Lessons Learned from Shutdown Startups
Myriad Worlds (The Treasury of Knowledge). There is a portion on calculating days and the keyword is "clepsydra measure"
> It seems that the energy is being stored somewhere, and that matter itself allows us to tap into that, but is not the place where it is stored.

It's not stored anywhere, it's always present since the gravitational masses are always present, it's just that a part of it turns into kinetic energy when you are close to large masses (and back once you leave them).
Ripple 2.0: 19 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Amplified by the Supply Chain
Demo of CheerpX, our x86 virtualization in WebAssembly, available at the bottom of the article.
Highest expected value of future donations

This. This is the one. If you view everything Harvard does as supporting this goal, it all makes perfect sense.

You don't necessarily want the smartest kids. You want the kids that are most likely to go on to make the most money AND the kids who are most likely to have a strong emotional connection to the university so they write big checks.
This is in line with the arguments for/against Tor in general. I believe if you agree with Tor as a principle, then you should agree that making this exploit known is better overall.

As an aside, I believe everyone needs privacy, so I'd rather say that everyone benefits from it, not just the usual journalists, activists, whistleblowers, etc...
Campaign fueled by Fortune 500 company to terrorize middle-aged couple
I like the concept, and signed up to give it a try. I searched for "running route builder", and after about 15 minutes it just showed "Error". I'm keen to actually give it a try though if this can be corrected!
That statement often gets eyerolls on HN because there's a very high concentration of users in a few specific places!

The weird thing is that all of the players have significant people investments outside of the US. These often start as support and maintenance operations but often grow into more over time.

It's legitimately surprising to me that companies don't "offshore" to Cincinnati, Minneapolis or Tampa. IBM used to have success doing that, for example. Defense contractors too, although obviously there is a political and a "be close to the customer" element to having engineers next to an air force base.
I think most mathematical facts described as beautiful fall into one of the two categories of “consequences of definitions” and “shocking connections”. The first happens when the structure of your terms is lined up in just the right way as to make a proof feel automatic and clear, every piece follows right from the previous one in a natural way. The second one is rarer imo, and is enjoyable almost in the same way a clever punchline is. A series of facts are setup, and then your viewpoint is suddenly shifted forcing you to recontextualize those facts and see something new. A lot of “elegant” proofs are of this flavor.
I agree, it’s definitely a difficult balance to strike.

I found that even small amounts of stimulant medication does help even if it’s not super obvious in the moment, and the upside is that it doesn’t interfere with sleep too much, but I try hard not to make a habit out of it. Sleep, above all else, is the best predictor of my mood / productivity / physical health.

I try not to take anything after about noon, though. This is especially true about caffeine, for me. I might get a crash in the late afternoon, but it’s a price worth paying for a good night’s sleep.
The idiom “pour/add fuel on/to the fire” means to make something worse. I understood the headline but it caused me to raise my eyebrow. It’s almost a mixed metaphor?

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/add+fuel+to+the+fire

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/pour+fuel+on+the+fire

I would have used “turbocharged”, “greatly sped up”, or “significantly accelerated.”

If you’re literally adding fuel to a fire to make it burn hotter/faster, the energy density of jet fuel (basically kerosene) isn’t that much greater than gasoline or many other fuels, but I guess it sounds neat.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/12184/what-are-...

https://neutrium.net/properties/specific-energy-and-energy-d...

If you really want to get a fire going, use liquid oxygen:

https://youtu.be/sab2Ltm1WcM
And just like Sublime, Geany also have an API that third-parties can use for developing their own plugins/extensions. Since Geany is open source, might have even more plugins than Sublime, although I doubt that, Sublime has been way more popular than Geany for as long as I can remember.
Apple faces twin antitrust probes in Brussels
But there's almost nowhere in Canada or Europe where you can get the kind of $750k packages that you see fairly routinely for normal developers at ultra elite companies like Google in the Bay Area. How can Canada or Europe really compete with that?
The ecosystems may currently work really well for you, the consumer, but that doesn't mean they work really well for the developers and businesses who supply the apps and services to you, the consumer, via Apple's services.

An anticompetitive market may, in the long term, serve as the demise of the platform you currently really like as it is. Spotify (or especially smaller players) may be forced to abandon the App Store or might stay in it but go bankrupt, increase prices, or somehow degrade or modify their offering to keep afloat if they are so dependent on App Store customers.

As for Apple Pay: yeah, I hope it stays the same. I hate 99% of banking apps and the less I have to interact with them the better. I'm already annoyed by iOS apps for loyalty card schemes which absolutely refuse to implement Wallet support for fixed barcodes present in their apps, presumably either due to incompetence or some tracking purpose.
Just posted a new article about our tech, first demo of x86 python running in the browser is included (scroll to the bottom): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23538856
It was not missed. The recommendations during the first wave were to avoid corticosteroids because they were thought to be nefarious in this case. At least in Europe.

Now we switched to the opposite. Behold, medical statistics the 8th world's marvel!
Funny enough, that's when I wanted to buy a Nintendo portable. 3D without glasses seemed interesting. Then I noticed that not many games are available in eastern europe and I wasn't willing to jump through hoops to give them my money.
Is there also a javascript client for Dolt? I like the idea of Noms but it seems like it is not in active development
I have had a weird relationship with procrastination, I find I get more appropriate work done when I'm exhausted. When I have no energy it will take all my concentration to stick to the job at hand but I do stick to it, when I have plenty of energy my monkey brain gets distracted easier. I've also found the the GTD technique of breaking items into smaller tasks, setting a next action and make sure the action starts with a verb helps.
The repository refers to this (Dutch) site which has lots of information, artwork and background about the series: https://twilight-cd.com/
Not sure why you were downvoted - while I personally don't agree, I can see that some would enjoy the very curated and controlled nature of Apple products. (I used to be an iPhone & Mac user for over a decade).

The only thing I could nitpick, Apple are also buying podcasts and making them exclusively available to the Podcasts app, so they're also chasing the Spotify business model:

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/21/apple-exclusive-origina...
I can relate to the article. Whenever I take on a bigger project, it feels like procrastination lets me defer failure.

I am lately able to convince myself that you can only get better by trying, but was not always the case.

So yeah. Some procrastination is definitely driven by emotion.
You seem to imply that, if one is free and just follows one's immediate impulses, one automatically ends up doing something worthwhile and non-bullshit. But there are lots of free men (economically independent men) who give their lives to bullshit; so that can't be quite right.
> The projects you've mentioned are attempts to address stream processing needs with a SQL-like language. That is fundamentally different from providing incremental view maintenance of actual SQL using streaming techniques (what Materialize does).

With all due respect, CREATE SINK and CREATE SOURCE are SQL-like. I would argue that the pipeline created from the set of SINKs and SOURCEs is the key concept to grasp for developers new to your platform. The purity of the PostgreSQL CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW syntax and other PG/SQL constructs seems like a minor selling point, in my (very narrowly informed) opinion. I hope I'm wrong.

Our difference of opinion involves marketing language and perceived differentiators. There are some important use cases for continuous SQL queries over Kafka-like data streams that remain unaddressed (as far as I know). I hope Materialize gains traction where others have failed to do so. If PG/SQL compatibility was the only thing holding back this style of solution then kudos to you and your team for recognizing it. Good luck (honestly).
It's a matter of perspective I guess. Where I'm from, VSCode is considered lightweight. Cumbersome would describe NetBeans and Eclipse in my mind.
From the released statement:

> Among the patients who received usual care alone, 28-day mortality was highest in those who required ventilation (41%), intermediate in those patients who required oxygen only (25%), and lowest among those who did not require any respiratory intervention (13%).
Apple, ARM, and Intel
By John Perry, co-host of the delightful radio show Philosophy Talk (or at least that's how I know him). I'm sold.
there are no differences in this case though, you're supposed to accentuate when you capitalize in France as well
My wife is like you, she sees everything she has to do as a huge "lump" of work and gets overwhelmed and distracted trying to make progress on everything at once. She's also ADHD which means she very easily gets distracted by something, which then leads to hyperfocus on that seemingly unproductive thing.

I see the kitchen and I think "this is going to make my back and legs hurt so much, I'm going to rest a bit before tackling it." Then I get distracted with reddit or HN or whatever, and suddenly it's the next morning and I have to work again.
Wild hummingbirds see a broad range of colors humans can only imagine
It is a famous and well written speech, made at a time when Germany was still a cohesive country and WWII criminals were still alive.

I don't see the relevance when we face completely different issues nowadays. European/German guilt has been used to justify a lot of measures that strangely enough always benefited the upper class and the stock market.

Perhaps there should be a new Weizsaecker speech.
Reminds me of Russell's quote - “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.”
Observers Are Like Crack Cocaine only more destructive (2015)
CIA hacking unit failed to protect its systems, allowing Vault 7 disclosure
Consider also that MasterCard and Visa make money on every payment you make with their cards. The only real "free" option is cash, but that requires additional labour on both sides.
>Isn't there any room for respect for traditional Japanese culture?

Is culture a blanket excuse for bad behavior? Just because a country has a history of doing something doesn't make it worth respecting. Bad things are bad no matter how long they've been practiced.
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Is that a rhetorical question? Because a person who makes conscious unethical choices is a bad person. Otherwise there would be no metric for "badness" and the word would be meaningless.
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Build a simple chat app with Deno and a WYSIWYG editor
Is there evidence that they are misleading or cheating? The EPA numbers (I assume) are arrived at with the same methodology for all cars. It's indepedent right? (I have no idea).

So how is Tesla at fault here, if their cars do well. Btw, you can get the EPA range if you drive around 55-60mph... So it is misleading?
I have a sheet I use for beating procrastination -- and I see how it fits with this model. The idea of the sheet is that you record four things (dreams,goals,actions and fears) -- and it's the fourth thing: fears (or problems) that really helps you uncover and overcome the emotional component of procrastination.

I've put the sheet online here:

https://dgaf.secretgeek.net/
> if the ship falls into a heavier planet

I would be a genuine paradox if this other planet appeared out of nowhere at some point in the process. That's the key: both the source and the destination mass points have been there all along, and so you must, as usual, take into account all the bodies involved from the very beginning.
If anyone wants to beta test its free during beta. Just sign up for the trial and let me know your email.
Thanks for pointing that out - I wasn't aware. I don't agree with the practice by either company, but it has been obvious to me from the start that this was going to happen in the podcasting industry. It was just a matter of time. Thanks for the article. I recommend that others read it as well.