skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s clearly not the case for everyone, but I struggled for an extended period of time with a few things in my personal and professional life:

1. Remarkable focus in topics which interest me and remarkable lack of focus in topics which do not.

2. Leaving “must do” tasks in areas of little interest until the very last moment, resulting in a predictable lack of excellence in execution.

3. Periodic deep dives into topics which go beyond the aforementioned “areas of interest”.

4. Driven by a motor in meetings: itching to get up and walk around as we talk, feeling more comfortable with any kind of low level motor action happening concurrently to my thinking and speaking. Also led to me leaping to the end of a person’s sentence and others experiencing me as highly impatient / excitable at times.

5. The need to have a TV show or other media playing as I fall asleep. Ideally something I’ve seen before and which is enjoyable but not too engrossing. Almost like one of the cores in my processor couldn’t be idle — it actually made it hard to sleep. (Conversely I always fell asleep watching films with my partner.)

6. Various odd elements of disorganisation — never at work but eg. losing my keys and documents.

If you’re reading this and hearing elements of your own experience, and in particular if this is familiar to you from childhood (“Why can’t you apply yourself to X like you do Y?!”) then I would encourage you to speak to a serious psychiatrist about the possibility that you have ADHD.

Not everyone has it and I accept that many are probably misdiagnosed with it. My experience of clicking every link on HN with hacks for focusing and not procrastinating was actually a very sad one and I didn’t realise how profoundly it had affected me until I sat in the office of a psychiatrist and he rattled off a range of specific experiences he wagered I had had during my life.

It’s been a remarkable process for me of feeling emotional relief as well as receiving medication which improves my life.

Again if you’re looking for a productivity hack you do not need to consider that you have any sort of chemical disregulation, but I did not consider the possibility of a medical condition and found myself often in rabbit holes of productivity hacks feeling deeply unproductive.
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If you actually use Firefox it's really hard to support the belief that there's some quality or speed gap like there was in the mid-2010s. They're neck and neck on quality and features but it also highlights the degree to which Google uses their other businesses to promote Chrome: everywhere you go you'll be hit with suggestions to switch to Chrome, not to mention various QA “lapses” like lowering performance on YouTube or accidentally breaking logins on GCP only in Firefox.
They agree that their respective special interests aren't being served. And they're right. Because Google is not in the business of kowtowing to liberal or conservative political interests.
Can we call this the "Kashmir playbook"? Or is there a better earlier example of a temporary-induced communications blackout vs what e.g. the PRC does.
They were not, but since the polls were banned during elections the government at least had some deniability and fewer people were convinced it was all fake. But this time massive protests and polls and information online convinced everyone there is no real support left. Hence the shutdown of the internet.
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> Date of introduction

> November 1991
Writing a Kubernetes CLI in Go
100% this. As soon as an IP / Service appears for the first time it is scanned and hammered to look for low hanging fruit. Once the initial wave of exploit bots have found out they don't get far, your 'thing' is marked as 'too much faff' and malicious traffic drops off and is left alone (usually, y.m.m.v etc etc etc).
I don't disagree with your concept in theory, but I also don't think there is any evidence to suggest that MoCo's trademark royalty payments (as IIRC that's how they are structured according the financial docs) are adjusted based on MoFo's needs.

Has that been mentioned in a meeting somewhere?
Lame self-help nonsense. Totally lost me with the Bukowski reference -- nothing about that guy is worthy of emulation, though his poems about beer shits are kind of entertaining.
136kb feels heavy for what this is
The question I have about public policy in this realm is, "when does something become a service the public has a certain entitlement to?"

Because, if I think about how long Google has been around (and been popular), this is on the order of 15 years. You might even say just 10 years in terms of when it became widely used. That's the blink of an eye in government terms.

If I were to be Google, I might ask, "where do you have the gall to take what we built from scratch, that you didn't even know about 10 years ago, and demand that it serve the public in the way that you want?"

On the other hand, the societal good in me says, "you've affected and changed the world to something new, policies need to take that into account".

I guess, if Google had chosen to be a pay-for-service, private club that only certain people could use, then they wouldn't be in this situation. You make something private enough, and it'll never be so big as to attract attention. But then they wouldn't be worth like $1T.

I guess, when do we have the right to demand that something turn into a public utility? Or that it has changed to effectively become one?
That's the cost of directing customers to your website even if they misspell your brand name or don't remember if you're a .com or .net or many other things. After all, if they knew to go to topicseed.com, why didn't they type that URL in and go directly there? I certainly don't search for Hacker News or Apple.com or Twitter on Google each time I go there, do you?
I know of at least two insurance companies in my country that still have their administrative software written in VB6 (probably along with some shoddy web app for IE8).

Also see "IT runs on Java 8" https://veekaybee.github.io/2019/05/10/java8/
Countries that have that capability can't shoot down 40000 of them.
Corporate treasury speculating on currency. What could possibly go wrong?
I don’t recall which, but I searched for a brand name recently and their web site was number five or six. Pinterest was higher, which drives me nuts.
Thanks greg! Kind of like open-source Segment, but we focus on data warehouses as the destination. Were are you looking to send your data?
You don't design a language for 'browser development'. You design a language because you feel there is a need for a language and none of the existing languages meet your needs. If Mozilla had adopted D instead of developing Rust the world would have kept on turning and they'd be further along compared to where they are today.

None of the other major browsers are written in Rust, there does not seem to be a huge difference in the number of security issues listed for any of those.

I once worked at a company where they wanted to build everything, preferably including their own operating system programming language and database. And all that four a payment processor, something you could probably write in any language available. Guess where that story ended?

If something isn't core to your proposition it is a distraction.
Funny how i have visited almost all of your links before. Do I understand it correctly that rxi/lite is just using plain SDL2 underneath to render the UI, do input processing, windowing,..? They must have had a lot of work implementing all of that. I always wondered why there are no well known ui frameworks on top of SDL.
Even countries that have the ability to shoot down satellites probably aren't going to shoot down hundreds or thousands of starlink sats, which is what it would take to end coverage.
Maybe I'm just bad at physical fitness but I've never been able to do a pull-up. Seems like the kind of thing that requires both upper body strength and a lean body, which is kind of where I want to finish, not where I get to start from.
https://youtu.be/fmuTTeESEs4 timestamp 3:45

Let it be known that today OP delivered
Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Netflix
Do you have any evidence limited speeds are the reason for a reduction in terrorist incidents?

Unless you have some hard evidence that's a weak-sauce claim. Correlation at best.
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Shit like this has no place on HN.

Using random statistics to justify taking away the freedom to access internet is NEVER okay.
> not uniformly ineffective

Ha, that's a good phrase to use in a performance review.

"On the whole, Bob is not uniformly ineffective ..."
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This is newly interesting in light of the recent pentagon UFO revelations (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-...). While these have low credibility, and even if true are likely not extraterrestrial, finding life on mars would change this calculation.
Right. But when stuff goes missing there is a big and insurance relevant question if the stuff was taken by someone with authorized access or someone who broke in... having a locksmith disassemble and inspect the lock is useful.

Maybe extremely careful picking would pass, but at least my efforts always mark up the pins. :)

Compromises in electronic locks tend to be a lot cleaner.
GPS is a lot less stateful than real-time financial transaction processing. It takes time corrections from base stations and broadcasts a time signal. End users have no way of mutating state on the GPS satellite; they only listen.

I'm not saying it's easy to make a global positioning system, but it's easier than processing every transaction in the United States.
Trust me, if I could decide this, my life would be all rainbows and sunshine :). At least for a long while.
Imagine if the internet was started by one corporation.

Instead, the internet is an open source set of protocols.

The answer lies in converting companies which abuse becoming the standard due to network effect, to an open source set of protocols.

Maybe give them a period of 10-20 years to profit. Then they have to expose a public set of standards and protocols which can be used by everyone else.

For instance microsoft windows after 15 years, would be forced to release a freeware version of code, which contained all functionality they had at that time.

Other companies and users could build on this code and thus microsoft are no longer the standard. Just a version of it.
Citizens (at least in the US), overwhelmingly, don't vote. But that doesn't mean this isn't a democracy.
If your implication is that the KMT is more repressive than the Communist Party my only response is laughter.
Agreed. I'm also completely onboard with what Rust is doing here. Language choice is fantastic, I think opening up the web to multiple programming languages is going to be very good for the web as an ecosystem.

But at the same time --

To all the people complaining that modern web browsers are too complicated for small teams to build and maintain, do you think WASM helped with that at all?

To all the people complaining that Javascript's lack of an extensive standard library makes it hard to quickly read/grok other people's code on Github, do you think that situation is going to get any better when people are using entirely separate languages to program the same webapps?

To all the people complaining that there are too many frameworks and tools being released for the web to keep up with, do you think that's going to get any better when suddenly every programmer and their dog can start porting any Open Source UI toolkit/framework to the web with low-cost DOM bindings?
Yeah was wondering why they were so self-congratulatory when they were trumpeting their 0-cases. Either they're missing them (not testing, etc), or they're on hold for more. Pandemic ain't anywhere near being over.

Additionally, the NZ is like 5 million people in a highly isolated island; they have it on easy-mode compared to NYC, which is centrally located and has north of 20 million souls in the greater NYC area.
If you're on a phone you might get tricked into thinking it is paywalled by the giant advertisement for the print replica of the article but if you scroll down past that you can view the article in its entirety.
> I get the feeling from this thread that some people think the only conceivable purpose of Mozilla is to maintain an independent browser, and if they can't do that they may as well shut down

This is exactly how I feel about Mozilla indeed. Their only relevance to me is their browser, I don’t care much about the rest. If a “privacy not included guide” is the best example of other value they add, this strongly confirms it from my point of view.
I sincerely appreciate this blog post and discussion, as it raises a lot of important and compelling points, but I wish it had had some discussion of alternatives and why.

To me, messaging is a mess at the moment, somewhat like IoT because of lack of solid widely adopted standards (either de facto or de jure).

It's extremely difficult to get friends and family to use something. Most decisions are driven by secondary considerations, like it comes with an OS, or as part of an email or office system, or a gaming system. In some cases it's because "it's what everyone is using".

This shifts the threshold a bit in terms of concerns. What I mean by that is given the inertia involved in moving people to use a messaging system, the bar gets raised in terms of moving people off because of network effects. It's hard enough to get any friends or family to use Signal as an alternative to other things; convincing them to switch again introduces other problems.

I'd prefer something that can be used in more decentralized way, but that has its own issues in terms of syncing and always-on problems. And as security increases, more and more inconveniences are introduced -- it might be worth it, but the case still has to be made implicitly or explicitly to friends and family.

Again, not saying these kinds of discussions shouldn't happen, but they often seem kind of theoretical to me or like they're missing the point because of bigger issues with the messaging ecosystem in general. If you're not going to be able to use Signal anyway because everyone you know is using Whatsapp or iMessaging, or feel like messenger use is driven by "whatever is most popular" it feels like it's difficult to weigh things like "won't put on fdroid". I'd love to see it on fdroid but where does that rank?
You are assuming few things here, first there were victims on the water front,a cruise ship sank with people on it and other, one survived "Beirut Port Worker Thrown Into Sea by Explosion Found ALIVE 30 Hours Later" the explosion left a 43-meter (141 foot) deep crater.NYTIMES:" U.S. Contractor Knew of Explosive Material in Beirut Since at Least 2016

An American contractor spotted and reported the potential danger at least four years ago, but U.S. officials denied they were aware of the findings until last week, after the blast."
> If you think that Mozilla not using "corporate doublespeak" is an impossible standard, I am left speechless.

If you think that is a reason to abandon Mozilla, you've just proved my point.
Most people I know use org mode with inline latex for stuff that needs to be latex.
Money is fungible and dollars are dollars. Donating money to the Foundation means less of the Corporation's dollars have to go to supporting the Foundation (which they do via dividend payments), and so more of the Corporation's dollars go to Firefox.
> The problem is not creating new web development tools but creating them for the sake of creating them.

Why is that a problem and who is the arbiter of merit with regard to publishing code to the internet? I can't see any other way to parse what you've written other than "people should stop making so much stuff"

> wasm is just a new compilation target for Rust

And the vast majority of the js ecosystem is just compilation targets for js, if anything rust seems even further removed from the web ecosystem since web applications typically don't require low level performance.
Why wouldn’t ACH make sense for everyday purchases?
Firefox Nightly and Chrome Canary both recently landed multi-value and reference types: https://webassembly.org/roadmap/
Ethereum development made a whole lot easier
Takeaway: crazy rednecks are crazy... because of hormone issues.
Alchemy API is a suite of developer tools that powers 70% of the top ethereum DApps and projects like CrytoKitties, Compound, MakeDAO, Aave, Dharma, etc. They just officially opened their tools to the public after serving enterprise users in beta for the past two years.
There is nothing can stop procrastinating but only if we do things we love. I remember being passionate about little electronics projects when I was young, I would spend 10+ hours per day without getting bored. Now if In need to do anything I will find something to postpone or do it half assed while doing something else at the same time.

Do something you love and wouldn't get bored of. Like gardening or something. Something simple. When there are more parts and added steps in the process (like a web app) you will eventually stop doing it because of the complexity.
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Jobs created the initial problem by undermining the Apple 2 GS.
Either that, or they decide that they now have enough cash to pursue folly #12 and end up with less budget for FF.

Mozilla has not been very effective with how they have spent the received money in the past, a very large fraction of that money went to dead end projects or net negatives.
I thought that first comment had some inappropriately personal things to say about ddvault and his article. It also seemed like they didn't really respond with substance to the what the article said.
At the moment, it looks a lot like they're losing a competitive browser despite putting a lot of effort into the technology - either because Google competes unfairly, or because it just has more resources to compete with fairly. So it seems reasonable to look for other approaches to support the open internet.
...elaborating, a corporate treasurer might want to hold some Euros on balance sheet if they expect to have future liabilities or expenses denominated in Euros. That is a hedge.

On the other hand, a treasurer that holds Euros because they have reasons to think the Euro will appreciate in value in the future is simply speculating. And using the company's balance sheet to do so.

This is looking like a bet. A well-reasoned bet, but a bet nonetheless.
I have started subscribing to the believe that it is not about motivation, it's about discipline. There is only so much you can do to motivate yourself to do a tedious or onerous task. But if you have discipline, you don't need the motivation.

I still struggle a lot with procrastination, but I find this reframing to be helpful.
I believe there may be reasons for use of concrete in Africa that aren't related to colonialism.
For those who aren't aware, European interchange fees are regulated (In the EU, interchange fees are capped to 0.3% of the transaction for credit cards and to 0.2% for debit cards, no cap for corporate cards), which is good IMHO. Banking should be treated as a utility, lending and other services can be the profit center (as you allude to in your comments).

Margin compression is a thing for banks who haven't realized yet they're software companies that offer financial services now, and the moat continues to shrink (getting a banking license is hard, partnering with another bank in need of deposits less so). One must be willing to cannibalize margins to survive or be prepared to be left behind by those who are more efficient (and I admit that macro trends make this harder than in the past; "borrow at 3, lend at 6, at the golf course by 3" [1] is dead).

Disclosure: Part of my work is helping old banks attempt to turn into software companies, with wildly varying results depending on the org.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-6-3_Rule
Aptitude and ineptitude are the now divergent pair, for your interest. Apt was turned into ept
> 99.9% of front-end work is only performance-critical for DOM rendering

There are two meanings of "DOM rendering" in the context of UI-as-a-function-of-state libraries: 1) generating the virtual DOM from data, and 2) modifying the real DOM to match it. Arguably there's even a 3) browser reflow as a result of those DOM changes.

You're right that 2 and 3 can't really be helped by WASM. But 1 can, and while it's not usually the bottleneck, it certainly can be. At my last company it was not terribly uncommon that fixing UI jank came down to eliminating unnecessary React render function calls because the sum total of them all - running the actual JavaScript logic - was taking too long. Assuming yew computes the virtual DOM in WASM (I don't see how it could be otherwise), the performance increase could definitely be beneficial for certain highly-complex apps.
So, to be clear, are you saying that someone should make such a proposal or are you saying that advocating for this change requires there to be a proposal? Because I'd be in favor of the former but I think the latter disrupts conversation and is unreasonable. The way you wrote your post sounded strongly like "I have a knock-down argument against any advocates until they have legislation written up." Which would be an unreasonably high bar.
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but if we're talking about building an SPA you're typically going to be building a worse solution if you can't SSR your client views

Is not worse, is fine. Mostly depends on the requirements, why go the extra complexity of SSR if you don't need it?
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I have been using a 17" Serval WS System 76 Ubuntu laptop for ten months, particularly heavily since March (when Covid started). I have been happy with it. I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 at the beginning of July and that has had no problems.

I have used System76 laptops for eight years. Around 2012-2014 I was not totally satisfied with them because of issues that would come up now and again. I kept buying from them though as I did not see any better alternatives. They have gotten better in recent years from my perspective, I have been happy with the laptop I bought last year.
It's hard to keep up with all the goal post shifting (the definition of "product", "successful", and so on) - in any case, it's common for companies to start with the problem of delivering user value first, and then figuring out revenue later. One doesn't need a clear plan for revenue when starting out. The project I worked on at Mozilla itself is evidence of this: we had ideas for how to generate revenue for it when we started out, but the one we ended up doing was not on the list since we discovered the opportunity in the process of developing the product.
Which is why Google paid the Mozilla Foundation a shitload of money to be the default search engine when Firefox was still running around 25% market share.
"First" doesn't always mean "The best".
FYI - we have been able to get regular SMS and voice calls through (using Google Fi as our carrier). It was great to go from "absolute zero communication" to "we know you're currently OK"
Yes I’m assuming a huge number of things, but that’s the nature of ballpark figures and estimation. We’re well into “spherical cow” territory here.
It's funny because non web folks complain about Javascript fatigue and no standard libraries/approaches - so now on top of that we are going to mix in other languages and everyone bikeshedding the same thing in N languages? Seems maintaining apps with all this code is going to get a lot harder.