skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually I find that if I'm not making progress, there is very specifically one things I'm avoiding. So I just make it my goal to make a little progress on that piece. And usually once I get into it, I find that it's not so bad, and soon I've made much more progress than I planned to.

Don't know if that counts as deep work, but it is a technique I've used repeatedly over the years and had good success with.
Escaping the Index of Prohibited Books
Cool video, I like his rundown of the major programming paradigms. I'd love to show this to some beginners I know - though perhaps with some light explanation of the some of the low-level jargon he uses, as the bootcamps and tutorials out there these days don't really explain things from first principles like that anymore.
The hard upper bound for English was the British ability to manage hundreds of far-flung colonies.
Are these products actually effective though? I mean the duration and intensity required to kill viruses in moving air must be quite high? Or is it just snake oil, like how a lot of hand dryers have bluish/purple LEDs (which emit no UV) that shine on your hands?
Maybe what we need is a widely used UI for trees, and editors for them. The editor reads a schema and tells you what blanks to fill in. Export XML, JSON, S-expressions, whatever - any tree structure.

The trouble is, open source cannot do good GUIs. If a problem is best expressed with a GUI, open source consistently blows it. See Gimp, Blender, Inkscape, FreeCAD, all of which are notably worse than their commercial competitors.
Replying to myself: just add "4k" to the search string on the Aliexpress site, scroll the page and some interesting 4K driver boards will appear.
For example: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000910752449.html

More pricey of course, but affordable and still much more convenient than any ready made screen. Just pay attention that they must be programmed for the specific panel they'll be used with. You will have to tell the seller the exact model of your panel before the purchase.

Lower resolution ones could be programmed with software called "rova tools".
http://tech.mattmillman.com/info/lcd/rovatools/
Not sure about the new ones. Probably after some time similar software will be written.
There were a national debate on economy centered on the circulation of iron and salt. A representative work is "盐铁论” discussions on iron and salt.

Chinese civilization peaked in tang (in terms of international influence) and later song (in terms of tech and culture).

Then it's a steady declination till the end of Qing.

Ancient China was quite liberal and diverse even in modern standards. But the history took a reverse turn to more totalitarian direction. (China never practiced authoritarian regime, even today, people just cannot admit or bother to learn the nuances of modern China political system, I am so very much disappointed there is no modern day Tocqueville on China, what a pity!)

Xi's approach is fairly conventional in terms of Chinese tradition. But it has swapped the Confucius core with a blended scientific core through learning from Communism. This is a dangerous direction, as there is quite a risk of how to continue this tradition across generations, history has shown that declination and degradation is inevitable within 2-300 years time period. It will be interesting to see how Xi handles his succession. It might be quite disastrous. But it also has a lot of institutional safety backup.

Who knows! To me, this is the single most political affair in the next 10-20 years.

Xi is not a dictator, his life experience does not lend the ambition, nor his power can dominate the check and balance in China. Whoever labels xi a dictator is fooling his audience for some unspeakable purpose.

[1] https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%9B%90%E9%93%81%E8%AE%BA
And Haskell, for that matter.
I lived there, I've also lived in India. I hate to put it this way but for practical reasons it is far safer to live in China than in India. CCP also takes the pains to make sure Children are not out on the street begging. I could go out at midnight without worrying about being lynched - to me this is a more fundamental freedom than freedom of political expression. Believe it or not China does allow their authorities to be criticized. If I wrote this comment online in China, I would not actually be censored. Yes there are topics that are considered taboo. But such topics are fairly limited.
ah, it is exactly what I wanted to build one year ago but did not get time on it.

I like this idea to be true and like the site.
“Community as a whole” is anyone who is interested in a different software environment, e.g. open source, corporations who don’t like the duopoly, consumers who pick something that feels better.

If it’s in so many people’s interests to develop an alternative, then there are billions of dollars, and thousands of developers available to do it.

No reason at all it has to be another company with nearly unlimited power.

Those who believe the problem cannot be solved will not be the ones to solve it.
> Something like 60% of the UK rail network is unelectrified and recent electrification projects have been ruinously expensive, we need something to fill in the gaps and hydrogen definitely has potential.

It's not as bad as is often made out; with relatively few exceptions (GWML most prominently) most recent electrification programmes in the UK haven't been too much above European norms.

In general, the reasons why costs have been higher in the UK are:

* other countries having fairly constant ongoing electrification work leading to availability of skilled staff (versus massively spikes of electrification, then nothing for a decade or more),

* many more structures (e.g., overbridges, tunnels) close to the limits of the loading gauge and hence more structures work needed

* track access being more difficult in the UK (in general prolonged closures are harder to get approval for), and

* operators being compensated for service disruption.

At this point the UK really just needs an ongoing programme of electrification, as we now have high-quality modern off-the-shelf parts for most needs approved and in use on new projects, and we have designs that meet the requirements of almost all current routes.

Also worth bearing in mind is the recently announced Scottish Government plan to decarbonise rail in Scotland by 2030, which includes electrifying all the major lines in Scotland. (A few won't be, and hydrogen trains have been mooted for them, but these are mostly lines with a few trains per day where the business case for electrification is always going to be weakest, especially combined with them often being in the most challenging terrain.)
makes me think about toasters and how they haven't really evolved because it works fine enough
Listening to OCaml users, you would never get any impression that its toolchain was mature.
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"To ostatnia niedziela" sounded familiar - it's the tune throughout this fantastic film:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111579/
I ended up in E*Trade after they bought OptionsHouse. Thankfully nothing changed for me but the logo. The app I use is better than the other brokers I've tried (not many), but the margin rates are garbage compared to IBKR so I don't use them for after-tax investment.
Here's a reasonable proposal, they could get off their butts and actually innovate to adapt to a changing market.

It's like they saw Netflix and iTunes and Spotify come up to adapt to the changing media markets and decided that they weren't affected for some magical reason. Now because they're going out of business, they're asking for handouts
Looking at Wikipedia (which reads like it was written by a PR person) he seems fairly qualified to talk about viruses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Haseltine#HIV/AIDS_...
50% faster and 150% more expensive are numbers my experience doesn't agree with.

First, programs coded in Rust are typically nowhere near 50% faster than the ones coded in managed languages - I observe 500% to 5000% differences. And it is not just faster but also uses an order of magnitude less memory. In cloud based software this translates to savings on TCO users of the software I write do care about.

Second, as for 150% more development cost - this is also not my experience. There is some upfront cost related to learning a new language, but then later this pays off on maintenance and bug finding (lack of data races or relying on fragile runtime reflection are big ones). Plus Rust is more expressive than Java/C#/Go and many common programming problems are actually surprisingly faster to code. E.g serialization / deserialization of object graphs.
I thought this was hackernews not the unkill network, remember how woke people without any proof decided Muslims were getting infected on purpose to destabilize India and literally nothing happened, and people are just stupid anyway?
Also do you say the same about Germany, England and Japan too?
People like you is the reason India still has a caste system.
>not have access to a lot of things native apps could

That's my point here -

>in collusion with the duopolies to hoard more data from their customers
It's just a plain website that doesn't do anything besides give you some text and images. This is technology that has functioned just fine for decades. I don't understand why it needs SSL at all - where's the private information that might be intercepted by someone in the middle?
Ok dumb question why don’t we settle the question by conducting the experiment for covid19?
Can't you do this via your router?
I first heard of it just now.
Well yeah, that is the solution that was arrived upon hundreds of years ago, and has been the norm ever since. Like Churchill said, democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the others. Declaring cops to be inherently powermad junkies is not an expression of accountability, it is a flawed value judgement that can only serve to justify very bad policy decisions (defund the police!).
When working on something where it's hard for me to get into a true 'flow' state (fiction or academic, coding that I don't fully understand yet), I'm a fan of of Pomodoro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
> Yes, that's true, but that does not mean that uniform laws are an assumption. They are not. They are a conclusion.

It was a fairly pervasive idea that God created an orderly universe:

> For when we call the builder the principle of the house, in the idea of such a principle is included that of his art; and it would be included in the idea of the first principle were the builder the first principle of the house. God, Who is the first principle of all things, may be compared to things created as the architect is to things designed.

* https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1027.htm

The painting "God the Geometer" dates back to ca. 1220:

> Science, and particularly geometry and astronomy/astrology, was linked directly to the divine for most medieval scholars. The compass in this 13th century manuscript is a symbol of God's act of Creation. God has created the universe after geometric and harmonic principles, to seek these principles was therefore to seek and worship God.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:God_the_Geometer.jpg

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Architect_of_the_Univers...

Earlier natural philosophers (the word "scientists" was coined in 'only' 1833) looked for order and reason because they assumed it was there to be found.
That seems unnecessarily rude. Also, you still haven’t offered up a plausible scenario of why you would magnanimously look at my OSS project that you have no intention of ever using, find a bug, and submit a bug report, exhortations of circa 2008 Clay Shirky notwithstanding.
Probably best to just have more articles about the topic -- like the one currently under discussion -- and more discussions of the sort happening right here. Create a culture where some fairly big percentage of people have a healthy attitude towards their open source stuff, understand they don't have to do anything if they don't want to, people talking at them about it is a form of engagement with a lot of positives, etc.

And then make peace with "You can't please all of the people all of the time. Some people can't ever be pleased. etc."
This feels like FUD especially from Forbes. Any more authoritative sources? This can’t be a secret.
Regarding problem 2: It's hard to know what exactly you're seeing, but be aware that the output of "git log" is only pretending to be linear; it's really a tree/graph. ("git log --graph" can help, but the output can also be annoying to parse.) So when you see multiple copies of a commit "in a row", chances are that they are really present on different branches which were later merged. If they have the same commit ID, I would probably call this just a display quirk -- there's really only one "copy" in truth, but for some reason the history is confusing "git log". But if they have different commit IDs, that means (as far as I know) that someone has done a "git rebase" or a "git cherry-pick", which you didn't mention in your description.
Yeah absolutely. It seems most people get only positive effects.

Must be personal neurochemistry/predisposition. The breaking point hit when my partner showed me a video she took where she called my name 8 times standing right next to me trying to get my attention, and I had no clue. I was so zoned into the screen.

After seeing that I was like damn.
I raise my voice against any government policy, suddenly Im told to migrate to Pakistan, Im told I support muslim ideology. Don't believe me?
Tweet or head to any other major subreddit other than r/india, I'm actually glad r/india hates BJP.
I'm r/g colorblind, the biggest takeaway from this article is that, there are different colors in the stars??
a culture that values technology, innovation, tolerance for risk

Many other cultures have the same, perhaps to a lesser extent, but balanced in that regard (say) by more rights for workers or protection from corporate abuse or a higher quality of life.

world class academic institutions, by far the most of any other country

Depends how you look at it - for example, per capita the UK has more Top 10 universities than the USA.

articles that portray some short of US demise or structural decline are more journalistic clickbait than anything else

It's important to take a balanced view on these things; a US decline is probably simplistic as you indicate - but a rose-tinted view of it is just as unhelpful.
this has two of my favorite features!

1. comments aren't part of the parse tree, so I can quickly strip all comments by a quick parse print cycle. This is really helpful if you want to do automate changes to the files.

2. I can freely truncate the file at (almost) any point, and still have a valid config file. It's not obvious up front, but if your file gets snipped at some point, it's won't cause parse errors (usually) consumers of the file.
There will be an arm version of windows.. but there’s no reason to believe that Microsoft will or can support all of the coprocessors that Apple is going to add - including gpu, t2, nueral engine, etc. it isn’t like Apple plays nice with 3rd parties. I seriously doubt they’ll release the details necessary to develop independent drivers for those... whether it’s Microsoft or Linux.

So there’s good reason to believe it may be macOS only.

Personally I’ll believe it when I see it... because right now there are no 3rd party iPad or iPhone operating systems. So a better question is probably: what makes you think there will be 3rd party OS support?
GP wasn't about Rust, it's about people using state machines without coroutines.
I was going to get a ten ton jack tomorrow and try again. But the thought of walking into a Home Depot or Harbour Freight is Arghh. There has to be a more elegant and less messy solution. I can’t wrap my head around today’s circus battle between woman and machine. What a waste of time and energy. How long am I going to keep fearing the PTO change..if it were easier, I would be working with multiple implements and getting so much done.

Sometimes I think it’s probably worth it to buy an old and cheap used tractor to dedicate it to a specific implement or task. I can get so much done esp with my kind of vegetable/flower farming.
Tor Browser is terrible for security, and I don’t think Firefox started doing tracking prevention before Safari did. I may have the timeline wrong though. As for Brave, well. They have a different business model but I’m not entirely clear on what their technological innovation is?
I kind of want an apple watch. The fitness tracking has gotten good enough that I would use it over my Garmin for tracking runs and cycling, and I can enjoy the extra features it has over the Garmin.

But...it's a nonstarter because it requires you own an iPhone. Even for cellular models. I have no desire to buy an iPhone.

I wonder how many sales they are missing to non-iPhone owners, or if they really just don't care. I don't personally think the Apple watch is good enough to be a system seller...but it is yet another entry into their entirely locked up, vertically integrated ecosystem. More than any other company, the lock-in with Apple is real.

And IMO it's a shame they limit the potential of their products so much.
Agreed. US official response has been to lie to the population so as to “not cause a panic” then act shocked when that same population doesn’t trust the officials anymore. Go figure.
No problem. Plenty of Americans don't know this, and there's a sizable proportion that wants you to think it's so settled.
No one is bored anymore. The moment you are bored you whip out your phone. It’s hard to believe but only 15 years ago people were regularly bored and learned how to stare at the wall, take a walk, and basically entertain themselves by doing nothing.

Now, the moment you are bored you get super annoyed and try to entertain yourself immediately. I believe that breathing exercises are very helpful, but even more helpful now that everyone on earth forgot how to be bored and just relax for 10 minutes.
We could go underground like the Morlocks.
If Google Trends is a good indicator Ruby and Perl are dying, Python is still going strong

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
Looking at germicidal bulbs at 1000bulbs.com, the highest wattage bulb they have is 65 watts [1]. Most are well under that.

Looking at random in-duct systems, it looks like they range from 1 to 10 or so bulbs with the later being for commercial buildings. Home systems seem to lean toward 1 or 2 bulbs of maybe 20ish watts or so total. This site [2] says typically $15-30 per year energy cost

[1] https://www.1000bulbs.com/product/113917/AU-LG64T5L.html

[2] https://www.pickhvac.com/faq/hvac-uv-lights/
I have a ritual and some rules:

I mentally prepare 30-60 minutes beforehand.

A cup of coffee is nice and warm while I read HN, check socials, etc. It perks me up, puts me on a track.

Work is distant here. It's going to happen, but it's not important now.

I finish my coffee at the pace I finish reading, clean up, and then setup my work space.

This is vital to me. The more work I put into ergonomics early on, the less I have to readjust later.

I have a set of rules to follow for efficiency.

1. I need minimal distractions. Headphones and instrumental music work great for me personally. Visually I can focus on a rectangular screen and that becomes a visual boundary for me. Among other people I set rigid boundaries.

2. I need minimal movement to accomplish a task. My peripherals are in arm's reach. If I need to break from work it takes maybe two motions maximum to set aside anything I'm using. Coming back to work, just reverse the motions.

I then focus on reassessing the problem(s) I left the previous day.

I find the smallest problem I can fix and gradually descend into larger structural issues I would like to solve or build. With my design these are usually emergent as I take the small problems, but the benefits are double-fold because I like to ease in and gain confidence as I work. It's like starting a marathon at a steady pace versus a sprint I guess.

Rinse and repeat. Take breaks. If you are having issues with some deep work, pull yourself up and give yourself a mental snack like (for gamedev) a simple shader that you can just play around with.

Nothing wrong with checking socials or your phone, but I physically go somewhere else. To me, it's an invitation into my workspace and because this space is sacred for me, I can determine what signals come and go.

My 2c.
> That seems unnecessarily rude.

Am I supposed to refrain from being seen as unkind to someone tacitly accusing me of lying? I gave an answer before you ever even asked the question. I don't know what you want, I don't know why you think you deserve my time and energy in light of the incoming rudeness directed my way, and I don't know how you can't see that expecting it is in stark contradiction to the position you're taking.
Have there been any experiements (on a long distance route) to have battery packs on trains that are fast-charged at stations? In the UK a lot of routes are at least partially electrified, and EV chargers have proved it is fairly easy to supply a few hundred kilowatt electric supply to urban areas.

I know there are trams that work like this, but I'm wondering if the tech could be scaled up to trains.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acumulador_de_Carga_R%C3%A1p...
The intention isn’t about private information. What if essay text is modified in transit/injected with advertisements?
It looks like having conservative ideas is somewhat similar to having ideas that e.g. the Earth is flat. Surely, one can think whatever he wants, but from such thinking one can have more mistakes than otherwise.

There is no justification to many thought platforms - but that doesn't mean they can't be wrong.
His website works fine without it, what's the issue here?
> Corona-viruses from my understanding, do mutate.

Already, reinfection by different strains of COVID-19 has been documented (by DNA sequencing) in Korea. The more people who catch COVID-19, the greater the space of possible genetic mutations can be explored. Some of those mutations may decrease severity, but others are likely to merely increase the presympomatic contagiousness period.
No job anyone is willing to pay for is “bullshit”. You may feel bored, annoyed, like your life is a waste, but it isn’t worthless to the employer. There is a reason.
I actually looked the author up as well. I was pretty surprised that what seem to be pretty glaring grammatical errors made their way into what ostensibly is a pretty important article. I wonder if he would publish it with Forbes on the condition that nothing was reworded.
AFAIK there aren’t methods to do that in vivo, unfortunately.
Brain.fm and noise canceling headphones (Bose QC35).
> coffee (but it's a drug, and I advise against them if it is about work)

There's nothing inherently wrong with drug use. The problems come in with abuse, addiction, dependency, and negative side effects - and all of those are so mild with caffeine as to be effectively nonexistent for most people, as long as they refrain from ingesting it into the late afternoon and evening.
I think most, if not all, all vaccines prevent you from getting (the symptoms of) a specific infection. Plus, vaccinations do not prevent mutation if only some of a population gets them.
That was the GPs point, YAML contains a lot of insanity, but let’s not throw out what it got right along with everything it got wrong.
I've found it hard to be consistent with it, but basically just waking up really early. I get ~4 hours of calm, focused time to read or do whatever I want.