skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After grappling with phone addiction for quite some time I found that reducing my phone time just shifted my procrastination habits to my computer. These procrastination habits are then worsened by the fact that I am, like many HN users, more efficient at using my computer than I am at using my phone.

I've learned to be okay with dicking around on my phone, but with some caveats:

* All notifications are turned off. No exceptions.

* Phone is only turned on when I'm home alone and not working or doing some focused activity.
- Exception to this rule is that I can use my phone for its actual utility outside the house (e.g., phone calls, maps).

Rather than banning distraction altogether, I accept that it's inevitable and dedicate my phone to it. I find that this strikes a balance where I can spend quality time alone while still allowing for the occasional indulgence.
I’m not missing any point. They picked what they could initially prove and the FDA expands on this to say that yes, we could try some other variables in further clinical trials.

It’s time to start injecting people, and to stop bullshitting around it. The vaccine is not effective immediately, we’re still going to have to continue social distancing and practicing better than usual hygiene and masking for most of us. You want to save lives? Be responsible instead of advocating for reckless changes to vaccine dosages. Continue to wear your mask, continue to practice good hygiene, continue to keep your distance until such a time as herd immunity is achieved. These aren’t even the only vaccines in the pipeline, just the two authorized by the FDA thus far and Pfizer, Moderna and FDA can continue clinical trials to see if they can lighten up on the dosage requirements down the line.
When you have to do this, it should be a strong signal that your new hotness isn't so hot. The new editor is worse in every way than the now "classic" editor unless you are exclusively blogging from your phone. Maybe that's the only model they want to support, I don't know.
Germ theory denial in the age of the Covid-19 pandemic
GitHub didn't decide in their actions blindly. They have lawyers who review the laws, look at their services and write the rules to follow internally.
The lawyers obviously have a reason to disagree with the Treasury and GitHub under Microsoft aren't exactly going to be using cheap lawyers either.
I drank tea (all sorts: japanese/chinese greens, oolongs, pu-erh etc.) for the past 10 years. Considering the amounts I drank, I assume the caffeine content was not much different to the one of an average coffee person.

On 1st September 2020 I stopped entirely. The only issue I still face is that my focus is not where it should be. I hope that still changes but it may also be related to the fact that I haven't socialized for almost a year.
I have a Škoda Kamiq which has a very similar dash design and I'd agree that I preferred the older style approach of having buttons for everything (e.g. heated windscreen).

However, my Kamiq has Apple CarPlay and a 'virtual cockpit' - the latter I thought would be a bit gimmicky but I really like it.

Edit: Did have to take the car back to the dealer because of a software problem when it was ~2 weeks old - which was a first for me... :-|
False - they may just be using the FREE version for "individual or small businesses". This has limits.

Google will stop analytics if you are on just the free account and start going over their free limits. This does not mean google analytics has broken.

Is gov.uk an "individual or small business"? Or are they paying for 360?
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Is that unreasonable? Running another OS on a device with physical hardware switches is a privilege right now, so it costs more. There are essentially two companies doing this, and neither of them are even at the point where they can completely honestly say their products are out of beta. The Librem is expensive in no small part because its feature list is fringe, and even ignoring the inherent hardware challenges that's just how the law of supply and demand works.

What other market have you seen that acts differently? Look at how much other niche devices like Braille screens cost, or even more "mainstream" specialized hardware like the Remarkable Tablet -- arguably a much less capable E-Reader than a Kindle/Kobo device by almost all consumer-relevant metrics. But you'll pay more for stylus support on an E-ink screen if you need that, and you'll tolerate a suboptimal reading experience as well.

It's also important not to ignore the fact that the Librem is a flagship device. It is currently the most powerful Linux phone hardware on the market. So you can buy a cheap, low-powered Pinephone (the far better choice for most tinkerers), or you can shell out for something with more raw power -- which is also pretty consistent with how most markets work.

If you want to buy the single top-of-the-line Wacom tablet, you'll shell out at least $4,000, probably more when you factor in accessories. You want rotational support in the pen? That's another $100. Is the fractional improvement in a Cintiq Pro 'worth' the frankly massive price increase over consumer tablets? Probably not, you can buy an entire Surface Studio for the same price, and that comes with a "free" computer. But you'll pay the Cintiq price if you belong to a niche that needs the best the market currently has to offer for your particular use-case. And you'll pay the Librem price if you belong to a niche that needs the (currently) most powerful phone hardware that's realistically usable with a Linux OS.
600K installations of the "Disable Gutenberg" plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-gutenberg/
The cycle is self-reinforcing though.

As transaction fees increase to cover the cost of security (even an "altruistic" (self-interested) financial system needs to pay for energy) users are less likely to transact which is positive feedback on the transaction fee.

If deflation cannot outpace this then Bitcoin effectively dies. The longer you leave funds on the chain the more you will pay to pull them out. If deflation does outpace security cost you have runaway infinite deflation that is no longer tied to a from of scarcity but instead the cost of securing the chain. That doesn't seem great either.

> Hell, maybe by then they get enough people on board for a BTC 2 that's some weird Ethereum competitor. It's really hard to theorize on that long of a time horizon.

Possible, but I don't know if I'm optimistic about humanity's ability to generate collective consensus in the face of crisis.
I still can't believe regulators allowed Ticketmaster and Live Nation to merge
Caffeine just made me act like a coke-head. Remember, cocaine's effects are very similar to caffeine.

I also used to get bad insomnia from caffeine.

That's why I switched to decaf in the morning.

As far as a productivity shift... That's hard to quantify. It's easy to get under the influence of a dopamine boost and fool yourself into thinking you're more productive; when you're really making more mistakes and driving your colleagues nuts.
How to test with a live domain name for free
There were some people attaching some things other than pistol grips to Novint Falcon for use in VR in DK2 era but never heard the company went back to resume production.
There isn't. He is pointing out that publicly funded research is then not freely available to the public.
Is this a response to that "learn rust in half an hour?" ;)

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust
It would be sufficiently amazing for AlphaProof to simply answer the questions posed to it. The training data would be pairs of theorems and proofs as already existing in the CoQ and other proof checker literature.
Arnold Schwarzenegger on why Republicans must stop Trump
When I look at a master database, White wins about 33% of the time, black wins about 25% and the rest of the games are draws. The aliens would have to be pretty terrible at statistics to ignore draws and first mover advantage when they are clearly extremely important.

It is difficult to relate to an analogy which is so divergent from the basic facts.
The trouble with textbooks is that nowadays there's a new edition every other year, with slightly different pagination and exercises, all of this for an extortionate price.

In the past, prices were more reasonable, and you'd buy standard texts to build a personal library because you'd enter the profession; nowadays it's all about fleecing students, who need a college degree to enter the workforce. The social contract around textbooks has broken down as much as it has around journals.
Is there something like this for Golang API development, that also incorporates best practices? Even a solid book recommendation would be helpful.
Andrew Wilkinson on Staying Productive
These people don’t respect Google though. They’re indoctrinated activists who fight invisible enemies, merely for the sake of feeling like righteous heroes. The union chair appears to have worked at Google for less than a year, having just moved to the US for college and freshly graduated. It’s a little entitled and ridiculous.
There are many classical systems that have properties we consider real that are nevertheless not practically measurable. For example, grains of sand have definite position and momentum, yet you can't in reality measure them for each grain of sand when you want to describe the flow of a sand in an hourglass. So the practical ability to measure something is not required for us to consider something "real".

Now, Bell's inequalities show that any theory of local hidden variables independent from the measurement apparatus is inconsistent with QM and with experimental observations. However, that still leaves the possibility of non-local hidden variables possible, and it also leaves open the possibility that the experiments have been flawed - that the measurement decision was somehow correlated with the result.

The Copenhagen interpretation is BOTH non-real and non-local, so I don't find a real non-local theory a priori problematic. Whether pilot wave theory can be made consistent with at least special relativity is still open as far as I know, but perhaps there is some equivalent of the no-communication theorem that will be found.

Superdeterminism is also seeing a resurgence - I can't claim to understand how it could be made into a real scientific theory, but perhaps there is something that is escaping me and we will see a successful theory come out of it.

Now, the matter of whether something can be considered "real" but fudamentally un-measurable (as opposed to just being practically un-measurable) is in the end a problem of definitions.

I would also note that there is no fundamental quantum randomness - quantum phenomena behave according to a linear equation, so they are fundamentally deterministic. It is only measurement (the interaction between quantum systems and classical systems) that introduces randomness - the superposition of all the solutions to the Schrodinger equation is replaced with a single position&momentum with some probability, and with error bars that are subject to the uncertainty principle.
A friend of mine, ex-IT, is now a Physician Assistant. He was an Alaska native, living outside Seattle. He had been doing a lot of contract work at a large Urgent Care in Alaska, and talked about it with his family.

They talked about making him full-time. Negotiated an offer, relocation package, etc., all good. He set about selling his home, finding his kids new schools, etc. And then about a week before his start date, he got a phone call.

"The clinic has been sold to new owners. They are reviewing finances and rescinded any job offers, including yours. They will allow you 30 days to repay your relocation assistance."

Oh hell no. He lawyered up. He'd sold his home. Had a whole bunch of language in the employment contract that the new owners were unaware of, to ensure things went "smoothly".

He didn't end up repaying his relocation assistance. And his "new" "employer" ended up paying three months salary and the closing costs on his house for the inconvenience.
America’s former defence secretaries sound the alarm over Trump
If you want to find more stories: https://www.reddit.com/r/decaf/
Actually that's fair, in terms of parity dollars mine is really much cheaper, I'd imagine.

Still, it confuses me in terms of absolute cost. Does this just mean I'm a profitable customer for my ISP? Or that they're less efficient? Or is it just a symptom of the higher wages of the ISPs' employees?
Bitbucket Down?
Dell’s latest Latitude business laptops add an automated webcam shutter
And, to boot, as frustratingly low as their free usage tier limits are, the fact that they openly publish them and that they are quite low tells me that they're at least being realistic about what they can offer without monetizing the service in other ways.

I actually pay for ProtonMail now and I'm in the process of moving all my communication to it. My Google account will stick around, but I'm diversifying my dependencies and it feels so good.
New Quantum Algorithms Finally Crack Nonlinear Equations
Transporting these patients (the ones whose pulse hasn't returned in the field) appears to worsen their chances.[0] States vary widely in what protocols they require, but normal procedure in a lot of places is to not transport if resuscitation in the field has been unsuccessful.

[0] https://www.cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/electrophysiol...
I do not see why a geoip filter do not suffice. GitHub should not be the one to interpret the whole complex picture.
See Hummer EV do its CrabWalk move on video
Wow, amazing to see Tesla trending down to under 1%. That seems to be evidence that their first-mover advantage won't help them as EVs become common.
The US sanctions on Iran has such a massive impact on Iranians that most of us don't realise.

All US companies have to comply and majority of the tech companies are unfortunately in the US.

I know you can use a VPN and configure it on a router level to make sure that you are always connected via a VPN but just the fact that 1 slip-up can result in account level blocks (which google is notoriously good at and can essentially shut down your business) means no company would want to work with someone working from Iran.

Coming from a 3rd world country, I know the problems of internet censorship which Iranians also face but being too toxic to touch for everyone outside Iran because the US leadership thinks so is just infuriating and heart breaking.

Imagine being a programmer in Iran. Not only do you have less resources to learn and grow, you have a massive handicap to find good work as most work is outside of the country.

Only bet is to leave the country but even there you have a very low probability as you basically can't have a trial period for your job as most companies don't want to risk having their accounts blocked.

Most of us here know how degrading and infuriating the tech recruiting processes can be and now add to it the horrors of working from Iran.

Wars are not supposed to have civilian casualties but this one has a generation of civilians being starved of information and experience critical for them to grow.
>he similar virus was known to the lab was enough to drag me to thinking it is probably a toss up.

A human generated virus wouldn't be similar in this way to a wild one. You would take a candidate virus and splice in genetic material from a different one. The new virus would match 100% in most places and then be completely different in a few places.
It (Gutenberg) was too late, and the nature of WordPress is that the core, plugins and theme all need to "play nicely" to work. You can't rip out one system and insert another whiteout addressing the other systems.
They do actually flag payments if you put the word Isis or something in the memo.
Lender Affirm Seeks to Raise Up to $934M in IPO
81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends
If I would have to replace C with anything, I would choose Rust and not Go.
Thank you! Unfortunately that mailing list if full of random emails from people who thought they need an account to access the app.
Good luck and stay strong, sugar is highly addictive...
What's the advantage over Midnight Commander?
Really, aren't we all taking a gamble with the vaccines? They tested one regimen, and we know how effective it is, but we don't know how quickly it can reduce the density of infection to get R below 1. The number we're gambling on is the total death count, and nobody has complete information.

They do have some information, presumably more than I do, and know the calculations of this gamble. I don't know if they're making an informed choice or not. I generally assume that if it's coming from the political sources then it's not, and if it's coming from the medical decision-makers then it is. Even if it's the latter, it's still just their best guess based on incomplete information, but I'd give them the benefit of the doubt that it really is their best guess with the bottom line (death toll) in mind.
Alright, how about an honest-to-goodness new search engine?

I've been working on this piecemeal for a while. I want a completely new alternative in the search space. I think a lot of other people do too. I want to focus on highly personalized results from personal data sets: ingest people's bookmarks, crawl them, crawl their second-order links, and so on. I want discussions from HN, Reddit, and other publicly-accessible, heavily-moderated, active sites to frequently appear in search results. I want search results to be rendered in a modern, interactive interface that makes lists-of-links feel like 2010.

I resolutely do not want advertising revenue. For early stages at least, I'd like to keep it subscription-only. I know that is a big, big limiting factor to growth. I think there could be some other opportunities for revenue that don't require bending over for advertising. I could be open to other suggestions too.

I've got some approaches to try for ranking, I have most of a crawler, I've compiled lists of openly available datasets and shortcuts, a start on the frontend and backend, and great piles of notes and pieces from past experiments. I'm absolutely certain this is doable for a very small team.

I don't have any of the business side. I don't have any connections. I'm mostly pleasant and easy to get along with, and I can comfortably handle groups of technical or non-technical people. But, I have no idea how to find and make the kind of relationships that could get this built much faster, and even posting this here makes me awkward and uncomfortable. Maybe this is a good year for breaking bad old habits.

I'm currently doing freelance work at middling rates, living cheaply, and slowly chipping away at this project. I'd love to be able to work on it full time. I'm pretty sure I can build the entire stack, end-to-end, to MVP in about a year.

I'd really like to meet a good partner for the business side of things. Someone with strong ethics, that gets incensed when trying to find anything in Google or DDG, that sees value in building a whole new dataset rather than putting a new frontend on Bing, and can come up with the resources to accelerate the project. I'd be willing to consider YC if you think you can tip the odds in our favor. I don't have anything that would prevent me from committing to YC this year. But, again: no advertising.

Email in profile. I can receive mail pretty reliably, but replying to Gmail-owned infrastructure has been hit and miss recently.
How Not to Die from an Overdose: On Harm Reduction and Naloxone
I've used both at different times in the past for quick-edits, when my "main IDE" was Eclipse or Visual Studio (which are truly sluggish, and also native [1]). With VSCode I don't feel like I have to choose between feature set and responsiveness, and as such I haven't used either in several years.

I won't say VSCode is more responsive than Notepad++/Sublime, but I will say any difference is small enough that I don't notice/care

[1] Eclipse is Java, but that's arguably still more "native" than Electron
I'm confused by this statement about pgBouncer et al.

These systems allow you to make as many database connections as you want and manage them inefficiently, because the connections they give you are fake & cheap simulated connections that they handle with low overhead.

What makes them inefficient then, if they're cheap and have low management overhead?
Noting that the number is active installations, and it is possible to use the Gutenberg block editor in some posts and the Classic Editor in other posts when the plugin is active. So it isn't as simple as 5M+ using Classic over Gutenberg.
Sweat, Bleach and Gym Air Quality
OCC Approves The Use of Stablecoins for Banking Transactions
This is neat, and a testament to the simplicity of Go.

I normally point people to this tutorial if they want to learn Go quickly, it is interactive (able to navigate straight to go playground) and very well done in my opinion.

https://gobyexample.com/
Doesn't help with GSM data tho. :)

Now if there was a hosts file on iOS that I could edit...
Many companies in CA, while you absolutely do not have to give notice, legally, will refuse to provide a reference or employment verification or flag you as "not eligible for rehire", (most companies I've worked with lately don't ask for references, per se, but _do_ verify dates of employment and eligibility for rehire) including to prospective employers, if you do not.
Hi Alessandro - amazing work on this & thanks for the reply. This is the coolest WASM demo I've seen since the first Emscripten release. Moving WASM execution from a compile-time choice to a runtime choice is pretty amazing. I need to noodle on the implications of the portability benefits.

> The tradeoff is only some performance, there is no security risk. CheerpX used standard WebAssembly/JavaScript/HTML5, there is truly no difference between this and any other Web page you might visit.

I understand that the security model is more like a webpage than a local binary. What I don't understand is:

(1) what is the relative difficulty of escaping a full, local VM vs a local browser sandbox vs microVM container? That is, if you want to run an untrusted x86 binary locally, is CheerpX + browser sandbox really as safe as VirtualBox or firecracker? I suspect there's a speed/security tradeoff happening somewhere.

(2) how complete is the set of operating system APIs available to an x86 running in WASM via CheerpX vs running that same application locally? That is, what local functionality might I sacrifice to use the browser?

(3) what is the nature and magnitude of the performance hit? Obviously you have to load the binary over the network in this demo, but locally-hosted resources should be fine.
2fa simply means the user has more ways to potentially identify themselves... That means as a service you should try harder to stop someone else getting in, but also try harder to maintain access for the real owner. The 2fa code should help you do that, because now there are more things that the real account owner can do to identify themselves that an attacker cannot.
At least on my setup the Playground UI likes to break under some
circumstances and is rather slow. The CLI output can be easy to
read once you view it with syntax highlighting, and it's trivial
to pipe the output for any further processing.

This is a great project and I'll definitely check it out the
next time.
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