skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They tested the “brain drain” hypothesis that claims the brain has a limited capacity of cognitive resources, and the mere presence of a potential distractor can occupy some of those resources which undercut cognitive performance.

Sounds like something straight out of Conan Doyle

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/lessons-from...

"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has difficulty laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
"But the Solar System!" [Dr. Watson] protested.
"What of the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."

I believe that this, rather than neuroplasticity, is the main explanation for why children and teens are able to acquire language far easier than adults. The latter have far more to worry about and no one spoon feeds them words all the time.
> didn't use

> it seems like they probably wouldn't have needed to

> they no doubt took

I'm getting conflicting signals here. Could you edit your posts to remove the words referring to probability and impressions since you know for a fact what happened?
It's fixed on HEAD if you don't care about running from trunk. Otherwise, I suggest you to use Mitsuharu Yamamoto's Mac Port: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac
How Are Things over There?
I never had an apple watch but precisely this is the reason I want one. Leave that stupid phone somewhere but still be reachable by my family.
No, I think you missed that we were indeed talking about Germany.[1] If you want to change the topic, you should have said so :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26578639
A backup plan that does not service apex domains is not really a backup plan.
Shall we say ABR? #AlwaysBeReviewing
This is similar to other reported actions that impose barriers on employee communication like limiting the number of employees that can be on an unmoderated email list in the wake of the firing Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, and moving mailing lists to slack. The timing of these actions seems to always coincide with an internal tool being used to organize groups of employees around issues where Amazon seeks total control. Amazon used to encourage tech employees to visit FC's to understand how they operate. I've heard they've stopped that too.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/14/amazon-wo...
Forth Editorial Policy
It’s still available[1] (and maintained) for those that need it, but there are much better tools available for web work these days, like Mojolicious and Dancer.

[1] https://metacpan.org/release/CGI
I think focusing on the literal semantics of the first sentence rather than taking the blog post holistically is too harsh. Obviously it's still a problem; they are communicating that they're working on it.
Wood used in these construction is usually treated with chemicals to improve its properties. What are the health effects of living in such buildings?
Admit It, Tech CEOs: You’re Publishers
As others have said, it marked a turning point for how Google is perceived. It's not as though GR had 100k beta users like Stadia, it had nearly 5 million active users when it shut down. The closing marked the end of Google doing cool things because they're cool, and showed their true colors as a major corporation looking after profits first. Something that is pretty much a given opinion of them today.
Each article has its own audience. Maybe this article isn't for you, that's cool. Others may find it helpful. Even if you know something, it is helpful to be reminded of it from time to time.
https://archive.is/YSvcO
Mr2 add httpsserver/httpsclient subcommands
I agree with you. Especially breaking out of the abstraction when needed. I believe Akka also has a FSM abstraction on top of Actors.
Unexplained Results Intrigue Physicists at World’s Largest Particle Collider
"These customers are not taking advantage of our DNS management"

You're right. I'm using Cloudflare's DNS. I trust them more than I trust Netlify and that's just a function of their size vs Netlify's size. This response needed better wording.
I don't agree. It is trivial to spread bullshit and nontrivial to show that it's bullshit. Your philosophy allows misinformation to spread because of how much harder it is to refute than create.
One of my favorite data structures in C++ is InlineVector<T,N>. If the number of elements is <= N then it all fits in the preallocated space.

This is great for keeping memory on the stack when N is small, yet allow heap memory overflow for larger N.
According the the link below: "All major software disabled renegotiation by default since as far as 2009 (nginx, haproxy, etc...)."

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/24554/should-i-...
> There is nothing more convenient than SQLite for analyzing and transforming JSON.

the example query given:

select
json_extract(value, '$.iso.code') as code,
json_extract(value, '$.iso.number') as num,
json_extract(value, '$.name') as name,
json_extract(value, '$.units.major.name') as unit
from
json_each(readfile('currency.sample.json'))
;

that sure looks fun to type into a repl!

nothing against sqlite, which I like and use, just found the idea of that query being convenient for one-off analysis to be off.
When you can confidently label someone else’s words “misinformation”, you have already won.
Answer of the author of the article : I will double check about 此処 now, although I am pretty sure I ran into it when I read some books from the beginning of 20th century for my research. But I definitely still see 何処 written a lot, standing for どこ. I even saw it again today in a musical show of the 1990s!
> No it hasn't. CRISPR was a very recent invention and has the potential to radically change biotech.

> You are just cherry-picking your facts to fit a narrative that you have built.

lol

less innovation != no innovation.

the human condition may not change, but culture does. Just look to the economy and how many companies are primarily focused on rent extraction or incremental improvements to existing concepts as opposed to inventing new things. How many new inventions did we get in the 50s-60s alone?
Rudolf Schwarte, Father of Photonic Mixer Device, Died at the Age of 82
I thought the same, but maybe it's useful if you start with SQLite and decide to scale up to a distributed RDBMS without having to rewrite too much?
First iteration was rather nice, clean interface without many distractions. However, then they got all cardy with that material design, and it all was very confusing
Smaller code size only applies for small projects. Preact is like 4kb (I believe you could print off the minified source on one side of a sheet of paper) and most full vdom implementations are still only 40k or less over the wire.

Once you have the runtime, it’s a fixed size. In Svelte though, every new component must carry not just the description of changes, but also reinvent the wheel by reimplementing each time. How many components do you need to reach 4K or even 40k? Even a small app can easily reach the size inflection point.

Also note that inlining code works differently in a JIT. Your code must run hundreds of times to be optimized. In a vdom, that is done almost instantly for all the most critical render code paths. In contrast, infrequently used svelte components are never going to optimize. This has the effect of making svelte look very fast in micro benchmarks which run the same few components repeatedly, but doesn’t reflect your performance when the user opens up something different and winds up back in interpreted mode.

Preact is a nice middle if you’re concerned about garbage. In addition to being tiny, it diffs against the DOM directly instead of using a vdom.
Emailing you now :)
I'd imagine those are designed with keeping your focus on the road in mind, by doing things like limiting notifications to only incoming phone calls while you're driving
vscodium
Ah, yes. Long lines are known bad. I will be excited to see anyone give a way to fix that with minimal impact on the rest of the system.

I'm curious why other editors don't trip as badly on long lines.
To the CoScreen folks watching this thread: Have you thought about possible ways of handling the special case where one of the collaborators has a disability and needs to use a screen reader, magnifier, voice input, or some other accessibility tool? I have expertise in this area, so maybe we could discuss it more privately.

Of course, this is also a challenge when everyone is together in the same place.
You're talking about stereo and I'm talking about mono, as I tried to explain in the previous comment.
FastCGI was the standardized approach.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24683304 ("FastCGI – The Forgotten Treasure (2002)")
There used to be an app called ScreenHero, which did. this, and it was really great. For some reason Slack bought it and killed it, but I think it validated the use case
> Cal Newport said it best in his book Deep Work: the ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.

The people who cultivate that skill, stay up late at night while everyone is asleep so they don’t get distracted. Then they come in late because they need sleep like every one else. As a consequence, deep thought workers are seen by their immediate and responsive counterparts as obtuse, eccentric, or worse: lazy and unable to manage their time.

This really comes down to the workers dilemma. Do you spend your time marketing your self to others and letting people know your accomplishments, or do you spend the time doing work that will benefit others? Deep thought workers will bias heavily towards work that will benefit others. This benefit is often non-obvious deep thought workers will run the risk that their peers, that are more connected and more reachable, will take the credit for the results.
No. I am just speaking from personal experience. It makes zero sense for Tailwind to copy and paste from another project, built by a different team to different coding standards, and end up with a different result (Tailwind JIT is faster and less production tested than Windi CSS). Even if they did, I don't think they would lie about it.
There's a point at which it's pointless to build single family homes. This [0] for example.

All the space between the houses is basically wasted. Much better to build townhouses and start putting the garages underground/on the side of the houses.

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/TvqhU0a2H_Uta3-qXBVmgKOqask=...
>also moderated a number of subreddits, specifically ones pertaining to minors

I meant the one about moderating a number of subreddits pertaining to minors. I'm aware of the other claims.
Show HN:Building Intervue, future of interviews, in public to $10K MRR
Thank you! It's one of my paid templates.

Gumroad: https://gum.co/qaomb

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"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it."

Brandolini's Law[1] aka the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle really has a new dimension to it given how cheaply & effectively bullshitters can broadcast out their shit. It's no longer just about production of bs that's easy, it's the ease of publication of that bs too, ease of blasting it out on countless fronts.

That said, I think the remedy is more sunlight, more speech. Not strong systems of trust, not regressing, not locking down things. I'd like to see loose, decentralized means of building reputations, build views of the world where each of us grow a circle (or n-dimensional hyper-object whatever) of trust & distrust. Tim Wu, coiner of the term Net Neutrality & generally someone who I find myself aligned well with, got interestingly written up for by Matt Taibbi for some rather pointed statements about information control, about scaling back speech freedoms, and reshaping of media systems. It was a little distressing to read for me, from someone I have trusted, and told a story of mixed-together the challenges are of trying to combat radical destabilization while also deal with the now-well-established tech monopoloies. I don't (yet) think sacrifices of speech are necessary; our social & media systems can be made more resilient, more able to highlight who/what is presenting information, voluntarily, for better, to remedy many of the ills that these cost-free disinformation super-spreaders bring about. But I'm not sure that we can leave it to each platform to do it; I keep having this suspicion that a real social defense requires new social layers to organically emerge. Which is a challenge given the platforms' iron grip on the experiences within their verticals.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

[2] https://taibbi.substack.com/p/a-biden-appointees-troubling-v...
Show HN: I wrote a book about Elasticsearch
Hello all,
After hundreds of hours spent on answering questions on stackoverflow, I observed a few barriers of entry that Elasticsearch newbies struggle with. It's first and foremost the formidable query language.

Most of us learn a new technology by reverse-engineering what works elsewhere. So I've published a handbook with carefully curated practical examples that demystify the query language and provide a solid foundation to build on.

Hope it helps!

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> The ONLY way to fight misinformation, intentional or not, is to allow a free exchange of ideas.

That implies all ideas are given equal visibility, but we already know that social networks prioritize content that's outrageous or controversial over content that isn't.

You want a free exchange of ideas? Start by fixing the algorithms.
It sounds like it would more be used for relative elevation differences. Is GNSS the gold-standard for that? I'd have thought you could do better with a laser and a level.
'Agile' F-35 fighter software dev techniques failed to speed up jet deliveries
Only tangentially related to what you're looking for, but you made me think of:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/

If it expands your mind, maybe that's good enough.
and how ungodly is it when it burns?
that's a fair point that i normally do, but forgot to do this time.
Thanks.
https://litestream.io/
That's exactly what litestream accomplishes.
Someone told me they build a world class DNS mostly around sqlite. I guess you left the toy area by that point.
The problem with putting RAM at the end of a cable is that RAM latency is highly dependent on distance from the CPU.

Assuming RAM is 2 inches away from the cpu, and assuming the CPU is operating at 3 ghz, you are looking at 3 billion round trips per second over the distance of 2 inches, or a grand total of 12 billion inches of wire being crossed per second.

Electric signals are limited by the speed of light, though. In a vacuum, light travels at 299,792,458 meters per second, or 11,802,852,677 (11 billion) inches per second.

Do you see the bottleneck?
There's also a pretty nice built-in sqlite extension for transitive closures that helps in searching hierarchical/tree structures in sqlite: https://web.archive.org/web/20141127001741/https://charlesle...
Talented People Frequently Don’t Rise to the Top
A scifi author wrote about "the mechanism" where just formulating a bit too clear intent against another person resulted in disabling pain and multiple infractions would result in reprogramming.

Now, that same mechanism would prevent most actions that could initiate said intent too.

In the stories, this is not abused, and serves humanity reasonably well.

We are so damn far from any sort of state where things like this make sense. They can, will be abused.

I experience the same emotions. The opportunity to share experience more directly is super compelling!

But yeah. Major league downsides.
I was actually looking into options for storing some data for a game I'm working on a while back, and decided against using SQLite because it was too big of a dependency (project has a specific size limit/target).
I tried Emacs after reading so much about it lately...but I don’t understand how people use it. The sheer volume of key combinations always in play to do things makes my hands hurt.

It made me see the appeal of some of those concave keyboards.
Awesome product! I really connect with the social & knowledge sharing aspect of the platform that enables a more meaningful way of navigating the web. Are there any plans for expansion into user generated content to expand on the knowledge hub vision?
why would you launch powershell to launch python? you can just launch python directly?
Absolutely. It's basically a digital gish gallop:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
Wow, that’s a bold default color scheme. If you sign up can it be changed?
Eh, it's likewise seemingly maintained by two guys, so it has some of the homely feel, and is not spammed to death like a widely popular service would be.
tmate.io these days, but yeah.
The non-static portions of the Tarsnap website still consists of CGI scripts written in C.

Sure, forking a process per request isn't fast... but I'd love to have enough traffic for that to matter.
We OSS contributors with kids are in the worst spot! :)
The Strand? Waverly Diner?
Cloudflare DNS supports CNAME flattening and you won't be needing the fixed IP address if setting up DNS with them.
Consider what happens when you type in "= 1 + 1" in the Google search bar then.
I think the point was that there is quite a bit of opinion to be found outside the designated opinion section, not that the area for officially acknowledged opinion pieces isn't clearly marked.
You're allocating a megabyte on the stack?

Does rust have compile time protection against stack overflow? (... and what about recursion? is the stack dynamically resized at runtime?)
What, the NCAA give their unpaid interns another opportunity to prove they got hurt while working?
Isn't Pinterest basically what you describe?
Agreed. I thank them for their license, but they're largely and increasingly irrelevant nowadays. Which is a shame, under better leadership they could effect more positive change on the world.
oh man I love the last item on the table comparing Free Newsblur to Paid Newsblur. Free version: My dog goes hungry! Paid version: Tiny photo of happy dog and a note about what a nice meal you'll cook for her.
Why is getting up early not considered?
Happy to. There's a form of sample bias that afflicts all users with partisan passions on a topic: it always feels like the mods are against you (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). Mostly people jump to this conclusion after noticing 2 or 3 (I won't embarrass anyone by saying 1) data points that they dislike (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). That isn't close to an accurate sample or valid logic.

This is why passionate users on all sides of every topic are convinced that the moderators are secretly in cahoots with their opponents: it's the same psychological mechanism producing a galaxy of contradictory conclusions. The site and mods are the same for everybody; what varies are the passions of the perceiver. Those are what determine the conclusions people come to because they determine which datapoints you notice and how you weight them (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

People on the opposite side from you feel like the mods are biased the opposite way. It's the same mechanism that makes sports fans feel like the refs are against them and drivers feel like they're the one who always gets pulled over for speeding.

To assess things more accurately, here are some points to consider: (1) We moderate discussions that break the site guidelines and/or go against the intended spirit of HN when we see them happening, regardless of what the topic is or which sides different commenters are taking. (2) We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). People can help with that by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. (3) We really don't care what side you're on, and a lot of the time don't even notice. That may sound weird, but it's just what happens to the brain after doing anything hundreds of thousands of times over enough years.
>And why does the free software movement need a legislative agenda? I've never seen legislation concerning software that wasn't horribly flawed. Legislation is the product of lobbying and the ignorance of legislators.

That's a good reason to have a legislative agenda. Laws will be written, and some will likely impact the FSF's interests. If they send lobbyists and lawyers to argue for specific wording, the laws might not suck so much.
I don't really understand the connection; what does cannabis have to do with Alan Turing?
I like my Apple Watch, but I use it almost exclusively for fitness (workouts, trail running, etc).

I decided early on to remove all the other things -- apps, notifications, etc. I get Messages, but that's about it. I like the balance, and it allows me to keep my phone farther away in a bag than before.

Plus with the WorkOutDoors app, I can go on runs, with maps, without my iPhone. Love that.
Why do I need to quote it? It's right above.
> I've just learned that the ESP32 is manufactured on a TSMC 40mm process. That's essentially caveman tech.

But it's cheap, and MOQs are still achievable for mortals.

This is why.

There are way more reasons older litho processes persist beyond just them still making tons of money.
40nm for a microcontroller is rather impressive, given that the most are made with anything up to 180nm.

It takes more effort to design a chip with scaling down of geometries, lead times, and test samples are getting longer to get. Mask sets get more expensive. Less fabs are available to produce the chip. Some devices become unavailable at lower geometries.

And so on, and on...
> the people who cultivate that skill, stay up late at night while everyone is asleep so they don’t get distracted.

This is what I like about work from home. I can use the distracting and busy day to sleep and deal with admin tasks like email and work until 3AM instead if I really need to get stuff done.
> I’m in Halifax now for a few months and the homeless people (who congregate on spring garden) seem more aggressive for whatever reason. In Montreal they were never a bother.

It's a different society. Spent a little bit of time in Montreal. Used to think only the language was different but it goes much much deeper.
Cowards who downvote without articulating a response. Gotta love it.
Of course they didn't.

Agile is not about speed, it's about predictability.

Slow is predictable.