skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I confirm. All Cal Newport's writing (book+blog) really help to understand how our attention is hijacked, and concentrate and make time for what really matters.
As far as I'm concerned I suppressed all distracting apps on my smartphone, I quit social media, keeping only my LinkedIn account for my job, and I curate carefully my digital intake.
Walmart was a very different company under Sam Walton. Sam tried to visit every store once a year. When he got there he would throw the managers out and talk with the employees to find whether or not the managers were doing their jobs. He also believed in empowering the employees. Employees were responsible for particular sections of the store and had access to sales and inventory data and made decisions about how the section was run. In short Mr. Walton felt that the line employees were the most important people in the organization and treated them accordingly.

This of course did not survive after he passed and Walmart employees are not well off today. The quote about Unions above does seem to fit his philosophy but rings hollow with the changes that occurred after his death.
How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat
https://www.uzic.ch/ - online radio

https://soundcloud.com/hate_music/sets/hate-podcasts

https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/sets/ra-podcasts

https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/sets/ra-podcast-arch...
First the miners came for our graphics cards. Now they're taking our hard drives.
This comment is important and timely, as Australia and other countries start to crack down on "app stores" like google's and apple's. I smell gov intervention:

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/dominance-of-apple-and...
That's probably a case-by-case scenario but the last year has been a struggle for me. I much more prefer my usual 30m commute over working from our 45m2 apartment with my wife doing the same, my daughter attending online classes and few apartments in my building being renovated during work hours. Man, I miss my office and my desk.
Losing your insurance by losing your job is one of those major life events that qualifies a person for a "special enrollment period" where they can enroll, I think.
And music, and movies. I love the idea, but how do you manage this without some form of intrusive DRM or fingerprinting of machines combined with DRM?
"Since RSS only enables a flat audio file to be distributed to consumption platforms, creators gain limited and often inaccurate insight into how the audio is consumed, such as where it is being consumed, how much of the audio is being heard or enjoyed (or not), and whether or not the audio is even being heard at all (and not just automatically “downloaded”)."

Yeah, you cannot track people.
A few paragraphs below it started to make sense, the article is basically written by Spotify.
One of the interesting facts I leaned about the Suez canal is how container ships have grown in size with time and how the canal also widened gradually with time to accomodate them.

Another interesting fact was that Egypt, like the USA was on the point of industrialising in the 19th century but was prevented from doing so by its British rulers.
In my opinion there is no need for voting on usenet. You can reply to anyone or ignore anyone. No global echo chambers, no global moderation beyond removing illegal content on a specific provider or filtering a usenet group on a specific provider. If you had a group of like-minded friends that wanted to ignore specific ways of thinking, then you could all contribute to your own group specific ignore-list. Corporations have no financial incentive to build around usenet for this reason, as they have zero control over the client.
I know it gets high. I pay $700 something for my wife and I (the vast majority of that is including my wife).

My main issue, and why I commented, it’s because they put a high monthly premium and a high deductible and usually when one’s goes up, the other one goes down.

It’s framed as trying to explain it for someone outside of the US and I think it makes a poor job because it doesn’t explain that they picked máximums and didn’t explain how they usually relate and interact with each other.

> For many families the monthly premiums could run over a thousand dollars, and the deductible could be $15,000
I can't say I understand the formula in the article, but I have interacted with emacs/vim and VS Code to some degree. I've also use several other IDEAS (Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ, etc) and I have to say except for special circumstances (Java or C# like languages), the fact that I can easily navigate code via the keyboard and have multiple onscreen views into multiple files pushed the older editors far to the head of the pack for me. Unless there's some other compelling reason to use an IDE I very quickly dismiss an editing tool in favor of vim these days because of that multi-window/ view aspect. I don't need most of the other things wasting real-estate on screen and hate having to bounce back and forth between files if I can see the parts I need at the same time. It just flows better. If a tool can't give me at least a 2x2 grid of views into source files, I'll probably drop it without looking much further ...
> All without needing to keep the data downloaded on your device, and backed up in the cloud.

I'd call this a feature of email – I _can_ easily have all the stuff I need downloaded on my device. I can move email around without using a specific provider, back it up to an offline storage just like any other data, and use multiple clients without re-syncing all the emails.

Also it's perfectly possible to have email available over the Internet, only downloading things to your device when needed. Most modern email services work this way – either through webmail and/or using email protocols like IMAP.

(That's not to say that email is perfect. Far from. The content of email is a hot mess – broken HTML implementations, HTML email trying to do ungodly things, plaintext with hard line breaks, plaintext displayed with no line breaks whatsoever, RTF...)
There is nothing elitist, that's the point, I'm past defining myself and judging people through music taste.
New study shows that genes regulate your coffee consumption
Yeah, games designed for mobile devices work great on mobile devices. But Fortnite (at least the "battle royale" version) is a multiplayer shooter game, where you're much better off playing with a controller or with keyboard/mouse...
So it has been nine years and still I cannot resell basically any software I buy. Seems fairly toothless to me.
One difference, if I am not mistaken, is that Sony and Microsoft loose money on each console sold, at least on the first years, so they make money by the % to developers.

Apple makes lots of money on each iPhone sold.
How about modifying this one, to use hexadecimal numbers instead?
Politics is sports for those who think themselves too educated for sports.
Deep Work, by Cal Newport : to focus on what matters.
The talent code, by Danie Coyle : to understand the value of deliberate practice.
Brain at work, astonishingly useful mixing practical neuroscience and concrete situations.
Getting things Done : to adopt a good time management system (you can tweak the method).
Good luck !
In the West there are people that think women shouldn't work, or shouldn't work professional roles. And if there are countries where employing an individual is illegal, there are citizens of those countries in yours, or companies that work with those countries.
You can't prove it was false unless someone can prove they started the rumour. That it is true is what should be proven, not that it is false or unlikely. Without proof it should be considered fake news.
The wrench can be resisted by determined individuals; whereas fingerprints and face-recog cannot.
Or all the 90s studies about how small (k-12) schools were so much more effective than large ones, and it turned out to just be an artifact of the data. Smaller schools had much more dispersion in outcomes, just as you’d expect. So they had both the best and worst outcomes.
Rail networks in the UK once visited even small villages. It can be done but requires political will.

If the settlements are very small then the number of people driving to the nearest station will be low anyway.

I’m optimistic for services that are halfway between bus and taxi.
I admit that I'm completly clueless when it comes to aircraft and I understand that the final price tag on F22/F35 is very upsetting but I don't understand why those programs cannot be salvaged. Couldn't those planes be simplified/optimized to lower their cost?
I just skimmed the article but it seems to not talk about the fact that (what I feel like is) a majority of candles is not made from bee wax any more, but rather paraffine.
There’s many security sites that load tons of external scripts. My bank is one such example. Even if those third party trackers and such are trustworthy there remains the whole supply chain attack consideration.
I however have no issues staying connected with "My Phone" and when I used it occasionally there were issues with "KDE Connect".

Also the feature I use most is pushing a website to my laptop so I can continue there later. With "My Phone" this works whether I am at home or out and about. Also it works when my laptop is currently not online. "KDE Connect" requires a VPN connection when I am not on the same network and the feature to push to another device doesn't work if that device is offline at the time. I understand that the difference is that one uses a server and one doesn't, and for some people not having Microsoft in the middle is an advantage but for others it is not.
> Isn't the A-10 an entirely different kind of fighter?

Doesn't matter. The A-10 is a fully functional aircraft, which puts it far, far ahead of the F-35.

> I don't see how a close air support plane would replace the F-35.

For some reason, they tried to design the F-35 to do everything. What the original comment is saying, I believe, is that the A-10 and F-22 were very successful and capable aircraft, and between them could handle most all of the situations the F-35 was supposed to be able to handle (but can't). If we spent even a fraction of the cost of the F-35 on updating their design, they could be even more capable.
Yes, whenever I try to buy something if you hide the price behind a sales call, I'll just assume it's some absurd amount of money. There's no reason to do this, have pricing front and center and be honest about it. My dream service would say something like $10 a month flat rate hosting, and in bold print underneath say it's not a promo rate. I think digitalocean does this
I refuse to believe that most of our "unique" emails addresses and GMail suffixed email addresses are not already being collected and matched across the vast networks of fingerprinting data that companies can purchase.
I don’t get it - it’s promoted as environmentally friendly, but it doesn’t seem that 1EB is being used for any actual useful storage purpose. It’s locked up as part of the running of the Chia system isn’t it?
Are there any Indian iOS devs here? I have a query. Does the 30% cut apple takes include the 18% tax to the government? Also, Apple takes only 15% cut from subscriptions after 1st year, then who pays the 18% tax(apple or the developer)?
De Blasio says New York City plans to “fully reopen” on July 1
Search Google for the Right to Protest legislation

Go read the stories about JKRowling and others view on trans people, and the editorials about it
What part of looking for clients do you have problem with? Lead generation, or something further in the process?

Personally, I had problems with lead generation, but have found out that LinkedIn paid products work well.
Music for Programming is a great site for electronic music mixes that are suitable for working to.

https://musicforprogramming.net/
They do this with compost tea too. Although I think that's mostly targeted at diseases rather than pests.
They've had 10x growth in < 50 days, so this is perfectly likely - especially as crypto as a whole has had a pretty choppy couple weeks recently.
Just wait till one crashes, then go pick your piece. Bound to happen within a few years.
Keir Starmer was kicked out of a pub last week.
I haven't used Outlook, and it was my next port of call. I've used Thunderbird but I've been frustrated by it's "core" handling of mail threading (there's an extension but it doesn't integrate well with any of Thunderbird's other features, largely because it's trying to do things not envisaged by Thunderbird's addons APIs).

> They work how they work. Basics are not hard. I rarely use more than basics anyway.

I would normally agree but I'm using macOS Mail currently and it brings new definition to the word "basics". It's missing some pretty obvious things.

> the gmail web interface

I'm in web interfaces pretty often and I really like Fastmail's: strongly considering switching to use it's web UI everywhere and forgo local clients completely. I've found Gmail's usable but sluggish, which gets painful if you receive a lot of mail.
If this was the case then it cannot be the case that this was a new idea to English speaking classicists because typically the third language they would learn is German. This is because so much 19th century classical philology was done in German (Nietzsche was of course a classicist before he was anything else and I've always thought that his attitude to Christianity was, at least aesthetically, not so much radically new as radically old). Milman Perry actually wrote his original thesis in French under Meillet and knew all the Annales crowd very well from his time in Paris. Meillet was himself a scholar of Slavic languages.

It is the case that these ideas didn't just come from nowhere, Düntzer is important here along with other German speaking experts on orality and the metrics of poetry and Matija Murko along with many other scholars of oral South Slavic poetry.

I'm not an expert but I've always understood that the consensus on Parry's contribution was that he developed not the idea about how oral poetry differs from written poetry when compared side by side but on developing techniques to detect the traces of previous oral traditions in poetry that was now exclusively written.

In some ways, the only really sui generis contributions of Perry and Lord which are not part of a larger tradition and the importance of which should not be underestimated is the vast collection of recordings of South Slavic oral epic poetry. There was narrow window where that was possible, any earlier and the recording technology didn't exist. Any later and that culture was completely disrupted. Obviously there remain South Slavic oral poetry traditions but something like that doesn't make it through universal literacy, radio, and television unchanged and all of those came rapidly to the Balkans in the period immediately after.
Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System (2019)
So how do you feel that you now know your activism is oppressing your fellow work mates? Will you calm down?
I had a similar relationship with the phrase "can't even boil an egg". I never liked eggs growing up, so I learnt to cook quite a few significantly more complicated dishes several years before I learnt how to boil an egg.
For WWII planes went from design to production in months. Obviously technology was much simpler and you didn’t have thousands of entities working on one design (or committees in the middle), but taking the best part of two decades to get something up in the air is a very bad sign of how government things get done.

Imagine where SpaceX would be if the government got in there making sure everyone was happy and all 50 states got a piece of the action.
Am I paying you money?

Then it's your problem.
I'm pleased to see accuracy in the history of techno.

I for one did not know it's roots took place back in the 70s and from the black community.

These days when I look at techno artists and their raving followers, its prodimently white. I have since taken active steps to seek out the lesser know black artists to support.

Many modern music fundamentals are origins from the black community and very little is correctly attributed and/or black artists are sidelined.
If you don't believe HN isn't already an echochamber, all of your beliefs have conveniently fallen in line with that of the basic HN'er for years now.
“We initially recommend that you try plotting with what you have around.”

https://www.chia.net/2021/02/22/plotting-basics.html
In Copenhagen most apartments require people to live there. "Bopælspligt", residency requirement. As the owner of an apartment you are required to make sure someone lives there at least 180 days a year.

The best places to live in a city should have people living there. It's really that simple.
Exhibiting paranoia so great that they leap to food poisoning as evidence of beam weapons is pretty harmful, too.
Actually if you want to refer to material in five different books simultaneously and have a notebook to write in and a scratchpad traditional media still wins.

(Hmmm.... but what if I had 7 e-ink pads?)
He's saying "it's not a 200km race, it's a 199km 'warmup' followed by a 1km sprint", so yes, it does change the perspective on how to judge how tight a race is
So how many resources are needed now to mine just one proper bitcoin? First it could be done with a regular pc. Now you need advanced videocards, hardware, more power and loads of diskspace. So how much do you have to spend before mining one coin?
> There's also a solo card game, the name escapes me, I spent hours on it.

Solitaire maybe? The classic Solitaire (Klondike Solitaire) is quite playable on phones, even in portrait mode.
Self-plug: you can enjoy it in this mobile-first PWA (progressive web app) of mine: https://FreeSolitaire.win/
Ive worked cloud sales for Azure and GCP. Zoom/Teams/Meet is not a replacement for in-person sales. In large Enterprises, you would be surprised by how much of the outcome is determined by relationship rather than technology decisions. There is no substitute for shared experiences with customers or randomly bumping into a friend as you’re walking the hallways of your customer. Sometimes it just comes down to who they like better and building rapport over video chat is hard.
I'm pointing out that this:

> That’s also a VERY high premium AND deductible.

isn't true, at least in my area.
+1 adam beyer
It's fiber, so... lay a lot of it once and you're good for a decade. Probably more.
That's the case in the US, because lots of people bought them, so they're available second-hand.
I agree with much of this, but consider this: If they had “weathered the storm” and kept on course while people were fascinated by the iPhone, by the time the fad faded a bit they would have had the best keyboard, the longest battery life, solid security, and corporations with unquestionable trust in the delivery of messages to employees.

You’re right about the BES requirement but they could have easily gone SAAS-optional when the industry shifted to the cloud.
I doubt it. If you read the case they're making against Apple they actually do say why the iPhone and consoles are different. Their reasoning is that consoles are sold at a loss and the manufacturer needs to take those fees to support that sales model. If Epic tried to take on Microsoft or Sony, their own assertion in the Apple case would be used against them.
>150k is the most conservative estimate I could find for Iraq.

It is the lowest I could find. It also has quite a list of criticisms attached to it.
The Iraq body count project counts more just from reported deaths alone.

I wouldn't be surprised if the ORB study showing in excess of 1.2 million is closest to the truth. especially since it ended in 2006 i think and it's not like people stopped dying since then.
Migrating to Serverless and making it work post-transition
"No interesting discussion can take place" quickly leads to "No meaningful discussion can take place".
In BEAM circles, a modification go Greenspun's 10th rule is pretty popular:

"Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of
Erlang."

Erlang's been around long enough at this point that for pretty much any problem in Erlang's area of expertice you find yourself solving twice, there's a damn good existing solution somewhere in the OTP.
Serious question: what do you do if you simply cannot find anyone who wants to live there? For example if you inherited a flat when the owners died, and you already have a place to live in?
As I understand it, they are just using electron for some GUI elements like the toolbar, keyboard shortcuts, etc.
'Javascript crypgography considered harmful' by tptacek (2011): https://archive.is/cyk2R

tl;dr: In most cases browser JS crypto offers no advantages if you're trying to protect yourself from a rogue/compromised backend (eg. do e2e crypto on keys stored within localstorage before passing that over to the backend). That is because if the backend is compromised it can likely serve backdoored JS code that will leak secrets.

This is not always true (eg. if you have multiple tiers of server backends within separate security domains), but almost always true for typical web monoliths.
Early adoption is not premining.
the literal meaning of that sentence is "i am a roman citizen", i.e. today's transposition would be "i am a norwegian national". nothing to do with the colour of his skin or latinx or whatever.

edit: worth noting that this is cicero speaking about legal status and citizenship within the empire, not caesar talking about foreign tribes calling them names, which is precisely what anyone calling garcia marquez (a latin american author) latinx (north american terminology) is doing.
Friedrich August Wolf is a German Classical Scholar who argued in his 1795 "Prolegomena ad Homerum" that there might be no single author.

Gottfried Herrman seems to have argued the same just from the textual structure of the works in 1840.

Source is the german version of this english Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeric_Question

The english version mentions Wolf in a sentence but then concludes

> This perspective, however, did not receive mainstream recognition until after the seminal work of Milman Parry

Which might be a fair assessment.

The german part on Wolf's work is here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homerische_Frage#Die_Forschung...
I've consciously decided not to buy Factorio because I know that would be my favourite thing for months, if not years to come and it would distract me from my duties.
Sure, I am not, this is an opinion backed by life anecdotes, not science.

But I do see some of my idealists friends that ended match up this pattern, and I find that there are regularly people in the angry mob that seem to have a similar profile.

I don't hold that theory as gospel, but it helps me develop compassion toward those who are angry.
> With consoles the game makers (non-exclusives) can take it or leave it in regards to specific consoles as long as there is enough of them. ...Consoles would probably be here without PC.

Your argument here seems to be something like this: "Game makers have an alternative to all consoles, in the form of PCs. They therefore have a legitimate choice to leave the platform entirely if they found console makers' charges abusive. The fact that they don't is evidence that the charges console makers make to game makers is not abusive; or at least, evidence that no intervention is required."

This thread is specifically about the ~$200M Apple get for Fortnite. In the case of Fortnite, they have at least two alternates to iOS: Consoles and PCs. So Epic certainly does have an option to leave the iOS platform entirely; and thus, by your logic, the fact that Epic chose to make an iOS version of Fortnite anyway is evidence that the "Apple tax" is not abusive -- or at least, evidence that no intervention is required.
Computerization of stock control and sales made trusting and empowering the employees much less necessary.

I suspect his attitude would not have lasted even if he had survived.