skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they do I hope those chips get better mainline Linux kernel support than the ARM based ones. The work the Armbian devs are doing is amazing, but they are still missing drivers from the manufacturer. Mainly for proper graphics and video encoding/decoding. The only operating system where this works well is in Android with an archaic kernel.
You sound exactly like me. I've mostly just accepted the fact that this is the best way for me to work. I can buckle down and grind out a full day of work some days but not for many days in a row.

I've come to the conclusion that I am usually as productive/more productive than those around me and I tend to think it is _because_ of the way I work rather than in spite of it. When I do sit and do some work I am less stressed and can use a couple hours of motivation to knock out a days work in 2-3 hours usually in the morning. The rest of the day might be meetings/exercise/reading/social media/youtube and perhaps an additional 30-60min of work.

Ultimately I've found that the reason not to "slack" so much is less because I am not productive enough and more because when slacking I often lean on high dopamine activites like social media/youtube etc. that ultimately make me less happy than being with friends/going for a walk/learning something new.

I will also say I have done the "grind" for months at a time and looking back I know that I would have gotten the same amount of real work done at my current pace. The issue is the added stress makes it harder for me to think, I often end up working on the wrong problem as I am trying to move too quickly, and having too many pending tasks makes it harder to make decisions/prioritize.

I've also worked with those that grind and I've noticed they don't always work on high priority tasks. Often they are too focused on grinding they might not be able to step back and realize they could use their time better.
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It's a 1 hour read. I'd recommend to start a brief intro into Herman-Chomsky propaganda model:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
Here is a simple implementation I made a while back with plain-english comments rather than formulas, if that's helpful.

https://github.com/nemtiax/CFR/blob/main/cfr.py
My main question for this app is how they are going to deal with the many conflicting interpretations of the Bible. Who decides which interpretation is shown by default or the order?

For example, the pro-LGBT and anti-LGBT churches have drastically different views of many verses.
My first impressions using this are really good. I've been using DDG on mobile for many months (while sticking with Google on the desktop), but increasingly grew frustrated with the overall speed, and results on some queries...so I reluctantly switched back to Google on mobile this week.

Unfortunately, looks like there's no way to set this as the default on Samsung Internet at the moment so I'm going to stick with Google for now.
Or you could just use https://startpage.com/ and get Google quality results 100% of the time.
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If you do this, your account and site will probably get banned here, as a great many people have discovered to their chagrin.

Don't believe every website on the internet.
are you by chance a long lost relative of Larry Wall?

http://www.wall.org/~larry/
That's not what happened. The military flat out rejected their robots for being too big, too loud, and too slow. So they pivoted to try to find a new customer.
Keep in mind that 2/3 of software costs are in longer-term maintenance. If the results are not maintenance-friendly, it won't be wallet-friendly. As a proof of concept or an emergency rush job, it might be okay, but don't hitch your wagon to it.
The problem is that even just advocating for things like more resources for male domestic violence victims, is seen as taking away resources from female victims. So it will be viewed as misogynist no matter who does it.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence_against_men#...

So Men's Liberation groups can't actually pursue any concrete advocacy for men without being accused of misogyny, which makes their effectiveness highly limited. Basically you can choose optics (which Men's Liberation groups choose) or efficacy (which the group that won that lawsuit on behalf of male domestic violence victims chose) but it seems very difficult to balance both in one group. So maybe both groups are necessary.
there arent reasons for an hegemon like usa to not have competitive industries in all acessible sectors; maybe is more valuable to have tangible power instead of playing financial shenanigans but who am i to criticize ?
i don't think you have enough data to be linking this as if it has meaning. N=104 is not a large sample size.
Nice crash course. What I find missing is scalar logical operators (&&, ||) - not that much important if you use R for data analysis, but extremely useful when writing software.
It's such a cheap trick too, basically clickbait.
Wow, https://www.haekka.com/ looks awesome. Security awareness based on culture-building, delivered as a Slack app. This is such a tricky market to frame viable, accessible solutions for. Very cool approach.

The "free training" links at the bottom of the site also caught my eye, and I found they link to long-form one-pagers. So now I'm learning about https://docs.haekka.com/hipaa-training, with https://docs.haekka.com/Free-SOC-2-Training-ee02fd6d1b3044c7..., https://docs.haekka.com/Free-GDPR-Training-6c099e88af2642a59... and https://docs.haekka.com/Free-Security-Training-55722324e2424... queued. A nice touch.

(I really like the site design :) pixel-art FTW)
I think the last Marvell SoCs based on XScale were part of the PXA3xx series, which came out in 2006. Since then, the ARMv5TE core of the XScale (the original StrongARM uses the ARMv4 architecture) has been replaced by more recent ARM cores (ARMv7). Details can be found on wikipedia as usual (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale).

The StrongARM and XScale were the basis of so many interesting products in the late 1990s and early 2000s, e.g. some Acorn RISC PCs, the Apple Newton 2000, the Philips IS2630 Inferno phone, Psion's series 7/Netbook, the first Compaq iPaq series and other Windows CE-based PDAs (many of which were the first mobile devices Linux was ported to), and the Netwinder network computer (which still has its own web page - http://www.netwinder.org).

The LART by TU Delft was an open source hardware project based on the StrongARM (https://web.archive.org/web/20060207043722/http://www.lart.t...) and the Itsy was a prototype handheld device developed by DEC WRL to prototype mobile applications (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsy_Pocket_Computer).

Good times...
Tesla would like to have a word with you. They are upgrading driving ML models on the fly and users seem to like it so far (anecdotal).
Lack of security staff? Where did you get that from?

We've poured countless hours into anti-abuse work on this site over many years, and still do. If you have some justification for describing HN as a "soft target", I'd like to hear what it is, because from my perspective what you call "there's no denying" is flatly false. Even your own statement contradicts it: if HN were such a soft target, it would already be completely gamed, which would make it a shitty site, which would make it an unattractive target.
if it alerts/blocks apps from phoning home....
Hmm, I’m a Salesforce developer and I’d say most companies I’ve worked with have used Salesforce’s no-code tools, most very far to the core. Power retailers, broadband, banks, just about every big company. It’s an absolute mess at some point tho, but it does work.
This might have been true in the past, but it doesn't appear to be true any longer. Millennials are not going back to the pews at all.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/millennials-are-leaving...
if you're doing this I'm quitting and going to work in one of the thousands of firms where this doesn't happen, and potentially for better pay?
> Nobody is being harmed by having unpaid rent paid off.

There are plenty of ways for the state to use this money to benefit everyone instead of only landlords.
Please tell me where I expressed any glee at other people's misfortunes. What I said was the following which is a statement, not an expression of emotion:

> Those of you who have found the slightly over a year duration of the pandemic difficult have gotten a sample of how miserable pre-pandemic life was for those of us who are more introverted or misanthropic.

It doesn't impact me what other people feel, but I do hope that people who have not enjoyed lockdown can gain some empathy for the people who have enjoyed lockdown. It seems more like you're defensive at somebody having different preferences than you, which is just how life works.

Additionally, I don't have anxiety. Not before nor during the pandemic. So my point was not anxiety, my point was that the same way life during the pandemic has caused many people inconvenience and frustration, pre-pandemic life is inconvenient and frustrating to me because of the obligation to play social games and always be around people. It's quite tiresome and irritating.

> I'm an introvert and don't feel like that.

I also didn't say all introverts feel like I do, I said pre-pandemic life is miserable for those of us who are _more_ introverted or misanthropic.
I've interviewed at Flexport previously actually!

They don't operate in central Indiana though and wanted I would have had to have moved to Chicago had they made an offer.

Now I've got a wife and a house so, yeah, that wasn't an option at the time and it still looks like it's all in-person in Chicago for the closest place they do business. They do have a remote listing right now but it wants
"sales/account management" experience and a "proven track record of (cross)selling a product" and I've never worked in sales in my life.
I'm curious to know if you have read "Seeing Like A State" by James Scott. There's a fair bit of discourse on the idea of the territory and the map
edit: I learned about the book on HN and so wondering how pervasive it might be on other HN readers' bookshelf
It cannot be set per-site. Thus, the sites that are already in dark mode with it enabled now become bright lanterns.
And forgiving student loans is a slap in the face to any middle class family that had to scrimp and sacrifice for over a decade. Paying off somebody's loans is always a slap to somebody's face.
I've been trying to find that interview. Do you maybe have a link?
I suspect that dark-mode-everywhere fans turn up their monitor brightness way too high and then complain about bright mode websites.

On the other hand, people accustomed to using bright mode turn down their monitor brightness and have no issues. As a rule, the white background should not be much brighter on a monitor than a piece of paper next to it.

This often results in brightness settings between 15-20%.
It’s probably subtle to you but not to other people, especially people outside your industry. I notice even the smallest pixel offset or the tiniest color change, but I can barely smell a rose, but that’s why I became a designer and programmer instead of becoming a chef.
I’m speaking from experience presenting minor color changes to a fellow programmer versus maybe a product owner. I understand this is the same experience my friends feel when they try to show me the smell of a flower and my only response is “well it smells nice like any other flower.”

I am genetically incapable of the same experience.
What if the paper which finally gives us The Singularity is titled "All you need is all you need?"
Personally not in favour of using ':' as a separator since amongst other things it has to be escaped in HTTP query parameters.
I think a lot of people could get their work done in ~3 hours a day if they were actually focused for that long. I think a big chunk of folks are in your shoes and just don't recognize it or they think of all of those other things you do as part of work.

I know people who "waste" a huge amount of their time talking to people in the office and probably do less than ~3 of real work a day. They also distract others. But they would call that team building.
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>if you're constantly hard at work on something important, when something else comes up (someone has a question, there's a bug or an outage, whatever), you either have to delay the thing you're already working on, or delay the thing that came up. This tends to have a cascade effect on most kinds of work, locking up all your people resources.

Working in a retail store/break-fix repair/MSP environment, for a small business in a small city, this is absolutely the case. There is nothing more frustrating than having three customer projects on your plate, all of which are important (think "the email server is down"), and then the doorbell or phone rings and you end up spending half an hour walking an old lady through resetting her facebook password. It's an absolutely massive productivity killer, as well as making the day feel longer.

More employees would be the normal solution, but that's not possible here (we've had more in the past, it wasn't financially viable, apparently). Unless of course they started paying commission based on what people actually got done instead of a regular wage, which I'm not a fan of. (Though to be fair, if we did switch to that, the one employee who barely does anything would either get his ass in gear, or leave, so win/win maybe?)
One data point on the learning curve not being that steep:

As a second year college student I did a <3,000 loc toy project to learn Elixir, and then used it (with Phoenix and Phoenix LiveView) for my first job, building a dashboard for a nonprofit. While there are bits I'd definitely rather refactor given infinite budget, overall I'm surprised by how well the project went.

The dashboard has been humming along with zero application-level maintaince (just upgrading the Ubuntu version of the server) for months, despite being built by a novice and integrating with an extremely flaky third party API. It was very easy to set up a scheduled ETL job with Oban and add a status page so that they can see if any import has failed recently.
The vast majority of rental properties are owned by people who aren’t even remotely close to struggling. You can verify that both statistically (richer landlords own more properties) and anecdotally as a renter.

Housing would also be far cheaper if it wasn’t common to speculate on it, by landlords small and large. It used to be, in fact.

A far more sensible solution would be to outlaw owning a property one doesn’t live in, so housing prices would come down to levels where us renters would be able to buy.

An in-between solution would be massive social housing programmes, so people can rent much more cheaply from a non-profit entity. After all, building housing is a tiny fraction of the cost of housing, the rest is all speculation.
Here's a tool for windows. https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm
> Slack is vastly more functionality than MSN messenger.

I don't buy that. Because you can attach bots? or make calls, custom emoji? (you can do all of these on MSN) and more (like theme customisations and font changes!)

> How do you know the RAM usage of gchat?

You can see each tab's memory usage with Safari on MacOS as it's tied into the Activity Monitor.

Google Cloud Console uses 989MB for me, for instance.
Are the !a and !e bangs for Amazon and eBay defaulting to .com and if yes, is there a way to get them to default to e.g. amazon.de?
You can make the entire web “dark mode” by installing a single extension: https://darkreader.org/
This should be v0.1 based on the actual utility of the spec, just because it's been incubated for so long doesn't magically make it useful.

DIDs are fundamentally antithetical to privacy and will only enable a deeper and more obscure level of tracking to all applications that use them. They were originally inspired for mapping public blockchain use-cases, but IMO personal identity and related keys should _never_ be put on a public chain, who thinks this could ever be a good idea or architecture?

All of the suggested "workarounds" to layer on privacy to DIDs are just lip service in the spec, there's zero technical requirements for an implementation.

I worry that DIDs based on this spec will be deeply harmful if widely deployed with the multiple layers of abstraction, required dependencies on massively complex things like JSON-LD, and abundance of implementation-time choices. It's such an easy "spec" to embrace and extend by big tech, it has no teeth to prevent tracking abuse and it should develop those as hard normative implementation MUSTs before v1.0 versus the non-normative "Privacy _Considerations_" it has now.

Identity is too important to have it done wrong.
I'll keep that in mind if ABP ever does something stupid, thanks!

Until them, I've learned not to change anything unless there is a very strong reason. It radically cuts down on the amount of confusing surprises.

When I was an IT Administrator, we had Office 2000, and never upgraded, except for the odd plugin to be Office 2007 compatible. Nobody needed training, everything worked as expected. Sure, nobody knew the new flowy ribbon GUI, but nobody cared because they were getting stuff done, and moving on with their life.

I had done my job and successfully absorbed as much uncertainty from their computer use as possible.
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What remains ambiguous is how it is not a great fit, in that specific case.
Or in productivity, utilization != throughput.
I like your blue color! Also, I feel like dark mode becomes more awkward to do if your sites uses a less traditional color scheme. I'm like you, and decided I like my desert theme and gave up on trying to do a dark theme (https://chrisbeley.com)
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That very much depends on who you’re talking about. Top quintile of American society? Sure. Bottom quintile of American society? Definitely not. America is a pretty tough place to be poor in, and I think calling the working poor in America “the global 1%” is a pretty hard to defend statement.
If you're my boss watching me that closely, I'm going to be reading up on the OSS workforce sabotage manual.
If you're a normal person who understands consequences and social interactions, you also understand that not playing social games comes at a cost. As you said yourself:

> just go home straight after work

In your own hypothetical example, I'm still required to be in an office or else be jobless. Finding remote jobs isn't trivial.
Kind of random, but this remindied me of how in the Telco industry (think Cisco), researchers order batches of their improved algos to be printed on boards to comply with the european requirments to be "patentable".

Then they get kickbacks every time the algo is used in router software. Pretty incredible.
> Which software exactly is functionally the same yet consumes more resources?

This is irrelevant, as it's extremely difficult to find any two pieces of software that are "functionally the same", regardless of their age of release or performance - and, moreover, because we're programmers, we can make informed estimates about the minimum performance impact of most features without just guessing.

For instance, string localization should have no perceptible performance impact - it's literally just a key-value lookup (O(1) with a hash table). The additional features that Spotify provides over Audacious (a local Linux music player) are either not intrinsically computationally expensive (fetching audio over a network) or are done server-side (playlist recommendation). Discord has no technically valid reason to be taking up 15% of a CPU core while sitting in the background. And so on.

> Today 4K is normal, and combined with refresh rates and colors, we’re pushing upwards of 2 orders of magnitude more data to our screens.

We have GPUs that now do all of our graphics rendering work for us. The features implemented by Spotify, Slack, Discord, and Visual Studio Code do not intrinsically require enough graphical resources that they should stress even an older integrated GPU, let alone take 5 seconds to start up on CPU and RAM that are, similarly, one to two decimal orders of magnitude faster than what we had two decades ago.

> YouTube and Netflix didn’t exist 20 years ago. Browsers were incredibly slow and couldn’t support streaming video or anything but the smallest of applications written in JavaScript. Localization didn’t exist, web analytics wasn’t really a thing, browsers didn’t run background tasks.

None of this is relevant to applications. Browsers were slow back then? Fine. Browsers are faster now? Also fine. That's still irrelevant to the fact that many applications are slower now, on much faster hardware, than they were then.
Why would they change if they print money?
You could just copy someone else's code though, unless they also check photo ID or something (seems unlikely for a pub).
> Pentium 4

Not such a good choice. It was kind of a "strung out" processor, with an overly deep pipeline, plus there was that RDRAM business...

I'd say maybe an Intel Pentium III coppermine, or maybe go AMD and choose the original Athlon.

> I only say this half-seriously

Why just half-seriously? Make it totally serious.

> If it's unusable, go back and optimize some more.

That too, but even more than that: Go back and make more initialization lazy; make sure your UI isn't overly de-prioritized in favor of other work; and make sure you have logic and UI for when certain thing take time, allowing them to still carry out some activity while waiting.
My experience is that i had to work harder the lower my position in life was.

The way I was treated, the physical, emotional, and mental toil i suffered were worse at minimum wage jobs than any job i had in IT. The bottom tier of IT has a much worst experience as well compared to development and systems engineering jobs.

It makes me wonder about these people who went to college, then straight into a six figure job out of college claiming to understand how the world works. I can't help but raise my eyebrow at anybody making economic claims and claims about what people should do who have never tried to make rent making below 30k a year in a major American city.
> I mean, DDG worked fine for 95% of time, but the remaining 5% failure often led to some extreme frustration that I just couldn't stand.

Is 95% really not acceptable?My experience is quite different though. When I don’t get the results I hoped I just use !g. Easy. But the result are rarely any better
I'm not sure why you think the thread stemmed from an anti-natalist perspective.

Even then, raising children is not what anti-natalism condemns. It's bringing children to life. It's not reasonable to condemn a care giver who didn't beget the child (and it's usually impossible to know whether they did).
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I am an experienced systems programmer with a deep CS/distributed systems/DB background. I am not very familiar with blockchain programming and cryptography. What are the best books on this topic if I plan to build my own blockchain based application?

Two books I found online that people are raving about are "Mastering Ethereum" and "Mastering Bitcoin" from O'Reilly. Are these the best book-based resources available today? Also, any pointers to good online content would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Thomas Sowell is a great great thinker. People do not study his work because it doesn't fit well with MMT and the micromanaging of an economy. Not because he is black. This obsession with race is ridiculous.
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I'd put it slightly differently. The infrastructure went part of the way. It needed several more iterations. The UX, as you point out, never went anywhere. At least now people are getting comfortable with the idea of using a private key, even if no one has yet cracked the problem of crypto UX.