skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the complaint about English spelling comes from a theory that the written form must be phonetic. This is reflected by the mistake of teaching American kids "phonics": giving them a bunch of post facto rules and then immediately telling them that there are innumerable exceptions to said rules.

As the article points out, a lot of the spelling reflects meaning (etymology) which is more useful when reading than the sound (unless, I suppose, you're reading out loud). The loose phonetic linkage is handy, but you end up simply learning a bunch of words, which is no different from learning Hanzi.
I use a similar technique, combined with meticulous time tracking of every and any minute I spend professionally. As somebody who is self-employed, I quickly realized that working 8+ hours per day is an absolute myth. I count any day where I spent more than 4 hours in a state of focused work as a great day, and weeks where I spend more than 20 hours a week are rare. My personal goal has shifted from trying to work as many hours as possible to compressing these 4 productive hours into the smallest time window possible. Arriving at 10am at work, and leaving at 5pm is close to the optimum in my experience, due to coffee breaks, lunch, and the occasional goofing off on HN.

So no, you're not cheating the system, you are probably running at optimum efficiency. The efficiency of the average employee in terms of productive hours per day spent in chair is ridiculously low.

As a side note: I'm very much wondering whether I should insist on 40 hour work weeks when I get to the point of hiring people. I know there is a movement going for the 4-day workweek, but I personally see more in a 6 hour work day.
What rich bubble do you live in where kids go to summer camp?
Yeah, the elephant in the room is leaded gasoline insofar as the lead-crime hypothesis is concerned. Unlike paint, lead in the exhaust spreads out across the entire community in a form that can be easily inhaled.
What values do you use for each pomodoro, short break and long break? Also, do you estimate your tasks into how many pomodoros will take?
Well we already burn the same fossil fuels for power… instead of an oil fired plant you add an extra step and turn that oil into packaging for a while before burning it. As long as some of your power comes from fossil fuels it would really seem to be carbon neutral because a similar amount of carbon was going to be burned anyway.

And the amount of plastic actually burned is quite small when you compare it to everything else.
Almost every place where people live and work is covered. I would venture to guess that less than 100,000 people in the whole USA outside of Alaska live in places that are not covered by Verizon. Yeah maybe you'll find a town here and there of a few hundred people in a very remote area that is not covered. Similarly I bet the vast majority of the USA is reached by at least one line of sight FM radio station.

For specific examples of areas that are not covered on the map: north west maine. Nobody lives there. There are no incorporated towns north or west of Rangley or south or west of Alagash. It is private forestry company land.

Death Valley.

A part of east texas near the LA border. I am not too familiar with this area but I believe it is part of the area called the "Big Thicket" it is very sparsely populated.

The Nevada test site, Nellis AFB, Area 51. I am sure the military has its own radio coverage here where it needs it.

Other Parts of Nevada and Eastern Oregon and Washington and North Central Idaho. These areas are sparsely inhabited deserts or mountains.
I always took the microtubules theory as a tentative to reconcile three opinions:

the physical/biological world is merely mechanic

our consciousness is based on physical phenomena

our consciousness is more complex than any computer/Turing machine

given that the theory feels like it is just a way not to have to change one of those belief.
The sources will be criticized for being anonymous or ousted. Some journalists cover workplace too. However, corporate tactics optimize away most of what is possible in that regard.

All for a public who can't give a damn (gimme the cheapest).
I've known multiple people with the last name spelled Koch. One pronounced it "Coke", one "Cook", one "Cock", and one "Cahch".
If it wasn't deliberate they would let you install Chrome instead of forcing you to use Safari with a chrome skin. And why do they have Safari with a chrome skin? Because then most gullible users thinks they can actually use chrome and that chrome and safari are mostly the same, when they are actually really different and they therefore don't understand what they are missing. Even here on HN where people should know better you sometimes see users say "if you don't like safari you can just install chrome!".
It does at a high enough salary. Some people are unable to pay for their own training but you don’t need everyone you simply need enough people. Start offering Doctor money and people will jump through insane hoops, but it scales down so even 20$ an hour will motivate some people to do a specialized training course on their own dime.
This article is mostly a straw man, while still containing some valid ML criticism. I am a ML s(c|k)eptic too, in that popular conceptions of what ML is currently overpromise, often don't even understand what ML actually is, and are often just some layperson's imagination about what "artificial intelligence" might do.

This article is the opposite. He's treating ML as basically a simple supervised architecture that doesn't allow any domain knowledge to be incorporated and simply dead-reckons, making unchecked inferences from what it learned in training. Under these constraints, everything he says is correct. But there is no reason ML has to be used this way, in fact it is extremely irresponsible to do so in many cases. ML as part of a system (whether directly part of the model architecture and learned or imposed by domain knowledge) is possible, and is generally the right way to build an "AI" system.

I think ML has its limitations and will be surprised to see current neural networks evolve into AGI. But I also don't think the engineers working in this space are as out to lunch as the author seems to imply, and would not write off the possibilities of what contemporary ML systems can accomplish based on the flaws pointed out in relation to a very narrow view of what ML is.
Do you block third-party cookies? It prevents Drive downloads in any browser with that setting, Chrom{e,ium} included. Recently I saw Drive give a suggestion about this, but a year ago when I was testing third-party cookie blocking in Chromium it took me a day or two before I figured out the connection.
I just head this same rap from a blowhard senator who's state is loaded with Covid.

"The self-respect that comes with working." Read this like you are nursing a hangover.

Americans are fed up with lousy jobs that treat them like crap.
Someone like me!

I’ve been doing the exact same thing for about a year now. My quality of work is up, and so is my salary. I have more time for family and hobbies.

Whenever I’m stuck on a problem and my four hours are up, I right down my thoughts and the next morning I find the solution quickly.

Either you and I are special, hyperproductive but easily exhausted workers, or everyone else is just pretending to work twice as long.
Oracle has a more succinct syntax for this known as the CONNECT BY clause for a select.

It is used to extract an explained query from a plan table.

It does seem to be much easier than a common table expression.
Ratings for sporting events are down dramatically. People generally aren't returning to movie theaters. According to the article, overall media consumption is up 30 minutes per week, which makes me wonder if what happened was mostly a case of habit destruction. Now that habits have been disturbed, trends that were already taking place were accelerated. Is there any reason to think people will break their new habits to go back to their old habits as freedoms are slowly restored?

AMC is looking into showing live events such as college football, world sports, and concerts. So they seem aware that movies are no longer enough to keep them afloat. Can they build new habits? Be a family friendly alternative to the sports bar for alumni groups? In a landscape of broken habits, maybe, maybe not. Big screens at home are cheap and so are the food and drinks. What's missing is a sense of community. Can they deliver on that?
Futuristic flying taxi aims to conquer air travel’s noise problem
I took that to mean 'to see without first being shown' from the context rather than literally. What is taking arbitrarily parts literally and feigning incomprehension? Noise.
They were busier (for pickup) this winter than this summer. I checked my own order history at our previously favorite pizza place. We ordered about 5x/month from Nov ‘20-Mar ‘21 when large cheeses were $9+tax and there was often a line for pickup. We now order around 1x/month (at $13+tax) and walk directly to the counter.

If anything, CV19 is much less a safety concern now than before.
I had a chance to meet marcel van lohuizen when I was working for the company where he was an advisor. He was still working on Cuelang when we met.

He is one of the smartest guys I have met in my life. Cuelang's value proposition is very difficult to see if you starting. There are lot of pre-requisites that you should be aware of. But when you have to deal with 100s of config files and specs, it is a lifesaver
The real beauty is in the Lisp REPL, Smalltalk transcript window, Mesa/Cedar interactive, Oberon interactive,....
The BBC used to (maybe still does) have a Pronunciation Unit which dictated how proper names must be spoken on TV and radio. They were always getting things wrong. My family's bete noir was the pronunciation of "Sowerby Bridge", the small town in West Yorkshire where my dad's parents lived.

Everyone for about 50 miles around: "Sorbey Bridge"

BBC: "Sourby Bridge"

My dad used to get quite irate about this.
Sure, the whole website is open source. This is the file with the colors: https://github.com/alin23/alinpanaitiu.com/blob/master/asset...

Although I’m not using them all. I just port them from project to project
The modern C++ way of formatting strings is with std::format, or the external fmt library. It's faster than printf (and certainly streams!) while having convenient format strings (unlike streams) and optional compile time format parsing, combined with c++ type safety.
Buddy, that wasn't even a comment on his tone.
Somewhat related but in the Python space of things: I love that Python has a standard for web frameworks so much so that you can build your own web framework that targets said standard and it can be deployed anywhere without getting lost in the weeds of parsing HTTP. For example FastAPI is directly a ASGI compliant framework, and it is known as one of the fastest Python web frameworks out there. Bottle I think is also a raw WSGI framework and its all in one file. (ASGI is what became the natural progression for WSGI, think of it like the http package Rust wants to standardize).
Because it's a massive headache to debug code that has subtle bugs due to missing semi-colons.
If previous environmental outcries were driven by PR, what's driving the current plastics outcry? Why should one believe that "this time is different?"
https://youtu.be/dBHbLV7xEhc Scott Manley on this
> There's a place for healthy skepticism, but not denial.

I’m not saying I’m necessarily denying your premise, at least not wholesale, but what is the point of skepticism if it doesn’t include the possibility of rejecting a premise?

It’s like saying “I’ll allow you to ask questions but ultimately you have to come my conclusion”

We can be passionate and rational at the same time.
It's common to work around browser bugs like this.

I wouldn't blame some possible hack a tired dev implemented on a busy Thursday on a grand scheme to strip you of your freedom - in the end it's just people working there. Especially seeing that the bug was fixed after someone complained/made them aware.
You should still never use functions which have well known security flaws if there is a widely available alternative which avoids the flaws. Secure programming isn't just about calculating whether your current code has a bug, it's also about writing code that avoids bugs.
If you are in a country where pensions are managed by the state, your contributions are considered taxes. If you are in a country with a private pension system, your contributions are in the GDP!

The GDP is not a scientific measure. It is an ideological concept.

It doesn't mean it is useless, but it should not be taken at face value.
Thanks, I was wondering how this rather serious disaster was going to get spun. Will be on the lookout out for "it's actually a good thing!" posts like the Twitter one.

Reducing the symptoms if someone is actually infected is fantastic. You know what would be way more impressive? If the vaccines actually stopped the spread of COVID-19. The way I'm reading this and Fauci's statements about having equal viral load is that the unvaccinated and vaccinated both spread the virus, likely at the same rate.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9839697/Fauci-say...

Guess we won't be able to blame the unvaccinated for recent spread anymore.
So Apple iOS, Microsoft Windows, Amazon FireOS, Cisco IOS, Netapp ONTAP... they are all "not secure" because they are not OSS?
Vietnam. Cambodia. Laos. I spent 4 years living and traveling all over those countries by motorbike.

Not just the beaches, but every single waterway, alley, forest, jungle. Literally everywhere.

I have pictures of the waterways in Saigon at low tide and the ground is covered in plastic. At high tide, there are government run boats that go up and down some of the waterways to collect a fraction of the trash that people just dump in there.

Every single little town/commune/village has a spot on the way in/out of town with mounds of trash (mostly plastic). Usually partially burning, smelly and covered in bugs.

It is tragic.
sorry, it just seemed a bizarre comment: you said it was less busy when you visited it, at a point in time when everywhere was less busy, nothing to do with overall sales

Edit: sorry not OP
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Oh god no, forget this.
Governmental meddling since last March has caused a lot of businesses to hemorrhage a large percentage of their workers even though they were run sensibly.
Yes I keep preaching this to anyone that will listen. It was THREE Items that form the phrase. And we just don’t reduce or reuse given how easy it is to buy more stuff.

At my house, we have a whole “fixin’ stuff box” full of items that broke but not seriously enough that maybe we can figure out how to fix them. I started this to teach my kids that we can repair stuff rather than throw it. I still have really fond memories of fixing things around the house in India in the 1980s with my grandpa. Although those days most fixes involved either adding oil, or taking things apart and cleaning the dust.

What does make me happy is now, sometimes when I say let’s throw something my 7 year old son says “come on let’s at least try to fix it first”. We have fixed his headphones twice by taking it apart and re-soldering wires that came loose. And it feels so satisfying to know you can bring something back to life.

It’s had mixed results. The biggest pushback even with me is time. Do I have the time to fix that broken pencil sharpener or can I solve this in 2 mins on Amazon because I have 50 other things to do.

And more often than not the 2 mins wins.

I think if fixing things was more socially present (you saw more people around you doing it), more people would do it.
> select to copy & middle click to paste" support.

Indeed, because it is right click to paste.
Also, when I hear about people struggling to recruit, it’s often minimum wage jobs on awful conditions.

People don’t want to work for absolute minimum wage on a temporary contract picking fruit? Colour me surprised!
Yeah microplastics might indeed be worse. I didn’t know microplastics potentially had so much in common with asbestos.
These softwares exist to create stats to find out who to punish
There's a rule about not editorializing titles on HN. The title here is the title in the paper, so it's the correct title. This sort of suggestion should be sent to the authors of the paper itself.

Then again, dang has also broken this rule and had a justification for it, so who really knows for sure.
25 minutes a session. After 4 sessions, I take a break for 15-30 minutes.

When I'm really in the zone I'll skip the break and keep going. Then I'll take ~15.
a) There's nothing worse than excessive time/place fragmentation when you're building shared online experiences.

b) Facebook is going to do what's best for them. :/
And even for those that are open, there's now some ugly decisions to be made by parents given you can't vaccinate under 12s yet.
This is actually a fantastic case study of the consequences of extensive surveillance on a society. It tilts the power curve in favor of those with access to that system of knowing vs. the surveilled.

If this is not enough of a wake-up call on the dangers of big data consolidation, and info asymmetry, I don't know what is.
See also how to become a good theoretical physicist by the same:

https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/index....
The primitive technology guy would make a shelf out of earth.

Edit: Or he would just hack some bamboo or some thick branches with a stone axe and tie them together using some dried vines to create a pretty good shelf.
The article doesn't seem to suggest either of those being true. Just that if you perform a reset or remove your account you will not be able to login afterwards.
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You Can't Improve What You Can't Measure Disease

YCIWYCM is a great way to kill productivity and performance improvement efforts when taken too far. Sometimes, you've just got to go with your gut. The amount of effort needed to make measurements, especially for less tangible knowledge work, can kill productivity overall.

Often, the measurable parts are at the conclusion of a particular effort, the total time it took to get there and the value of the output. But it's not necessarily possible to meaningfully measure the internal process of reaching it when (again, knowledge work specific) half the time may be spent thinking about the thing. How do you measure that? How do you indicate progress when you're one "aha" moment away from success but can't force one to occur? Synthesis, what most programmers do, the combining of ideas to form a new theory [Naur1985] is hard to do mechanically. It can be done, for a lot of work, but not necessarily for everything. But because it's not a purely mechanical process (in contrast to a lot of other business processes or physical manufacturing work where you have more mechanical work and less synthesis) it's hard to identify useful metrics and collect them.

When the work is more mechanical ("We've done this before, but...") then you can start finding more places to measure and gain useful insights. But the more novelty that occurs, the more you need to collaborate with each other or spend time in thought, the harder it is to find useful measurements.

[Naur1985] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
Email has been around since the 1960s and the best part of it was asynchronous world wide cheap communication.

Today it is a platform that supports all kinds of various business workflows. You can run a business via email alone. It sucks but you can do it.

What's interesting is that these workflows are all in conventions and human protocols and not encoded in email itself.

Email can be seen as a big send and store packet which requires human decoding. Anyone has a public address which you can send to etc...

Anyway, interesting way to think about it.
People on this forum say EU - but they mean "rich parts of EU". Reality is EU has way more inequality between member states than the US, ironic given the propaganda.
Free beer is highly successful go figure.

There is nothing about the UNIX command line that isn't done better by REPL based environments.
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No shit!?
It think it's a combination? No way anyone is working productively for 8 hours. It's not just possible in the long term.
The import bit was: “When they could find buyers”

The US and EU have plenty of landfills, their exporting plastic which was actively separated from the waste stream for recycling which can be profitable. If nobody wants to pay for it then the default is to burn it domestically for energy.
This is the case with the gitlab ci runner too. Only logs related to the specific job are present in the UI.
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For me its always a website with access to a database and templating. It is insanely easy in Go to do it by only needing to import Gorm as your only external package. I really wish Rust would adopt a standard library HTTP server OOTB it just makes things so much nicer. People will always use other packages as they need to for example dot net has Sinatra, and Java has Spring and company despite both having JSP / ASP.

I do like your list and I agree, some bits that deal with CLI, web and parsing / making HTTP requests is the gist of what you need. I have debated making a project roadmap on GitHub that you can work on in any language and having a Swagger spec for an API so frontend people can implement multiple frontends and backend people can implement multiple backends.
Correct. I’ve done some of this. You start with a metal foundry for melting aluminum. From there, you can build tools tools that help build other tools, up to the ultimate: metal lathe.

It’s a pot of work but very rewarding.

Here are some pictures of ‘the 5 bucks furnace’ i built:

https://chrisbergeron.com/2008/01/21/metalcasting_furnace/

Phil’s books are great and it would be handy to have them in a post-apocalyptic scenario to bootstrap society.
> But I also don't think the engineers working in this space are as out to lunch as the author seems to imply.

Are you at all close to this space? It sounds you may be underestimating corporate politics and the lack of rigour and ethical thought with which these systems are applied. The example Cory puts on policing -- and the many other examples you can find in Evgeny Morozov's book or "The End of Trust" -- are solid proof of this.
I still think David Allen nailed it in Getting Things Done. Not the system necessarily, but he nailed the diagnosis of why we fail to get things done: an inability to be honest with ourselves about (1) the full scope and scale of the commitments we make, and (2) just how little time and attention we have at our disposal in meeting those commitments.

Really, it’s the same sort of problem that is described in The Goal and The Phoenix Project, but on a personal level. Calendar timeboxing feels like a solution that actually addresses the real problem, although it is challenging to implement for people who are low in conscientiousness (or have ADHD).
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not your fault. That comment was misleadingly ambiguous. ("Designer here" and nothing later disambiguated.)