skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me it's been mostly a holistic approach:

Making time for deep focus

Prioritizing important work (whether its learning or executing on tasks) for the morning right after waking up

Healthy sleeping and eating habits

There are a plethora of tools out there to optimize your workflow, but I think that is more a matter of preference.

Videos can be hit or miss. The right videos can jam pack a ton of information and get you learning complex topics very quickly. Books and articles have their place too, though I tend to read later in the day into the evening when I'm more keen to winding down.

One common thing I tend to do: I may end my day working on something that leads me to a new pillar of information or complicated topic that I need to grok. In those situations, I stop the day there, and plan to wake up the next morning to research the topic (over coffee), and absorb any videos, articles, material I can get my hands on. Your brain can do amazing things with a little bit of caffeine and deep focus after a good night's sleep.
Have you ever audited FF source? That’s a pretty big code base to exhaustively determine unwanted behavior does not exist.
You can get window film that's RF shielded. It's weird to be in a SCIF with windows, but a welcome change from the norm.

Example vendor: https://www.signalsdefense.com/rf-window-films/
> (1) You're proposing displaying a Union Jack to users in the Republic of Ireland

Yes. They're on a website, not watching an orange march go through their town.

> (2) You have a dependency on the number of states in the US.

Eh?

> British people tolerate seeing the US flag, but it implies en-US, rather than en-GB

Who cares? It's a website.
Leetcode is basically the gold standard.
Not very well ;_;
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a good place to start.

Spengler in his works has a cyclical view of civilizations, which you might also enjoy.

Many “cyclical” ideologies also have similar ideas going back millennia. Hinduism for example sees the world as occurring in cycles. According to some, we are in a materialistic age, which is a consequence of losing spiritual values and a focus on comfort and pleasure.
>And it isn't a feature at all if you use any other Chromium based browser (not Chrome) like Brave, Edge or Vivaldi.

I am referring to the Chromium open source project. Not the derivatives. You can argue that everyone removes it, but that further shows how unwanted it is.

>I said that there are plenty of non-Chrome Chromium browsers to use in response to someone saying that there is a "one browser rules all" situation

I was actually referring to the engine, yeah.

>There's not even a "one browser-engine to rule them all" situation given that Safari (WebKit) has a very sizable market share.

Still very small. Less than 20%? Besides, a majority of that is iOS devices, where this engine is FORCED upon you...

>Yep and Linus Torvalds is in complete control of the Linux kernel, yet we have hundreds of distros that all do things differently.

The difference is the lack of corporate malice, which I classify FLoC under (which was added to Chromium, regardless of whether or not you say others have removed it).

>And it doesn't matter as much as you think it does. Here's Microsoft discussing their decision to not fork Chromium, because they don't have to -

Not particularly sure what you mean here - this is just showing that edge is also contributing to the browser monoculture by still using Chromium and not even forking it. Though I suppose that's a little weak argument because patches are still applied.
>Dictating/Castrating Browser on mobile

Not just mobile, but iPad Pro and iPads too.
I'd really like to know why you're getting downvoted. This is a fascinating observation.
The fact that a government bureaucracy detected fraud/waste in just one year is amazing.
And as a card castle toppler, you only have to find the most unstable one in a group. Perhaps to many companies it seems like a revenue sink to implement proper security. It Probably Won't Happen To Us™ and so forth. Okay. Maybe it seems like a more concrete return on spend if a company were to frame the goal as trying to be at least as fit as the average of the herd.
Using structed data per request instead of logs, metrics and traces
In 1970's the doctrine of Finnish Army was very much post-nuclear prolonged guerrilla/revenge war. We learned that fresh birch-leaves are nukular-free nourishment unlike berries and mushrooms or small animals. Also you must dust yourself with fir branches frequently for fall-out particles.
:) Fridge opening intensifies:

"Ugh, we still only have cauliflower? I'm going to check again in 5 minutes for some bizarre reason, even though all science indicates that my brain should be developed enough by now to understand object permanence."

Half a day later: "Okay, but what if Hume was right? Can I really know that the fridge is still empty just because it was empty the last 10 times I looked? If I lived in a universe where the fridge stayed empty until this second, would the observable history of that universe look any different than this one? And I've known my parents for half a decade, that's realistically a small amount of time for me to start extrapolating about their behavior. Might they have bought Twinkies yesterday and then only decided to put them in the fridge halfway through today?"

Kids are weird. I remember opening the fridge over and over to check for fruit or leftovers growing up, and I genuinely don't remember why I did. I don't know if I actually thought something was going to change or not.

Maybe the reason I stopped as I got older was because as an adult I buy my own groceries, so now if something shows up in my fridge and I didn't put it there my reaction is going to be more likely to call the police and look for an intruder?
They're not choosing their flag, they're choosing a language.
> Bundling the OS with hardware

Is this really an issue? I agree Apple has been pretty shady but this is a facet of any hardware you buy today from any manufacturer. Now, preventing/obfuscating the install of _other_ OS software, I agree, total bullshit.
>Anti-alibi logs that prove whether you were or weren’t alone at any given place or time.

This actually gives me the most concern. If it's easy enough to create these logs of location and travel via technology, then it's easy enough to fake these logs. And, when the technology isn't questioned in the general population, you are just immediately guilty in the court of public opinion, let alone in actual court.
> “The court cannot ultimately conclude that apple is a monopolist under either federal or state antitrust laws,” she writes in the ruling. “Nonetheless, the trial did show that apple is engaging in anti-competitive conduct under California’s competition laws.”

It's nice to see that you don't have to be a monopolist to be legally barred from anti-competitive behaviour. I hope this puts a permanent stop to all the thread on HN arguing one way or another whether Apple is a monopoly.
I tend to overcommit. E.g. take on a project or make a purchase that _requires_ me to learn the skill to be able to complete whatever that project is or use the thing I bought. I find having external "skin in the game" helps me focus on the parts of a thing I need to know. Then, once I can get into the conceptual level of whatever the topic is, I expand from there.
Wow, how did this ruling come so quickly when court cases are so slow to play out normally?

Is this something that can get appealed?
The Green Protocol
Proposal on how to utilize crypto to do some good.
You’re being dismissive right now.

I appreciate honest dialogue, and again, I’m vaccinated and believe overall the medical community is a net positive for society, but you are neither being genuine nor non-judgmental. You’re so far in your own ideology and echo chamber that you don’t even realize how far apart you are from those who don’t see everything through the same lenses you do.
Thanks for responding. I think I was just discouraged because I was doing a lot of arithmetic errors. It was unclear if the errors I was making were errors of logic or errors of arithmetic. Just like learning a new programming language: you have logical errors and syntax errors (not just ones that get thrown by the compiler, but ones that are just improper use of syntax) and sometimes it's unclear what error you're really making.

I think the bigger issue was that in high school and even college math classes was that I always felt like I was rushing or being rushed. There wasn't really time to internalize concepts or ask why.

>They also give you more intuition into what your doing because they teach you to think about the results of what you are saying and give perspective that the "algebra 2" courses you take in high school don't bother to even think about because they are focused on doing problems for problems sake which most people have enough problems they don't need more to solve for fun they want tools to handle a more diverse set better.

I'll take a look at this. I did proofs in a geometry class and really liked it.
I use Firefox because it's the better browser in my experience. For me the killer feature is the container thing. I'm not even sure how it's called. So I have different containers with persistent sessions for different purposes. Work/personal/consulting. Makes things much easier when you don't need to juggle gmail/slack/microsoft logins all the time.

I've integrated that into my personal workflows so tightly that I'd be very unhappy if I had to use a browser without that capability.

Last I checked Chrome(ium) doesn't have it. What about Oper... I mean Vivaldi?
I referenced overweight which is many more people. They are the ones who live long enough to spend big dollars on healthcare but still cost much more. They arent food addicts or something they just cant be bothered to make gym trips.
I am not sure what Mozillas involvement in creating any of these RPMs, but there are a number of RPMs available for firefox[0].

I am running fedora, and firefox is in the default repos.

[0] https://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=firefox
TPC-Clang Compiler
This has to be an insta-appeal though so much dirty laundry has come out in discovery maybe they won’t. Then again App Store profit margins are so high … maybe they will take the hit on the 30% and double down on App Store advertising instead since first party advertising is blessed now?
I think it’s perfectly acceptable to be afraid of a virus that has killed 700,000 people in the United States and leaves ~30% with long term side effects and sometimes serious, permanent disability.
Yes, but what hierarchy would replace what we have now?

Do you want RoadWarrior/MadMax? Because that's how you get RoadWarrior/MadMax.
So you don't sanitize JSON input to your system? That's what this tool is for. The alternative is writing custom code to validate it, which is just as messy and worse, bespoke.
No. They protect your thyroid from absorbing radioactive iodine. You still have to protect yourself from other forms of fallout. The linked book goes into extreme detail on all aspects of this.
A few months ago I went on a quest to find a new browser. I settled on Vivaldi (and I tried just about every browser there is!) It's quite simply the best browser I've ever used. I love the tab groups, the speed dial, the way it manages bookmarks, the notes - it's just a lot of small things that really make it a great browser to use.
Apple can't force devs to use in-app purchasing, ruling in Epic Games case
Ugly ugly ugly ISA. We throw away a little bit of performance and a lot of power because of how weird and old it is.
I think what they meant was that we would expect the distribution of p-values to be uniform, if we had access to every p-value ever calculated (or a random sample thereof).

Publishing introduces a systematic bias, because it's difficult to get published where p>0.05 (or whatever the disciplinary standard is).
Doesn't matter. It's not OK for the doctor to do this, and it's not OK for the insurance company either.
Of course we are. The long haul effects of COVID are partially known and are super bad. The expected long haul effects of the vaccine are pretty well known (J&J, AZ) or use well understood pathways (Pfizer, Moderna).
'Better an end with horror than horror without an end.'

A saying attributed to Ferdinand von Schill, shortly before his death fighting in the streets of Stralsund.
Von Schill is a, in the wider population, mostly forgotten 'German' or better Prussian hero of an uprising against french occupation in Napoleonic times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_von_Schill
Trust in the developers, because if there was ever an incentive to backdoor it, the source is publicly available. Also, I have skimmed it when I was bored. I think I got a few thousand lines of code in. But surely this means nothing because I didn't understand most of it- it just didn't "look" malicious.

Still, I will always take FOSS and properly licensed over Vivaldi.
It reads like it applies to all developers.
Hey, you should drop me an email (info in my HN bio). This is a passion of mine and I'm always up for chatting about it.
The unimaginable reason is that one of Ada's core competencies is realtime embedded systems. Very often, these don't allocate or free memory ever.
> “…but if I'm around something that has a 1 in 100 chance of killing me, I'm going to do everything I can to not let it, because those are NOT low odds.”

then you should avoid any and all cars as you have a 1 in 100 lifetime chance of dying in a car accident. or birth, as babies have 0.6% chance of dying around birth.

covid suffers severely from availability and recency bias because our lives are so exceedingly safe already. it’s hard to die on accident, even via covid.
This headline is misleading. It should be something like Company Defrauds Utah Government with False AI Claims.
Without this mentality, Linux would not exist in its current form, and neither would countless now-amazing open source projects.

IMO, the 'fabric' of your computational experience, from the kernel to core utilities like your web browser, email client and IM, should all be open source and possible to trust.

Trust, privacy, and security trump gimmicks for a not insignificant number of individuals, and businesses. Vivaldi's USP, in its current state of not being 100% open source, is based upon UX gimmicks.

Is Vivaldi a 'good' browser? That is wholly dependent on your threat model and requirements. Vivaldi is not 'the best tool available' if you are concerned about privacy.
We need to be more aware that there are many submarines in the ocean with 200 long range nuclear warheads each. One sub can pretty much hit every city within a 4,000 mile radius. It’s a terrifying constant threat that the vast majority of people are oblivious to.
Their device, their business. People don't need to justify what they do with their things.
The terrified of everything portion of you comment still applies if we change "fairly bad flu virus with a 99% survival rate" to "extremely safe vaccine with 0.007 risk of adverse effects".
Ask HN: Resources for learning development on bare metal?
This is where your total loss of credibility happened, just so you know.
Stompie the Tank in South London
Nope.

I am interesting in pushing the limits of persistence of vision displays.

I'm pretty sure you could catch a driver's attention with an array of LED strips stretched out over the road. They'd have to be looking in the right place with their eyes focused at the right distance to see an image but I bet you could get them to hit the brakes anyway.

(If that fails there is always the digital flashbang...)
Sometimes it seems like I'm the only person that doesn't feel like they need "a better shell". This topic comes up a lot on HN.

Maybe if a better shell came along I'd be surprised, not knowing what I was missing. Perhaps I'm just in the dark or not imaginative enough to conceive of what one would look like.

With that said, whenever the discussion comes up, it seems to revolve around user specific workflow cases and "do what I want you to do, not what I tell you to do" design patterns, that would (from my perspective at least) feel hard to get right for everyone. As a result, we have lots of different shells now that make different trade offs and take different design approaches. That's great, right?

I don't know -- I'm rambling I suppose, I just don't ever really feel like Bash (or fish/zsh/whatever) is holding me back or making my work more difficult than it needs to be. We can argue about the esotericisms of shell scripting and how it's silly to emulate old terminal escape sequences in virtual terminals, but I feel like it misses the point.

I don't know, I'm certainly willing to change my mind here, it's just that for all of the problems I have day to day in sysadmin/programming job functions, the shell is the least of my worries most of the time.
In that sort of survival situation, meritocracy would mean survival of the fittest. But not necessarily the person with the most/best survival skills. You will have different groups lead by what they perceive is the "best" person.

Your local groups will probably consist of:

Religious groups

Groups centered around politicians

Scouting groups

Survivalists

Law enforcement groups

Military groups

Gangs

Each of those groups will be vying for control of limited resources with varying degrees of violence.

For the average person, all they will see is a rapid decrease of the average lifespan. The leaders who make it to the top will do everything in their power to keep themselves and those who they favor at the top.

I think a good example of this is North Korea, Afghanistan or any of the other Middle East countries where the government collapsed and there was not a single clear leader.
Speaking of Tinder, I've noticed that their algorithm seems to put a very attractive person when I first open the app (who almost never is a match for me) and then people I find less attractive after, often the 2nd or 3rd is someone who had already liked me. I think if I hit the "boost" feature, which is something crazy expensive, like $20, then they will show my profile to "more people" but more likely that means more people that I would find attractive.

My main question: when they and other social media control the algorithm and can almost predict when we will "win", at what point is this similar enough to a slot machine and the payout ratio should be regulated by an outside organization?
The Mormons run a tight ship
I wrote what I wrote before watching it. After watching it I am not afraid for the coming... 5-10 years. Ok. But what then? Why am I afraid, what am I afraid of?

In the last years "AI" started to make surprising leaps every few years. What we got now is the "child of a new species". It's still a child. But it can grow. The species we are seeing scares me, as an overpaid codemonkey. I can compete with a child of it, but I could not compete with an adult of it. Imagine this system, but more advanced, more tuned to your specific domain.

The systems we work with are all trapped in mind boggling complexity, but what if AI starts to untangle this, what if AI starts to truly become the only human-machine interface to produce software?
Do people really need a reminder to not forget their babies? From a car? What?
Ask HN: Is there an editor plugin/tool that lets me record a 'code journey'?
Sometimes when I'm exploring code that I need to edit, it would be nice to be able to craft a 'journey' through different places in the codebase that I could easily jump forward or back through to easily follow along with what's going on so I can more easily reason about the changes I'll need to make.

Like say there's a react component in file A that sends an event to an xstate state machine in file B and then that has a number of state transitions that result all in different places in that file, it would be nice to be able to create a sequence of bookmarks so to speak between each of these places and then be able to easily jump forward and backward in that sequence in order to more easily reason about the code.

Does anybody know of tools like this?
I totally agree! I run a data science department at a corporation and it's amazing how much of our job is done on our laptops. I have a Dell Precision. When I need more power (a very rare situation), I can spin up a GPU cloud server and complete my big analysis for under $5.
Judgment Allows App Store Developers to Link to Alternative Payment Methods
Doodle 0.6.0 Supports Desktop
The nuclear weapons we have now are WAY more powerful than the ones used on Japan, and only two were dropped. An all out modern nuclear war would be a lot more devastating.
My experience in having a polygraph test applied to me after the business I worked at was robbed is that the results absolutely have no bearing on how the cops act afterward. They only bring you in for that in order to tell you that you failed, and should confess now in order to secure a lighter sentence.

Had I not had a family friend who was an ex-police officer, I would've been absolutely scared shitless during that experience. Even knowing they were going to do it, I was still absolutely terrified.

It's a fucking travesty that they are allowed to use pseudo-science mumbo-jumbo to terrify people into confessing. I lost all faith in the US police system in 2001 when I had to go through that. I have zero faith in their ability or even willingness to be 'the good guys.'
Mass produced clothes are significantly cheaper than barrels. Several orders of magnitude.
Personal hot take on meritocracy:
I think that "talent" is a tricky thing. Meritocracy (which I might define as "how much you get/are paid/are given access to is based on your talent and/or contribution to society") based on talent sounds maybe sort-of fair if "talent" is either innate or purely self-driven.

If instead "talent" is (primarily) about the quality and extent of your training/schooling (and there's a lot of research to suggest that in most domains, it is) than even a very effective meritocracy is going to (IMO) perpetuate wealth and class disparities (5-year-olds don't decide to go to a great preschool and pay for it themselves, their parents do).

If I were a wizard trying to make a society with lots of upwards mobility I'd make it a lot harder to transmit generational wealth/privilege and try a lot harder to make sure everyone has the same resources/opportunities. I'm sure that would come with a ton of its own problems (even outside of just pissing people off), but it does seem worth at least acknowledging that any kind of merit-based assessment of people is going to be super biased towards those with wealth and privilege.

It seems very unlikely to me that an apocalypse scenario would lead to a _more_ merit-based society - rather that it would wipe out a lot of social protections & aids that _do_ exist (both from the government and civil society at large) for those currently at the bottom of the economic ladder. Whether we'd go feudal or just kinda-worse-than-we-are-now I certainly have no idea.
After spending a ton of time with React/Javascript/Html/CSS it worked in my brain like this:
- Game logic is your Javascript
- Animations/Models/Textures are your CSS
- Game objects (i.e. the character you control, NPCs) are like React components
- Levels/Maps are your "database"

Now that I've typed that out, it almost doesn't make much sense. But that's how it fit together in my brain.
Not surprising it's a repeat -- it's a fascinating article. It's got it all - action, adventure, hubris and the illusion of knowledge.