skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human problems can always be redefined. This reminds me of something on (the old) SSC, about how new psychological frameworks for treatment always look promising at discovery, then tail off in effectiveness down to the rest of the pack as they're adopted more widely. The author here has something to give: enthusiasm, understanding, compassion, and it's not surprising that he is finding outsized results.

My own experience with procrastination is one of failing to clear mental hurdles. I always did assignments at the last minute, and relied on adrenaline and unconscious skill to carry me over the finish line. The bar eventually got high enough that I couldn't clear it in one late-night coffee-fueled panic, and I started balking at the line.
I looked into Clickhouse for OLAP. Our main database would be PostgreSQL unfortunatly their MaterializedPostgresql does not support TOAST, which is a major downside, considering we are TEXT/JSONB heavy users.

Edit: I tested it but for some reason either the docs are strange or wrong. but TOAST tables are actually replicated?! or at least I see the data?
I saw your previous post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28495622:

> Scrolling up inside an input box while the page is at the top of the screen causes unintentional pull-to-refresh

I saw this too, has it been reported?

> Most recently visited page is not restored when closing and reopening the app, even though it's saved to the history (closed as wontfix)

What's the issue URL? I want to read the history and maybe complain too.
Recommend reading the whole story: https://blog.windscribe.com/ukrainian-server-seizure-a-comme...
I understand the desire to use trust-on-first-use to get rid of certificate authorities (some of the most dispicable and untrustworthy organizations around, and the largest security hole in TLS). However trust-on-first-use basically hands any long-term man-in-the-middle a complete victory. Authoritarian regimes are going to require ISPs to mitm every connection from first use, and hand over whatever data is desired to the secret police.

CAA, Key Pinning, certificate transparency all bring the risk of CA abuse way down without opening a huge new vector of ISP abuse.
There's also KDB and KGDB (he eventually conceded that having a debugger in the main tree was for the best).

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.16/dev-tools/kgdb.html
You're confusing two different things:

-The purchase price of an item (that happens to be paid in monthly installments)

-The monthly cost of owning an item, expressed as price/lifetime (looking only at purchase price, and ignoring maintenance etc.)

For example, if you pay for a car in 96 monthly payments, that does not mean the car will last 96 months. And the car definitely won't last longer if the number of payments is increased to 192.
Do you have a solution for these certificates expiring which:

(a) Doesn't involve creating a different certificate which never expires, and

(b) Still works if a user leaves a device powered off in storage for a few years

If so I'd love to hear it!
It's normal wording in financial market discourse. You can look up coverage of Archegos, Lehmann/08 financial crisis, 2015 Chinese market crash etc for other situations where it was used heavily to describe either events of the time or highlight possible outcomes.
Sure, but you can still track those individuals through the block chain and freeze all their other "classic" assets in the US. All I'm saying is that the argument that it's a good "anonymous" form of currency is not all that true. That's not to say that there aren't other currencies out there that prioritize anonymity (e.g. Monero), but when we're focusing on Bitcoin here.
Past related threads:

Laziness Does Not Exist - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27398182 - June 2021 (1 comment)

Laziness Does Not Exist - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23761968 - July 2020 (1 comment)

Laziness Does Not Exist but unseen barriers do - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17720674 - Aug 2018 (10 comments)

Laziness Does Not Exist - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17230047 - June 2018 (6 comments)
Show HN: 7GUIs in Vanilla HTML, CSS, JavaScript
HTTP supports extensibility via HTTP headers and methods.

Gemini to not be evolved:

* HTTP is now for interactivity, complex clients, WebGL, Webassembly, ...

* Gemini is for a segregated simpler web: links and text.
NeXT was, but Carbon and its remnants were not produced at NeXT. Carbon is long gone, but those remnants still exist in iTunes/the various apps split off from it.

And being multiplatform doesn’t suggest the absence of platform-specific code. I’ve hypothesized recently (to some chagrin) that Apple probably still maintains a skunkworks version of macOS for PPC, as insurance. It would be silly if they didn’t, given the history. So, probably yeah there’s a bunch of PPC code in macOS, but I’d bet it’s generally quite identifiable.
Addendum: I gave this some more thought and realized that actually, even as I have the compiler implemented right now, the else clause above is redundant because an expressive if/else with no else defaults to nil for that case:

const z = if (x != nil) { x + 2 } // comes out to number|nil

So that's less verbose and may be acceptable as-is. You also shouldn't need to chain the syntax for multiple values:

const z = if (x != nil && y != nil && z != nil) {
x + y + z
}

There may also be room to make the () optional like Rust does, or maybe just dropping the {} would be better. I'll have to see how each affects parsing and readability
What do they do with them? Doesn’t seem like something you renovate and resell?
Yes, we do have plenty of raw materials to make electricity for the whole world. For instance, over the lifetime of a solar panel, the amount of silicon needed to generate 1kWh of electricity is approximately 1/1000th that of the amount of coal, plus the silicon isn't burned up (but can be recycled). https://www.freeingenergy.com/do-we-have-enough-materials-to...

So in fact, it requires a whole lot less raw materials (even when you include the other materials needed in a solar panel and all the processing required) to provide human civilization with solar electricity (even with storage) than with coal.
Discussed at the time:

As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15813107 - Nov 2017 (137 comments)
I imagine Botnets may even have an interest in updating the devices themselves..
Honest question: what do you envision happening if Library Genesis becomes widely known and people looking for e-books make that their first stop instead of Amazon or another store or the public library? In this thread I see discussion about the technical aspects, scientific research aspects, and censorship aspects, but nothing about what the economic effects will be if you're successful.
lagrange has inline images. it doesn't prefetch them, but when you click an image link they get displayed inline.

https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange (not affiliated)
So widgets anywhere is kind of a step backwards for iPadOS ... if you place any widgets on a homescreen page it forces the "large icon" grid on that page :( Since this happens with no warning, any "extra" icons are shoved onto the next page.

Apple really needs to do something about the homescreen management, it's been over a decade now and we're still subjected to the infuriating drag one at a time mechanism. Does nobody at Apple use more than one screen of apps?

The mechanism that once existed in iTunes where you could drag and drop with a mouse among your available app homescreens was the closest thing to a usable interface. But it boggles the mind that there isn't at least a way from the edit homescreen dialog to just select an icon and "Assign to Page X" option.
The risk is, older devices. Many devices aren't updated anymore, so they won't have newer root certs. You could argue that those users shouldn't be using those devices with the web, but they do.
> deliberately, knowingly manipulative and deceitful

I would argue that none of those traits correspond with laziness in any way. In fact, it takes a lot of work to become really good at these skills (for most people), and performing them is not lazy, but it can appear so to someone who doesn't realize they are being manipulated.
Engineers create light-emitting plants that can be charged repeatedly
In 1998, these SF men got a tattoo to snag free tacos for life
The alt text on this one is impressively glib, even coming from xkcd.
If you're targeting general consumers (ie, not the HN crowd or only people who upgrade their phones every year to two), there's still double digit percentage of Android devices in the wild running older than version 8 Android.

https://gs.statcounter.com/android-version-market-share/mobi...

Some of the inexpensive phones you can buy new right now (where I am) come with Android 7.
Everyone is disinclined to work. That's what makes it work, and why you have to pay people to do it. The definition is a tautology.
OpenNIC isn't "decentralized" or "distributed" in any meaningful sense. It's the same architecture as ICANN DNS circa 2000, but run by hobbyists. (And in practice, it's mostly hosted on cheap cloud servers. No anycast IPs, no load balancing -- just few enough users that they haven't had to deal with any serious scaling issues yet.)
> tried using NixOS

Yes, I use it daily and it’s been the most reliable distro I’ve ever used. My current install is 6 months old, completely shadowing anything I ever got before that. It’s package repository nixpkgs is the largest and most up to date out there, when counting unique packages.

The learning curve might be very steep in the beginning, but it’s very much worth it!
Great app and great execution, especially showing comments next to the books. Is there a chance you can open source some of it?

What are your future plans?
Mega Summer's End
Gopher was my intro to the internet. Coming from BBSs it was very natural. I loved Gopher and I am happy to see it's ideology progress to the next evolutionary step. I am aware that that the protocol still exists, but I'm hoping Gemini can bring back the desire for text content. I don't ever want to watch a video of a solution that can be written down in 3 lines.
Would you prefer an OS that lets Microsoft spy on you, or an OS that lets the entire world spy on you?

Obviously the correct answer is "neither," but if you're deciding between Windows 7 or 11, that isn't an option you seem to be considering. Random people on the internet in countries with lower costs of living than yours will happily install malware on your computer to drain your bank account or cryptolocker you for a couple thousand bucks. Microsoft makes way more money than that (as does every single Microsoft engineer) and doesn't care about attacking you, at least not in that way.

(Also keep in mind that Microsoft surely has a bug tracker with a pile of WONTFIX'd security vulnerabilities in Windows 7 that they just didn't get around to fixing before EOL, and almost certainly that bug tracker is less locked down internally than raw telemetry data, so if you assume Microsoft or its engineers do care about attacking you, that's probably easier on Windows 7.)
> I'm curious what the author thinks about the navy seals

Probably that it weeds out a lot of people with seen or unseen issues who would be perceived by society as lazy.
Trust on first use combined with preloaded public key lists is the best of both worlds in my opinion. You may say that browsers made in authoritarian countries would sabotage the preload lists, but they could also bundle illegitimate CAs or break HTTPS in other ways anyway.
The executive can't just use a magic trick to bypass Congress without consequences. A coin by definition is something that is spent for real goods and services. At best this platinum disk is a medallion or a collectible. Should Biden's face be on the front with "In magical thinking we trust on the back?".
Also, not mentioned, when award-winning white supremacist Henry Ford said “international bankers,” he meant, “Jews.” He wrote a whole book about it.

So he made this proposal because Jews.
What I Wish I Knew for My First Day on PostgreSQL
Smallest Delphi 2 installation is ~39MB, though that can still be cut a lot. For example the installer says it requires Borland Database Engine (~5MB) but it doesn't unless you use the database functionality. However the CD contains the uncompressed full installation files anyway so you can copy the files manually and check what it works by trial and error. You can get it around 4MB by doing so and shrink it even further by rebuilding the component palette to remove all the database stuff and deleting the database-related units (assuming you do not care about DB stuff of course).

I remember back in the day i made an "install" set of 7 floppies (more than necessary but i wanted some extra stuff) to use with my 386 (which had no working CD ROM) for when my parents used the main PC. BTW that 96MB of memory most likely made a ton of difference, mine had 4MB and was horribly slow with Delphi 2 :-P
Past threads about 1816. Others?

Tambora Erupts in 1815 and Changes World History (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853116 - Oct 2020 (8 comments)

Year Without a Summer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22400480 - Feb 2020 (131 comments)

The Year Without a Summer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18477459 - Nov 2018 (1 comment)

How a volcanic eruption made 1816 the year without a summer (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17949772 - Sept 2018 (1 comment)

1816, the Year without a Summer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15768951 - Nov 2017 (14 comments)

How a Volcanic Eruption in 1815 Darkened the World but Colored the Arts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10118706 - Aug 2015 (4 comments)

The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9619876 - May 2015 (2 comments)

Tambora – The Volcano That Changed the Course of History - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7564442 - April 2014 (3 comments)

1816: The Year Without a Summer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5779911 - May 2013 (1 comment)
Fair enough.

I tried it out under the assumption that it was an attempt at a better mainstream search engine, but I guess I should have paid deeper attention to the name :-)
This is getting into ontology. I think the point is that laziness is a meaningless term with no explanatory power, and therefore may as well not exist.
Seems to me that there are two problems.

As jobs and facilities are becoming more centralized. Cities are expanding and rural towns are shrinking. So even without any population growth, houses that people actually want become more expensive.

And the second problem is the expectation that a piece of land near a city will always be more in demand tomorrow than it is today. This is almost certainly true based on the first point and doubled by the fact that populations are still expanding. This expectation means you can buy a house for way more than you believe it is worth since you know it will be worth even more later.

The only solution I can possibly see is moving more people from single family houses in to apartment buildings which allows virtually infinite supply within close range to jobs and facilities that people demand.
Oh well. I'm sure running the Development codebase as the defacto Phase 3 trial on the general public, as sloppily as possible and shouting down any possible bad news has been well worth it. Well worth it.
What’s in a Package
Punks in the Beerlight
> IE displaying a blank page with no errors whenever a CSS file of more than 4kb was loaded

This must predate IE5 right? I’m absolutely certain I was shipping larger single CSS files without hitting this.
You just got marketed towards. It's not a success. It's a huge blunder that is pissing off the 99% for the 1%'s gain.
You can buy a HSA, which is basically an non-taxable interest bearing savings account used to pay healthcare expenses where your contributions to it also decrease your taxable income.

So, it’s not insurance, but it’s a way to essentially decrease your out of pocket co-pays especially if it rolls over year to year and earns interest.
> Jesus that escalated quickly.

Indeed it did and it reminds me of a lot of conversations I’ve seen on Twitter with unreasonable people who hold the entire world to their personal ideals, everything else be damned.

Just don’t engage.
Newest Proof that P ≠ NP
Not sure about the US but fixed-rate term in Australia is about 5 years. Nobody would give you a 30 year fixed rate.

You'd eventually have to pay 6% on the $1M.
I have a ~million dollar fixed rate mortgage. If rates go up, I’ll be sad that the value of my house went down. On the other hand, I’ll be very happy to have a large fixed rate loan. Let’s call my mortgage rate X%, and let us assume that rates go to X+5. Then I can invest money to earn at (X+5)%, which means my loan is essentially a $50k/year annuity. My only wish would be that I could make the loan even bigger.

On the other hand, if the fed decides to allow inflation instead of raising rates, then the value of my loan will melt away and my home’s price will keep going up (that’s what has happened so far).
Debian seconded, but with XFCE here.
You may try to imagine 3d objects (shadows of 4d) in consecutive slices. E.g. the foreground 3d scene contains a dot, middle scenes contain bigger and then again smaller spheres down to the background scenewith a dot. By looking at the entire setup from the side you’ll notice that spheres grow and shrink in the same fashion the 2d sphere’s x/y’s do. Similar to this, but in 3d: https://www.google.ru/search?q=sphere+slices&tbm=isch

A 4-cube would look like just few identical 3-cubes from the side, if oriented face-to-3-space. If not, it will be series of prisms or platonic solid alikes.

It doesn’t help much with shapes that have complex 4d-edges, or with higher dimensions, but may give an idea. Also, open two gifs from this link http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/math/4D/folding/welcome.html side by side and you’ll quickly get the concept of rotation of a solid around 4th axis.
hrrrmm down a bunch of points across the day from where i began. anyone care to comment or contribute something of material here to discuss?
From a source claiming to be a MS insider[1], reason number 2 for docx was possibly to make Word docs hard to render properly outside of Word. I remember how easy switching to Linux would have been years ago if OpenOffice (LibreOffice) would just properly save and open Word docs. Same dirty tricks they have been using for decades to sabotage competition. I think Firefox had some issue recently with them treating Edge preferentially too. Really need some antitrust probes.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Microsoft-create-the-Open-Offi...
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The question nobody asks is if some code is even worth reading.

I recall a project that was offshored where a local team was later asked to add functionality to it.

The code was so bad, it was useless to read it. The execs who decided to outsource in the first place did everything they could to get the local team to build on top of what they purchased. Finally, they brought in a very expensive consultant who told them flat out the only way he was going to touch it was a total rewrite. People were furious. In the end, he won and it ended up being a complete rewrite completed faster than the initial offshored project. For half the price.
yes! goto is one of the 2 things python got wrong. The other is the ability to deliver end user executables.
Is labeling someone the opposite of lazy ("tenacious, hard-working, full of grit") similarly intellectually lazy? The same types of factors go into their non-average behavior, just inverted. And it can be a negative trait, although it's less common for that effect to manifest.
See “Acceptable Use Policy”
Previously I used an ephemeral database for all environments except stage/prod. The ephemeral DBs just ran in docker containers. In all environments, we used flyway to manage the database. Flyway can run again and again and won't do anything if your database is already up to date. For the ephemeral databases it could initialize them from scratch in the same way.
We should move to never expires. What good does a cert that expires in 15 years do other than setup a ticking time bomb.

On the other hand, leaf certs should expire every day. Or at most a week. Move to new root certs when the tech calls for it (like SHA1->SHA256)
Going of the bank calculators, they all say that they will let me borrow 6x my income.
Check out David Goggins. It can also push people to get past their issues.
Your original comment starts with:

> The author directly stated seeing repeated procrastination in many situations, yet stated that laziness does not exist.

This phrasing, with its use of "yet" to contrast procrastination and laziness, strongly implies that from your perspective procrastination IS laziness.

So, while you didn't literally say "procrastination is identical with laziness" maybe you can see how you might have given that impression?

For what it's worth, I agree with you that the title "Laziness Does Not Exist" is not literally true; "laziness" is a real term that people use to describe behavior, and it "exists" in that sense, at least. Do you feel there is some deeper relevance to the term, though? For example, do you think it's more accurate to say that "laziness" is an inherent character trait that explains behavior, rather than merely describing it?
It’s kind of believable. Not to sound all old, but before we had preprocessors and build tools, we memorized all the quirks and hacks. It was common to spend a lot of effort on compat, but most of it for weird edge cases that weren’t well known, or for being ambitious about moving the web forward before it was reliable to do.
Is it not possible that different people will have an easier or harder time understanding different kinds of concepts? Maybe IQ favors a particular type of "non-visual" thinking. Or maybe IQ is just another pile of bullshit from the field of physchology.
You’re living in some kind of world very different than mine. See “Acceptable Use Policies”, which are standard practice for equipment owned by large organizations lent to their employees, staff, and students. Even universities have these policies for loaned equipment.
I generally find that the subject-verb idea is powerful, well represented in langauge, & helps form a better groundwork for others to elaborate the pattern on top of. I also don't see grpc or whatever as a good counter-answer/clash to this kind of anti-meaning nihilism: api design there often ends up facing many of the same quandries.
My 2012 iPad is stuck on iOS 9 and can't load many websites anymore, such as Reddit, because its Safari version is too old to support the "let" keyword, etc. This is one of two reasons Apple only allows Safari on iPhones. Besides this forced obsolescence, the other reason is that Apple can auction to the highest bidder who is the default search engine on Safari; Googe pays billions to be the default search.
Have you managed to boost oxidative stress removal? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4117056/
As a side tangent, Oregon is a part of the world where volcanoes do just sort of spring up practically overnight, geologically speaking. Mt Bachelor was formed between 18,000 and 8,000 years ago, according to wikipedia.

They can also disappear literally overnight. Mt Mazama erupted about 7,700 years ago and is now Crater lake. There were a lot of eruptions around Newberry caldera around that same time, and there've been eruptions as recently as about 1,300 years ago.