skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what I'm doing. If I'm reading/studying and trying to mostly absorb material, I usually listen to either synthwave (and related: darkwave, horrowave, retrowave, whatever you want to call it), or classical.

If I'm writing code or doing something active like that, the above applies, but add heavy metal to the list of things I might be listening to. But if I'm listening to metal it's almost always only bands and songs that I'm extremely familiar with (eg, have listened to a given song hundreds or thousands of times in my life) as those are less likely to be distracting to me, as opposed to something new where I feel obligated to really pay attention to the music.

One other option is I will sometimes put on a movie that I've watched many, many, many times (eg, The Matrix, Hackers, Antitrust, Tron:Legacy, The Social Network, Rad, Vision Quest, etc) minimize the viewer window and just have the audio in my headphones.

Very rarely I might go with some sort of basically "white noise" track like

"Howling snowstorm and crackling fire" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=volQGswo3dg

"Cyberpunk city sounds" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5zX1eRKEDM&

"Twin Peaks Double R Diner" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npVellnR6D8

"Coffee shop" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMAPTo7RVCo (unless I'm actually sitting in a real-life coffee shop, which I quite often am)

etc.
Why Malcolm Gladwell Recommends the University of Austin
No. The resulting soil is mostly carbon.

I think....
With such specific timing, my suspicions would immediately jump to oversubscribed cable internet and the ISP doing some shenanigans to prioritize non-streaming over streaming traffic in some way.
Hugo pushed to S3
An exponential increase is exactly what will happen, once it reaches a certain threshold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
That is a stupid (as in based on lack of information and wrong assumptions) take. You can have denser, more vertical housing that is pleasant to live in and very beautiful. Think Paris, or any large Italian city. We have multi story tall buildings with commercial space at the street level, the buildings are usually very nice to look at (better than any single family home I've owned or seen in the Bay Area) and are more conducive to meeting your neighbors and generating a lively community.

They are also better for the environment as they are more energy efficient, produce neighborhood that don't require cars for every errand and reduce the need for expanding the city footprint which lead to public transport being more effective.
MSE media source extensions - supported on macOS and iPadOS but not iOS for an unknown reason (was available off by default in one iOS beta though).
Databricks isn't open source, as they keep hold of all the IP that makes it much better than OS Spark. Whether you buy Snowflake or Databricks, you're buying proprietary software.
> Just look at sweden for example

Lucky for me I happen to be Swedish and can call you out on that absolute garbage FUD post that doesn't in the slightest reflect the general Swedish opinion of the parental leave system.

Du borde skämmas, dagisnivå.
never attribute to malice what can be blamed on incompetence.
Thanks! I am not American so I actually didn't know why that expression was used. Considering that my comment got flagged I take it that it's a sensitive topic in the US?
Rates are so low that it's probably investors buying more houses.
What we have right now is only half way working why not give it ample funds to fix it? We have judges to decide if a government dept is overstepping its bounds. To always say "bureaucracy is bad, always" is not a very good tautology.
Lab Study: Cheese and grease effects on pizza box recycling [pdf]
We saw this in the 2020 democrat presidential primary. The KEY issue was M4A or not. Ultimately, the more progressive plans (Sanders and Warren) lost out to the more conservative approach of a single payer option.

IDK why this happened, though. WTF "loves" their insurance provider?

Why Biden got the nod is somewhat beyond me. My best guess is that most of the democrats in the primaries figured he was less scary than a socialist for middle of the road voters.
Its not their choice they use UPS for shipping which would tell you where the package is.

Also, on the back of my iPad Pro 12.9 2021 it says "Designed by Apple in California Manufactured in China". Apple doesn't hide this point at all.

The Mac Pro though is Manufactured in Texas domestically and outside of the US it is manufactured in China.
Bitcoin is a protocol much in the same way HTTP is - so just like there are multiple implementations of web browsers, there are also multiple bitcoin implementations. This is the first in C.
It's public video - there's no copyright to claim.
What about the ocean?
My experience in shifting political and sociological landscapes drastically is limited, like my experience with solving world hunger, but trying to solve this kind of problem by limiting its spread isn't a reliable solution.

The problem is that the modern kid is isolated and yet constantly taunted with the online presence of everyone around him/her. Every boy is a trillionaire crypto genius that drives an M4 and every girl looks like Angelina Jolie. Reality is genuinely slipping away for millions of kids and they are slowly delegated to only being able to make friends online.

I'm sure that the idealistic world that they live on on the internet doesn't help when it contrasts so strongly with their day-to-day lives when going to school. It's probably like a constant culture shock - being the bee's knees for eight hours a day, a kid in an institution that he/she never signed up to go to for another eight, and then trying to reason through the oil and water mixture of the two in the last eight.
A fellow J CLASS aficionado
I specifically named a charity that is widely considered to be among the most transparent, with the most real-world effect.

It would appear, by your metric, that no such organisations actually exist. Hence the invitation to expand on the onus you require of individuals to prevent unnecessary deaths.

The utility of government exists to cater for the citizens, regardless of who they are. Referring to the underpinning mechanism for providing such utility as theft, is strongly indicative of either a lack of working theory, or a desire for anarchism.
My favorite is how the (idiotically hidden-in-the-first-place) X often gets its state reversed, so it DISappears when you roll over the notification, instead of the opposite... making the thing impossible to dismiss until you jostle it out of its backward state.

And if you have multiple notifications, there's no option to dismiss the top one to see what the others are... you have to dismiss them ALL.

Fucking retarded.
The main point that voids the entire “dislike brigading is toxic/bad for creators’ mental health” argument is that the comment section is still open. Who’s to say brigading won’t just move there instead? I’m betting people get hurt more by negative comments compared to plain dislikes.

Seems like a strawman argument they’re using to cater better to brands/advertisers...
Judges, yes. Jurys? Not always.

They can be directly or indirectly intimidated if the trial is high profile enough and if their identities are leaked.

With Chauvin's trial, the jury was indirectly intimidated by the public demands for a guilty verdict from politicians like Maxine Waters and other public figures.

In the Rittenhouse trial the judge caught someone in the courtroom surreptitiously filming the jury presumably to leak their identities. It's definitely possible to get a biased court.
To what degree, I wonder, does this negatively impact our atmosphere, pollutionwise
I don't get this take.

Russia has had solid space capabilities for decades and decades. Did any nations have any doubt that Russia had the ability to take out satellites if they wanted to?
Scrypto Developer Workshop Recording – Ape Radix
That's funny, the swedish keyboard can handle éèÉÈúùóò and so on, with deadkeys but we don't need much of them. Also üîñ on top of the native ÅÄÖ. The keyboard has five deadkeys concentrated on two buttons with shift and altgr alternatives. The only special keys we realy need is åäö and é. Very seldom à or á, forget which one. And then usually it's a borrowed word from french or italian.

Currencies also: €£$

The annoying part as a programmer is the way to get to {[]} with altgr button and right pinkie finger, that takes dexterity... Oh, and <> that are bottom left beside z on the same button with shift.
There's a level of "craft" to many things - quality of work that increases the more one practices at it. Not arbitrary "I taste food anyway" more like "I learn to identify the flavours and cooking techniques".

In visual presentation, there's also the human preferences - movement (eg Van Gogh and his inspirations including traditional Chinese and Japanese brush art and its attentions on wind and wave), symmetry (almost all cultures, and rebels against such as Picasso), detailed representation, and difficulty to craft.

But I know little of art, other than I like going to galleries from time to time.
In code, there's cleanliness, efficiency, symmetry with documentation and effects and - the end result. All of these take craft, and - it can show. The more consistent and reliable, the better the craft, as well.
Oh one can get into aesthetic tastes as well - how well a particular medium is for use to be effective, the different art and craft in all the sources and contexts. Not everyone will see the craft in the construction of paper, or the laying of a foundation, but those who know the craft - may. And it can matter to those who wish do to work they value, even if never seen by another.
I haven't been watching the trial so forgive me this question, but what does it mean for the found round to match the ammunition in the glock? That they were both 9mm? Or that they were both the same brand and variety of 9mm?
Re-register for what? I’m American only thing I had to do was fix my iPhone sign in, I still had the iPhone 6s at the time.
Ivermectin has long fallen out of patent protection and generics can be manufactured. Anyone is free to make it and apply to the FDA for authorization to use it as Covid treatment - just bring the data. Obviously, that hasn't happened. No one has made an attempt.

But you are here to disparage a company that has developed a novel antiviral treatment and has applied for the authorization.
Social-signaling games explain lots of weird fashion shit. See also: recent-model-year obviously-expensive trucks; expensive rims and other mostly-cosmetic car mods; "legible" clothing generally. Lots of it's about externalizing "identity" to ensure the observer can easily tell "who you are"—lots more is simply about conspicuous consumption, literally showing you have money to burn (except that if you just burned it, that wouldn't leave you anything to show people that you'd burnt it—you have money to burn, but not enough to burn without making sure people know you did so, which is the domain of the actually-rich, for whom having tons of money is assumed such that overt attempts to demonstrate it just look desperate and raise questions)

It even happens within counter-culture groups or those who claim that fashion doesn't matter, over time—they develop clothing-related signals and in-group markers. Consider the tech bro in the $140 hoodie and $120 rock-climbing-oriented "tech pants" and $300 hipster throwback work-boots telling you very seriously that they immediately dismiss anyone who comes to an interview in a suit, as a poseur.
Looking at the downvotes, lots think its usual in Russia for Citizens to just drive Tanks across the border to visit relatives. BUK Missiles, its just something every Russian farmer keeps in stock for personal defense...
Stopped reading at Kafka. Java technology that combines bad networking with bad messaging and bad queueing.

I would have expected one of the big Internet websites to use better technology.
Such thing as 'good' taste (in art)? *Is there 'good' art? Are there 'good' artists?

Graham says:
If no such thing as 'good' taste >>> no such thing as 'good' art >>> no such thing as being 'good' at making art
You could still have popular art, but not 'good' art.
In a vaccum, on the whole, people would generally say Davinci's art was better than a 4-year-old's *probably because it seems more impressive or skillful

*Art-skill is the effectiveness of conveying a concept to the observer or illiciting a desired response from the observer

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someone basically commented:
You can be extrememly skilled at making some obscure art that no one else could make, but almost no one likes, but if the target niche receives it well, you made good art.

You can make popular art with virtually no effort, that literally anyone else could've made.

somone responded:
> and there are many productions which take virtually no effort which people love
It only takes a quick trip to reddit to see this in action.
In a thread where people were talking about the jails and the overall penal system, someone said "heh...penal" and it had several Golds and thousands of points.
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someone basically commented:
People who like Pop music are regarded as having horrible taste, yet Pop music is wildly popular.

*Are the people who make Pop music 'good' at making music? Yes, they effectively make music designed to be consumed by the masses

*Then, why do the people who like Pop music have bad taste? Well, you'd assume that if they're choosing to listen to widely consumable music of their own volition, rather than using their time appreciating more sophisticated music, that takes more knowledge to appreciate, they probably don't have good taste.

*Taste is the ability to recognize _power_ in art. If you can recognize power in art without it already being widely appreciated, but you expect it to down the line, and it does become popular down the line, you have good taste.
ohhhhh, a good old-fashioned DB benchmark shit-fight!!!

wow. it's been a while since we've had one of these!!! paging Oracle, MS SQL Server, SAP, Sybase, etc, etc....

I'm gonna make some popcorn and crack open a beer!!!
Whats so gross about an attribute to get a string populated?
What were the mistakes?
When incompetence becomes a pattern then is it truly different from malice?
Check out https://tailwindcss.com/ — it's been gaining popularity as a CSS system and comes with great defaults
There are seals in the package that you can visually inspect if you believe that your package has been modified. If you still suspect that someone repackaged the device I would say to put it in DFU mode (if you have another Mac or have a friends Mac) and reinstall the device firmware and then reinstall Macos in recovery mode. Or just go to an Apple Store and let them do it for you if you can't get access to another Mac.
I said by the end of the century, not 2021. Fission plants are the answer until fusion becomes practical.
I'm pretty sure you don't need to look at inflation estimates to see that car prices are actually pretty bonkers right now. But here is a graph for the sake of it: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SETA02
I clearly hit some kind of cultural thing here, I am French Canadian and no one ever says the equivalent to "we are pregnant" ("nous sommes enceintes"?).

Maybe it was also in bad taste to ask this considering the tone of the article, anyway I got plenty of responses. Sorry if I offended anyone :(
Why not? I've found this advice to be harmful. Lots of extreme malice happens under the cover of incompetence.
> I work in finance too and hate it. I'm not sure anywhere else would be better though.

There are definitely better options than finance. I worked in finance (investment banking) for years. Didn't like it either.

The obvious next move is to a small/medium size fintech shop. Ideally one not encumbered by regulatory straight jackets and that is making a cool product. These can be more agile and responsive to customer needs and a lot of fun to work at.
I've heard stories about the difficulty about payments at AirBnB, where the suppliers are local people across the globe in different languages with varying levels of access to financial services. It's one of the things that inspired the Coinbase founder, who was an ex-AirBnB employee, to start his company.
php is not going anywhere, just getting stronger and gobbling up anything that gets in its path
For Part B drugs there is no middle man beyond the doctors themselves. They buy the drugs and then bill Medicare for them. They can sometimes negotiate with drug companies to get discounts.

However, the government, by law, demands stiff discounts anyways. Medicare only pays the average of what other customers pay.

Then stack on the 340B law and drug companies give the government substantial discounts on the back end.
US Senators to Amend Bitcoin Reporting Changes in Infrastructure Bill
That’s literally the path that almost every electronic device I’ve purchased directly from China to the US has took for at least 10 years.
> I bet when it comes to your own healthcare you'll want your provider to do whatever it takes to keep you alive.

I can't say what I'd do with any certainty (hard to predict what people will do when death comes knocking), but I very much hope that I would choose a comfortable death over a shorter period of time, if the alternative is pain and a low quality of life for a somewhat longer period of time.

Please dispense with the "playing god" rhetoric. There are those who believe that any medical interventions at all constitute "playing god". This has nothing to do with playing god, and everything to do with finding the most humane, compassionate outcomes. I dare say the outcome OP and his wife experienced was neither humane nor compassionate, not toward them or toward their child. And on top of that pain, now the couple may be saddled with medical bills that could destroy them financially.
Don't feel bad, this is pretty common to hear for us with other languages than english :-)

My go to solution for this always used to be compose keyboards on my Atari. I only recently found out (from hackernews) that there is something for windows too. [1]

[1] http://wincompose.info/
Honestly, so what? Is email a scam because it has damaged peoples lives?

This kind of logic is how we ended up here in the first place.
Spotlight is also amazing, but like Preview I suppose it doesn't count as a hidden gem.

Finder's column view is also excellent. I think it's the best way to navigate the filesystem through GUI; the way it displays nested directories is just super nice.
It makes me wonder why other OS don't haven't copied this layout in their filesystem explorer.

Grapher.app is also perhaps a hidden gem.
Social Media and the Feminization of Society (2009)
I LOVE fixing bugs and improving existing software...hence, everyone thinks I'm a douche and I never get to do what I love.
Would people be surprised? I think foxconn factory conditions which manufacturer apple products have been on the public conscious for several years.
Here's perhaps the oldest, most embarrassing, and dogshit-stupid defect of the iPhone:

NO NOTIFICATIONS OF MISSED CALLS.

Seriously... WTF. You can have the thing alert you up to 10 times for missed TEXTS, but NOT CALLS. "Messages" and "Phone" have almost exactly the same UI in Settings, too; but the one for Phone is missing the entire section for notifications.
Solidity or anything smart contract related
> I wonder what portion of the reading population recognizes that all roads for ‘clean firm’ power lead to nuclear.

The paper highlights at least 2 other possible roads. The point that we need to understand the need, compare the options, and invest in at least one of them.
There is a style of argumentation on the Internet that I find really bewildering.

Someone asserts a fact, someone else counters with incompatible (asserted) facts, and then the first person comes up with more things in support of their original claim.

How is that supposed to work, in the abstract?

If I say swans are white, and you say "there are black swans everywhere where I live", what is the relevance of me countering with evidence (of whatever quality) of swans being white?

For most of my life, I've separated this sort of behavior from "real life" and kind of assumed that there were "internet people" who always will be inscrutable to me.

But disturbingly I've run into a few people IRL in recent years who do it too.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan
Solid parenting advice, or a consulting technique: the “wish list” from “How to talk so kids will listen, how to listen so kids will talk”, or putting something that seems ridiculous into the backlog to keep the meeting moving.

Wonderful comment that brought this book and idea to my attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27468582
The Conference of the Birds
Yeah but now we can do it without having to allow macros.
I'll save you the read: "we don't know and we need more data".

My anecdotal data: I have a triple-vaccinated friend who tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday. They explicitly said they don't plan on getting additional boosters if they're not of greater efficacy.

It's clear that, in widespread usage, the protection rates that Pfizer and Moderna had initially claimed are wildly exaggerated. Even if the vaccine had the claimed 90% effectiveness, we're still less than 70% vaccinated (here in the USA, anyway[1]) and still battling surging numbers and breakout infections.

Get a booster if it makes you feel better, but know that it's still entirely possible for you to be infected and to spread the virus to others.[2]

[1]: https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-st...
[2]: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
The banks themselves launder money for organized crime. Why shouldn’t money laundering be available to the masses too?
I was under the impression that animals live in the ocean.
Depends on the scenario. Probably no point in stockpiling stuff. Stuff you normally use is probably sufficient. My guess is only a few scenarios would ruin non-sheilded tech and leave you alive. Especially if networks/infrastructure are fried, you're probably better off getting low tech alternatives.
To be fair, I'm not sure if the apprenticeship path is even available to immigrants, let alone known to them. They are still nebulous to me, and helping immigrants move here is my job.

Besides, the language requirements for apprenticeships is likely much stricter than for cushy office jobs.
Why should we care about anything MG thinks? He’s intellectually dishonest and a usurper of other’s ideas. And a joke of a leftist. A popularizer of twisted logic presented as cutting edge

One of many possible references to this:
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a26187/malcolm-g...
I like their honesty though it's in the small print "Not all features are available on all devices."
Why does everything have to be a coping mechanism. Why can't they just be desensitized because they deal with it so much?
That's kind of interesting, I got the impression that he'd somewhat deliberately gone low profile after mythbusters, so I would have thought this kind of "thought leader" role (it doesn't sound like he'll be publishing papers or giving lectures for the university) doesn't fit in with that.
I don't mind pedantic FF7 debates! I think Mako was Shinra's branding on the energy they obtained by mining the Lifestream via the Mako reactors; I don't think it was some natural force.

Edit: Hmmm.

"Mako (Japanese: 魔晄, Makō; literally meaning "magic light") is a liquid substance featured throughout Final Fantasy VII. It is the condensed form of lifestream and the primary source of energy used by human beings throughout the world. It is comparable to nuclear energy. Lifestream can condense into Mako via both natural and artificial processes. The terms "Mako" and "Lifestream" are often used interchangeably because one is a derivative of the other."

From here: https://finalfantasywiki.com/wiki/Mako