skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully agree with your first two paragraphs.

> I have a theory that the solution to this problem is for professionals (not just software engineers!) to write their own productivity apps

I agree with this in theory -- I love tools, tooling, and composition-based frameworks to roll your own tools. And I enjoy what you've done so far, especially the spaced repetition character system, which reminds me of my days learning kanji.

For me, at least, the risks I foresee are (1) I would be on the hook for maintaining the app if something goes wrong, (2) I would have to spend a lot of work making it look nice enough that it wouldn't bug me, and (3) I don't know if it would be flexible enough to accommodate changes in my workflow in the future.

I would love to see, for example, a tutorial on how to roll you own to-do app in 10 minutes and deploy it.
That's a myth that won't go away: http://livingthehistoryelizabethchadwick.blogspot.com/2013/0...
Releasing music on Spotify? Join here (100% perpetually free with no strings attached): https://brew.fm

I'm a software engineer and work at a HR startup in NYC. I started in music, first playing keys in a band in Europe, then building soft synths, which got me in touch with Korg, who got me in touch with Red Bull, who turned me into a game developer, and before I knew it I was a software engineer living in the US. Not sure how all of that happened, but the truth is, I miss working with artists.

Brew.fm is an attempt to help others turn their dreams into reality where I couldn't: make a living from music.

I started with a collaboration market place, after interviewing dozens of artists, and realizing some of them had a huge leg up compared to others, because of an early collab with an established artist.

It's pretty straight forward: you log in with Spotify, verify your artist account, and Brew.fm automatically imports all your tracks and turns them into collab requests. It will detect future releases as well, so no manual labor from your side needed other than those 2 steps. People can reach out through private chat after which you decide to share personal info (eg email) and arrange the collab.

So far 79 people signed up, very open to feedback.
Secure systems are lightweight kernels with thin UI layers, that’s part of how surface reduction is accomplished.

And yeah, it’s not going to have real world adoption soon. Neither did linux.

Every non-commercial OS starts out as a labour of love.

Good luck to them :)
... 3) forgetting stuff, as a crude approach to prioritization
Ask HN: What's a good problem solving framework/method?
Just looking for thoughts on this. Any books or blog posts are much appreciated.
Definitely not a sin - you know that past you maintained the car at safe levels and you didn’t choose to cut corners. You didn’t let yourself spill coffee and soda all over the car. And you can keep it running well over 100,000 miles. And this might be the first car your future children drive!
Agreed, but just be aware that your boss might enquire as to why you're unhappy and try to fix it.

In this situation just say you have an opportunity in another city and want to explore it, no need to say it's because the current city is terrible...
Bring plants/algae?
Gf – A GDB Front End
The reason isn't so much that xen doesn't support it but more so that graphics cards are not very well intended for isolation. Correct me if i'm wrong but i don't think you're supposed to compute 1 thing on a gpu and expect another thing to not get access. In recent time Qubes has made progress on making a GPU VM where you can compute on a secondary GPU, but it only works for amd currently.

I use nvidia every day with qubes, but just for display output. I sometimes see memory leaks where it will draw screen buffers from booting alternate OSes on another drive.
Oleksandre, you got an official response that this is by design. I explained why. This is a landing page, not a separate product, and the description of the plagiarism feature clearly states it's not for policing:

"...Our free plagiarism check will tell you whether or not your text contains duplicate content. Our Premium plagiarism check highlights passages that require citations and gives you the resources you need to properly credit your sources."
> Showing total size of subdirectories is expensive

To me the real obstacle isn't that it's expensive (I mean, you could ostensibly cache the size on disk for each directory, if not find some other clever algorithmic solution), but that the notion of "size of a directory" itself isn't all that meaningful in the presence of e.g. hardlinks.
Being productive can be lots of fun. To each their own of course.
Technically modern lenses are way more accurate than vintage ones, but photography is only partly about technicalities. Lenses are so sharp nowadays that now you can spend hundreds of dollars on "black pro mist" filters, which introduce diffusion into the image. Seems silly but people like the effect. Probably because most phone cameras today can produce sharper pictures than 40 year old SLR lenses and people have gotten used to it
This is why I love Toyota! I feel that buying things that last longer is as important for the environment and humanity as reducing emissions. Building things has a huge carbon footprint, and often a human rights ones as overseas mines often don’t take as good care of their staff as they should.
My 85-year-old mother caught Covid. Medical triage made her doctor useless
> I don't know what you're thinking of, but it isn't workers comp. That always gets paid without a fight.

No, it doesn't, which is why workers comp lawyers exist. Disputes occur over all of:

* was there a covered event

* whether particular injuries were due to the event

* whether particular interventions are medically appropriate

* Whether, and the extent to which, disability remains when the employee has achieved their permanent and stable level of recovery.
I make myself a cocktail about every other day, so I'm no stranger to drinking alone... but this smells like a very dangerous attitude about alcohol.

"No bartender to cut you off" - if that happens to you regularly and avoiding it is a big reason to drink alone? That sounds like problem drinking.
I’m not a crypto fan, but I’m not sure what that example demonstrates. A company made an overengineered gimmick just to show off their street cred; nothing came of it, just as they expected, and it was a waste of the engineering. I’m lost as to how this reflects poorly on the engineering technique.
I for one would love to know why there was a large spike in national security removals, and I'd also be interested to know if other search engines party anything similar to this.

Google's certainly not the search engine it once was, but for the most part it does at least tell you if it's censored the results. I mostly use Duck Duck Go, but there decidedly notice odd things occasionally -- like one or two results when searching for a part datasheet -- and that's not mentioning the whole Tianamen Square thing that happened recently.
Pads and rotor are indeed regular wear parts, and even calipers are readily available for most every car (more from rust or crash damage than wear, but still fairly common and on the shelf in a warehouse serving every town of 50K+ people). It’s puzzling that they can’t manage to fix this car; only thing I can think of is no one has the authority to say “pull a kit from the line and fly it out there if you have to!”
Why all the empty space in the case?
The author is basically describing GNU Smalltalk, which has been around since the mid-90s, I believe. (Wikipedia says initial release 2003 but I'm pretty sure I saw it a long time before that. The GNU mailing list goes back to 2000 and even at that point references a 1.8 version...)

That's a Smalltalk without a GUI that fits well into the Unix environment.
Rectangle ?
https://rectangleapp.com/
The only thing this would demonstrate is that the nicest place to live on Mars is a hundred times shittier than the worst place on Earth.
Here's some post-hoc coverage of the controversy: https://cleantechnica.com/2021/07/04/more-details-about-tesl...

Make your own decisions. But (especially since it happened just weeks after the refreshed S's started shipping and that we haven't heard squat in the six months since) that just smells off to me. Certainly it wasn't "driving itself around on fire", no further report on the fire exists (contra the Texas crash where the NTSB had lots of interesting things to say) and all the actual witnesses went silent (we don't even have confirmation of who was driving!)...

Just be realistic. It's almost certainly a setup.

Something very similar happened when FSD beta was released. Not two weeks in the NHTSA had a weird-sounding report leaked to the media claiming behavior (that the steering couldn't be overpowered) that the hardware can't produce. Then the next release, we all had an annoying waiver where we had to allow Tesla to save and upload non-anonymized data for any safety-related incidents. And... no more weird reports!

This company just drives people completely bananas, and I genuinely don't know why. The actual cars are fantastic.
What’s getting in the way of their american licensing ?
To mine Bitcoin, I assume.
First off, I do think he spread less than 100% truth. I also think vaccines works. But...without vaccines death is rather low at around 4%. Had we allow Wuhan variant covid to spread earlier, alpha, beta, delta, omicron, IHG, deltacron, etc would be neglible and tolerable by public as we would have achieve natural herd immunity by now. What the medical professions failed to highlight is 80% has no symptom and recover just like ordinary flu. Most testings done where underreported causing 4% to appear bigger than necessary. Look at Singapore data that do testings very crazily to some extend (though China probably more but less reliable than SG). Death rate is near 0% and severe cases are extremely low for all variants. Also, medical professions are self-censored. There are doctors they differ opinions to general Fauzi-sponsored one and they will be heavily ostracised. Hence if you have these 200+ doctors against Joe, there at least substantial quiet minority doctors for Joe as well but can't voice their opinions. My personal GP also always remind me to take vaccines if the risk of death/complication is higher than risk of vaccines. Chicken pox vaccines and rabies vaccines are good examples. You can opt not to take Chicken pox vaccine and won't matter much in your life except maybe some scars and agingles later on. You need to take rabies vaccine when you got bitten but doesn't meant you should take it every 3mths to be fully protected for all situation. What we are doing now with covid is very excessive. Doctors (hospitals) are being paid by governments for covid patients with almost no upper bound consteaint. It is in their best interest to maintain these revenue even if doctors work to death. Economics. What is missing here is "measured approach". You do things when it is necessary. You escalate when needed and you de-escalate when things improve. What is the point of omicron wave when it is significantly less severe. Why keep reporting infection rates and deleting any mention of 1. ICU cases and 2. Deaths? HPV has 90% infection rates and proven to cause many cancers, but people isn't exactly dying from it like covid or even flu. Why then we didn't do social distancing for HPV which makes Omicron looks like noobs.
Archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220113063412/https://blog.open...
Also web fonts with fallbacks that have different sizes.
I've definitely had realizations drinking alone. It's not a state you want to be in all the time, or even often, but it can be useful. It's sort of like a random jump in the mental search space to get out of local minima.

(Though perhaps I could train myself mentally to be able to enter these more loose states w/o alcohol, and that would be even better?)
Your comment has me wondering about history and whether such previous drastic changes in communication technology have also brought waves of censorship, both by others and by ourselves. For example, with radio, the telephone, or even the printing press. In other words, not only the ability to publish/broadcast, but to have people reply to your publishing or broadcasting. I also wonder if we somehow adapt to it as we learn these new ways to communicate.
This is basically how Facebook started around 2004. It was only open to college students, and they would invite new colleges to sign up with a bunch of fanfare.
Edge adopted chromium because microsoft could not compete with their monopoly power to enforce web standards as “however it is implemented in chrome”. If chrome ships a feature, there 80-90% market share means that every other chromium browser has to ship it or they’re “broken” and people switch to chrome.

if the other chromium wrappers have a seat at the table, that isn’t the table that makes the decisions.
Many people have multiple equal family names. Leaving one out would be as wrong as adding another. Names are never simple.
RISC-V Powered Mango Pi Takes on Raspberry Pi Zero at Its Own Game
Math and logic are pretty good methods. But if you're looking for something more specific then there is something called TRIZ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ.
Vehicles need maintenance.
This sentence is neat “In the hundreds of thousands of years operating as a nuclear reactor, Oklo never had a meltdown or explosion.”
> Every non-commercial OS starts out as a labour of love.

Tell that to Andrew Tanenbaum
How do you personally handle tipping, in a restaurant where you know the owner is paying $tiny/hr?

What are the cognitive steps you go through to derive your tipping behaviour in each instance?
Sorry to say, but the vaccine is a better option to prevent covid, even considering this study. You can take ivermectin if you use the normal dosage, it is not harmful and may be helpful. But a lot of people is promoting ivermectin instead of the vaccine or using a higher dosage and this is causing a lot of preventable deaths.
Those breakthroughs had gatekeepers, for better or worse. Publishing house owners, newspaper owners/editors, radio station supervisors and owners. For the first time in all of history we can all publish instantly to everyone else at no cost. It’s a very exciting time and is, unsurprisingly, fraught with problems.
Yes, please feel free to mention that to Youtube. If it helps, I can get the company (Grammarly) to officially confirm that the videos are not a problem if Youtube needs a confirmation.

But I am absolutely certain this is by design, and that's why there was no change. It's not a policing tool but an authoring tool. What you described in #5 is not an intended use of the product and is a violation of TOS.
It's a pretty nice canary for their black-box coal mine though. If we had any better way to understand Apples internal intentions, we'd be using it.
Some people seem unable to conceive of a human existence not ultimately founded on a religious belief system. They can accept the idea of people having different religious beliefs (that is, the heretics doomed to Hell) but the idea of people who don't have a religion at all apparently throws a massive error, which leads to them uttering such nonsense as the insistence that atheism is a religion, and their utter inability to separate the concepts of "not believing in their god" from "believing their god doesn't exist" in their minds.

The more advanced cases are the ones who insist, as an apparent matter of dogmatic faith, that people who claim to not have a religion are Satanists who will rape and murder for lack of an explicit Commandment telling them not to.
Yet colleges are mandating boosters for students. For what, couldn't be the 25% vs 75% case reduction because that is piss to the wind if you think you will avoid getting it. The mad overreach is what is causing this backlash.
I was not and am not commenting on the Medium article. I was referring to the Scientific American article.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-complicated-l...

For me, it's enough to think something is seriously wrong there at Scientific American. The more I think about it, the more the article makes little sense to me. I can't even understand what it has to do with E.O. Wilson. The timing of the article would imply that the article was written in just a couple of days by a recurring author. So they used the death of a notable scientist to push some agenda.
Thank you. This hits at the essence of why “I can send money instantly!” is such an absurd argument.

It’s not money. You can’t use it as money. You have to convert it to money, at a loss.

If that counts as ‘sending money’, then hell, I can send someone an email saying “I promise to pay $100 to the bearer of this note”, and just hope that they’ll be able to exchange that for money at a reasonable loss.
I’m amazed Meta/Instagram is getting investigated for antitrust while Apple is getting away with what got MS pegged in 98. It’s easy to assume regulatory capture but I wonder if Apple is effectively untouchable by whichever party is incumbent. Apple represents such a huge chunk of the US economy that penalties would likely rock the market. Market instability has ruined the careers of many politicians over the years.
Right, maybe their supply constraints are the reason they're fitting 7/8 of the pads to production vehicles.
Food Storage Booklet [pdf]
I think a lot about this Trevor Noah bit [1] with a good punchline about the historic and modern importance of spices. I’d be interested what the article means by “[de Gama’s discovery of spices on Malabar] destroyed the economies of Alexandria, Genoa and Venice“ If you liked reading this article I recommend Kurlansky’s book “Salt: A History of the World”.

[1] https://youtu.be/BOt5SmHf2aE
You post this site every other month, using all the tricks in the book to evade dup detection. How @dang didn't ban you yet is a mystery.
I would think it needs a new caliper seal and piston, and possibly a rotor if the old one was gouged beyond the minimum thickness --- otherwise it can be machined smooth again in a brake lathe.
I’ve wondered how much real-world change it would lead to, given it may be co-opted or is already largely made up of people who don’t want to work.
Youtubers stretch 30 seconds of material in 10 minutes.
yes that as well, I would doubt highly that the people at nvidia writing the driver for their pci-e desktop graphics cards (in my case was an NVS 510) are putting much consideration into things like xen. the card hardware and driver design is intended for single-user environments...
demonstrate your ability by contributing to relevant codebases on github, not a few commits here and there, build entire low-latency libraries, you're supoosed to be demonstrating excellence so show us the code (!!!!)

go to developer meetups, or better yet, speak at them

go to the pub after the meetup, thats where the real networking happens. talk to people dont just sit in the corner.

be smart about who you talk to and what you work on, time, resources and attention are limited, succinctly demonstrate apex excellence immediatly
The Trundle
The arch linux wiki has a good list: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager#Stacking_win.... Haven't looked into how many of them are maintained.
Kazakhstan is interesting in that it has been right at the borders of Russian sphere of influence. Which Moscow accepted! What recently happened was an internal coup where the number two (Toakev, the president) overthrew the number one (Nazarbaev, First President) along with his family, breaking he power sharing agreement and overturning the country’s constitution.

Moscow came in when called upon, and apparently it was mainly to demonstrate the legitimacy of Mr. Tokaev. And now they are already packing their stuff and leaving (quite possibly without even leaving the airport).

Will be interesting what’s up next, specially since Putin had a warm relation with Nazarbaev (who’s nowhere to be seen ever since the crisis began)
>In contrast, drinking alone is more of a solemn affair. When I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.

George[0], is that you?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E9ydw_aDMg
Yup! That’s the one I use. Best so far for price and ease of cranking. Others might take less turns, however this one I can just spin nonstop until the steak is covered in pepper if I want.

If it breaks, I will just get another one for $13.
Not yet… but mountain biking
Everyone works for someone else. You can work purely for yourself, but if you don’t have a customer you will starve.

Even a solo company works for other people - it’s just that they can fire bad customers and it doesn’t take away their entire income. This is a much different power dynamic than an employer employee, but you’re still working for someone else (customers or investors) or you’re not bringing in money.
Redox: https://www.redox-os.org/

Written in Rust.
Thanks for the response, that seems like a healthy way to look at it. I’ve avoided touching any of self-genetics, for fear of finding out I’m going to die of something terrible, thanks for the point about medical stats being nuanced .
SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Cause 1,600 Near-Crashes in Orbit Every Week
> We wanted to use Clickhouse (as "db we need" in above diagram) but its update/delete is actually done with garbage collection (it's done at some point but we don't know when).

Are you saying you can't tell whether the update has completed or you can't tell when the update will complete in general? If the former, it's easy to track completion by looking at the system.mutations table.

ClickHouse will have synchronous SQL DELETE later this year. My company Altinity is working on the implementation.
Eugenics is a matter of fact depending on what trait you're trying to bring out. If it isn't genetic, you're wasting your time. Also, when it comes to time, humans are the wrong species to supervise the selective breeding of humans, if only because it has to be multi-generational from the perspective of the experimentalists as well as the experimental subjects, and it's very hard to ensure an experiment runs to completion if it has to go on for multiple human lifetimes.

But mostly, it's the fact actual eugenicists have all been deeply ignorant of genetics and allowed pure, baseless prejudice to drive their whole programs. Unless we consider Dor Yeshorim to be eugenicist, of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dor_Yeshorim
The article uses the word woke twice, in reference to a specific sort of ideology. It isn't ad homing the author(s).
Why the /s ? That's actually an awesome idea!

Let's put together a prospectus, and get some investors.
Student loan forgiveness is regressive measured by income, education, or wealth
The Lemur has a 73 Wh battery, while the Galago is 49 Wh, so 50% more battery. I'll also guess that the Lemur has much lower resting power consumption, since it doesn't have fancy graphics and has a lot of firmware designed to minimize power usage and turned on by default.
My "to-do" list is a Freemind (and soon-to-be Freeplane) mind map. It's my calendar, my to-do-list, my project planner, my external brain. When I need to write something down, it goes to the mind map or a piece of paper where that information will go later to the mind map.

What about those things that never seem to come off the mind map? If it stays on the map too long without completion, I realize it's something I'm never going to do and I simply delete it. I never look back.
Unfairly? How is that unfair?

In the old days of newspapers, one could not hide a newspaper article from manual search in the library. Digital indexing is just making search a lot easier, but it should not make it different as a proces, by hiding parts.
On par with Bell Labs? Sure seems to be close.
One my sports coaches used to say “you can’t have fun, without da mentals.” It’s a dumb joke but it’s stuck with me and helps me get through the small things sometimes.