skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In every conflict since WWII the US mil won conventional war and it has a better fighting force and weaponry than any country (and bases+carriers+allies). What they lost every time is public support for the war long after dominance and/or invasion has been established.

I mean, look at afghanistan, the war ended in 2004. The US could have declared that country their new territory and every conflict would be domestic terror. They did not need to stay after 04, they stayed to keep the place stable not to defeat the taliban (which militarily, they did).
That's the fundamental problem, non standard products can iterate way faster than standards based products.

Look at all the new features email has!

Of course as we're on HN we obviously hate anything but plain text, but that's not true of most people
Xpresso is an ASGI web framework built on top of Starlette, Pydantic and di
Yeah I'm in the UK too, I don't even have whatsapp installed.
How negative self-talk is created and how to change it
Here is a scientific explanation which I learned while listening to dr. Andrew D. Huberman podcast over how our beliefs are created and how we can change them. It all started with my negative self-talk about not being good enough. I hope you will get understanding and more control over your thoughts. Would love to find out how you deal with your negative self-talk!

Here's the explanation!

We are born with billions of neurons which have very few connections between them.

As we grow up and experience the world (we have thoughts, emotions, activities), we create these connections between neurons - they are like roads where electrical signals transport information between different parts of the brain.

Because our brain is all about optimisation, the roads that are used more often become highways - and this why some thoughts might feel so natural to us and they come without effort.

*For example*, if you called yourself stupid every time you made a mistake - this road in your brain becomes a highway and this thought comes naturally to you because the electrical impulses travel always chooses the path with the least resistance - like a car driver that prefers to drive on a highway than on a forest road.

The building material of these roads is called *myelin*. Myelin is very abundant before age 8 and during puberty. But after the age of 25 myelin is as abundant and this is why learning new things or building new habits require more conscious effort.

But this is not impossible - we can still change old highways or build new ones because our brains have *neuroplasticity* - which is its capacity to change itself.

Changing old highways requires awareness firstly. This explanation gave me sense of control over my negative emotions and thoughts and helped me treat them as something that appears in head because of my limiting beliefs. So I started to record audios of how I want to see myself during the day on a certain subject, like for example my relationship with my body, then started to listen to it daily. It’s incredible how my thoughts about my body changed over a month.

That’s what I have been doing since then with my team - a place where people can get their own audios, based on their own inner conversations!

You can get your personalised audio by filling out this form https://www.selftalk.space and you will get your audio within 5 days!
Sprinkling a little jQuery in a page to add interactive menus and AJAXify some form submissions was quite nice.

What I don't miss from the jQuery times is how painfully limited CSS was, e.g. to add rounded corners to an element (e.g. a button) required something like 11 nested elements (4 corners + 4 edges + 3 rows to contain them). The corners themselves needed image files: to support different background colours you could either use GIFs with transparent backgrounds, but they appeared "jagged" due to aliasing; you could use PNGs which support an whole alpha channel, but lose IE support; or you could create a bunch of different versions for each occasion.

I'm glad I do backend dev these days ;)
Two must have feature of personal knowledge management app for me are:

1) Pasting web page excerpts with non-text resources (images, animations) included as a copy (and not just as a url reference that might not be avaliable anymore in the future).

2) Quality full text search (across all notes or just a sub-section)

Many knowledge management solutions have trouble with these two, so they are the first things that I usually test.
There's a dark side to this pressure to perform well in all aspects - high suicide rate amongst your adults in the Palo Alto area.

see https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/03/cdc-report-youth-suic...

https://nextshark.com/children-of-affluent-parents-in-palo-a...

and

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-sil...
great observation, exactly my sense of it.
I'm sure the fact that Bellingcat almost exclusively targets CIA opponents is just a neat coincidence that exactly lines up with the documented money flows.

Whereas the fact that Wikileaks has released only one sizable cache of documents from Russia is proof positive that they're essentially their paid spies who need to know when to keep their trap shut :/

I'm pretty happy for foreign powers to dig up dirt on each other and release it publicly. It's one form of "warfare" with net positive side effects. It benefits everybody who isnt invested in maintaining the overwhelming power of "their" favored corrupt empire.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
> I personally had the good fortune of having one great grandmother who lived long enough for me to have many memories of her. I'm also lucky that other people in my family have taken the time to document many of the stories that I don't know.

I think my great grandmother lived until I was somewhere in my teens. I inherited her TV when she died. I've still forgotten her name. Does it really matter? In the end we'll all be forgotten, and that is fine, because once you're dead you're gone. I wouldn't want my descendants to keep looking back, they should be looking forward.

> There are many reasons why these stories aren't passd on (often is is just that younger generations don't ask enough questions) but there is no reason not to take Doreen at her word about why her didn't talk about that part of the family tree much.

In your opinion, what would be the cut-off for "important" family history? How many dead and gone generations should we expect younger generations to remember?

I'm not saying Doreen is lying, I'm just saying that history naturally fades (unless you're Jesus or Hitler or something. Even then truth and myth will blur over time) and there usually isn't anything nefarious about that. Perhaps she's reading too much in it. With every generation you go back your number of new ancestors doubles (up to some point). Some of those people will be boring. Others maybe weren't interested in their family history (such as myself) and will effectively be a dead end.

> There certainly is no call to belittle people's interest in their heritages and family history, especially when they could learn stories about their family history that might be lost.

I think very few would object to people being interested in their family history (although some might find it a frivolous pursuit). It's the word "heritage" that makes me roll my eyes. If something wasn't part of your upbringing, then to me it's not part of your heritage.

> I sincerely advise to to ask any older living relatives to tell you what they can about your great grandparents (and consider recording those stories). You might not care now, but those stories do disappear with time and you or future generations of your family could find them very valuable.

Saving myself a lot of time now at the cost of potentially disappointing a curious member of a future generation seems like a good trade-off. Doubly so when it possibly prevents them from claiming a "heritage".
> are notes in Roam/Obsidian/Logseq/Joplin/Dendron useful on the long term?

Very useful but the UX is very far from perfect. I would change/add dozens things in Obsidian. I also hate storing notes in a tree hierarchy - a very annoying overhead. I want it to be a freeform graph only with no taxonomy requiring a note to be located in a single specific place.

What I actually want is an open-source (fundamentally extensible but not necessarily free - I would pay up to $100 one-time if I really like it and probably donate more once it becomes an integral part of my life) offline sqlite-backed hybrid of Notion and Obsidian.

The most important feature I miss in Obsidian (as long as it is file system based) is a second file tree - dragging a note file to a distant (not fitting in the screen) place in one panel is painful.
And because there's no username or password, so anyone can use it. Which is its fundamental problem as phone numbers are terrible for everything
The idea is, as in the original, that for guessing you have to enter valid words. In this case, it's 6-letter words. However, it's not easy to obtain a complete list of valid 6-letter German words, so the ones you are trying might be missing. Working on it.
Stupidity is malice when you are supposed to be competent.

I.e. if a politician puts a first aid kit on some wounded person in the wrong way, it is not malice, but if a doctor can't do it properly, it is.

How Mozilla treats us Firefox lusers is malice. E.g. silently enabling spying via updates, pushing disruptive UI changes, or what not.
Apart from plain old fixed buffers, which is what is supported by C just fine and which covers 99% of string processing needs in the areas that C as a language is suited for anyway, ... there are 14 known ways of doing "strings" depending on circumstance, so I don't think it would be a good idea to introduce one mandatory version of them into the C standard. There is already C++ which has std::string, and there are a lot of GC'ed and scripting languages that are more suited for quick and dirty string processing.
People like to make fun of Slack memory use, but right now Message app uses 1.5GB of memory.

Also, listening to voice messages, especially when some bluetooth device is connected is infuriating experience.
Radian announces plans to build one of the holy grails of spaceflight
Steps doesn't seem to be a bad measurement as it naturally partially controls for height, and is easy to measure. Not to mention the results are there even when they account for "body mass index, alcohol drinking, smoking status, step intensity, and pre-existing comorbidities" and more. Sure, the results will be noisy but you should still expect to see the effect with a large sample size which this has.

Also, I'm somewhat doubtful that it's common for people to do less exercise after starting to count steps and if anything I'd expect a positive correlation between people becoming more active by walking more and picking up other forms of exercise.
Yes, the only place with less visitors than the ‘Department for Housing and Urban Development’ is the ‘National Science Foundation’.

Sign of the times?
Highly debatable premise. Eliminating linguistic diversity is one of the main pillars of nation building. English, French, Spanish - all prestige languages which inhabitants were forced to learn and speak. You only have to look at the marginalisation, and consequent decline of Celtic languages in these countries to see that coercion (soft or hard) was forcing factor
Does someone know what kind of SCADA they run?
Here in Brazil we have automatic load shedding if frequency gets below a level.
It's really clear to me that short feedback loops and visual output are what make programming accessible.

In middle school I was in the most advanced computer class offered. It involved lots and lots of typing practice and basically just doing office-work projects in random Mac programs. My biggest regret was that the promised "programming" lessons consisted of typing printed Java code from a piece of paper and into a text file. No explanation of what the symbols were, what Java was, nothing. I was pissed. I failed that module. I felt so misled that I flat out refused to do the assignments.

From then on I resolved to teach myself. I somehow convinced my mom to buy us a computer. Once we got dial-up, I struggled with VBA, Flash Actionscript, C++, Tcl, Python and on and on. None of it had a manageable learning curve for me.

One day, I discovered Game Maker. The day Mark Overmars introduced the C++/JS mash-up that is Game Maker Language changed my life. I learned how to plan projects, how to invoke spells of hyperfocus, how to read technical documentation and on and on. It taught me algebra concepts way before I knew what algebra even was. That was all possible because I could type some stuff into the editor, and within a few minutes, actually see sprites move around and respond to my input.

Damn. It's been 20 years. I feel like I should be a coding God now. It's funny because I don't expect myself to be Shakespeare just because I've been writing words my whole life... Anyways, my mind wanders.

Oh, tutors. I never had a tutor. If you want to make your kid a genius, get them a 1:1 tutor. That provides social modeling, mentorship, immediate feedback and personalized lessons. I would venture to say that tutors may still be valuable, even to adults...
This reminds me of the saying in the psychedelic culture: “Once you’ve got the message, hang up the phone.” In March 2021 I made a similar decision regarding my use of Reddit. I’ve lost years doom-scrolling, but it’s also taught me useful things, especially regarding how to take care of my health. Now I feel like I’m getting more from books and I’ve transitioned to reading more of them. (Some of the reclaimed time also went towards caring for my first child.)

It isn’t too late to hang up the phone.
All three platforms you mentioned, Hugo, Blogspot and Wordpress have RSS enabled by default.
German minister asks Google and Apple to remove Telegram from app stores
I think that is a perception, but its driven by not being able to "see" the product of the work.

Security breaches, locked in data (poor dB structure or no direct access) reverse engineering undocumented functionality, even just dismantling supporting infrastructure and migration costs are huge. Another huge factor is when business logic is codified and the knowledge is lost from the business and only temprarily held by transient consultants or developers.

An sap project for a single region for a $1bn per year company can easy cost over $10m and no software is being developed, only config, process change and data migration. Never mind increased staff turnover reduced productivity.

But very few people have the experience and expertise to understand what they are really signing up for.

Just think about a 3d model can do for a construction project and what that would look like for code and you can see how poorly we do this really.
Intel Expands 12th Gen Core to Ultraportable Laptops, from 5 to 14-cores
Half half for me. I personally prefer the typed parameters, the if expression, and the explicit Option type of Scala, but for the class contructor and variable parameter syntax I prefer the ES6 version.
Isn’t it open source? If the company behind it dies I’ll just compile it myself.
Citizens of many countries ravaged by US/UK inability to see the results of their actions and policies tend to disagree... at least those that survived.
"What if we allow it in case of Zombies?"

"Are you serious? Zombies?"

"Well, they say COVID was made in a lab. What other crap do they have in those labs? Better safe than sorry."

"Yea, true."
> Doing this unlocks some amazing things, in particular hard, inflation resistant money.

What does immutability of the underlying record have to do with fluctuations in the tokens market value?
Why internal SW is almost invariably sh_t?
Sorry for the foul language but I had one too many of this.

Having worked with a good few Open Source tooling/libraries/frameworks etc and with a lot of similar internal ones I have come to the conclusion that almost invariably the quality of the later is far below the quality of the former. Being documentation, ergonomics, bugs, you name it.

Open source alternatives are much better than proprietary closed source ones. Mind you that I'm not talking about code quality, I'm talking about mere usability and dev experience.

This is consistent across quite a few medium, large and very large companies (enterprises) I've been. Worst case (and quite common) is when a company "builds" upon OS (e.g. a framework based on Flask). The end result is a painful to work with half-baked mess.

What I don't get though is that OS is built (in many cases) by hobbyists for free. The internal messes are always being built by people on a steady payroll. I just don't get it...
To be fair Spock (and to a lesser extent Picard, though Data also served this role) was an island of rationality for more emotional characters to play against (Saru often plays something of a similar role on Discovery.)

> I love that women are getting bigger roles, but I'd love to see highly rational women, also with little outside but deep emotions.

If Rebecca Romijn’s Number One on Strange New Worlds isn't very much this, I will be very disappointed.
It depends on the retailer, but probably you won’t be able to return it for a refund. You should attempt it though, or at least be able to present the retailer’s return policy as evidence in small–claims court.
I've a work iphone, work macbook, work ipad, personal iphone, personal macbook, personal ipad, apple watch. I am 7 "active units" but 1 person.
Europe’s Move Against Google Analytics Is Just the Beginning
Do, fix this halting problem instead.
That does not account for other sources/forms of pollution, unfortunately. Yes CO2 is important but it's not the only important thing: many resources are wasted due to planned obsolescence for example.
Well, we western youth have certainly inherited a huge national debt, crumbling infrastructure, an upcoming climate catastrophe, a political system in deadlock, and geopolitical rivals of vast and rising power. No doubt about that.

But old people did manage to produce a first-world country as successful as any other, get their language spoken all over the globe, vastly increase college education (which they thought was doing the young a favour), build a tech sector that pays wages considered ridiculous everywhere else on the planet, create the internet and basically give it away for free, give birth to and raise us, have much less racism and sexism than there were a few generations ago (although they both remain very real problems), avoid any wars that couldn't be fought with an all-volunteer military, and avoid destroying the world with nuclear weapons - something that seemed as inevitable, in its day, as global warming is today.

Thinking the old have done _nothing_ betrays something of an ignorance of history IMHO.
That's because you're seeing ES in Scala notation. If you see what is possible with idiomatic scala, ES has no equivalents. The match statement alone is incredibly powerful, but you wouldn't think it going by these examples.
Most of the verification community relies on OCaml to some extent.
Yes I have, and while it does seem to be the best community out there, I don't quite like it.

Very few of the threads are about genuine problems, most of the time people are trying to get exposure for their project by pitching it to the forum. It just feels gross.
I would've written that as <blink> though, but outside of that it would make more sense, yeah.
A previous discussion on the"Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg" mentioned in this article had 677 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29595598
Yes, one necessary requirement for the diagnosis of ADHD is for it to be present since young age. There is no adult-onset ADHD, but there are plenty of factors that can cause ADHD-like symptoms in adults. Perhaps heavy marijuana consumption is one of them, and that same substance is used by people with actual ADHD to self-medicate (getting high -> dopamine increase)
You can call it whatever you want, who ever came up with that idea at Apple should have been given a bonus. It's an absolutely brilliant idea that provides Apple users with a solution better than SMS/MMS completely seamlessly.

Whether you or I feel like it's the right, or even a moral defendable, solution is irrelevant for most other users.
See this: https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/maths-whiz-so...

Where one of the authors says "So in this sense, our work is expected to be the end of the road for this problem, although we don't know yet how to prove this rigorously.”

Though I confess I am not up on the latest happenings in this area!
DevTerm Kit A06 Series
I currently use Evernote, but am feeling the limitations. It's just become slow. E.g. time between opening app on phone to being able to take a note > 10s.

I've grudgingly switched to just using flat lists in my phone's pre-installed text only note taking app.
You really have to admire the level of gameplay at AWS. At one stroke:

1. They created a recurring viral (pun not intended) marketing meme.

2. They gained credibility with game devs.

3. Boosted team spirit.
Wow, that's the nostalgia at the bottom of your screenshot:

"27% of 3182K (at 1.5K/sec, 25:33 remaining)"
I guess fuckups are potentially very bad and very hard to contain. Could be long-lived too.
Every movie, every show ever produced? Subtitles are required even for domestic markets for the hearing impaired, even if we disregard the audience that prefers to have subtitles.
Probably just looking at immigration/Embassies related websites. It is day time in India and China.
It happens all the time between Italy and San Marino too.
Not the roads. That was the Romans, of course. It's the tunnels.
Were you vaccinated?

I'm 40, I got Covid-19 in Christmas, I got the second shot of Pfizer last July. I did not have a fever, I was just very tired for a few days. Then cough came. One month later I still feel something in my chest, I cough a little when I talk, and I collapse on Friday morning, instead of Friday evening, after a week of work (so I have a little less energy than before).

I'm doing push-ups, pull-ups and one leg squats as before. No problem there.
But why would a regular person visit those sites? I hold a PhD and I think I visited the nsf website <50 times during my entire academic career.
Gitlab really trying their hardest to seem like a "nice" company here.

The software is OK (the cloud offering is unstable compared to similar offerings). The company though is another thing altogether not a great place to work. This is a pure PR post which is being used to show them in a better light.
It's both fortunate and unfortunate that I come from a culture with rich delicious food and implicit pressure from elders to never deny an extra serving or leave food on the plate. It's hard saying no to a loving aunt or grandma. And most celebrations are marked by giving deserts and sweets.
When I joined AWS in 2017, at some point in your first month you’d do a week long induction program. A cavalcade of rather dry summaries and presentations from different functional areas alongside The usual onboarding and “how stuff works here” educational sessions.

The legal team were easily the highlight. Such an incredibly entertaining group. Literally the only session I remember after all these years too.
Covid-19 early treatment: real-time analysis of 1,321 studies
Even more unfortunately, there is no “US Centers for Disease Control” (there is a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which typically uses an acronym in which the “and Prevention” is not represented) so the certification condition can never be met.
The amount of time we all spent getting the G+ unified-account thing through every system! But that and Photos are the two good results of the work.
He is also physically and mentally very ill. He has not been able to keep any routines for a long time.

All types of hocus pocus treatments he has tried on himself and seeking additional crazy treatments from Russia and Serbia probably did not help with his mental stability.