skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A pen and paper is what I typically use, especially when stuck on a task. But to think about how to timeblock in a way that "works" (I interpret this means, "is effective at keeping one spent on worthwhile tasks), I think the behaviours matter more than the tool (paper/software/or otherwise).

The biggest habits to make time blocking work I see would be:

i) Checking the system (paper/software) regularly)

ii) Capturing all the to-dos, and making sure none are just floating in the mind

iii) Having clear reminders for deadlines and prompts to review tasks that aren't working in a while

When I use a time blocking system well, I'm good at getting lots of tasks done. The biggest obstacles are when a task takes a lot longer than anticipated due to complexity; if I fall behind and don't check the manager; or if I schedule some tasks for someday/far-in-the-future, then forget to review them regularly.

So in short, I think most systems work (with cloud sync and organizational features for software systems as an added luxury), but the biggest obstacle to effectiveness is not checking it enough, often caused by feeling overwhelmed with tasks. Solutions to this include: committing to less, taking breaks, and staying healthy with exercise & sleep for the basics.
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Lemmings.
Oscar Puzzle
Except at this end of the spectrum, it’s more like ‘A’ people teaching ‘A++++’ people. The average teacher might encounter only a handful of such students in an entire career.
The article was good in the first half, but then steadily goes downhill in the second half.

>The letter also attempted further to politicize L.A.’s no-cash bail policy / Special Directive 20-07

Is this supposed to be bad? It seems to be bad faith to accuse someone of "politicizing" something when it's plausibly related to the topic being discussed.

>(“Studies show that prosecution of the offenses driving the bulk of misdemeanor cases have minimal, or even negative, long-term impacts on public safety.”)

...with no sources provided.

>Even though, according to LAPD data, property crime is down.

That's not really as slam dunk as it suggests. If the government openly states that they're not going to bother prosecuting minor property crime, it seems reasonable that a fair chunk of the victims will be dissuaded from reporting the crime, driving property crime statistics down.

>“These individuals are generally caught and released back onto the streets in less than 24 hours. Even with all the arrests made, the no-cash bail policy and extended timeframe for suspects to appear in court is causing re-victimization to Union Pacific by these same criminals.” Community activists think otherwise, supporting the DA’s no-cash bail policy

this... doesn't say much. I'm sure for any topic you can find "community activists" for your preferred side.

>stressing that further criminalizing people of lower socioeconomic status for non-violent crimes isn’t a real solution.

The criminals criminalized themselves when they committed the crime, not when the law decided to prosecute them.

>A connection worth questioning can be found with the controversy surrounding Emanuel Padilla.

No, I actually don't see the connection here. Are they accusing UP of falsely accusing/prosecuting people? Are they just saying the previous DA sucks and the current DA is good? Are they just bringing it up because the case has something to do with trains?
An iPad is what, 200 for the old model? If you want blue bubbles it’s cheap
> Covid is over 100x more deadly for people over 75 versus below age 35. Anything that keeps old people out of crowded Social Security buildings is a good thing.

I don't think I follow. Won't adding these complicated and buggy requirements to the online site make it more likely elderly people need to go into a physical office?
Passed all my tests for phone number variations including international notation, spaces, and parentheses. Welcome feedback and comments. This handled my use case for text parsing of phone numbers.
I have been a moderate user of Obsidian in the past. And have just read the main page of Dendron.
I do not see how Dendron helps navigate in a big PKM base any differently from Obsidian. There is a search bar, and a graph view.
Then what?
If the districts are overrun with parents looking for advanced learning, why don't they offer it?

Palo Alto parents recently filed a lawsuit [1] claiming that PAUSD's system for offering advanced math unfairly discriminates against girls (who make up just 35 of the 162 students receiving advanced placement in middle school). Apparently the process involves an objective test and a subjective test, and you have to pass both in order to qualify.

1: https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2021/11/04/lawsuit-claim...
You're right, profit is the only ethical concern and government should step back and let the invisible hand of the free market sort itself. If it's economical to use child slaves for chocolate cultivation the government has no business stepping in to regulate business. If we can build faster pollution machines that make even more digital drug money who cares that researchers can't get GPU clusters for cancer research?

Might makes right and profit is king. If you want "innovation" you must let JP Morgan Chase Stanley Rockefeller dictate the productive forces and foreign policy of the largest industrial power in the world! /s
If she is that advanced you can probably get significant financial aid.

When I was in first grade, the public school I was attending told my parents they didn't have the resources to teach me at the pace I was learning and recommended that my parents tried to enroll me in a private school.

The private school I ended up attending had me go through an assortment of tests and at the end I placed well enough on them that my parents were given significant financial aid.
From the company that gave them 2%? Waste of time
Blue bubble FOMO isn't real though, at least I've never heard of it outside these few articles claiming its a thing
When cigarette companies used doctors to push smoking (2018)
Frustrating for sure… but equating this to rape induces eye rolling.
I find it reasonable for the cops not to make arrests if nobody is going to prosecute. I don’t consider that propaganda for the police to say as such. If the DA openly says they won’t prosecute a certain crime why would I expect the police to arrest for it?

And of course the cops would have a cop bias, and teachers have a teacher bias, and service works have a service worker bias and on and on. Everyone looks out for their own across all cross sections of their identity.

What’s different is it seems cops get no additional cross sections anymore. Once they are a cop their ven diagram shifts to 100% cop and now they are vilified.
Imagine getting paid to not even try, then have the audacity to blame someone else. I would presume that even a police presence would deter many of the thieves, but that wouldn't help push the "we need more funding, we're the only thing preventing outright chaos" narrative when they're already derelict of their duties of protecting capital's interests. Police unions should be reformed. Maybe they're useful for helping with compensation (which is probably ludicrously high given their skillsets-- most cops would likely be truck drivers if not law enforcement, showing how well unions can work for labor) and benefits, but they're too big of a liability in keeping around too many degenerates.

Maybe unions should stick to the private sector, or at least jobs where there aren't so many highly visible bad actors with obvious political motives.
Clearly there are some people who value iMessage, for whatever reason. I have to imagine there are also plenty of people like myself who have been using the iPhone since version 4 simply because it's the best phone I've ever used, period. And the user experience of my iPhone + Macbook + Airpods just makes my life easier and more enjoyable in a lot of ways.

And I use iMessage because it's how I 'text' people, similar to how I used to text people on my Blackberry and my Razr and my Nokia before chat apps were a thing. I don't want to download chat apps - I just use what's convenient which is iMessage and it works great for my use case.
> But scalable web services are, in 2022, a commodity available to all.

A quick aside - I feel most folks on HN can say that they have been, in some way, shape, or form, a part of this journey for the industry. Take pride in being part of a community that has made this a possibility.
> Do you think Pakistan would overturn blasphemy law if it were threatened or the funds taken away?

Yes
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Yes indeed. I hope no one falls their public listing. They're operating in a crowded field and have no real advantage over their competition.
In defense of cord, I find battery powered (and wireless) things a a lot less "magical" than their alternatives for long lived devices.

"Oh, that's not working today. I guess I need to charge it."

Corded seems a good fit for a static location device.
Yandex is one of the rare services still giving free mail hosting for custom domains: https://ukit.com/help/how-do-i-set-up-a-domain-based-email-a...
Not just intelligence - all of the Big Five personality traits are 40-60% heritable: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5068715/

> That means about 95 percent of the intelligence differences in these samples, at least as measured in this manner, did not come down to the genes the researchers examined, which leaves plenty of room for those concerned with environmental influences.

This is misleading. Those specific genes account for 5% of the difference, but the consensus is that, for IQ (which is not a perfect measure of intelligence), heritability (i.e. influence of all genes) is 57-80%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
I really liked Mesa. My wife worked as a developer at XBS (Xerox Business Systems) first in El Segundo and later in Palo Alto after we moved to the Bay Area and I was very envious of XDE, the Xerox Development Environment. At the time I was stuck using a 25 line by 80 column terminal to do code development on and seeing how effective and useful all that screen real estate and tools were on here Dandelion (the Xerox workstation that was the basis for their Star systems) I thought, "Wow, it would be cool to work in an environment like that." Relatively shortly thereafter I ended up going to Sun where I got to use Sun Tools which, no surprise, had many people from both XBS and PARC working on it at Sun and so had many features that I admired about XDE as part of it.
I think one reason Dendron (and generally PKM topics) resonates on HN is because fundamentally, we haven't figured out "information architecture for humans"

Google works for the internet but we don't have an equivalent for PKM or TKM (team knowledge management). This is why we build Dendron (more details at https://blog.dendron.so/notes/N9VxT7G5SovmncezBAGO2.html)
This could be an issue with your audio mixing in your particular speaker setup. Often times trying to play audio meant for surround systems (5.1, 7.1, etc) on stereo channels results in a poor audio mix.
setuid does not exist on plan9.
Thanks.

I realized that I was just reading about GMail backups a few days. Here are some repos that I happened to star on GH.

* https://github.com/gauteh/lieer
* https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync
* https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup
> Miss a car payment, remote shut down( this is already a thing for certain high risk buyers).

Do you have a source for this? Just curious
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You missed the step where you hit the internet to spread that sweet smug sanctimony.
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That's not really as slam dunk as it suggests. If the government openly states that they're not going to bother prosecuting minor property crime, it seems reasonable that a fair chunk of the victims will be dissuaded from reporting the crime, driving property crime statistics down.

The main reason people report property crime is because insurance requires a police report. If you were a victim of property crime, your odds of ever seeing your stuff back a decade ago, and today aren't meaningfully different.
It's really fast too! They're preloading fonts! I'm so proud.
I really do wonder why Ocaml hasn't had its rails moment.

I hated ML when I first encountered SML in college. As I became more familiar with functional programming, I started enjoying them. the ML languages just felt like such a better deal than the complexities arising from the purity of Haskell.

More intuitive and have records. Maybe they'll have a moment yet. Their learning curve might still be steep. I do hope for a wide spread variation to come out some day.
notable is great! generally, anything that comes down to plaintext markdown is great because of data portability and the ability to apply existing tools over your data :)
Algolia is a YC company. [1] HN got search by outsourcing it to its engine. Before that, Google was the practical way to search HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7118496

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7126301

HN’s minimalism is the site itself. Part of that is not writing its own search engine…to a first approximation, its a fair bet it never would have made the top of the todo list.

[1]: Algolia was established and had raised investment prior to YC.
I'm guessing some shady entrepreneur that has somehow compiled a bunch of unique shipping names and addresses to stockpile covid tests and try to sell them.
Here’s the archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20161125135500/https://www.wefor...
If engineering is applied science with gatekeeping, I'm frankly not interested.

Some sort of specific liability in the legal code could make sense, though.
Children. Never underestimate the role of perceived peer-pressure.

Real or imagined "wrong brand of sneakers" has been going on forever.
Welcome to the type of discrimination everyone is okay with. I'm saddened to hear of your difficulties, but it sounds about par for the course given my life experience.

The fact is, it's extremely difficult to find people who are cutting edge teachers of young minds. You can get them advanced course material and work with your child as long as your mind can keep up, but when it comes to outsourcing it or finding a mentor for pedagogy, if you don't know somebody, all you can really do is do the footwork, network, and pray to cross paths with someone who fits the bill.

The curse of course being that someone with advanced understanding isn't actually who you are looking for, but someone exceptionally good at teaching how to build understanding of complex topics. Those people will be in high demand, everyone will claim to be one, and a bad choice on your part distinguishing the frauds from the real thing could do much more harm than good.

Good luck. If it were me, I'd just try to get in as much extracurricular time as possible, or network with the type of people who could help, which you're already doing; so...
1. Intermittent fasting which led to an awareness that my "mood" most days is essentially a function of my body behaving differently to various foods. Strangely, controlling when I eat led to controlling what I eat, too.

2. Breathing exercise (~5 minutes) before going to bed. Generally keeps me really light and energetic the next day.

3. Spending dedicated time with my son. Can't describe this but generally makes me appreciate things better.
Dendron has plans to add WYSWG functionality this year
Now I understand why they sold out. Nothing gold can stay.
Is it possible that Apple simply doesn't want to dominate messaging? I mean, if they do, what do they gain? (more revenue, more lock-in, more success) What do they risk? (regulatory/anti-trust implications)

Apple can easily be understood by trying to avoid becoming IBM/AT&T. They don't want to be ubiquitous because that has its own regulatory challenges.
You can reverse it, it's called a 51% attack. It's also too volatile to transact with. If I have $100 today I know it's not going to be $90 next week, then $65 the following, then $250 after that. This also makes it a shitty store of value.

Just be honest with what it is — a speculative asset everyone is hoping to get in "on the ground floor of". It only has value today because you can convert it to fiat, do you really think people would still use it if that were to change?
I'd gauge making a mistake which must later be debugged as negative productivity
This is something that bothers the crap out of me watching recent shows on Netflix or similar that come with official subtitles, and that is that they're often crap. You're spending millions on actors and sets and directors and visual effects and editing and everything else around the production, but the subtitles are some kind of shitty after-thought doled out to the lowest bidding subcontractor?

In Sweden, everything foreign is subtitled, and as a result of the vast quantity of subtitles produced, the quality is high, so I've grown up expecting good quality subtitles. And then I watch something on HBO or whatever, and the subtitles are just bad. Clearly not proofread, clearly done by someone who didn't watch the thing, and just translated the written material as is.

And the art side of subtitles is often neglected or plain just not understood. Timing is really important, which people understand when it comes to for example dialogue timing to make a joke land. But then the subtitles are shit, and ruin the joke because the subtitle timing is off, when you could have had good subtitles that worked with the material, preserving the timing!

Why aren't studios and networks investing as much in the subtitles as the rest of the production?

Yes, 95% of subtitles are easy to make, there's a single unambiguous way to translate what's being said into your target language, and by syncing it to the audio it's gonna be good enough. But some things are hard to translate, because there simply doesn't exist a 1:1 mapping between every language, despite Google assuming the world works like that.

But YouTube's auto-caption thing is garbage. It's enough to sort-of kinda make out what is being said, but it's often complete garble, and there's zero understanding of good timing or the art side of subtitling.
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One thing to mention is that the public sticker price is usually not the end negotiated rate for a large customer like the US government. The final price will be anywhere from 30% to 90% of the public price - a wide range, I know; it depends a lot on the service and their margins. Still, this estimate is probably right within a factor of 2.
here's a page that outlines differences between obsidian and dendron: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/a84ff014-e871-445d-9366-d97f1a...
also happy to answer any questions you might have about Dendron :)
This may be helpful, if wanting to know some differences in Obsidian vs. Dendron: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/a84ff014-e871-445d-9366-d97f1a...

For migrating content from Obsidian, you can use Dendron's markdown import pod (pods are ways that Dendron imports/exports notes):

Markdown import: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/f23a6290-2dec-45dc-b616-c218ee...

Obsidian style import: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/9kovmyM4T0ZBeWvp5oH62/

I still use Obsidian on mobile to view my Dendron notes, but use VS Code with the Dendron extension when on my computer :)
Well, I've heard of it. And frankly, I have it myself, too.
Old devices get slower due to mandatory updates.
RCS sucks, but it's the best path to cross-platform messaging that can (and should) be end-to-end encrypted (RCS already supports the Signal protocol for E2EE).

I'd love to see a better privacy/security messaging standard, but let's get something in there incrementally like RCS.

On a side note, can Google allow Android devs to implement RCS in other apps than Google Messages and Samsung Messages, please?
I had never heard of it either until I switched to an iPhone for unrelated reasons. Half my contacts suddenly were congratulating me on being "blue". It was... weird.
Call it "linear regression brain" -- the inescapable need to consider minute, limited traits as having some fixed, measurable contribution to the outcome, rather than a component in a rich tapestry of complex dynamics.
I call myself an engineer so I stay in the family's grace :D My grandfather is a civil engineer, my father a systems engineer, so I am... a software engineer.
I misunderstood. Thank you for the clarification.
Albert,

Thanks for the additional info. I'll be sure to check out your book.

Whenever I think of Xerox, I only think of PARC. I rode past it for years and years and years as I went up and down Foothill from Apple. I didn't know about the El Segundo location.

Whenever I think of Star, or Alto, I focus on the GUI, the Smalltalk, etc. but of course the actual system had to be in place to host these applications.

Just for fun, I tried to see if the various sculptures were visible on current satellite at the (former?) Xerox A&E location on Aviation Blvd. but I couldn't find them. Bummer!

P.S. I just bought your book. I hope I meet you someday and can get you to sign it!
Lastpass incidents are so (in)famous, it’s on Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass

2011
2015
2016
2017
2019
2021

Those are just the famous ones. After 2014, their plugins and UX were so bad, I switched my team(s) to 1Password and never looked back.
You need an iPhone to link your phone number though.
Sorry to hear about this. When did you last use Dendron? we've had lots of updates in terms of performance over the past few months so that shouldn't be the case today
Looks like only one domain can be connected on this
This “relationship differential” idea is intriguing but you described it in such vaguely general terms that I’m not sure I understand what you mean. Could you maybe give a concrete example?