skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small nit, but I think the research around "focus is a muscle" ended up being unable to replicate.

I can't cite the exact research, but Angela Duckworth turned me onto this on an episode of "No Stupid Questions" about two or three weeks ago.

Good advice generally though, and nothing you said really relies on focus being a muscle; you still need to practice it, but no need to worry about not being "conditioned" enough, is all.

Update: Found it! [0]

> Laboratories implemented one of two procedures that intended to manipulate self control and tested performance on a subsequent measure of self control. Confirmatory tests found a non-significant result, d = 0.06. Confirmatory Bayesian meta-analyses using an informed prior hypothesis (δ = 0.30; SD = 0.15) found the data were four times more likely under the null than the alternative hypothesis. Hence, preregistered analyses did not find evidence for a depletion effect.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346303522_A_Multisi...
How often do you visit your chiropracter?
<blink> and <marquee> are HTML elements, the article is about HTML attributes.

None of the attributes in the article are deprecated, some are underimplemented (alternative stylesheets).
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This is at least in part down to societal structure.

Education runs on a "morning person" schedule from a young age, through early adulthood. After that, there's certainly more choice available in terms of life schedule, but the vast majority of people are corralled into a form of employment built on the same schedule. Even if not, all major services one interfaces with in one's life operate on that schedule.

Even if you managed against all odds to develop healthy daily habits during the 20-ish years of strict poorly suited scheduling that is the education system, applying those habits only becomes more difficult when you move into a more independent self-driven environment of providing for oneself financially. This absolutely kills any hope of developing productive habits for most people.

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Anecdata: I'd classify myself as "not a morning person", but I don't find difficult to get up early. e.g. I don't need an alarm-clock. What I find difficult is functioning after getting up.

I don't have kids but I've a pretty demanding large dog that had a strong preference for 5am walks when he first arrived, which I adapted to reasonably easily. Walking a dog isn't really a "significant accomplishment" in the commonly understood sense, and more-importantly, isn't a mentally challenging or "applied" activity. I'm completely unable to function in the mornings when it comes to doing anything even mildly complex.

Also, getting up at 5am means I'm severely less productive from 6pm onwards, which is my peak productive period when I operate on natural rhythm. I'm reasonably successful (I think) and I work a remote job from Ireland on a US tz schedule, so that's particularly tough.
> literal WW2 panzerfausts

That Panzerfaust 3 they're using is not a WW2 weapon, but a very distant modern successor. Unlike the original Panzerfaust, it had a double (tandem) shaped warhead that enables it to punch through reactive armor that would stop a regular shaped warhead.
If you're a courier or a contractor getting paid by miles it will be a great way to log that. If you're into jogging or walking long hikes, good for that. etc etc. If you're a desk jockey you probably don't need it.
There's at least two key differences between something like Reddit or HN and Twitter. The Twitter platform is structured so that a large mass of people will "follow" a few influencers. It creates a really asymmetric power dynamic. On Reddit and HN, if you have interesting content, you can make the front page. On Twitter, your odds are much bigger if you're famous, and every comment a famous person makes is hugely amplified.

The second difference is that Reddit and HN are organized by topic. HN only has a single topic, but there's moderators to enforce that posts be somewhat on topic and retain a certain minimum of civility. Twitter is not organized like that. Even if you're just interested in programming, Twitter will try to get you to engage in political topics, and if you do engage, you might get responses from random people Twitter also pulled from other discussions who have very little context, and you'll get to exchange with this random set of people through responses that are limited in length. If a famous person happens to strongly disagree with you on Twitter, their hordes of fans will start to attack you.

So yes, all social media platforms have more active and influential users[0] , but no, these platforms are not all the same, and a lot of the difference is structural.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
I don't think 100% compatibility should be a goal. The maintainers really need to step up and guide the community through a tough but important transition (reducing the API surface for C-extensions to some sane subset so the implementation can be optimized--see things like h.py) or Python will remain in its very slow local optimum while the world moves around it.

Yes, we just went through one "tough but important" transition (Python 2->3) and it sucks to have to do this so often, but it's the price we pay from making bad bets (in this case, unnecessarily exposing the entire CPython interpreter as the C-extension API surface on the assumption that it will never be necessary to make CPython faster because people who need speed will just write the slow parts in C).
Don't mind me, I'm just jaded.
Ah yes, a long term commenter with 10 years of posts, housands of Karma and hundreds of unrelated comments was just playing the long-game so they could shill Monzo. And it was a person who just joined the site that found them out! /s

I've also had great experiences with Monzo, so will also back them up.
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Tribes, Industry Groups Reach Deal to Boost U.S. Hydroelectric Power
Large home desktop, cheap replaceable linux laptop is the perfect combo. I've saved so much money over the years by swapping out desktop parts and using a beat-up thinkpad for off-location work. Every once in a while I'm missing a newer display port, but overall it's a great system.
> I spend about a hundred days a year of my spare-time in evenings, weekends, and holidays, training my Squadron.

From an American perspective, as someone who was in our Army Reserve, that's an insane amount of time if you aren't a full time AGR. I guess he like's his big time Major pay and status, but if you're really dedicated to being a part time soldier, the higher you rise in rank the more you'll be expected to contribute in your own personal time.
Did you also get this trick from Technology Connections channel? :P
That’s useful stuff, thanks!
I had this exact issue at a last company. We had a system that tore down and rebuilt our entire clusters to updates QPS estimates. It was the right idea and the right approach, but it was a big gnarly ball of code that broke frequently, requiring the steps it got stuck on to be done by hand and the code fixed for next time. So anyone working on it still had to know and be co dude that’s executing any arbitrary manual steps as well as understanding the code enough to fix it (or get the expert involved). I’m doubtful it was a net positive in that state.
Or sunset photos with a camera flash washing everything out…
> The reason that Exxon and others have not captured and sold that gas is that they did not want to.

As a company they only want one thing: to make money. Apparently gas is too cheap, or transport too expensive to sell it otherwise. Same goes for making electricity.

The business logic only works if you can turn the methane into something very valuable.
> The title Attribute On Stylesheets

w3.org used to feature this, you could view the website in any of the stylesheets they offered, which were a bunch (about 5-10 if I recall correctly).
Interesting research, but a dangerous idea in practice. Better to just not consume any drink that falls under suspicion rather than presume to rely on an app. It is assured that any such app will regularly produce false negatives even under the most generous circumstances, but even one failure is unacceptable for this use-case. Further, there's also the risk of false positives, which could result in serious and sometimes irreversible consequences for the falsely accused.
funny you mention that. from your comments now it appears that you might live in israel and not the US as i initially made it to be so my question remains. Why, as an israeli you care if iran threatens america?

i kinda live in the middle of a clusterfuck also called "kashmir". go and look up the atrocities and war crimes being committed by india and pakistan against my fellow citizens on an ongoing basis and consider my words then.

i know how it looks like when you have men barging in your homes and they take you away, never to be seen again or your homes being targeted and razed to the ground. to not knowing if you will return home at the end of the day so yeah, i am in the middle of this and can say that.

>Perhaps if someone had a literal (not proverbial) warhead pointed at your children, then you would be less cavalier and naive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawkadal_massacre
Advice for finding a technical co-founder (2021)
> I'm constantly fighting battles to keep things simple. All the young devs on my team want to use every fancy new technology that passes by...

For me, it's not so much my fellow developers -- half my age, but quite bright enough to realise the benefits of simplicity -- but that the vendors of the tools our corporation has decided to use have in turn decided to implement them not just as a spaghetti-reinforced mudball, but as a spaghetti-reinforced mudball of spaghetti-reinforced mudballs.

(That these SRMB^2s are then just part of a larger spaghetti-reinforced mudball of SRMB^2s, i.e a spaghetti-reinforced mudball cubed, is of course not the vendors' fault but corporate. But then, aren't corporate systems always SRMBs? So if at least the components were simple, the end result would be only an SRM to the power of one, not three... Sigh.)
It is more a question of listening. Talk to people, find out what causes pain in their life. Find out what they are trying to accomplish in the first place. Figure out an alternative way to reach that goal that avoids their pain points. And build it.

It is a process that is easy to say, but harder to do. The start of it, though, is simply to get out in the world and talk to people.
The bartender is just about the only person who leaves a paper trail if they do this. I really don't think they're the likeliest of threats.
Is Bitcoin That Bad for the Environment?
I work for a different fintech and both of your points are spot on. Much higher baseline fraud attempts due to online/remote accounts, but much more sophisticated real-time ML/detection systems.
When should I use RedwoodJS and why?
tl;dr "The medium is the message" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
Upgraded luxury housing often reduces the unit count as well as the number of people housed.
This idea that things break down at scale is an ongoing issue in society. People get up in arms over things like red light cameras and speed cameras, for instance, which I think points to serious systemic issues. If we as a society can't tolerate the uniform application of a law for example, maybe the law should be changed. If there are issues with this data being public, the rationale for the data being public in the first place should be challenged, not the downstream providers who utilize that data.
Alternative take: you don't, you can't, and there's nothing you can really do about it.

The successful people you see are just the lucky ones whose attention was already turned to things that could make them successful and they just went with it. Because what they were focused on was valuable, society rewarded them, which created a feedback loop of positive reinforcement and kept them focused.

Instead, just try to finish something. Anything. Complete literally any of your projects, and probably during your "interest window". Decide to be someone who finishes stuff, even if it's not perfect. That'll be valuable enough on its own.

Flit from thing to thing, finishing them in the barest-of-minimum way, while still "completing" the work. Give each thing you're interested in pursuing a chance at collecting real feedback, and see if that feedback sparks further interest. If it does, keep going. If it doesn't, move on.
The search input sucks on iOS - it randomly has square corners or round corners depending on arbitrary information.
It sounds as if you’re complaining about Russian troops being massacred in Ukraine themselves. It should be ‘massacres by Russian troops’ (I assume)
Gotta love politicians trying to be trendy while not actually understanding anything
How many candidates wouldn't know that Meta == Facebook, at least within the tech spheres?
>no actual speech happens by the masses themselves

Not true. Maybe most don't bother but anyone can. And it's kind of unique that I as Joe Public can tweet to @JoeBiden or whoever. I don't know any other platform like that.

Maybe no one will bother reading my tweet but it's a free world and that's their choice.
> Why should flickr invest time doing that when the IA didn't want the account?

That's not how the OP twitter thread presented it.
> That sort of defeats the entire point of the 5th amendment.

Not really -- civil matters aren't matters of crime (it's not illegal to divorce your spouse), so it makes sense on the surface that protections against self incrimination don't apply.

The problem here is civil asset forfeiture itself, which should be either completely illegal or at the very least subject to a higher standard of proof than it currently is.
And yet, some batteries start burning spontaneously when broken open.
I have done this.

During the pandemic I switched jobs and got a new MacBook Pro... it failed, then it failed again, and again. I sent it back a few times and each turn-around took a couple of weeks.

Whilst that happened I still had to do some work and fell back on my gaming PC. It wasn't a good PC, just an entry level gaming PC. Yet I found it out-performed my MBP for a load of things I cared about: Running Google Meet without fans spinning to full speed, reactivating a Google Doc tab almost instantly rather than it appearing to be blank for 30 seconds. Things like that.

The MBP finally got repaired, but I've owned that for barely 2 years now (it was new at the time) and it's been out of action about 10% of the time. In the meantime my desktop has been rock solid and reliable.

Recently I figured I'd do something different... sell the entry level gaming machine and build a desktop with work in mind. The result has been really great, with a silent and powerful desktop based on components I like and that work together. It runs Linux, and a surprise to me I'm also running Windows. Everything just works, and it all works well and the computer is fantastic at every task I throw at it. This includes local dev, compiling things, lots of meetings, webinar editing, and some occasional gaming post-work.

I still have the MBP... it's not a primary work device, my experience with Apple means I don't trust the machine at all, but for a travel device it feels fine and it's that which gave me confidence to go all-in on a desktop.
Twitter has an important use case for journalists, politicians, governments, announcements, etc.

There should be some way to preserve neutrality and not have one side find a "terms and conditions" clause to remove the opponent's viewpoint, cheered by the supporters of the opposite. It's silly politics, in the most abstract use of the word. It's like corporate politics.

It does seem like most of the hostility are in the replies to things. The one-liner quips, the arrogance, the condescending sarcasm, and the sometimes outright name-calling. It's amazing to watch how your fellow adults behave when there's no one physically in front of them.
> no place in the universe with Zero g…free fall

Which is what physicists call zero g. For purposes of this application, that practical zero g (versus the red herring you constructed) is the phenomenon of value, as it would permit suspending the cesium atom in the fountain.
no they aren't.
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The past couple weeks I've received at least 5 notifications like this and found the lack of "report spam"/"block sender" functionality surprising. I submitted feedback through the app but I have little confidence that anyone is actually looking at those - I've always seen Google's feedback submission on Android as a b*tch abyss. For now I've just blocked all Drive notifications.
Yes. I was talking about milk chocolate. I didn't even know there was something like "dark chocolate" at that age. Incidentally, now I prefer dark chocolate over milk chocolate by and large.

I mentioned gluten not in relation to chocolate, but to other sweets that do contain gluten, but also have chocolate.
It's not hell. One type C to HDMI dongle. I use one.
UEFI is OK if the user can disable it. It is clearly a restraint of trade issue. We probably just need to make a law.
There was a bunch of PR stuff around a nail polish that did something similar a few years ago [0] in South Africa but I don't think a product ever came out of it.

[0] https://www.news24.com/health24/Lifestyle/Woman/Your-body/St...
Not everyone is even capable of attending college. That's just what it is.

You can get into a trade, etc.

And if you don't like trades you can always go back to community college.

In the early 2000s you had an all out attack on tradesmenship. High schools use to offer classes in woodworking, automotive repair, and even metal working.

All of a sudden it was decided these jobs were 'dirty'. How dare some students have different aptitudes!

Life is long. You can try to become an electrician apprentice, decide you don't like it and attend community college after that
> Vstar (APL)

Vstar was based on j, not apl.
Am I ever the opposite. Every photo or video anyone in my family takes goes to the local NAS and that's the end of it. I think of that media more like a diary. It's all sorted by date, and that's it; but it's also enough.
Something that's worked well for me is using "docks" with my laptops.

I'm typing this over a cheap-ish (80€) Chinese thing from Amazon [0], which gives me power, a bunch of USB 3 A ports, one C, gigabit network, HDMI and DisplayPort, and audio in/out (didn't try it). The video is pass-through, as opposed to a DisplayLink chip.

One thing to be aware of, is it requires two USB-C connectors. I've never tried only using one, since the provided cable has a dual-connector. It also looks quite nice, doesn't feel cheap at all.

MS, Dell, HP, Lenovo all sell similar contraptions, but they're much more expensive. At work I have a HP G5, which works well, and uses a single USB-C port.

You can also find cheaper alternatives that only do HDMI.

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[0] https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B09MTTZ36K/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_...
If you think other social media is toxic and stifles speech in the same way Twitter does, you are intentionally being dishonest, have your head in the sand, or simply have little understanding of how these platforms work (I'm going with the latter based on your characterization of reddit alone).

- Reddit has endless communities, and long text forum posts and comments. Most people lurk in the top subs, but almost everyone has a niche subreddit they have actively posted in, or has an alt just for that purpose

- I find it hard pressed to find someone who purposefully creates an Instagram account and does not, at the very minimum, share photos with friends and family. I use the app daily, and even the boomers that are finally coming onto the platform regularly post photos.

Most people are followers in the broad sense, but on a community level, especially with their friends, families, and communities, are sharers. That's the difference between twitter versus facebook, instagram, and reddit. You are making the fallacy of applying the influencer syndrome across the entire platform. The majority of users are not remaining on the platform because of influencers. These other platforms are primarily about individuals communities and friends. They start by joining the platform because of a friend, a family member, or to join a niche community of likeminded folk, and then they are gradually exposed to the platform-specific SEO junk food. Twitter on the other hand, is demonstrably, provably, about certain power users. It's about following the "right" people to get the most out of it. There is no community in the organic sense of the term on twitter, except by pure happenstance ("tech twitter", "black twitter", and so on, but even then it's at best, a loose association).

So before you tell someone to get off their soap box, maybe make sure you have a clearer understanding.
I grew up near their headquarters in San Jose and had several opportunities to poke around inside and even attend a few meetings. As with most religions, one must merely feign interest to open doors, procure canonical documents, etc.

AMORC's (Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis) main claim to fame seems to be that everyone important throughout history was a member, yet none of them ever told anyone. It appears that the biggest secret of the Rosicrucians is membership itself!

The organization publishes volumes and pamphlets extolling the achievements of their secret members, which are somehow ascribed to a secret and universal code of knowledge which those folks were given by their membership. In other words, the achievements of Francis Bacon and Issac Newton, and so forth, are implied to result from their Rosicrucian knowledge -- even though no such knowledge is ever presented.

In this way, Rosicrucianism resembles both Scientology ("secret info" which turns out to be nonsense) and the Freemasons (an elite social club of people who were somehow imbued with their abilities by membership, rather than money or privilege).
Drug seekers as well for performance enhancers like adderall or ritalin. If you're somewhere on the spectrum it's pretty trivial to present ADHD with some practice to a clinician who doesn't care much, especially if remote.

I heard of a couple instances of this throughout my extended social network - largely from people who found it very hard to focus at home and get work done (they required work/home separation for mental health), but certainly did not have ADHD.
The loading attribute is more interesting and useful but I think it's already fairly familiar to Smashing Magazine readers. I think the decoding attribute could be useful for page rendering on very low-end devices, maybe also on pages with a very large quantity of images.
I don't see any way to block users through the Android app.
This basically puts a REST/HTTP GET frontend on your messaging backend (Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, etc).

So whatever events you want to expose publicly can be done over plain HTTP.

Having said that, IMO using SSE or websockets would be a better fit than raw HTTP.
what's your use case?
They are not publicly tracking any person, though, just a plane I thought.