skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To take this further, it is worth taking time off from habitual actions in general. In my case: taking time off of alcohol lead to now only having a drink a few times a year; even taking a day off from a videogame helps break the dopamine cycle and I am then more-free to make decisions about my time; and going longer without food helps me eat healthier, feel better (reducing inflammation and acid reflux, notably), and not waste food.
They're both new versions of an ancient archetype of IT. When they are correct, it seems that their priority is being correct, rather than productively informing others.

This attitude ignores a fundamental truth of any industry; "perfect" is the enemy of "finished", and if I can get to "good enough to ship" without having smug perfectionists on my team, then I won't have them on my team.

The above reasoning is altered if the smug perfectionist is a totally unique and unreplaceable talent, or if the project truly requires a degree of perfectionism (e.g. medical devices, avionics). But that's... largely not what Blow and Casey talk about...

Given that, my response to these guys is to paraphrase Mark Twain: sorry I wrote a complicated program, I didn't have time to write a simple one.
Pick the right tool for the job, based on its sheer ability to perform, not on its efficiency at performing.

Once you have a process that works, then you can focus on driving more efficiency out of it.

AKA watch out for premature optimization.
> You seem to be saying you think keeping liquid fuel in tanks does not qualify as storage.

I just misread what you wrote. I didn't see "fuel" and thought you were referring to other means of renewable storage. Fuel as an efficient and much less geographically limited means of storage makes a lot of sense.
Within the U.S. today, do you feel that the most economically-advantaged social groups are increasing or decreasing their meat and beef consumption? And any reasons why if so? (diet, health, politics, ...)
Yeah, once we’ve turn the M25 into a moat, London’s gonna leave and rejoin the EU!
> IME, Plaid is lightyears ahead in terms of reliability and overall developer and end-user experience.

I regret handing over my bank login details to Plaid, since they scraped my bank statements without stating so upfront and offered that information to 3rd parties (indirectly, as a score of some sort, IIRC, but that's scraping very personal information).

When I mentioned it on HN a year or 2 ago, someone who works there denied the practice - might have been a cofounder. A few months ago I was contacted regarding a settlement for a Plaid class action suit regarding the very actions that had been denied on HN. Plaid - never again.
If 2 out of 3 critics that you found are ad-hominem attacks, I can rest tranquil that Popper is a safe read.

"Is the falsifiable concept falsifiable" -> why yes of course, just prove that something not falsifiable can be provably false...
1) I didn't suggest the UK would form some kind of 'Union' - that's just your defensive posturing.

I suggested 'economic ties' - which are being developed with those actors.

2) There is no benefit to EU political union and it is structurally impossible - unless - the states truly want to give up with everything sovereign and surrender to Germany which controls the Euro (to their benefit) and has just enough disproportionate influence to have 'the last word' on everything.

The 'EEC' is a success - the 'EU' is not.

There probably is a 'better way forward', something between Nation Sate and Federalization, but there's too much contention to talk about it - and frankly 85% of the benefits could be achieved with a comprehensive trade agreement.
The key thing you do in a keto diet, entering a state of ketogenesis, can cause massive complications for diabetic people due to ketoacidosis.

Unfortunately a lot of people who would be interested in dieting and trying out a keto diet are diabetic. It's not always dangerous, but it's generally not a good diet for diabetic people because of this.
How do you know ?
Not exactly. It's definitely not ADHD if there's no prolonged and debilitating impact. Being distracted an hour there and a couple there is not like ADHD.

ADHD would be like more like falling in a pit where one basically cannot do anything meaningful for days and days despite willing to do so (if the motivation is lost, in turn, we are talking about depression-like states).

I doubt that many of normal smartphone users get into such pits despite they appear distracted and might have an urge to get into one's smartphone.
and if that is indeed true - do we control the algorithm - or does the algorithm control us? :=)
I always wished for Mac OS or Unix in general to have a way to ‘stamp’ files with the application bundle id that created the file. Something in extended attributes, just like the quarantine tag that records where a download came from.

Does anyone have any idea on how you could make a wrapper that would be able to do this? If that’s possible, the next step would be to figure out how to have launchd use the wrapper. Or even better, swap out the Application.app with the wrapper and make the actual application hidden like .Application.app, or inside the wrapper, or …?

The wrapper would stamp itself and the original with the bundle id so when you do a find on the xattr of the bundle you get a definitive list of every last trace of everything on the filesystem related to the application.

Perhaps the wrapper would have a special case of documents created and saved in normal user home directories, so e.g. your ~/Documents/todo.txt created in MacVim doesn’t get the macvim tag

The reason for all this?

Some commercial software offers a trial and some licensing systems out there spew obfuscated files in weird places, that aren’t easily identified as belonging to the app or the licensing framework.
> This is not true.

Which part of what I wrote isn't true? I'm talking about device IMEI spoofing, not AT&T's whitelist.
I'm fond of query builder APIs, that only allow you to generate valid queries.

So createPost would just generate the appropriate query with the necessary parameters, and execute it.
Is that not what architects do? Seniors with decision making authority?
Not looking for an argument, what did "levelling up" mean?
Polling data suggests otherwise. Support for re-joining has dropped like a stone.

I voted Remain, and that decision makes little sense in retrospect (not none, it was just a lot of the fearmongering turned out to be false).

The bad parts of the EU are far more evident now we are out of it. To most Brits...the EU just seems a bit mad (and did before btw, it was just that many Brits believed the EU would change). I don't think any Brits know what "the good parts" are (again, this was true before 2016 too, we weren't in the EU for "the good parts"...there weren't any for Britain, we didn't need to shed guilt like Germany, we didn't need to use trade barriers to gain competitiveness like Italy or Spain, we didn't need to use to elevate our global profile like France).

Ofc, the points made in the article are nonsensical...but it is the Economist. Saying that Ukraine has demonstrated the importance of Europe is...comic. The economic points are totally illogical...look at Europe's banks, look at the UK's banks, monetary policy, the values are just totally different.
But its hard to extend this one to prices and bids. If you give a range of money, people will come back and say "but you said you could do it for [the lowest possible number you gave]"
https://archive.ph/o58hG
Crazy, because actually most people could just eat one-fifth of their current beef consumption and still eat more beef then their ancestors..
> The value of a MSCS for me is that I think it would help get me technical leadership jobs at big companies

At least in the US this is not true. Many people on the leadership at Amazon and Google (at least in my tenure there) didn't have masters or PhDs, what matters most are your professional achievements, actually smaller/medium corporations are the ones that will be impressed with your cert/degree. I have seen managers with no degrees( that started as a self-taught developers and later became managers) managing engineers graduated from MIT/Hardvard/etc. Maybe in Canada things are a bit different in that regard. Not discouraging OP or anything , everyone can spend their money however they see fit. Just pointing out of the myths I see often in legacy media.
These were all taught at my uni, along with a course that paired student teams up with companies to develop for them.

It's still not what's most important at uni, imho. You have 5 years at uni, many decades at your job.
Pointless & frivolous. I love it.

There used to be some plugin where you could click a button & be shown a random site that someone had tagged as being interesting for some reason. It was a great way to find all sorts of stuff off the the beaten path like this, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was called to see if it still exists.

Does anyone remember it, or whether or not something similar exists today? I used it around the time Web 2.0 was just coalescing into a major thing.

EDIT: StumbleUpon! Unfortunately it seems a bit closed off, gated by a login & invite code. And the items on the public site look like they're just photos...
Have you heard Come On to Me ? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeJLrtFY7Ds)
For me this is the most Beatles like song by Paul done after Beatles.
Eh. We’ve got control over a lot of things and we don’t always exert that control.

> make comments on HN

This got a good laugh out of me. Good job.
This is essentially Little's law.

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2016/08/26/the-most-important-th...
There have a few times that I presented a VB6 prototype along with a price and had my prototype purchased on the spot. Sometimes when a client says "We need this software now", they really mean it.
Switzerland and Norway are not free to make trade deals by themselves. They too opted to be part of the economic block even though they aren't full member states.

Going for the type of deal these countries have with the EU would have been very smart. You still get to have your borders, you are not paying in, etc. But trade deals are approved by the whole bloc. If you don't want that then you are less integrated with the European economy than Turkey.

Honestly, if you aren't aware of the different layers of collaboration within Europe (with an EU member state being the highest form), you really shouldn't pretend to be able to say anything meaningful about it.

This is so far removed from reality, i have to ask: which Murdoch outlet has been misinforming you?
This is something that absolutely blows my mind. The bank's terms of service say you can't hand over your password to anyone, and here is Plaid asking users for their login information! I can't understand how they can ask users to breach terms of service, and have gotten so far.
I agree with you about the benefits of disallowing your counter-party from communicating directly with the final decision maker (for the purposes of a negotiation), but I don't think that's what call centers are doing. Front-line agents screen a lot of calls by people who have easy-to-resolve issues, or are just angry..
Fun story. I helped someone with a wordpress site recently where I provided an internal address for development. Once they were done with development I moved the site to the public url and found that most of the pages were broken.

Turns out multiple plugins make changing URLs a feature behind a monthly paywall as a monetization strategy. The sobering thing is that the fix is to update tables in the database. There are various examples in github for these things, however most people just use a plugin that literally does a find and replace for the old URI and replaces with the new. Frightening...
The timing of this post is quite impeccable - just a few days ago I finally went ahead and paid for a domain, to set up a personal blog (despite having decided to make one several years back). I would like to ask fellow HN bloggers, what were some of the unexpected things you encountered in your process? (I'm more curious about the experience, though I am also interested about more technical details.)
> as long as they do not ask for special treatment?

They certainly could ask.

They wouldn't get it because at this point they have negative leverage and I'd assume Brussels is at best mildly irritated by Downing Street.
I thought the lofty rich were the ones with the thin skin, and it's the built-it-with-grit folks that have the thick sink.
Stills begs the question... why would we see inflation when all of those trends are deflationary? Can't possibly be because the fed is printing money out of thin air..
> Why did I waste so much time on the Internet? If I hadn't, I wouldn't be here. It gave me that much needed laughter every once in a while that kept me from going over the edge and I would just keep scrolling, looking for one more laugh that will make my day a bit more bearable.

Battling long term physical illness here that is an absolute fucking slog. Can very much relate to this sentiment.
Fines against public companies are among the least effective deterrents I can possibly imagine. The officers make the mistake/misrepresentations, and the shareholders take the hit. If the government really wanted to deter these actions, they'd fine the officers making the 'wrong' statements.
The article is about these miniseries (not about the movie): https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9735318/

Before you ask, they only stream on Disney+.
80% of migrations out there (warning: made up statistic) happen because the system became too complex to maintain, and most of that complexity comes from people implicitly invoking Chesterton’s fence in one way or another, many, many times.

Yes, there are cases where it’s wise to follow Chesterton’s advice. But many more cases where that’s just lazyness disguised as wisdom.
... and then put crocodiles in it
The more relevant variable isn't employment rate but GDP. We have a shrinking GDP which is the definition of a recession.
January 2014, after only 3.5 years of being an AT&T customer, I realized in the previous year I had neither called anyone nor received a call. I still had an iPhone 4, and I only used the data. I cancelled my service. I went entirely without any phone of my own until March 2020 when I started using Google Voice with a wifi device and cable internet. Since 2014, I've saved at least $1000 on the stupid phone.
I'm sure they'll get right to it as soon as they manage to locate the Jira ticket.
Recovering from eye surgery. Nothing else I can do.
> there is a simple SQL query that can be written to fulfill any GraphQL query

This is true (as long as you expect both queries to be simple, or allow both to be complex).

But the conclusion you get up there is wrong and (obviously) does not follow from that. Creating a software that translate any one query into the other is a very difficult task.
I found Newport's book to be so surface level for anyone with even a passing familiarity with the problem that it wasn't worth my time.

What really helped me was these two books:

(1) The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu
(2) The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshanna Zuboff

and the nextdns.io installed on all my devices. I literally blocked Reddit, et al to break the cycle of "I just woke up so I'mm scroll until I'm fully awake" and then oops -- an hour went by.

The thing that ended up motivating me to change was reinforcing for myself the fact that I'm in this mess because very smart people have designed systems to exploit me. Fuck that. I'm in control of my attention.
Install a scheduled host blocker and block all your time wasters until the hours of 10PM until midnight.

Don't be afraid to admit that the moment you feel a touch of boredom you reflexively type 'reddit'. Tools like 'Freedom.to' block these time sinks and you don't even realize how frequently you visit these sites until you get the block notification.

After a week or two your cured.
A week ago I deleted my Twitter account. Today I'm deleting my Reddit account. I'm keeping Facebook simply to stay in touch with family and a few friends, otherwise it would definitely go. I'm on the fence about HN, but it will probably go as well.

These online communities are a net negative in my life, and I'm done.
the risk is also low - you can feed your lonely without much risk of damage - the real world is harsh - the world you curate for yourself can be as you please - given we tend away from difficult human interactions[1] - this cure of the lonely is easy and "safe" - however - more difficult to assess - is this making us more or less lonely?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=books+about+difficult+conver...
I think you included the right parenthesis with the link. It's giving 404. Could you edit it?
What are the evidently bad parts of EU that you come to realize once out?

I'm also puzzled by your claim that support for re-join has dropped because as it happens, it actually didn't change much and the latest polls suggest that re-join has the lead[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_the_United_...
Are you implying the EU would try to forbid Switzerland and Britain from forming deals? Because the EU has literally zero say in that.

This mindset of the EU trying to establish an implicit rule over Europe is the exact reason why it is so poorly regarded in Switzerland.
I think both Norway and Switzerland are significantly closer to the EU than is the UK.

With regards to who plays most by EU rules, I would indeed expect that the UK has not yet actually diverged, but diverging was (and remains) an explicit point of the exercise judging by the rhetoric of the politicians who campaigned for Brexit.
Not all of the data sources for graphql may be in a single database. They may not necessarily even be stored in something that can be accessed with SQL.
> All these hours spent consuming forgettable garbage on Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, and in video games… these are hours not spent learning recipes, making music, writing programs, lifting weights, or practicing Spanish. If I could channel my energy towards these things, then the long-term payoff would be much more enriching. Not only that, but I’d probably be a happier person if I was disconnected from whatever daily drama social media wants me to care about.

I do all those things and I still waste a ton of time on Youtube.

And it's fine; your brain cannot dedicate all of its waking time to high-intensity intellectual endavours, you just end up burning out.

I worked full-time and studied for a few years. Remarkably, I still had a share of free time, but I couldn't do anything "productive" with it as I had no mental energy to do perform these tasks. You _have_ to just hang out and do nothing.

The most productive people I know waste a ton of time outside of their chosen specialty, and it's not a coincidence.
Sounds like the kind of stuff that the Gnostics were getting at, too.
No, they don't. Plenty of data points in levels.fyi and anecdotal experience, if you are at Amazon or Google I can point you where to look(internal).
I love seeing imgui in the wild used in stuff like this
Haha. Same here.
I have gotten back into reading though. That took a while because I lost the ability to concentrate on books as I grew more dependent on streaming and social media.
Its been about a year now, since I left all the major social media hubs, got incredibly selective on daily news (only one local media outlet and a couple of polar opposite international ones that I pay for) and cut down on watching streaming services, that I started to be able to concentrate on reading books again.
I grew up reading everything I could get my hands on.
I missed it terribly.

HN and youtube still stick. Mostly tutorials, workouts or info videos ( Andrew Huberman, justforfunc, 3blue1brown etc. ) on youtube though.
Yes, absolutely right no argument there.

Intuitively, prepayment risk can be broken down into interest rate risk and default risk in its most basic terms when compared to a coupon bond. The risk relates to duration and cash flows. Early prepayments decrease duration, and decrease expected cash flows, which can be thought of in relation to interest rate risk and default risk.

I guess I prefer when complex topics are broken down back to their principal parts.
Some people prefer some things just because they haven't learned a better way, but if you show them a better way, they'd gladly use it. I think the mission of a product designer should be to see through what the user thinks they need, and provide something that solves their real problem in the best way.

In the case of IaC, what the customer really wants is a programmatic way to generate instructions for Pulumi to use to build infrastructure. The dream of "declarative" anything is to explain what you want and have a machine make it reality, right? But in practice that's hard to do. The machine needs to be very, very smart.

But it's not that smart. So we cheat and invent non-programming-languages, so that people end up telling the machine in far too much detail what they want. Do I really want to tell the machine to "go in a loop creating resources as long as there are resources in a list" ? Or do I really want to do some other thing, and making these resources should just be an incidental part of that that I shouldn't have to explain at all?

Programmers who like YAML for anything other than pure data serialization don't actually like YAML, they just like that they can cheat with it. No need to write a configuration format if you read your configuration from it. No need to write a DSL if you execute logic based on it. The programmers who don't like YAML wanted to do the same things, but were bitten by all the problems that came from using the wrong thing for the wrong purpose.

So really, the product person and experienced engineer need to work together to prevent this whole situation from ever occurring. Create a schema, and create libraries that can generate YAML based on the schema, but do it in such a way that no human would ever want to edit it by hand, and too complicated to ever write a generator for it without the schema. This way the customer can't shoot themselves in the foot, or demand changes which would make everything worse.
Maybe “unexpected” would be a good substitute for absurd.
Maybe sound effects for the real masochists
I wish that audiobooks worked for me, but I just can't pay attention to them. I tried listening to one on a long car trip and I couldn't pay attention for more than a few minutes.
I have run my own site, on my own domain (with email!) since 1994. The domain was lost and recaptured in 1998, so I suppose by the registrar, since 1998...

I go through spurts of updating and then not updating it. Some parts of this article resonate with me... is it worth it? Does anyone care? Will anyone ever see it? At the same time, if you view it as an item for ones self, then all of those pressures go away.

I think people do not realize the power they have (or they always make it out to be a much larger problem than it is) to run ones own server (perhaps both web and email). Before you flame, I have been setting up web/email for decades, and there are plenty of online tutorials (I wrote a few). The real point is that even with a little effort, the rewards are interesting. It is not for everyone, but I think the DIY spirit has a place here (in web pages and personal systems on the net).

Sorry for rambling, I feel compelled to say something... so many comments in other threads turn into "you can never keep up with a web or email server". I feel this person needs kudos for showing that it is really not too difficult.
Twitter allows alt text but it's dependent on the user including it when they post (@collision did not) and it's limited to 1000 characters.