skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't stop at social media. Start to really look to moderate all of your screen time. Honestly everything in your life, but screens is a good start.

The average American spends 11 hours on a screen. That's 65% of their life not including sleeping (although we're fighting for that too). We're in the attention economy.

The messages you're seeing about how to live your life, the ads being implanted in your head, the mindless entertainment keeping you from living your life.

Not to say don't participate in these, because they are fun. But do moderate everything you do that includes a screen.
> REPLit is amazing when you just get pissed at a random python script that's spitting out junk and you want to figure out how a specific function works

How does Replit in particular help with this (vs anything else that lets you run Python, including /usr/bin/python?)
For what it's worth alumni interviews are mostly meaningless in the applicatiuon process. Theyt exist more as a development tool for keeping alumni engaged.

And while one that goes egregiously poorly can hurt your chances, the best alumni interview in the history of college applications won't move the needle.
Once you make it hard to care, or even punish people with additional work if they care, they stop caring.
Below Antarctic ice, a giant groundwater system
If there’s ready supply at the low and middle end of affordable for all family sizes up to ~12, the program will have succeeded in my book. I would not want so much a single taxpayer dollar go to “improve” the situation from that baseline to one where luxury housing was also readily available.
but what created that loop in the first place?
It's a common test to ensure you're truly comfortable with your decisions and actions: If a major newspaper would describe your actions or quote you directly on their front page tomorrow, would you still stand behind those words and actions?

The "test" is much older than Stripe but we often use it as a shorthand to ask ourselves whether we truly think a certain course of action is the right one.
When most people are talking about home ownership, we're not talking about being someone else's landlord. We're talking about living in a place until we move, and then selling that property.

You are discussing an entirely different issue.
This article gets one thing right: if you're going to autogenerate something as complex as YAML, you'll really, really want to stick to a sane subset of the underlying language (here, JSON).
> the part where "he" is wrong, is the part where he tells everyone that his reference software can be compared to a real terminal

He very clearly states that his implementation is a terminal renderer.

> And almost none of the techniques "he" brags about can be applied to a real terminal

Elsewhere one of the people from the screenshots says "we implemented the same approach" because these techniques can be and have been applied. Both in Windows Terminal and, as I understand it, in every single modern terminal emulator.
From ancient oaks to walking yews: Britain’s great trees, forests and avenues
We don't have a free market though. We have a market captured by oligarchic monopoly. Also you come off as a jerk. Maybe fix your tone and style so you don't come across as pedantic?
Harvard Extension School is open enrollment
Those are "round" numbers by social convention, and our psychology rounds them down.
Why is "reducing anxiety" such a paramount goal?
We use this test in a related field.

If you read about X on the front page (in potentially a negative light) would you feel good about it, could you stand behind it. This helps with clients who are considering going sideways. Usually their lawyer will make some long complex argument about why something is "OK" or "legal".

We might disagree technically as well (ie, no its not legal), but sometimes it is easier to ask, hey, if this were on the front page tomorrow, would you feel good about this? The reality is the board members or whoever who have a lot of reputation really would NOT be OK with whatever - and usually speak up at this point, particularly as their personal upside to doing whatever bogus BS is low and their downsides are often much higher.
If Reddit made it easy for me to follow people and have stuff pop into my feed like Twitter, I'd walk away from Twitter.
Yeah, but feels like there's a conflict of interest. Xen Orchestra is made more difficult to deploy than it needs to be, since it'd reduce sales of XOA if it was easy. It's also not obvious on https://xen-orchestra.com that it is actually open source, seems like it's intentionally made confusing to get you to use XOA instead.
I used to spend an embarrassing amount of time on the social media, not really enjoying myself. I tried taking breaks for a month or so at a time, but would get sucked right back in because of some dumb meme or hype train or something.

Then after a while something snapped. I realized everything I saw online was extremely boring and shallow, and I had no desire to see it. I didn’t log out of any of my socials, and I still have the apps installed, I just have 0 desire to use them. Same goes for news sites and blogs (I used to read an article or two a day on at least a dozen sites). I don’t know what in my brain changed, but I’m glad it did because now I get about 4 hours of every day back.

Most of what’s online is just so pointless, but even worse, it’s not very enjoyable, and is often anxiety-inducing. I’d rather literally stare at the ceiling and just let my mind wander. Hacker News is the last site I still frequent, but even this has seemed extremely dull lately.
Brainfuck?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

Example: ++++++++[>++++[>++>+++>+++>+<<<<-]>+>+>->>+[<]<-]>>.>---.+++++++..+++.>>.<-.<.+++.------.--------.>>+.>++.
100% agree the whole process sucks... but the industry built a moat by requiring credentials through legislation. Y/C actually has some companies trying to solve it. Here's a couple of my tricks though:

You can cut down on fees by finding the home on your own (zillow/redfin/etc) and using the sellers realtor (unless they have a conflict of interest) tell them you'll give them 1% or a flat fee instead of the other half of the deal (saving you ~1.5%). There are also flat fee realtors which will do it for like $1K - $3K depending. They just end up doing the paperwork for it.

You can also go "off market" (sounds like thats not what you're talking about though) - theres actually a separate wholesale market you can look into (e.g. https://lafixers.com/) and of course auction. You can reach out to property managers as well who will often know of properties that large landlords may be turning soon.

To cut through the mortgage shopping you can use a person that shops for you. It's usually fixed price for a couple hundred bucks but will save you tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars (e.g. we used - https://danthemanformortgages.com/). Personally I found it to be super helpful because they can consult with you about the deal and teach you the process since mortgage brokers are sales people the same way realtors are.

Good Luck
No Stone Unturned: Hadrian's Wall
The cure does not come from discipline but from finding things that are more fun to do.

I'd rather read a book or tinker with a program instead of wasting time on the internet, but somehow my phone alone still recorded at least more than three hours of use and usually sometimes more than four. Reflecting upon this, I identified two reasons for such irrational behavior. First, I was afraid of getting carried away from reading a book, while checking timeline of twitter seems non-committing. Second, this little dose of dopamine from reading a short update from the internet seems really addictive.

Luckily, I find a treatment that seems working:

1. I realize that reading a book or a long article is not as addictive as before, for whatever reason. In addition, I use a timer to remind myself just in case.

2. I surround myself with many types of books, videos, articles, magazines, and some exercise routines and equipment. Whenever I have an urge to take a break, I first ask myself if I really need to get distracted. It's amazing how awareness itself can reduce the urge to check updates from the internet. If I do want to take a break, I pick the book/video/article/exercise that's most appealing at the moment. This little trick works quite well. My phone usage has been consistently below 2 hours, with nearly half of them coming from reading Kindle and Apple Books. I finished multiple books in the past few months, including tombs like Programming Rust, and Isaacson's Leonardo Da Vinci.

I wish I could spend even less time on social media, but at least I can see concrete improvement now.
If I find a seed such that my algorithm reconstructs your comment, has your comment already existed and you just discovered it?

How is your brain anything different to a machine that given some seed (i.e. a state) produces a sequence of characters?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

> Low interest rates in 1998–99 facilitated an increase in start-up companies

> In 2000, the dot-com bubble burst, and many dot-com startups went out of business after burning through their venture capital and failing to become profitable.

Sound familiar? It should, because history rhymes.
That is literally the opposite of an excuse. cPanel, and any other hosting provider, has all of the tools needed to implement this correctly. The user wouldn’t even have to leave the browser.
Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan Looking Quite Good and Shining with Mesa 22.1
this is mostly where I'm at.

One of the problems is that I'm not going to work on a project just for the sake of working on it. If I'm going to work on a project in my personal time, it needs to have personal significance to me. As it turns out, I don't actually have that many needs that aren't serviced by existing software.

As a result, the personal time I spend on skill development tends to be in the form of broadening my horizons or deepening my understanding of a topic rather than producing useful software.

So most of my github activity is filing a bug report, possibly with a small patch.
No disconnect whatsoever.. Just someone who wants to make promotion by writing a blogpost, and dismissing someone else's input.

Politics and ego that's all
Yes, but I don't see why mice would be so different from humans for this kind of thing.
This is completely solved with Ionic/electron.
The smartphones ivory tower will fade with time
Pretty sure I've been waiting 3+ months at this point and am now unable to connect new items via Chase.
The study looks into 'investors who offer “precise” bids for company shares'

But then the article opens with 'anyone negotiating to buy a car, a house, or even a company'

Seriously?
Irony should not really be used in technical communication at all, though. The goal of technical writing is that as many readers "get it" as possible. Therefore, any rhetorical technique for which you have to "accept that a subset of readers won't 'get it'" is a bad technique for technical writing.
It is crazy to me too. When I was younger, I thought how great it is that we can use websites as a cheap and easy way to authenticate or reasonably assume the authenticity of what was written or said, and here we are using screenshots of text on twitter as evidence.
Hi, i'm the maintainer of scholar.archive.org.

It looks like we are missing a bunch of your public papers, such as those published here:
http://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eigo/publication_en.html

Both unpaywall and scholar.archive.org work best with papers that have persistent identifiers like DOIs, PMIDs, DOAJ article ids, or dblb records. Unpaywall currently works with Crossref DOIs exclusively.

With scholar.archive.org (and fatcat.wiki, the backing catalog), it is possible to submit metadata records directly, but it can be laborious and would be better for everybody if this process was automated.

Processing OAI-PMH feeds or extracting bibliographic metadata from HTML metadata would probably improve our coverage, and we are hoping to roll out that kind of scraping eventually. But it has been a challenge to clean and de-duplicate metadata at that scale.
The things I was doing in my 20s made me feel as though I was changing the world, and I had an impressive project list.

In my 40s, I can hardly stand certain aspects of the tech space... and keeping motivation is all about things I can make, but not make for others.

Find something that sparks your imagination.
Skill atrophy is my main thing. Mitigating skill atrophy on legacy skillsets, sub-sets of skills you have used for 20 years, but have no passion for any longer is tough as HELL -- and it makes me feel I can't learn... but the fact is I fail to learn anything I dont have a spark of passion about.

And I am not talking that romantic passion that some billionaire founder is taking about -- I am talking about *enough* passion that your ADHD can be quelled, and that small distractional things dont have undue heavy draw against your attention (passion)
I don't remember this was how putting an offer for a house worked. The seller is collecting a bunch of offers and picks the one they like the most. The offers can include escalation clause, but it's still more of a closed auction than the open auction.
> If I was setting up my own Wordpress I would go through the wizard as quickly as possible to stop others setting it up before me and doing malicious things with it.

Do it offline, or on a private subnet, or whitelist your IP, or well anything you can to keep the world away from your install until you have it setup. Or, if possible, don't install WordPress.
The timescale makes a huge difference here. Firefighters need to be next to their equipment to respond to an emergency. US army reservists “One Weekend a Month, Two Weeks a Year” is understating things, but they can hold down a full time job when not called up.
It started out as a pc gaming type thing, so yeah, most of it is men, but the choice of server matters and they have expanded and rebranded a lot. If you are going on political servers it's already not worth it and you missed the point with discord, stick to small servers made by friends, people to play games with, or communities dedicated around 1 thing like open source projects or some specific media, etc. Once servers become too general or inclusive the system breaks, but even then on large servers (political or not), 4chan is not tame in comparison.
I say it over and over again, row/column level permissions are not even close to enough for any larger app. How do you translate access restriction like "user X cannot view more than 10 articles per month" or "customer Y cannot insert any more orders if total outstanding/unpaid amount of invoices in last 30 days succeeds Z" into row/columnlevel permissions? You don't, that's why you have a business layer.
Glitch will let you fork ("remix") and modify -- I don't know if the Twitter APIs are real friendly anymore for that open-ended of use, but it'd be worth trying :)
Although SQL has stored procedures, I agree
It's worth noting that the fixed-price unlimited support only works if you are charging north of $1000 per year. This limits your users to those who actually know what they are doing, and value their and your time.

Try doing the same for a $100/year product, and you will get very quickly overwhelmed by freelancers trying to push 100 different issues from their customers on you. And reasoning with them won't work because they have all day to try rephrasing the same problem in 10 different ways, hoping it will get them to a different agent.

Needless to say, the most entitled people will be the free tier users believing that the sole fact of them paying attention to your product is enough for you do drop all what you were doing and start rewriting it to their vision.
Cool concept!
GraphQL, much like ORMs, is reasonably efficient (and nice to use) for the less complex stuff, but extremely inefficient for the more complex stuff.

A hybrid solution is where I usually end up.
I think it's a bad move, but i don't think it will increase anxiety

if top universities drew names out of a hat, you won't feel any more anxious than buying a lotto ticket and losing. But the quality of the student body would be much worse, obviously.
I waste time on the internet because I don't have enough contiguous blocks of time to do anything productive or interesting outside of work (which is boring and repetitive and not automatable). I'm hoping to retire early so I can spend time on better things.
Well, it's not just selling phones that is the issue but selling SIM cards. That's closer to the "Comcast only supports cable modems with Mac addresses they've identified and Command & Control functionality they need" analogy. (Which are things that cable modems support. Cable company operators can force certain cable modem operations similar to the way SIM cards support such things.)

But also, it really isn't all that bizarre, it's got long precedent: For most of a century all phones were leased and the phone company controlled every bit of hardware on the network. That's not even the distant past, that's still in living memory, my parents grew up in households with leased phones.

It took major anti-trust/monopoly breakup work to change that. So far the "use whatever phone you want" is the anomaly in the history of phone networks. (Cable companies too; most of their history all of their equipment was only leased and the era of being able to buy your own set top boxes and/or cable modems is a relatively brief anomaly versus the longer history of those networks.)

The US is back down to only two/three major cell carriers (no matter how many "brands" you see; so many of them are just resellers), depending on how you want to count them (by network compatibility: two; by parent company: three). It may be time to trust-bust again.
Thank you for the response, I really appreciate it
Belonging to a different user*

It can get it from a file that isn't readable by the user that runs remote-accessible code.
TikTok’s Work Culture: Anxiety, Secrecy and Relentless Pressure
Casey Muratori and the Windows Terminal
The "yelling" was coming to the team email list, asking for ETAs and progress updates for when real-time risk would be back up. Roughly 4 people at the time knew the bug could be traced to the new guy's commit, and none of those people were doing the "yelling". And it was Goldman, so the "yelling" was kept very professional (no swearing, strictly enforced). But, there were literally tens of billions of dollars that needed to be dynamically hedged, but that wasn't possible without real-time risk, the European markets were open, and markets in the Americas were going to be open within a couple of hours. Trading and management were making sure that that everyone on the team email list understood that this was drop-everything important, perhaps using all caps.

Yes, I and the person who reviewed the change bear more responsibility than the new developer. Also, I say "new guy", but the person who had interned with us the Summer after "the new guy" had already joined full time at that point, so "the new guy" had been working full time with the team for at least 9 months at that point. I also remember the room where it happened, which wasn't the first room we were in, so maybe he had been with us full time more like 18 months. In any case, it was the first time when he was trying keep the weight of billions of dollars out of his head and calmly but quickly fix a bug.
I knew that Go had a checksum database but not that it had a tamper-proof log. This seems like something that other package management systems should do as well.
That is a key point then ok.
Seems like stripe is constantly getting called out by other fintech companies. Honestly probably points to the key to their success, they play dirty and are in it to win.
Oh my god. Now we'll see 20-something shitterpreneurs selling vials of their feces online for 1 BTC.
Deciding how you're going to raise your kids is not helicopter parenting.

Going through the hoops and figuring out how to do the things your parents don't want you to do is a healthy part of growing up, any parent that doesn't take that into account and actually thinks they're going to stop their kid from becoming an adult is making a mistake.

The goals are to remove easy access to damaging material, and to make them do difficult, clever things to get around it, and to make them think you don't know so that they don't outwardly demonstrate exposure. This limits exposure to the worst of what is out there, teaches them agency and problem solving skills, and prevents them from heavily internalizing whatever they are exposed to.

Yes, when they reach a certain age when they start to want to do things on their own, they'll find ways to be exposed to what they want to be exposed to. There's nothing wrong with this.
Having consumed both and recently rewriting a lib to graphql i know enough to not wanting to roll my own..
A nice explanation with "decompressed" code on what's going on is here: https://observablehq.com/@darabos/decoding-a-city-in-a-bottl...
Nevertheless, considering telemetry is Sentry's bread and butter it wouldn't be a good look on them in many a manager's eyes.
companies running most zonefiles let you buy it, as well as various statistics
True, but if it were just another job to him, he wouldnt be posting...
Studies regarding social media and teen anxiety regularly go viral , suggesting it's important.
An easy way to have self control is to switch to a keto-like diet. You don't even have to count calories and carbs in most cases. There's a variant called lazy keto, where you just stick to approved foods and don't need to count. It's surprisingly hard to overeat on things like cauliflower and pork chops.

Be wary however of the more "extreme" advice on keto-like diets. You don't have to stuff yourself with fats, or put a stick of butter in your coffee.
Ads, mostly. If you work on ads, or support ads, fuck you.
Noise and UNA Governance
I don’t have any proof of this but I strongly believe private equity, especially the big ones were the biggest beneficiaries of QE and they were closest to access the money.

If we are talking about a recession caused by fed tightening, PE won’t have any money. Especially as higher interest rates will mean they also can’t borrow lots to finance purchases or anything
THe fed has been holding back because it doesn't want to spook the markets.

Tech has been Americas golden goose for the last decade and high interest rates are like kryptonite for tech. All those flashy startups burning hundreds of millions with only negative profits to show for it are a direct product of a low interest rate environment.

The fed knows that raising rates will likely result in the goose losing most of its feathers, and the carry on effects from that.
And earlier than this, there was Apple's HyperCard in 1987 which I'm sure both the creators of VB and Delphi were familiar with. HyperCard had buttons and fields that you dragged onto a window to make an interface, and then by clicking on these widgets you had access to their properties and could write code to have them do something.
The Wikipedia article is probably a good start, it mentions the book in which the paradox is described and some sources[0]. And here's an article discussing it as well as common conservative criticisms[1].

Also, in general you should avoid asking HN anything having to do with politics or philosophy. You're not likely to find neutral or good faith responses here.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

[1]https://medium.com/@parkermolloy/deconstructing-the-toleranc...
> the effect of them being more consistent voters on zoning issues hard to explain.

No one wants to live next to a dump. That's why it affects property values. Because it also effects living conditions.

Meanwhile, a lot of people never plan to sell their home. Yes, if you plan on moving soon, you care about property values going up. If your horizon is 10 years, 20 years, or your kids selling the place? Less so.