skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quietly turning back on the noprocrast hacker news setting

Getting out of Facebook or before watching TV was rather easy, it was mostly uninteresting stuff I did not choose to watch.

Youtube and Hacker News got me.
The quality, sometimes life-changing, content I have had access to there is really hard not to get into. Augmenting friction in accessing the content in the only way I found that works when I succeed convincing myself it is a real problem. This way it tilts the tediousness of accessing them towards the tediousness of boring tasks, which I have learned to find ways to make less tedious in turn. Trying to find balance in the addiction. Restraining from it in order to give time to interesting content to bubble up.

Also I have also been distancing so much from social activities only because they were slightly dissatisfying but instead of working on fixing them (which feels to me impossible because I lack the communication skills and I have an irrational core belief that no one can withstand even slight criticism) I'd rather spend time reading/watching about stuff that interests me on the internet. I manage to keep my life in order but I am not really investing in making something out of it. All the things I'd like to do irl, build a ecological passive house, build low tech devices, I lack the economical resources and social bonds to even start even though I am competent.

I don't know if I was always was a nerd (not the brilliant nerd type) or if I became one. Anyways I am doomed until this really becomes a hard problem in my life.
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We're in the same boat! But I fell for it, like, 15-20yrs ago. Have been restricting myself since, basically, to the web 1.0 level. I don't have broadband anymore, only limited plan, - this stops me from watching videos. This was a conscious step. After setting up some physical barriers it became easier to change my own mindset (I knew I didn't have such an iron will to begin with). Also, knowledge helps. For example, being concerned with own privacy, security and health, prevents me from using garbage like tiktok or instagram. There's also conventional wisdom which tells me to stop trying to catch on with everything (HN news stream, for example :) ). Although it was necessary for my line of work for quite a while, but in life it brings nothing but sense of miss or loss like "Oh I could've done this/involved with that/joined those projects/used this library/visited that conference/etc.
Sorry if this comment turned into ramblings )
I fear that MITMing ads is a dead end:

1. IIUC, when SNI is encrypted (in TLS 1.3?) almost everything is out the window.

2. Local devices can do DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over QUIC (DoQ) to look up their stuff, so DNS-based blocking will soon be obsolete.

3. The browser itself is controlled by the biggest ad-vendor around (Google), so you’ll probably get no help there.

The only solutions are:

A. Use browsers not controlled by Google (i.e. not any Chrome fork either).

B. Use only apps and devices locally which do not display ads. (This is, in a way, a generalization of A.)

C. Legislate away the business models of ads and the media and “smart” devices which use ads.

(A very similar argument can be made for user tracking and telemetry.)
"Creating value" often means "acquiring more revenue", which comes from somewhere. An insurance company can hire more people if they figure out how to cover fewer people's medical expenses. But I'm not sure that was a net win for society.
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It should be noted that American wild blueberries (low bush blueberries) are a different species than bilberries. You can sometimes find people selling wild blueberry jam.
I don't understand the first step in this process, how does someone acquire a $150M "flash loan"?
Additional coverage:

https://www.engadget.com/google-russia-bankruptcy-194705423....

https://mashable.com/article/google-russia-bankrupt

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/googles-russian-subsi...

https://www.ft.com/content/9f4faa67-9057-4270-9e8c-f247ffc21...
As far as I know there's nothing wrong with access via direct SSH if you have a simple single-user setup and just want to store your repos on a remote host.

However I once saw a small team try that approach and it caused endless problems related to permissions and ownership of the files on the remote system. Maybe things have improved or with a better setup it would be easier but from my experience 0/10 would not recommend.

In that scenario -- where you have a small team and want a remote host for the repos but you don't want all the other baggage -- I've found gitolite to be a good solution. It provides a simple access control layer to handle the multiple git users and basic security requirements while using only a single local user on the server side. Otherwise it stays out of your way and it's mostly just a smart use of git hooks so it's very lightweight.
> Nobody builds that high rooms any more [...]

All luxury apartments are built like that. Everyone is aware that it's "better" (I guess almost everyone would prefer to live in a high ceiling room with big windows, who doesn't have some kind of reverse-claustrophobia)

But since half of the world has an irrational hard on for suburban ghettos, mostly that's where we waste our economic surplus.
Thanks for the clarification -- interesting to know!
Mentally fit people also commit hate crimes and participate in white supremacy. Jumping to this betrays unwillingness to deal with three issues:

[1] Mental illness != immediate danger to people's lives

[2] Easy access to guns and ammo lowers the cost to perform mass shootings. Incendiary devices require special knowledge, knives make people's arms tired before "mass stabbing" threshold is reached, automobiles are typically blocked from driving into a store without damaging the vehicle before mass killing is achieved

[3] White supremacy is thriving in certain corners of the internet. Discontent in the marketplace of ideas because only losers adopt it, it lives in protected corners.

I consider your jumping to mental illness as a cause instead of a correlated factor as misguided given the three bullets above.
Please don't ever again recommend to someone with problems randomly that they should "get some amphetamine somewhere and experiment". Okay?
An alternate to religion is Meditation. IMO, a lot of spiritual practices share very similar mental mechanics (eg mantras and prayers, various forms of fasting, support networks, etc)
> It’s always best to find your own path according to the religion of your parents and environment.

That ship sailed a while ago, my parents aren't religious, and I don't know any religious people.
Having to pay for it by the minute somewhat moderated the effect back then.
Upper thread already gave you the ESL example. You're taking things out of context and arguing a strawman.

Most people aren't proactive. End of. To think otherwise is to dismiss what modern schooling does to individuals and to forget the downside of proactivity: increased friction when people can't agree on what they want. If we agree communication is important, surely you're not going to dismiss the obvious that most people suck at trying to come to an agreement when everyone is trying to play proactively.

There's a reason management methodologies are so tight on synced up moments of conversation and prodding people to talk even when they themselves like there's nothing to be said. It's all to push people into talking. You can do that with reactive people. It's not optimal, but it works and is a lot more feasible than trying to create a culture with mostly proactive, total strangers who somehow agree enough not to devolve into death by committee.
It's never too late to switch.
The problem I have with religion is the focus on "removing the doubt", which I strongly disagree with - doubting a god's existance is a major no-no in most popular religions. And as soon as you remove the doubt ban, you don't really have a religion anymore, but a philosophy.

So I'd personally recommend philosophy to people, instead of religion. Bertrand Russell (also known for his mathematical work) is an excellent place to start.

EDIT:
For those who disagree, I'd recommend a Russell's essay "Why I Am Not A Christian" [0]. It is quite short and readable.

https://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.html
> This produces a self-unpacking executable that drops all the assemblies somewhere and then runs it.

This no longer happens since .net 5.
Speaking truth to horses.
> and now no one mentions a future date at all

It might be that works of Mark Fisher (aka k-punk) hold an answer to that. He convincingly argues that somewhere around 1990s the humanity lost the ability to conjure alternative futures, or having ideas about the future at all, because capitalism now sets the limit of what is thinkable. According to Fisher, any future without capitalism doesn’t appear to be thinkable, so all humanity is left to do is infinitely rehashing ideas of last 50-60 years (post-WWII period, coinciding with emergence of the late capitalism).
y u no call "Pony Expressed"?
Yes. There should be a flag for it maybe, but I suspect this is the new normal.
I guess you might be able to find a way to handle non-player actions but I think performance is going to be unresolvably terrible and scale quite limited.
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Are there a books with this premise ?
Yup exactly. I just read a thread on Twitter the other day about a company in NYC (can't remember the name) where they sent an email about an event happening the same week. Their customers (double opt-in) never received the email because most of them went to spam or promotions tab due to deliverability issues. It happens.
Not sure the system is the same in Italy. In the US, states and the Federal Government have an "Attorney General" who lead state legal enforcement, like lawsuits, defending the state, or prosecuting violators of state law. If you've ever seen Law and Order (not sure if popular overseas) it's like the city's District Attorney.
Weird approach to attack the substance of this sentence, since psychology is the most vague of sciences.
Read what Ted has to say about the necessity of going through the power process (paragraphs 33 onward) and the motives of scientists (paragraphs 87 onward) for some perspective in his manifesto on Industrial Society and Its Future:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...
Interesting take. Is it from experience or an ego boost by comparing yourself to those who have relapsed ?
Absolute gold this article.

"In the long term, the philosophy behind Xous is that eventually it should “get good enough”, at which point we should stop futzing with it."

I wished more people would get this.
To mean this sounds like it's trying to shift the blame to an outgroup. I think we have to acknowledge that there are bad people within our (SWE) ranks too.
Personally I've found that trying to limit hours spent on $badthing is not as effective as requiring hours spent on $goodthing. (Note that "good" here is shorthand for whatever you find to be more rewarding in the long term, not a universal or moral concept.) For example, instead of saying I will spend no more than X hours on social media or video games, I say that I will spend no less than Y hours on exercise or craft hobbies. The key is to center the good things and fit the bad things around those, instead of the other way around. Make a schedule if you have to. Some people find that making a commitment to other people - e.g. a workout buddy, a craft guild - can help. Start small, with goals that are easier to achieve (though they'll still require some exercise of will). As your self-discipline improves, you can change the balance accordingly.
The ancient Christian monks battled against procrastination, lack of motivation, etc.... they called it "Acedia" aka "The noon-day devil"...

Apparently the monks felt a huge urge just to sleep, rest and abandon their study around midday... it was a fairly well recognised psycho-spiritual problem in the middle ages for some monastic orders...
Alternatively, just let people mod their games as they please.

I see your point and you're not wrong, but people have different priorities and playing video games is a hugely subjective experience anyway. Yes, adding a sentence or two about how the game may not look and feel as intended could be a nice idea. But it's not _wrong_ to change it, if that's what you prefer.

I've played Morrowind vanilla and with loads of mods (including graphical improvements) and I honestly liked the modded one better. Just personal preference.
I believe trademarks protect customers by allowing a company to build a reputation and giving a customer certainty about who they are buying from.

I do not believe trademarks that protect a region, rather than a company actually have benefit to a customer. Instead it feels to me like these regional trade-marks are ways a government can appease a local community by enshrining in law that they are the 'one true place'. This is benefiting the local community at the cost of anyone else who is capable of delivering the same quality but is now excluded only by virtue of their location.

Or, looking at it more cynically, this is a way for people living on one side of a line to put one over on people living on the other side of the line. They do this by enshrining in law the idea "we are better than the people who do not live here" as if that is a permanent thing. The arrogance, the self-importance, entiteledness and small-mindedness of that really annoy me. Just because your region was the best at a thing at some point in history does not mean that, in perpetuity, other regions will never match your quality.
Yep. It costs a lot of money every time they make that mistake.
I live in Nice, a city at the border of France and Italia.

My area is full of beautiful buildings that would never be built anymore:

- the fancy wall sculptures, round corners and marble stairs would be way too expensive to build today.

- they have a lot of volume: high ceiling, corridors, spacious stairways, that would be "optimized" today into the required minimum allowed by law.

- they are not too high, because they didn't have the mean to do that. So I see the sky, and the sun reaches my windows.

- they have "buffer areas". Entrances, places with green, fancy chiseled property doors, around the building. I don't come out and arrive right on the street. My bike rack, mailbox and trash disposal area are behind a light and elegant fence.

- there are a lot of windows, and large ones, so I have a lot of light.

- some rooms have old style wooden floor. It's pretty, and warm to the feet. It would be ruinous to add that today, you would get a premade cheap one at most if you had the budget.

- I have a spot in a tower. It's useless, nobody in their damn mind would build that anymore. I love it. And all my friends are always mentioning it when we talk about the flat. For some reason, it's very pleasing.

Mostly, they are charming to live in, those old buildings.

One could value that or not, but after living in a lot of different places, I find I often prefer older buildings even if they are less comfortable. They bring me more joy.

Unfortunatly, it's not just about the cost: we are loosing the skill we used to have to make those.

Not to mention we used to treat construction workers very badly so it made building a lot of things possible at the time that would be indecent today.
Indeed. Nor were they wearing the same one again and again for months on end, and stuffing it in their jeans pocket in between.
I'm happy to answer any questions around this! We've been working on this since update since we launched the product last year, so we're excited to be able to share it today.
It’s possible. I only mention what I’m familiar with.
And the YC board looked at this and funded it. That's unbelievable, isn't it?
Yeah it is definitely for me a reaction to feeling overwhelmed. There's just that bit of activation energy that is missing so I slip back to equilibrium of doing easy things.

Adderall has helped, so has some behavioral approaches, but nothing is a cure. For me, trying to eliminate distractions is either a distraction itself or ineffective.

Structured procrastination is useful, at least I am practicing piano or getting more fit instead of sitting around watching TV or reading dumb articles and forums.
I may disagree with an Apple App Store policy or decision, but IME I've never found it kafkaesque. Google's really is a maze.

I recently had an app pulled from Google about a month after its latest update (the app has been in the store for years) b/c I hadn't checked some new privacy box in the UI. I received no warning prior to the take down or when I last submitted, and the take down message didn't even point me in the UI where I could check this box. After searching SO, I was able to track it down. Then the app was rejected for an unrelated reason that required an appeal. I appealed and they simply stated rejection again. I appealed again asking if they actually read the original appeal and received no response. A week or so later the app was back live - and I only knew because I checked.
Some would extend this statement to all fiat currency.
> Isn’t this also a call for censorship?

Yes. All Cretans are liars.
Nicely balanced article.
Money is a use case that attracts scams indeed, and will be harder to get right.

But we're building for a future where apps like Calendly can be smart contracts. With new blockchains* that have a very low tx fee (imagine $0.00001 / tx), I clearly see many services migrate to smart contracts.

They won't require any subscription, existing data is never at risk of being wiped out, and hopefully we will keep optimizing app and data size enough to get back to apps that just work, without the cruft or bad incentives. We're here to make that happen!

* New research papers suggest we can reach > 100k tx / sec with great safety and liveness properties
> He's all about himself

Wrong. He had a nice life in Hawaii with a big paycheck. If he was all about himself he wouldn't have done what he did, his life would have been far easier.

The proof that it's a kangaroo court is that he's being charged in the first place when what he did wasn't a crime.
What are the climate and population density like where you live?
I can relate too. Throw in video games and beer too for good measure.

For me there was no big Aha moment or solution to getting distracted from what I actually want to do. It had been incremental steps, such as:

- focusing on consuming long form reading/videos

- heavily curating consumption with RSS, individual settings etc.

- disabling notifications of anything that is not important

- taking responsibility of things that I could avoid, engaging more

- regular exercise and sleep

Things like that. But again, incremental steps. Sometimes I shifted from one distraction to the next, but after recognizing this it becomes clearer what’s happening.

The results are quite powerful. Over just a couple of years I gained so much. I started to get bored of things that would distract me otherwise. I gained confidence and especially courage. I recognize undesirable behavior really quickly now and stopped fooling myself.
I don’t think shooter diaries are terribly authoritative when the shooter is crazy. We definitely have an unreliable narrator.

If the goal is to prevent future shooters, I think log files of the shooters behavior is more important than what they say is most important.
The plastics themselves are only part of the story - they are relatively inert. However chemicals used to plasticize them and prevent fire are not, and some of them are already banned, but we have insufficient days on the replacements used.

(Phenolics such as Bisphenol A - have hormonal effects causing direct cancer risk. And other effects too.)
> How many people die from mass shootings per year? Now compare that to the number of people that die in car accidents.

I mean, to take my car out in public, I'm required to have a license, registration, inspection, various safety devices, and follow a variety of usage rules.
They shouldn't stop at social media and should also include cable news media connected to the attack, like Fox News.

context - https://www.thewrap.com/tucker-carlson-faces-backlash-over-r...
Sure. Religion is a framework that you have to accept. There may be other perfectly valid frameworks, no doubt.
Generally, the answer is yes.

Specifically, the answer is no.

Seriously: smaller shops tend to do better with generalists. Specialisation increases with size. Though at the very largest scales, a synoptic view becomes useful. Usually fairly high on the ladder.

The specialist will always have clear, specific, and cogent arguments against a generalist. The generalist's strength is that of a web or net, not of a sword or bullet.

Another strategy is to develop "M-shaped" talents: breadth and several (and with time, an increasing number) of specialties. You're becoming a generalist, but can sell yourself as a specialist.
Buddhism also has a well developed psychological system that everyone seems to ignore
How is having good communications equipment at home any different from wearing good clothes to the office, or commuting?
Can you ask more politely or are you dissing me intentionally?
>the narrative provides no moral option to changing one’s economic status within the system.

This is where my friend is right now. It really, really sucks.
Read Matt Levine's columns on Luna, or listen to the most recent podcast from Odd Lots with Galois Capital.

They answer all your question and are much more cohesive than anything I could type here.
Simple isn't easy. Losing weight is simple, just eat less than what your caloric expenditure per day is. It's still hard as fuck and just telling someone who has issues with eating "just eat less, it's simple" is not helpful at all.

Going cold turkey and never doing X is the simple solution for any addiction, now get addicted to anything and try that out...
Not only that, but now I watch all videos and listen to all podcasts at 1.5 to 3x speed. At some point I should accept the FOMO...
According to Firefox bug tracker, this is fixed now https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1334485.