skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hari's book connected with me in a deep way, which is why I was drawn to it, page after page. Hari explains that "wherever my generation gathered, we would lament our lost capacity for concentration."

As a member of a generation that can still focus, i.e., one not born into a world of personal computers, let alone pocket-sized ones, nor "tech" hype, I hope the author and his peers^1 figure out that this "economy" needs to be "disrupted" sooner rather than later, no matter how profitable it may be for a chosen few.

1. And the other people doing most of the work to "build" these distractions and the people being targeted with them.

It saddens me that many members of older generations, who did learn how to focus, have decided to go along for the ride with the younger ones into this attention span abyss. IMHO there are substantial "life skills" that are being lost due to "tech" hype and money-making. We cannot expect younger folks to understand what they are, as the mindless "tech" hype ceaselessly commands their attention above all else. Money-making no matter what the cost to society. These disappearing life skills have value, e.g., ability to concentrate, ability to evaluate facts and think critically (cf. simply voicing uneducated opinions and complaining about anything and everything to the internet), ability to deal with conflict, and so on. The OP managed to remember the value of concentration, so perhaps anyone can do it. Please do not give up. That is exactly what the "tech" companies want you to do.
They can't pay me enough to deal with that annoying notification icon every time I open my browser
Relevant xkcd
https://xkcd.com/538/
> My elder brother is mentally challenged due to lack of oxygen when he was born.

My wife had a great uncle who was similarly afflicted; at home child birth, this sort of brain damage was not uncommon in the early part of the last century. He was non verbal, he communicated in grunts and gestures. When I knew him his family had all passed away. My mother in law, his niece was his guardian.

He lived in an assisted living facility for the 30+ years before he died a few years ago. My wife made a point of our family visiting him for the holidays. We were often the only visitors he'd have for the entire year. Then his health took a turn and my wife became more involved. We visited him one final time when he was in hospice and near death. Seeing that poor shell of a man in obvious pain was the saddest, most pitiful thing I have ever seen. It broke my heart to see what had become of his life, and how his parents would have Grieved to see what became of him.

Dear internet stranger, I hope you're able to cherish the time you have with your brother.
Darn right there.

Is it can be opened with a key, there's nothing stopping something else emulating that key - even if resorting to brute force until the key pattern matches.
The Natural Number Game: Proving Theorems with Lean
> just like the lichens on trees are an indicator of air pollution (few lichens mean a bad air quality).

Lichen indicators for air pollution are fascinatingly more complicated than that. Certain lichens respond positively to air pollution due to excess nutrients like ammonia and nitrates in the air. Imagine an algal bloom but the nutrient pollution is in the air instead of in the water. The US Forest Service produced an interesting video overviewing these phenomena.

Air Pollution & Lichens: A Tour of the Columbia River Gorge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3dPrgAkN3M
It’s helpful when spinning up labs, or testing infrastructure deployments
Do that in the other 22 hours of the day that isn't dinner.

There's nothing wrong with smartphones per se. It's that the smartphones become a crutch to avoid socializing in person. All the excuses come out to prevent that crutch from being removed.
> The SEC didn't find any evidence of naked shorts in the GameStop debacle.

"I guess that would be the first time somebody's lied under oath."
Old LCD monitors with high voltage backlights would like a word with you. I have no idea what this monitor was using but before white LEDs were good there were some serious voltages for whatever lighting tech some of those panels came with.
Do you have a source for that claim?

My understanding is the GPL based on copyright - and that copyright only protects a specific expression, not a general idea or concept. To suggest that if something is copyrighted, humans cannot learn from it and generate thier own material seems to be absurd.
> I noticed there are no more manned tollbooths.

There are still some, mostly getting rid of the people was pandemic related I do believe. But if you really want to you can still make them get out in the rain by handing them a $100 bill and they have to get out of the little booth to record your license plate number — for posterity,
Most of the wilderness FA certs have a 3-year expiration. IDK if this was always true, but it's definitely a thing now.

If you're using your certification to qualify for a professional or volunteer position, then they usually defer to the expiry period set by the issuer of the certification.

In my experience, basically nobody gets any first aid practice, in between re-certifications. And these are perishable skills, so I wouldn't trust in the ability of most people to execute anything complex after even a year has gone by... But that has to be balanced against the cost of re-training. WMR is usually an 80-hour course (IIRC) and re-certs more like 30-40? That's an absurd time investment for most working people.
Is there actually any independently verifiable evidence of this, or do you believe it solely because a Microsoft employee said it was true?
Even if the discussions are civil, should employees use company time and internal platforms for discussing this issue?
Python has tuple destructuring, which can be used with dict.items(). I'm talking about being able to destructure by name not position:

name, address = some_dict

You could fake it if you could ask for a tuple of specific entries:

name, address = some_dict.pluck("name", "address")
There's way too much emotion in politics these days. I would like to see a return of rational discourse. I've had my fill of both the screaming liberals and the dusty conservatives. Most of the complex issues deal with morality so it's probably all for naught. The tip of the morality pyramid is God for most people. No point using empirical evidence when you don't believe in it to begin with.
It's venting. It's bonding with coworkers who also feel their world is collapsing.

Hard to focus on work, talk about the preso when, for example, people are storming our Capitol.
> of course there needs to be some limit

Canada has proven that is not true. In Canada, it is entirely between the woman and her doctor, right up until birth. If she could find a doctor to do it (spoiler alert: she won’t) she could abort minutes before contractions begin.

And this is the way it should be. Doctors and the hospitals behind them don’t perform late term abortions unless they are medically necessary.

In Canada there are no laws, no legal limits, and there is no problem. Funny how that works, eh? It’s almost as if we can trust doctors and women.
Seemed like an OK article, but punctuating your essay with a cheerful reference to a violent counter-intelligence operation by the Chinese Communist Party that crushed free-thought for generations is so tone deaf it makes me doubt the author’s judgment on everything else.
That is extremely cool, 'region locking' is something I've wondered about myself.

Good luck.
I replaced video games with making music. Scratches the same itch and is much more rewarding.
> bump keys only requires ~30 seconds if you are lucky, this defeats that

Agreed - this is exactly the threat model that I'd be looking to block as a purchaser. Had a friend show me how to pick a cheap lock in < 30 seconds - it was laughably easy.
>There’s a reason overturning this particular law is so bad. It’s a cultural flashpoint and SCOTUS has just lit the match and blown up any semblance of them being an apolitical body. Not just with this one decision but the gun control case too.

SCOTUS does not concern itself with the angered mob (paraphrasing Dobbs and a few other cases). It exists to read and interpret the law. Do you want a Court that bends its rulings to the "match and blow up"? I certainly don't.
Cheater Latents
Maybe this was true when it was Carter vs. Reagan or what(when)ever, but we live in very different times now where it has become impossible to ignore what is happening around us politically.
Well by your own logic you shouldn’t need a secure password for anything either since you can beaten with a stick.
The market's largely spoken. They don't want a new WoW.

WoW does still have millions of players and is a recognizable part of pop culture. Though much less than it used to be. FFXIV seems to have around the same numbers these days, though with maybe less mainstream recognizability. But there doesn't seem to be much mass appetite for a new MMO property. There's some buzz when a new one gets released and then it quickly fades.

It's interesting to me that the WoW-killer wasn't another MMO. It was Minecraft back in the day. And then Roblox supplanted Minecraft. At least with kids. Kind of an interesting indication that many players preferred more creative environments over more rigid theme parks.
There actually is a really good compiler reason to not allow subtyping concrete types, and it's one of the main reasons Julia code is faster than languages like Java. If you allow concrete types to have subtypes, when you see `Vector{Int}` (List<Integer> in Java), the compiler can't tell what the memory layout of the element type will be. As a result, pretty much all objects end up boxed which destroys locality and removes all possibility for vectorization. In Julia, the compiler knows the memory layout of any insatiable type at compile time, so it can much more aggressively remove pointers (or even just decide that an object will exist in registers rather than allocating memory for it).
We're now truly in the era of ransomware as pure extortion without encryption
I could certainly imagine a larger pro-life contingent at Facebook than other tech companies.

Business Insider posted an article in 2019 on Facebook data showing that its "best-performing content is almost entirely from right- and far-right-wing publications and personalities" [1]

It's not entirely unlikely that in the intervening years, left-leaning employees have been more likely to leave, and right-leaning employees more likely to join.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-right-wing-echo-cha...
I bookmark since like... 15 years ago, nowdays I use raindrop.io to tag bookmarks. Can't live without it!
I think there's a big gap to be filled with a good rogue MMO. Persistent world states. One requiring the coordination of large groups of varying levels, and high stakes. But no progression curves that take grinding time.
How the hell is Lost Ark so popular? The stereotype-laden jankfest where the social hubs are full of town guards that groan orgasmically nearly every time you walk past them? Hell, I can't think of any game that placed so much emphasis on bodily noises. The game where every fun little privilege seems to be a time-limited rental?

Then again I couldn't stand the awfulness for more than a few hours. Maybe there's a gem in there but damn if it isn't rough on the outside.
I don't know if you listen to the discussions the far right has. Many of the pro abortion arguments are that certain groups produce children which tend to commit a disproportionate amount of crime are also the same groups which have a disproportionate number of abortions.

Personally I think leaving it up to the states means that these groups will vote for it to be legal in their jurisdictions, so everyone (the left, the right, the moderates) ends up happy.
I have my doubts about how often those machines really break down.

If you ever want a fun adventure try to get a milkshake in Phoenix at 3AM in the middle of summer. All the machines are conveniently “broken”.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that has this problem!
Telegram sci-hub bot will send you the PDF directly with the DOI found on that page.
It's copy-pasted from the description on the webpage :D

I was definitely not expecting that either.
Finally some good news for Everton fans.
Excellent. Allowing politics and activism at work has made workplaces unbearably stupid. Come to work and leave your baggage at home.
If you don’t like how your company is run, go work someplace else. Or even better, found your own company and let everyone while away the day bickering about intense political subjects. I’m sure your company will be harmonious and productive!
Or maybe it's what the wikipedia article says?
Sure. As someone who had to build sites for both, IE was far superior. Vague css support and it didn’t crash if you nested tables more than seven layers deep.
The farmers spray that water all over their fields as opposed to using targeted irrigation, so most of the water is wasted instead of even being viable to be exported.
No internal HR department to which to report bad actors.

People being put on "performance improvement plans" out of spite.
I'm unfortunate enough to only discover something when it's about to end. I did not know about zachtronics games ,until I saw this post.
I really like Julia, and I think this article does a great job of defending its design decisions. But I'm a bit disappointed that it doesn't address Yuri's main criticism, which is that there's some worrying correctness bugs in Julia that aren't addressed as well as they should be.

I'm no language expert, so I can't tell if Yuri's criticisms are just a function of the smaller number of people working on Julia vs a very popular language like Python, or whether the failings he discusses stand out because so many things Just Work in Julia, or whether it indicates some much deeper problem, so I've gone back to look at the original thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396861

I'm interested to hear what others think of Julia's longevity prospects. Its popularity in climate modeling and other scientific contexts suggest it will be around for the long haul, and that Julia projects needn't end up as abandonware for lack of footing. Is that accurate?
That was a convenient way to ignore the 800+ people that petitioned for a compact interface option[1] and the many other submissions to Mozilla Ideas, including the proposal to enable all extensions on the stable channel of Firefox for Android.[2]

Despite Gecko's important role in the web ecosystem as a hedge against Blink (Google) and WebKit (Apple), Mozilla's public relations strategy continues to be one disappointment after another.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20211120172044/https://mozilla.c...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20211121001137/https://mozilla.c...
The word spectrum is a word in its own right. You can apply it to whatever you want.
1) It's not group membership, it's targetted

2) I try to live in such a way that I'm not a wasteful glutton who misuses communal resources.
In particular, if you're developing Free Software or Open Source Software, and a company wants to hire you, it is _expected_ that they're OK with you continuing to do so. If any contract says otherwise, explain that you need to keep doing what you're doing in order to stay at the level of expertise that you're at. If a future employer would not agree for you to keep doing that, you shouldn't sign.
It's important to note that the anti-quantum zeno effect is the more common of the two.
I have lived in Spain. Taxes are high, salaries are low, bureaucracy is a lot worse than the US, most people live in small apartments and they certainly don’t own US sized houses. Cost of living can also be high, if one tries to meet the same standard that he would have in US (electricity, gasoline prices are a lot higher).

I could pick pretty much any US state over Spain and with a US engineering salary enjoy a vastly better standard of living.
> People want boring, safe experiences

Looking at the popularity of the Soulslike games, I don't think that's true. I think what people want is a system which feels fair.

A big part of fairness is not letting randoms online destroy your stuff & progress. Stories about UO often fall into that vein. Ways in which some player made life hell for another player. Honestly doesn't sound like much fun to me. I can see why many players wouldn't want to be part of such a system.
On Note Taking Tools
Meta doesn’t have the power to change politics? Hasn’t the last two years of Section 230 handwringing focused squarely on their outsized influence over political discourse?
Right, but just like with e.g. cryptography, you need to make it more expensive to crack than whatever it's protecting.
"Violent crime" might be 1/3rd the 1990 rate but the number of murders are only about 100 lower than back then. The amount has really climbed up in the last decade.
Thanks for reporting that. On these cases do you use the pwd manager for creating a pwd and stay logged in basically forever, or for creation and frequent logout/login cycles?
Adoption is a colossal failure in America. Tens of thousands of children “age out” and will never, ever be adopted; tens of thousands are adopted for use as house slaves or sex slaves for the abusive “parents”; the entire system is filled with neglect and abuse.
> lawyer etc

funny you mention that, because discovery automation (the job that a lot of starting lawyers do) is huge. It used to take weeks or even months, to just sort through the mountains of papers and emails. Now it's indexable and searchable, and probably even have machine classifications to identify the valuable pieces of info.

The reason lawyers haven't been fired (and that you think lawyers aren't automate-able) is that they move up the value chain - provide client focused advice, etc, where the client prefer not to see a robot.
The essential question is whether any collaborator might have already based their own work on a commit you've made available to them earlier, by a 'git push'. If so, your pushed work cannot be modified (carrying a new hash) without invalidating theirs (depending upon old hash).
You can even just use `do { … } while (false)` without comments, but neither is an expression. Neither produce a value. The do expression would have similar encapsulation but allow assigning a derived value to a lhs binding, as you could do in a lisp (or Rust [or Swift, or…]).
I have emailed and written more than one (state) senator because of workplace debates and discussions. My coworker made excellent points, and I felt compelled to extend them to my representative.
> It turned out Luddites are still wrong after 200 years.

it's not that they're wrong - they're just arguing that automation is destroying _their_ livelihood.

The argument isn't that automation is bad - it's great...for the rest of society, at least in the medium-to-long term. It's poor for those being displaced.
I see, I think framing it as "doing business" threw me off. Semantics aside, this distinction is meaningful.
Right? You'd be nuts to have the bird app on your mobile. It works perfectly in the browser, and when you close it, it's dead and gone! Can't use any battery at all!

Gmail is the same way. Gmail for mobile web is a phenomenally good web app, and completely incapable of notifying you of anything whatsoever.
kind of ironic that this discussion seems to have come full circle w/r/t to unsustainable irrigation...
Well yea, you could blow it apart with explosives, melt it with acid, or beat the key holder with a wrench until he gave you the key. But I think the idea around "picking" is to nondestructively operate the lock without using the key it is designed for or a copy of such.
It would be a flame war where people would sabotage each other's career.

The topic has all the right factors:

- Nobody actually wants to change their minds.

- Each side thinks the other side is worse than a serial killer.

- No feasible way to make a judgement who is right or wrong.

- No way to get people to accept that judgement.
Is there any benefit to going faster? 30km/hour gets you anywhere in Switzerland in less than 24 hours.
These gauges cannot make 3-rail dual gauge with Russian gauge.

1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) Indian gauge
1,668 mm (5 ft 5+21⁄32 in) Iberian gauge
1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) Irish gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_ft_and_1520_mm_gauge_railway...
I credit EverCrack with curing me of my illusions about social computing in the era of predatory capitalism. Around 1999 I was working for one the then majors studying (and dreaming of) Snow Crash like massively multi-player environments and all the cool things that could happen in them. I happened to take up EQ and it slowly began to consume more and more of my free time. I loved the fact that there were things like a travel guide that some fan had put together that filled in the back story of the various locations in a way that made you feel like you were somewhere real.

Over time, however, I started getting less out of the game and started getting more hooked. EQ tracked how many hours you are spending in world and there was a menu somewhere (unobvious) that would show you your accumulated total. I looked at it one day and realized that over the previous 6 or 9 months I had spent the equivalent of many weeks in world. WTF I thought, even reading crappy novels or watching silly movies gives you some insight into human behavior, while this experience was leaving me with nothing but cranky hands.

And that's when I realized that the inherent asymmetry between me as an individual and a company bent on producing the most addictive experience possible wasn't going to end well for me or anyone else who wasn't a stockholder or executive. I quit EQ the next day and changed careers in the next couple of months.

Of course, massively multiplayer online games weren't really the fully mature form-that was later assumed by Facebook etc. But the dynamic at play, I think, was the same and I'm thankful I was able to learn about it by experimenting with the less virulent form as embodied in EQ.
The learned oblivion in this discussion is very disheartening: every person saying to “leave politics at home” should understand that our basic boundaries around personal and working time came from long and protracted political battles over the powers of our employers. Those battles were fought because people complained, loudly at their workplaces, and won their colleagues over.

Abortion is not the labor movement, but the principle holds.
> You can’t rename a file in Git.

$ git-mv <old_name> <new_name>
Utility tunnels are pretty cheap. When you don't need stations or safety systems for human passengers tunnels get pretty cheap.
He showed the Bowley before he could pick it. Although he claims that box is locks he can't pick yet.
I'm as militantly "Fuck Facebook" as the next guy, but neither Zuckerberg nor Sandberg are named in that article at all.

Do you have any actually citable evidence that shows that either of them were involved in the push for Kavanaugh's nomination and/or confirmation?
Minor writing nitpicks are worse than useless. The parent comment provided actual information that someone might want to know.
The majority of subtitles are just not what's being said at all, for no reason I could discern. It's not like what's being said is strongly at odds with the documentary, it feels like the person writing the subtitles was mostly guessing what's being said. A lot of things are really off too, they avoided the obvious questions about trying to understand the language, and also made the government look unreasonably effective in a way no brazilian would consider remotely likely to happen.