skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read a book once (which I can't remember the name) that shows you how self-esteem (and lack of) can block us for doing things that matter to us. Like having a toxic partner/family makes you have a low self-steem. So in other words, living and hanging out with people that supports and love you and what you do, have a huge impact.

Edit: six pillars of self esteem is the name of the book
Somewhere it was written that the ground underneath the trackbed also sinks in as it dries out. Is this not a mostly universal problem in addition to the temperature the tracks reach because of direct sunlight and lack of cool air?

Don’t the majority of trackbeds deform when the ground below them shrinks like a dry sponge? Exceptions may be a railroad bridge built on bedrock?
That’s fine. 8% is a lot and it’s worth worrying about, so long as one avoids slipping, as so often happens in this discussion, into characterizing a lack of health insurance as the typical American experience. It is not that.
The people in most countries on Earth like to know when a weapon is being fired near them.

Wear ear muffs if you are worried about your hearing.
Well, lot of music is available on all major platforms (Apple, Google, Amazon, Spotify) while most movies/series was almost always exclusive to platforms.

Why spend time and money building your own music platform when you can get paid to not do that 4 times? 4 players also solidifies content owner's position in the market because simple supply x demand.
I mean they called them indentured surfs but I am not sure it was much different. Also the British were the main actors in the slave trade until 1800s
I find multi-account-containers* incredibly useful re: tab groups. Coupled with a few pinned tabs (email), I generally always know where to look for what when I have the browser open.

*https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
Nunchaku are illegal in many countries as well. Which curiously also seems to be based on depictions in movies and not reality.
Maybe the big studios are, though I feel like I've been hearing this complaint for my entire life. But there is so, so, so (so) much creativity happening in spaces like YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, etc. Don't write that off just because it's not coming to your local theatre.
> I've seen plenty examples of entrenched prejudice in people against others that can't possibly have any negative effect on their own existence.

Sure. But OP referred to "50% of the United States ... hating minorities." As a card-carrying minority who lives in a Trump-voting precinct, that's bollocks.

> BTW, I'm pretty sure most people (on HN at least) can distinguish between those that object to immigration on racist grounds vs those who have genuine concerns about how to integrate others from different cultures or with difficult backgrounds.

I think a great many of folks, especially on HN, cannot. I think many highly educated Americans who work in global industries have adopted a radical new ideology that treats multiculturalism as a fundamental pillar of society. I talk to people in that group who think the Japanese are "racist" for not wanting immigration. They don't have the intellectual framework or vocabulary to understand all the other kinds of conflicts--cultural, economic, political--that exist between groups.

I think it's much easier for me as a foreigner to understand how "50% of the United States" is responding to prevailing trends, because I just imagine what your average Bangladeshi person would do in the same situation.

> And the latter spend their time researching/implementing solutions, or personally doing what they can to help newcomers settle in while trying to remain realistic about the rate that can be successfully sustained.

Many in that "50% of the United States" that supposedly "hates minorities" do exactly that: https://www.thegazette.com/government-politics/ernst-sees-af....

But nothing requires people to support any level of immigration. Even successfully-integrated immigrants change the country. My family, which are landed elites from Bangladesh, has starkly different values from my wife's family, who are pioneers that settled the west coast during the wagon train era. And we vote based on those differences. We are the immigrants who changed Virginia from being more of a southern state to its modern incarnation as a destination for highly educated elites. In my view, nobody whose family is already in America has any obligation to welcome those changes. They're entitled to vote against cultural change, or against reduced political power for their cultural groups. That's just Democracy at work.
I should be clear. What I was referring to when I said `keybindings` is browser/developer keybindings that are not yet made configurable.

There's been an open issue for 7 years asking for a shortcut key for the eyedropper[0]. The navigation between developer panels is also a bit tedious. The page focus key, F6, is not configurable.

These are some instances I was thinking when I said I wanted good keybinding support. I'll be really willing to try an extension that achieves these but it's really the browser's job.

With that said, I've tried a bunch of these extensions in the past! I'm not a vim guy so I settled with Link Hints[1] for in-page navigation. I cannot recommend it enough for non-vim guys. It's really underrated.

0: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177108
1: https://lydell.github.io/LinkHints/
>Tab groups

Please no. I actually switched to Firefox on mobile just because I couldn't get tab groups to stay disabled in Chrome.
Ironically I just went the other way today, because Firefox became unusable in a 2009 laptop, and requires add-ons to control their exponential use of processes (on a dual core).

Meanwhile Chrome, with all its usual bloat, works perfectly fine.
Personally I’ve also found myself so exhausted and shitty feeling that even if I consciously know that thing should be done (and there will be negative consequences for not starting right now on it) I can’t will myself to do it.

It sucks, because when I was younger it was also often too late at that point to just rest or recover enough to do it, and knowing this was going on would cause anxiety that would make the rest and recovery harder. Trying harder, to your point, would just make me hate myself and get more anxious. But not trying at all, depending on the amount of time left, might not have been an option either.

As I’ve gotten older, regulation has gotten easier - sleeping enough, getting enough exercise, integrating all the various experiences and emotions so things don’t get as ‘stuck’ all help. Which helps me see situations like this in advance, and help avoid them by properly taking care of what is going to be blocking me before it blocks me.
Falling behind?

US continues to outspend the next 9 countries (including China) combined, has military bases in 100+ countries worldwide, the second largest nuclear arsenal, 11+ nuclear aircraft carriers, largest always at-sea submarine fleet, plus military alliances and vassal states worldwide, not to mention enormous reach of the intelligence apparatus which is capable of extraordinarily rendering the citizens of other countries to who-knows-where to who-knows-what-fate.

It's a clickbait title, basically
A silencer is to gun croed what loud exhausts are to thewtuning crowd. Not adding anything to the product but a stupid shiney cool thing to distiguish oneself from people outside the "educated" circles.
>>For some reason they decided to remove all comments and lengthy reviews for the thumbs up/down.

The reason was / is pretty widely known, their customer base did not reaction "properly" with the "correct" opinions to the shift in direction of neflix original programming and comedy specials, coming to head with the widely panned Amy Schumer Special which most netflix customers responded negatively to and brought an end to the review and rating system
Oh believe me, you'll hear it either way!
Building a Lego-powered submarine with automatic depth control
Taking some pictures is great. Having some pics to look at a vacation years down the line is good for refreshing memories and emotions and to relive those moments. But that's achievable with a few pictures a day, whereas many people now take hundreds or more and never even look at them again. It's like hoarding behavior or bookmarking web pages or buying books you never end up opening.
You'll have to pry Firefox from my cold, dead hands!

At the outset, yes, chromium based browsers feel snappier..

But, stuff that Chrome will not have and are absolutely essential

1. Containers... I use another unverified extension to match urls and automatically assign containers...

2. Ublock origin

3. Tree style tabs

4. Developer console... Edit and resend any request

That said, i still end up using chromium for teams and outlook 365 (pwa install feature is nice)... But that's only because i don't have any other options with those two
It's not possible to have multiple 1.x.y versions of the same crate in your project, so you would need a really old library that depends on Tokio 0.2.x for that to happen. This isn't something that normally comes up in practice.
It even makes many weapons less lethal as it is nearly useless with supersonic projectiles ('bang'), and using more adequate subsonic ones reduces the kinetic energy, and therefore expansion.
Am also noob. Another question:

Is there a connection between clockless and analog computing?

I dimly recall reading about Ivan Sutherland (and maybe Sun Computers) pushing clockless. And for some reason I associated the two strategies.

I (think I) get that analog is continuous function. And I think of clockless as like async and queues from high level programming languages.

Thanks for humoring me.
I'm trying to picture the double blind study on this one...
Hi, everyone! Thanks so much for taking the time to read the piece, and for getting into awesome conversations. The kind I am often a part of, but not the subject of!

Something the vast majority of you all missed in such a spectacular and majestic fashion, is that the post was responding to someone specifically asking about what to do after reading a book as part of the zettelkasten method (see the bottom of the post for a link to the original source and comment thread). When working ZK, one of the fundamental steps is to interpret things you find interesting in light of what you're working on, and import those ideas into your zettelkasten. The OP was simply capturing the ideas of the author, and when having trouble linking them to one another, wondered why. To which I stated that that was because the author had already done so for the OP (in the book they read). The OP's job now was to explore how the ideas of the author informed their own work. This is standard zettelkasten stuff.

Now, as per the comments on "why can't you just read without taking notes" and "this is productivity bs" and "this post is why Putin invaded Ukrain" etc etc.... Lets be clear.

1. When I'm not reading for the purpose of mining the material for insight into what I'm working on also "just read for the pleasure." But, I also read a lot with a pen in hand, which, I should say, is pleasurable to me.

2. 99.9999% of PKM at the entry level (and a few levels below it) is absolute productivity bs. The pkm scene has been thoroughly infiltrated by the productivity scene and it is a true summer bummer. Nevertheless, like anything worth your time, the goods are far beneath the surface. Zettelkasten, tho often presented as an aspect of productivity (which it certainly can be) is also just a dope as way of engaging with your own ideas if you're a writer. Not the only way. Maybe not even the best. But, defs a good one.

3. And, this is a real one referring to the commenter asking about "how can you have your own ideas if it's new material" this requires a much longer response, but I'll say this: if you don't have ideas when you read something yoube never experienced before either A. You've had a lobotomy or B. You're asleep. Of course you have ideas. They may not be worth much at the moment. But, perhaps that's because you're concerned with the wrong ideas. In zettelkasten, we're not necessarily concerned with ideas that are specifically related to the exact subject at hand but more so what it ideas, even tangential to the subject, come up for you. For example, when I read Donut Economics, I took a bunch of notes. Not so much on economics (I'm not an economist) but on how some of the ideas informed my thinking about social media. What??? Yes. That's because, writing and thinking about social media is something I was interested in, and that's where my mind went.

OK? Good? You all get the context now? Exhale. ;)
My way is to block the internet at study times and only let education-related site be available, block the porn sites at all times for them, with a wifi router.

as long as the internet is on for kids, it's really hard for them to get off-hooked without some strict (technical) rules in house, talking with them did not work for us after many trying, wifi is the only thing works when it is needed(e.g. study time, or no-game time, or no-internet time).

I have been thinking this self-customized wifi might have a market actually, it worked well for us so far, once the study-mode is on, there is no way they can get around to it, not even with tor-browser or any proxy server or vpn(technically this is the hardest part, but I pulled it off), and they can actually focus on studying(these days many home work requires internet to be on, so you have to manage the sites, and you can not just turn internet off).
Chrome has a native reader mode as well, it’s just feature flagged off for some reason:

https://knowtechie.com/how-to-enable-google-chrome-reader-mo...
> I don't know anyone who will choose Netflix over Disney+ or HBO because of better tech.

I don't think it is about tech choices but user hostility. Any streaming service could differentiate by allowing you to turn off autoplay or not have some pushy in-your-face "feed" berry your recently watched series list.

But ye, in the end its probably all down to content, like you say.
I didn't see it linked from the article, Jon Purdy has a great talk about this too: "Concatenative Programming: From Ivory to Metal" (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IgqJr8jG8M

There's also "A Conversation with Manfred von Thun" http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10000350 which is worth reading (IMO) if you're interested in concatenative languages. He's the creator of Joy.

I've been working with Joy over the last few years now and I really think there's something there. It seems to combine the best features of both Forth and Lisp.
Also unblockable contextual menus (by pressing SHIFT).

But on the downside no translate tool (though I read it is coming).
uBlock Origin is already working better on Firefox than chrome since Google is crippling features.

See "uBlock Origin works best on Firefox" in the official GitHub repo's wiki:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
This looked odd to me too - and suspiciously like a p-hack.

Besides - if the grey shaded area is where we are supposed to believe the 'actual' number should fall, we actually know the 'actual' numbers (the dots) and 60% of the datapoints fall outside of the shaded area, so this seems like total nonsense to me (presumably 95% of the points should sit inside this area?).

On top of that - if you added the actual numbers to this graph (which I expect are 1-4 films a year) only a handful of releases can completely skew the data.

And then even if you ignore the above, the whole premise titles such as 'old school', 'no country for old men' and 'the 40 year old virgin' are picked because of a trend towards 'old stuff' isn't in any way backed up by either data or common sense when thinking about the movie titles.

When you get a graph like this which has such basic failures in stats and common sense, it does make you question the data and rigor behind the rest of the article.
Don't look at algorithm services, look and follow smaller record labels (on bandcamp maybe). Some of the labels i follow: unseen worlds, drag city, hausu mountain, hyperdub.

I am turning 33 next year, I have yet to have a year where my heart almost doesnt explode from joy and amazement at all the music people are make. Every year I feel luckier than last to be alive to hear the new things coming out. I really can't relate at all to most of this discussion.. It is very alien to me.
A goodreads for movies? I'd be interested in that.. But, Netflix was getting more barren. People would notice the reviews they wrote were disappearing, because the content itself got pulled (not-renewed) from Netflix. That's worse than one-time plug-pull, so Netflix didn't really have the choice.
Got it. I’m just making it clear that I’m only replying to your question (“Could you give an example of an application where the bottleneck is UI code?”) rather than arguing for language X or Y.

I actually agree with you.

I guess I’m kinda tired of people trying to lure me into arguments I don’t want to have.
Slightly incorrect - the researchers only looked at bone structure. This was an evaluation of a theory that woodpeckers had an energy dissipating section of bone that protected their brain. That would make for a safer brain, but a worse pecker.

The tongue may still have an effect, but a different study methodology would be needed in order to test that theory.
Ha yeah you've got to love a graph that looks like random noise until you throw a fancy looking R trend line on it. Most of the data points are outside the confidence interval!
I am getting confused in this whole analogy, TBH, but if chickens were clicks or ad impressions, it seems like foxes have developed an appetite for pigeons, larks, hawks, eagles, rabbits, squirrels, shrews, groundhogs, muskrats, cats, small dogs, mice, rats, and other foxes. They seem to have a bottomless pit for a stomach and are telling us that it's always been that case that foxes were the dominant life form and that we should be grateful for the services they are providing.
>Until recently people simply were not aware that personally identifiable location data was gathered on them to the extent that you’d be able to detect a visit to an abortion clinic. Or that period tracking apps are sending data in a way that can be later bought on a free market and tied to personal identification.

They were aware. It just wasn't until these moments that it affected them personally, and they started to care.
Indeed - seems like the resilience strategies we use in distributed software apply?

In my experience it took some time for businesses to accept the extra expense and complexity required to guarantee service levels (though many have come around).

I wonder how much more difficult that realization is for actors when their interests diverge (states, corporations, etc...) - i.e. the corp wants to streamline to increase profits, the state wants to robustify to maintain order, etc...
The semaphore tower method could maybe have supported mixed signals with one operator dedicated to receive/forward and the other operator dedicated to acknowledge with a detailed response.
They famously said Netflix has to become HBO faster than HBO can become Netflix.

Well now they have tried to become every channel and completely lost their brand identity. It used to be tied to more prestige TV (house of cards) etc. Now they try to produce content for everyone, and in the end their brand ends up standing for no particular kind of content. When you log in to someone else’s Netflix it’s like a completely different streaming service.

Meanwhile streaming tech has become more and more of a commodity. And other brands are associated with better / specific content.
You might like The Mountain Goats, or even the podcast "I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats" where they talk about the story behind the lyrics, and how they used to record the vocals on a half-busted 80's boombox mic.

I think they're reasonably popular. One of the local newspapers recenlty ran a cover story about their new album. Anyway, they tick all your boxes.

For something amazing that ticks none of your boxes, you could check out Igorrr.

Lindsey Stirling, Diablo Swing Orchestra and Sumo Cyco are in between those extremes. Those bands are all very different from each other, and mostly from automatic recommendations.
Mmm, I think Netflix made plenty of their own missteps in that department. They’re notorious for shutting down popular shows after a few seasons, for example. I’m sure they had numbers that convinced them that was the smart thing to do, but you do that enough times and people might wonder why it’s ever worth getting into your shows.

This kind of thing comes from company culture too. I can’t speak to specifics, but presumably Disney and other studios who have been at the content game a lot longer than Netflix have a better understanding of how to cater to their customers and foster that relationship over time.

Another way to put all this is simply that it’s a lot harder to build a content business than a CDN, especially now. So the existing content biz just built CDNs.
I'd consider faster as a different thing than lighter. I think benchmarks show that the JS engine in Chrome is faster, but you pay a price in memory and processor to get that.

Personally, I have found FF really stable lately on both Windows and Linux and use it whenever possible as you do. And like you, I also need to fire up Chrome for the odd thing now and then.
Ah, I see. So, within a given process (such as a DAW) you can bundle stuff together, as long as the combination of everything is fast enough to make the deadline. But different processes communicating over, say, JACK, still have buffering between them.
> I really don't have a good reference on what normal was. I spent a lot of time with the computer, put a lot of miles on training for cycling, and played soccer and went to school in between. I just did my thing, and didn't really worry about it.

Well it was kinda normal for nerds. But nerds were not really 'normal' (though very common anyhow!). I think for people born later it's hard to understand since IT is now taken in much higher regard. I mean if I tell people I'm in IT/Cybersec at a meetup they're usually like "wow cool" which exactly the opposite of what would happen in the 80s :D You'd be viewed as a total dork wasting their time.

You don't sound like a typical nerd though. Most of my nerd friends (and certainly myself) would not do any kind of sports. Especially teamsports.
How much of this is due to some fundamental cultural decline, and how much is due to the fact that, starting relatively recently, old music stopped being something that you had to seek out and obtain, and instead became something that's provided almost effortlessly via vast archives and recommendation engines?

There is an enormous amount of old music out there, and while only a small percentage is really good, that still amounts to an enormous amount of non-new good music that competes with new music.
Aren't most JS engines able to do this optimization regardless of |0, especially during JIT? The rationale behind the |0 trick in asm.js was the lack of an integer type in pure js, and thus the need to avoid precision errors (which can't happen if you limit yourself to 32 bits since IEEE double-precision floats have 53 bits of mantissa).

This sounds a bit unnecessary given the capabilities of modern engines. I benchmarked some additions on my machine on nodejs and there is no difference between the naive and |0 implementations.
The premise before streaming tech matured at least was Netflix's data pipeline was so great and ML algorithms so good they'd recommend films so effectively and produce films that users would crave. Feels like those two claims have failed, and at the end of the day content (IP) is king in the entertainment media world.
The kitchen thing is quite popular and seems to work wonders for peers as a well, knowing that a good chunk of the classroom will be offline after 9PM.