skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The kind of whizzbangs associated with "beautiful UI" often involves copious amounts of JavaScript hijacking scroll events, running code for every pixel of a mouse move, and so on. Something as simple as "header in the middle of the page" can involve an absolutely-positioned header moved around on scroll events.

That's why people were mentioning JS. If you've worked on frontend UI then you can't tell me you don't know what I'm talking about.

(And yes, I know it can be done with just CSS instead of moving an absolutely-positioned header with JS in scroll events. Tell that to the websites that do it, not to me.)
I think Pulumi is starting to realize that this path ends up with a lot of day 2 issues that are not solvable when you wrap config in code. Hence why they are exposing yaml and have a tutorial on CUE now.

Making you config programmable is not the right path forward
You said about yourself:

> just my own observations (probably wrong).

I am currently in the process of learning C#. I did a deep but brief dive into every language feature in C# 10. Being proficient in Python, absolutely nothing surprised me. All the same concepts, save for a handful, exist in either language, sometimes down to the exact keyword usage. LINQ is a big differentiator in favor of C#, but modern (that is, typed) Python looks very similar to C# (C# left, Python right):

ABCs -- ABCs

Interfaces -- Protocols/ABCs

LINQ -- ??

Enumerable/Enumerator -- Iterable/Iterator

class -- class

static -- staticmethod

foreach -- for

for -- for(range(...))

try/catch -- try/except

break/continue -- break/continue

enum -- Enum

struct -- dataclass, perhaps

namespace -- automatic on the file level

out -- pass by reference

switch/case -- match/case (both do structural pattern matching)

throw -- except

typeof -- type

overloaded methods -- singledispatch (only works for a single argument sadly, no stdlib multidispatch)

inheritance (single) -- inheritance (multiple)

object -- object (root of the type hierarchy)

generics -- generics as well (via typing, runtime never cared anyway of course)

lambda -- lambda

nullability -- None (C# can have nullable reference types, Python types are not nullable, None exists as a first-class type, not a subtype of all other types; similar ergonomics but different structurally)

extension methods -- just go wild in Python (although binding methods after class definition is cumbersome)

tuples -- tuples (both can do unpacking, multiple returns etc.)

operator overloading -- operator overloading

reflection -- reflection (arguably a Python strong-point)

async/await -- async/await

decorators (exist as a pattern) -- decorators (supported on the syntax level)

?? -- top-level/first-class-citizens functions

I probably got a couple wrong, but you get the idea: apart from LINQ, nullability handling and some others, the languages are incredibly similar in their feature set on paper. This is not talking about DX etc. though.
WE"RE ONLY HERE ONCE

WILL YOU PERISH LIKE A DOG?

OR WILL YOU STAND AGAINST DESTINY

AND FIGHT

NUT THE FUCK UP KID

LETS FUCKING GO

I say this with ironic humor, but also deliver a lot of truth in it. I used to have a pretty comfortable job, but I hated it and I was bored out of my mind. Existential dread every day. Find another job/endeavor that challenges you
Volvo led the way in this long before Japan got even close to figuring this out. That's why you still see ancient Volvo's drive around in numbers that are just way higher than any other brand.
Not dramatic at all, those new thermometers are trash.
One analysis https://opensource.com/article/18/3/patent-grant-mit-license
> But in a world without advertising, you can still find things you need, even novel ones.

Sure, eventually. Maybe. But I'm glad this information was pushed to me when it was.

> I could have learned about this product in many other ways. Bike stores! Bike forums! The manufacturer's website! Other cyclists! Review sites! Bike magazines! Etc, etc.

It amuses me that at least two of the examples you listed are just other marketing channels by companies (magazines and their own website) and marketers definitely work in forums, review sites, sending information to stores, and other cyclists most likely learned about it from marketing too.
At first I wanted to disagree (I remember the whole "Cocoa or Carbon" dilemma for Mac developers in the early 00s), but then I just realized that I'm old.

Carbon (the Mac API) only existed to enable developers to more easily port Mac 8/9 applications to OS X, which was over 20 years ago. The Carbon API was officially discontinued in 2019 with Catalina.

The Carbon API served its purpose, it's now officially "dead", so I agree - I don't see much of an issue with giving a new technology the same name.
I think the bulk of this problem is just people not aiming their lights correctly.
There is an ongoing work to support network access-control: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220621082313.3330667-1-konstan...
No, fines are not cheaper than simply not bidding on areas they can't serve.
We used PCs in a kiosk form factor (circa 2009). We were using Flash for some games and Unity for others. Three games we did for a museum were Cryptogram, Cypher Express, and Navajo Code Match.

We didn't stick with making games for kiosks. Managing both the software and the hardware was too much overhead, and at the time I didn't think it was a tenable line of business compared to other opportunities.

https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Pre...
"Make two parallel time systems and allow conversion between one and the other programmatically" reduces spiritedly and unambiguously to "use one time system and care for it programmatically".

By precedent, UTC seems the logical choice for the one time system.
Fusion is hard. I thought of another use for that laser:

Take a small cylinder of pyrolytic graphite (it is diamagnetic, repelled by magnets) milled to be in the ideal axis and polystyrene layered in it. Then shoot it into a somewhat large ring of powerful magnets that have a trough in them to such a degree that it can trap the cylinder as it accelerates around the loop. The cylinder is propelled by successive shots of laser bursts that are not powerful enough to ablate (but close). One of the electromagnets can be quickly deactivated to allow for the cylinder to escape. Then it travels for a safe distance into very large lead target. Fusion could proceed if the speed is fast enough as the fuel is inertially kept together and friction should raise it’s temperature. If it produces neutrons, they will be absorbed by the lead. You can just collect the heat.

Edit. I think the lead target would be a no go. It would be no different than a bullet hitting a soft block of lead. Better would be a block of silicon carbide with some kind of borehole made of tungsten metal with fuel packed at the end of it. So the rice sized cylinder of nuclear fuel shoots right into the borehole and before the material can squeeze itself out, it has to overcome the enormous inertia keeping it going in one direction. Might be better though if the target itself was fuel. And it would be much easier to fuse lithium dueuteride than hydrogen and carbon.

I seem to recall a recent story on HN about something similar. So it isn't really a new idea. Perhaps making it run a circular course is different or that it doesn't use ablation for propulsion, it uses light pressure. I think the project was in the UK.
If you subscribe to the idea of small PRs (dozen or so diff lines at most) and code ownership then you'll want to split PRs up and have them reviewed by different people. In this mode blocking on code review interrupts flow, and it's not unusual in a bigger company for the owners of some code to be in a different time zone.
IIRC stainless isn't actually rust proof, especially in applications where there is a lot of interaction with odd chemicals and things like sea water, so bridges may not be an ideal use for the product.
In the sense that CC0 work is just public domain in the US, and thus an American can just assign it the 0BSD?

Legally that should work, even for non-Americans: the 0BSD doesn't grant anything the CC0 doesn't. But that doesn't work if you assume the 0BSD has a patent grant (by arguing that it gives you permission to use, modify, etc. the software). Then the product of your license reassignment is 0BSD, but doesn't grant permission from all authors, thus preventing its use in Fedora.
For two messengers operating on two different encryption protocols the only way to talk to each other is to introduce an intermediary, which will decrypt and then re-encrypt messages, thus throwing p2p model out of the window.

Some optimists here telling that all messenger might follow a certain "standard" for transmitting encrypted messages. And in fact some messengers might, but this standard will be the lowest common denominator, i.e. the weakest security protocol all know.

For p2p model generating secure private key is paramount. Can this be guaranteed by every peer operating in a chat? Not unless they all made by the same team with high security standard.
Maybe for tiny tiny programs "the JVM's slow start time" is only a few tenths of a second?

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
I'd argue that TAI has far more right to the term "real time" than UT1. The Earth's wobbling and halting deceleration should not impact, let alone underly, our definition of time. UTC agrees with this assessment almost always: it tracks TAI except for leap seconds that prevent it from de-syncing too far from UT1.

TAI > UTC > UT1

That said, the hard work to build out a compromise has already been done, so whatever, let's just keep it until political or speed-of-light issues make it awkward to distribute information about leap seconds, at which point dropping them will be an easy and natural solution.
Emergency vehicles around here seem to be in some arms race to put more and more lights on them in every direction. So late at night as you head down the highway, you can suddenly see nothing except emergency vehicles, at the expense of seeing the road, debris, and unlit vehicles.
Social media. From Instagram to TikTok to YT to LinkedIn
Had a similar good experience a while ago with a Fire TV. The remote can be configured to control my audio amplifier, although it's a rather obscure brand [0] and not even an AV receiver at that (it only does stereo audio, and has no HDMI or video inputs / pass-through).

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[0] They are, however, very open and publish the remote codes.
If you only had one programming language, this problem would turn into an issue of too many frameworks. The problem isn't that there are too many programming languages; the issue is that there are many ways to structure code around a problem. Different problems incentivize different structures and so you end up with different languages.
Amtrak is in the position it’s in because they don’t own most of the rails they use, and the freight railroads which do run very carefully optimized operations because they’re competing against the heavily-subsidized road system, not to mention how the lack of something like a carbon tax means that more polluting trucks don’t pay for the damage they do.

Putting taxes on the things we don’t want encourages use of alternatives. If we want to tackle climate change we should be taxing everything related to CO2 emissions, and using those proceeds to fund far less polluting transportation systems - especially trains which can easily be electrified & run on renewable power – is an important long-term step to reducing the CO2 footprint of things like manufacturing vehicles.
Does this count as poetry? Because I really like it.
No, plastic was the mistake. That was the dangerous game, those plastic eating bacteria are one way to restore some of the natural order and hopefully at some point they'd run out of food.
I’m not a fan of adderall I find it harsh and pushy.

Stimulants seem to be the clear path to restoring balance. It is after all the most effective treatment.

Weed is toxic in a “bad habit that scrambles what little executive function we have” way. Absolute devil drug and more addictive than methamphetamine for those with adhd IMO.
I hated marketing. Marketing always felt like the one thing that was in my way to achieving massive success. Too expensive and too difficult to compete amongst so many offerings, seems like you just had to build things and hope for the best. Even if I was willing to spend a lot of money, marketing was never an exact science.
Variables should not be accessed directly outside of the object
(encapsulation principle) and thus should all be private as a general rule.

Then, you will probably divide up the code into a number of separate methods for better structured code. All the methods that are purely internal and not part of the public API should be private if only to enforce the public API, this is also the encapsulation principle.
>ban ads for firearms

Source? That sounds like a law to regulate advertisements, not a deplatforming

>Google and Facebook already ban that as well

This is irrelevant - these are not Democratic organizations, and they do not have Democratic policies. Are you somehow implying Google and Facebook are run by Democrats, and so supposedly Hulu is run by Republicans?
This sounds about right
Is IVF still an option when it cannot be reversed surgically? I realize this is much more expensive; I'm just wondering since I've heard about the reversibility issues and didn't know if that means you're completely SOL.
You sound like someone who is looking for deeper meaning in life.

Not knowing what inspires you or motivates you, maybe you'd be better exploring your sense of purpose, what rewards you in the long run, what gives meaning to your life.

You are apparently too set to care about your job as a sustenance and distractions don't seem to entertain you. I would say connect with something bigger like travel Nature, people with problems bigger than yours, memento mori or whatever makes sense to you.

Looking back, in my case what helped was working with the homeless, and later as a volunteer trained in psychology with the sick and eldery. They helped me more than I helped them I feel.

But that's me you'll to figure out what's your thing.
Or at least he was a contributor to Boing Boing. https://www.metafilter.com/186302/In-the-blog-world-this-is-...
I do not think this is true. CC0 neither reserves nor waives these rights: instead it just says that the CC0 license (when it says "this document" it's referring to the license, not the licensed material) does not surrender any of these rights. This doesn't introduce anything new at all: it is effectively a reminder to the licensee.

MIT, BSD, and GPL 2.0 also do not surrender those rights. They just don't helpfully remind the licensee of this fact in the body of the license itself. The net result is, so far as I can tell, the same.

It would seem to me that the complaint is with a license which doesn't surrender rights, particularly patent rights. I think this is proper: MIT, BSD, and GPL 2.0 are awful licenses for exactly this reason.

*Edit* A quick mention of MIT. There are people who argue that MIT's "without restriction" clause sort of acts as a patent release. As if that was good. MIT is a bad license because a critical feature of a modern license -- a patent release -- hinges on a strained interpretation of a vague, easily misconstrued statement, and one which was clearly not the intention of the original license authors. A good license would have explicitly spelled things out. It takes just one judge to grind the MIT license into dirt.
>As for freedom of navigation, China is also in favor of that.

Sorta-kinda. It’s complicated.

Vietnam, the US, the Philippines and others have clashed with China over the “Nine Dash Line.” China— and Taiwan, oddly enough— refuses to respect the ruling of the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Tribunal on this matter. They’ve harassed other countries’ fishing vessels and maritime police in the region, sinking at least one. There are ongoing tensions in the area between China and other countries’ navies. China asserts sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea, while other countries and the UNCLOS disagree and assert their right to freedom of navigation for military vessels. This has implications for customs and maritime law enforcement.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/07/chinese-vietna...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line
Going to a therapist really helped me.

I want to add a +1 to all the people mentioning exercise. It does help. It can be as simple as going on a walk.

Some days when I clock out and I’m frustrated, I hit the elliptical for 30 minutes. I feel better afterward.

Another big one is sleep. It sounds simple, but sleep deprivation can have a serious multiplier effect with ADHD. Anecdotally, I notice a huge difference in my symptoms. Drugs and alcohol before bed do not help, as your body spends time in a sedated state processing the chemicals, and less time is actual, restorative sleep.

All that said, I’m not a doctor, do some research, we hope you get to feeling better <3.
The bigger problem is that UTC (and TAI) is defined in a gravity well so it's not going to be very useful in the long run. GPS has to correct its clocks to keep track of what we slow Cesium/Rubidium down to on the surface, and Voyager's clock is going even faster. We clearly want an Earth-centric time standard for wall clocks and that is UTC. The Earth is not a precision time-piece so we will always have to adjust our wall clocks to its rotation. Realistically, we should probably be deriving a time standard where every day has a slightly different length and we record the timestamps of the beginning of each day relative to a universal monotonic clock in a log (with rollups to years, centuries, etc.) that we keep around as long as anyone cares exactly how many Cesium vibrations have happened since $whence.

If we want to actually solve the problem then let's switch to an interstellar time standard in a rest frame relative to the CMBR as far outside of gravity wells as possible and make that the universal monotonically increasing standard. Then computers can run on that time standard and UTC and friends can be derivatives.
I agree with you on everything you just said. My comment was directed at the parts of the parent's post that said:

> This is such the wrong take

And:

> "Teens faking mental illness” is a folk tale older than social media.

And I do not believe either of those statements captures the truth of the situation. Hysteria and group psychosis are also ancient phenomena, and not particularly well-understood, and so I think it's prideful and potentially harmful to preclude the current situation of mental illness, particularly when it manifests in hyper-connected online communities, from that possibility entirely.

I know you didn't really imply this in your post, but I can see in this thread others taking issue with statements like the above. Those opinions don't make me an opponent of mental health awareness, quite the opposite really. I just think we ought to be cautious and suspect when evaluating the current state of affairs, and not let current progress blind us of the potential for greater harm down the road.
I wonder why these type of op-eds see to always defend the speech of racists or those in favour of the beliefs of old billionaires, or the importance of publishing racist (etc) speech in private newspapers with editorial control, while the speech of hardcore Nazis, Hardcore leftists, Taliban sympathisants, radical equality movements, speech that is about sex and link and things that give offense to the prudes amongst us etc. does not get the same defense.

Or speaking less blithely: Freedom of speech does not mean a right to be heard, it means the state can't stop you or punish you for speaking. Likewise, academic freedom does not necessarily mean everyone gets to say what they want. I don't think administrators deciding what should or should not be allowed to be said by faculty is good. But at the same time I don't see the problem of a society deciding that they don't want those endowed with a voice to amplify messages that are obsolete and/or regressive. As long as the hurdles for creating alternative newspapers and universities and...are low enough, I see no problem in faculty and staff lobbying for political stances out in the open - otherwise we'd have hidden political stances anyway.
> Too many remote controls. One for TV, one for AppleTv, one for PS5 if I want to see a movie on bluray, one for the Denon AMP, etc... There should be a standard for that. Something with a touchscreen and an API manufacturers should support

There is a standard where you can use some keys in your TV remote to control your device via HDMI, but I never had a device compatible with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Control
The video and music industry has been screwing a lot of our digital lives with mandatory encryption and anti hacking/reverse engineering requirements just to sustain some of their business models. The abstraction layer is different than this, but god the irony.
I read this same, or a very similar, article yesterday but I can't remember where it was linked from. Regardless, I agree with the author in that, to the extent that it is actually true that Macs are being shut out from "best of" lists systemically (and he provides some compelling evidence), it's interesting and worthy of some thoughts as to why.

I wonder if anyone has asked the authors of these articles why they're doing it.

That all being said, the two theories I like the best are:

1. As the author posits, it seems to coincide with Apple switching to its own silicon. If this is not a coincidence, one sinister explanation could be that the tech review/punditry/magazine business remains under the financial influence of the big tech companies, and so this is Intel flexing its muscle in that department. I have absolutely no evidence for this, mind you.

2. We've just reached the point where Macs and "the rest" aren't really thought of by the average consumer as being the same product. Mac users are going to buy another Mac, it's just a question of which one. Mac users don't want to see a bunch of, as the author calls them, "off brand" laptops. (Similarly, a friend of mine's teenage daughters refer to $1000 Android phones as "burner phones" because text messages from them come up in green bubbles.) I suppose there's less of an argument in the other direction (Windows users are probably more likely to switch to a Mac than the other way around) but I'm thinking there's enough here to warrant just leaving the Macs out entirely.
At least they didn't name it after a very popular existing language and then tack "script" on the end...
Take on more responsibility. Specifically say yes to something you want to do but are scared of. Like starting a business or getting a dog.
You might be right, but the United States is a very individualist society, so now the question is essentially how do you reshape a society?
Differing itself from ICANN in what way, exactly?
The symptoms in that linked article overlap with a lot of other conditions, for sure.

ADHD inattentive type, etc. Even low testosterone can cause a lot of those symptoms.
> Downright evil game design did

"Endorphin rush" is just a fancy word for "fun". You claim it is evil for people to play a game because it's fun?
Many Linux distros have been limiting their repos to FOSS from the start. Much of it is ideology, some of it is minimization of legal exposure.