skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what if I suffer from recursive procrastination? (Procrastiception?)
I think that you would find it interesting to read “The Tyranny of Merit” by Michael J. Sandel, as it discusses some of the underlying assumptions that your comment rests on. I'm not saying it's a refutation of what you're saying or anything like that, but I think you would enjoy the book, and I think it would offer a healthy broader perspective.
The democratic process is that anyone who wants to pay for the ad campaign can try to convince everyone else that it's a good spec everyone should adopt, not merely pay a developer to code it.

If everyone else is not convinced then it should not become a thing no matter how much one party with money wants it.
Looks like others agree: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-05/amazon-s-...

Shout out to the HN down-voters.
> Cattle emission is severely downplayed.

No, Cattle emissions are well studied and modelled.

Methane emissions from active _and_ abandoned Oil wells, now that is a GHG emission that is largely dismissed and hidden away by the Oil&Gas industry.
You can easily boil it down to "start working" what's the point of starting a website called "de procrastination" when the tricks are so naive?
>Many people that truly accomplished amazing things, when asked for the key to their success come up with some framework or playbook ... It’s just that people love to say things that make them look good.

Or they really are trying to package their trick in a way that's universally useful, but failing.

Because that's hard. Because people differ widely in the way they see and think. It's SO much easier to assume that they don't. But they do. One size does not fit all.

A truly sciency approach might be the missing link. Firmly establish a common context and such. But that might be tedious and off-putting.
I have to sit on my hands and not help my son with his math homework. The way they have taught him to do math is great - he can solve just about anything in his head - but I can’t help him without introducing him to the old slow way I learned of doing everything.
God how I miss the 12 bar club and the other heavy metal venue next to it, "Fox"-something...
Starling is no better, you were just lucky. I found Starling customer service appalling. Basically "go somewhere else if you don't like it".
It is potentially uninformed, possibly mistaken, but not disingenuous.

We're supposed to assume best intent.

Accusing someone of being "disingenuous", "horribly uninformed" and "short sighted" for providing an different opinion isn't doing that.

I learned something from the post. I learned that these enhancements are already mostly being codified in the language.

That influenced my opinion on the subject.

I assumed that the 13 lines of code comment was in the context of js, not (for example) a c parser, where it's pretty normal for 13 lines of js to translate to hundreds or potentially thousands of lines of C code.

The post was informative and respectful.

The name-calling response was not.
As far as i can tell the openBMC support list is quite small :/

Most vendors are indeed running Linux. For example, HPE iLO 5 is capable of starting smart storage administrator from bios, and when doing so it just launches some flavor of centos, launches SSA server then starts an antediluvian build of Firefox pointing to it.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the chip serving iLO was Linux too.
How to Live in a Simulation (Hanson, 2001)
Inherited an awful stack of hacks once; given a list of names it printed "hello my name is" badges on a dot matrix printer. In a big, friendly font. This was before PrintShop [1], some little single purpose app running on Victor 9000 "almost PC compatibles" under DOS 2.

The list came out of a COBOL "DBMS" system that had a 64kb table limit. They had more names to print than that.

The stack of hacks consisted of scripts that ran trough all the tables of the "members list" DB (multiple floppies were doable, by the time i got it they had a hard drive), creating text "dump" files of the bits that went to the printer; more scripts to assemble those dumps and reformat them (in GWBASIC), and finally a script that fed one record at a time through the pretty printer formatting program and printed it out.

My contribution was figuring out a way to feed the "pretty printer" multiple records per run; instead of invoking the chain once per record. saved days for the entire print run.

It was a horrible stack and it wasn't fun to work with and I cussed the people who had implemented it; however: given the constraints when it was built and the resources of the people using it; it was incredibly cool. Until I saw it I'd have said it wasn't possible with that collection of parts, but it functioned as required and did so for a decade. Eventually it was replaced with WordPerfect doing a mail merge operation; the people wearing the name badges complained that the font wasn't as pretty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Print_Shop
I've noticed lots of companies with an online presence still do this, I wonder if they will just all wait to be fined before anything happens.
I, too, am a huge fan of Nathan for You [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_for_You
I'm totally with the author - what he calls 'insight porn', I think of as 'grind porn' - as underneath the 'insights', I believe what the genre is really selling is the paradigm that you're not achieving enough, and you need to work harder, and because there are only so many hours in the day, you need to work smarter too, and to do that you need our insights to help you be much more efficient.

So I'd take it a step further - not just avoid insight-/grind-porn, and grind-adjacent-porn too.

By this, I mean the equally large industry around life optimisation - and consider it adjacent because of course you need to optimise your health, wellbeing, sleep, weight, muscle volume, whatever, to be a fully productive human and achieve the heights that are expected of you.

Take (possibly) the Daddy of the all: Tim Ferriss' blog/podcast. I believe it's basically well-meaning, but holy hell if you wanted to learn from and apply the life optimisations of all of his guests, you'd almost need to make it a full-time activity. (I guess that's why some of them --Peter Attia, for example-- are really appearing on the podcast to advertise their business, which [if you're rich enough] will take most of the hard work out of figuring everything for yourself.) And of course, don't get me started on trying to follow any of the advice while living in the Europe, without easy access to many of the items recommended.

And some of this slips out of the recrational space into the professional, too. A while back, I became aware of a professional/life coaching business[0] which was more holistic than the usual behaviourally-focussed professional coaches I'd experienced. Lots of well-meaning advice... until it hit me: maybe if I need to employ all of the little lifestyle marginal gains --green tea, optimised sleep, optimised diet, exercise-- just to cope with my f*cking job, the toxic demands of job itself is the problem?

Is it possible we've gone too far towards accepting and adapting to the grind... and maybe it's time to wind it back a little?

[0] https://tignum.com/
I have rarely seen that "comeback" when the source is a reliable one as recognized by the standards of, say, Wikipedia
> But that's not realistic, a lot of simple things need to go through the cell membrane all the time.

But surely something that contains an executable payload (DNA/RNA) needs to be better scrutinized than a simple nutrient. Runtime alterations of the cell code are practically never required, the fact that any code that enters the cell is fair game to execute and even to permanently alter the nucleus "binary"(retroviruses) strikes as a bad practice. A static host-key, unique per individual, would stop all such viruses.

So you cannot shake the impression that evolution does not really care about the information security of any given host. What it cares about is overall success of the gene while allowing for sufficient variation and flexibility - the retroviruses are just a tool among many to induce such genetic variability.

Nothing I say above should be taken as dismissing an exceptionally intricate and developed system, just pointing out the different way a rational attacker would approach the problem and that the defenses against such an attack would be fundamentally different than what evolution had to deal with in the past.
Tony Robbins says in one of his audios (can't remember which, otherwise I would link), that 80% of the books he sold are just collecting dust, because people just buy them in order to pat themselves on the back for having done something for their personal development.
> I think blocked on a high priority task is exactly what scrum with daily standup is sold as surfacing.

A 'daily standup' seems sort of the lowest-common-denominator way of surfacing that. someone recognizing on their own, and reaching out to raise a flag is one way. 1-1 checkins more frequently with those working on larger items would be another.
I am most worried about the hardware. I am afraid we will have to start all the progress completely from scratch.
The only reason these bad actors exist is because there are a lot of marks for their con. We wonder why there are so many alleged Nigerian princes with money logistics problems on the internet - this is the same thing, just in less obvious fashion.

A fool and his money are soon parted. The real question a society should ask itself is to what extent it should protect its fools from their own gullibleness and inevitable bad decisions.

If a business owner goes bankrupt because he believed the "insight peddlers" and their easy solutions, then according to capitalist theory, it's OK he'll be replaced by someone who is better at business.

The same also happens in the political realm. How much time and effort should a society spend on educating its fools, for example that their belief that the president shitposts on 4chan under the guise of "Q" to tell his followers about his secret plans, is based on nothing but lies and gullibleness?

Should we take our collective eyes off the ball of actual issues at hand and deal with our fools' every concern? Or should we just accept that we can't save every voter or every business man and just let the "market" do its thing? It's not black and white like that, because of course a society shouldn't be do-or-die about anything, but when the extent of foolery starts to threaten the fundament that allows it to exist, there's a limit.
Attempts to power planes with hydrogen
Gotta hand it to The Secret (2006) for kick starting near two decades of bull shit "Insight Porn". I know a few people who got sucked into that universe and continue to read & share this kind of media today.
Collaborative editor in 30 mins or less
>>Goes to the sound too, Renault Zoe emits a retrofuturistic drone that evokes all kinds of Star Wars hoverbikes and crafts.

I mean, that comes from a simple design question - how do you warn pedestrians in an audible way that one of these is nearby? My Volvo XC60 PHEV doesn't make any sound when being driven in EV mode, and people just don't hear it coming. You can pull up right behind someone(pedestrian) in a parking lot and they are completely oblivious there is a car behind them. Of course sound isn't the only thing pedestrians should rely on, but it is an actual problem - electric cars are just completely silent.

My Volkswagen e-Up has a sound generator and it emits sound like a small ICE, but not quite - it's like uncanny valley of sound.

Is that better than ZOE's futurisic sounds? I really don't know. But I do believe they should emit something.
Almost two years after Apple’s M1 launch, Microsoft Teams goes native
Sorry i use freebsd...the one with zfs and bluetooth ;)
Best comedy on TV. Basically anything Fielder has touched so far, was gold. Or maybe it's because his brand of comedy really works for me, personally.
> What makes their trust-funded operation better than all the others?

the answer to this question is well-explained in the post you replied to
My team (SWE) does a week-long tier 2 oncall shift ~every 6 weeks. It's very disruptive to my life (although it doesn't seem to bother people without young kids or with stay-at-home partners). I would flat out refuse a team with more frequent oncall, even if it were tier 3.
You make some good points. Most I mention in this list [1] are
communists, so anti-intellectualism looks historically a feature of
the left. Indeed, if what I remember of Messrs Snow and Orwell
applies, it's the (small C) conservative liberal who is the champion
of the literary intellectual. That's what the "Tories" once
represented.

So in a way that's what's weird about the present day "Tory"
party. They are nihilists. There's nothing there to even rally around
or against except a nebulous fear of change, because they are so
empty, so naked in their disgust for principles of any kind.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=32384301
Sine Tables Charts is easier if you can bring them to exam.
The end of that first paragraph is beautifully written.
Inserting metadata in the protobuf itself seems like the obvious, simple solution to avoid having to depend on what the transport layer supports. Just defining a message to provide the metadata they wanted to insert in trailers would have avoided a whole lot of pain.
Why does everything have to be some kind "porn" nowadays. Does anybody seriously think this is funny?
Act like a lead and lead your project to success. Take control over the project and make it work. Let them reward you after or use your success story in the next interview.
It's a pretty computer. I'd love if we did replicas of it the way a company did with the C64 maxi.

Would also make the lives of time travelers much easier.
It includes everything that you mention. I know people who constantly read books about finances, health, relationships, ... . They are broke, health is terrible, depressions, ... . If they would just apply what they read, it would be fine. But they don't.

And then there are the 'sales type'-guys if you know what I mean. They just talk and do: have their finances more or less straight, have a family, lots of social connections, ... .

I agree that both thinking and doing is best (as hopefully most here are doing). But if I have to choose, I would choose doing over thinking.
Honestly, both of them, I feel ready to take on more responsibilities and extend further my impact on the work that is being done by helping other developers do a better job. I did believe that taking a project that "shakes the foundations" of almost every team in the company could have been a good proof of that.
I do agree obtaining the skills and experience is extremely hard, especially on Covid times were you see your teammates once every company party ( we are doing hybrid work, you can go to the office when and if you want, I go often, my teammates of the new team never )
A tour of French dialects around the world
My friends dad in his late 60's wanted to learn math and used the No Bullshit math and physics from https://minireference.com/ and loved it. Their Linear Algebra is quite good too.
From what I've read, PPE is geared specifically towards people undertaking careers in politics or the civil service. It's way down on the list of courses whose intellectual value is separate from their economic utility.
I like it!

One problem you will run into is putting a LIMIT on relationship queries

You can't use a limit for this

select post [
id
title
# Can't generate simple LIMIT here
user { nickname } limit 2
]
limit 5
Fortunately, the author isn't proposing to do this, instead stating pretty clearly that he proposes to use an estimate of the median income, not the median contribution to GDP. So it's not really relevant, except perhaps as a critique of the HN headline.

(He also doesn't specifically say that median income = median salary, although taking sales tax revenues and profit incomes and depreciation of capital outcomes into account probably doesn't actually make much if any difference to the median income vs median salary)

though FWIW I don't think it would be impossible to estimate some measure of an individual's "income measure contribution to GDP" based on that individuals' earned income plus imputed contribution to company profits plus sales tax paid; I just don't think it'd be that useful
Hi HN! I'm one of the creators of DagsHub - and we're excited to be sharing this with you today.

As Data Scientists, we sometimes have interactive outputs from Jupyter notebook cells. Up to now, most places you'd save notebooks, e.g. GitHub/GitLab, only showed a static image instead of the original rich output, and you'd have to open the notebook in Colab, or a similar tool in order to interact with your outputs.

This limits sharability and creates a lossy experience.

We wanted to fix this, so now when you commit a notebook to DagsHub (or connect a GitHub project with such a notebook), you see the interactive outputs as they should be – interactive.

This means that things like EDA and dashboarding tools are much cooler and more useful.

Oh, and you don't need to change your code or download or import anything.
A contrasting opinion from Derek Lowe:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32370893
Here's one from Kevin Systrom (Instagram founder):

"If you don't want to do something, make a deal with yourself to do at least five minutes of it. After five minutes, you'll end up doing the whole thing."

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/the-5-minute-hack-insta...
Wow, that's inhumane.
This is a perfect post on what I hate (and can't seem to quit) on my Twitter feed.

If you follow anyone in the startup space, the profiles and recommendations they generate will fill up your entire feed with useless, like-farming threads on "how to be successful in 3 easy steps".

The part about it being extra dangerous because you feel productive even though you didn't do anything, is so true. It's like a new form of addictive, useless SoMe content for people over 25.
Earlier this year my partner and I switched our joint account from Monzo to Starling simply because we both hated using the Monzo app. Navigating the app feels unnatural to us and probably due to how infrequently we use it, we never learnt to live with it.
Last week I finally closed my personal Monzo account as I only used it for one small DD a month and much prefer the Starling and NatWest apps.
Ask HN: Is it ok to place an ad for my startup in my OSS?
Hi, I'm the creator of serverless-offline (https://github.com/dherault/serverless-offline), a NPM package for local serveless development on AWS.

I'm building a cool product and intend to launch Q1 2023. To gain traction from my target customers, I plan to place a discrete ad at the launch of every serverless-offline instance.

Does it seem like an ok move to you? Or is it something that repels you?

Best,
Google sued for dropping free Workspace apps
To me that sounds like "you need insight into a field to have good hunches"
Proper support for dates too.
+1 to this. I find that a 15 minute stand up at the very least lets me see my coworkers, and I get so much out of just saying hi and hearing it back.
Some types of insight is still valuable, and tends to stick longer:

* "Your perception of [practice] is wrong". Networking isn't sales or marketing, it's helping each other and building things together without sending invoices.

* "You value the wrong things". You are paid to create value, not write code. Negotiation skills pay more than technical skills [1][2]

* "The world doesn't work that way". A lot of the content you read is sponsored [3]

* "You're doing something unpleasant". Don't ask to ask [4]

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...

[2] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

[4] https://dontasktoask.com/
One Browser Tab Only
I think this is using the term "asynchrouously" where others might use "off-line". When the meeting turns up a problem that isn't going to be resolved in a few words, you might prompt those involved/interested to organise a specific meeting rather than bore the rest.

However, "Can we take that off-line?" can also come to mean "Stop bringing problems!" :-)
I started using Stashpad today. It's what I've been missing from my note taking workflow. It's everything I love about writing notes on paper (efficiency, availability, ephemerality) combined with everything I love about digital note taking (indexing/search-ability, sharing, connect-ability, locally-stored data).

Thank you for creating this! I'm excited to continue to be a user!
I literally know a person in this exact position. Is it not possible to imagine a business that might have to market itself this way due to the niche it's in?
Some days I really feel like I embody the "fuck up on most of it" part.
If we have to introduce population control it will be to increase the population. All developed countries are below replacement.
I submitted a talk by Thomas Metzinger recently which didn't get much traction but is very relevant to this specific topic, "Three Types of Arguments for a Global Moratorium on Synthetic Phenomenology".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32262655
I don't know about you, but I don't normally have the source code lying around on disk for:

the compiler and its dependencies

Any dynamically linked dependencies and whatever extra compilers they might need

Other potentially necessary things like build tools and source control systems
Make it your passphrase
This is one small piece of the work that's going to need doing to get Rust properly described.

It's not "useful" in the sense of being something that you'd actually run.

This is a start on the lowest layer of the description, describing the "abstract machine" that runs Rust programs; it assumes that all borrow-checking and type-checking has already been done, generics have been expanded, and so on.

The other two big pieces that will need doing are properly describing the type system, and properly describing how the high-level features that aren't strictly necessary can be "lowered" into simpler forms.

In the last year there's been some real work on the first of those under the name "A MIR Formality": https://nikomatsakis.github.io/a-mir-formality/docs/intro

Maybe the existing Rust Reference will turn into the second.
His six hour day thing reminds me of a wheeze a manager tried in my old company when it was coming up to crunch time. He sent an 'inspirational' email where he said that if we all were to simply work an extra few hours after work each day, then four hours on each of Saturday and Sunday, then - voila - we would magically find ourselves with the equivalent of an 8-day week. I don't think many took him up on this.

Though to be fair to him, it was very specific and actionable advice!
Subsistence farms are making a comeback?