skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've put in the hard yards leading up to it, it will be much easier. We don't really have much trouble from either of our two, but they're early into their teens (13 ands 15). Talk to them at a higher level than you think they're at and they'll pick up what you mean if not by the actual words, then by the tone and body language and all those other factors we, as adults, pay zero attention to. And make sure to explain things, take the time. Explain your choices, explain why they have to go to sleep, why they can't just eat dessert forever, why mummy and/or daddy have to leave them for the majority of sunlight hours five days a week. They understand more than you think they can, and they're always learning from literally everything that you do when you're around them.

I'm actually not looking forward to the later teen years for a couple of reasons:

- Girl/Boy-friends and associated emotional messiness

- Their moving out - Empty nest syndrome. I moved out at 18, which is only 3 years away for my eldest.

The 15-year old has always been good at pointing out flaws in our logic when either trying to discipline him or get him to do things he doesn't want to do, and we choose to persist with answering his talk-back to a certain point, but after that it's "do it or else". He's generally compliant, but will let us know if he thinks we've done him an injustice. And I'm fine with that. Don't roll over, but know when you're beaten. He plays computer games too much, but is still getting "good enough" grades and playing two sports, so it's difficult to justify coming down too hard on him for the (unbelievable to the parent version of me) amount of time he 'wastes' gaming. Little version of my pre-parent self. I suppose the gaming keeps him out of other troubles. He also put his PC together himself and has a frankensteined mechanical keyboard with replaced switches and keycaps. Sigh (that's a sigh of jealousy for the time he has to pursue these things).

The 13-year old is the most beautiful human I've ever met. She's so much better a daughter than I deserve. She's smart, she works hard at school, sport, music, and is friendly and nice and unbelievably aware of, and capable of dealing with, different personality types and their social 'comfort' or otherwise. We have a great relationship, she confides in me things I wouldn't always expect. She's the literal example of "having kids is like wearing your heart outside your body". She's more dependent upon parental attention and support than the 15-year old, and not just because of the age difference (maybe it's a gender difference). I'm vaguely concerned about how her transition to real teenage-hood and puberty will change her, but I'm also relatively comfortable in that we've set her up, as best as we possibly could, to not go off the rails.

It's not that I don't love the 15-year old as much, but he needs it less overtly. He's, like, on his own path already, we're just there in case. There was a recent incident in which he actually initiated a hug with me to comfort the both of us. That never happens. But it shows he's still our little dude in there.

Gees, sorry about the rambling on...
Woof. I don't want to upset you, but I don't think I've ever disagreed more with a written argument than I did with this one. It sounds like maybe you (and perhaps those in your social circle) have some very specific problems with being accountable and responsible, but in 35+ years of work I've never once had to have the "feeling of being watched" to "feel accountable" or be "pushed to work." I work and focus because I take pride in my professionalism - I don't need a "focus buddy" to keep me on task.

I wish I could say I was more surprised by the items you raised, but I've noticed that there is certainly a large contingent of EVERY workforce that seems to suffer from an inability to take any kind of pride in themselves or their work, and unfortunately, those of us who ARE able to focus on work tasks during work hours have been trapped in the "butts in seats" paradigm for decades as a result of those individuals. I'm glad to see the market finally correcting itself.
I don't really like DDG's results but I keep using them just because I can scroll through results with the J key.
Nonsense, it’s 32kb what are you even talking about.
> The "content producers" are not interested in the location itself, only what the location can give them, which is engagement numbers on their platform. The sanctity of the location itself is of little relevance.

Amen to that. In most historical places in Italy, there's a blanket no cell phone / no camera ban when you are visiting, and that has been working for decades.

Respect those who attend the place for prayer or admiration, too.
This is so bizarre to me that heat pumps are just now being "discovered" by the US mainstream.

My old house that was built in 1979 had a geothermal heat pump which was a very new thing back then. Today Switzerland has the most heat-pumps per square meter than any other nation[1]. If you have the money here you get a geothermal heat pump and solar.

The fact that there is debate if they even work or they are ugly is ridiculous. The geothermal ones only require a small box in your basement[2] next to your boiler usually. The non geothermal units are cheaper but require quite a bit more space in your basement but you don't even need an outside unit as usually one window is used for intake an another for out.

[1] https://www.homegate.ch/c/en/advisor/living-and-furnishing/s...

[2] https://www.viessmann.ch/de/wohngebaeude/waermepumpe/sole-wa...
https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
Well, it once was also said that serotonin levels were the key factor in depression.

I think it was B.F. Skinner who wrote that it’s a fool’s errand to try to pin behavior down in some physical or chemical matter in the brain. But I can’t seem to remember the quote... must be the glutamate.
> Again, I'm on the outside looking in, I don't work in the field so I'm not 100% sure if this is accurate

It's not. Point by point:

> I've always heard that string theory was an untestable theory

True in a certain light, but misleading. Any theory of quantum gravity is going to be untestable with current methods: the relevant energy scales are just too high. That doesn't mean they won't ever be testable. We might figure out a qualitatively better collider design, or find a way to get useful data from astronomical observations, or find some other clever way around the problem. Or we might not. Theorists would love to have more experimental evidence to work with - but wanting doesn't make it so.

A somewhat more legitimate concern is the size of the "string landscape": (perturbative) string theory permits many, many, many different possible values for different physical constants. It's likely, but not certain, that this is also true nonperturbatively. If so, then we can't use the measured values of those constants as evidence for or against string theory. This is unfortunate, but hardly unique: the standard model, after all, permits infinitely many such possibilities.

> and research on it soaked up a large amount of academic budgets and grant money

Not really. Most physics funding goes to applied research, most pure research funding is for experimental work, and the majority of theory funding is not for high energy theory. I don't know whether most high energy theory grants go to string theorists: it's possible.

> And was ultimately fruitless

Only insofar as all work on quantum gravity has been "fruitless".
There's actually a quite featureful version of org for Neovim: nvim-orgmode https://github.com/nvim-orgmode/orgmode
So your company acts as if they are part of "my" company and does the boring slog of "do you want a new CRM" until they find someone with that need and connect to a CRM provider?
came here for this joke.
For forty years, basically.

The first "tugboat" TeX newsletters were written during the rewrite to "TeX82", so most people porting during that time were basing their variants on the the version written in SAIL ("TeX78").

It's quite fascinating to read and look at. Some from scratch rewrites in different languages, while the core group writes about the new version in Pascal (IIRC the literate programming tools were invented during that time). Old time-sharing and mainframe setups most people haven't heard of. Rewrites in C an Fortran.
And still even that early TeX used there isn't that much different from what's still used today, including the DVI format, Metafont etc.
(Both syntactically and when you see the output)
Not accepting Monero and not having the app open source and on F-Droid are also why I won't even think about subscribing to this service for now.

For a privacy product this should have been there at the start.
Came here to see if anyone'd mention Tiddlywiki. Had a coworker who swears by it, and I'm consider using it myself. The category of "personal wiki" software seems to overlap heavily with note-taking apps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_wiki
I also revived my old dynamic string matchers recently, which don't need any costly compilation step:
https://github.com/rurban/tiny-matcher (in-work)

And with compilation https://github.com/rurban/tiny-regex-c (done)
That seems... wrong? Say Google offers you 2 TB of storage space for 1 year for $100. You're saying that's preventing you from simultaneously paying Microsoft $100 for > 2 TB of storage storage? Or that that's preventing Google from giving someone else 2 TB of storage space for > $100? What exactly prevents both parties from doing this with multiple counterparties?
I’ve had great success with N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC) which brings glutamate back into balance with GABA [1]. The upshot of this is, it’s reduced my binge-like behaviours massively, although I’m slightly more anhedonic than before.. or maybe just balanced now. Also clears the chest very rapidly. YMMV.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6182588/
So cal gets cold?
What are you missing? A whole lot from the sound of it. There is so much variety out there it's incredible.

There's software behind every industry and product you can imagine. Manufacturing, construction, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, many kinds of financial services (insurance, banking, many kinds of trading firms), video games, defense companies of many kinds (weapons, aerospace, ships and subs, cyber security both red and blue teams). You have embedded development, app development, systems development, web development, data analysis, mobile development, back end development. There are people writing code, people testing code, people managing, product managing, solutions engineering, sales engineering. Big companies, small companies, governments, consulting companies. Enterprise product companies, consumer product companies, professional services companies.

Just try something. How do you already know how it will go without trying it? Just work somewhere on something that sounds remotely interesting. Realize what it's really like, not just how you imagined it. And if you like it, great. If you don't, there's a whole lot out there to try next.
Agreed. There are certain topics which for which one cannot find anything resembling unbiased and factual, and it's getting worse as the owners continue to turn Reddit into a sanitised, ad-friendly social platform. If one is using Reddit to find relevant information, they first need knowledge about which subreddits can be trusted, and this is in constant flux.
Do you know where the "don't put hot food in the fridge" idea came from? My thought has always been that if my fridge warms up the compressor will fire up and cool it down again.

The fda seems to err very heavily on the "cool immediately" side of things: https://www.fda.gov/food/people-risk-foodborne-illness/tips-...
You do realize that “I have logs from my deployed desktop apps” only makes things sound worse?

And if it’s professional environment - that creates _powerful_ biases. Essentially, I’ve seen apps with developers acting _exactly_ like you, up to and including the line about logs. You might be the one exception - but somehow I doubt it, and I certainly won’t trust your word on it. Automatically logging desktop activity makes me trust you less, if anything. In particular, I don’t believe you prioritize issues the way your users do. That would, literally, be a first.
As far as i know

[1] https://www.mkdocs.org : Markdown to static web page converter

[2] https://rentry.co : Markdown pastebin

[3] https://prose.sh : Markdown blog, upload post via ssh

[4] https://bearblog.dev : Markdown blog, upload post via web-browser
rageboy.com is still online:

http://www.rageboy.com/

I remember seeing this stuff growing up. I’ve been online for a few years at that point so I got some parts of what they were talking about, but mostly it was green to me.

I think the kind of things that came around in the early 00s after the bubble were very much in this spirit.
How does monetizing a public good for your own selfish social standing to the detriment of everyone else become freedom of expression to begin with? I'd like to know who those campaigners are.

It's a person expressing "a public good" - not themselves - for their own selfish gain. When an influencer runs through a super market recording everyone and every item (s)he's not expressing (it)self. Nobody asked for a review of that place(unless they were specifically invited to that which is rarely the case), nobody asked to be recorded by those people, and most of the times the people this is broadcast to, won't ever set foot in that country or the store.

I think there is bright red line between "I love this place/item and I want to share it with my friends and family and hopefuly I can show it to you in person one day" and "I don't care about this place, but I want all of you guys all think I'm amazing". Somehow this has become blurred.

I once was told that my personal freedom ends when I put everyone else's personal freedom at risk. It seems that people understand this fact only in very few parts of society. Otherwise you could argue that it's wrong to remove a bloodsucking leech from your leg, because you would infringe on its freedom of expression.
And even if you want to use an online account for e.g. OneDrive you do not want to login when installing windows because it names your user folder to an abbreviated version of your email.
Watch out, long term diphenhydramine use is linked to increased rates of dementia and alzheimers. I switched to natural herbal teas like valerian.

source: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/common-anticholinergic-d...
I think this references this XKCD, in case anyone is curious: https://xkcd.com/378/
Hmm, that does not sound right.
So fun story (to me in retrospect).

I had an interview at google years ago where I basically I was asked to come up with this on my own. In my opinion, a terrible interview Q (per Kernighan's blog, linked in original post, it took pike an hour or two alone in his office), and I bombed it. It was either my just before or just after lunch interview and it stuck with me for the rest of the day and I couldn't give my entire focus to the rest of the sessions.

anyways, after it was done, I found kernighan's blog post and decided I should try to implement this in java as it will allow me to even get some practice with things like junit and more experience with object oriented programming as I had been living in the C world at that time). so I did, but I then found this regular expression page ( https://www.regular-expressions.info/) and learned many more things about "regular expressions" that i hadn't learned in school (because they aren't regular) and wondered if I could extend pike's simplicity to them in a relatively simple manner. So I did.

which I created this https://github.com/sjpotter/regex.

Not meant to be "performant" but meant to be educational to me and perhaps others.

Then when I was learning go, I rewrote it in Go. I did things that are not "normal" go patterns (i.e. using panic and recover to make error handling cleaner (in my opinion, if an error path is simply if (err) { return err } all the way up, I personally think panics/recover at the top can be cleaner, but it seems most disagree), but it was educational on how to rewrite my java code to an object oriented style in Go and to explore the limitations of interfaces and how one might get around them (also perhaps in ways that go against what might be considered proper go programming)

https://github.com/sjpotter/regex-go

though now that I look at that repo, wondering if all the work was done elsewhere and then I just pushed a single commit there, might need to go back and look at it
The little 50MHz Arm Cortex I'm using does one tick in 20 ns. Gate delay through old 74LSXX logic was like 10ns.
With goats and bees you could be living in the land of milk and honey.
Regular software while doing "Business" !
Amounts of money.
My dad frequently shares jokes in real life, some of them I've heard more than once during all these years. When I was younger, late teens, early 20s, I thought them cumbersome, "come on, dad! you've told me that joke countless times", now, when I'm in early 40s, I cherish those retellings of jokes.
Or, you know, you could just run an OS that doesn't come with all the bloatware, such as Linux.

I know, I know. Not an option for many for corporate reasons or because you need some Win-only apps that don't work with Wine. But more people should consider it.
> to tame some overgrown bushes by a river.

Hiring goats is one of the best methods to fight bush growth, especially if you clamp the high ones so the goats can reach everywhere. Sawing down on the other hand only gives more sprouts and stronger roots for the next years.
It’s likely.
There was also O&O ShutUp10++, which gives you pretty granular control over what you want to enable or disable: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

For example, I might want to disable telemetry or certain app permissions, also disable the OneDrive integration with Explorer (because I use NextCloud or something else), but leave automatic driver updates on and allow Windows Defender to work.

It doesn't really remove software on its own, but it's a nice tool to have, and even illustrates how certain settings have changed across Windows updates (they just keep enabling telemetry with each update).

Addendum: on a slightly less related note, it feels like Windows 10 is the new Windows 7, a decent OS that people will stick with for a while in lieu of migrating over to Windows 11. In my case, it's because the redesign feels wholly unnecessary but also breaks things like my vertical taskbar (about which the developers said that they don't care because people like me are niche users[1]) and then there was the whole TPM fiasco.

Honestly, the only things keeping me on Windows at this point are gaming (around 25% of my Steam games can run on Linux) and software like MobaXTerm, for which I haven't found capable alternatives (e.g. GUI SSH/RDP/VNC/... client with integrated FTP/SFTP and the ability to split terminals, whilst being able to do simultaneous input in all of them, or disable either with a checkbox, e.g. send input to 7/9 open sessions).

[1] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/vertic...
Going to disagree on Star Wars. The prequels at least had a somewhat coherent story line (aside from the great Darth Jar Jar conspiracy) and artistic direction, the new sequels are... just WTF? It's still blowing my mind what went wrong there. It seems like they didn't have any sort of plan beforehand and just went with whatever they came up with, completely ditching decades of Expanded Universe lore.

In contrast, the MCU is the perfect execution of "how to make a movie out of a boatload of source material". IMHO, them sticking to the lore well enough that the die-hard nerds don't have much to whine was the key decision that made the MCU what it is... but now that the MCU has gotten so absurdly large, it's going to be interesting if they can keep up with that attention to detail.
When I read Rivers of Blood I thought people started owning a location that is necessary to progress through the story and that there would be an overpowered NPC trying to commit highway robbery.

I like these game based experiments of adding real economic elements into a game and seeing exactly where and why it is going wrong because games haven't been politicized to death with partisan interest groups defending their ideology. No, most developers are focused on providing good entertainment and a lot of real world business practices are openly hostile to enjoying yourself which is exactly how many feel about the real world economy but any discussion about improving it will then be thrown into one of the left right baskets, people are more concerned whether something could be called communism or socialism or not than if it is an effective policy that helps both the country and the people.
I follow a lot of YouTube creators who product genuinely excellent and valuable content. They typically limit their sponsorships to one short segment per long video. At the same time, their video descriptions often contain numerous affiliate links, preceded by a disclosure that the following links are to be used if you’re interested in purchasing one of the products and you want to support the creator.

Those links honestly do not bother me at all. I barely even notice them since video descriptions are hidden on YouTube, apart from a few sentences at the top. So how do we make search engines that distinguish legitimate creators like that from spammers who create fake blogs with fake reviews and tons of affiliate links, all using a fancy blog template that makes the site seem trustworthy?
> Besides, why would you think socialist medicine would provide perfect information?

Where have I come even close to suggesting it would? Perfect information, to the extent it can be possible, is a requirement for a market to be efficient. What you call "socialist medicine" is by definition not a market, so perfect information is a moot point.

What universal healthcare can provide is the adequate incentives for providing early diagnosis, promoting preventative medicine, and giving safe and effective treatment. Where are the incentives for early diagnosis and prevention in free market healthcare?

Furthermore, pure free market healthcare provides an intrinsic incentive to extract abusive profit from a customer whose life or wellbeing are on the line, and who does not have the knowledge to decide whether they really need this expensive procedure they are being offered. This already happens to an extent under the current U.S. model. There's no reason to assume it wouldn't be even worse under a completely free market.
You might be misunderstanding what "minimum amount of work" means. The OP might simply be referring the minimum amount of work achievable without overexerting oneself via extra hours, working weekends, under stress, etc. Someone's minimum amount of work can be hard work. They literally said "I will always finish my work in the time it is expected to be finished." So if that amount of time is not satisfactory, it is up to the manager to ask for the time to be shortened- and then that becomes the new minimum.
Since Ubuntu tries to force snap onto (new) users, I do not recommend it for any new user. Sure, you can disable any of that and use flatpak instead, but it seems Canonical doesn't really want that.
> If there was ever a win-win situation, this is it.

Say what? She lies via omission to the parents, forcing them to make an uninformed choice.

Instead of letting a rabbit loose in the wild, they might have sought another home for it, because they didn't want it to die. Your sister's lies mislead them into thinking they can safely return the rabbit.
Then why does spending all day in stupid endless meetings make you feel even more tired?
There's just a ton of libraries around it. I've used Markdowndeep in C#. I forget all the ones I tried (at least 3) before I settled on that one.

A colleague just mentioned this to me a few days ago:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...