skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about that. Or at least I'm not sure it requires any one person to spend more than a small portion of their time doing anything that feels like eating frogs.

But mainly, I think the basic thesis is about how we diagnose our dissatisfaction. The very common way is what you seem to be suggesting: You need to get better at doing hard things, it's your fault for being lazy. How do you expect to be able to do anything worthwhile if you are so bad at doing hard things? That is the common perspective.

The OP's suggestion (tweaked a bit by me to have meaning) is that this is all wrong: If your life is mostly composed of things that are unpleasant, lacking meaning, control, and social connection, of COURSE they will be hard to get done and burn you out, and it's not your fault. The solution, if you can find a way to do it, is to increase the meaning, control, and social connection in your life -- tasks will not feel as unpleasant if in a framework of meaning, control, and social connection.

The problem is not your lack of discipline, it's that you are not getting enough meaning, control, and social connection in your life. (Granted, it's not necessarily simple what to do about this, especially when it's how our society is set up).

But I'm curious, if you feel like sharing (or if not these are just rhetorical for other readers, no problem), as to your personal anecdotal experience with the problem with computer games. (which I'd call an "addiction" from my experience, but you may or may not). How did you get out of it? Or are you out of it or still struggling? In what ways has it been about discipline and trying harder? In what ways has it been connected to meaning, control, and social connection in other parts of your life? Has the theory that your problem is with discipline and procrastination and just not trying enough been useful to solving the problem? If not, are you willing to consider a different theory/framework? What things in your life give you meaning, control, and social connection, do you feel your life is full of those? (I do not, personally, I'm having problems with the lack of those and am not sure what to do about it).
It's really not democratic at all. Democratic would be if we all voted about all seats. How am I supposed to change anything ever if I vote about 2% of the seats? Sorry not sorry for being born where I was.

> how exactly are they deciding for everyone?

That's easy - by building the largest cohesive blocs. The rest is divided to small bickering parties with just a few seats each (often just one each), and easy to conquer.
I stayed in an unheated apartment this weekend in the mountains and it was truly cold. We ended up building a little tent over the bed with blankets. This make me realize that the curtained canopy bed may be making a comeback.
Well you did build it. I don't get the joke.
I bought my mum an iPhone (after buying her a Xiaomi phone) because Android is just slow after a while of use. Gets slower and slower over time.
China Evergrande crisis deepens as lender seizes headquarters
It wasn't the "can afford them" that changed my mind. I genuinely used to think "being a landlord is normal" until I had time to sit with it.

While I sat with it, I did become more financially comfortable, but it wasn't the money that changed my mind.

And yes, across all income levels, I do believe making a profit from housing others is immoral. But like, as long as we have major corporate landlords I'm not going to spend much thought on mom and pop landlords. If you are renting a spare room out it's like, "hey, I don't agree with what you are doing, but I understand it."
Problem with 13C in many European houses is that will get mold at 13C. The insulation prevents any ventilation.
That's what the very next paragraph addresses haha.

So the Debug impl for Vec<u8> is just the Debug impl for Vec<T>. Doing otherwise means specializing for Vec<u8>, and it's not totally clear to me that it makes sense to do that. Doing it effectively requires assuming that a Vec<u8> everywhere is UTF-8 or close to it.

I do mention that we could add a '[u8]::debug_utf8()' method that returns a type with a nice Debug impl for byte strings. Kind of like how we have 'Path::display()', but for the Display impl. But that is kind of annoying in a way that doesn't really apply to Display impls. It's very common to derive(Debug), and if the debug impl is only accessible via a method, then derive(Debug) doesn't work. So then you have to write your Debug impl by hand, which is... annoying.

Anyway, point is, it's just not totally straight-forward to bring bstr into std.

As I said in the blog, I think the highest value thing that could be brought into std is substring search that works on &[u8].
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Generalizing North America is a totally worthwhile thing to do. Why would it not be? They all have legacies of colonialism, racism, Western education, etc. Obviously, Mexico is more like the rest of Central America than the US and Canada, but so what? Japan is more like the Koreas than it is like Cambodia.
In reality, corporations hold just as much if not more power over the Internet than governments. Even though a corporation can't physically lock you up, they can (and have, many times) give you a virtual "death penalty" if they don't like you for whatever reason.

This is not OK, and "but private companies can do what they want" really needs to be rethought to reflect reality. We have governments essentially using corporations to get around their own legal restrictions.
I'm making no judgement call here, with respect to the "cardinal sins". I'm only highlighting that we've worried about committing them since forever, unlike what the author is suggesting.
What I don't get is the people on hacker news who argue that what we're seeing in Europe isn't the death knell of 'green grids'.

This happened because we removed base load generation from coal and nuclear and replaced it with gas. The only thing which can turn on fast enough to match clouds movements. Then went and bought that gas from geopolitical adversaries.
Putin, but cutting off the gas without any warning, only showed everyone that relying on Russia's gas so much was pure insanity in the first place. Now, Europe will pay the price for that stupidity. Hopefully, it won't be that high and things will come back to normal in a couple of years.

BTW, I wonder if US is paying attention. It's no longer 1940s when the US manufacturing output won WWII, now the US are mainly people sitting in offices, managing production that happens in China. What happens when the tensions between US and China get really serious? If China decides to cut off US's corporations from their manufacturing base, the US is just a bunch of people in offices sending slack messages to each other... That does not win wars.
> Kiwi Farms very aggressively opposes site users directly interacting with the subjects of discussion. The ethos is "look, but don't touch".

(1) Bullying and cyberbullying can both occur without direct interaction. If you're negatively gossiping about someone in the real world and the target is within earshot, that's bullying. If you bully someone enough to the point they kill themselves, that's morally equivalent to murder, even though our legal system hasn't yet caught up to this reality. What KF was doing was analogous.

(2) The legal boilerplate they put up to shield themselves from liability is irrelevant. It's not about their mere words, it's about the inevitable causal consequence of their policies and content that they tolerate and foster on their platform.
Why is Intel’s GPU program having problems?
You can give it access to your contacts so it'll exclude them, or whitelist specific patterns if you want.
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Thankfully, shit like this will soon be illegal in the EU when the Digital Markets Act hits.

Hopefully they'll plug all the loopholes and actually enforce it.

I don't understand how anyone can defend business practices like this, which are exclusively there for the purpose of platform lock-in.
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Can Rust save the Planet? A Clickbait look at energy efficiency of Rust vs. Node
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/angela-merkel-p...
My office is in a cool (64F) basement. Something I've found works to warm me up is to do a bunch of squats and pushups when I'm cold. If you're able to, perhaps try doing 10 squats then 5 pushups on repeat 3-5 times until you're warm/hot.

I find the warmth lasts about an hour and has the side effect of also warming my office a degree or so.
The FOSSjobs wiki tracks various resources for getting paid to work on open source. I added Ringer there just now, in the freelancing section, which has several other things, but nothing as general as Ringer.

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
I don’t get why RCS has to involve carriers. Apple could implement iMessage without involving carriers, so it should be possible to implement a messaging protocol which doesn’t rely on them (but also isn’t proprietary). By involving carriers you’re making it harder (impossible?) to create a client to be used on devices not on the cellular network. I just don’t see the point.
They didn’t literally mean getting fired for choosing a framework choice and it doesn’t sound like your story does either.

The point is about making safe choices compared to alternatives. Migrating a project without full team buy in and without testing the waters in small incremental experiments is a developer/management problem.
I switched to iPhone a while ago and while, for me, it was a worthwhile compromise to get my data away from Google while still getting a reliable appliance-like (rather than science-project-like) phone, the text entry system is pretty bad.
Err yeah they do know. Everyone just uses WhatsApp.
Money as in the unit of account is something worth nothing, it must be worth nothing to act as a tool to evaluate the differences of value.

This is liable to be debated: but for example, gold is pretty worthless and the mechanism by which it was appraised as valuable, at least the explanation I find to be the most compelling, is the Chartalist position. Wherein the government issues the currency, but demands it back in the same currency units as tax. Otherwise, gold is sort of just a social status luxury good which you pay a lot of money for but is worthless in any other context. Prior to currency you could pay tax in various commodities or as corvée labor - it does however indicate an intrinsic and continuous debt to the state.

Now if we look at the anthropological record the pretensions that people were bartering before the advent of currency disappears, and it appears that it was actually a system of credit/debt - of favors within a community. And that's where the issue arose. How do you guarantee an extension to a foreign party? A traveler or a soldier? And that appears to be when barter was deployed. I think this is an important aside here because it really does underline what money was intended for a guarantee. Of course there are other aspects like portability and storage that also contribute to the nicety of currency.

Finally to the point, China was actually the first known culture and eventually nation to have deployed fiat currency, and it emerged from credit-derived checks. Those debts were transferred from one person to the next informally.

"Tallies weren’t just used for loans, but for any sort of contract—which is why early paper contracts also had to be cut in half and one half kept by each party. With paper contracts, there was a definite tendency for the creditor’s half to function as an IOU and thus become transferable. By 806 AD, for instance, right around the apogee of Chinese Buddhism, merchants moving tea over long distances from the far south of the country and officials transporting tax payments to the capital, all of them concerned with the dangers of carrying bullion over long distances, began to deposit their money with bankers in the capital and devised a system of promissory notes. They were called “Flying Cash,” also divided in half, like tallies, and redeemable for cash in their branches in the provinces. They quickly started passing from hand to hand and operated something like currency. The government first tried to forbid their use, then a year or two later—and this became a familiar pattern in China—when it realized that it could not suppress them, switched gears and established a bureau empowered to issue such notes themselves."[0],[1]

[0] Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_cash
> countries doing it have track record of using it to hide their misdeeds.

And companies don't? Internet companies are media, so their function is not neutral to the existence and function of states. Constitutions all around the world have specific "free press" provisions because the press is not "just another private business" but it has very real consequences for the existence of states. So do tech companies today, but they are untouchable, they enjoy even more protections than free press.

We still live with memories of the liberal internet of the '90s (even though we know it's long gone) and we stick to this romantic view of the intent of tech companies. The scale of those companies is bigger than indivudual states so i dont think the comparison is apt either.
Never assume treason when ideological idiocy is enough.

These are people who don't know the difference between a watt and a joule.
Putin has had many speeches addressed at both the US and the European public denouncing precisely this behaviour by European and western politicians. The very fact that you somehow manage to spin it in the opposite direction puts you more in cahoots with these MEP nutcases than him. Here's an article from 2021 but there have been many more before and after[1]

[1] https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/putin-bl...
Is Algorand not secure? It isn't ZKP so still doesn't fit my above criteria, but that's different. I don't see why this isn't possible. Hard, yes, but impossible?
A lot of people still don't grasp that de-industrialization is already happening. In Europe, major metal smelters, chemical manufactures, etc are already off line or shutting down soon. And the way factories work, you can just shut them down and fire them back up at a later date - they need to run continuously. Additionally, these are not only large employers, but greatly contribute to the tax revenue which support the generous welfare states. It's not looking pretty.

https://www.ft.com/content/46d3c3fb-e79a-464c-afe1-7079d3e4f...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-17/energy-cr...
For those skimming, Aum Shinrikyo is the cult responsible for the Tokyo subway sarin attack. What's often overlooked is that the cult synthesized the sarin gas themselves in a self-made sophisticated chemical weapons lab:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack#Chem...

When their headquarters were raided, police found enough weaponry to fight a small war:

>Over the next week, the full scale of Aum's activities was revealed for the first time. At the cult's headquarters in Kamikuishiki on the foot of Mount Fuji, police found explosives, chemical weapons, and a Russian Mil Mi-17 military helicopter. While the finding of biological warfare agents such as anthrax and Ebola cultures was reported, those claims now appear to have been widely exaggerated.[52] There were stockpiles of chemicals that could be used for producing enough sarin to kill four million people.[53]

They bought a sheep farm in Australia to mine uranium in order to enrich it and build nuclear weapons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjawarn_Station#Aum_Shinriky...

Had they not been caught, I have little doubt they'd have eventually succeeded.
That wasn't a common belief AFAIK among people I talked with that actually knew what they were talking about. They readily admitted the Android stack sucked balls. There are 3 generations of Bluetooth stack that I recall. The first was Bluez-based but offloaded a lot to the vendor as I recall. That didn't work well. The second one Broadcom open-sourced their BlueDroid stack and donated it to Android in 2012. The third is Google finally taking control of it and I hope they had success with it (my info is a bit dated on that front).

Google has had a single Bluetooth stack for quite a while although variable quality vendor implementation. IIRC BlueDroid took over more of the stack than Bluez did so we're talking about 10 years here where Android has had a single monolithic stack.

The main explanation I've heard is that Apple has much fewer Bluetooth chips to support but I don't know that explains it because there's generally not that many chips in the market that all phones choose from (granted Apple is now in-house but still, they didn't use to be).
Exactly. The problem enters the scene when someone begins believing they are smarter or superior to other people, especially when it's rooted in such a superficial quality.

It reveals a lot about the individual behind the opinion, which can be informative.
> A low faction of Japanese people claim to "believe in God" but Japanese participate in religious rituals at a high rate.

Most people in the UK celebrate Christmas, including atheists.
This damn site just got me to buy something, so, well done.
Classic legend. I remember staying in Mamshit and getting a fantastic demonstration from a Bedouin on exactly why this doesn't work. He brought out a tape measure, in order to physically show the difference.

It's mind blowing that the attention to detail is so high, that they could notice a 1.5cm indentation difference - and not at eye level!
10-foot pole: http://archive.today/X5Lkl
I mean, there's plenty of evidence of women saying exactly this all over social media. Here's a WSJ article over it: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-...
I thought I would miss the extra thumb cluster buttons but the firmware improvements on long-press vs short-press to get different keys have made them needless. I much prefer having the big modifiers.

Build quality is also much higher, and the attached wrist rests really help after standalone ones floating all over my desk for years.
Equally anecdotal--I've seen lots of examples of astroturfing that hasn't been caught. People who run social media marketing accounts have occasionally explained exactly how they create their marketing accounts and how they make marketing posts. The account will have legitimate Reddit activity--basically, because somebody will be using it as a personal account. And when someone asks for recommendations for hiking boots or whatever? "I've been using X for a while now, they seem pretty reliable." Anyone looking at the comment history or post history will see what looks like a normal Reddit account.

How much of the astroturfing is called out? 10%? 90%? Certainly nobody thinks it's 100%...
Try shitting on javascript or react in /r/webdev your karma will be heading downhill even though you only speak fundamentals.
According to the survey you linked to:

Phoenix overtakes Svelte’s spot as the most loved web framework.

React.js completes its fifth year as most wanted.

So I’m not sure that’s an unequivocal “yes”.
Nothing really. My apartment is quite warm for reasons unclear to me. Maybe residual heat from neighbours
Buy your date an iPhone.
Somehow I don’t mind this time. I like what Apple is doing and the UX they have been able to achieve so far.

I wouldn’t want to force them to adopt some third party protocol, especially if this is initiated by Google (who has a history of failed text/chat products).
Here you go, a pigeon and cat interacting through a window https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/108961962539795706 :)
So "why" is just "idk" and it seems like the person generating them found her on accident once, and then kept trying to find her again. I'm a fan of a good creepypasta and honestly a memetic SCP that "lives" in the models of AI sounds pretty tight to me. But this ain't it.

I'll admit I was expecting the "why" (aside from SCP...) to be something like "turns out DALL-E gets live humans and corpses mixed up and in macabre images the live humans get a bit more corpse-y due to this".
Ha! This is actually sound advice though. My mother needs a phone and left to her own devices her friends of the same age would probably convince her to buy a cheap Android (which would end up frustrating her eventually), or she just wouldn’t even buy a phone at all.

So I buy her phones. I pay for her service, and I pay for AppleCare, some peripherals and other services that make it useful. It’s the least I could do for her giving me life. She gets a camera too, doesn’t get caught on one side of the digital divide and more importantly, she retains the means of having a social life as she gets older.
I'd argue it increases FOMO, but feeds on loss aversion (no need to trash a "valuable" link, no need to read anything, but a need to own the list forever).
It's not Electron that is killing your battery. It's the software running in it.

Electron is eating your phone storage, and subverting its security. But not the battery.
Ok fair point that their evaluations and conclusions could all still be independent, but simply triggered by the twitter campaign.

But from all that's been written on the topic, there's been very few concrete examples put forward of dangerous content on KF. It seems to me more likely that businesses have simply seen that the twitter campaign reached a critical mass and made the simple decision to cut them off to reduce reputation risk without doing much of an investigation themselves.
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The needle/haystack thing is the crucial part as you say in the blog. Since grapheme, word separation and sentence segmentation rely on rules that are updated on each unicode version it indeed would be out of place in the standard library. Ideally I'd want them (libicu) on the system level, e.g. standardised in POSIX in libc so that language developers shouldn't need to worry about them.
They see that they just laugh. Dude, oh this is going to be easy, I'm going to have to charge extra, too boring.

Like think of all that you do with a computer, all that magic. Dude Stanford CS department in CS106A Mehran Sahami says it's the closest thing to magic. And witchcraft also...eh. Like typing on Dvorak is magic, like the raw speed, the comfort, the freedom of thought stedda the sad fad qwerty.
This was a big issue for me. I got a galaxy S3 when it came out to replace my iPhone, and it was a pretty miserable experience. Way too much need for customization, very few preinstalled apps, and really the device just became a time suck and using it. I don’t want my phone to require a lot of my time.

The iPhone has been really great at doing what I need it to do, without absorbing my time tweaking, or learning. It does have limitations, I wish to God I could get rid of Apple Maps and set google maps as default, but that’s Apple for you.
> Moist air heats better than dry air

This is sort of true, but only because the density of humid air is lower, and thus the heat capacity (though IIRC the specific heat of gaseous water is actually quite a bit higher than N2/O2, which takes back a lot of that benefit). There is no meaningful change in heat conductivity given that the medium is a (highly convective) gas, obviously.

The overwhelming majority of the energy used to heat your "living space" doesn't go into the air anyway, it's used to heat the walls and floors and furniture which make up the bulk of your home's mass. Being able to heat the air around your candle rapidly doesn't change anything, because that air will just cool down when it hits the ceiling.
They seem to have removed BuyItForLife from their available subs