skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good exercise for this if you know you regularly overthink is to make a list of your thoughts or concerns and try to prioritize them. Then cross everything off that can hold off or isn't important enough to focus on right now until you're down to maybe one or two topics. Three is far too much. People focus best on one thing at a time.

Then ignore the rest. If one of your concerns bubbles up again, it was probably important enough to reprioritize.
Yes, Pantone and Photoshop are both proprietary. My point is that if people instead used a FOSS image editing program, they'd never end up in the situation where some feature of it they were previously using gets unilaterally taken away.
>net exporter
Doesn't matter, SA sells its oil for USD to everyone else, aka they have to buy the dollar to buy the oil, that's what keeps that fiat afloat (+a huge fleet ready to kill civilians anywhere if you were to not comply)
There's a few, but maybe the most relevant one is that my work probably doesn't really matter too much, and it's not work stressing about. In my early twenties I had some ego about whatever esoteric UX thing was on my radar at the time, thinking it was worth a bunch if time to get right and in some cases even compromising getting things done in time.

Sometimes they matter. Sometimes performance matters. Sometimes accessibility and usability matter. But never enough to really get hung up on, particularly if the person paying you doesn't care.

So the mindset change is to do the best feasible work within the constraints given, and no more than you're paid for, because it's not at all worth it.

Mental health and well being are the most important things to preserve. Nothing else matters as much, not the well-being of others, not charity, not broader social problems, not deadlines or money, but all of those might have some impact on your mental health as well. It's a tough one.

Don't care first about other people, but care about others when you can afford to. Anyone guilting you about social issues is either bourgeois or wants to be.
It's not the magnitude of the change that's unique to this change, it's the rate. If change happens slowly The ecosystem can adapt.
That I could let go of all anger and nothing of value neither ability to do anything would be lost.

That motivation isn't some intrinsic value but a fleeting feeling with no value without rigid discipline.

That there's no value in being what society considers a "good person", just pretending to be one when needed is more than sufficient.
Sure, lobbying rules need to change (companies shouldnt lobby and gifts of any kind need to be reined in; but citizen funded, with cap, interest groups are probably ok).

It seems like the other democratic thing, which is likely more impactful, is that most people don't give a shit about most issues like this. People have much bigger issues in their lives (and on the reps schedule), so there's no real pressure for regulators to changeover this issue vs others. For even more evidence of people not giving a shit, just look at voter turn out.

Edit: why disagree?
Didn’t the Saudis just become the second largest shareholders in Twitter?
> he does not want to relive the trauma in therapy

AIUI, therapy is not really about "reliving trauma". It certainly sounds like this person could benefit from assistance by a professional wrt. managing his stress reactions. Medication is a crutch.
> The lock
ordering rules had become too complicated and this was getting us too many
transaction restarts, so I stole the standard technique from databases

What is the standard technique from databases?
A representative talking to a constituent is an okay form of 'lobbying.' Notably, the representative isn't getting a tangible benefit. Lobbying is broad spectrum and on one end is politicians doing the right thing, and on the other end is corporations making huge donations to political campaigns which is effectively bribery. Lobbying, as it's practiced in US politics, is overwhelmed by the cash that corporations can splash around that individual constituents can never compete with. Your stalwart defense of the practice as a whole is missing the forest for a dead tree.
companies that abuse on call duty for planned maintenance suck. If it's something predictable or plannable, it's not on call. Hire people to work that day.
500k for lets say 50 years means 10k per year (let's say you get out inflation by investing). That gets you pretty far in a lot of places.
Were it be built from scratch earthquake detection is still harder part than message distribution.

"deliver same message to subset of subscribers" scales horizontally pretty easily.
Fwiw Kathleen Booth was one of the featured obituaries in Last Word on BBC Radio 4 this week:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ddyh
Too expensive, too easily degraded by minor impurities in the fuel, not improving nearly as fast as batteries (their main competition). Using rare materials more efficiently would definitely help with the cost problem.
Haven't watched those videos but I do thin, that's an important point. Motivation and interest comes from doing something, not the other way around. This applies at small and large scales for me. I get more motivated to climb if I go climbing a few times, rather than needing motivation to start going. Similarly, I got far more invested in my PhD work after having a few years in the problem space, rather than starting from some passion. Cal Newport writes about this fairly well.
FBI testimony on hair analysis contained errors in 90% of cases (2015)
I think it depends. I have little hope of speaking to one of my national representatives. At the state level, I can get to some of my representatives easily enough.

Edit: Without money, I mean.
> Roundup (glyphosate)

You can buy glyphosate from different manufacturers, under different brand names. Roundup is just one of many.
Boy do I have a story for you :-)

WriteNow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WriteNow was a word processor available for the Macintosh from 1985. Its windows could be resized from full screen (512x342!) down to so small that only part of one character was visible. There was zero reason to support windows so small other than programmer amusement. The interesting thing was that the scrollbars were perfectly usable at any window size, and changed not just their size but their layout to do so. From memory: at a normal size window, the vertical scrollbar looked normal: something like this:

^

|

|

v

At a smaller window size, the scrollbar got narrower, with smaller arrows. This made some sense.

At a still smaller size, the scrollbar shrank again, and the arrows changed shape to be smaller. At this point the window might be displaying two lines of text and the scrollbar was only 20 pixels tall. This was a pointless window size.

At a still smaller size, the scrolling area itself would disappear because the arrows began to overlap. This was a ludicrous window size.

At a still smaller size, the vertical scrollbar changed to horizontal, with two tiny arrows only a few pixels tall, and a teeny scrollbar between them. This was completely pointless.

All of the scrollbar designs were functional.
I mean it redirects to https://igtab.com

So their normal domain doesn't have anything to do with Google, and they're not trying to fool anyone.
Google's SafetyNet. It either has or will have support for hardware attestation. This can't be circumvented by software like Magisk.

Apps will insist that you run unmodified software. Bank apps will require attestation because of "fraud". WhatsApp will require attestation because of "terms of service". Streaming apps will require attestation because of "piracy". Games will require attestation because of "cheating". Every app in the Play Store will find a bullshit reason to require it and the result is we can't use their software if we own the machine, we have to let the corporation own it.
I was trying to enter text into a text field using a button script. Clicked the button and the entire thing just stopped responding to mouse clicks.
Reading about it is good. But. You cannot suddenly experience these mindset changes. You need guidance, if possible from several disconnected people (family, friends, senior colleagues, coaches, therapists, even neighbours would show you hints).
https://dlang.org/blog/2017/06/16/life-in-the-fast-lane/
"Managers want one kind of worker: the person who can solve problems and have a positive impact on the bottom line. "

From decades of experience, I can state this is not true. Managers want workers that will benefit their own career. While in small businesses this might be aligned with 'a positive impact on the bottom line', the larger the business the less likely these objectives are likely to coincide.
> As a sometimes-administrator of Linux systems,

You can have sometimes-availability of services.

> It also seems a bit of a straw man to still be making the pro-systemd side as if it's mostly about boot times.

It couldn't possibly be a straw man because I didn't disagree with the OP nor did I bother misstating his argument (flagged due to pretentiousness but not his own) in order to attack it. It is simply a fact that fast boot was the prime reason for systemd development. The most fundamental goal of the developers' was to increase efficiency with parallel service startup to achieve fast boot. Everything else may be considered feature creep, and without the feature creep, there would have been less criticism and resistance, as faster boot in and of itself isn't necessarily terrible. What is terrible is complexity and increasing complexity, as it will necessarily introduce fragility the more complex it becomes.

For the record, if it wasn't obvious, my post was tongue-in-cheek and supposed to be funny in using false stereotypes to poke fun at developers, whom, of course, I respect immensely, yet by and large they can be a little sensitive sometimes, especially to any criticism of Linux or anything Linux does. There are valid views from all sides, and tribalism is usually not a good thing, yet humility and tolerance are virtues. If developers can't laugh at themselves, I can do it for them in hopes of dragging them along, kicking and screaming if need be.
We store lots of oil for our military. It would not be great to be dependent on Russian or Saudi oil for war.
What specifically helped you? Just the attitude you mentioned? Which is more just doing something and not having excuses etc...

I'm feeling a little lost/confused/stuck/overwhelmed at the moment and nothing really makes sense to me.. in that context the advice would be what? To get offline, work hard and focus, sleep and fitness?
Metacognitive note-taking for creativity
Can you provide a better source? I know about the waste in large nonprofits, but am also personally benefiting from grant-supported research that if it otherwise didn't happen would leave me and a lot of others dead.
People are conflating lobbying with political donations.

Lobbying is talking to politicians to attempt to convince them of something. Lobbyists aren't allowed to give money or gifts to a politician beyond some small limit (exact rules vary by state). For example, in California, a lobbyist can pay up to $10 of the politician's meal and the politician has to pay the rest.

A company can both make political donations and hire lobbyists. But when you see that X company spent $2 million on lobbying, that's not money going to a politician or their campaign. You need to look at the political donations.
The home page is careful to point out that it lacks a lot that would be needed to make it capable of doing interesting and useful things:

> …the software is currently at a very early "proof of concept" stage, requiring the addition of many operations (such as basic number and file operations) and optimizations before it can be considered useful for any real-world purpose.
Everything either indirectly or directly flows from having power over individuals, at best you might have parallel constructions for some just-so fiction.
Burroughs was already doing such ideas in 1961.
Surely it’s not that simple. In Germany, wasn’t it the abandonment of nuclear that ultimately led to the heavy reliance on fossil fuels? I would think that plays a deeper role.
1. Focus on positive thoughts and suppress the negatives ones.

2. Never stop learning, exploring, challenging yourself; the goal is to live an interesting life.

3. Pay attention to details; try to be prefect but accept that is not possible. Think more carefully before you act.

4. Look for your blind spots; learn not to make mistakes.

5. Your happiness should be based on improving your mind/body. Don't expect anything external to you to make you happy: not things, not others. Prisoner's dilemma means you shouldn't count on anyone else to do the right thing for you.

6. Manage expectations (yours and others). If the world doesn't work as you expect, then update your expectations.
I noticed this on the App Store the other day. I searched for YouTube and the first result was TikTok.
This reminds me a lot of Daniel Vassallo's 'Small Bets' ideas, especially this one: 'Treat ideas like cattle, not pets': https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1583480276134809606
I would say they’re inversely related. The more people, the less there is to go around. Even if standard of living continue to go up and have, as a function of the population, the two aren’t intrinsically linked by themselves. However as limited resources become more strained over a larger population, the divide and quality of life, certainly in average, has to go down.

It may not be 10 years, 20 years, or even 100 years away but at the moment we have limited quantities of many resources. At some point these lines are going to cross and it is going to lead to a reduction in quality of life.

Whether or not that will be blunted by trends in developed nations toward negative population growth remains to be seen. Novel technology that lets our resources go farther or allows us to gain new sources via space (asteroid capture or mining on other planets, etc.) could also change the tipping point.

The doom and gloom of Malthusian theory is so far unrealized but I think it is hard to argue that the theory is sound at its base. Whether or not we can keep the lines from crossing is the only thing that keeps it unrealized.
Generally agree. However, you're only describing the way it should work. The other, more problematic, part is when these groups give large contributions to candidates campaign, or even their "charity".
About 20 years ago, Lenny DiCicco's resume came my way. He was interviewing for a Unix sys admin position. Having read Takedown, I recognized his name immediately. We didn't hire him. That's my Kevin Mitnick story.

http://www.takedown.com/coverage/mitnick-timeline.html
https://dlang.org/blog/2017/03/20/dont-fear-the-reaper/

Basically, you should only use GC for small litter, i.e. some short-lived tiny objects, and for larger and longer living objects use deterministic memory management tools available in the language and libraries.
Great news. I always have problem with DNS profile on macOS.

Currently using dnsproxy [1] now since DNS profile does not work on my Mac Pro.

[1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/dnsproxy
Burroughs did it first, in what concerns Java like systems, in 1961.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems
11. The reason everyone we work for sucks is because those who don't suck never call us.

I especially like that one. Me, as a newbie in the industry: "Customer X is a bunch of idiots." Boss: "If they weren't idiots, they wouldn't need us."

This one, on the other hand:

4. The best time to turn it on is before it's ready. You'll get plenty of data to finish it faster.

If it's software, check your backups first.

If it's hardware, ummm, yeeahh, no. Wait 'til it's ready. Trust me on this one.
Which is fine :) Then I don't get $BIGCORP demands for things for my lil' precious made-for-me-but-shared-with-the-world project.
How I make a living working on SerenityOS
Life is not fair and not a bed of roses, never will be.

These experiences make you tougher - in adult life, you will run into toxic bosses, colleagues, brutal job interviewers...

It is important to have a loving family and/or supportive friends who can provide a different point of reference.
>With the EEW having been around for a while at that point, it seems obvious that there should have been an automated system to begin a graceful shutdown of the reactor when a nearby quake was detected.

Uh, just no. First, it was most powerful registered earthquake in Japan which means that reactor survived every previous one just fine

Second, it did shut down when it detected earthquake. The disaster didn't happen because it didn't start to shut down

The failure was because emergency power supply needed to cool the reactor during shutdown also failed due to tsunami.

Like, fuck, at least read wikipedia page before spewing bollocks
Why did they need that screwdriver?
NPM has an order of magnitude more packages than the other language-specific package registries. It has more packages than every other registry put together (including Maven Central, PyPI, crates.io, etc).

http://www.modulecounts.com
This sounds like a variation of "both sides are terrible, so what can we do?". I'm not accusing you of anything, but that's often used by people doing terrible things to deflect criticism, so hopefully you understand why this doesn't come across as a useful comment.

At any rate, I think it's good that people collecting signatures are being paid for their time. If there's something actually bad about the petition though, it'd be good to hear about it.
Distributed.net's OGR-28 volunteer distributed computing project 99.8% complete
Looks great. Should be a big help. Can I check out the code?
Occasion-related giving is madness on a finite planet. It is one of the main drivers of the waste economy. We buy things people don't need and exchange them for things we don't need.

I refuse, on principle, to buy or give or receive gifts for "occasions".

A friend recently had her television fail, out of warranty and could not afford to replace it. I bought her a new one with a 6-year warranty. I bought it on the length and strength of the warranty above all else. That gift was needed and appreciated.

I have no problem giving. I just refuse to do it mindlessly in response to a ringing bell and for no reson other than idiotic social convention.

This is an existential issue at this point.
I don't really know but I think that North America could maybe be self sufficient. I've also heard that it's incredibly difficult to open a new refinery in the US with the current laws and regulations, and supposedly has been that way for awhile.
I know TFA talks about paraquat, but other competing compounds are extremely relevant, because realistically if you stop using a herbicide you're probably going to be looking for some alternative.

If one herbicide is not completely replaced by another (some may try going completely herbicide-free, which has its own very different set of risks), it will certainly be partially replaced by another.

I don't support the "ban glyphosate" movement (for imo it is one of the lesser evils), but I would more easily support a "ban all herbicides" movement... Though I would be somewhat skeptical of the feasibility of going completely herbicide-free.
School-age children struggling with talking following pandemic rules
well, the last release was 4 years ago, and it's in beta. There are 30 commits since then and most of them are bug fixes.

I really hope this one gets more attention though.
You can manually install the kmod and the plugin will that instead of the go implementation.
They’re asking for a list of the more concerning ones.
Don't you need two examples in order to confirm political bias?
It's what if, not a certainty. Most of the decisions rely heavily on the certainty of living tomorrow. Which can be highly probable, but not 100% certain. So, that makes it possible to reconsider some decisions.

Like, should I pay for this expensive dinner or travel, or should I save the money? Sometimes saving the money makes sense, sometimes it does not. But you should never rely on the fact that you will be there to use the money you're saving instead of enjoying a nice experience right there.
I'm certainly at a point where I no longer think things will get better and well I'm skeptical of the entire psychiatry industry, even the slightest chance is worth taking at this point.

Thanks for the well wishes, I really hope in a few months from now I can look back and see some progress.
Taking possession of my life. At some point in my early 20s I realized that I had, "taken the keys.". I was now making myself, and my life, who and what I was going to be, for good or ill. It's always tempting to relate the individual decisions, but they didn't really matter. This was the actual feeling/thought that led to slow, steady improvement.

Being a "physical" person. Again in my early 20s, I let take root the feelings, thoughts that I didn't need to worry much about my, "physical" life. That I could just ignore things like fitness or health. In my early 40s I became aware of just how foolish a decision I had made. As I re-engaged with physical activities, I realized just how much I had missed it, and missed out on rewarding and fulfilling stuff. 10 years later, having the idea and feeling, that I do "physical" stuff, is the number one thing that helps me move through, negative feelings, anxiety, depression. I don't work out everyday and I still don't do very well with eating, but I have the feeling those are things that I engage with, and work on, and it's a huge help.
I want to build an IoT device but own no IP. How f*cked am I from the get-go?
That approach is misguided in my opinion and only leads I believe to a different kind of discrimination and resentment.

However my experience is also that relatively few people actually want this, and it's played up a bit by those that benefit from fear and division.
Yes, completely agree. The sibling comments already explained the technical limitations in detail so I just left it implict in my "lossy conversion" point.
Did someone over at Apple decide they wanted to remind everyone about that time they outed one of Steve Jobs favored lackeys?
If we had proper standards of course it would be bribery. Offering anything with economic value should be considered such. Dinner, cup of coffee, campaign donation, lucrative position after stay in office, drugs, money, gold. All should be treated exactly same and result in extremely lengthy sentences in prison.
It’s agile for companies that absolutely do not want to adopt agile but want to be able to tell their (prospective) employees that they have.
how did you do that there? ive been actually trying out this site and all i get are kids asking for help with their homework
There is no room for the word “but” in an apology.
> it'd be trivial for a bad actor to change them if the files are compromised.

But it's trivial for responsible members of an organization to set-up a continuous, automated verification of the checksums listed on a web page. It wouldn't be practical to do that with the ISOs, directly.

Of course if the organization is lazy or incompetent, and chooses not to do so, then they have only themselves to blame. But if you fail to compare your downloaded files to the listed checksums, that's all on you.
Because of changes in the law, during that dinner the lobbyist will causally mention their client sent $500k to the “Citizens for Some Bullshit the Congressman Cares About”
Bcachefs is one of the most interesting projects going on in Linux kernel land these days, all the more remarkable because it is mostly the work of one person over the last 12 years. I hope it goes upstream soon; with a bit of polish it should be ready for widespread adoption.
Only if you have something nearby that needs low-grade heat, like warming buildings. Waste heat is a diffuse source of energy that's not worth the infrastructure cost of transporting more than a few miles.
Never heard of her before now. Surprising given the impact of assembly.