skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, decent timing. My last CBT session ended with me realising one of my issues may be a lasting effect of bullying.

Essentially I was trying to find out why I procrastinate, beyond "it's just the ADHD lol"

Boiled it down and down and down until we hit the core of the issue and realised I don't want to poke my head up and ship code/sites/ideas/etc because I believe I'll be bullied for it. In school doing anything that lifted you up (e.g. good grades) made you a target.

The realisation was that that will probably not to happen now. If I do something exceptional at 34 I probably wont be bullied by my peers (or heck, even if I actually was bullied for it.. who cares lol, my peers don't understand the market I work in)

I'd never reevaluated the internalised rule "If I excel, I will be bullied" until the other day.

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On a slightly more positive spin the whole thing made me quite sensitive to deception. If someone is trying to deceive or manipulate me my subconscious might as well be flashing up a Metal Gear Solid exclaim noise for how obvious it seems.

MGS Exclaim for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbeEO58Hlfo
>We live in unprecedented times

Without exception, every person I have ever heard or read saying this has been a moron.

There is nothing special about the time in which we currently live.
My "coping strategy" if you could call it that, was extreme procrastination and putting myself under extreme stress to the point where if I wanted to accomplish anything I needed to procrastinate to the point where I needed to pull multiple all nighters in a row.

I've lost hair and I've gained significant weight from the stress. Adhd medication has probably added years to my life. I can actually proactively accomplish things for the first time in 30 years of living.
Was it intentional to have the pin layout be in the shape of the Sefirot?
Either way, spooky!
>no yearly account fee

Only true if you put no value on your own time and effort.
Heh, I'm sure you're one of guys that always comments how you don't understand how company X has so many employees, and that you could just write the entire app in a weekend. lol.

Note, I didn't say I spend two weeks writing it. If you read the original post you would know that I was doing it to refresh and learn new skills so research and planning went into it to.

You win the Internet today bud, thanks for playing.

edit: Holy hell, you're toxic. You comments are always negative, I feel bad for you man, I do...
Give virtually any human being on this earth an adderall prescription and they will spend the next few months espousing how wonderful it is and how much better their life is.

No shit buddy! It's amphetamine! Put it in the water supply to strengthen our GDP.
Sorry, you're totally correct that "doesn't work" is a poor description of the problem. Unfortunately the failure case doesn't really give me any feedback; no matter what I do, the "Firefox Translations" button in the URL bar remains grey and doesn't produce a dialog. Clicking on the toolbar Firefox Translations button yields empty language dropdowns and a seemingly-neverending "Loading Translation Engine" message. I don't think I have anything special enabled in my about:config, maybe a few small changes, and this issue has persisted since roughly Librewolf 100.

FWIW, the "TranslateLocally for Firefox" add-on recommended by another user here works great for me.
I have a few in mind:

1. Journey into Mathematics by Rotman

2. Street Fighting Mathematics by Sanjoy Mahajan
Sorry, but substack is _not_ what I would qualify as a reliable source.
> Touring is the biggest source of revenue for the musician.

Not since Covid. Lots of headliner-class bands have cancelled their tours the last few months.
man, don't be ridiculous. 'coon' is objectively a long standing racist slur. That some people ("a guy from South Africa", ffs) claimed not to know this or notto have heard it personally doesn't make that untrue. I invite you to go to any black neighborhood in the US and chant 'coon' for as long as you can to determine just how performative the white americans are being. I'll take the short side of 30 seconds.
Not just you. There's a thread about this topic on here almost monthly
I remember being able to do this in SimCopter, but at least as a kid I could never get it to import right.
> current government opinion

The current government opinion is actually often at odds with the police over this matter; they have been chastised openly on twitter by Braverman.

The police force are seemingly acting as a force unto themselves, captured by special interest groups.
For context, look at how ridiculous application processes are in Japan and why even when writing my name "right" it might be rejected (different people):

https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/z8mgxl/comment/i...

> "Just keep sending that again and again. Japanese bureaucracy is just really dense sometimes (always)."

> "A woman working at my bank told me she always tells people to apply more than once because whether they get approved or not depends entirely on who happens to get their application that day."

> "I’ve done similar with credit card applications. Fill in form, get it returned with errors marked. Fill in exactly the same again, get it returned with different errors marked. Fill in exactly the same again, success."

> "Same for when I was switching the name oh a phone plan. Returned it with errors. Had a Japanese person fill it out just in case, came back again. Told them "no". Worked."

> "Literally this. It’s infuriatingly dumb. Embarrassingly. You’ll get different answers for the same thing at different city halls and even different requirements in the SAME fucking city hall by different staff. My friend tried to get married recently and his girlfriends city hall demanded a document he didnt have which he was going to need to spend weeks waiting for. I tokd him to go again and ask a different staff or try his city hall instead. He went to his own and they accepted no problem and allowed the marriage."

> "I had something similar happen but stood my ground. They waffled around for an hour or so and decided to just accept the marriage request and process it. I think they wanted me gone."
I have also a bit of a grug [0] brain, but this old brain has become accustomed to the idea that JIT and other optimisation passes can cram out such an insane amount of inference that it will find the fastest code possible. Effectively finding the hand-tuned equivalent. I first got this hunch looking at the JVM. Couldn't hand code JVM instructions which run faster than Java code. But both the hand coded "JVM assembly" and the generated assembly benefited from JIT passes.

What remains then, is compiling to native. This is where C shines and Javascript doesn't. Because of it's data model, Javascript just can't take advantage of what you could do in plain C.

0: This rambling "explanation" is exhibit A
I mean... it's not that hard to learn. Start a project this weekend, pick it up two hours a week, you'll be a wizard before you know it
I don't disagree, I support the "One Billion Americans" idea. That has little relevance to if I think someone that disagrees with my position should be fired or accused of racism if they happen to think differently from me
That's not weird at all because the whole point of crypto is that nobody trusts anyone. A properly designed crypto system is just a game of incentivizing each player to do the thing you want them to do while assuming that they're all out to screw each other.
the selling point to VCs and investors was that they would burn cash to acquire a customer base and then self-driving cars would allow them to cut their costs and print money. That obviously didn't work out and even if it had the big players like Google or even Tesla would have eventually rolled out cloned delivery programs with their own self-driving tech and beat them

they really never should have been valued as tech companies, they are basically commodity transport companies like airlines who will at best have razor thin margins
Twitter Wrapped
I always thought Twitter should make a Twitter Wrapped like Spotify Wrapped so I built it myself. Hope Elon likes it lol
I'd learn C# and avoid the "extreme OO" approach.

You can write C# in an almost functional style if you prefer, it's a very flexible language.
This is actually really handy behavior to have in a number of cases. A prominent example is temp files. They will automatically be cleaned up on process exit by the filesystem if you open and then delete them. It also helps prevent (not completely, but greatly reduces the window) others from accessing the temp file. you can also use this for intermediate files. Process A creates and writes, B opens for read and immediately deletes the file. A can continue writing and B continue reading until both close their file descriptor, at which point the inodes will get freed.
Why I am learning category theory
You can open files non-exclusively on windows. If your antivirus doesn't do it, it is not a problem with the operating system but with the application.
Frankly, the windows behavior, while annoying in some situations because of badly behaved applications, is much more logical to me and avoids issues like what you described here.
People are used to Unix. I know because I am too; the only non-linux or mac os machines I have at home are the windows laptops of my kids. But yet, on this regard, I think that the windows behavior, while annoying because of badly written apps, it the best approach.
I agree that The Economist has not been declining. I believe that what is really happening is that, at some point, a reader will eventually come across an article where they are particularly knowledgable about the subject matter. To their horror, they proceed to read an article that is “fraudulent by omission”. The cherry picked facts (which are correct) are chosen to fit a narrative. Every article read after this is mired by scepticism and therefor the perceived decline of the publication. This is what happened to me back in 2015 and try as I might, I just couldn’t get back into reading that magazine. I really miss those ignorant days of blissful intellectual smugness though.

It’s like watching a movie where you only ever see the good side of the hero. Viewers do not want you to change their mind half way through or cause them to be confused by the muddy reality of things.
Cloudflare: Adjusting pricing, introducing annual plans
>I was a little shocked about how much was outsourced to avoid a full time employee.

Because in Germany, firing full time employees is nearly impossible, so companies use contractors from body-shops or off-shore work to Eastern Europe to avoid the risks of being sattled with useless employees they can't get rid of later.

I've seen this happen first hand. Many older German SW engineers from traditional companies refused to keep up with modern tech and tools, preferring to coast and do nothing till retirement, rather than learn and adapt, bogging the company down heavily.

One old German dude I used to work with would intentionally break git repos in protest, because he didn't like "this new complicated git thing" and didn't understand why "we can't just keep using Clearcase?", despite receiving numerous trainings paid by the company on how to use git. He was still kept around because he couldn't be fired but wasn't contributing to anything productive. Same with transitioning employees like him to "new" programming languages like Java or C#.

Stuff like this is why EU devs earn less than US devs and why traditional German companies are no SW leaders and will die a slow death.
The quickest "I want to write an application" is probably C#, and then good old Windows Forms on top of that for UI. (Many more modern options exist with various drawbacks).

C# has an excellent system for native interop ("P/Invoke") if you need to write a program that calls a couple of native functions that aren't available as nuget packages.

> disable taskbar tab grouping programmatically

.. fiddling with windows settings, on the other hand, is kind of a nightmare. Either you identify the registry key or you have to go hunting in an endless maze of APIs.
Shocking ! That actual money was spent by actual people who put it on blockchain. And to solve exactly what problem that traditional data systems could not solve?
The problem is the same as it's been the whole time: the people who buy tech, and who have the authority to start tech initiatives, don't understand the technology and don't care to. So they chase fads and shiny objects.
I am not pretending that banks are perfect. But regulations are made so these situations happen as little as possible. In cryptocurrencies, such frauds and gross mismanagement are called an ordinary Monday.
Docker: From $12M to $100M ARR in 1 Year
> At least one thing more is needed to be genocide - some level of being systematic.

The two examples I mentioned were actions by the state. How is that not systemic?
I was self medicating with massive amounts of nicotine and coffee, which probably was worse for my health than ADHD meds.

Before I was on meds I was all over the place, could hardly write code even though I knew what needed to be done. Got booted from company I started because of ADHD/Depression. Didn't graduate high school. All the signs were there. I just started seeing a psych from Stanford and he dismissed a lot of my preconceived notions around taking medication.

I was almost homeless before I started and thinking about working construction. Started meds. Got a FAANG-tier programming gig without even studying for the interview. No harm in trying things out if you're having trouble.

I can take an Adderall and take the best nap of my life which is the exact affect it should have.
I see this as well which is wonderful for us late 30, mid 40 people. But I don't think they mean 60 when they say experienced.
This isn't unique to tech btw ...ageism is all over the place.
Politico.eu has a weekly "print edition" (you can download the pdf from their site) and I feel it's not too far from The Economist in terms of subject matter, and goes into more depth for EU issues. The writing quality isn't as good though. Not sure what their political leaning is.

The New Statesman isn't bad but has some problems: delivery delays to the US (maybe not an issue for you) and lots of "advertorials". The writing quality is usually good. It has a left/labour leaning.
There is no necessity of a gap between "is" and "ought" - the assumption that there is presumes that either things are not ordered towards an end or that we cannot known that end. But that's clearly wrong. See Socrates' discourse with the slave boy in Meno and the universal desire for justice and happiness that all human beings posses.
But how can we do better? At the end of the day, dieting is just hard. Unhealthy food is delicious, and choosing healthier options and eating less in general requires a good bit of willpower.

But I don't see what else can be done. Ultimately, dieting is an individual effort, because only you control what you eat. You can be given all the advice and meal plans and other information in the world, but the hardest part is choosing a side salad over fries, or not buying the snacks you love but know aren't good for you. If a doctor said "take this medicine because you have condition X" and the patient doesn't do it, is it the doctor's fault?
The Economist has repeatedly and emphatically rejected the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. I'm really not seeing any "crazy leak in". Pretty much all "crazy" views I can think of the Economist rejects vigorously.
I don’t think we need to be rejecting it as an option today but I also hope we don’t just settle on “oh that’s just how we deal with it” long term.
Interesting point, I have definitely felt that with the New York Times, especially in terms of how it covers international stories. You can see the angle a mile away. The Economist is even more guilty of this because their editorial style is pretty upfront about their ideology. Every story can be summarized as "more free trade/less regulation would have prevented
$currentDisaster"
I really like this feature that's in the Vivaldi browser that's called Reading List (Link: https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/panels/reading-list-panel/) and it solves my bookmark and tab collecting.

My following question is to gain insight and understanding rather than anything malicious and or any sort of judging.

Questions:

- When you've gone back to a tab that has been unloaded, how often has the site been changed when it reloads the data and or just not worked anymore? If you get that a lot, have you considered saving as a single file html or something?

- In your daily life, do you collect and find it difficult to throw away items that you think you'll need at some future point?

- How would you describe your organization style of non-digital items/goods?

- Since you have so many tabs open, how do you search for the things you care about in opened but unloaded tabs?
Gloria Steinem Lent Wonder Woman a Helping Hand
Life is full of paradoxes too. If you pursue happiness, you'll be less happy. If you pursue meaning, you'll not find it.

Nothing is impossible. Many philosophers/psychologists found ways to find meaning & happiness:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_hedonism
Happiness comes from sudden and unexpected improvements in quality of life.

It's 2022 and at least for those who are living in the West there is no sudden anything anymore.

Einstein theory is more than 100 years old and we still don't know what to do with it except for GPS which isn't really a big deal and could be re-created with mapping + sensors on the side of the road.

We fuck around less and less, hence we discover less and less. And when we do it takes centuries to turn theoretical discoveries into practical quality of life improvements.

We will never be as happy as the tribes who first discovered fire or the wheel. Not because there aren't discoveries just as consequential to be made but because of lack of urgency and too much smarts.

Nature only reveals its secrets to humans when we decide to throw our bodies at it.
Yeah, I only order on the site that's giving me a massive discount.

It's hard to see how these services would viably bring in customers without the discounting.
https://code.onedev.io/ is a good backup plan for when gitlab goes rogue.
Or it means that it's very easy for books to change your thinking. When you spend a lot of time and focus on something (e.g., reading a book) it can have an effect on you.
I went from spending $1600 a month on food to just over $600 by switching the majority of my diet to beef. Turns out I can only eat about 1.5 lbs of food a day when I'm eating primarily beef. When I'm eating an omnivorous diet I eat around 4 - 5 lbs of food per day and eat out several times a week.
> becoming religious just isn't a realistic option

I was thinking exactly like that 10 years ago.

Until I finally realized that

1) people, be it enlightened priests or corrupted believers, have
nothing to do with god nor with faith

2) faith is the most basic and fundamental feature of our human mind and the idea pf god is an ultimate pinpoint of this feature.

So being a reasonable man, i prefer to believe in something ideal and absolute, rather than any other limited ideas invented by specific people (sometimes with bad intentions).
I doubt there is any more upside to bullying than there is to any other bad experience that teaches healthy skepticism.
> And therapy. Therapy really helps. I think everybody should go to therapy

Friends. I think everyone should have good friends they can talk to. If not, then go to therapy.
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a teen and recall being perplexed by the mixed messages of "don't do drugs!" and "here take this stimulant so you can do better in school!"

If I'm going to take drugs, it's going to be to feel good not to work hard. I'm not taking drugs so that I can fit into an insane world's view of what a productive member of society looks like.
Here’s what people miss (for a crowd so anti-MBA, they could benefit from a few online classes)

Where these businesses aren’t profitable at the unit economics level it’s because they are trying to gain share of the total addressable market

Someone who lives in a city and tips generously on orders/rides is certainly profitable, but there’s only so many of people like that and in the current environment, incentives are skewed to be a large high-share company.

So these companies then try and make the service work for people in the suburbs, people who are more cost conscious, etc.

The general rule of thumb for consumer tech businesses is that as you grow, the quality of the incremental user gets worse and more expensive to acquire, but due to economies of scale, that can sometimes work out (a great metaphor for this is the mainline airlines missing out completely on the Southwest/Spirit/Frontier/RyanAir market segment)

So to your point, Uber and DoorDash can 100% be profitable businesses (much to the chagrin of GP), but from a strategic standpoint, management needs to run the company in a way that strikes the balance between gaining as much share as possible without burning too much cash (which leads people to believe that unit economics are broken when they are certainly not).

That’s not to say some businesses don’t have broken unit economics, but anyone who actually track DASH and UBER isn’t worried about whether the core product can ever achieve profitability (they already have), it’s just a question of how big is the market for customers with good unit economics (probably less than previously assumed!)
Absolutely mind blowing result, looking at the video at the bottom is so hard to comprehend there's no human interaction in this besides setting up the 15 gliders.

At 1:57 it even looks like someone draws a line casually with a mouse.
Let's just put it this way, I'm not advertising in anything associated with my professional credibility that I use "lunatic", for the very obvious reason that it's possibly offensive to some people and that the word offers nothing to convey meaning. I don't have to find it personally offensive to not want to associate with it.
Isn't that then constrained to shipping via the app store? Or I suppose sideloading the .msix?
How is a language's ranking on an arbitrary list at all relevant?
This is awesome! Surprised this didn’t exist already.
Analyzing GitHub's Podcast Advertisement
Because those thousands of random people are deeply incentivized to keep the network running, while being mathematically prohibited from doing anything untoward with data you send their way. The "trust" in this case is more about whether you believe the blockchain will be running and usable. The incentives and distributed nature of the system make for a very strong guarantee with more nines than any 1 provider in the world can reasonably promise or deliver.
Interesting article (in French) on the history of "baguette tradition", created in 1987 and codified by the "Bread Decree" on 1993. This decree made it possible to codify with precision the requirements for the milling of its flour and its method of manufacture.

https://levainbio.com/cb/crebesc/baguette-tradition/
I don't believe them to be Ponzi schemes but I really dislike all gig based businesses.

They are bad for the gig workers and usually bad for both sides of the gig in the long run.
I think this is less about the casualties of war itself, but the effects of when trying to move on after the war.

If people die due to landmines many years after a ceasefire are they a casualty of the war?

I think landmines represent a physical device that artifically extends the destruction of war in a time that is way after the parties may have agreed to peace. In that sense, the landmine inflicts death on people with no agency. A bomb dropped on a someone has intent and an army responsible for it. A landmine planted decades ago is so divorced from its original intent that any resulting death or injury feels random and injust.