skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For procrastination - body doubling. It's very effective, easy to test, and works immediately. After an hour, you will know whether it works for you or not. You don't need to read a book or train for it; you don't get better at it. If you procrastinate a lot, this is the first method I would suggest.

I don't know if I have ADHD, but I'm definitely a chronic, severe procrastinator. I've been looking for a method to overcome it for 20 years. Finally, I tried body doubling, and it was like magic: suddenly, I became productive. I immediately made a drastic decision to hire someone to sit with me every day. I was a software developer, so going from 2-3h billable hours to 6-7h/day was well worth the expense. I hired a stay-at-home dad, and we connected every morning to work together (well, I was working, he played games and watched Netflix ;-)

Now, disclosure and shameless plug. Body doubling was such a life changer for me that I co-founded https://workmode.net/ - basically body doubling as a service for chronic procrastinators. It's tailored to people who need it for work (basically full-time body doubling). If you want to give it a try - we have 1-click demo session.

For acute (non-chronic), mild procrastinators, Focusmate might be a good choice too.

For other methods, I recommend reading https://solvingprocrastination.com/
I suspect posting an arguably relevant comment in its original language was a stylistic choice more than a lapse in memory of this site’s preference for English. That said, a more complete post might indeed have included an English translation, an indicator of the source, and perhaps some other context.
In a word, extrapolation. I hope I don't sound too ridiculous, here on Hacker News, but I've kinda devoted my life to computer programming (it's deeper than that, and there's a lot of other stuff going on, but to a first approximation, that's a true statement.) I used to joke that I was reserving a bank of brain cells for that day when it was time to learn Lisp. When that day finally came, I was well prepared and grokked it mildly, but enough to become angry when I saw all the time and energy that has been wasted due to non-use of Lisp. I literally stomped around the house for twenty minutes cussing!

Anyway, I know this is "argument from authority" by some rando on the Internet, so I don't expect you to take it seriously. :)
I’m always fascinated when people compare down.

Are you proud your sports team isn’t on the bottom of the ladder? Or would it actually be productive and improve things if you compared up?
"Give every person in poverty a million dollars..." and you will kick off hyperinflation because you will need to print so much currency to make that a reality it will devalue all of the existing dollars in circulation.
A large part of this is VW taking advantage of the brand cachet that the Polo and Golf have accumulated to move the vehicle upscale. VW then comes up with new brands like the Up to cover the market they are leaving behind.

Honda & Toyota do the same thing -- for instance the Honda Fit covers the niche the Civic used to cover.

So the study should be done on brands that don't have cachet. For example, cars like the GM Vega, Sonic and Spark didn't really grow. They just got cancelled.
Each man for himself. I'm seeing a dog eats dog mentality.
Elitism as the mid-career growth engine
Do you know of any documents similar to what you do that have been disclosed to the public, or is this a sub-industry that us completely opaque to outsiders?
Quite the contrary. The projects last 2~3 weeks.
The true silent creation is the transformation of the creative human being. Creative activity, specially if it is private, will inevitably transform character. It 'cooks' and may even become tasty. This is the actual fruit of creative effort that is entirely personal (though widely shared via interactions) and in my opinion the sole motivation for being creative beyond the pleasures involved. All else is vanity.
I've long fantasized what the story of "Grog, the hunter-gatherer with ADHD" would look like. It's... not pretty.

- Stepping on a branch while hunting because of a fractal pattern in the nearby tree.

- Get drop-kicked by a puma because they spent too much time looking at the ground while trying not to break a branch while hunting.

- Getting distracted and missing their ability to ambush prey.

- Their spear breaking because of a lack of maintenance.

- Spending weeks trying to improve their spear and forgetting to eat/sleep/drink regularly.

- Poisoning themselves/another because they started glossing over the details while picking mushrooms.

Control over concentration has never been solely a modern day requirement.
Just gave it a (very) quick look

> a static site is a site with no fancy clicky things, signups, comments, just plain html

Technically I think you can have comments via some embedded widget. Each page is still static, but there's a script tag in there that embeds a widget into the page that gives you commenting, usually via some SaaS

I think Disqus was the big one for a while. There was one I saw recently that uses github as the auth provider, which was interesting
Thank you for making this! I had the exact same idea quite some time ago but had neither the skills nor the passion to actually create it.

Seeing it come to life has just scratched a long forgotten itch and damn it feels great.
Yes, there are historical issues with that calculation, and field theories in general. I've become very suspicious of continuous formalisms period:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01421

I think many problems in physics will be solved by moving to more discrete formalisms.
The person with the job to fix a particular problem claims problem is super important. I'm sure you can imagine my surprise.
It’s the same picture. You are cherrypicking by isolating rich EU countries from the rest of Europe and comparing to the entire USA.

You can compare Spain and Germany to NY and CA, and Mississippi to Romania, and the same pattern holds true.

This is all borne out if you actually go and live in these places for a month or so. Life in the States is hugely comfortable and luxurious compared to everywhere else.
You walk around and see how people live and that the difference between the worst neighborhoods is much smaller than the US or even France. Another data point is that you will also see relatively little homeless people (compared to San Francisco for example).
I'll ignore the argument that alchemy was a precursor to modern science. An iron man version of 'lead to gold' is that it was never about literally turning lead to gold (which modern science can do).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy

'Esoteric interpretations of historical texts'

From this lens, alchemy becomes a form of spiritual meditation. You can argue that such things are meaningless endeavors. But this is itself a subjective take. What are meaningful endeavors really?

If I want to take a nihilistic frame, I'll strengthen your comment and say it's impossible to avoid meaningless endeavors.

Inevitably one must pick their bias and arrive at their narrative.
I used to follow his lectures, but in the past 3 or 4 years he's become really quiet. I wonder if people stopped inviting him because he always overruns his time limit, or if he's too busy making progress on his theory.
This could be true if the server is using something like fail2ban.
Pretty much everyone that is poor and isn't a first generation immigrant who has arrived in the last two years is poor because of "some life decisions". And some of them a life coach could help. Some are doing their best and really just need a little bit of help to get on their feet, and giving them that help without much hassle is the best you can do. And others are simply lazy, and giving them more money to be lazy is a waste of money.

I'm not saying that some poverty can be sustainably alleviated by cash. But some cannot. Claims about poverty should consider that not all poverty is the same (and most poverty in Western countries (maybe minus the US) is relative, not absolute).
The starting point is always bad before a revolution. Otherwise nobody would revolt. Revolutions almost never turn out well from what I can see. Opportunists will try to step in to grab power, and the masses are easily swayed.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Criticized by News Media for Using Articles to Train Bot
Drops at Juniper – exploring VOQ vs. SQM technology
804 of course: https://youtu.be/NBdMGBT2Wsk
which "evidence"? The one published by you? Or the fact that there were Russian people murdered in Izyum and Kupyansk after ukranians entered there, and for which they proudly posted the pictures of murdered " Russian collaboratirs" on social networks? Or the fact that they dispersed multiple times anti infantry mines inside Donetsk? That they often shell Donetsk living quarters and center just because these are "russians* (in the past they blamed the Russian army for that, but Donetsk people know better).

Go to their telegram channels, and read how they speak about killing Russians, because they are Russians. " Rizat rusnyu".. And before you tell me this is s because if the war, I will remind yoi about the massacre in the trade union house in Odessa, none of the perpetrators punished, and about what was going on in Donbass since 2014.
You are just being fed one part of what happens, and also this in a heavily censored form.
Neat work on this implementation.

The stormworks community has some amazing gyro/telemetry/PID/auto pilot controllers done in LUA of all things. Managing a helicopter in transitory flight with LUA is never something i thought i'd do.
Oh no doubt, but I would put that in the same categorization as "fake accounts" in the sense that the intended purpose is general malfeasance. I.e. connecting not just to boost their own profile potentially but also to try and harvest any personal information you have published on the site.
Frankly, the villain is the tax code.
There are two main ways of representing 3D objects, BRep and mesh.

BRep is the equivalent of a vector image. It has the advantage of having the notions of faces and edges within the representation. This is what replicad uses.

Meshes is the equivalent of a raster image. This is how 3D art is usually made. It has some performance advantages. This is what JSCAD uses.

The reason the example took some time to load is that the code needed to get to the page a first time. After this it is snappy everywhere.
You could do that by directly going to the moon. No matter how you look at it, it makes no sense.
This issue is needlessly confused.

IMHO, police officers as individuals should have qualified immunity. However, police departments and states should not have sovereign immunity for rights volations their agents commit.

Cops aren't constitutional lawyers, and rely on policy and training. States however are capable of hiring lawyers and setting appropriate policy and maintaining training curriculum.
Do any of these platforms provide additional discoverability? I occasionally publish articles, usually of the technical "how-to" variety with a focus on areas that aren't already widely documented. To date I have published these on Medium because if you publish via an established publication like Towards Data Science your articles can get decent reach without much effort. I'd ideally like to move away from Medium but as I am not well-known, without an established platform to provide visibility (or a lot of self-promotion) the reality is that no one would read my articles.
See also this thread[1] from yesterday which has some interesting comments on the limitations projects based on the OpenCascade kernel face.

Mentions an interesting video[2] going through the commercial geometry kernel options and their resp. limitations from the author of [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34856383

[2] https://youtu.be/WvwiH1DOK1M

[3] https://github.com/nkallen/plasticity
I can't properly formulate why but something about this seems like it'd be my most hated class ever.
It’s ok to wish, but don’t you forget that the Dutch government has to solve problems for only 17 million people whereas the American government has 333 million people to take care.

Yes, America can learn from The Netherlands and other countries that are doing well, but it’s also reasonable to acknowledge how hard the American problem is.
Or... The abuser searches "why is my phone bill higher than my total minutes <carrier>" and the results are "Here are the 1 things that count against on your minutes, but don't show up on your bill: domestic violence calls"

Or they call the carrier and ask why the numbers don't add up. The carrier can't say "idk but still pay us". It's more complex than just saying that nobody ekll notice a few cents
Conservatism. There's a word that's lost all meaning over the past several years.

"Fiscal Conservatism"? Maybe. But only if we go back to an older definition of "fiscal conservatism", which is closely in line with "financial sustainability". But honestly, many people calling themselves "Conservative" these days care not a single whit about financial sustainability, at least when it comes to the public sector.
> Give every person in poverty a million dollars, and many will escape poverty and go on to live very prosperous lives — no education needed.

If this were true many lottery winners would have their lives and their children's lives changed forever after winning. As it stands almost every person who wins the lottery ends up in the same place they were before within 10 years.

The skills required to get out of poverty are often the skills required to stay out of poverty.
It may be true that the brain can route around damage to be able to produce language using different brain structures than are typically used for that purpose, but what will never happen (as far as I know) is that the brain will spontaneously learn to produce something other than language instead. An example I gave in a sibling thread is a baby raised next to a forest full of birds: the baby will effortlessly learn its parents' native language, but no amount of listening to the birds will cause the baby to produce birdsong instead. GPT-3 would happily produce birdsong the same way it happily produces sequences of chess moves and other stuff in its training data, which means it's doing something different from the human brain.
This is one of those things where I’ve lived the XKCD comic (https://xkcd.com/793/).

I once had a job where I was part of the supporting technical crew for some very smart people with some truly impressive accomplishments. A colleague and I sometimes groused about the challenges of working with “universal domain specialists.”
That's a user interface problem. Just tie a brand to "whatever antibiotic is on rotation now". Grandma gets used to Activir, but Activir changes active principle every couple of years.
Many years ago, I worked as a short order cook at a chain restaurant. The economy was doing quite well, and unemployment was low. This was actually a real problem for us, because we couldn't hire dishwashers. Turns out nobody wants to do a shit job for shit pay when alternatives exist.

A perhaps generous view of how the Federal Reserve manages our economy is to avoid inflation. A less generous view might be that they aim to keep unemployment high enough that workers are desperate enough to accept shit jobs, and that wages don't take too large a slice of the pie. Obviously this requires less than full employment, such that they actually define full employment as "the highest level of employment that is consistent with price stability".

In other words, one output of the way our economy is managed is that some people are desperate. At that point you're simply stack-ranking people, and claiming that the bottom 3-4% deserve to be desperate regardless of actual fitness. (Never mind that we don't have anything close to a meritocracy.)
The Spanish firm that uses dubious methods to ‘erase your past’ from internet
Matt Lowne plays Kerbal Space Program 2
What can I say other than "WOW"? This is shaping up to be super exciting.
Tech companies have really brought in an era of completely lifeless and inauthentic graphic design. I think we really are in in a sort of art dark-age right now, in general.
Of course there is YC company for this. Too lazy to google it, but how many of the founding team are actual naval architects with expirience in container ships?

Kind of reminds me on the company trying to develop robots to build solar farms.
Photographer captures image of rare fish that walks on its ‘hands’
Some of the organizations I've seen in the US to provide "life coaching" for people in poverty are trying to create those types of relationships. Their logic is that the culture surrounding people in poverty tends to make it harder to do the types of things that would help them get out of poverty.
How do you dry your laundry?
He teaches at a business school - probably loved by the people who take the classes but not something that would appeal to anyone else
Almost-unbeatable AI comes to Gran Turismo 7
_Super_ unpopular opinion; I think ADHD is largely a scam, as this guy claims:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/big-pharma-s-manu...

People react very strongly to this view. I have a theory on why that is, but won't rile you up even further by posting it.

I'm not trying to be controversial, but American pharmaceutical companies have started lobbying European countries governments to get kids diagnosed early with ADHD (as it is in America), and it's terrifying. Teachers are just letting it happen, because; surprise! little Timmy is so much better behaved now that he's on pills, and dealing with 30 kids is hard.
I am appalled - APPALLED - at what law enforcement gets away with and at the most only loses their job. We only hear about killings, but the abuse of citizens is a daily occurrence. I think it always will be because humans are imperfect and you’re always going to have bad cops behaving badly. But we have GOT to have consequences for those folks. And, IMHO, they should be more severe than they are for me and you.

If you want to be appalled as well, watch the Court Cam stuff and look at what they do to people in front of judges no less.

Consequences, man. This is not too much to ask.

This cop should be in jail: https://youtu.be/pkmBbkvqi4w

So should this one: https://youtu.be/VG7NxaW-sdE
Why does it defy the fundamentals of the scientific method? I don't see what fundamentally changed just because that search is deterministic. Given all finite theories are recursively enumerable, and we clearly have enough degrees of freedom to enumerate all such theories, what's the problem exactly?
RDNA2 is a beast, low TDP and great perf, i bought the RX 6600 XT (from ebay ~250) for my VM PCI passthrough needs (gaming) and it never go over 50°C, it's quite impressive

It's even better than the newest Intel GPUs (except maybe for raytracing, but that's a thing for 'tomorrow')
This was posted 2 days ago also (but received very little attention): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34850643
Agreed. Metaprogramming does have it's place in languages like Lisp where it removes boilerplate or hides details that other programmers likely don't need/want to think about. However it's easy to go too far, which is really what I'm talking about. I think as long as you have first-class and variadic functions you can probably live without macros for like 98% of cases without compromising on readability (as is the case with Python). Alternatively, if you have an easy way to, at develop/compile time, identify exactly what a macro/metaprogram is doing I think it's ok, but that is subject to tooling.
Do Java programmers dream of callback hell?

Steele needs to step in here and demonstrate some leadership. He invented Scheme and is involved in Java's day to day engineering decisions, he should be more than familiar with the problems that arise when you let programmers write continuations instead of implementing it at the compiler level.
Why does everything need to be acquired these days? Why do we consolidate everything into a few big companies? Why can’t we just have technology spread out across multiple players.
Ask HN: Will ChatGPT simplify English worldwide towards most common usage?
In particular, maybe English speakers worldwide will start to speak a simplified and more consistent subset of English grammar as a result of using ChatGPT all the time?
Of course it can stay the same? Where the hell do you get this 70-75% figure from? This makes no sense.
After spending 5 minutes with Replicad, I canceled my subscription to Fusion360. Thank you @sgenoud!

Context: I have design and shipped physical products (injection mold plastic), but have found the parametric support in Fusion to be almost unusable, as it's tied to the order of operations. For a recent laser cutting project, I did the CAD in HTML—using JS to lay out SVG elements based on input fields for all the parameters.

Given the above, Replicad is a 100% fit for my philosophy and needs:

• Code-driven, so I can completely control how things are parameterized (and use arbitrary expressions)

• Text-based, so I can work in a Git repo

• Open source & web based, so I don't worry that I'll lose the ability to view or edit old files in the future

• Well-funded core (OpenCascade), so I have reasonable hope that it will continue to receive updates

• Human-friendly documentation, so I can find what I need quickly

Really nice work!
ring 0, the deep ring in a kernel
Legally, Superman is undistinguishable from an object until granted personhood, or declared something else, like property or an animal.
I'm not confused.

Tesla is the insurer. Tesla is also the manufacturer of the insured item.

You are using as proof of the claim, the fact that the group making the claim says they're right. This is big "We've investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong" energy.
I got recruited for DO's technical writing team a few years back but passed because I was happy in the role I had at the time. Feels like a dodged bullet.
It’s a Richcession, Not a Recession. Here’s Your Investing Playbook
But why Budapest? People are doing there fine. All ex soviet block countries are doing fine actually.
This a straw man. The point here is truth and accuracy. Is the US fascist and "very illiberal"? No, I don't think so. Perhaps "moderately illiberal" would be more accurate.

Can the US be improved? Of course! My intention is not to defend the US but to accurately describe it. I don't think fascist is accurate. Above all, the US is large, complicated, and conflicted. Non-Americans like to paint America with a broad brush, but Americans are actually in widespread disagreement about a lot of things.
Artificial Intelligence Suddenly Evolves to Reach Theory of Mind
Something I've been exploring for a while is that tools like ChatGPT are actually deceptively hard to use - or at least hard to use well.

This piece explores that idea in quite some depth when it talks about the different approaches to working with ChatGPT to generate an essay.

I see a lot of people try ChatGPT once, get disappointing results (maybe they gave it a logic puzzle or asked it to do some math!) and write it off as useless hype. I think that's a mistake.
Sure that’s possible, but the problem lies in the fact that to the casual outside observer the two situations are indistinguishable.

Any party with the resources and cause to dig deeper than that (e.g. national agency) will usually also have their interests aligned in keeping any discovered knowledge of chinese proficiency a secret from the layman.
You know, life coach helping a group of those in need almost sounds like a shepherd looking out for a flock... now where have I heard this before?

I really wish we could take the good parts of organized religion and turn them into regular institutions. In our town the local library has taken on a strong community center role but that's just because the staff there happens to be excellent.