skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fought RSI for several years, where wrist pain got so bad that I was afraid I would have to stop using keyboards altogether. Went to doctors, did lots of tests, even got various treatments.

I eventually found out that the problems were psychosomatic. The key observation was that when I started reading John Sarno's "The Mindbody Prescription", my symptoms suddenly started shifting from wrists to ankles. "Hey wait a minute…" was my thought — and it turned out that my mind was the cause. I don't buy all of Sarno's stuff, but even thinking about this and considering it carefully caused major effects for me.

Fast forward many years, and taking care of my mind helped my overall health tremendously. Many problems I had are simply gone. And I have a finely tuned radar now whenever something new appears — if it isn't easily diagnosable and attributable to a medical problem, it's likely psychosomatic.

For those unaware: psychosomatic issues are not "hallucinated" nor are they hypochondria. These are real issues, just caused by your mind, for example causing muscle tension or restricted blood flow.

Looking around me, I can see many people whose issues are likely psychosomatic. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to help them, because "no one can be told what the Matrix is, you have to see it for yourself" — you have to be ready to accept this explanation and deal with the mental problems.

Obviously not all RSI problems are psychosomatic, but at least some are, so it's worth looking at.
That’s whitewashing it. The War on Iraq was a crime, not a mistake.
I don't get it. Why would you be pissed if those were the rules of the company you were contracting to? As a contractor you get paid more than the regular employees because you take on a greater risk (such as being fired at any moment without any explanation) and you do whatever you're told. If you don't like it you can always look for another client. My point being you can't have your cake and eat it too. Does it suck sometimes? Yes. But such is contractor life.
Azure/Bing/Teams in Europe service outage
I read it as a form of something almost approaching a call for eugenics: "The common man is such an idiot! If only the intelligentsia could be put in charge of the world, everything would be better."

Your point about putting the quote in the context of the times is well made.
Germany's GDP is 6x Poland's. The average salary in Germany is twice as high as in Poland. Minimum wage is more than twice. It's not a third world country but the person you're replying to is right, Polish workers come to Germany by the thousands every day, virtually no Germans go to Poland for this reason

Expat life is always good anywhere east of Berlin, you probably don't live the typical polish life. I also have a great time when I stay in Czech republic and Slovakia, but the locals make like 25% of my wage on average
Unfortunate use of Swenglish in the headline.

In Swedish, "friskola" means a school separate from the normal primary/secondary school funding system, run by the kommun/council. So it can refer to a school funded by a private company, foundation, religious group etc.

Primary and secondary education in Sweden is free for the pupil or their guardians, it is payed through the tax system.

The current system, in place since a few decades, is akin to a voucher system. I.e. the funding is ultimately via the taxpayer, but through different organizations.
So you're collecting potential ideas for free, and also you need my email to provide me an estimate? Can't do it on the webpage?
I'm a principal and do not use either of those things at all. You sound miserable to work with if I'd get a slap for that.
I don't remember it was such a long time ago, but I think it might have been this book https://www.amazon.com.au/Healing-Back-Pain-Reissue-Connecti...

Interestingly, I got the idea from a coder on his blog detailing how he literally tried everything for his RSI, and wasn't until he tried this approach that it all went away.

Some people (like myself) must fail every single way before finding the solution (because we're stubborn) but this also keenly describes the idea of "the solution is the problem". It's not until we give up, do we actually find what we're looking for.

I think this is what RSI represents for a lot of people. It's such a shitty experience that they literally pour all their effort to try and resolve it, not realising that it's actually making it worse and only until they let go, will it be resolved.
The density of misapprehensions in that sentence is impressive.
I skipped to the ending of the post and read only the last paragraph. Now I I have no idea what the post is about.
> As an email host, you surely have an agreement with your clients that they will keep their credentials secure and not share them with anyone

Why would they? The users can do whatever the hell they want with their credentials
I'm a big fan of this idea and the language looks nice as well. I hope the project sees success
> Sometimes there’s 10 LOC which huge value, but if over the long term the most productive devs at a company are only shipping on the order of 100 LOC/week, progress is gonna be really slow.

To me this belief is a big red flag. The most productive developers I've worked with have all been among those on the team with the lowest LOC count. Writing lots of code is easy: Ignore good practices, don't think through how to generalize components, and reducing boilerplate, and in the process of doing so create a codebase where getting anything done without high LOC changes becomes progressively harder.

In my last job, I spent many weeks on a component that ended up at ~2KLOC. In the same time period, we had several people writing thousands of lines of code each of views and controllers for a number of database tables.

Once my component was done, it dynamically synthesized the starting point for 10x the number of tables let us cut weeks of developer time off the work involved for each model where we now just had to fill in some config and write the occasional custom component to make things nicer. It also let me spend the following week deleting many thousands of LOC of code the rest of the team had written that had been rendered entirely redundant, so my average LOC produced for that period was net negative and cut months off our delivery timeline.

Sustained high LOC count is to me a warning sign. If the code is easy enough to write that you can churn it out at high tempo, odds are there are patterns that can be generalised and wrapped up in higher-leverage components that you're ignoring.
I disagree. I think that you can’t consent to something you don’t know about and certainly not something you don’t understand. This includes every single eula that everyone agrees to without reading. In my opinion that is not an agreement, as an agreement requires informed consent.

Unfortunately our legal system strongly disagrees with me but that’s my two cents
At least in the EU it is.

Explained in detail, here.

https://gdpr.eu/gdpr-consent-requirements/

Consent must be specific, informed, freely given and unambiguous. The user must be able to revoke consent at any time, as easy as it was providing the consent before.

Very clearly the Microsoft "consent" info does not tick any single one of those items.

Illegal.
>Once you've decided to send the actual password,

But you haven't. Microsoft has decided that for you - without telling you.

The more I think about it - that's not even just a GDPR issue, it's blatant malware behavior.
I think it will take a generation gap. Bitcoin people have done everything but try and build confidence in bitcoin. There's no consensus on what bitcoin is, is it a currency? Is it an asset class? Is it a scam? There's no ownership over the fact that it's essentially an operation that turns pollution into money. There's no trust or oversight in whales who own large amounts anonymously who can make large market shifts. Nothing about bitcoin even has any value except that people claim it does. At least with magic cards I can go play a game or a piece of art I can look at or actual money I can spend anywhere to get things. Bitcoin does none of those things. All bitcoin seems to be good for is let weirdos live in the Bahamas in their weird sex cults stealing money from their currency exchanges.
> My point: the 'winning formula' of Apple is laser-sharp focus: have a few products, do them as well as anyone else or better, and only introduce a new product if it is mature-ish and very profitable. (We'll see how the vision headset fits in here)

They also aimed at markets that are ripe for disruption, because of weak competition: The MP3 player market before the iPod, the PDA-with-a-SIM-card market before the iPhone, etc. pp. all could be reasonably disrupted by just delivering a reasonably (but not even best-in-class, specs wise) product with better UX (not hard, in the cases mentioned) and massive marketing. You can't do that in a heavily competitive market that's already full of these products. VR headsets are probably closer to the "ripe for disruption" end of the spectrum, and I think the Vision will probably do well. But I doubt the "Apple Car" plans that have been floating around for 10 years now will ever lead to anything.
Yup, I think that was the book.

Funnily enough, I'm facing an issue at the moment, which I assume is related, but I haven't quite figured out how to resolve.

Basically my body gets really hot when I try to fall asleep and it really sucks, but I get the sense it's related. Like I can't let it go, so it becomes this whole thing, except I'm not quite sure how to approach it in this context.
So, it is basically a failure of non-public schools, and not a failure of "cost-free" schooling.

Which makes a lot more sense. Someone should change the headline, before the discussion turns south...
So that.

Also 1 level parking lots tend to be black, and therefore tend to accumulate heat much more than the field it is replacing.

So transforming some energy it gets into electricity even sounds like a nice side effect.
> "It can't happen here, it'll affect mostly the poors in the tropics, so we won't constraint capitalism at all for it or change our lifestyles," crowd

So, neoliberals and those who keep them in power.

https://chomsky.info/profit01/
Claws is GTK+, so it's not native.
I don't think it is illegal. And they can fire on the spot the contractors who have silly objections about this.

It feels like contractors forget they are contractors...
I understand why people are reluctant. If you donate your organs, you don't get a 'death'—as in your loved ones don't get to sit and hold your hands while you die—as you need to be kept 'alive' while the organs are removed. You die on the operating theatre table.

Another issue (the one that worries me) is that anaesthesia isn't always given, but neuromuscular block is, to stop the spinal reflex movements.

>Spinal reflex movements are common and full neuromuscular block is required. Hypertension and increased plasma catecholamine concentrations have been observed during surgery and attributed to spinal reflexes. These can occur spontaneously or on surgical stimulus and have prompted some to suggest that anaesthesia for organ donors is required.

That scares the hell out of me!

[PDF]https://www.bjanaesthesia.org.uk/article/S0007-0912(17)32173...
Please no, cookie banners are annoying enough.
Bing went down for me about twenty minutes ago, it came back just now though.
Who is advertising though? There has to be someone producing something to sell, and for them advertising is a small proportion of their revenue, and it drives increased revenue, or they wouldn't do it. Or do you think there is an advertisement Ponzi scheme where people mostly advertise advertisement services?
Product Data Teams 101
Future of the FlorisBoard Project
Spoiler, by 1%. And Intel's latest chip is better for multi-threaded operations.

#savedyouaclick
What’s the plan for African nations pursuing industrialization agendas? My understanding is that wind and solar are too low-density for their tribal permitting environments. I don’t see the win in meeting a 2035 target that makes wildly optimistic assumptions about Africa’s trajectory over the next century if it means underinvesting in sources that will move the planet off coal.
It helps catch the most obvious bugs. Like the algorithmic bugs. If the comment string says something and the code does not do that, that's caught fine. But it is not so good at catching domain related bugs. I think that's to be expected because these AI-tools don't have the knowledge of the domain and the hidden assumptions that come from experience in a domain. It could improve in future if the AI-based tools are trained on a lot of design documents + code that solve domain problems.
You can also do it in the gym, if they have one of the "machines" shown at the very right in this picture: https://www.fit-star.de/Resources/Public/Content/Specials/He... - not sure how they're called or how common they are, but you put your lower arms on the armrests, grab the handles, rest your back against the blue ball and just let your legs hang. Then you can do some ab exercises.
Wasn't aware of this rule, has been one of my first submissions.

If any mod wants to modify...

Original is:
https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-krallt-sich-Zugangsdaten...

Deepl-Translated PDF version:
https://www.scamp.de/stuff/heise_windows_outlook_stealing_im...
Do you recommend that the junior staff you supervise use autocomplete and other code generation tools? Do you use an IDE with linting, etc?
The credentials only give access to the users data so they damn well should be free to give those credentials/data* to whomever they please. Keyword give, Microsoft shouldn't build a de-facto keylogger.

* Ideally they should be separated like through OAuth, but that isn't an option for an ancient standard like IMAP.
That README.md is very sparse
What is your definition of seriously? Dvorak has 70% keypresses on the home row, with the best left/right hand alteration approach possible, with ability to switch to Programmer version of it if needed. I don't know what real-world tests can leave all of these features unnoticed. Dvorak layout is a magnum opus of the guy who was willing to arrange the letters in a best possible way for human, while qwerty is a clever trick to fool a customer for the sake of selling typewriters.
That's just nature's incentive to keep up your grip strength
How hummingbirds fly through spaces too narrow for their wings
How China's war against sparrows killed 55M people
> EU's concealment of secret 'expert list' on CSAM regulation is maladministration

What is more disturbing is that there are very few European institutions and companies on this list.
Rare Earths seem to be at the center of a misinformation perfect storm due to

a) the connection to China

b) the connection to renewables

c) their confusing name

And WSJ is a prime contributor to that.

Just someone I vaguely trust doing a series of blog articles by checking some sources and providing context to the Wikipedia article without an agenda would be nice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_element

Some random highlights:

> Through the 1960s until the 1980s, the Mountain Pass rare earth mine in California made the United States the leading producer.

> Searches for alternative sources in Australia, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, Tanzania, Greenland, and the United States are ongoing.[68] Mines in these countries were closed when China undercut world prices in the 1990s, and it will take a few years to restart production

> Significant quantities of rare-earth oxides are found in tailings accumulated from 50 years of uranium ore, shale, and loparite mining at Sillamäe, Estonia.[104] Due to the rising prices of rare earths, extraction of these oxides has become economically viable. The country currently exports around 3,000 tonnes per year, representing around 2% of world production

> Ce and La are important as catalysts, and are used for petroleum refining and as diesel additives.

Diesel additives!
The acquisition seems to be old, Y2019.
I am not sure if you wrote this blog just now or had written earlier and published now. How have your perspective changed about the decision to get acquired since 2019, if it did?
The biggest issue I have with dictation currently is that as I'm speaking it'll type out what it thinks I'm saying and then revise that what I actually said as it goes. This results in me getting distracted reading the words appearing on screen and losing my train of thought.
yet, microservices are all the rage now.

It makes sense when the monolith is very complex to certify, so having discrete parts that are individually certified is more expensive only in theory when you dont factor in the exponential certification complexity. which i guess is high for nuclear related parts.
If you practice it daily, after about a week pushing that to 60 minutes shouldn't be too hard, it's not physical after all. What's important is to have a great setup so that it's super comfy for you to stay a long time without moving: hot, background noise should stay low, use some mat or pillow to sit on, and here you go...
Right, it would be more accurate to say "getting away with achieving nothing". You still need to do the busywork.

Of course plenty of people don't achieve very much, but it makes a big difference whether you're trying to achieve something, or just coasting. (Edit to cynically add: or does it??)
> The current system, in place since a few decades, is akin to a voucher system. I.e. the funding is ultimately via the taxpayer, but through different organizations.

Is it the system advocated by Milton Friedman or is it different?
Heeeey! There's hope for some of you yet
The article accuses others of creating falsehoods, but goes on to create more itself.

> Your correspondent personally likes the AppImage format, which needs no additional frameworks

This isn't true at all, once you step outside the Debian/Ubuntu world, you'll see the format break down as they're nearly all compiled against Debian/Ubuntu and ABI comparability with anything else (e.g. Fedora) is a dice roll and requires installing additional or older libraries.

Curl and OpenSSL are common libraries where the ABI is different between distros and is typically libraries where AppImage breaks down, unless the developer chooses to ship OpenSSL and Curl in their application which is a stupid idea, the Heartbleed bug would of been 10x worse if everyone shipped AppImages.

> Second, you can't build an OS from Flatpaks, so you need OStree as well

Why would you want to build an OS from Flatpaks? You don't see Apple build an OS from it's .app format.

> Btrfs is complicated, and fixing it more so. Git can be really complicated, as its name implies. (Yes, "git" is a word, not an acronym or codename, with an existing meaning.) OStree is Git for binaries, which makes it at least twice as complicated as ordinary Git – and Flatpak is a wrapper around OStree

These complications are completely invisible to the user and even OS developers don't need to know how they work to use or create additional stores for them. OSTree uses OCI container files, which everyone who works with Linux servers knows how to use. You don't need to know how Git works in order to use Git.

> You can also block the Snap API via a firewall, with something like:

Right, so Snap is open because I can block it via the firewall? Rather than just natively supporting multiple repos (or none) like every other Linux package manager that came before, including OSTree and Flatpak.

Then it goes on to label everyone who has these concerns as trolls, what a shit article.
The thing is, it's rather easy to remove this. Even advanced
steganographic watermarks fall to current AI and DSP.
Non-consensual/forced source ID is a fools errand.

OTOH, it's very hard to firmly attribute source ID in a way that
cannot be faked (hashed or reconstructed after the fact).

In other words it's easy to disown, hard to own. Repudiation is a one
way function.

Since we're headed for a post-truth, post-trust digital world the
desirable sides of this seem to greatly outweigh the apparent
"dystopian downsides".
From the title, it's about you.
I’ve swapped back and forth between static and dynamic types a few times in my career. Java and C/C++ to JavaScript (and coffeescript) to typescript and rust. The entire time (30 years at this point) I’ve felt like whatever I was doing at the time was obviously the one true way to program. I feel that now - that what I’ve been doing lately (static typing) is clearly superior. Even for throwaway JavaScript based projects at the moment the first thing I do is install typescript.

I’m spitballing on the reason - I don’t know why it’s like this. But maybe it’s because static typing encourages you to write & plan your types first. When you know the data types, all the functions kind of flow around your types and everything feels like it obviously flows from that. With dynamic typing, it’s the reverse. I find myself writing my functions first (top down or bottom up) and then backfilling what arguments and data everything needs to pass around. I run my code a lot more as I develop it to stop bugs creeping in. And because I can run my code at any time. There’s no type checker stopping me from trying things out.
Ok, now I see how we got here :)

To nitpick, I am like the current authors (by "contemporary" I meant "medieval", btw): it was not a codified right, and that's really the crux of the issue.

If you want to point out that the concept is morally wrong, I think everyone in the world agrees it is, but it's not a very helpful point when talking about the legality and existence of a practice in its historical context.

If we change the name to "legalized rape" maybe it's easier to see this: my first post reads like "legalized rape was never a widespread and accepted custom".

We can talk about the futility of the word "legalized" if we're considering the morality of it (in that legal rape is still rape, and wrong and abhorrent), but in the context of historical practice this is... irrelevant? Rape still existed, unfortunately, and it was likely not always pursued/punished (and even worse, not necessarily for the lack of an indipendent judge: sometimes rape was "fixed" by marrying the girl, which was... a thing until the last century in Italy, and I imagine there were even cases where the raped girl was also disowned by the legitimate husband)
Very Meta
Google is probably not delusional, so they know the Tensor has no chance of being "good" as it is. Why don't you compare the A17 to the 8g3 and 8g2?
A Proposal for C2Y [pdf]
Actually quite the opposite. The EPR cost less per GW than what was announced for these.
Aye, emotions got the better of me.
The irony is, we can do much better today and at scale too. Without the need of any slaves or dangerous labor. It's just it costs a bit, and god forbid someone misses the next quarterly goals.
> That seems OK to me. Why should children who are lucky to be born into a stable middle class family have a large financial advantage over other children?

Are you for real? Because it is not my or my children's fault other children don't have anything to inherit. This is how life works. You do whatever you can to get ahead of other through any means necessary to have a better future. You should not exepect the same outcome for people from different walks of life.

And just because not everyone can afford a house it is not my problem either.

> In my eyes, this is the path to Old World aristocracy. The purpose of inheritance taxes is to reduce this advantage.

So the world would be better if everyone was poor, right? The purpose of inheritance taxes is for the government to steal from your hard earned assets. Just because you're jealous of someone who inherits a big house or whatever will not make the world a better place.
Felt awesome, although the comments could be a bit more "roasty"?

Here's an idea: create a show akin to MasterChef or something similar, then have AI judges rate the products by image. Let them be as acerbic as they can, else who's gonna give those ratings to AI Gordon Ramsay?