skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find that, if time allows, I get a massive productivity boost after 4:30pm and everyone is either winding down or leaving.

The most important ADHD accommodation for me has been a private office (in my case working from home).

I'm insanely distractible—the slightest noise can throw me off, and even the threat of an impending interruption is enough to make me lose focus thinking about how I'll respond if it comes. In an open office, I had very little control over my environment, and so it was impossible for me to keep focused for any length of time. If it wasn't a coworker interrupting me personally, it was a conversation happening behind me, or even just someone walking by and me wondering if they're going to interrupt.

At home, I have a private office with a locked door, and I put on hearing protection over earbuds, which blocks essentially all sounds from the house. I can control my notifications, so if I'm in flow I'm completely uninterruptible.

The other big benefit from privacy is that I don't have to feel guilty when I do get distracted with something. There's no one to see me and judge me for not "looking like I'm working", so when I do lose focus for hours and then get the whole day's work done in a single hour of hyperfocus, no one knows or cares that I couldn't stay focused that day—all they see is that I finished what I said I would. Privacy allows me to use my strengths (working well under pressure) without fear of judgement.
And remember there is no removing/uninstalling this kind of a service short of wiping the entire OS and installing another Playstore/Open Source alternative.
Oh dear God how many times I've had to support that.
I don’t think that the underlying observation (wealthy, powerful people stand to benefit disproportionately from confusion about how society allocates privilege) is ad hominem. Unless being characterized accurately as wealthy and powerful is an insult.

It’s a culture war position in the sense that it’s a response to one.
In my point of view what's lacking is more places where curators that have found interesting small sites can showcase them.

I used Digg a lot for that, StumbleUpon was also really nice for this type of discovery, then early Reddit had a similar effect.

Nowadays? I don't know where to go, I can do all this effort of clicking around to find them but honestly I don't have the time, I'm in my mid-30s, I won't be jumping around hyperlinks searching for breadcrumbs of potential good content... A lot of people are doing that work already, like you, we are lacking a good place where we can pool this curation work collectively so others can discover it.
Wait, you think my post sounds naive but you can't conceive of how to charge the batteries?

With the cheapest, most scalable, safe, and environmentally sustainable methods we have, which are wind and solar.

Batteries have the potential to make transmission and distribution far far cheaper than they are today, because without batteries, the grid has to be able to respond to the maximum demand at any given time, meaning that all parts of the grid are sized for maximum capacity, even if that maximum capacity is used less than 0.1% of the time.

With storage on the grid, we can now delay transmission and distribution upgrades far into the future, which decreases the biggest chunk of most electricity bills: transmission and distribution.

Christopher Clack's grid modeling on this shows a route to by far the cheapest energy models which includes massive amounts of highly distributed solar and beefing up the distribution system to match.

Too many people optimize energy costs without even considering that most expensive part of electricity: the grid.
Don't fall for the HE $400/mo rack deal is my advice.
Sure it does. It's the shortest way to specify a date within a period of a year surrounding the current day... Which means it's a date format that should only ever be spoken, not committed to written record.
> Yeah I wish the Great Books or a similar "classical liberal arts education" would make a comeback,

Being a better citizen does not result (directly) in a bigger economy and all educational institutions are under pressure to demonstrate how they are better at preparing students for the workforce. The liberal arts education suffers for this.
This!!!
ADHD is unfortunately named based on misunderstanding of the prefrontal cortex. It is executive function disorder. Similar behaviors occur from prefrontal cortex trauma. Barkley notes that ADHD stays so named because it is tied legally to entitlements.
It can be a huge deal, making it worth nothing /s
Like others have said, nature preserves are far from untouched. I am pretty sure that small quantities of insecticides and pollutants reach even those places.

I live in an European city, where the decline of the insect population is extremely visible.

The most salient is not the reduction in their number, but the reduction in their diversity.

There are a few species that are still somewhat abundant, mainly some true bugs (Hemiptera) and even mosquitoes can still be seen from time to time.

Nevertheless, in the same place a few decades ago hundreds of species were abundant, butterflies, beetles, dragonflies, damselflies, grasshoppers, crickets, lacewings (Neuroptera), wild bees, wasps and many others that I have no longer seen for more than a decade. Also the centipedes, the pill bugs, the snails and the earthworms have disappeared.

The vegetation that attracted all those insects is still around, so I assume that they have disappeared because of insecticides and that the few remaining, i.e. the true bugs (Hemiptera), might be more resistant to them.
Here is how you find such websites: https://wiby.me
The laws on that have been in place for 20 years: https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/advice_information/exp...
You shouldn't assume remnant means "non significant", just "fewer"/"less than" what you started with. If only 5% of the substance remains (aka, the remnants) is still enough to cause problems, those are remnants by definition, but could still be significant amounts in terms of their (chance of) effects/impact.

Side note, those numbers are entirely arbitrary to illustrate the point, not meant to be indicative in anyway of how much is actually left in the processes above.
Solar does not drop to zero every night if you connect enough countries to the west and the east or your country is big enough. And there's literally always wind because the ground heats up as the sun moves, creating imbalance in temperature and therefore air pressure.

There's enough countries out there that have been using renewables consistently for years (esp. EU countries). I don't understand how this is still a talking point. Daily variance in supply is equalized by trading energy with your neighbors which uses the phenomenon described above: The sun is always shining somewhere.

For Germany in particular it was a mistake to move away from nuclear before coal (imo lobbying is mostly at fault here) but they've been building renewables since the late nineties. It took them the time it takes to build a single nuclear reactor to move to more than 50% renewables and those are much easier (= cheaper) to maintain for the years to come.
Thank you so much @hargup . That's really helpful.
My issue with reading is that my eyes will continue on while my brain has already left the station, so to speak. I'll end up having to go back and re-read sentences/paragraphs.

I started doing some research (prior to speaking with my psychiatrist) and started noticing some ADHD-esque behaviors in my toddler. I'm not looking to get them diagnosed (yet?), because who knows what is "normal young kid inattentiveness and hyperactivity" versus anything else, but ADHD is absolutely hereditary and a family history is one aspect that is/was used to diagnose.

This is a good resource I've read (well, listened to the audiobook of..): https://www.amazon.com/Driven-Distraction-Revised-Recognizin...
When we can explore multiverses we could also look into that.
It is exactly what “acting X” means in English.
5% of the population have the disorder. Self selection may be causing you to see it as very prevalent.
This exact complaint is very common among juniors I’ve mentored: A single meeting can destroy their productivity for hours following the meeting.

The most successful advice I’ve found is to find a way to reset after meetings without using your computer. For whatever reason, they’re emotionally drained after meetings. They get back to their computer and reach for Reddit or Twitter or something for a low effort snack, which then spirals into an hour or more of doomscrolling or distractions. This then translates into self disappointment at their low productivity, which further drives them to seek more cheap online entertainment and the cycle repeats.

So try something else. After your standup, go for a walk. Don’t use your phone. Do some stretches if you WFH or have a quiet place. Whatever you do, don’t fall into the rut that destroys your productivity.
For the context sensitive part, all you need is a symbol table to check which names are for types. I haven't actually done it but I don't think it is hard.

The real problem is the preprocessor, it's very hard to implement, and implement in a standards-compliant way. (haven't finished one either, but everybody says so). And without preprocessor and proper include processing, you simply can't parse correctly because you lack the context of which types are defined (besides missing preprocessor symbols).

Another problem that comes with that is that you always have to parse everything from beginning to end -- including the include files, which can easily be 10s or 100s of thousands of lines of code. I haven't seen a real performant and always correct parser for C IDEs, not sure if one exists.
There’s a difference between your own democratically elected government spying on its citizens and some other government you have no control over doing the same. Not saying that it’s good that the Dutch government was spying on its citizens, but it’s worse when it’s a foreign super power.
Toronto is one of the loneliest places in Canada according to a new report
Yup, I think all the meds for this can succumb to tolerance. A real life Flowers for Algernon. Over the years I've upped the dose, switched meds, drug holidays but nothing has matched how well my brain worked the first couple of years on meds.
FYI this is what it looks like on mobile: https://remram.fr/screenshot20231115101257.png
Why does this author insist on calling all of these people who think LVT is a good idea Georgists? It’s kind of an annoying angle for the article.
But sadly, the permissive ones don't have this ideological defense mechanism built into them. That's why Apple was able to eat FreeBSD for a lunch.

But there are few exceptions where permissive projects can also sustain and defend themselves provided they're people powered and well organized. Apache Foundation is a great example here. Despite being permissively licensed, they're able to build projects and products with meritocracy which is apparently untainted by big tech influence so far.

Mozilla is a another example though their acceptance of Google's royalty is an influence of taint which is pretty much visible in their end product, Firefox.
Indeed, it's hard to discover small websites. While building https://Cloudhiker.net (like Stumbleupon but modern), I collected a few hundred of those websites and people love them!

Also, clicking trough web rings (yeah they still exist), you discover a bunch of cool sites from strangers all around the world. I joined Indie Webring (https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/) and Fediring (https://fediring.net/) a while ago.

Edit: oh almost forgot. I have a few hundred links in my personal bookmark archive at https://bookmarks.kovah.de
I don't care what Google wants, I care about an open standard and ending vendor lockin. Did you think it was a problem when Microsoft refused to release MS Office for Apple as well, many years ago?
At last, I took Microsoft Word to court [pdf]
That's a good blog.
Sadly, Mark Wadsworth (the author) appears to have died within the last year.

Edit: Link: http://www.yppuk.org/2023/03/mark-wadsworth-obituary.html
Skiff is rebuilding its macOS app with Swift, Rust fanatics don't agree
The complex William Jennings Bryan (2007)
there is one more thing that i just thought of that could be changed:

change our society in such a way that having and being able to infer private information is no longer anything that anyone can benefit from.

for example if we get rid of money and measuring profits then the profit motive would disappear.

if we educate everyone to be respectful and tolerant then it would no longer be possible to embarrass or blackmail people. in other words, a society where privacy is not needed.

a world where everyones needs are taken care of and that has an abundance of resources would eliminate a lot of crime.

you can see where this is going. but those are long term goals, and they are not things that are easy to do, if they can or even should be done at all. i don't think we'll ever be able to eliminate the need for privacy or prevent all crime.

so legal protection of private data and punishment of abuse will remain necessary.
They might have tried to be a social network... or a chat app, I mean _one_ chat app.
No Commander. We have not found a single piece of... fecal matter. Live long and prosper.
I'd be willing to do something like this. I'm too lazy to implement it (hence why we don't already have something like this) but I would enjoy something like the following workflow:

1. my firefox browser has an extension

2. if I think a website is interesting, I bookmark it to one of N bookmark lists (which can be arbitrarily categorized, whether topical like "tech rants" or Google+ style "IRL friends only")

3. the browser extension does some API calls to flush/fill each bookmark list to one or more of publicly accessible websites like my github bio, my HN profile, my blog listicles for one or more federated bookmarks, publishes an RSS entry, whatever

This approach does not require an account (except that I give the browser extension credentials/tokens to wherever it publishes), and it results in one-click blogroll sharing.

PS: the problem with this is the temptation for feature bloat.

Feature 2: on known websites with user profiles like HN, reddit, github, check the user profile for all users on the page and list out discovered shared blogrolls by username

Feature 3: reports such as 'most shared blogroll links' based on your own personal browsing history, calculated offline in your browser

Feature 4: ability to block blogroll links with a comment as to why you do so

Feature 5: ability to share your blocks with a given blogroll list

Feature 6: ability to follow shared blogroll link blocks from other blogroll lists, then editorialize that shared list yourself

Feature 7: ability to share your editorialized block list with others who trust you more than whoever you are editorializing

...and so on.

Though I'm pretty sure I'm reinventing lots of lost features from the web of trust and semantic web era.
Look, it’s either this or the whole FBI. Take it or leave it.

Speaking of warrants, I’d like to start seeing judges held accountable for “bad warrants”, the rubber-stamp problem is real.
In the US? EEOC would like to have a word with your employer.
You are, of course, free to ignore German law and its definitions, but that doesn't change the fact who actually was a Chancellor and who was not. Chancellor is a very well defined role.
The Hart Island public cemetery, at the end of the article, is a morbidly interesting tangent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Island
Where do you (or curl) draw the line of what is a different OS though? Because I can imagine that on a low enough level they may be the same, work the same, etc. Same kernel, CPU architectures, etc. That is, how much code in (in this case) curl is specific to iOS and WatchOS?
I use pinboard.in. Works fine for me.

But saving tags--what was called folksonomies at one point--never really became a mainstream way of sharing links as opposed to just bookmarking them for your own use.

At the end of the day, a lot of this is lamenting that a hand-curated Internet doesn't scale.
> Is this ethical? It isn't obvious to me that it's not - I think most people writing on a public site realize their writing is public, and thew fact we see common warnings about not posting personal information shows that is true. It's not clear it violates privacy expectations either - even if some people don't like it.

People are clearly aware of the fact that it's possible to monitor their movements from space, therefore it's not unethical to launch 1,000,000 satellites to continuously monitor all movement on every square inch of the Earth.

Somehow I don't think this really follows. The constant mistake I see in these kinds of threads is thinking that "scale" in and of itself has no bearing on ethical arguments. This is obviously false; 1 person pissing in a local river is not a big deal, millions of people doing it is a problem, and genocide is clearly worse than murder.
> Having written these thoughts out I now realize your statement presumes we can ever (and always) meet 100% of electricity demand with wind/solar/hydro in the first place.

If you don't believe that we can meet our needs with wind/solar/hydro/batteries, then you haven't bothered to study the problem at all.

There's soooo much literature out there on how to do this.

And even without 100%, getting to 90% wind/solar is super cheap and deployable today, and by the time we spend the 15+ years deploying that, we will have tons of new tech to deal with the remains few percent.

Even France never got to 100% nuclear carbon free power, why not do the cheap thing to get to better than France levels of low carbon energy?
> looking for initialisms, not acronyms

Imprecise wording, initialisms are a case of acronyms, it's not either or.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/page/abbreviations-acronyms-initia...

"an initialism is an acronym that is pronounced as individual letters"

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/abbreviat...

"As such, acronyms are initialisms."
URLs are not strictly technological oddities. Their closest equivalents are footnotes/citations.

Marginalizing URLs as something that only "people with technical skills" do (and/or should?) care about is no different from any other phenomenon where you take some boring, everyday, mostly unremarkable practice that doesn't involve the use of a computer and then change it where the moment someone gets a whiff of the presence of a computer in the pipeline they throw up their hands and say, "I don't know"/"I don't get this"/"I'm not a computer person".

It's really the doing of both non-technical people and technical people in and adjacent to the modern software industry alike that most people consider URLs gobbledygook instead of what they are: identifiers for a given work. It's especially perverse that the practices of both classes are responsible for most URLs being unsuitable for use Works Cited pages. That could definitely use some fixing, but we do such a poor job (in the US at least) already at explaining, during high school when it's supposed to be covered, the value of proper sourcing and citing that even smart kids come away thinking in terms of superficialities like the rigidity of formats and citation style rather than the actual fundamentals of scholarship. URLs are not exceptional in that regard.
Perhaps the issue then is the hyperindividualisation after the atomisation of society.

To my mind it's not perfectly rational to maximise my personal wellbeing and wealth in detriment of others, maybe I have a collectivist sense higher than others, maybe we should instill that across societies.

The 20th century went too far with the me-first approach, we can see it's not really working for societies.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2839459/#:~:tex.... O.o
Surprised this is legal (in spirit of law) as it’s clearly anti competitive towards new entrants
The blog post simply links to a scanned 1991 document from the major anti-nuclear players laying out their strategy. It includes folks like Ralph Nader.

ICYMI: https://atomicinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/Antinuclear-st...

Given the absolutely massive popularity of the antinuclear movement, the fringe belief is actually to think the legal intervenors that came out of it had negligible impact.

Germany for example had a 100% complete fast breeder reactor called SNR-300, designed to provide sustainable low carbon 24/7 energy for decades. Before it could turn on for the first time, protestors rioted. They never turned it on. Today it's an amusement park. Now that is impact.
If you own a farm in a city or area with high housing demand, yes, I think it would. (edit: and I'm not meaning this to be a sarcastic response -- there are urban farms).
We have good record of when "I accidentally" started. Circa 2008.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally

"LOL" goes back to IRC so at least 1980s or so.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/LOL#cite_note-mcculloch-1
I grew up in Fairhope, Alabama which was established as a single tax colony inspired by the theories of Henry George. One of the most interesting things to me is that on the bay, you can have two houses next to each other, both for sale and both equivalent in terms of house quality. One house happens to be on colony land and the other is not, so when you buy one house you own the land, but the other you get the 99 year lease. What I find interesting is that there is little to no difference in price between the two. The market prices the 99 year lease the same as owning the land. Just an interesting tidbit about this in practice that I have always found counter-intuitive.
Roc [pdf]
Good point, yes - if I'm surprised to see this turn of phrase in the NYT, and yet I implicitly assume everybody knows what it means, then maybe I shouldn't have been surprised in the first place.
Just like you said - being surrounded by interesting people on interesting platforms who are likely to create small websites, we occasionally stumble across a link in a walled garden profile.

For the average internet user, small websites don't exist. Very few Instagram and TikTok profiles feature links to handcrafted sites. Google increasingly funnels all queries to the same 500 giant SEO'd sites.
Great, then you'll have no issue if the government hands me the rights to a band around 430 THz then (red visible light)? You'll soon forget that you used to be able to own red stuff.
I wonder how a rent-stabilised hotel room works and how they came to be. Maybe it's obvious to an American person what it means?
It's like asking if it's better to learn to code or to write on MS words. It entirely depends on your use case
There is actual research on this. So n>>1.
Feature not a big in my book. A linked list is almost never the right answer. Certainly shouldn't be the default.
Not in the way we experience it - their nervous systems are much simpler than a mammals.

The experience of pain is thought to be related to how complex the brain/nervous system of the animal is. Many animals will respond to being poked/prodded but the response is more of an involuntary reflex than anything else - this is called nociception. There's no conscience "experience" here.

Mammals also experience nociception, but the associated "anguish" is not believed to be prevalent in most animals.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6790384/

Basically: The mammalian experience of pain is thought to be somewhat unique. There's always exceptions of course (Octopus are thought to have complex pain experience).