skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me usually procrastination happens in two scenarios:

- the task is too simple which makes it boring to do
- the task is too complex and needs an effort which I don’t want to face so I defer doing it.

Best scenario happens when a task is both exciting and is in the scope ( or slightly upper ) of my expertise
Why bring age into something that has to do with a shitty personality? That could be at any age.
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Lots more earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830264

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830223
There are so many great channels on there! Here are a few of my recent favorites:

Laura Kampf - german maker and problem solver, currently renovating a 120 year old house

Jimmy Diresta - maker and designer, also renovating an old house in upstate New York

Adam Savage - from MythBusters, interesting builds, and interesting discussion of shop and building techniques

Rambling Wild Rosie - former long-distance hiker and interior designer, renovating an old house in the forest Sweden, figuring things out as she goes - very beautiful and peaceful videos

Also loads of great wood working channels: Paul Sellers, Woodworking for Mere Mortals, Izzy Swan, Samurai Carpenter, and on and on!
> Why not be able to change the entire actual desktop that way?

I think you need to invert and ask - why to do all this? You'll get much worse performance, many extra layers when you need more direct access to hardware etc.
He's not dead! His other projects are worth a look. Different kinds of content, but same creative spark.
It is actually possible that the more pasteurized it is the sweeter the taste?
And earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38826061
Looking at flashlight runtimes on battery, it seems like white LEDs (blue with a phosphor) or blue, are much more efficient per lumen than any other color. Perhaps that could be a reason as well? I'd generally prefer green and red.
Reasons AI in 2024 is On An Exponential: Data, Mamba, and More more [video]
I thought it was the direct result of millions of entrepreneurs and businesses willing to put up with onerous regulation to still offer me all those goods and services I enjoy.

By definition regulation adds restrictions and obligations making their life a little (or a lot) harder and closing down the ones who'd rather focus on making stuff than deal with bureaucratic rules.

Still waiting for an example of a regulation which directly resulted in more of the thing it regulated.
A approximately optimal bot would probably need 10s of thousand of hands to be identified as a bot. I mean, the node chance weights are not the same between different bots for the state nodes. The state is probably even compressed in different ways. The variance is way too high. It is not like chess.

The “sophisticated proprietary software, trust us bro” is probably mainly used as a way to not do payouts. Online casinos are really shady.

Winning in poker is about identifying "fish". Being 0.001% better than the other bots at the table wont beat the house.
not only can you out a fake that doesnt steal authentication, but it will be possible to blame someone for a photo.
In a way that means the copyright lobbyists have won. You don't find the list interesting now, but 14+14 years after 1928 you would have. A lot of it would still be fresh in our collective minds. Now in 2024, most of it is dead to us.

What about 14+14 years ago (1996)... can you think of any music/movies from the mid-90s or before that would be interesting to remix? I sure can. But very few people are still going to care in 1996+95 = the year 2091.
US still has the capability for sure. Look at this environment in this country. Most every consumer good produced imported here without having to bear the externalities of local manufacturing or resource extraction like localized pollution and diminished health outcomes. Most money is kept or invested here. Most of the world is trying to immigrate here. Realistically if push came to shove this is exactly where you’d expect a massive buildout to occur. Supply of materials is solved with massive globalized trade networks oriented towards ports in NY and CA. Supply of money is solved from both private investors and also the strings the federal reserve can uniquely pull. Supply of labor is also solved considering how much low skilled labor is available in central and south America that is able to be drawn upon in probably a years time or much less if such job opportunities present themselves. There is also a lot of low skilled labor in this country already kept idle, working service jobs like cashiers in towns that have little other work but such service jobs, in effect the town exists and demands labor yet produces nothing, and these sorts of places were ripe for building out defense industries in record time in the 1940s. We import skilled labor and knowledge workers from most other countries who struggle to offer them lifelong work locally.
> the preferences of the thief do reflect something about the true value of the gift as measured by the overall preferences of the group. Only the good gifts get stolen, and anyone with a bad gift never gets to steal.

I think this is true.

But then doesn't

> Anyone swapped with may swap with someone else (and so on) before the order continues. Anyone who has already swapped on that turn may not be swapped with

load all the discomfort of the previous insight onto the last round of the game?

[Edit: might be a personal quirk, but I'd definitely swap for the lotto tickets. No awkward cheap stuff to tote home! Also, I wouldn't buy (negative expected rate of return) tickets for myself, but guaranteed positive return scratchers? That sounds like fun!]
> People homeless and in poverty

If you think people in China will become homeless then it means you have massive illusion about Chinese culture, the land policy, and the real estate situation.
Maybe I'm reading right past it somehow? I reread the article and was only seeing numbers related to outstanding debts, I didn't see mention of the derivative value secured with these loans.
> Self-help bs. Normal people are too busy with their lives and paying bills , and will not do some monkey dance to "illuminate" your path.

i believe i extract the best out of most people i choose to spend time on. i find fulfillment in the happiness of others. downsides are i can occasionally trap myself in enablement and advocacy.

i have been described as a Light person
There were more real world options. Roller skating rinks, malls (a sign of the online world to come but still real world), water skiing. Also, there was real content in a lot of the older media (Scientific American,Popular Mechanics pre 90s for example) even television news showed some actual news. It just all went from some actual content, expensive, fraught with difficulties to get right (what is truth anyway), to empty calories, cheap, easy to produce, and just more profitable.
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/tags/electric-cars/
Wait, what? Domains can be stolen?
Thanks for mentioning this in a work context. It describes one of my parents, with the results you'd expect.

Do you remember any of the thoughts or techniques you used to shake it?
> often wonder how technology would look today if Netscape hadn’t been crushed for threatening Microsoft’s os dominance

> technologies went through a dark age without innovation until Chrome

IE was pretty innovative, it introduced AJAX (async javascript requests...), web version of Outlook in 1998...

There was also Opera browser, pretty innovative, it introduced tabs, mouse gestures, user styles, no script, basic adblocking... It could run on anything, even phone without MMU.
I keep absolutely everything in a single folder. Saved documents, images, movies, financial records, game saves, it doesn't matter. My hierarchical naming scheme takes care of organization. On the odd occasion I actually need a folder, I just append ".d" to the filename.

I use . as a hierarchy delimiter, so file extensions are just part of the hierarchy, and I can have multiple files with the same name except for the extension. For example, "film.spongebob.png" is a photo of spongebob, "film.spongebob.org" is a note about spongebob, and "film.spongebob.s1.e7.avi" is my favorite episode.

I use org-roam [1] for note-taking and task/time-management. I absolutely require a plain-text system so it either had to be markdown or org-mode. Emacs was the deciding factor, else I would have still been using Dendron [2]

If OneNote is your thing, I'd probably recommend Obsidian [3] over org-roam. Despite it being the greatest program ever created, Emacs is a lot to learn "just" for taking notes.

If you like VS Code, check out Dendron. It's the one that got me into more serious PKMS instead of just chucking notes in a folder all willy nilly.

- [1]: https://www.orgroam.com/

- [2]: https://www.dendron.so/

- [3]: https://obsidian.md/
Omg I worked at a big helpdesk and i would so ignore the process in emergencies. Afterwards I'd have a chat with the team Lead and I've never got penalised for it once. In fact once I even got an official thanks from the company after the customer in question wrote a thank you letter to the company.

This leeway is important. The reason you have human agents is because process isn't everything.
The next big advance after A* is something called [contraction hierarchies](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction_hierarchies)

I’d love to see a “part 2” of this resource or similar that explains those in this kind of Laymans terms. There were some white papers but then I suspect the big tech companies started to guard this research a little more closely once its potential to give a commercial edge became apparent.
Fixed resolution and size? Manual layout calculations? What was the last native GUI toolkit you used, Win32?
Yes, it's HN policy to put the year on. But for 2023, that seems a bit overzealous, at least for today...
> It seems easier to get an EV charger off grid than a ICE refueling. Gasoline relies on refineries.

That's because you're restricting the ICE to gasoline. I believe you don't need a refinery to produce ethanol from sugarcane (ethanol-fueled ICE vehicles are common here in Brazil); I don't know much about diesel, but you might also not need a full refinery to produce biodiesel.
I use this https://www.styluslabs.com/ since it is the only thing that works (offline) in both Linux and ipad for handwritten notes.

It's not as good as One Note but it the best I was able to find. If you have some better suggestion I'm all hears!
What I do find useful is the subject/area, and the author.
Let's Stop Making Each Other Feel Stupid [video]
FYI it should perhaps be mentioned that the deadline for participation has passed [0]:

Team Qualification open for self-funded teams
Sept 1 – Nov 27, 2023

Challenge Kick-Off
November 6-7, 2023

It seems that the challenge ends "Fall 2026"

[0] https://triagechallenge.darpa.mil/docs/DARPA_Triage_Challeng...
Alternate theory: gains are going to smaller and smaller numbers of individuals over the years.

Thoughts?
> Do you have "open URLs with a browswer" turned off in your OS?

But the application works differently. It needs the browser in kiosk mode, which means it should be able to run the browser binary with specific arguments.
I have a suggestion: You could optimize the website to be easily readable and navigable on the Kindle's web browser, and recommend it as an option. I've often found it to be the easiest way to get non-store books on my Kindle. I've also noticed that cover images are handled correctly when the ebook is downloaded straight onto the device, with no need for a separate image file.

A hurdle for this though, is that building a good website for the Kindle browser is a pain, as the browser's support for various html/css/js features and standards is all over the place, with no debugging tools available.
Related ongoing thread:

Happy Public Domain Day - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38833208

Also:

Disney's earliest Mickey Mouse enters public domain as US copyright expires - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830264 - Jan 2024 (162 comments)

January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38823973 - Dec 2023 (15 comments)

Copyright for original Mickey Mouse persona to run out 1 January 2024 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38799484 - Dec 2023 (10 comments)

Mickey Mouse to Enter Public Domain: "It's Finally Happening'" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38737164 - Dec 2023 (7 comments)

Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38678021 - Dec 2023 (208 comments)

Public Domain Day 2024 Is Coming: Here's What to Know - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38586978 - Dec 2023 (6 comments)

The Mickey Mouse Copyright Runs Out in 2024 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36559037 - July 2023 (64 comments)
Leetcode itself.
I don't get ur question.
Conceptually, dbc checks are on states, and hence occur between refs and defs.

eg https://se.inf.ethz.ch/~meyer/publications/old/dbc_chapter.p...

> If both the client and the routine check for the same conditions, the resulting redundancy, when accumulated over a large system, will yield the complexity and unwieldiness that are so characteristic of today's software.
... better check twice than not at all, reason the designers.
Why 2024 will be the year of Augmented Mentality
I have commented below and I would say more but I have to go pay my credit card bill. Real life sucks.
Motors consume around half of the world’s electricity, and nearly all of the power consumed by motors connected to the grid is consumed by three-phase A/C induction motors. Motors aren’t just in factory equipment, HVAC systems have all sorts of motor driven equipment.

VFDs have made A/C motors far more efficient than one driven by an across-the-line starter.
My point was people commiting crimes are overall bad people. Trafficking and selling weed isn't like speeding. You have a massive mental issue if you're doing things that can send you to real prison. Most people don't do these things.
> 20 years ago, at least in my circles, it was ubiquitous.

In my circles, it's not ubiquitous even today.

> BTW sccs was 1972

Many projects didn't use a reasonable versioning system until 10 or 20 years ago.

Before decentralized versioning system, this technique was highly impractical - in one SVN project I worked on, checkout of a branch / revision took ~30 minutes.

CVS tracks commit on individual file basis, checking a global state of the project at a particular timestamp wasn't that trivial / necessarily correct.
Save Wisdom
It's at least partially dead to us because of the ex post facto copyright extensions, no?
For me, I procrastinate to get the reward of making progress without having to do the hard thing that I'm supposed to be doing. It is an emotional thing, almost entirely; I feel low (perhaps for unrelated reasons - I was bereaved of my mother 18 months ago) and so seek quick rewards through "work", just not the work I'm being paid for.

So, I got diverted from a difficult task and spent time doing a task that created a very useful and time-saving tool but which I want being paid for and which I know I can't share because I was doing something other than my job ... it was rewarding in the sense of 'I created something useful' and so made me feel better about myself until I reflected that I was further behind on the task I was getting assessed for.

I found Tim Pychyl's writing/videos and http://www.procrastination.ca/ useful on this topic.
Thanks for the link; I find myself more sympathetic to the corollary of your second metric, that we are at a 50 year low in industrial work, to be a viable explanation; though ill admit my surpise that trade defecits are lower than the early 2000s, that ill need to dig into more.
The alternate timeline I was suggesting didn't start in 1900, but 1973, with the oil embargo.

It seems to me that by the 1970s all the groundwork was there to start a solar panel revolution and that the major reasons it didn't happen were political and social, not technical.

Keep in mind that I haven't done any research on this subject yet, I just thought of it a few days ago and I'd love to hear input from anyone who is much more informed on the subject than I am.
I haven't had the IR remote complication like the article, but for too-bright-LED purposes, I use different colors of labelmaker tape (Brother TZe type) for different cases:

* need blocking entirely (like on my LaserJet, and a UPS) -- black tape

* too bright, but still need to see, and to differentiate colors (like on one of my living room servers) -- white tape, cut to size with hole punch

* too bright for when i use it in dim lighting, and trying to avoid blue light then (like the ThinkLight on my ThinkPad T520) -- orange or red tape

Some of this tape, I would move to behind the bezels, if I had the device open for service.

Black tape also good for covering up cameras on laptops. If I sometimes use that camera, I make it a strip with a folded-over pull tab, and when I temporarily remove it, I stick it poking up from the top of the bezel as a reminder that the tape is off.

For "hole punch" Pixel cameras in the screen, a hole-punched bit of labelmaker tape works, but IME falls off every few/several months. Secondary purpose: when I have multiple phones, different colors of labelmaker tape color-codes their identities on the screen, to help avoid accidents. (Color-coded cases would be better, but the case series I prefer only comes in black.)
Yeah, we did this already.

Few devices other than switching power supplies are designed to work over a wide range of DC input voltages. There's an electric pump which will run slowly on an low input voltage and faster at a higher voltage.[1] Those are driven from windmills and solar. It's not cheap. It has to be self-protecting against too high and too low voltages.

[1] https://www.dankoffsolarpumps.com/product/solar-slowpump/
I'm pretty sure $100 per claimed violation is enough to 1) keep large companies from continuing to splattershot claims against sites and 2) small enough that it _shouldn't_ hurt smaller orgs or even individuals who probably have something near 100% claim success rates, if they do manual takedowns. Again, remembering they recover their "deposit" if the claim was successful.
> That's exactly the opposite of my point. I explicitly say that nation A going into direction X may lead to nation B failing when going into direction Y while it would have succeed if nation A would not have gone into direction X.

I guess I'm confused then because this still reads to me as if you're suggesting there's strictly competing strategies. I get that you are discussing different strategies but to me this reads as optimizing for independent strategies rather than optimizing for dependent ones (which is the usual common way people frame things: look at x country, copy their model; no other nuance needed).

> I would say that you should not provide any "counterfactuals"

I'm also confused because I don't know where I presented any counterfactuals. I know where I said we can't place counterfactuals with insufficient information, but not where I claimed a counterfactual.

Really I'm a bit confused because I didn't claim anything that isn't simply fact, the rest is just mentioning of variables not considered and that this is still an even incomplete picture.

> But you react by opposing their not-deep-details-enough argument with a not-deep-details-enough argument.

Yes. We're still operating from orbit. I'm responding to "look at this island" with "but consider the archipelago." I'm not sure what more you expect, as this is HN. We can get some nuance but even just saying to look in a broader sense (which we haven't even seen everything that's still highly important) takes so much writing. Compression is useful, but not when we don't agree we're working in compression or localized discussions. But abstract discussions can also be useful. The "detail" you're criticizing is different from the one I was: words are overloaded.

> What you need to do is to show the complexity and why concluding while not having a deep enough overview is stupid.

I simply do not have time to write a novel, and even if I wanted to could not do so on HN. I'm sorry, we can only discuss at high levels and specifics can only be localized. But resolution will always be fairly low. I am only trying to increase the scope of the discussion because I have faith in my fellow users to increase resolution on their own time.
The customer service rep not knowing should not have been the end of the story here. It was followed up by a refusal to help once they were let known. Thisnis a clear case where they should have escalated.
Yes, modern computers are just too slow to handle layouting a facebook page, nothing can be done.
Usually we finesse it for the first couple months of the year, like this:

if the last-year post was only a little while ago (say 3-4 months) then we leave off the year tag, but if it was actually quite a while ago, we add it. In this case the article is from Feb 2023, so it's fair to add the year.

Edit: I thought this story had some major attention on HN at the time but the biggest thread I can currently find is:

Volkswagen briefly refused to track car with abducted child inside until paid - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34962563 - Feb 2023 (16 comments)
Can't wait for someone to reinvent java applets or flash and we will have gone full circle.
A Cybertruck with a dedicated combustion engine for rolling coal, now that would be something.
Do you believe workers who aren't hired in a high carbon-per-capita location just die? Or do they just fade into nothingness as you stop thinking of them?
You have got to be a PAYING customer to receive service. Last I checked the cops got plenty of cash!
The fact that that didn't happen in this case suggests VW and/or the third party contractor err in the opposite direction and punish initiative. Sure, the customer service rep should have been aware of the specific policy exception in this case, but the fact that they didn't feel like they could help without a specific policy exception suggests a pretty restrictive customer service environment and prioritizes rigid policies rather than helping customers. Or at least that was the perception of this particular rep.
“Even if you have 90% accuracy”???

You either have 100% certainty you are the rights holder and 100% accuracy, or you’re abusing the system. Full stop.

Give each rightsholder ten freebies per platform or whatever, but they should sure as hell be 100% accurate.
> pixel base solutions are naive.

Why, and what do you mean, and what are the alternatives? Pixels are just the search space and may have nothing to do with the sophistication level of the search algorithm, no? In the case of simple 2d games that can run on retro hardware, searching over pixels may be the best thing to do with limited memory and limited cycles, it’s why they often do collision detection on pixels as well.
State of the Pipe 2023
Laura Kampf is new to me, and right up my alley! Subscribed!

Mattias Wandel for the woodworking channels list as well!
How do it know that an action given a hand and state is a mistake? It's quite rare for a play to be 0 probability in a strategy, so any action might be considered optimal. The tool need to know your "probability distribution" for the state and action?
Which is interesting because he graduated with a degree in linguistics, so it's something he understands quite well.
I think there's such diverse needs in this space, and everyone has a different budget for observability that a single tool just wouldn't make sense.