mr_gibbins

This is RBAR by any other name.

An extraordinarily arrogant approach to presenting a project.

The TEXT datatype is deprecated in most RDBMSs. A minor and insignificant point but following the 'remove the brown M&Ms' rider principle, it makes me question the integrity of everything else, especially given the insults in the readme and lack of professionalism throughout.

The number of times I mis-spelt Stonebraker in my Ph.D thesis... An absolute pioneer. I'm glad he's still around and active - sadly unlike many of his late contemporaries.

5-stage recruitment process too, including referencing! And no salary indication.

How about finishing Azure first

I agree, doing things to prevent a penalty is probably worse than classic positive reinforcement/conditioning, doing things to get a reward. It's not healthy in the long-term.

However some things are generally pretty awful (such as standups) and don't really have a positive outcome that's easy to focus on and identify as a reward - not in my place of work anyway, YMMV!

So yes, in this case I could go because it's my duty (and try to feel proud of that!) but arguably forcing myself to turn up by focusing on what happens if I don't is also pretty effective, and is basically just like jump-starting a car - as other commenters have noted, merely beginning the undesirable thing is the biggest hurdle.

Thank you, this is news to me, I've been using the 'Learn French with Alexa' series on YT, plus a French dictionary and some magazines etc. I'll check it out!

When I procrastinate, it stems from the thought, 'I don't really want to do this (right now|at all)'.

So one way to jump that hurdle is consider the consequences of not doing it, and how that makes me feel. For example, learning French. I would like to speak French. The consequence of not putting in the hours conjugating verbs means I will not be able to speak French. That makes me sad. I consider that sadness, and conclude I would prefer to spend the next hour reinforcing my knowledge of the passe compose of avoir. That is better than feeling sad.

Some consequences are not obvious, but cumulative. I don't really want to go to the stand-up meeting. What happens if I don't go today? Probably not much. But what happens if I don't go for the rest of the week, or my attendance is patchy? It'll be noticed, and I'll have to explain why I am not on the calls. The thought of the explanation makes me uncomfortable, more uncomfortable than going to the calls. Therefore I go to the calls.

Where this technique is powerful is that it enables me to filter out those activities where there is no obvious consequence of not doing the thing, which means the activities that remain on my daily list are generally pretty important.

What I find interesting is that on HN, downvoting doesn't seem to have a negative impact, not as much as Reddit anyway. And I wonder if that's because folks who use HN really care about HN - I do - and make a good-faith, concerted effort to contribute in a positive way, with moderators who will enforce rules, but will not remove posts they disagree with (Reddit), or mandate arbitrary and inconsistent standards (Reddit).

I've always felt the downvote option was a colossal mistake and just allowed controversial or unpopular points of view to disappear, strengthening the filter effect for everything else.

I mean even 4chan doesn't have downvote functionality, if people disagree with you they'll just call you a f* or n* which, while nasty, doesn't actually change visibility of your post, plus only the admins can ban you or delete a post, not jumped-up mods, and frankly you'd have to be pretty extreme on there to earn that.

Maybe it's the ol' HN hug-of-death but I'm getting a mostly blank screen on the #ALL page with a single post from 'Krazy', contents a single < symbol, and nothing else. Browsing tabs doesn't change the main screen, seems to be no content here.

If it helps, I'm on Edge v.114.0.1823.43, Windows 10.

Great concept though, I like the idea of subscription money going to popular content creators but worry this simply encourages lazy posting of popular meme content, basically a monetised karma farm. The capitalists that we are, many will find a way to optimise post engagement against the algorithm and many will be pursuing hard cash rather than social interaction.

As someone in this space I can attest that AI teaching in most (UK) universities is generally poor on detail, abstract and behind industry by at least 3-5 years.

Not to mention that there is zero appetite from undergrads or postgrads to get into the nitty-gritty of it. To learn CNNs at the deep-dive level you need calculus, at least differentiation and integration. Calculus or even pre-calculus doesn't form part of the degree programme for most compsci BScs any more, because it is 'too hard'.

The way most students 'learn' AI is to use a method out of a Python library with near-zero understanding of how it works, and regurgitate it for an assessment.

Professorial research staff in most UK universities are light-years from AI within industry, and there's no clear path to that gap tightening, especially while universities are being run like second-rate consulting houses (don't get me started on THAT).