No dark mode. Classic.

Ukraine is Europe. And what does US do? Threatens Ukraine into giving away land.

"Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed"

Geographically, so is Russia.

Perhaps I should have said the EU, of which Ukraine is not a member.

Sounds like a Celery with SQLAlchemy backend.

Canvas, celery's orchestration system, leaves a lot to be desired

Agreed, some languages and frameworks have trouble scaling https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45950542

I only had to read three sentences into to find your answer:

> Those codes let you quickly reference notes in your vault from other places such as hand-written notes.

Oh, I thought it meant written in the Notes app. I guess it's nice for those, who don't use johnny decimal system.

Obsidian app with it's latest "bases" feature (or Dataview plugin) would work nicely for this.

For sure. Or Bear, or Notion, or ...

There are a lot of things to track all this. I personally didn't want to spend more than the minimum time setting up and using the system, because last think I wanted was to get nerdsniped into inventing a job application tracking systems instead of, like, applying for jobs. That would've been a real risk to me.

Mindlessness is a positive thing here. You don't have to think, just follow the moves, hit your goals and the numbers will naturally go up over time.

One simple solution is to buy a cheap used phone. Every app is made for flagships now. You'll still be able to use the apps, but everything will lag.

> TikTok, Instagram Shorts, YouTube Reels

Just don't install these apps? There are tons of useful apps that don't require your constant attention.

The OP correctly mentions that we're dealing with real addiction here. Telling an addict to "just not do it" is futile.

Where does the unattributed, axis-doesn't-start-at-zero chart of declining attention span come from? It looks like there were five sample years since 2000, but who was sampled, and "attention span" was measured how? "As the chart shows, attention spans are plummeting" is not very impressive when the chart is just a line that goes down and some mysterious times in seconds. Tineye had nothing.

Damn, I guess I skimmed the article with my short attention span :). He's right, but the title is clickbaity.

But not installing/using or blocking those apps is as much of an alternative as using a dumb phone.

Sure, in the same was as "eat less" is a viable alternative for the obesity epidemic.

But it's not a solution. Obviously, that just won't work for people who have a propensity to over-consume, or people who have a propensity to scroll in this case. If it were that easy, then everyone would do it. Then we'd all hold hands and sing Kumbaya.

Maybe give parental control to a friend for your phone so you’re limited in what can be done.

Or maybe companies could provide a lock down mode that you can’t change for 1 year at a time, like a locked bank account or something.

But how I will post to reels and stories how great my life is

Just start a blog instead

uBlock origin filter:

    ! Hacker News dark mode
    news.ycombinator.com##html:style(filter:invert(90%) hue-rotate(180deg))
    news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: white)

Sounds like you need to write a CSS translating proxy server.

…and follow the HN pattern of adding more complexity to my own niche solution instead of fixing he technical debt? :)

Maybe I could fund a startup for that…