jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In SF (pretty typical weekday M-Th, Friday's are different)

6:30 wake up, stretch, pull-ups, handstands, meditate (don't eat breakfast, intermittent fasting has changed my mornings and I haven't looked back)

7:30ish catch bus to work, read industry news on bus

8:30 arrive at work, make tea, review tasks for day, set up pomodoros, take care of personal errands (once or twice a week meet a good friend to catch up)

9:00 begin work

12:30ish post lunch walk (about 20 min)

5-5:30pm leave work

6:30 get home, maybe workout (2-3 times a week), prepare/eat dinner with wife, maybe go for a walk together

8:30ish or 9:00- work on personal projects (python, watch repair, blogging, etc.), or watch TV with wife

10:30ish get in bed, read

Midnight, sleep.
Yikes! Fixing - wow that's not good...
That is why I love perl: the manager can not understand it and can not say it was simple.
Man, I'm having flashbacks of when my friend's mom bought a 36" Sony trinitron. 4 skinny teenagers trying to move this behemoth up a flight of stairs and position it into it's cabinet. I think we aged our backs a few years on that one project.
He's an avid brexiteer as well, which is enough for me to never ever touch any of his products again and put maximum effort into discouraging people from buying anything from the company.
Spectrum/Charter and Verizon have finally started allocating a single IP out of a /24 instead of giving me a whole /30 when all I need is one routable address. Too little too late though.
The CM-5 LEDs had different settings options: on, disabled, and also a “random and pleasing” setting.
So in one respect, modern RGB LED motherboards utilize trickle-down supercomputer technology in the form of... blinkenlights.
> Any motivated attacker would have already noticed it too you'd think.

Motivated is a keyword here. Opportunistic attacks occur, and probably make up for the majority of such attacks.
Decentralization technologies should help with efforts like this.
> "With these firings, Google is ramping up its illegal retaliation against workers engaging in protected organizing,"

Did these 4 google employees engage in the protest?

If their conducts (e.g. accessing other employees' calendars and sharing information about their whereabouts with outside sources) violate the company policy, then they should be let go independent of their involvement in the protest.
I think you’d want it to be your own party that gets to start regulating political speech. Advocating for censorship while the opposition is in charge is a phenomenal amount of trust, to say the least.
Hey! Great to see you here! We’re you with knotch?
> I still get bulk junk mail.

I could have been more clear.. you can still get "junk mail" but you shouldn't be getting "pre-sorted bulk mail." The latter typically comes addressed to "RESIDENT or CURRENT OWNER" or something similar, which is a fair amount of standard junk, but also catalogs, coupon books, weekly shopping flyers and phone books.

Those items are typically mailed using the pre-sorted bulk rate, which is not available for PMBs and a few other types of addresses.

Anyone can just send regular rate mail to a PMB and that can obviously be "junk" or "unsolicited commercial" mail, so there are no special restrictions in that sense, but compared to my prior residential mail volume my PMB only receives about 10% the amount of "junk" that I used to endure.
I think one reason journalists are having a moral panic about tech is that a lot of them seem to have a very unhealthy twitter addiction, which clouds their view on the impact social media has on society.

A lot of media people seem to spend ~8 hours tweeting almost everyday, which is obviously unhealthy but not indicative of how most people use "big tech".
Gold would specifically not be a good choice in that situation, because you have to pay a custodian to deal with the gold and store it for you. That means either transacting in the original risky fiat currency any time you convert between the currency and gold (such as to buy things), or else transacting in the original risky fiat currency to get a foreign exchange to another currency and then transacting with a custodian - which defeats the whole purpose of converting the asset away from the original fiat currency that exposes untenable risk.
"You can made all the video calls you want...as long as anyone you want to call has an iPhone 4 and is currently on wifi...and so are you. Easie-peasie!"

Yes.

Seriously, this pushes to the point of being comical.

No.

This pushes to the point of being useful. It's not like WiFi is something you only have access to on Thursdays and in big cities, or that they think WiFi-only is what they want because that's best. WiFi only is a compromise.

For now you can have iPhone4 to iPhone4 via wifi, in future it will also be for 3/4G cellular, and for anyone else who implements their standards when that's available. Which I'm very interested to see what they've done about firewalls and NAT and central servers.
India, China, Eastern Europe, Latin America... take your pick.

When I go shopping for a phone this year, I'll be comparing the iPhone5 with the latest dual-core 4+" 1280x760 Android monstrosity, then drop 600+ on either. When the newly minted middle class in those countries goes shopping for a phone this year, they'll look at a reasonable 3.5" 480x320 Android for $150-200, compare it with some aging Nokia dinosaur and make their pick. The iPhone is not going to be figuring into their thoughts very much.
that brick the device for 30 - 60 mins

You should really reconsider how you use that term.
You have to see this video, dedicated to Albert Hoffman (nominated for Academy Award in 1998):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xqcjNUqIAw

YouTube keeps deleting it, so in case link goes bad, just search for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_%281998_film%29
Misleading. Microsoft's quarterly profit grew pretty quickly (above 30%). It's just that Apple's profit grew faster, causing it to take the lead in the race.
You can do a credit card transaction through the gateway, and then do subsequent on-file transactions by referencing the previous transaction.

The initial transaction cannot be a reference transaction. You have to actually send the CC number to the gateway for that first transaction.
There is also widespread adoption of tools like http://search.cpan.org/~elliotjs/Perl-Critic-1.115/lib/Perl/... out there to make it easy to enforce coding standards on Perl projects.

See http://www.slideshare.net/thaljef/perl-critic-in-depth for the slides to a presentation that I saw this week on it, and http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header... for other presentations.
I can sympathize with not wanting to support IE 8, but I reckon in almost all cases it's worth it.
I think there's a couple things happening here -

First, you're right - he's fighting the wrong battle with regards to the field of economics. The Chicago School is most definitely Not the Austrian School, and I think much of the field of actual economists would agree that market fundamentalism is wrong.

But I don't think this is a real attempt to rebut the field of economics itself - this is fundamentally a political piece. Soros isn't an economist - he's a smart guy, he's a savvy investor, he's politically and philosophically acute, but he's not an economist. What he's attacking are political philosophies, not economic theories, and at this point, the ghost of Hayek casts a longer shadow in politics than economics.

Maybe it's been happening for a long time, but the horseshit that's being peddled under the brand of economics in political circles is a big problem in the current political environment, and much of it derives from a fairly easy-to-understand set of works that pushed the market doctrine. He's arguing against bullshit economics, not actual modern economics, even if he doesn't know it.
I agree with the article, but I would add that I think most startups need at least 2 advisors. One who is "only a few steps further down the path" and one who "has done it a number of times before". While you might find it easier to relate to the first one, the second is going to have important insights that you need for what the road looks like far down the line.

The worst thing you can do as a start up is make a decision early on and not understand how that might affect you a few years down the line.
Anything Nikon or Canon in the mid-$200 range would do wonders for you. Depends on what you want to spend of course. Have seen great results from Panasonic Lumix range also. I might suggest avoiding cameras with only touch screens - you'll go crazy about missing your shot if you need to set up and your fingers are gloved and it's cold out.
Okay, full disclosure: I'm not a web developer. I did, however, create http://sleepyti.me last month and have gone through extensive research and A/B testing to produce a nice, easy to navigate page. I get around 10k views per day, and the site generously pays for more than the cost of its hosting.

First of all, as a couple of other users have said, I have no idea what your site is. Popbub.com doesn't exactly make the product obvious (although it does have nice potential), and there is pretty much nothing telling me what to do.

Let's get some text in there! It astounds me that you expect users to "sign in with Facebook. Do it now!" when you literally haven't explained the point of anything.

I'm not trying to be harsh, as this is supposed to just be constructive criticism. The design of the site is simple and although there are a few typographic errors it's definitely not bad to read.

Get some descriptions in there, and maybe a screenshot or demo or SOMETHING so I know why I'm staring at the page.

Good luck!
What about projects like chi.mp that give a personal page around a domain name in just as simple of an interface?
Let f(x) = y. The guards have f and y. A spy gives a guard an x, and the guard computes f(x) and checks it against his list of ys. If it's on the list, the spy can pass. The enemy has f and y too, but it doesn't help them! f(x) is trivial to compute but the inverse is hard, so the enemy knows exactly the answer they want the guard to get and no idea how to make him get it!

One-way functions are very cool and form the basis of public-key cryptography, although it's quite a bit more complicated than this example.
By “infinite scroll” the author is just talking about every normal web page (e.g. some Wikipedia article), not about the (indeed, potentially confusing) case where a site loads extra content using Ajax every time the reader approaches the bottom of the page.
Facebook has something like 500 million users, but that doesn't mean that everyone has an account. I don't and never will. Give people another option, including 'yet another account' for your site. The majority of users will not trust your site to connect with Facebook, Twitter, whatever. No one's dad understands OAuth or OpenID.

And like everyone else mentioned, I have no idea what your site is for. Add a big headline "PopBub will make you rich or get you laid or both" and then explain how.
Have you seen the shit that Hollywood movies promote?
It would be better to see actual OSes used by visitor. Maybe one of the maintainers could provide this data.
It would be nice to know we're not just beating up on them because it's trendy and perhaps hold them accountable on the same level as other software companies.

It's possible that they were in the right by announcing an issue, rather than ignoring it.
Related - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA

(literally a story about how a light personnel carrier became a pseudo-MBT)
I don’t believe most people are jerks. They are just in disbelief that such a dire situation is possible.

Yes, it’s important to ask and with a high level of seriousness. If the internet has taught me anything, it’s that people need to read something 8 or more times before fully internalizing it.
You can look at equivalent projects for understanding the brain: the Human Brain Project and the BRAIN Initiative. Impressive projects, but nowhere near the success of particle accelerators

Like others said, many ways the virus could be deactivated are known. the problem is finding ways to deliver those solutions, and testing it in humans. It s a huge bottleneck, so a moonshot would be to test on artificial or artificially grown organs
Thank you, both insights help me in pondering how to ever better ensure quality.
This. I'm terrified by the number of utter idiots violating the restrictions and putting so many vulnerable people at risk.
Or those people recorded while spreading their spit all over a train cart.
Where is this coming from? What is those people's end game? It can't be due to stupidity; there must be some malice in this behaviour as well, right?
Clearly if they played a big role they did a terrible job with how many of these drugs are off patent.
Dr. Peter Attia did a few podcasts with a virologist discussing this.

It’s helpful in the short term, but not effective for longer than a few weeks apparently. Also there may be scaling issues?
These concerns do not come into play with the sort of communication being discussed.

If you send me unsolicited commercial messages, I'm gonna feel no compunction about publicizing that you're a spammer.
And on top of that Kotlin is now basically stuck with async-await forever. Removing async-await from the language and designing a more superior model the JVM now allows for with Loom is probably not going to happen. Adding a new model based on the new possibilities Loom provides will probably cause too much fragmentation (unless they come up with some really clever interop) so thats also unlikely.

Kotlin could be stuck here with a inferior co-routine model; Handicap of a headstart. Tough of course time will have to tell if the model Loom introduces in Java is going to be as great as it sounds.
BTC is an intentionally crippled fork of Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash works as Bitcoin was always meant to, with low fees and fast confirmations.

See https://whybitcoincash.com/
Concentration camps? Good grief.

Please don't do this here. It is a poster child of what we don't want: off-topic, political, ideological, generic, inflammatory. Did I miss anything?

Here's a tip: if we end up at "Stalin and Mao" we've reached internet information death. That's one of the black holes whence no thread emerges. If a tangent points there, please do it somewhere else.
Thank you.

I do have a ton of experience, and formal education is not a prerequisite for success.

It's an option, and not always the easiest one to choose.

Cheers,
R
This has always confused me. I have memories of some vague but very young age of me being put to bed when it was still light outside.
This was announced last month, as the date on the blog post indicates.

I wouldn't expect much from this. It looks mostly to be T-Mobile's "Me too" Xoom competitor. Slightly smaller screen (8.9 inches) than the Xoom. The only really interesting feature is the dual back cameras. Unless their's an API that easily allows the developers to use the dual cameras (similar to how people use the kinect), then I don't see that as much of a reason to buy it.

That front camera is oddly placed. I would have centered it.
No, no. Trust me, I am with you. I will not listen to Tiger Woods on Education. and I too, am pro-learning (by traditional means).

I do not imply to say, "Everyone should drop out of schools, because steve jobs did, and see.. he is successful". My thoughts were more along the lines of, "Even though we have our belief's, lets hear this guy out, because he is successful and _smart_ and _took a decision_ on the subject matter, and we might learn something interesting from his observations on the subject matter."
The linked bug report is literally that one of the about:config preferences has been removed and will no longer be respected.
There were two giant northern cardinals "playing" (who knows) in my front yard yesterday morning. This was right after the snow started melting, so their bright red coloring really stood out.

Maybe it's me getting old, but it's nice to see things like that every now and then.
"shutter-click-motor winding sound"

Anecdotally my kids are rapidly approaching teenage years and they have no personal experience with film cameras, or floppy disks. Most attempts at real world icons fail miserably because 1) multicultural 2) one glyph can't explain anything complicated which is why our writing uses alphabet and words.

Notice that however poorly point 2) was written, it contained 15 words and many letters, not a iconic graphic interpretation resembling mating centipedes on a teacup, or whatever GUI icon would be appropriate.

Its almost 2015, the GUI concept is dead and starting to smell, just some haven't noticed yet.

Nothing in IT is ever new and everything in the rotating wheel comes back into style and I GREATLY look forward to the inevitable return of simple text menus as the dominant UI.
I don’t mind doing these jobs, they take a lot of energy and they are pretty risky for me financially but in the end when - if - you can turn the thing around it is very satisfying.

What about the jobs is financially risky? Do you have a downside beyond "might not get paid if the company fails"?
Taken to the extreme with microwave dials, this yields:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/07/saving-time-with-yo...
This doesn’t quite explain why companies that are in the “fat” business - bacon producers, takeout chains, cheese and butter manufacturers - why wouldn’t they publicize the alternative view?
All I have is Spectrum in my neighborhood despite being in the middle of a huge metro area. Everyone I work with has AT&T and I am stuck with Spectrum's over priced slow lane as there are no alternatives. Maybe Starlink will finally provide some competition some day.
A chocolate cake.

Or a worm hole time machine.

One of those.
This looks like a stack to me instead of LRU Cache :). Am I missing something?
Old 78 records were produced with equipment from recording to cutting and pressing that is long since obsolete. Even if you overcome the challenges of dealing with laser equipment (dust, tracking).. what extra information are you really getting?. that it is useful signal more than even a dB or two above the noise I think is very wishful thinking.
Most carbon offsetting is basically tree planting, so actually rewilding areas. Although often that's monoculture forests that aren't the greatest thing.

But you're right that it matters what we measure and what the actual goals are.
Excel is great until you need to fix/extend an app that is now integral to all company operations that was made 20 years ago by that guy in sales that was good at computers and has long left.
If we aren't supposed to be rational then how can we even argue over things?
Since it's a USA-specific term and not very self-explanatory (I thought this was a COVID-related thing because it contains 'immunity', but it's not):

> In the United States, qualified immunity is a legal principle that grants government officials performing discretionary functions immunity from civil suits unless the plaintiff shows that the official violated "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known".

-- Wikipedia
The Real Book is a great and weird learning tool. It's a rite of passage in jazz education to realise that your favorite tune isn't actually how it was written in the Real Book. Miles Davis didn't get it wrong -- the Real Book did! And just like that, you have your first bit of secret jazz knowledge...

There are also some dated, now-seemingly-bizarre choices that were included. These quickly become in-jokes among folks boning up on classic tunes. "Should we do Speak No Evil, Ceora, or...General Mojo's Well-laid Plan?"

My favorite weirdness is the creative harmonisation of late 60s free jazz. The chords offered for "Orbits" are quite cool but very much the transcriber's imagination.

Yes, it's inadequate and flawed if it's the only resource offered. But it's no gatekeeper, it's a gate-opener. I prefer to see it as an invitation to dig deeper. Someone practicing "Billy's Bounce" might gaze in disbelief at "Some Skunk Funk". What's going on with the mixed meter in this Charles Mingus guy's tunes? And thus it facilitates our going out to discover more styles, more players, more music.
Thanks for sharing, I’m unfamiliar with the nuances of Rust’s implementation of RAII as I’m primarily a modern C++ developer. Modern C++ mostly guarantees against leaks since it encourages the stack as much possible.

https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/blob/master/CppC...
I do this, and its great, but I don't think this is an ideal space to read non-fiction. I absolutely tear through fiction series on my Kindle but I'm not sure retention is great for non-fiction, educational, or technical topics. The only "solution" I've found is to block off a couple hours on quiet weekend days.
If the fear is long-term damage, then we must stay locked down and isolated for another two years to first wait for any real long term damage to show and then study it. With this mentality, what's the point of life? Might as well commit suicide, especially those grandparents which might not survive until then anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFaRIW-wZlw

He doesn't really understand electronic music in my opinion. I find these sweeping statements about how "x ruined y" to be extremely lazy. Especially when it comes to comments about computers and music from these traditionally rock-ist people
For me YouTube is almost always able to recommend me a video I want to watch. I don't even use the negative feedback. I don't ever feel like it's frozen because it's matching my interests. If my interests stay the same it makes sense for YouTube to recommend videos about things I like and from creators I like.
It also comes with a pretty hefty price tag.
That's what I do. I use Firefox, set to delete cookies, cache, and history when I close the browser, and also uBlock Origin. I close the browser frequently, often between sites, certainly before/after visiting my banking site or anything like that.
From what I've heard there are nice parts of Amazon (as an office employee), but that on the whole they don't really see it as a priority.

There's the fairly normal things like charging for lunch at the office canteen (fine, but for a big tech company this is a little different), the slightly odd things like charging for parking at their office (seems like an easy win to not bother?), and then there's the downright crappy ("your role entitles you to 4GB RAM in your laptop, even though Excel needs much more, if you want more buy it yourself").

I think there are better companies to use as role models for creating a good working environment.
Young is relative... Computer science degrees have been available in colleges for 20+ years
It has been a few years, but less than 10 years ago I worked on a small project where we used the Intel FORTRAN Compiler: https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/tools/o...

It's well maintained and highly optimized. Before then, I had not used FORTRAN since 1983 (and it was old even then).
I can only assume that it refers to Circular Economy (1) not circular shape.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_economy
Eww, equality.

If you make it equal, you remove the drama. If you force equality onto history, you falsify it.

Case in point: Edward II, king of England. He had affairs with Gaveston and Despenser the Younger, all the while in a marriage with queen Isabella. He wasn't too subtle about what he was doing, showered his lovers with gifts, prestige and land. His nobles pressured him send him away, but he was the KING, and it went back and forth a few times.

If it's in game, it should be called "sodomy".
Where, when and to who you were born, and your health. There is plenty of luck involved.