skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does depend on what you call "working". I deem the time I spent on tech sites like HN as working. So does my boss. He similarly considers the time I spend at the odd tech conference working. There are good reasons for this - I drive change around here, and most of that change originates from exposure to ideas from those sources.

If you could that (and I do), I'd say at least 75% of my time is spent working.
> A large portion of the cost of the Mac Pro goes towards the design of the thing.

A that's why upon initial release, people did not mind paying the premium that the macpros had compared to equivalent hardware. The macbooks are in the same situation, people are more than okay paying a premium for quality hardware and design.

> Having a small, arguably aesthetically pleasing object on a desk vs even a Mini-ITX case is a no-brainer for a lot of creative folks.

I am not a part of those "creative people" nor do i really use a mac. But a good portions of mac pro user a regular professional, and i have many of those around me. you seems to have a very romantic view of why people use the macpro. The most cited reason is MacOs.
I got out of Seattle 25 years ago when I saw the writing on the wall. I don't regret it. SF has always been worse in terms of cost, density, self-importance, etc.
They pretend (or pretended) to have coupons that you needed to click in order to reveal. Often upon clicking, the coupons were invalid. Perhaps some were never real. But upon clicking, a pop-under would launch which would drop their cookie.

So a user who was already committed to buying, and in the process of doing so, who simply checked for a coupon while going through the checkout process, would end up generating an affiliate commission for RetailMeNot even though RMN provided no value to either the customer or the merchant.

This is basically a scam that pretty much all coupon sites pull, which is why many companies ban coupon sites from joining their affiliate programs.
"One queen per row, in every legal position, for every configuration. You imagine what their startup’s about-us page would look like."

the coups de grâce!!!
Definitely depends on the day.. some days I'm working the entire shift, other days I get paid to just sit here and work on my side projects. I work for for a project-based department and with that comes deadlines that could mean I have to be done within 3-6 hours which can be stressful.

While our company goes with the rest of the world, I wish the company would consider 10 hour days 4 days a week, with half the department working in the earlier part of the week, and the other half working the later half of the week instead of all of us working the traditional 8 hour days 5 days a week.

So I make the best of it and enjoy those days where I do mostly nothing the entire time. But I'm never not doing anything.. I build web apps and run a popular website, so I'm always kept busy.
I consider myself rather productive compared to most devs I've worked with. On a good day, I spend 75% of my day "working". On a normal day, it's closer to 50/50. I'm a tech manager, though, so the "good" days are when I'm really busy all day long, and the "normal" days are when I spend most of my time coding. Like others have said, it's really difficult to do more than 4 hours of solid coding in a day, particularly if you're interrupted frequently like I am.

That said, I don't necessarily care that much about the hours my employees work, so long as they meet the deadlines and are reasonably productive. I have a good idea of how long a task takes, so if they take too much longer than that, we'll have a chat. Otherwise, I just want to make sure they're happy and not burnt out and staying as productive as possible.
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They don't actually refer anyone (usually you don't look for coupons before you're at the checkout window), but in order to view a coupon you need to click a link that gives you the RetailMeNot referrer cookie, giving RetailMeNot a cut for doing basically nothing.
Apache httpd "legacy"? Seems a bit exaggerated. As far as I can tell it works just fine, have plenty of very good tutorials(like those from digital ocean), performance wise no problems(at least for our usage). And seems simpler to setup.

At my work we use IIS for our main website, but I've been asked to setup and configure a few wordpress installations. I've played around with both nginx and apache, but it was much easier to find clear instructions to setup wordpress on apache, so thats what I went with. I also really like apaches .htaccess support. Easy to lock down access to wp-admin by just dropping a .htaccess file in there restricting access to local ip range, instead of having to pollute the nginx config file with that sort of thing.
Well good luck. Schools have a lot of land but won't build housing on them. You can get mortgages with 3% down that aren't FHA to buy but you can't qualify for more than the appraised value. And you still have all cash buyers.
> 4. suck it up and delay whatever flight that crew was scheduled for. It sucks, but it was their mistake to overbook and this isn't a safety-critical situation.

Isn't there a good chance this happened anyway? I heard the plane was grounded for 2 hours.
A fully memory-safe language is not required to prevent use-before-initialization bugs, which are the subject of this article.
> An interesting idea that follows from this: what other kinds of "numbers" might we come up with if we relax our logical blinders?

It depends on exactly what you mean by this, but I would argue that we do this absolutely everywhere. For example, matrices have similar properties to numbers. You can add/subtract them, you can multiply them, you can (sometimes) divide them. Depending upon how you restrict your set of matrices, ab might equal ba or it might be the case that ab makes sense while ba does not (i.e. not only is it not commutative, but it doesn't even make sense to multiply the other way).

> In the same way, what if we invent a new class of real numbers that are quantized (such that there exists a smallest quantity x)?

Here's an example of something similar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_number

Basically you're adding in a number smaller than everything else that squares to 0.

> What if we propose the existence an "imaginary" algorithm (call it omega, if you like) that can decide the halting problem?

I'm no logician, but I believe that they would refer to this sort of thing as "model theory". I.e. you're basically taking proofs (sequences of logical statements) and studying different logical systems in which these statements make sense. For example, you could extend your theory/model to take as an axiom that there exists an algorithm to solve the halting problem (though this would be stupid since you can already prove within most theorems that the halting problem is impossible...i.e. you would have a self-contradictory axiomatic system).

> These mathematical object do not have to "exist" for them to be useful. I think there is a whole lot of new and interesting math that would be unlocked by dispensing with our logical blinders.

I 100% agree. Math is a tool that we invent to better understand the world and our thoughts (as well as do more). However, you'll probably have to track down a true logician if you were to go down that rabbit hole...
I record my time pretty religiously. 5 hours seems to be a standard "working day" of actually solid in the flow (face buried in a screen) work, assuming I'm sat at a desk for 7/8.

That said, if I'm rolling and happy it can be way more, if I'm tired/struggling to hit the flow/not creative - way less. I can get an awful lot done in a day (or few days) if I push, but doing that long term becomes counter productive.

On a regular day, I'll also get a bunch of smaller 'work' done, but it's mostly the admin-y stuff. Sales, email, help, calls, networking. Sometimes that can be my whole day - I suppose it depends how important those things are at the time (sales!) as to how much they're considered 'work'.

Edit: Just to add, decent headphones are a godsend.
I almost purchased a condo in East Palo Alto back in 2013 for $300K. That same 1-bedroom is now selling for $680K; biggest missed opportunity of my life. Here it is on Zillow:

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/East-Palo-Alto-CA/cond...

There are no 1 bedrooms from Santa Clara to Burlingame for < $350K, and only one two-bedroom for less than $500K.
It depends on the vertical, but from my experience they're still useful for pizza chains and rental cars. I use Amazon too much to know if they're useful for much else.
The Wikipedia article on Kuru mentions some people developing immunity to it in the most affected areas. Very interesting.

In 2009, researchers at the Medical Research Council discovered a naturally occurring variant of a prion protein in a population from Papua New Guinea that confers strong resistance to kuru. In the study, which began in 1996,[21] researchers assessed over 3,000 people from the affected and surrounding Eastern Highland populations, and identified a variation in the prion protein G127.[22] G127 polymorphism is the result of a missense mutation, and is highly geographically restricted to regions where the kuru epidemic was the most widespread. Researchers believe that the PrnP variant occurred very recently, estimating that the most recent common ancestor lived 10 generations ago.[22][23]

Of the discovery, Professor John Collinge, director of the MRC’s Prion Unit at University College London, has stated that:

It's absolutely fascinating to see Darwinian principles at work here. This community of people has developed their own biologically unique response to a truly terrible epidemic. The fact that this genetic evolution has happened in a matter of decades is remarkable.

— John Collinge, Medical Research Council
The findings of the study could help researchers better understand and develop treatments for other related prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease[21] and Alzheimer’s disease.[24]
The only issue with that is there are a few groups that have consistently beat the market over time, so perhaps its more pseudorandom than we think. One example might be the Renaissance Medallion Fund.
>Kids are programmed to learn and don't really need adult interaction that much. //

I don't think I agree with that premise at all. Even as an autodidact, I'd say that guided exploration/learning/endeavour can be far superior in almost every way.

I'd teach a 5yo archery but I'd never give them a bow-and-arrows and leave them to learn it without adult interaction.

A parent who spends there whole day with there kids has probably taken them out to experience environments away from home?

Do you really drop your 6/7yo off at the woods miles from anywhere with a handaxe and a box-of-matches and leave them to it for the day? Or give them a raspberry pi and a box of components with a soldering iron and go out to the shops? (Or how about a band-saw and some wood!). Or give them a recipe book and an oven-lighter and hope they manage to cook a cake rather than gas themselves and blow up the street?

They can mostly make a camp fire, but please instruct first on using the axe and knife, and check the fire isn't going to start a forest-fire before they light it. Sure, after a few times they know how to chop and cut, how to clear around the fire; but do they know about peat-fires, and think to check for over-hanging branches? They need gentle direction and oversight. But they can't even get to the forest without someone taking them, which needs a devotion of time.
It may be that one of the things about SF that makes it attractive for OP is that it is expensive. Keeps the riff-raff out. Not that anyone in SF would ever admit that publicly.
Yes I know, although growing up in the bay area, I don't really remember people calling SF "The City" until relatively (maybe last 10-15 years) recently, but maybe I just missed it when I was younger.
It blows my mind how many companies still eagerly work with coupon sites given this has been true for over a decade.
I was forced to move here to find a job. It's expensive; the weather is both monotonous and never great; the culture feels homogenous (just young professionals); salaries feel much smaller when adjusted for cost of living than any place I've ever lived.

If I didn't have equity to vest I would have zero reason to live here.
No. THe fundamental difference is that rust traits cannot convey structural information , classes (java and c++ can)
I don't know if it is a band-aid, rather it is part of the system.

Specifically you're a company and you're trying to hire people to fill roles. If they are are required to be at the company you have to pay them enough that they can live near you.

You set up a series of constraints on hiring:

1) Compensate[0] enough so that someone from outside can enter the local economy effectively.

2) Compensate enough to convince someone who is already in the local economy to change from where they work to working for you.

3) Compensate enough that someone working for you won't go work somewhere else.

Within that system to have to operate a business model where the value you capture in the market has to cover not only your operating costs (which include compensation for the employees creating that value) but allows for you to fund maintenance, depreciation, and some R&D efforts for new product development.

If you can't find a solution set that works you have to improve the business model (generally add revenue or cut costs). Not really rocket science of course.

I keep watching to see if some large presence in SF ends up moving to the east bay or even Reno as a way of changing the cost parameters. If you look at job changing as brownian motion you can watch an environment parameters start to change which results in people (the particles in this case) start changing where they are likely to be.

Personally I would love some quantitative data collection that helped map out the weights of the various factors. It would help predict the next 10 years.

[0] Compensation is also a complex thing, more than just dollars per week/month/year there are things like free food, bus rides, and other services in addition to environmental plusses and minuses and work demands.
I took it as a commentary about how stupid tech interviews are. The scenarios all present a company rejecting someone who is clearly more skilled than the interviewer.
The city is not full. Cost indicates that supply has been artificially restrained for a long time. San Francisco has the same size as Paris for a third of the population.
That's chump change compared to the subsidies through FHA, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac. The US government plays a direct role in subsidizing homeownership because it creates community cohesion.
Around 2005 or 2006, I got a call from a headhunter that wanted to shop me out in finance in NYC. Told him I wasn't interested, but he persisted and inquired what it'd take for me to relocate (from Chicago suburbs) and it was simple: triple my salary. I'm not a city person; I like the outdoors (I prefer real wilderness, but plentiful forest preserves around Chicago suffice). I figure 3x was a reasonable figure to do one of two things: either sacrifice my lifestyle to have a reasonable commute or put up with an absurdly long commute to have the lifestyle I wanted. That was the last I heard from that recruiter. I'm not disappointed.
I've also read that it typically comes in the form of dozens of $100 flight vouchers that can't be used in combination. The compensation is essentially the airline printing their own money.
I similarly struggle with that pessimism. I mentioned below that our primary goal is to even access to homeownership across people who make similar incomes.

A big component of housing-related credit is equity (ie. collateral). Many parts of that dynamic are very rational -- having equity is a proxy for financial responsibility (you know how to save money, or have access to other people who don't mind occasionally gifting you equity). Having equity also buffers the lender from loss when housing prices cycle, which is a very important part of building resiliant financial infrastructure.

I think our high-level argument is that for a very specific group of people (tenured employees) in very specific places (urban diversified economies that are resistant to land bubbles), there is opportunity to push the edges of the box.
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They are shipping ripgrep with VS code.
SecureDrop received $250,000 of it. Good for Mozilla, I think. Prior reviews of SecureDrop in HN have raised questions.

The $250,000 given represents the largest amount we’ve ever provided to an organization since launching the MOSS program. It will support the creation of the next version of SecureDrop, which will be easier to install, easier for journalists to use, and even more secure.

IMHO, given the rule that security must cost more to defeat than the target's value to the attacker (i.e., if you are protecting a $1 million secret, it must cost $5 million to defeat the security), I wonder if SecureDrop is feasible:

How much would it be worth to know leaks to the NY Times (and every other publication that uses it)? Some leaks turn into stories that move markets; their value is potentially billions of dollars. Some determine the fates of powerful individuals, organizations, political movements, and nations; their value is existential to attackers. Can that really be secured? Doesn't it seem likely that state intelligence agencies will dedicate the resources necessary to hack SecureDrop? Based on that reasoning, $250K is a drop in the bucket. Perhaps the news agencies would be better off posting a webpage advising informants to mail encrypted USB drives, or leave them at dead drops.

There's a broader issue: What is the chance that the NY Times', and similar publications', internal systems aren't already penetrated and monitored? Based on the reasoning above, that also seems very unlikely.
Functional programming elitism is an interesting convergence between old-school SICP-reading academic greybeards, and modern day Haskell hipsters who like purity in their languages. Both would like to hate on imperative-coding industry squares like the technical interviewers in all of these stories.
TSA took 30 mins when I opted out to do a pat. Be prepared for a lot of time wasted on absolutely stupid things. Its like Americans pay so much tax that Govt has no idea what to do with it.
They're not very wealthy if they haven't attended the college and earned a lifetime's worth of money yet, though. And if they do go on to do so, they will (or should, rather) pay more tax than the people who subsidised them and thus contribute back. Also not sure how you define the middle class as high school grads.. that sounds more like working class to me.
Cobol expert = $1,000 an hour rate. Great niche, but eventually will get replaced.

Awesome marketing and PR for his company Cobol Cowboys (http://cobolcowboys.com.

> His wife Eileen came up with the name in a reference to "Space Cowboys," a 2000 movie about a group of retired Air Force pilots called in for a trouble-shooting mission in space. The company's slogan? "Not our first rodeo."
Are you a technical interviewer?
This is all Herb Caen's fault! [1]

I vote for bringing back Frisco. It's a lot easier to say and write.

[1] https://thebolditalic.com/amp/p/5c14348d49c
Assumed to be real by whom? Not all physicists believe the same thing.

Also why is this unfortunate? Why does it matter if they do or do not "believe" it? Are they able to make useful predictions with their models? Are they able to better understand physics? If so, why worry about their personal beliefs?
The cost signal is what, not why. From the perspective of a potential buyer/renter, it doesn't matter if the cause is "density" or "politics."
Creator of nginx is Russian. Which probably means good word of mouth marketing, good docs in their language, etc.
If this filter is written in C/C++, then LLVM would probably have the advantage over MSVC. If this filter is written with Halide, then they should be running nearly identical code.

Also, strace is only really going to show you system calls, which should not be relevant to straight-line code.
No, Frisco is in Colorado.
Costs indicate it is full.
Medication is likely not the right solution for you, there are several very helpful books about Adult ADHD that you should check out that could change your life: Taking Charge of Adult ADHD, and, Is it You, Me, or Adult ADHD?
great books
Given the focus of other responders on copying, I'd just like to point out that

"I'll assume that "growing" an adult human body, with a "blank" or "default" brain, isn't too inconceivable."

is problematic as well.
> Keeps the riff-raff out

If you mean keeps the riff-raff out of homes and onto the streets, then yes.
hey! seeder siddy, utarh.
Well no one polices the police and there is no repercussion. Its not like the public has any choice. Its a monopoly and will get paid with tax money anyway.
No language can fix mistakes, but in Rust if you have a() calling b() which calls c(), there is no way* that c can jump to a without any indication of it in b. You at least need to have `?` somewhere in b. I consider it a really good thing, among other advantages.

* panic + catch_unwind, but that's special and not meant or used in practice for error handling
I live in NYC right now, but you couldn't pay me 5 times the salary to move to SF. NYC knows how to build housing. While it can be expensive in the newest buildings in the most convenient areas, if you go to the outer boroughs, you can find plenty of spacious housing for decent costs and a 30 min subway ride to Midtown. SF needs density, and fast or they could keep driving out the average citizens. But tech workers probably don't make good firefighters, police, or trash collectors.
I have only looked at the README.

> If you run go test the tests will pass which validate that Levenshtein performs < 60% accuracy and closestmatch performs with > 98% accuracy.

If you've set those tests up yourself, what you mean by "accuracy" may be what your library achieves.
I have not been a liftie since about 2007, and back then I think drug testing was at bosses discretion.

Where I worked literally every single employee on the mntn smoked, so if you were a pain the neck to your boss they would ask for a drug test and you were basically fired.

In Canada, as far as I know, it never happened (I worked there a few seasons, everyone smoked)

I would say on the majority of days that other people lives and safety were in our hands, the vast majority of lifties were severely hungover and/or stoned.
it's like a lack of motivation to the point of abhorring any expended effort on a task because it's _THAT_ worthless of a pursuit to you. It's like you endure pain that other people don't experience just to do normal activities if you don't find them fascinating.
RetailMeNot is a weird name isn't it? "don't sell stuff (to me)" for a site for selling stuff (to me)!?
Until you have an idea of where to put that additional 200% of our current population, yes, SF is full.