skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short answer: Yes, it is possible.

Source:
It's exactly what I do (0.6 FTE job + part-time MSc).

From personal experience, I would say it's harder to find something part-time up front.
Telling your current employer that you want to reduce your hours, for the reasons you describe, is what worked for me.
You need to be in a position where they are happy with your work, and you need to clear any doubts about this change having any negative effect on your team.

From my perspective, being part-time greatly discourages me from micro-managing: I just don't have the free time that might lead me down that negative path.

Finally, my employer gets way more than 0.6 FTE of work from me (and I don't do extra hours).
IMO they get more "bang for their buck": I concentrate on what's important, and work through things more efficiently.
Rote arithmetic may help you develop an intuition for numbers. It's hit or miss though and there are more effective and efficient methods than just doing a large volume of arithmetic. I believe the current trend in Math education is intended to take advantage of the more effective and efficient methods.

Your treadmill is a good example actually. Much of the exercise world has realized that just jogging for a long period of time while effective is also not the most efficient way to exercise. Instead mixing periods of hi intensity workout with periods of lower pace workout can allow you to get more value with less time from you routine.
> But ask an attractive male bartender or waiter. We shouldn't hand wave those abuses away either.

Was a male bartender for nearly two years. I agree it happens from time to time that customers try to score with you, but it's really incredibly rare compared to the stuff my female colleagues had to endure (maybe twice over my career vs daily).
My experience is mostly tied to programmers, but this isn't necessarily that different.

1. I have heard rumors that in Germany you can pretty much force your existing employer to to give you part time job: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7oye95/how_to_...

2. Best place to negotiate different working conditions is your current job. They know you and you have credibility, and you're more valuable and harder to replace since you have lots of job-specific knowledge. So I'd start with just trying to negotiate at your current job.

3. Once you have 32 hours/week, negotiating your next job is easier, since you can say "and look I did just fine." Trick is to apply without mentioning your extra conditions, get offer, and then say "I only want 32 hours /week."

Programmer-specific resources which probably are still helpful:

* Interview with someone who hasn't worked full time in 15 years: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...

* My book, The Programmer's Guide to a Sane Workweek: https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/

Just got a reader write in to say he'd negotiated a 32 hour workweek at a new job; it's definitely possible!
"spare" is not a German word. closest is "sparen" : to save.

"sparsam" : economic, thrifty, frugal.

data - economic - ness.
When you consider how long Meetup has been around (over a decade), how many employees it had at peak (hundreds), and how relatively stagnant the product had been over that period, it feels to me as though they might have prioritized the wrong things from a business standpoint even if they got the culture right.

If the exit price was truly $30 million as reported here, then that was a huge missed opportunity, since Meetup had the brand and the potential to capture much more value in the live community/events space.

I imagine the FB announcements were a wake-up call for the managers that made them reconsider their management approach. The slide deck was probably an attempt to frame positively the reality that despite a feel-good culture, their business was producing lackluster revenue/user growth, and that something needed to change.
> While you can do hyperlinks, it does not feel connected.

Not sure what "feel connected" means. In both systems, you click a link and it takes you to the document in question. The only difference is that wiki links are shorter...

> Also, can you structure documents into find hierarchy or tagging system?

The hierarchy is just the file system, which only allows files to be in a single directory at a time.

> Finally, no self hosting.

OwnCloud with certain extensions probably does everything you want, e.g. https://owncloud.com/collabora/collaborative-editing/
So when the building was complete, what were the final costs relative to an equivalent steel and concrete structure? The video said construction took 9-1/2 weeks but there was a lot of pre-planning, mock ups, etc. that wouldn't have necessarily been needed for the steel version. Those extra costs need to be factored in as well, at least until enough experience has been gathered to no longer require it.
Debugging C like it's Python
Cocos2d-x is a 2D game engine that sits on top of OpenGL.

http://cocos2d-x.org
Their PKI is apparently none too good as well: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/...
A titan of Facebook considers his good fortune
Ah yet another attempt to keep the payphones division alive whilst I can feel sympathy for those stuck in payphones as a share holder of BT.A I do ask is this actually going to turn a profit.
It could easily be an age thing, honestly. I'm in my late 40s, and read voraciously in high school, college, and for about 10 years after college. Generally 2-3 books a week, sometimes more. My drop in reading has corresponded with my increase in Internet reading, but the correlation could be weaker than I think.

I still enjoy some books, but not anywhere like I used to.
> Did anything Wave-like developed subsequently turn into a big market?

Slack.

Trello.
tl;dr Use our product
That doesn't mean it can't be adapted and tuned for mobile. The average smartwatch has more processing power than the average server did at the time the ZFS project was launched (2001).
At the time I wrote this, there were 23 comments here. The majority was from self-declared vegetarians/vegans. That means that either that's the prevailing food paradigm among HN readers, or they're more vocal about it than non-vegans.
Don't forget, brick and mortar also holds moisture and is porous. This can lead to spalling in cold weather and rotting whatever's behind it in warm weather.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1m5VShzxYs
Russia spent a lot of time and money amplifying that discontent, so they clearly thought it needed to be "imported". It's also important to remember that they amplified discontent on both sides of the spectrum, because that increases discord and makes our political process look (more) dysfunctional.
Did the story of that startup make it into your blog? Building a business to sell a new language always looked to me like too much of an uphill battle in a world where programmers generally expect the tools of their craft to be available for free.
How did you go about doing that? How do you win clients? Which field are you in? How do you present your services?
Quip is a pretty interesting take on this.
Out of curiousity: with these full rewrites, do they at least learn from the mistakes of the previous code? I can imagine there is potentially great value in that.
Looking back at my post, I definitely overstated things. I still read occasionally, and some books I'm glad I read. There certainly is a lot more crud out there these days. Often my disappointment is when I read a good book and then it ends and I can't stay in the world any longer. I find that very frustrating.

Alastair Reynolds is one of my favorite authors, and he wrote a book set in a new setting called "Revenger" that was just amazing, and I loved the world. But I finished the book and there are no more and it bums me out :/
That's just a detail. Google didn't hire or fire Damore in Denmark, so obviously they didn't bother to follow Danish law. My point is that Google could most likely fairly easily have argued that the memo caused insurmountable cooperation difficulties and terminated him on that basis.

The exact steps, the time taken and the phrasing of the arguments would have been different, but the substance (he got fired for the memo) would have been the same.
Are you sure that it doesn't teach you anything? Somehow the students of "old math" were able to put a man on the Moon.
I'm struggling to think of instances where you would want to rename a column without changing the behavior of the column. The latter would mean that you have to review those 50 places anyway.
I had a kernel panic a few weeks ago that left the OS in a state where it was unable to boot. It seemed to think it was mid-upgrade and was complaining about missing the packages an upgrade would read from. Thankfully macOS has an in-place OS reinstall option and as far as I’ve been able to see all my data is totally fine. But it was bizarre and I’ve never experienced anything like it in a decade of using Macs.
Ask HN: What Podcasts would you recommend for the college students?
What kind of Podcasts would you recommend for the college students who are interested in startups/business?
Wave didn't have a UI, it had clients. Google's client might have been a problem, but that would be like me complaining about email because the client I'm using one accepts a single email address at a time.
That's <adjective> Arithmetic not Mathematics
I think (but don't know since I haven't worked on any of the projects) is that replacing rails every few shots cuts their shot rate down to an unacceptable level. Additionally, remember that these guns are designed for coastal bombardment, must fit on a ship and be served by a reasonable sized crew. Having to add crew members to swap out rails or machinery to swap out rails takes up precious space on a ship. And unless you could reform ten barrels per minute you couldn't keep up with their desired shot rate.

Usually if there is an "obvious" solution they have done at least a cursory analysis of it and found a deal breaker for putting it on a ship. It's not guaranteed, but if there is something obvious to try that would solve one of the major hurdles then someone should have suggested it, and the idea probably had traction until they figured it it wouldn't work. The engineers and scientists working on these projects aren't total greenhorns, they are experienced weapons developers.
Eh, I lived in SF and NYC and I knew few vegetarians, let alone vegans. Cocktail parties definitely weren’t hotbeds of any kind of meat-shunning discussion. Almost the opposite, I’m fact. The #1 hobby for big city people seems to be exploring new hip restaurants, almost all of which serve animal products. I’m sure it depends on your circle, but if you look at any list of the most popular restaurants in NYC, there will be very few vegan ones.
Sure. But depending on how your opinion on cryptocurrencies is, you could either say it's proof that it's not working or that it's not working yet.

These problems occur because you still have to deal with "legacy" currencies. If everything would be conducted in cryptocurrencies, you wouldn't have any of those.

Although I'm not convinced that this is a likely future. I'd rather expect banks to offer cryptocurrency accounts with conversions. Ironically, another centralized solution but at least a regulated one.
Way back when FB rolled out 2FA, I weighed the additional security of that over a strong random password, versus the obvious downside of them having my phone number. Basically, it was a small chance of some weirdo hijacking an account containing nothing sensitive (FB doesn't have my credit card, either), versus a large chance of a giant ad/surveillance company using my phone number to make money. I ultimately chose not to set up 2FA, and now I think that was a good decision for exactly the reasons I predicted.

I'm also very skeptical of the "bug" explanation, given how persistently they have been asking for my phone number lately.
It seems to be consistent with the explanation that the SMS messaging system has been re-purposed.

Old system: send updates via SMS, post replies onto the wall.

New system: send 2-factor authentication codes.

Now mix both and you get what was happening here.

I bet the engineer who thought of doing that was feeling very smart. Not having to setup a whole new secure SMS delivery infrastructure. It might not be true but I like the irony of it :)
Of course it is possible to miss the diagnosis. My point was that this is not an obscure disease that a dermatologist would not know about.
System engineering for dummies
> I wonder why people but so much effort trying to replace things that work perfectly

Because nothing works perfectly.
There's a book about this called Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil. Yes, it's legal. The more opaque the model and the algorithms are, the more they fuel discrimination.
> In a decade, our own belongings will say, I will not work unless you update me.

I see this happening too, and I don't want any part of it.

Tech is making it way into everything, and it bothers me. Toothbrushes with LCD screens?

Anecdote: Metronomes are all digital now, whereas they used to all be mechanical, like analog watches. The windup mechanism is super simple; it's just a spring with a ratchet on it. The spring is designed to exert a constant force to counteract the natural friction of the pendulum swinging, like an inverted grandfather clock. Such a metronome is simple, straightforward, human-scale understandable from the most basic of investigation. A kid could understand it. Now, with digital metronomes, the damn thing is so tightly integrated that it comes with either a specifically designed IC, an FPGA with EEPROM, or a full CPU with software. Of course they require batteries. Can you figure out how it works from taking it apart? No chance. The chip itself has a stack of PhDs in it; let alone any software. It's fractally complex.

Leave aside Metronome software apps for a moment; these stupid digital metronomes have no swinging arm (a nice indicator to help you get rhythm back), only flashing lights. If/when it breaks, and it will break, let's say 20 years from now, what do I do? I've been programming my entire life and yet I still wouldn't have a clue how to fix it. Nor would anyone else for that matter. That damn thing will go in the bin, and I'll have to buy another. But the model from today won't be available then; I'll be forced to get some other whizz-bang techy thing that is all new and better, and more sophisticated, and even less repairable. Dumb. So yeah, nowadays I have an analog metronome and I'll fix it if it breaks.
I found it to be an odd mix, some was just simply them finally getting around to fixing problems employees have been complaining about.

But then other times it was blatantly aimed at pushing people out of the company.

Management now aims to:

- Push teams further than they think they can

- Give employees clear goals to meet, by definition unrealistic ones

- Drive everyone harder to meet those goals. "No matter what / do anything."

- Fire them if they don't perform.
Tom Scott's youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A
Fire safety in wooden structures is interesting. A friend who does research in the area explained that, in some ways, wooden beams are simpler to engineer than steel beams when dealing with fire.

The goal, engineering wise, is to put a number on a given structure - how many hours can it burn before it falls?

A steel beam will maintain most of its strength up to the point it suddenly becomes soft and loses all of it. The exact point in time this occurs is hard to predict, because it varies substantially with several variables.

A wood beam will maintain the full strength of the beam, minus the average thickness of wood that is burned off per hour, which is a reasonably well known quantity.

This makes it simple (though not easy, of course!), relative to steel structures, to put a number on a wooden structure - "this building can burn for 2 hours before it is no longer safe for firemen to try to put it out from inside".
For ten years I've been able to place a ACH transfer at one bank by 6 pm and have it available in my other bank by 8 am the following morning. It has never taken "3-5 business days". Anyone claiming there are large inherent delays in that setup is full of baloney.

Yes there are some dispute/reversal windows that I have never had experience with, but if you are just transferring money between your own accounts this should not be a serious issue.
Fractons, for Real?
China seems to be making progress.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/these-chinese-military-in...
Analysis of NES Tetris
Or people who understand the reality of getting stories read.
Yes if the role is small enough.
> If you make the price zero, people will start using it for trips that they wouldn't really need to use public transport for, because why put in the effort to walk or bike when the transit is free?

This argument doesn't hold because it already applies to all time-based passes. I have a year pass, so the marginal cost of any particular tram ride is zero. When I'm walking along a road that also happens to have a tram line, I may hop on the tram for a stop if one happens to be coming at the right moment, even if I could easily walk.
The problem is that Facebook was presenting truth and lies in identical ways. People should be able (and willing) to dig in and find out what is true for themselves, but that takes time and effort.
spare and sparen have the same root and related meanings. And -sam suffix is related to -some, like in handsome.
People who spend a grand on a phone tend to buy other things.
I had almost exactly these symptoms twice in my life, as a kid. It stumped doctors then, too. It was not Schnitzler syndrome: it was not chronic and in the longest case only lasted a few weeks to maybe a couple of months. However, while I never did get a "name" for the illness doctors came to the conclusion that my immune system greatly overreacted to something and went into a crazy state of attack - hives, persistent fever, painful skin, pain all the way through my bones, etc.

I wish I could put a name to what it was - I do not think my case was rare and a name does exist, but I was too young to have been told at the time.
Please checkout 3Blue1Brown.

3Blue1Brown, by Grant Sanderson, is some combination of math and entertainment, depending on your disposition. The goal is for explanations to be driven by animations and for difficult problems to be made simple with changes in perspective.
Here is one potential example from a number of years back. Maybe it counts as "back then." My daughter's algebra teacher was teaching the laws of exponents. When faced with "what is x^0," the teacher gave axiomatic reasoning of "x^0 is always 1. Nobody knows why, you just have to memorize it." When I confronted him about it, his response was along the lines of "we don't have time to get into concepts and teach reasons; we need students to memorize and move on to the next thing for the state tests."

More and more, educators in the US are realizing that memorizing things just wont work. You get students who can't recall if x^0 is 0, 1, or x, and they lack the mental model to figure out the answer. Math nowadays strives to give students the mental models to derive answers. I would hope today's students to go "I know x^3 is xxx, and x^2 is xx, so x^1 is x, so the pattern is divide by x, so x^0 must by x/x or 1".

This applies to even more common things. Many of us who did well in math did so because we saw patterns and relationships. Now educators are striving to help students see those patterns and relationships.

In similar fashion, and to address a concern a few comments up, many older US students (and adults for that matter) can't figure out percents. They were taught a formula of [base * percent / 100] and then they have to unpack the term "percent," where they remember there was something divided by 100, and then they find themselves all mixed up because of failed memorization methods. I can recall in grade school and high school, many kids did not realize they could find 20% of something by multiplying it by 0.2. They first would multiply by 20, then divide by 100, and when I told them they could just combine those two steps, their mental model would break. It got even worse if you tried to tell them "what is 1/10th of the item? now double that, and you'll have 20%".

To summarize, "outdated" vs "nowadays," the students would try to add algorithmic steps to their mental tool box that work in very specific situations, and now, many educators are trying to help children internalize concepts.

[edit, formatting. I wanted the xxx and xx to originally have an asterisk between them to show multiplication, but then everything went italic. Why does formatting have to be such a pain?]
Mayo is a bit of a special case. Guwande hyped their fee structure in comparison to private practice, but it’s largely the same as every hospital: the doctor is an employee with an annual salary, the hospital is reimbursed per unit service by payors. Guwande compared them to private practices, where the doctor acts as his own employer, and thus has to maintain their own volume.

The difference is that given their prestige and the number of out-of-state (read: mostly cash-paying) patients, they get much higher reimbursement than most places and can afford not to push the patient mill so hard. Normal hospitals have a patient base that is mostly insured or, if uninsured, the impoverished kind, not the globe-trotting wealthy kind. So their reimbursement is negotiated with insurers, so... they have to push the mill hard.
How an Android Spy App can curb the Facebook addiction of your teen?
In terms of education, universal education in Chess reminds me of teaching all 5-8 year olds the recorder instead of cello. Mathematically, Magic the Gathering is Turing Complete, surely that is better because it helps software eat the world.

Anyway, Futbol is superior to Go. A non-controversial opinion reflected in the way people vote with their feet (pun intended).
There's an analogy here for software and engineering too. Getting to root cause and finding solid solutions - takes curiosity, energy... and time.
> many more are not.

True, but

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

https://sci-hub.tw/

sad that it needs to exist, but good that it does.
Briton are 95% comfortable with massive surveillance.

Here's a true story, a few years ago I was supervising a diver training session at a swimming pool in London, it was closed to members of the public at the time. My locker was broken into, my phone, tablet, credit cards, car keys and bizarrely a load of Mexican money I happened to have in my wallet was stolen, as were a couple of other lockers. Thank God I hadn't driven in that evening, I'm sure the guy walked around all the local streets pushing the button and seeing if any cars lit up. That was the most annoying thing to get the car re-coded, I easily bricked all the devices and cancelled the cards, no activity was detected on them. Insurance replaced them. No idea what he wanted with or did with the pesos.

Anyway, the thief was caught on several CCTV cameras, should have been an easy job for the popo to pick him up, but actually, CCTV footage is next to useless. All you could tell was that he was 6-ish feet tall and approximate ethnicity. So I don't mind the pervasive surveillance, because it doesn't work anyway. I guess I am vaguely annoyed that taxpayer's money is wasted on any of it deployed by the government, but that's all. Maybe it at least has some deterrent effect, but this guy clearly wasn't bothered by being caught on camera at all, so probably not.
Heinlein's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice."

More on common razor heuristics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_%28philosophy%29

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Logical_razor