skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I want to spend time partaking in my hobbies on the weekend. However, I often find myself lifeless and staring blankly out the window. My mind is tired, my body is fatigued. By the time I'm fully rested it's Sunday night. At that point, it's time to head to bed and start the cycle of work again.

This in particular resonates. I used to be in the same sitch. Eventually it became unbearable, a random 3 hours errand would ruin my week. How much could I have accomplished in those 3 hours, I was telling myself.

I was also trying to work on a startup in my spare time but it wasn't possible. Sometimes, you spend half day fixing some build system and by next week, you'll
forget where you left off.

Eventually I had to quit my job to maintain my sanity. It's insane how much you can accomplish in a good week. I recommend it to anyone questioning their current employment situation. Hit me up (email is in my profile) if you want to explore this life style.
The crazy thing is that even if you fail, you’ll be ten times the programmer as when you left.

Two IRL friends quit their jobs to work on their own startups or freelance. I've also convinced one person here on HN to do the same.

Those startup ideas might be more realistic than you realize, if you are given enough time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

It's a fantastic movie I ought to rewatch one of these days...
Not if power is derived from goods. Goods of limited accessibility are by definition no commodity, though, so you would be right in that sense.
See also the venerable Color FAQ, a link to which is conspicuously absent:

http://www.poynton.com/ColorFAQ.html
Imagine you are on the professor search committee. You get inundated with 500 applications, many from jokers with no chance from a diploma mill who just spam every search committee. How do you filter so many applications?
Hey, a rare exception to Betteridge's law of headlines.
Gravity decreases as you move inside the Earth.
And would I have any way to actually reach a human at Google, aside from media heat from a Reddit/HN/etc front page story?
This is a great example of the principle of unintended consequences. It's interesting to reflect on whether sperm banks contracts from decades ago give them protection from lawsuits in such cases. It is even unclear the degree 23me are protected. Both policy makers, on the the regulatory side, and lawyers doing risk management, should take a hard look at stories such as this.
It sounds great but good luck. I’ve been struggling with my $97k student loan debt for 9 years and I’m finally on the downhill slide. There’s no way I’m wrecking all the work I’ve already put in at this point. I suspect many others would feel the same way.
Creep? not to me. Obnoxious? Oh yes. My default reply is usually to stress test my vocabulary of profanities.
Other than Frost, Peter Luger, or Bamontes, and then the original Planet Thailand on N 7th - still the best basil beef I have ever had.

I grant that the Chinese food was very bad.
> Is there a causal linkage between student loan debt and the rich getting richer?

The lenders are rich. That's how lending works - you have money (are rich) so you lend it now for more later (get richer).
College students in the previous century had a remedy. It was removed in 2005.

Forbes: "In 2005, Congress passed, and President George W. Bush signed, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, which exempted federal and private students loans from discharge."

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

IIRC correctly, the number and size of student loans grew greatly after this Act. College students who received advice which encouraged them to take on huge debt loads - on speculation - were essentially thrown into the water to see if they could learn to swim.
There isn't enough detail here. Which agencies gave an unknown (still unknown even now!) actor or actors access to all information that the public passed to them over the internet? What harms has the public suffered as a result?
Unintended consequences
“Don’t you guys have phones?”
This resonates with me. I love my work, I really like what I do, I think it's mentally challenging, interesting, and important for our world and civilization and I believe I'm compensated well enough. But it's tiring ok? And all I can ever do on weekends is lying on my bed watching netflix. I work 9 to 6 and work out intensely for 2 hours every week day. By the time it's saturday I'm both physically and mentally exhaust. I cannot do anything other than sleeping. Of course this is not a good situation for various reasons: no friends, no relationships, no hobbies. Just work, gym, and recovering from those two. I like this for a lot of reasons (which is why I do it) but I acknowledge that my life is also pathetic. I wouldn't be surprised if I died alone.
The simplest answer, without getting bogged down in details that don’t change the answer, is found in the classic equation: E^2=m^2c^4+p^2c^2. We know that E=hf=pc, so we also know that the answer to your question is “Yes” and “No” respectively.
What, exactly, would you propose?
If you work 5 days, 2 day weekend, that’s 150% more workdays than days off. Replace just one of those workdays with a day off, and it drops radically - just 33% more workdays than days off.
And they had an amazing forum, I remember learning Photoshop there and reverse engineering with a group called FFF (Does anything remember a guy with the mr clean profile pic, Mr. X i think..?). Then they decided to redesign the forum and everyone left.
I've been working remotely my whole life (freelance developer).

It's interesting how jaded I am of driving in general. There are certain intersections in my town where it's common to get stuck at a red light that lasts for minutes. Things like this put me on complete life tilt. All I think about is "how can anyone put up with this every day?". I'm no longer surprised why people go berserk out of no where.

I really don't know how people do it. Getting stuck in traffic or waiting on long red lights sucks the life out of you because it's such an utter waste of time. Maybe I'm just not used to it (I drive, but it's usually outside of rush hour), but man, I am pretty sure I couldn't exist in a world where I had to do the traffic grind daily.
All of these strike me as more plausible motivations for unpaid internships rather than wanting to shape society.

Where exactly did I say that? I'm pretty sure I didn't speak in hyperbole. Unpaid internships are a very easy way to have a large group of people remove themselves from consideration. Many of these people are considered undesirable by the people offering the internship.
Why is that surprising? The negative effects of nicotine are well known and extensively documented and tested. It's not hard to find, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine.

Smoking is worse than getting nicotine from other than tobacco related substances like a juul. But n. on it's own is a deadly substance. Please see this article:

Increased clotting tendancy, atherosclerosis, enlargement of the aorta, passes into the milk to infants, also: (didn't copy all the references)

"Nicotine induces both behavioral stimulation and anxiety in animals.[4] Nicotine addiction involves drug-reinforced behavior, compulsive use, and relapse following abstinence.[18] Nicotine dependence involves tolerance, sensitization,[19] physical dependence, and psychological dependence.[20] Nicotine dependency causes distress.[21][22]"

Someone wants this?
>We know an active attacker is targeting government organizations.

>Using techniques that aren’t especially innovative, we know they can intercept and manipulate legitimate traffic, make services unavailable or cause delay, harvest information like credentials or emails, or cause a range of other malicious activities.

>We know that this type of attack isn’t something many organizations monitor for or have tight controls around.

Interesting that they've specifically identified a case of this ongoing in a coordinated manner. Makes sense why it'd be an "emergency directive" in this case.
Why did you not consider promoting the latest supplemental index into being main one and trigger reindexing?
I love the Gopher protocol but there is no practical difference between a gopher service and a web server serving directory listings and files.
Thank you! I am glad to know that I am not the only one who feels like that. Maybe I am not a weird and ungrateful person just because it seriously creeps me out when companies like Revolut wish me happy birthday?
I used to work a 4-day week (a true 32-hour week, not 4 x 10 or something) and it was the greatest thing I've ever done. All the "weekend stuff" you can do on your extra day, and get two full days off. I can't believe how great it was.
> That would be the end of poor people going to college in this country, at least under the current legislative regime.

Or alternatively, end of the current university system. One thing that always confused me when looking at US and UK unis (both had prices rise a lot) and my home uni is how much extra stuff is added. I went there for technical education, and that's pretty much all my first University provided, and it was really cheap. It didn't have sports teams/events, on-campus clubs/entertainment, student union bars, fancy areas. It used soviet-era-style big slab buildings, and provided reasonable education. Yes, going to a UK uni was nicer. It also cost me ~200x more, to support all the extra things.

People who just want the degree should be able to get just that without the lifelong debt.
Idk, I tried to self study the first two chapters of a very hated textbook (Principles of Mathematical Analysis). If you’d have asked me if I understood the material I would have said no. But by the time I took the actual class on that material I made high As on all the exams and could call out mistakes my professor made on metric sets with counter examples.
I wish there was more information in this article. This subject is super interesting to me but I do not know where to start on the non deep learning aspect. Does anyone have any pointers?
As Colm MacCárthaigh noted on Twitter, not only does DNSSEC not defend against the most likely and damaging DNS attacks (hijacking between clients and servers, and hijacking at the registrar), it actually makes things worse: an attacker who has achieved the vantage point these attackers have can use DNSSEC to semipermanently poison records by using it to sign high-TTL records.

It's not my claim that DNSSEC is what enabled this attack in the first place. But there's no way I'm going to leave the irony of USG agencies laboriously configuring their security-theater DNSSEC protocol while not being able to defend their registrar accounts or get basic MFA deployed.
Not really. Adblock made deals with advertisers so people have to use Adblock Pro, and avoid Adblock awesome because it has adware. Same for uBlock.

edit: To make my point clear: it seems unfeasible to weed out bad actors without relying on good actors. Someone you place trust in (adblock list maintainers, p2p network filter maintainers) can make deals with who you try to avoid ('non-intrusive ads', mates). It's little better than letting the centralised host moderate, especially when the biggest moderators like Adblock are the ones we tell people to avoid. Otherwise it's just like PGP, perfectly designed to be never used.
Wow, close!

This appears to be working with solid rocket motors, thrust vectoring, and a carefully timed ignition. How do they get accurate distance to ground? Is altitude just a constant for these tests?
4x10's, and cut mondays out of your life.
it is, but my impression is that, because the proponent has associated it as a possible explanation for a lot of crazy things like voyager speed anomaly, which we now know is probably due to outgassing, or EMDrive, which is probably measurement error.

On its surface it doesn't seem unreasonable.
I just switched to every other Friday off and it seems like it will help a lot. I can never relax until like Saturday evening and then Sunday it's like welp, back to work.
Yeah, did I mention "Highly isolated apartment buildings"? (I did ;)

In fact, there are apartments here in Amsterdam that stay a cool 20C in winter with little or no heating at all, just the warmth from the water boiler flue running through the heat exchanger of the air ventilator.

Nationally sponsored infrastructure plans to replace existing buildings with energy class A at scale would put a big dent on energy consumption.
A company owning whitehouse.com and a government entity owning whitehouse.gov? I'd call that working as intended.
I love my work too. But this still resonates with me. Yesterday I left work at 8:30. Why? Because I'm designing a software architecture that will change a lot of people's lives around the world and I ended up having this stimulating conversion about our design with my coworker. Nobody does this if they don't like their work. I do this only because I believe I'm capable of contributing something to conversation, and I want to contribute. But we're all humans and I think having entirely exhaust on weekends is pretty expected after working hard for 5 days. I hate weekends because I'd much rather working. I hate weekends because it gives me this existential crisis, it makes me feel like I'm not doing anything with my life.
The CIE XYZ color space is fundamental to all modern color space processing. Very cool that it was defined in 1931 and has held up more-or-less unchanged to today. Be sure to click and drag on the 3d cubes!
Which is tragically funnier because the original author is a better writer in every aspect
Get 4 weeks off, then spend it off grid, the more primitive the better, fighting the elements and hunting for food. When you get home you will be really happy just having a warm bed.
That's for motivation. But then there's your brain being completely fried by the end of the weekend, be glad that you do not have a mundane repetitive work (or be glad if you do).
That isn't the economic trap of living in a company town, that is like living in the more expensive area of town. So the company town effect doesn't happen. They can only raise their prices too much before the cost of goods outweighs the cost of inconvenience.

I really doubt that any sort of real 'company town' effect will happen.
I think the one-sentence summary would be "Content without code, and a bare minimum of formatting."

The lesson from the modern web being, if you give web developers a toolbox, they'll figure out how to build a surveillance system.

And for decades we've been creating more powerful tools (Flash/ActionScript, ActiveX, JavaScript, Wasm, etc).

The answer would seem to be that we should be far more careful what tools we allow to be used.

(Note: Not saying restrict all the web this way, but if one wanted to build parent article's wikipedia-esque info web)
>figure out how to charge local sales tax

That's laughable. Charging local sales tax was always a trivial excercise for Amazon. They fought it until they knew they couldn't win any more and then embraced it knowing that they would want to try to control the discussion and try to force any smaller competitors to comply as well to eliminate any advantage for their competition.

In other words, they never would have started charging local sales tax if they thought they could get away with it.
We moved from a 7 day working week to a 6 day working week about 2000 years ago, and to 5 days about 100 years ago, it's time to move to 4 days. In addition the 5th day should be used for lifelong education, people should be expected to learn about all the new things that have been invented since they left school, or refresh what they're not good at.
So does setting up Let's Encrypt + automating the renewal, and you don't have to spend a dollar in those 5 minutes.
"How do you refer to your mother?"

I say "mother", why is that not in the list of predefined answers!?!

"Which of these words (if any) would you use for a baby?"

Baby. I say "baby" to describe a baby. How is this also not in the list of common answers!

I say many words for many things, e.g. I also say "sprog" for baby which was one of the predefined answers. What I can't understand is why these predefined answer sets don't contain the question word, do people really use (for example) "baby" less frequently than "sprog" to refer to a baby so it wasn't listed? Seems unlikely to me.
Yes, I meant denormalize. Thanks.
Effort spent on DNSSEC might have been better spent on e.g. CT.
Considering the top two cybersecurity roles in the US government have been vacant since mid 2018, it's fortunate that there are still some people focused on area.
I totally agree that college is a useful path to building critical thinking skills and becoming a well-rounded individual, but I don't think that's why most people enroll.

Instead, I think if you surveyed people, the most prevalent reason for enrolling in college is the belief that it's a wise investment in their financial future. My belief is that this is just not true for 90% of potential graduates. And, wasting 4 years and $300K is a huge mistake when taken in the context of this college debt crisis.

I don't know what the short-term solution is, but I think the long-term solution is for companies to stop requiring college degrees and move towards evaluating the skills that actually correlate with job output. As a business owner, I've certainly done this, and I hope we can move in this direction quickly as a society.
It sounded like they were referring to something specific, but didn't provide examples. I want to know exactly what they're worried about so that I can answer the question, but I haven't been given enough to go on. It sounds like they're worried about prices being jacked up by large amounts, but I'm not aware of that even having happened. Absent that, the current prices are what they are; pay them or don't, but you know what you're getting into.
The latter. There are more than 170 million objects with dimensions up to 1cm, while the larger ones are less than a million.
What made you stop doing this?

I'm currently doing something similar at the moment, and I can't imagine I would want to go back to a traditional M-F 9-5 schedule.
I went one further and dropped down to 3 days a week. I earn less now sure but I get 3 full days to commit to hobbies/activities AND a no-guilt dedicated rest day.

I'm in my mid-late twenties however, where the time is certainly much more valuable to me. A lot of the things I find most fun are rather physically demanding, you can go much harder for much longer on a mountain bike or on skis the younger you are.

I guess there's an argument that you can retire earlier if you work more right, but I think I'd get less out of that than having more time now. Maybe that'll prove to be a mistake in the long run, who knows.
Hmm, you get to pick a window on Enterprise too, but while it will remind you from time to time, I haven't had it force a reboot.
Granted, I only have experience with the US, and
I'm sure it doesn't extrapolate.

Just to share an anecdote, since you mentioned the above: In Israel when my father was in a hospital after complications from surgery, the doctor told my mother that it is only a matter of time until he dies & that if anyone should see him before that happens now's the time.

I think when pressed she said something like "he probably has a few weeks to a few months to live", and he died about 4 weeks later. I'm glad that I got the chance to fly to visit him before his passing which I wouldn't have had if she had the same attitude as your father's doctor.
> Middle class Germans pay twice as much or more

Citation needed. My personal experience paying taxes in both EU/NL and US/TX is that I pay slightly more in the US, in pretty much the same situation (family of four, two incomes)
CT: extensively remarked on in this advisory.
Premium prices are set at the registry level, and for Google's TLDs, are charged annually. The EAP fee is a one time only up-front cost.

Domains being sold by resellers are something different entirely, but yeah, some registrars that participate in reseller networks may lump those in as "premium" as well, which is confusing. Those prices tend to be one-time acquisition costs.
5 minutes once forever is even less of a big deal.
Yes. There is a book by Serhii Plonkhy called ‘Chrrnobyl’. The lasting impression I have is that every single stage of management, design and construction was broken.
One chapter alone makes the whole great book worthwhile - describing the Russian presentation at the European conference in Switzerland after the disaster.
Sounds like War Games + Terminator + Dr. Strangelove
I was actually curious how cruise missiles were defined in itar. The definition of missiles is really broad and actually includes lots of UAVs.

> “Missiles”. (All) Rocket systems (including ballistic missiles, space launch vehicles, and sounding rockets) and unmanned aerial vehicle systems (including cruise missiles, target drones, and reconnaissance drones) “capable of” delivering at least 500 kilograms payload to a range of at least 300 kilometers.
It was well before the days of the internet, and it happened at Amsterdam Auto RAI.

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

Possibly some newspaper morgue has an article about it, it caused quite a few giggles at the time. The funny thing is that nobody could describe the perps but everybody could describe their overalls.
Senators are moral imbeciles, and so it goes. Without a strong move in the senate to make this happen and damn the backlash, America is stuck with the rolling disaster that is their NRC, and decentralized ad hoc storage of spent fuel. It’s crazy, but it part of a long list of crazy and self destructive things that form the American status quo with “Senators are moral imbeciles” throbbing at their core.
OV is useless. No consumers look at it. It’s just a sad attempt for CAs to trick people into paying for something they don’t need.
Yeah, and neither are any of us. The idea that we're just going to lose incredibly central open-source projects in five years--or, frankly, fifty--is bonkers and your objection is to the color of the bikeshed.
To the company, it's just an extension of customer support for the most part. Usually if you avoid mentioning their keyword they will leave you alone.
Unsurprising. Not because of the state of retail, but because they were purchased in 2012 by an investment firm (Blum Capital) and a private equity group (Golden Gate) that's known for leveraged buyouts. They closed their Australian stores in 2016, and now they're doing the same to the rest of their stores. They've slowly been dividing the assets up and carving/dividing the corpse up to squeeze blood from the stone.

I'll leave it up to someone smarter than I am to tell exactly how much of this was corporate raiding and how much was actually unsustainable business.
I think that's because those answers don't do anything to place you on the map. If you use "baby" to describe a baby, you could be from anywhere. So it's not a useful choice for this test.
The issue might be executing 3rd party code on a server.
Yes - once you have full control of your time things like traffic and lineups drive you bonkers.

Honestly, one would think that 'less stress' and a more peaceable mindset give one more resilience in dealing with such things, but just the opposite.

To deal with traffic you almost have to 'give up' on the notion of doing something quickly and resign to the reality of it, which is what happens if you have to deal with it daily.

When working from home I avoid doing absolutely anything during rush hour.
Towards a New Epistemology of Mathematics (2008)
Interesting, I had never heard of them before. That's very affordable pricing.
They have land. Land usually beats inflation.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of Crisp before!