skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meaningful work isn't a guarantee that burnout won't happen.

My first small business I owned hit every bullet point in my career wants and desires and I burned out pretty hard on it. The constant state of being turned on, dangling the career carrot in front of myself wasn't healthy. I had a bad relationship with my own business.

Even though I enjoyed the work, the compensation was good, and I used my hands creatively, my own expectations weren't matching the reality and I still found myself becoming oddly dissatisfied with the work and becoming overwhelmed by the grind.

I think it's much deeper than just work being meaningful. My wife sits on a phone all day really doing useless work for a large publicly traded company and makes great money and absolutely loves it.

I think it boils down to each their own.
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I've commented in the past that the privacy community is diverse. I divide the community into (at least) two major groups:

- People who believe that privacy means being able to anonymously use services.

- People who believe that privacy means being able to control what other people do with data about you.

These are not compatible views, and they often conflict with each other -- both philosophically and practically.

If you believe you should be able to compel a business to delete data you gave them, then necessarily there needs to be a way for that business to confirm your identity and link you to that data. You become more concerned with this idea of "owning" information about yourself.

If you believe you should be able to do everything anonymously, then it becomes much harder to control information after it's been leaked. You can't implement things like geo-locking users because what you do with the information doesn't matter -- just collecting it is a problem.

If you're in the "everything should be anonymous" crowd, you're also less likely to agree with efforts like Right to Be Forgotten; you may even reject the idea of data ownership entirely. For someone in the "I control my own data" crowd, the Right to Be Forgotten is absolutely critical -- it's one of the most important safeguards we have against a future where everything is permanently indexed forever.

I'm oversimplifying, but at the moment, the majority of pure-tech solutions for privacy are on the "everything should be anonymous" side, and (at least for the moment) most legislative solutions are falling into the "you should control your own data" side. That leads to conflict. Not always, but sometimes.

It's important to keep in mind that even though the privacy movement is aligned on many issues, there is no binary "pro" or "anti" privacy, because there's disagreement from privacy advocates on both where we're going and how to get there. In this case, California's law is very much a "control my data" law. Points like, "Businesses would be required to comply with official consumer requests to delete that data" conflict with the way that "be anonymous" privacy advocates see the world.
Amazon has a huge amount of churn. Most employees only stick around for 2 years and then leave shortly afterwards (once the cash bonuses stop and they start dribbling out stock instead).
Thanks for posting this, I'll keep it in mind. It's funny how annoying it is when a TV takes 10 seconds to "boot up"
> If you engage in meaningful work, then it is impossible to get burned out for too long.

Yeah, sorry that doesn't work either(spent many years in gamedev doing what I thought was meaningful work at the time).

You know what prevents burnout? Not working insane hours.
Amazon presumably isn't spending on money on oil extraction. However the AWS profits they make from companies that do are probably helping to buy these EVs
I'm definitely not against it, but my guess is the best minds will now be put to work figuring out how to defeat, avoid, mitigate this regulation.
I suspect it'd work, just not recommended. I drive around with nearly 6 month old gas all the time and have used >1 year old gas in lawnmowers and boats (etc). I suspect it'd run rough after a year or so, but probably good enough in such a scenario.

EDIT: Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xktrYDny_lc
Can't speak for myself but my brother did a stint at a media company working remotely on a distributed team doing backend work in JS. He started at their office in NYC (natives) then moved to cali and worked remotely.

They would fly in to NYC and meet up about 2-3 times per year for a few days to the main office for big milestone stuff. The rest of the time they paired off in groups and worked on tasks. Communication was via slack and skype for voice I believe. Though they mainly just used slack. He rather enjoyed it.

Previously, he worked remotely for a small webdev shop and they micromanaged him until he quit. He said they would call, email and message him at least 8 times a day for progress on even the most mundane of projects. YMMV.
> - Consumers can opt out of their data being sold, and businesses can’t retaliate by changing the price or level of service.

> - Businesses can, however, offer “financial incentives” for being allowed to collect data.

This just means your service always costs money, but you can refund the full amount for allowing you to collect data.
Have you ever watched the show Yes, Minister?
> I'm not about to try psychedelics either, and still I'm filled with awe at the world

Wonderful! Psychedelics may not be relevant to your path.

For some, "magic" mushrooms (for example) a first glimpse, or a reminder, that this place is "magical" in a way that most of us curiously overlook constantly. That epiphany can have a lasting effect on a person.
> I would imagine they have one of the highest attrition rates ever for any tech company.

Pretty much this.
Federal Reserve intervenes for third day to ease market strains
Meanwhile, Mesa developers merged ACO compiler for AMDGPU, as the future replacement for llvm.
You can actually get a tax refund or credit for fuel used for your boat, since it’s exempt from road use tax.

http://americanboating.org/fueltax.asp
We didn't have to understand the systems and their feedback loops to break them.
Don't worry, there are enough runaway feedback loops we will all be dead by then. No one can turn this ship around fast enough; the planet will do it for us.
I don't understand this mentality. If someone is fine giving a company some information, and the company uses that to give them a better product, where is the harm? And what right do you have to stop those two parties from voluntarily exchanging goods and services?
I'm very gay so it's pretty easy for me not to have children.

Done.
I preferred the top-secret Russian microwave neuro-weapon headlines. :)
I don't have experience with remote teams but I imagine data privacy laws could cause some annoying issues. Imagine debugging some issue in Europe where PII is involved. You couldn't share that data outside Europe.
It's a normal town, it just has its convenient access routes blocked by a military base.
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You can get Money Stuff emailed to you for free. If they stop that, I will have to break down and get Bloomberg news.
> What's extraordinary about conspiracies?

1) Humans suck at keeping their mouths shut

2) Most conspiracy theories posit excessive competence (itself extremely rare) that somehow defies all the weird things that reality can throw at you and make things fail.

Most "conspiracies" had plenty of evidence even at the time--people chose to ignore it because it benefited them. See: Epstein, Weinstein, Cosby, etc.

So, real conspiracies that people don't know about do exist--but they are tremendously rare.
Loneliness. Working in solitude, with the only communication being written, short snippets of text or an occasional video conference.

It feels liberating at first, but absolutely suffocating if you're not deliberate to get out of the house. And at least personally, an occasional social Slack chat or video conference ends up feeling forced and contrived. It's just not enough - you have to be deliberate in seeing the people you love.
A lot of random people I run into in the USA make icky faces when I tell them about the PNW and it's weather. I've also lived there for many years, there are many climates in the USA I would prefer over the PNW, since AC is a thing.

Also bay area weather is pretty perfect too.
In my experience, roles are not "slated" for H1B applicants. Rather, companies have to evaluate whether or not the applicant is worth burning an H1B visa to hire them. The result is that the hiring bar is higher for foreign workers.
Oh hell no, HN users are largely startup types who are all-in on adtech/tracking tech and metrics for building their businesses.

There is an incessant amount of whining about GDPR for example, and how "confusing" the regulations supposedly are. What it comes down to is many HN denizens are doing things that are explicitly prohibited by these data collection laws and want to continue doing the things that have been outlawed.

As they say, it is difficult to get a man understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Is there a difference between offering, say, $12 monthly opt-out & $10 plan for opt-in vs flat $12 with a $2 discount to opt-in?
A collection of pipeline programming implementations in Tcl:

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Commands+pipe
They were apparently spraying INSIDE the offices. I'm not particularly concerned about pesticides in general, but I would NEVER use them indoors.

Also, the diplomatic buildings are likely well sealed and air conditioned while I suspect local buildings use more natural cooling (open windows and the breeze) and are thus better ventilated.
Burger King Now Accepts Bitcoin for Online Fast Food Orders in Germany
Is WeWork a Fraud?
> I don't believe OpenBSD considers GPLv2 to be acceptable either.

The GPLv3 is not acceptable in base at all, GPLv2 is unacceptable for new code, but we still have a few examples in base, very few.
The Pointer Events spec is a real joy.

For example, if you want to roll your own "drag" event for a given element, the API allows you to do this without reference to document or a parent container element. You can just declare that the element currently receiving pointer events capture subsequent pointer events until you release it[1].

Additionally, the API naturally lends itself to patterns that can easily be extended for multi-touch situations.

I'm quite curious which developer led the charge for this API and how they warded off committee meddling by people who lacked knowledge about the benefits of this approach.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/set...
Pet peeve: when editors/authors throw their opinions on the end of headlines. [and why it's a good thing / and why you should care / and why it's dangerous / etc]

Just give me the facts and let me decide on my own after reading the facts. I don't need your opinion up front.
Git does have a mechanism to remove data from history. It's ugly, and you end up with new commit hashes, but it works. It was designed for situations in which a developer accidentally adds something sensitive, like a production database snapshot, to source control.
I find having a remote-working spouse and pets helps make remote work less lonely as well!
Do you mean from LG specifically? Just had a quick google search for "meeting room display 4k hdr" and Sony Bravia professional displays including playing "online content with no need for external devices"
founder of Scale (scale.com) here! We worked with OpenAI to produce the human preferences to power this research, and are generally very excited about it :)
You're probably right about that. I think the average consumer also has fairly low tolerance for mishaps with novel experiences. If they have a bad time in the first one or two stays, the next discussion at Thanksgiving dinner will be about how Airbnb is dangerous and they much prefer hotels and others should too lest they put themselves at risk.
Where do you live? Our roadmap—literally—is quickly expanding to many more countries (we just launched in 8 new countries last week). And this new funding round will be put to use for that. :)
Thanks, this clarified my thinking on the issue in a really useful way.
If I understand correctly, the key difference is that the rand() function in a Turing machine cannot generate true random numbers (I think it's something like Martin-Lof?).
S386 employment based green card bill blocked in the Senate
Bureaucrazy is though.
The reason there are so many wonderful services available for free is because they make money selling your data. If the service is free, the product is you.

For many, many people, that is _fine_.

The real issue I see here is how this law is written and how we're interpreting it. If the law makes it so that people who want to opt out of free internet services because of privacy concerns are free to do so, then we're all good. If the law is written such that people who want to avail themselves of free services in exchange for their data are no longer able to do so because that business model is broken, then I see a lot of problems.
Over the last four years the USD has moved in the range 0.92-1.03 CHF (a +/- 5.6% interval around the midpoint). The average rate is 0.985, the standard deviation 0.019 (2.0%).

Over the last four years the EUR has moved in the range 1.06-1.20 CHF (a +/- 6.0% interval around the midpoint). The average rate is 1.117, the standard deviation 0.034 (3.1%).

Even though the exchange with the USD is slightly more stable in this case (it depends on the period and metric chosen) saying that it's pegged is an exaggeration.

By the way, the CHF was not pegged to the EUR either. There was a minimum rate set by the SNB at 1.20 but it floated as high as 1.26 in 2013.
Serendipity is a lot harder when you're distributed. The close proximity of being in the same room and overhearing conversations helps you stay a lot more connected.
Airbnb plans to go public in 2020
You need to be really chatty on IM channels. I work a lot with distributed teams and got in the habit of basically just bantering on Slack. Like, not just waiting for work topic, but talk about Game of Thrones or how I'm feeling. The kind of things you'd chat about if you were in person. It helps humanize each other and keep conversation flowing.
> It was probably the best made Chevy at the time, a kind of flagship project.

In 2013, the Volt and Cadillac CTS shared the highest score (3.00) of any General Motors vehicle in Consumer Reports Reliability Index (excluding the Pontiac Vibe which is really a Toyota rebadge).

For comparison: 37 (of 41) Toyota vehicles scored the same or better than the Volt.
Initial setup is definitely not as fast as we'd like it to be given that we have to do identity verification, both for fraud prevention and AML compliance. Once you've gone through that setup, the interaction is near-instant, and the Bitcoins go directly into your wallet.

Both Zap and the Sparkswap app are open source, which should reduce some of the trust you have to place in them.

The trust issue with fiat is difficult to get around, with both Sparkswap and any other service that interacts with the traditional financial system. By removing custody of at least the Bitcoin side of the transaction, we think we're taking a step in the right direction.

Overall your feedback is well-taken - there is certainly more we can do to reduce the number of steps and different pieces of software / service providers that users need to interact with to use Sparkswap.
Crypto Coming to Android Smartphones with HTC and Bitcoin.com Partnership
... and if you plan to handle this type of highly sensitive data, you should be prepared to provide some basic levels of compliance, including appropriate auditing of sensitive data along with informed consent from users.
I don't understand why you see companies packaging their products as enabling littering.

If a company produces a product, and then someone uses that product to commit a crime, did the company enable the criminal?

Do you apply this reasoning to any other crimes?
Ask HN: Which APIs do you dislike? Why?
They are profound to the experiencer precisely because they are experienced. They are seen and felt in an entirely absorbing manner.
My reading of the LLVM Exceptions statement is that if a judge understands the the Apache 2.0 patent provision section (and others) to not be the same as GPLv2, then the section is waived. The preamble of the GPLv2 summarizes its stance on patents in lay terms that seem to be compatible with what OpenBSD wants:

"We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all."

Source: https://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php

(I'm not a lawyer)
What would you recommend for things like school work?

I do full time development work but I'm self taught. When I was hired the company agreed to pay for part of the tuition to get a degree. I'm still a couple years away from completing all the courses, but I just can't handle a lot of the material. Much of it is outdated and a lot is biased based on the instructors past work and experiences. Last year I had to take a class on ASP.NET (web apps, not MVC). The school's introductory database class used MS Access.

I know there are benefits to these from a historical standpoint. Understanding where the technology came from. Access may also be easier for absolute beginners to jump into. Much of it just seems like a waste of my time though since I know these systems have been replaced. Having to work full time _and_ study technology that I know isn't commonly used has worn me down quite a bit. I no longer have the drive to learn that I once did. The obvious answer would be to find a better institution to attend classes, but I have a limited budget to spend on tuition annually and few colleges will allow for the schedule I need to continue working.
That's a syntax knowledge problem, not a readability problem. \x -> introduces a lambda function with a parameter x, like (x) => in javascript etc.
Charging different customers a different price for the same product is illegal under US law, and California laws don’t change that.

EDIT: Several comments below point out the innumerable businesses operating in such a way as to make mine an impossible claim.

Enumerating the established methods to avoid meeting the legal parameters of price discrimination is not the same as price discrimination being legal.

My bar for following just laws is higher than the minimum required to avoid being prosecuted. I’m sure experts can help work around any future privacy laws too, so why even worry?

Surveillance already creates a different product one can charge more for, though your lawyer might advise you call it “personalization” in memos.
> Verbosity is not inherently good.

Agreed.

> In fact, I think verbosity is inherently bad.

Here I disagree. To take it to an absurd extreme: LZW compress your source code. Hey, it's less verbose! But that's not a net win.

Instead, I think that there is an optimal value of terseness. More verbose than that, and you waste time finding the point. More terse than that, and you waste time decoding what's going on.

Now, what is "optimal" is going to depend on the reader, both on their experience and their preference. With experience, certain idioms are clear, and don't require thought. The same is true of syntax. (Both Haskell and C become more readable with experience.) But some people are still going to prefer (and do better reading) a more terse style, and others are going to prefer a more verbose style.
Highlights from React Day NYC
It didn't seem like the OP was making any kind of claim about those pet peeves being held by an average AirBnB user. In any case, it seems like a bold strategy to fight anecdata with anecdata. To that end, it doesn't look like booking.com has had any noticeable difference in google trends relative to AirBnB.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
> On the flip side, the downsides of regulations don’t outweigh their utility.

Often times, they do. Often regulations don't even achieve their own goals. Sometimes they even result in the opposite.
Reminds me of John McAfee.
You don’t have to be a power user to want to read reviews chronologically; your mother isn’t the average user either.

This is something I noticed as a first time user.
Logary v5 released – metrics, logging unified
In LLVM terms, it's referring to these kinds of stores:

@vval = constant double 1.0, align 8
define void @foo(double *val) {
store double %val, double @cval, align 8
|

At the LLVM level, the "const" qualifier to pointers and other non-global values get reflected nowhere in the type system. But if you declare a const global variable, that variable gets placed in a read-only data section.
As bad as it is, it’s way better than the K-T boundary event.
Do you have the original tweet or is this just speculation?

This (now deleted) tweet says otherwise, https://twitter.com/ccnim/status/368833796837372544 /s
Ha I remember doing the same thing when I was ~6 years old in South Korea. There would be these trucks that went around spraying mosquito killing fog in the apartment complexes and all the little kids from the neighborhood would run behind them.

Well now I'm 30 and so far things seem to be ok! Fingers crossed
Is that actually true? Or is it just that given their paranoia & interests, posting about it on a public message board might not be a good idea?
The issue I have with these explanations is that they require more contortions than I'm comfortable with. Multiple reports from multiple people with and without scopes are hardly an easy thing to explain.

There are things that people notice, empirical observations if you want to call them like this, that have a certain social stigma associated with them. And I feel that, precisely _because_ of this stigma, people rush to justifications and conclusions that fit our normal model. But how can we find out what they actually are if we try to wiggle things within our model, how can we tell if our model is somehow incomplete?

I will say that I am unconvinced by the explanations people have for these events. They feel forced, contorted and somehow touched by the spirit of the environment that gave birth to the explanations.
No, the point is that it's important to address and control for all of the consequences of policy - including the unintended ones.
Stochastic magnetic circuits rival quantum computing
The tech behind the UK filter is a steaming hot pile of S anyway.

oh sure it'll filter po.rnhub.con but reddit.com/r/nsfw nope. I suspect a horny 16 year old can figure that one out

Also...the whole "type your credit card number into this sketchy looking barebones site" tactic for verification just screams amateur hour
It's still a very long way from Safari on battery life. As is Google Chrome, by the way.
I don't know of any. Maybe the people who know this are too busy building them. I might be in trouble for writing as much as I did. :-)
AI+Podcast:+Focal+Systems+Brings+AI+to+Grocery+Stores+|+Nvidia+Blog
I did a software engineering internship at Overstock circa 2013-2014, and have a couple interesting stories myself.

However while an intern there I heard a story that Patrick Byrne locked a team of engineers in a room and didn't let them out until they implemented bitcoin payments into Overstock. Do you happen to know if this story is true? I remember at the time that made Overstock one of the first bigger mainstream websites to support Bitcoin.