skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been burnout sometimes, can relate to some of this. But don't underestimate the importance of your health.

My advice:

Be clear with the founders of your core feeling of burnout and _inform_ them you need to take 4 weeks+ vacations to recover. Make it non-negotiable.

Avoid as much as you can going into the details.

You are likely right about many parts of your assessment as that level of incompetence is not uncommon and likely wrong about some as your naturally in psychological pain. Between the emotional turmoil of burnout and what appears to be a fairly dysfunctional work environment I think it's unwise to make big decisions or trigger big retrospectives without the clarity that comes with a mind well rested.

If you had a really good relationship with the team, scaling the work down to 4h/day max could be good to, but I suspect it will not be effective in this case so I would avoid that too.
Interesting take since archive.is refuses connections from Brave.
I'd more ask why we need corporate charters sponsored and endorsed by the government. They solely exist to exonerate private persons from responsibility for harm done.
Would you call your phone 'material science'?
Yes imagine it wasn't black holes but instead the quadratic formula. And you had to explain it with only analogies and absolutely no mathematical notation. I'm sure you could make some kind of explanation but it's not going to be very helpful to anyone.
Very interesting paper indeed.

Could be more appealing if the vanilla html was properly styled though.
Cmocka Unit Tests at Netdata
4. Isn’t true.

Even at zero actual growth, you would have nominal growth that matches the inflation rate.

Inflation means that the prices of the products that the companies sell increase as well.

Inflation doesn’t matter
As my physics lab teacher taught us, all breakthroughs in physics happen after new better measuring instruments become available. Modern cosmology is starved of such new equipment, hence devoid of any real progress, having to wallow in theoretical bogmires instead. I would suggest all those funds and scientists be instead diverted to researching nuclear fusion, which is the more pressing goal for humanity right now.
Obair (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/obair/jffaiidojfhf...) is a variant of the memex idea mentioned. It's not quite a universal memex for your digital life (which by the way is really inspiring) but rather made specifically for work docs across different work tools.

Disclaimer: I'm working on it and it's really early in the process :) Should I make Obair more broad?
On [0], this "Meta-Analysis" was only for pro-social behavior and the longest study they looked at had people meditate for a total of only three months. You are right science does not have rigorous research to support some of claimed benefits of mindfulness meditation, but calling it fake and citing a sourc that starts its article by declaring meditation pseudoscience does not exactly seem rigorous either. I think the answer is somewhere in the middle: there are definitely benefits to mindfulness meditation, but we need more research.
Rent, Food, Gas, Utilities are the biggest drivers for personal cost of living increases, these do not have price cuts due to technology.

All 4 of the big household expenses are increasing at a rate of 7-20% depending on where you live
Sounds a bit like things rendering Enterprise's transporters inoperative just when beaming up the away-team would have been the easiest solution.

Oh, and to make it less obvious, you better announce a few minutes earlier that a plasma storm is forming in the upper atmosphere.
Yes please. Open -> paywall -> close.
no. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_content_recognitio...
Yes. I'm not a boomer but I do feel like one sometimes.
We make more things, but we consume less resources to do it today than ever before. That was the essential point of Andrew McAfee's book and his discussion on Econtalk the other week.

https://www.econtalk.org/andrew-mcafee-on-more-from-less/

That appears to be backed up here too; this article reports that the $GDP per kWh is increasing over time.

Does this then mean that reducing GDP will have disproportionately LESS of an effect on energy consumption than it will have on value? I.e. we will have to take a much bigger hit on value produced to effect energy consumed.
> If you as an officer resist, the collective of shareholders will replace you with someone who will make more money.

How? Shareholders are either to small to wield power, or big enough to be equivalent to a private owner. There are plenty of boring public companies that don't fight for 10+% share price growth every year.
It's absolutely not obvious whether digital technologies reduce energy consumption globally.

E-mail reduced the amount of letters, but Amazon increased the amount of packages.

Over-the-air TV broadcasts consumed way less energy than FHD personalized YouTube streams.

Americans own more than 20 electronic products per household.

etc.
Not really, but I would definitely call it electronics
We were in that first California batch for our old company Inkling Markets. I remember going through our interview and being asked very few questions about our actual idea, and instead Paul asking a bunch of questions about a political blog I was writing at the time. Being consultants at the time working for big companies we walked out thinking what the hell was that and questioning if we even wanted to make this leap if we were offered. But that night at 9pm as we were aimlessly wandering around Cambridge waiting for a call back (or not) we decided we'd do it if they called. "We want to invest in you. You have 5 minutes to decide if you want to come. If we don't hear back from you by then, we'll assume you're not interested." We called back, flew home, quit our consulting jobs and two months later drove out from Chicago to live in a rented house in Cupertino.

We did YC again in 2011 and it was kind of a shit show, but I'll never forget my time out there Jan - Apr in 2006. Probably still one of the most productive, eye opening experiences I've ever had in my entire life.
I never have been able to find a cuckoo install guide that feels straightforward. Any tips or links you can share that helped you?
"Black Friday" is an offensive phrase to me. It's unnecessary and alienating to me; the very concept reminds me that I am trapped in a consumerist hell. On the other hand, fucking is quite natural, quite reasonable, happens all the time in healthy societies, and is part of the backbone of human existence,

Try these instead:

* Fuck consumerism

* Fuck malls

* Fuck sale pricing

And so on.
What a terrible industry we work in. He should at the very least let them fire him so he can claim unemployment (assuming in the states) which the company will have to pay for. This may also be a lesson to never work for a startup. He should create his own if he insists on startup responsibilities.
No, it's much more likely that BTC was a state funded vehicle for surveillance. Take that with a grain of salt, I could be totally wrong.
I don't think the author is suggesting reduction of GDP, but the reduction of GDP growth...
organs may not necessarily be taken for transplantation only, tissues from various parts of human body are valuable for lab research of various kinds.

Also, what kind of evidence would be sufficient for you? A video footage of harvesting from one of the camps?
2016?.... No 2016 is when a lot of people finally noticed it. It was occurring long before that. Large multinationals have been consolidating news for decades. Noam Chomsky has been warning about this for quite some time.
> quite good at adjusting interest rates

and manipulating measurements
Indeed. Interesting mix of theory ("here's how RSA works and why") and practice (list of specs and RFCs), but very old-school.

Today, I'd expect less focus on RSA and PGP, and instead a mention of elliptic curves, the Signal protocol (double ratchet), etc.
Xiaomi CEO reveals how 10% gross profit margin compared to 40% (Apple) is enough
I believe it’s already illegal. Hence one of the suits against them.
> as a woman I was always better with words than numbers

As a man and a mechanical engineer, I was and still am way better with words than numbers and I think it's perfectly OK. Heck, I almost hate numbers and symbols without (the explanatory) words/paragraphs. I struggled at classes throughout all my years as a student since almost every topic in engineering is "applied", hence without a rigorous (theoretical) background and so much example/case based.

I wonder if it has something to do with how one's memory works. Isn't it easier for everyone to remember/visualize concepts and then deriving the formula than trying to remember the exact formula? (Writing this down, I imagine the people who do the former are better with words as the ones who do the latter are better with numbers). The derivation of equations governing the Hagen–Poiseuille flow is a good example, I presume[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagen%E2%80%93Poiseuille_equat...
The problem of excessive energy consumption isn't caused by the people in poor countries though.
I think that abolish is a bit strong to say here. For sure he wanted to give us an alternative to not need a bank rather than destroying them.
Most of these issues are ineffective regulatory systems.

Companies that don’t grow are either dying or turning into DMV.
Despite 12 years of terrible grades, due to an education system that simply didn't fit, which pretty much banned me from engineering or computer science in university, I still managed to find a different route into software engineering. I love it. It challenges me every day. It is exciting and engaging and fun. I've found self-drive and motivation without the need for medication anymore. And because of it my family gets to grow up in a household where there's never any fights about money, something that was all too present when I was a kid.

I'm thankful for finding our first and hopefully last home this year. It's amazing how different it feels to have a stake in the ground. Everything feels worth doing properly, spending a little extra on, taking care of.

I'm thankful for my family's good health. Part of that is thankfulness for living in a part of the world where my employment isn't tied to our health. I feel so lucky that I'm in charge of my future and don't feel in any way controlled by, "but I can't quit, I need health insurance/mortgage payment/ etc." It's a liberating feeling to be able to walk away at any minute if I really needed to. When my mom got sick my dad instantly retired and they spent the twilight of her life travelling the world. What an amazing gift.
This article is attempting to put an extremely positive spin ("new law makes Germany 'crypto[currency] heaven'", "leads to institutional investors", "major breakthrough", "massive for adoption") on a government crackdown. To be expected given that decrypt.co is funded by ConsenSys, which was in turn founded by someone who had (in Feb 2018) an estimated "net worth in cryptocurrency to be between one and five billion [US] dollars"[0], so they have a vested interest in promoting cryptocurrencies. But why does this sort of advertising keep on cropping up on HN?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lubin_(entrepreneur)
The wealth of billionaires is quite 'real', as long as it's much smaller than the overall amount of money available.

To take a simpler case, take "quantitative easing", QE, which is a euphemism for printing money. Is that money real? Yes. And it will continue to be until people lose confidence in the currency. Remember that money is data - to print a billion dollars a central bank tells their software to do a quick `moneyToLoan += 10e9`.

The wealthy do play a different game, though. The game you play as labor is to keep yourself and your family alive, healthy, and comfortable. This game, call it game 1 is winnable! And when you win that, you get to play another exclusive game, call it game 2 which is 'allocating capital to make even more capital'. (Of course, you don't have to wait to win game 1 to play game 2, and since most people consume in proportion to income, the goalposts move, effectively keeping them in game 1 forever). But game 2 is the game that government plays, but in miniature. It's the game of power; a nice pot of money lets you reach out into the world through labor and do anything the human hand or head can do. The geeky idealists want to do something really big, like settle Mars. The cynical egoists just want MORE, and are willing to commit planetary suicide for a little extra.
You are conflating KWhr with KWhr/production. KWhr is increasing because production is increasing faster than efficiency is increasing.
What usability issues does Google have?
Can you teach how to approach, breakdown and learn a subject? Can you teach them to take available data into consideration instead of accepting whatever the “source of truth” will spoon feed them? Can you teach them to appreciate truth instead of “being right”? Can you teach the to make a point without making an enemy?
Or, you know, some people find Black Friday, consumerism, and malls vulgar and off-putting, and find an overuse of expletives equally vulgar.
Discovery of unpredicted stellar black hole in milky way galaxy
I think since Hindenburg fabrics has developed tremendously, and collision, perhaps even explosion safe fabrics for zeppelin hulls could be possible.
I use pandoc for my resume. Had never considered that - thanks!
Will AMD be able to build a war chest to continue to compete after Zen? That is the question, or is it Athlon all over again?
you could let your kid run free & unsupervised with little worry on probably near 90+ percent of the north american landmass. i spent the vast majority of my childhood with little to no supervision and crime rates have only fallen since then.
Does ADHD Alter Brain Wiring in Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD)?
It’s the same cost in NY. The “$900” figure given elsewhere is either outdated by a decade, or the plan is heavily subsidized by the employer. $1,600/mo is the minimum a self employed family would pay.
No, it benefits you. Remember, if you as a founder had done a good enough job of building your organization, these sorts of situations would be happening rarely if at all. The fact that it is happening is a sign that something has gone wrong.

To expect the employee who is suffering the brunt of that dysfunction to put in the hard work to even tell you what's going on is a tall ask. But to expect them to do so for a little to no reward? It goes along with their past treatment sadly, and it proves that leadership is not proactive.
Here's the secret: few in the first world consider developing countries. No one cares about the brain drain (it's just people choosing where to live, right? lol) or their non-competitiveness due to rules imposed by first world countries. They got theirs, now we all need to work together snickers.

To be fair, EU investment for example, is biased towards equality instead of excellence, i.e. invest in poorer states to bring them up to speed instead of dumping everything on the best performers. Probably because of the nature of the union, where everyone has a decent say. Even so, some developed countries benefit disproportionately. But the world as a whole is not the EU.

What people in developing countries should do is say "yes sir, certainly", then proceed to work towards their own benefit. Like China did (the one thing they did right).
From the look (I have never used a Mac before), it doesn't even have the F keys? I understand you have the touch bar, and this doesn't look good for applications that require a heft amount of F-keys.
Flying wraiths lack firepower, so they provide no real air support. Just fast transportation/communication.
Environmentalism has become a tribal trait, and of the tribe opposing them. Therefore, you become anti-environmental, as a way of showing your tribe.
I don't want thinner, but I want the 13 inch form factor. I could change the memory, the HDD and the keyboard by removing a single screw on my old x220, and with zero risk of breaking little plastic legs.
Fixture design is fashion and existing products are not expensive.
Until now, scientists had estimated the mass of an individual stellar black hole in our Galaxy at no more than 20 times that of the Sun. But, this stellar black hole has a mass 70 times greater than the Sun. The monster black hole is located 15 thousand light-years from Earth and has been named LB-1 by the researchers.
Not every wrong idea has a history of being contradicted so frequently, either.
GP refers to deeppcb not supporting >2 layers atm.
It isn't now, but most countries that used to be poor and then ceased to be, did that by increasing energy consumption.

China is a recent example, hopefully India will soon be another.
This happens every political season and has for decades. The media organizations have winners they have ready picked. This really blew up in their face in 2016 with the pied piper candidate.
China readies nuclear reactor in bid to harness 'Sun in a box' technology
What metrics should startups track?
China’s completed ‘artificial sun’ to start operation in 2020
Thank you for this post! Reading through people's comments, the common denominator seems to be health.

I've been "burning the candle at both ends" recently. Very conscious that a healthy body and healthy mind require balance between work and family and play.

So I'm thankful for my health as well and I'm looking forward to more balance in my life going forward.
Einzelgänger's Philosophy Channel on YouTube
Dragan is on a mission to make deep learning and Bayesian models on Clojure. As a lisper who has spent much time using Python to access TensorFlow, I applaud his efforts! Lots of good work getting the low level stuff working. He really deserves support.

As a practical matter however, for someone who wants to pick up deep learning for use in their domain of expertise or job, it is probably better to just use Python with TensorFlow or PyTorch.
Great! I see you were actually involved in one of the problems that bit me (8 GB...). https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit/issues/...

Small world :)
Has anyone set something like this up with sound + multiple viewers? I've been looking for someone to help me watch TV with friends who are remote. I used to use rabb.it but I think that died.
Sorry but these “ideas” are reddit tier naive... I recommend you researching the topic of water splitting.
Create your own Ubuntu based image for jetson nano
Gap Junction Coupling Shapes the Encoding of Light in the Developing Retina
Do you have any family or friends in the developing world? Have you ever tried convincing anyone of this view offline?
Thanks for the info! Just learned about bias lighting from your blog post.

Any chance we will see a non-root flux for Android?
I've been doing software engineering for 10 years now. It's ruined my 14 year marriage. It ruined relationships with girlfriends. It's hurt my relationship with my children. It's hurt my relationships with even my dog. This may be one of the worst industries in existence. However, one thing that burnout taught me, I'll never drink some hipster's koolaid. If they have a great idea, I'll pursue it myself on my own. I program as a means to an end and I'm learning to leave it at work at the end of each day. People should never allow a company to churn and burn them out. I think a lot of developers are waking up to this millennial hipster nonsense created by Zuckerberg and the millions of losers who want to be just like that jerk. Programming should be a means to an end and nothing more.
> "please give us soldered on memory and soldered on SSD" is not actually what we said, on our feedback forms to Apple, or IBM (X1 Carbon).

I don't know why you are lumping Lenovo ThinkPad in there. Their units are still highly repairable.

Even their thinnest model (X1 Carbon) still has the replaceable SSD. It accepts any standard NVME M.2 drive - https://www.windowscentral.com/how-upgrade-ssd-lenovo-thinkp...
AI-based tools to transform interface design mockups into ready-to-use UI code
> [...] long commutes in powerful cars?

People in developed countries don't need that either. Commuting being a hard requirement for modern life in an industrialised country is both a fallacy and perpetuated cargo cult.

Most people working in offices today effectively wouldn't have to commute but they still do because employers require them to do so, basically because "that's the way it's always been".

Doing away with lengthy commutes will be key to addressing many of today's problems, including climate change.
Rust in 2020
Laser-engraved wearable sensor detects uric acid and tyrosine in sweat
> As soon as there's a fiduciary duty to maximise ROI ...

Your premise is wrong.

As the U.S. Supreme Court recently stated, "modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so." ( BURWELL v. HOBBY LOBBY STORES, INC. )
doesn't seem that bad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airship_accidents
If your GDP is $100 billion and your growth rate is 0%, then next year your GDP will be $100 billion. This is normally considered to be "economy is the same size", not "added to the economy".

GDP is nothing to do with wealth and entirely to do with income.
Yes but it is a very broad subset to the point that it isn't useful. It's like saying that a law makes Germany a "money heaven" after introducing mobile payments.
The infrared spectrum of protonated buckminsterfullerene C60H+
I don't really understand what are they fixing here. They point that current web development has shifted to "REST backend" and "SPA frontend", which (according to them) is not a good thing (why?). Their solution is to make you write (again) a "full" MVC-backend that also serves the UI (frontend), and additionally, extend it with another frontend layer (Vue).

IMHO that is not fixing the initial problem they are stating that exists, but making it worse, because now you have to write UI-related code in two languages (ruby and js) instead of the 1 that is currently needed (REST + SPA).
Author here, this is part of the release of Demucs, you can find more information on my repo: https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs
Reminds me of the Microsoft Halloween documents.
It is deliberately reductive because I was hoping not to get into a debate about personal freedoms.

If you disagree, try telling the police that they have no right to infringe on your personal freedom when they stop you for drink-driving. Or theft. Or even jay-walking. To be in a society, any kind of society, involves giving up personal freedoms in exchange for something, usually safety or stability. We just have a different idea of what's an acceptable loss of personal freedom.

I agree that it'd be favourable to design the system about personal freedom, but that system comes with its own inefficiencies and disadvantages that by large my country deem unacceptable. Unfortunately, Singapore is still largely a pragmatic and conservative society that min-maxes for economic stability, and it'd be long before this changes.
Thank you. They seem to be, and our family is optimistic.
Strafing runs in WW2 were almost completely ineffective but all infantry were reporting huge morale loss when they were happening.
How do you have a 'completely Java OS' (even conceptually) - you need something for a JVM to run on?
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs secures approval to build smart city in Toronto
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/formal-methods-amazon.... for those who are interested
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Please please please can you (and everyone else) be clearer about whether we're talking about stocks or flows, and whether we're talking about money, financial assets or physical capital assets when we say "wealth"? Otherwise I can't make sense of this.
>I tend towards 400-500 watt halogen bulbs.

Are those really 400-500 watt or just give light equivalent to 400-500 watts worth of incandescent light bulbs?