skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish they completely disabled service workers. I don’t want some dumb news site running code in the background because I visited the site once.
But aren’t you buying those practical items through multiple middle men? Each pocketed something so it costs more? Doesn’t seem efficient. Even if you know the supply can only be donated and not paid to execs.
I keep seeing this but why do non-creatives count dinner, commuting and exercise as work? (You don't do all these but you put dinner there)

As a creative I find it hard to justify that, sure I did talk about work during lunch with a coworker or an ex coworker or friend but damn I was just enjoying my pork chops, that's not work!!!
So, I assume you pushed your kids to skip medical school and enroll in plumbing classes instead right? How did it go? Are they in the one percent now?
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>If they choose to exercise this monopoly by using technical measures to stop other access points from working, rather than by physically evicting those access points, why should that make a difference as long as those technical measures do not interfere with access point not on their property?

By the same argument, can I also ban cellphones from my property and set up cellphone jammers to enforce this ban? You're free to set up arbitrary "rules" and ban people from your property for it, but that doesn't mean you're deputized by the government to do whatever you want to enforce those rules.
Same here. Got into MIT for engineering and went to a (still good) in-state school for engineering. My parents made it clear that they had saved enough to pay for the in-state tuition (+ an academic scholarship) but that I'd have to go into debt for MIT.

Some of my peers were kind of shitty about it. "So-and-so doesn't like to try so I get their decision." There was definitely a cult of Ivy League there.

I'm very happy with the decision. The in-state school was plenty challenging and I learned a bunch. Work in software now and got a job at a FAANG out of school (thanks to a referral from a college friend), so outcome-wise I can't imagine that sticker price being worth it. Not to mention that culturally I now know that MIT isn't exactly my vibe lol so I probably would've been unhappy.
Ashley Feinberg Investigated a Buttigieg Wikipedia Fan and Romney’s Twitter
U.S. government removes detailed pollution map from internet
>It appears you would reject the premise of running a co-op in a capitalist society because it does not start from a fundamentally pure starting position

No, not at all. In fact, I support local co-ops. My (and Marx's) only contention is that it is not sufficient to call this "socialism" or "socialism within capitalism", or "a socialist part of capitalism" because socialism is by definition the ending of the specific historical production of commodities and class society. A co-op is an admirable thing to run, but it's not "socialism".
Depends on the job, but I would think for most people on HN 3mbps would be considered painfully slow, which it is.

But even for the less technically apt, consider other common tasks that require speedy broadband. Something like restoring a 100GB iCloud backup to a new iPhone on a 3mbps connection would take over 3 days, assuming the connection (or your patience) could hold that long.

And you certainly won't be streaming your favorite shows in 4k.
How is he breaking it?
You forgot

E-Continue working as an IC, satisfying their intellectual and financial needs.
I don't count dinner as work, that was just my whole schedule.
I agree childcare you pay for is often expensive - I was thinking more of the unpaid work done by stay-at-home parents and families caring for their own elders - who earn no direct salary for their efforts. But nobody would say they ought to stop.
I'm not questioning the need for a degree or the value. What I'm questing is students (and parents) who insist on attending higher edus that amount to over-priced out-of-state country clubs. No one is going to die if sushi isn't served for lunch/dinner. "Eat great food" and "Best gym ever" will never be on anyone's CV.

Furthermore, in many cases, it's possible to do your first two years "on a budget" and then transfer into a "big name" big budget school with a more valuable degree. No one cares where you did English 101.

There are choices. There are alternatives. However, entitlement and keeping up with the Jones keeps superceding common sense and basic fiscal responsibility. No one is being forced into excessive debt. They are lining up and volunteering. Over and over and over again.
I think this 2D representation is definitely better. The two axes are Social (Authoritarian -> Libertarian) and Economic (Left -> Right)
https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2
This is patently false.

Martin Berkhan created a very lucrative coaching platform with Intermittent Fasting: https://leangains.com/

Many books have been written on IF for profit:

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-A...

https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Stop-Brad-Pilon/dp/177511080X/ref...

And countless others.
Both of my parents were union tradespeople, one of them IBEW, working on telephone poles.

I agree that the "trades" meme is merely a "grass is greener" perspective. The low capped pay and lack of personal autonomy (if not strong discouragement of it by the union perks) can make one miserable, especially when you're pushed into it at such an early age based on others' perceived assessment of your abilities.

Also, I was a terrible math and science student in high school, and found my groove in college, only to graduate with a BS in CS in the top 1% of the class of almost 1k. Just a late bloomer I guess.
I’m on Adderall for ~12 years but I disagree. Although I agree with the previous commenter, I don’t think it extends my “normal” productive max. Sure, occasionally I can feel productive for an extended stretch, but usually I feel wiped out after 4-6 hours of any real effort. I just had an hour long phone call and that alone was tiring..
That may be true of your management, but far from all.
A very small percentage of people in the military ever see combat, and of those an even smaller percentage get hurt. Most jobs in the military are industrial type jobs, so all of those normal dangers do come along. Now, if someone really does want to see combat I'm sure they can maneuver in such a way to make it happen.

The GI bill paying for college is a big benefit of service, but staying in as an officer can also be a great living.
Hmm, seems I misread. I'll edit.
According to a random inflation calculator off the front page of a search (no doubt a sterling source of information) that's about $14,500 equivalent dollars.

How does that compare to what you paid?
There are laws against quid pro quo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quid_pro_quo), but i'd be curious if someone could point out a clear and obvious case of quid pro quo that is documented, which results in real consequences.
I think caffeine is often used for motivation during mundane tasks. Imagine working on a tedious engineering assignment like writing unit tests for a CRUD app. Over a few years it becomes a necessary lever, and at that point it is pretty close to an addiction.

Amount of caffeine consumed by a team may be an interesting proxy for how motivated employees are at a company (a small amount indicates high motivation, a medium amount indicates low motivation, and a high amount indicates either a severe lack of motivation or a high level of motivation).
My trick is to look carefully at the food I'm about to eat, and consider how good/filling/satisfying/etc it looks compared to a known benchmark (e.g., a McDonalds cheeseburger). Estimating that way, I'm usually within 20%, which is plenty close (esp given that unbiased errors cancel out).

Beyond that, weigh every day, track values in a decaying average app to cancel out noise, and greatly reduce or fast completely on days where I'm over my line.

Easier said than done, of course, but I'm halfway successful.
I always assume most people hold moderate viewpoints and the people with extreme viewpoints just tend to be the loudest. At least that seems to be the case with most people I meet anyway.
In the context of the article, the changes would by necessity be far more invasive than "recompile your code". The premise is that C cannot be an effective implementation language. A full rewrite would be required.
My takeaway from this comment is that you didn't really read what he wrote. An accidental moderate, by his definition, could hold zero moderate opinions. E.g. it is possible all of their opinions are 0 or 100 on a left/right spectrum. It requires courage because they cannot join any tribe, because enough of those opinions would be heretical to a given tribe to prevent acceptance.
And it’s since been reviewed and maintained due to the continual finding that continuity of care is so important to health outcomes that it makes up for exhaustion.
Experiences are highly biased and individual.

Counter-example: I was on Keto for 2 years and my blood levels became prediabetic (105 and 100 in 2 blood tests over the course of 2 annual doctor visits).

As soon as I reintroduced carbs to normal levels (I bought a glucosometer) my blood sugars went back down to optimal (85). My most recent blood work was at 90.

Your mileage may vary and everyone's GI responds differently to different foods.
Public student loans have income based repayment. Assuming you go to a state school and don't live on campus, the debt isn't a big deal.

And if you get into very top tier private school, the networking alone is definitely worth it.
The better way to do it is to refactor code as you go. I probably spend 1/3 of my day fixing old problematic code piece by piece.

That one month project could probably be split in to 5 smaller but still meaningful ones.
Nope, I'm at my best in days like this. I feel immensely grateful I was given the opportunity and responsibility to lead and want other people to understand how great (in many senses of the term) that responsibility is.

The days where we deep dive infrastructure problems or try and get at organizational technical problems are my favorite, but those are even longer days.
Doesn't their argument run up against the first amendment? If Monsanto desire to communicate to their customers that one of their products is potentially carcinogenic surely they have a first amendment right to do that, whatever the EPA thinks.
1st week of December, I did 87 hours clocked on clockify for clients. I turn clock off when I go to the bathroom, or get distracted on HN/Reddit. It's only on while I'm coding.

But I get burnt out fast when on a schedule like that, and knew I'd have some downtime with holidays and need to fill up on work to pay bills in January. Definitely couldn't sustain hours like that unless I was CEO and it was my baby then I'd be more apt to just keep going because it's a passion project.
Well sure, but these guys did not make that much money because they were better CEO's, they benefited from the context of the times. What Musk has done with Tesla and SpaceX, simultaneously is absolutely mind blowing and it is hard to imagine anyone topping that, like ever. He created incredibly successful companies in some of the most competitive, most capital intensive, most research driven businesses that exist. It is amazing to me the man is not given his proper due. What he did was super-human and, in the long, could actually put a dent in the Universe.
Lists don't make for such great discussion, because they end up being about the lowest common denominator of the items on the list, which is always something generic. Generic discussions aren't as interesting because there's rarely anything new to say. It's better to pick the most interesting item on the list and submit that.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I personally use Plackers brand picks.
What sort of exercise do you do? I hate the gym and find it mind numbingly boring.

I cycle most places - its the fastest way for me to get around my city. Cycling saves me time and money. And I love white water kayaking, skiing and mountain biking. Kayaking especially has made me travel to some amazing places and brought m wonderful experiences. I have kayaked for years and I can understand that they would be difficult for someone older to get into. I imagine that there must be some form of exercise that you could find interesting.
I agree, but white collar jobs often afford the opportunity to bugger off for 20 minutes and get a coffee, stretch, etc., where as a line job with time cards may lack that. There are often more resources spent on i.e. chairs, standing desks, even in-office physical therapy, as well (IMO).
Let's convince taxpayers to raise taxes to pay for those things first, then worry about subsidizing four years of binge drinking and sex for middle class kids.
There may be regional differences. However, in Germany it is possible to disable auto play for episodes and trailers in the settings.
Why do we culturally accept the distinction 'creatives' and 'non-creatives'. It's gross.
For those in regions without reverse angle parking (like me)…

It's used in areas where you might have roadside parking along a road, either parallel or angled. It has higher linear density than parallel and is easier/faster. Compared to forward angled parking it removes the "backing out into traffic you can't see because your rear pillars and the hausfrauenpanzer next to you have completely blocked view of the oncoming traffic" (so you go slow and figure any drivers coming down the road don't want to die today either). You safe the road by stopping to park, and have road visibility as you back in. Coming out you get better visibility because your upstream neighbors corner is further from the traffic and your eyeballs are also closer. An added bonus is that bicyclists have very little reason to ride in the zone of opening doors, compared to parallel parking.

Some places it is popular. Changing to it from forward angled makes people crabby.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-in_angle_parking
Oh my goodness it's so much worse in most of the world.
In response to #1, Manhattan real estate costs over $1k per square foot, often more. Adding a third container/bag to everyone's trash area would eat up far more capital in real estate than it would produce in income.

#2: Manhattan is super dense, and there's no place to put that many bins. Bags scale better than bins anyway, and a lot of buildings use trash compactors which work far better with bags. Finally, there's not enough room between parked cars to get bins from the sidewalk to the street easily.
Has there been any confirmation that this isn’t just a bug? It wasn’t clear from the post.
I've seriously considered becoming a "Code Janitor" consultant.

I can clean up any mess better than most, and I actually enjoy it.

To me refactoring is the design process of modern development. First you write the working code, and then yo design it. Except most people don't bother with the design part, and get dragged down by their atrophied systems.
Also, notifications can be used to replace emails. Instead of being sent an email from a forum when someone replies to my comment (with a link) - I'd rather have the browser do that (with my permission).
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Are you saying that as the Democrats became distanced from working-class issues, the republicans got closer to working-class issues?

Could you explain that in terms of the policy that they adopted or is it a response to Dems adopting minority rights issues?

What I mean to say is that if they are both bad in the same way on working class issues, what is it about minority rights that would make you vote R?

Genuinely trying to understand here...not trolling.
Agreed. People with extreme viewpoints (in either direction, whether you want to abolish private property or create a white ethno-state) face a lot of social sanction -- and very often financial penalties -- from the vast majority of people who just want to keep propping this status quo. Holding onto those extreme views risks losing a lot more than the extremely well-represented and appreciated middle.

As for a pithy thinkpiece about successful people writing outside their expertise, someone already did, nearly 15 years ago...

https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
Not an easy problem to solve. And this is why, given the odds, a career in tech is probably a bad decision.

To avoid ageism while being an IC you need to find a job in a niche where the domain is CS and/or ENG based (as in embedded, aerospace, or even relational database engines) and these jobs are far and in between.

Beware: jobs like Facebook seem to be CS based but they aren´t (that´s why their programmer average age is 27). The CS problems they have are due to arbitrary complexity and they are short term. Companies like these are media companies.
>Some of my kids seem like they enjoy academics, but others do not. I'll be pushing the latter toward trade school. Average IBEW (electrical union) pay is about $20/hr for an apprentice and $33 for a journeyman. $40,000 to $66,000 with ZERO DEBT right out the gate is nothing to ignore (and that pay can easily double -- especially in your younger years -- if you're willing to travel and put in those extra hours). It sure beats minimum wage at a crappy service job.

so, uh, I guess I'm the modern equivalent of those trades. I mean, I don't have a union, but I fix computers and make a whole lot of money doing it, without any education. It is a lot like a trade, 'cause essentially I'm infrastructure for industry. I mean, instead of maintaining electricity at a factory, I'm maintaining servers in a build farm, but it's still infrastructure.

On the individual level you have a point. I mean, as a sysadmin, I do make like 30% less than a SWE, but I still make a whole lot of money, and I started when I was 17.

On a societal level, though? when you don't have a degree, the amount you make is dramatically dependent on how productive the people around you are.

Because I live in silicon valley and manage infrastructure for (mostly highly educated) engineers who are incredibly productive, I make a lot of money. A huge amount for someone who isn't educated or born rich.

If I was in a rural area, I'd be fighting for a job at geeksquad. I mean, I'd handily win that fight, but if I'm maintaining infrastructure for people who aren't very productive, I'm going to make... not very much money.

My point here is that if the US continues this trend of not educating it's children and excluding foreign educated people? Jobs like mine, for uneducated maintainers of infrastructure follow the jobs for the more productive people. If those people start working from china? They're probably gonna go find locals to do my job.

What I'm saying is that it is very much in my interest to do what needs to be done (mostly, I think, pay taxes) to see to it that kids go to college, even if I don't have any children of my own.
Thanks for sharing your story.

My own story has some similarities to yours -- I joined an elite startup accelerator straight out of university, thought I had a bunch of pretty damned good business ideas to work on (and looking back, I did -- I had a pretty good understanding of business strategy, engineering, product design, etc) -- but then ended up bouncing between jobs and quickly-aborted startup attempts, before crashing pretty hard around age 26-27. Meanwhile plenty of my peers steadily moved forwards while a few others shot off into the stratosphere.

I actually knew Leo Widrich, author of the article, back in university! Two guys had set up the "Internet Entreprneur Society" at our university in the British midlands, I was helping them run it as they were about to graduate. Leo was an Austrian business student with lots of passion and just starting to learn about tech startups. He ended up working with one of the two guys I mentioned (Joel Gascgoine) on some tweet scheduling app which is now apparently worth about $80m :) Small world!

As for myself, after several setbacks in my late 20s, I realised I had a whole bunch of psychological/emotional issues stemming from an unstable childhood. What's surprising is that with time and effort all these problems were, in fact, fixable... and through lots of reading and self-work I've managed to fix 80-90% of these issues. Like you, my desire to build a startup business empire has diminished greatly, and, nowadays, after learning all the things I've learned, I've rethought my career plans, and figured out a new direction to go down which ties together the various things I'm interested in, and which I'm very confident I can succeed at. (I'd rather not go into details in a public forum, but's it essentially a path that combines intellectual and technological projects).

(For those in a similar situation, the best books I read were: "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents", "Running on Empty: Overcoming your Childhood Emotional Neglect", "Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving" and "Psychology of Self-esteem". I also recommend the post "What is a central purpose in life?" (plus comments) [1] for a discussion of how to integrate one's career values).

[1] http://aristotleadventure.blogspot.com/2008/05/what-is-centr...
Been using inoreader since Google Reader died. Great service which I found this page from :)
Wasn't able to read the paper, how groundbreaking is this work actually?
This is an essay on politics.

It goes to show that people in tech are acknowledging more that the industry is not apolitical and has a very real social and political effect on the world at large, and are so dropping the pretense of lacking political interest. That and like the rest of the world, the tech industry has become increasingly politically polarized over the last half decade.
Fresh out of the CCC talk, congrats on the upvote points loot! :P
> Accidental moderates end up in the middle, on average, because they make up their own minds about each question, and the far right and far left are roughly equally wrong.

I don't think I can take seriously an essay that so flatly and flippantly claims this as fact. This is a masturbatory essay.
Agree with this. Also in medicine we can work 12hr or 24hr shifts which imo helps "stack" together more hours so it's easier to hit larger work weeks.

As an EMT some of our crew worked 1 48hr shift and then later in the week 1 24hr shift. They got paid so little ($9.25 an hour back then!) that was the only way to survive in the Bay Area was to stack your shifts and then hit time and a half after 40hrs and double time for the last 20 hrs.

I had a preceptor who worked those shifts and I had to work her schedule while she was evaluating me. It was horrific. The 48s were brutal and I was wrecked later in the week when it came time to do the 24. Those months went by in a blur and it was basically hell to get through it.

When I advanced and got to set my own schedule I just worked 1 24hr and 1 12hr and life was great. Got to do chores and errands and long hiking trips on my days off, had enough time to travel and enjoy my hobbies.

Left EMS to more of an office job because I needed to make more $$, but I miss the patients, the camaraderie, and being out in the field.