skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds a bit like what we have in Norway where you have (roughly) three choices for your 11 to 13 free years in school (1 - 10 is mandatory and while you can choose Montessori and a couple of other options they all share the same subjects):

- Vocational: 2 or 3 years followed by 2+ years as an apprentice in a real company, often with a master craftsman where the apprentices pay increases from approx 30% of full pay and up towards full pay during the time you stay. In return for the limited pay they have to take time to teach you and they cannot easily let you go before your apprenticeship has ended.

- Study preparations: three years of languages (typically the two Norwegian ones, English and German but some people will choose French or Spanish or something instead of or in addition to German.) Students who aim for engineering or medicine studies will typically add math, physics and another sciency subject: chemistry and biology were popular back when I went to school.

- leave school and get a job (or more and more likely it seems: fall behind)

As for why I say roughly, there's been a very nice option where you could get certified as a craftsman and get enough subjects to enter engineering in four years.

Also there are some options for transitioning from vocational to other studies. Going the other way is pretty hard and probably involves getting a job as uncertified worker in the field, then work for 5 years, takes some courses and pass the certification test.

Note: I'm not saying this is unique. It would surprise me if something like this isn't common in many other countries.
Please understand that everyone's body is different.

What works for you may not work for someone else.

This is SO important in nutritional research because in every single one these threads there is always someone who will say X worked for me and someone else who says X didn't work for me. And BOTH are right.

Example:

I've done IF for years as a competitive bodybuilder and powerlifter. I've gained and lost weight on IF. IF should (until more research is done) simply be viewed as a compliance tactic. In other words, if it helps you eat healthier and maintain a healthy weight: great! If not, don't assume you're missing out on some magical panacea of health and vitality.

Recently I stopped doing IF and eating more frequently for performance reasons so I can reach the national circuit in powerlifting. My blood work is still fine. My weight is still fine. Again, YMMV.
> produce their own reports and dashboards.

A good open source project would likely be to dump that all in a DB abd expose it as OData. Although PowerBI is non-free, it would cover what GA can do and then, not some, but a huge amount.
Let's attempt to keep two conflicting thoughts in our heads at the same time:

1) Linus is fantastic. We owe him so much! He has changed computing in a very forceful and persistent way - people will rightfully remember him long after we're all gone - along with dmr and ken, of course.

2) Stockholm University didn't even have a computer science education at the time (I think) (in Stockholm, this was only offered by KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology). Either way, KTH is far more prestigious in this area.

Because of that Stockholm University made him an honorary doctor in Mathematics: https://www.math.su.se/english/about-us/prizes-awards (!)

In my opinion: this particular honorific event was just a result of trying to get a famous name, sort of how like the frankly speaking pathetic Nobel Peace Prize committee in Oslo keeps trying to meet famous people. (Like Obama, before he had even entered office.) It's embarassing to everyone involved.
I'm surprised they've not banned that because it replicates the functionality of one of their apps, or something.
I know that the dictum to keep politics off of HN has been a dead letter for some time- especially since tech has become overtly non-apolitical in the last few years- but it's still funny to see pg himself breaking that rule.
I'd still say that John Rockefeller is more impressive. Adjusted for inflation John Rockefeller's company Standard Oil was worth over $1 trillion.

Or Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, the guy who started the Dutch East India company, which adjusted for inflation was worth over $8.2 trillion.

Modern companies have nothing on what entrepreneurs did in the past and how much money they made. It doesn't matter how many markets Elon Musk "disrupts" nothing he can do will ever match the impact that the Dutch East India company had on the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
Google (Maps) messed up with the I5 shutdown
I'll keep this short as it's just a personal story from last night.

If you aren't aware, a part of the I5 was shutdown due to snow [1]. We took the day off to drive up the west coast and do some sightseeing, we are from the south LA area.

To make a long story short and get to the root of the issue: Google never reported the I5 being completely shut down. At most, it showed a lane closure for I5-North. We were headed south, so we just ignorantly drove right to the shut down only to be turned around. Couldn't Google have easily noticed that a section of highway is completely dead to traffic? Apparently it had been for hours, as there were massive lines of directed traffic both to the east and west.

Leaving the shutdown spot, The signs & cops were directing us eastward past Bakersfield to take the 58 and then the 14 south. But, when we arrived to the 58, the cops turned us away. This isn't necessarily Google's fault, as there was still a ton of traffic on the road, so I don't know how'd they detect this -- maybe by all the cars headed towards a specific spot and then turning away at the same spot?

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/12/27/map-i-5-still-closed-by-snow-southern-california-travel-restrictions-updated/
You're right, the company needs to be of a certain size before this makes sense. But it's not just FAANG -- for example, IBM, Microsoft, Twitter, Lyft and many others have similar tracks.
Ask HN: First time working from home; what to do or not do?
I'll be working as a full-stack developer part-time for the next few months from home. It's a small team of about three or four devs that I've worked with before. It's a really nice company and I'm looking forward to going back to work for them. However, I'll be working from home for the vast majority of the foreseeable future, and this is my first time working from home. Any advice on what I can do (or not do) to maximize productivity, reduce distraction, and facilitate teamwork?
Ive done it. It was a startup, but not explicitly a tech company. We legitimately got to work at 7:30 every day and left at 9:00 7 days a week for several weeks.

Obviously unsustainable, but easily one of the most enjoyable periods of my work life. Everybody was helping doing everybody else’s job. It was really fun.
I'm asking this seriously, but how much of that was actual work done? I would be pretty surprised if you said that you actually worked for entire 4 hours between 8-12.
The Chaos Communication Congresses have sold out in seconds every year for a decade. Visitor numbers are limited only by how many people they think they can fit. It is unrivaled in technical, medial and cultural relevancy in the region.

At that point, the question becomes not how you get people to come, but who you want at your event. And I'm very glad that for Congress, this means being unashamedly political, artistic, social, antifascist, inklusive. If that scares you away, that's by design.
> Responsibility vs. accountability. If one wants more accountability, then you must move to management.

Depends on the org and company, to be completely honest. Sometimes, management and leadership have little true accountability and that ends up falling on ICs. Projects fail and senior ICs are blamed instead of management because they were "responsible for the implementation". Accountability without responsibility or vice versa often ends up in failure.
Thanks for the Adafruit tip. My 9yo daughter is learning scratch, so the block based programming is going to be great to try out with her.
The issue with bankruptcy is not "excluding" students from bankruptcy. It's applying bankruptcy law fairly to every debtor.
There's a few minutes of careful work and then more minutes packing up and commuting, and then repeat.
I do think it's both side of the getting old coin. In one way we're getting cranky. But we're also getting wiser. We don't want more data, we want better signal (quantity/quality).
The word "work" is not specific enough in this context, and this whole discussion lacks nuance. When we talk about "work" are we talking about renting your own time, or building something you have a stake in? Does a side project that may give you insight into your main focus apply as work? Does reading and curiosity count as work? I spend nearly every waking hour trying to be successful... is that work? I'd like to introduce the word "toil" into the discussion. Elon Musk may "work" 100 hours a week, but there's no chance he's "toiling" 100 hours a week.
I think it's wrong to celebrate a company that claims 80% of what it is to be you, even when other companies claim even more. I question the reason behind us devoting ourselves to these undemocratic structures.
iMessage isn't MMS. Android does group messages with the latter.
> The content available on Netflix is great

Only if you are in the US
This schedule was established by a literal drug addict (cocaine and morphine) named William Halsted, not due to high demand.
The fact is that the nature of work changes at the c level. You are no longer doing any actual work yourself. You don’t prepare specifications, do analysis or any other for of work that you might recognize from before. You won’t touch any Microsoft products yourself. Your team does this. You are responsible for hiring people to build that team for you, so even people management is delegated to a large extent.

Most of your work is being present, either in meetings or work functions. These will include breakfast lunch and dinner, and something all three on the same day.

Your main focus is communication. This work extends to working within your own departments, the company, the rest of senior management, government, share holders, banks etc.

Most of your hours are not effective. You write them off. It’s understanding that you only have 10 hours a week of effective hours out of 80 hours and making sure those hours are actually effective.Effective time will be 5 minutes in an hour most likely.

That said some people are really good at juggling all of this bs, and some people are really terrible.

We can talk about different approaches and what works and what doesn’t, but it doesn’t change the fact that the 80 to 100 hour work week is real for a lot of people in that position.
I’ve been doing some form of intermittent fasting for a large part of the last 15 years.

I started with 36 hours once a week because I made money based on the appearance of my body. It works tremendously well in the short-term, but it’s deceptive. The tissue loss is mostly fat, which looks great, but there is definitely some muscle loss, which is an order of magnitude harder to gain back, so the long-term effect is muscle wasting and fat rebound as caloric demands drop. It’s easy to see in my photos. Later I did OMAD several times for stretches of about a year with roughly similar short and long-term effects. Recently I completed a 100-hour fast.

There are a few basic issues. First, with IF you’re not really fasting as long as you think you are. Small intestines take about 6 hours, and the colon turns fIber into MCTs for days. Second, the insulin surge becomes preferential to fatty acid storage over muscle glycogen. Third, you lose the ghrelin-induced GH that releases fatty acids throughout the day to feed the muscles. There may be autophagy benefits, but that may be as true for satellite cells as it is for cancer, and maybe more so because cancer usually originates in fatty tissues with lots of energy nearby.

At this point, by experience and by science, I don’t think IF is the best diet protocol if you have the discipline for a more continuous protocol. I don’t, so I can’t say I’ve tried that, and I hate the fat on my body, so I’m not sure where to go from here. I’m not 100% convinced either way, but I wanted to give a balancing perspective.
Ask HN: Best ways to accept being not always productive?
yeah good tip =) i already knew them but thanks anyway!
Doctors will also tell you this: if you feel ADHD drugs then you’re not ADHD.
You’re getting downvoted but I strongly believe coffee is a huge net negative on productivity especially in the long run.

It has two scary effects: one is it seems to sacrifice some creativity for some raw output (along with a sort of scattered and less human feel to communication).

Two is that it degrades sleep quality. Which probably means a lack of memory formation at the margin over long time periods.

These are just hunches but people on caffeine just have an attitude that’s a little off putting once you notice it. I’d love to see some big studies that focus on the long term and subtler psych effects.
Have you tried group fitness? That changed everything for me. I just show up. Don’t think just work hard for 50 min and then leave.

Having people around keeps you honest. I swear by boot camp / hiit classes.
I get these if I stop smoking weed. Couldn't smoke during a school trip to the States years ago, two of the other people I shared a room with also smoked regularly, all three of us had fucked up vivid dreams for the entire week. I still remember the one on the first night all these years later. I remember vividly watching myself disintegrate while a nuke went off nearby while I was working on something at school.

My dad's also said nicotine patches do the same thing while you're on them.
DW-NOMINATE was developed by US political scientists to study the US House and Senate. Higher dimensionality is present internationally, and I believe that attempting to reduce those dynamics to a left/right spectrum limits our understanding of politics.

>Poole and Rosenthal note in Chapter 11 of Ideology and Congress that most of these analyses produce the finding that roll call voting is organized by only few dimensions (usually two): "These findings suggest that the need to form parliamentary majorities limits dimensionality."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOMINATE_%28scaling_method%29

Static parliamentary majorities are not necessary in a presidential system.
Example: American Red Cross raised $500 mio for Haiti, built 13 (!) houses, didn't know where money went!
I just got rid of my Google Home devices; gave them away as Christmas gifts and noticed half of those in the gift exchange didnt want any spying devices either.

Overall I really enjoyed using them especially the digital picture frame, but as long as they are spying devices to show you creepy ads (created by Google and Amazon) then Im not interested. I wish Apple would offer comparably tech at a normal price point. If not Apple another company whose is all about privacy and the device only connects to the Internet to download and store daily weather and traffic info. It would be a home network only device that listens when you summon it and it would alert you (via email or text) that a hacker is trying to hack it if it's Internet channel for downloading info is compromised.
If you hit the product market fit jackpot, long hours aren’t necessary. Until then, most of us have to grind it out.
Do you ever feel stressed, anxious, or trapped, with such a packed schedule? And do you ever feel regret over the value you produce due to the fact that you're stretched in so many directions?

My career - I think - is heading in the same direction (though still early) and I have a severe problem internalizing every little thing and its relative yield to the business. Thankfully I only manage 3 people at a small company, but training alone has been my biggest regret because I know there is so much potential in the team that has been untapped because we haven't invested enough into training (mostly due to my ability to generate and executing training resources and exercises).
I have it uninstalled, but every time somebody sends me a link they read in Apple News, my phone prompts me to install the app and won’t show me the article unless I do.
Limits to Growth
"You can count the number of atrocities perpetrated by each. The number of scandals involving their priests. The total number of adherents."

Yes, but these would be statistics (subjectively determined and presupposing a set of values I might add) to determine whether one or another ideas were better than one another, and in what way.

The grey thinking in this article is just one big ideological blender. It implies that if we had A X Capitalism and (1-A) X Socialism, maybe that would be a sensical or desirable outcome. It does not say in any way how that is a coherent thing, either for those two specific models, or for models in general.
Related from 3 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21722814
This.

IF is just one of the four approaches[1] to calorie restriction, which seems to be the key to health and longevity.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMuOH8GUUAAeWzQ.jpg:large
He’s asking for 4 hours of creative work, with the assumption being that the balance won’t be creative.
Low tier college should be about $10k a year and that's assumimg you don't do 2 years a community college.

You shouldn't live on campus if you're price sensitive. And you cant include room and board in your calculations because you'd need that anyway.

7% annual returns are also misleading because it ignores inflation. Edit--I've since learned that 7% average already adjusts for inflation.
You’re mistaken about the PDP-10. Yes, you could pack two pointer-to-word pointers into a single word; but a single word could also contain a single pointer-to-byte. See http://pdp10.nocrew.org/docs/instruction-set/Byte.html for all the instructions that deal with bytes, including auto-increment! And bytes could be any size you want, per pointer, from 1 to 36 bits.

Not to say that I disagree with your main point.
thanks so much! my wife is a teacher in ceramics so this is superusefull for her...
Which hospital is that violating the legal limits on hours per week?
So did you reverse your pre-diabetes? It's hard to tell from this message. You mention that you feel better and that it's "working for me" but how can you know unless you get that blood work done? You may subjectively feel better but it may not be making a dent in your health.

Honestly, what most likely will reverse your prediabetes is that you are now working out more, eating less, and dropped 10 pounds. The IF was simply a compliance tactic to help you achieve that goal. Just something to keep in mind... it's okay if you eventually stop doing IF, what's more important is you maintain the healthy eating and active lifestyle.
Oh I'm well aware :-)
As someone who knows nothing about boats, I don't understand understand why there hasn't been more breaking of tradition. Why we don't use modern materials and methods to create boats that are much more resilient to external conditions, solar power instead of sails, etc.?

Edit: Thank you so much, everyone, for answering!
Ireland is also a solution, with several excellent universities.
"The Dream Machine" by by M. Mitchell Waldrop (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/722412.The_Dream_Mach...) is a really good book about J.C.R Licklider, one of the perhaps lesser-known individuals who helped create the modern computer revolution, in no small part as an ARPA (later DARPA) director. By reading the book, I learned that the changing of directors is by design, and an 8 year tenure looks like a problem with finding a suitable candidate to fill the role. 2 years seems more in line with how it was set up.
I really recommend the book for anyone interested in the history of computing, the internet, or DARPA.
It’s just not comparable to IC work. In each of those meetings as an exec he probably makes 1 important decision. If he didn’t make that decision correctly it could cost his org weeks or millions of dollars. That is work, but exec work is just different.
I'd guess this might have some confusion of average and median one way or the other.

Example: In 2010 the median lawyer made 78k a year while the average made 120k. Note the 50% difference.
Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $3.7B bet on electric
You can download the report from here:

https://insights.developer.mozilla.org/
> For some reason the far right tend to ignore moderates rather than despise them as backsliders. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it means that the far right is less ideological than the far left. Or perhaps that they are more confident, or more resigned, or simply more disorganized. I just don't know.

This is a typical complaint by the so called moderates who feel unappreciated by the left (whatever that is). But I yet to see an example of the far left who has any meaningful policy impact. All I see is a lot of whining about college campuses. Perhaps the far left in the US political landscape is Bernie who by most measures would be a moderate in other industrial nations. I don't know, but I have a hard time following what PG is trying to say here.
While it really is unfortunate, and so cold for soCal what did Waze say...it appears they got it right...also CHP does stay very very current...maybe for possible extreme weather conditions in any region it would be best to correlate...I know it sounds simple and doesn't fix the problem you faced but I think those making the google service should be able to correlate various information sources..because others did...
I worked at Shopify for 4 1/2 years. I was happy to devote those creative hours because I believe in the mission. It's where I wanted my energy to be spent, and this was the general sentiment.

You have to remember most of the people who work there can work almost anywhere. They have specifically chosen to dedicate 80% of their creative energy at Shopify.
My kids are small, so jury's out on how smart they will end up being. The approach we've taken with them so far is to ground them in sober reality. (I feel like a lot of forces, both in school and media, try to insulate kids from how the economy works. It's like getting packaged meat in the store and not knowing how animals are raised and slaughtered and processed.) We're fortunate to be able to afford many luxuries (private schools, maids). But we try to help the kids understand that there is a link between these luxuries and the fact that mommy and daddy work on the weekends. Life presents lots of learning opportunities, such as the $700 heating-oil bill we got the other day. We live near the Naval Academy, so the older one also understands that the young people she sees in uniform are learning important skills and will one day risk their lives to defend the comfortable world around her that she shouldn't take for granted. Being from Bangladesh also offers the opportunity to teach what the world is like for all the people who aren't so fortunate to live in America.

I don't agree with folks who say everyone should just go to trade school. There are lots of good, high-demand jobs that require a college degree. That is also part of the reality that kids need to understand. My kids will start SAT prep in middle school and depending on demonstrated potential, we might encourage trying for a top-tier college. We don't intend to pay for school, because we think debt creates motivation. If either of them demonstrate an interest in law or medicine, I suspect we'll encourage them to go to a state school for undergrad like my wife and I did, because people care more about the terminal degree. Either way, we think it's important to take a gap year to mature after high school. (My wife did; I wish I had done the same.) At the end of the day, a lot depends on the kids. At the same time, my wife and I are not ashamed to be Asian parents. There is a lot you can do to guide, mold, guilt, manipulate, wheedle, and prod your children into making good decisions, and we intend to do it.