skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole argument is not about temporary spikes in hours to meet a goal, it's about the wrong-headed idea that one should be working 60-80+ hours on a long term basis.

Some of the proponents of long term overwork argue that it is a requirement for big successes in entrepreneurship or that people must be willing to burn themselves out to 'change the world' or other such nonsense.

Working long hours on a short term basis is not evil, but there are quite a few organizations exploiting their employees in a chase for big exits that those employees will never benefit from.
Emergency calls are given a lot of special protections, and for this reason, you cannot.
“KetoAF” for a search term.
I can tell you that I worked 80 hours a week for several months and while it is not effective, it was "necessary" for the business to survive. I had 4-6 hours per day that were really effective (if even), the others were just there to get simple stuff done, which was necessary to meet deadlines.

Would I do it again? Absolutely not, because it is simply bad management. But I can imagine how easy it is to get stuck in such a work environment. Or people might think "when it is working once, it will work all the time". The truth is that if the deadlines and work would have been planned better it would easily be achievable in 40 hours.

The problem is that some startups are super chaotic, overpromise, underdeliver without even thinking about how long something takes.
QMK is awesome. I built an Arduino box running QMK to sit between my old model M and the computer to give me a lot of flexibility.
>This is telemetry and it's unacceptable.

I dislike the idea of tying particular political or economic philosophies together with a tech stack like Linux.

Everyone can distribute linux distributions however they see fit, it's an open platform and if that includes telemetry by default that's fine too as users have choice. I don't think anyone uses a Canonical distro and is genuinely upset or surprised about this particular benign case.

The linux distribution space is truly one of the few places where we can't make any excuses about market power or lack of choice. There are a billion distributions, almost all of them free. Users will pick accordingly, and my sense is that virtually nobody cares about this particular case of telemetry.
> ARM is already challenging it. They have ARM-64 servers now. Here's a place selling them,

TBH that's not challenging x86, any more than Atom is challenging ARM in the embedded space. The fact that they're for sale doesn't mean they're good. Those server CPUs have terrible performance per core.

> Ok, then why not just make a new (or at least extended) ISA that makes direct use of all those things, instead of needing a super complicated instruction decoder?

Directly accessing all the parts which are hidden behind the ISA is called VLIW, and the performance is terrible every time someone tries to reinvent it. It sucked even when Intel released the Itanium, which ran Windows.

The problem is that many of the data dependencies are dependent on timings which aren't available at compile time. (Integer division, for instance, the latency is sensitive to the values of its operands. To say nothing of cache timing.) A super complicated instruction decoder knows what data it has and what it doesn't while it is making decisions about what uops to dispatch on the half dozen or so lanes it's managing. A sufficiently advanced compiler does not, so a VLIW has to wait for all data in the half dozen or so lanes to become available before it is allowed to dispatch the instruction. If you want to do "interesting" rescheduling/renaming, you need to bring back the super complicated instruction decoder. (AFAIK later Itaniums started down the path of a complicated instruction decoder, but the Itanium was canned long before its complexity started approaching contemporary x86 standards. It would have been interesting to watch that develop.)

I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding how much stuff the instruction decoder does. To be fair, I'm not doing it its full justice, (how can I? It won't fit.) but I think you're too quick to think all a CPU does is perform the assembly instructions which are fed to it. As the article states, modern computers aren't just fast PDP-11s.
Do you feel as a society that we should condone working beyond dinner like like?

As I read your schedule, I think, “if this couldn’t be handled between 9-5, with a no-work break for lunch, then something is wrong here and effective decisions aren’t being made.”

I say this as someone with a similar job, the machine learning manager with several teams reporting to me, budgets in the tens of millions per year, staffing decisions, executive meetings, procurement, etc. in a large global ecommerce company, with a similar large scale mission about data driven decision making.

If myself or any of the managers or teams reporting in to me has to work past dinner or _ever_ has to work (even just looking at Slack) on weekends, that’s a massive, critical failure on my part.

Unless we make it a critical company mission level priority, this type of healthy work/life balance culture won’t happen. It has to come down from leaders through example first, especially simply stopping work after about 8 hours that fit in with the diversity of personal life needs reflected by the overall staff (not just preferences of people who don’t mind working late or have fewer obligations preventing it).

I actually think one of the most critical signs of an effective leader is _not_ working, electing to let certain work take longer than it otherwise could — and defending that decision to executives — as part of maturity in establishing a healthy culture.

Working more hours is like taking the lazy way out in some regards. It’s much harder work to build healthy patterns over time. It’s kind of similar to developing the senior engineering skill / discipline to avoid unnecessary refactoring and avoid cluttering up a set of changes with superfluous extra fixes. It takes more discipline to hold back and do it the right way.
At least Google Assistant allows me to navigate with a non-Google Maps app
I think hindsight's point is that they are perceived as such do their support for certain policies that benefit all US persons, not just employed white people.
Have you considered contacting the landlord for that apartment building?
I think this is something that seems reasonable at first, but in practice would get incredibly unwieldy. There is much more to what they do than connect buyers and sellers. They also resolve conflicts, navigate different laws in countless locales, and handle payments/chargebacks to name a few.

These companies are also taking a giant cut but still losing money. Granted they are spending money on things that an open source alternative wouldn't necessarily spend money on, but I don't think very many of them are anywhere close to being profitable even without the extra spending.
Which text is that? Link seems to lead to a landing page.
Yea those are good points. I'm not sure - I would bet the answer is cultural rather than genetic though. Hearing and group coordination may be really important in persistence hunting or maybe to indicate social acceptance. There are a lot of interesting theories in evolutionary biology, but no good way to test them.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity

The article is more about phycology than politics, IMO.
I don't think it's fair to suggest he was slacking or something, unless you can show that the norm is to accomplish same job far faster.

Perhaps it would be fair to say, it is easier/more natural to spend 12 hours in a day dealing with people that moving bags of coal or solving differential equations.
Adult teeth start forming at 20 weeks in the womb. Babies are born with two full sets of teeth, they're just not quite finished yet and are buried under the gums and in the jaw bone. There are images of child skulls with the front of the bone removed to show all of the teeth packed into the bone underneath. It's actually pretty unsettling.
I'm surprised no one has said "PowerPoint" yet. LibreOffice and Google Slides are nowhere close. Animations, theming, diagramming tools... I run an Ubuntu laptop and have been missing PowerPoint so much I tried to get a Windows VM for it. Couldn't get graphics support in VirtualBox working correctly :(
Yes, and Apple is the new Microsoft.

(Microsoft, of course, is still the original Microsoft.)
I would love to see a pervasive culture of copying proprietary games as open source projects, which we see with a lot of non-game software. Open source should be keeping old games alive and loved, instead old games are being clawed back to re-monetize.

There is some open source games, but not many and all the old console games are simple and graphically/audio simple, all the old PC games, it's really only modern AAA titles that have tons of complex assets and would be hard to 'open source clone of X'.
The adverts are telemetry, which I don't appreciate being forced to deal with, and especially in open source. At best, it is delivering a broken product to fix, a typically shitty corporate behavior that attempts to grab something in their interest at the cost of being customer-antagonistic.

Not like it is the first time. - in the past, Ubuntu has demonstrated a willingness to sell surveillance of their user base to a third party[1].

It makes me trust the company less and worry that if their fortunes or management changes, they'll do slimier, less obvious things.

I suppose this all is ultimately a positive thing. Greed heads serve the function of keeping distro-churn up when they do something gross enough to chase people off, which helps keep the ecosystem healthy.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-performs-u-turn-over...
Well WhatsApp is free and iMessage has a multiple hundred dollar price tag attached.

Apple consciously doesn't make the APIs for iMessage available.
> If your focus is on, say, trans rights, you're not spending that time focusing on working-class economics.

This is a bizarre statement since most trans people I know are either working class, precariat, or working poor. The trans rights they want beyond extremely basic anti-discrimination protection are things like easier access to university and universal health care. These are things that benefit all workers, not just trans people. (Three of the Google employees fired for union organizing were trans! Don't try to feed me some line that there's some conflict between trans rights and workers' rights. The claim is just some shit-stirring by capital for its own ends.)

It is also a bizarre statement given the indifference or even slight hostility to trans rights by DNC frontrunners (Biden, and previously Clinton). The DNC doesn't care about trans people, and trans people know it. To the extent they support the party, they do so uneasily, outside the DNC, and for largely economic reasons.
Ship, (n): A hole in the ocean into which money is thrown.

(this shouldn't necessarily deter you from owning one: just, go in with open eyes)
I suspect the right/left, conservative/liberal divide is more driven by the media than the voters.

People tend to believe whatever they hear.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_senior_thesis

What more does a moderate need to know?
They were very hands off. Probably the same way they operated as DARPA project managers. It often felt that the CEO and CTO watched us from a distance. But they were excellent at writing, presenting and talking to people.
I have worked at places where they insisted on 2 space indention, which made it much much harder to read the code and follow indention levels. It was just stupid of course. That's what really turned me off of python. I know there are bad formatting options for c style languages, and the editor should make it clear. but 2 spaces is too little, too late.
Speaking for Portuguese market, it is not a movement, it already exists since about 30 years already.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engenharia_Inform%C3%A1tica#Co...

Quality of assurance of 5 year studies, with assessement of university study plans.
Yeah, I had the same problem, but you can explain why it takes so long to the customer. Another tactic I use often is to cut of features, or simplify them in ways that are subtle to the customer but change a lot in term of development time. For example, let's say you need to display search results of some sort, instead of displaying all the results with pagination, you can just display the 50 highest results. The customer might not notice, and you just cut yourself some development time. Of course this is just an example, but you get the idea.
Any (artificial) intelligent agent sophisticated enough to convincingly explain its reasons, is likely also sophisticated enough to lie about them.
That’s surprising to me. Why is it so hard to find a job with your CS PhD? Are you trying to get a specific research-oriented job?
Reluctant to sign up right now as there’s no privacy policy in place.

I believe it’s good practice to tell users how a site is going to use their personal information. It’s also legally required in many jurisdictions, including all EU countries.
> These concepts are relative by nature.

Okay, the concepts are relative by nature (arguments about the two-dimensional nature of the left-right axis notwithstanding). In that case, place the concepts (or perhaps the individual ideologies that bundle the concepts) on a distribution and draw a line near the perceived median. That's the sort of thing you see in some poly-sci texts, and it makes sense.

My point was that it is a mistake to place people on a left-right distribution based on their positions and call the people in, for example, the first quartile the "far left."

> I think of it as relative to other americans, not to the rest of the world, and especially not relative to some absolute concept of right and left

The problem is, applied universally this approach of quantifying things would make it appear as though every place possesses the same diversity of political thought, whether you're talking about Europe, the United States, or North Korea. This is simply not the truth.

edit: another problem is that it can cause people whose views are much closer together than, for example, socialists vs fascists, to view each other as being on opposite ends of an ideological spectrum and combatants in a bitter ideological struggle, even though that's objectively ridiculous. Remind you of anyplace?
I agree, calling for "new elections" is a cop-out

Have an elected parliament sit for at least two years, maybe four, will go some way in making them work out their differences.
SAP, other annoying enterprise software.
There are two types of "accidental" moderates in America. Rich fiscal conservatives who are socially liberal but don't want to pay their fair share ("libertarians") and the blue collar union workers who are socially conservative for religious reasons.

There is no far left in America, the "leftist" candidate is campaigning on radical ideas like universal health care and free public education, things that every other first world country already provides.

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

https://www.worldpolicycenter.org/policies/is-beginning-seco...
MacOS doesn't even hijack what you want it to hijack. I have to set every .sh I make to open in text edit manually, and I still sometimes get prompts to search the app store for an app to deal with these spooky .sh files even with textedit listed as default on the right click menu.
And yet with taking 30-40% of revenue (as you claim) Uber is still running at a loss.
> There is no position that can support the idea of someone having fun flying around and taking pictures in exchange for a range of negative outcomes from hurting to killing someone on the ground or causing varying degrees of property damage.

Again, that argument means I can't play baseball with my kids in the backyard. It's not a standard I'm prepared to just accept on your say-so.
Open source projects tend to emerge when there is general access to the purpose of that project. You can't expect an open source project for Ocean-based Wind Turbine simulation or molecular synthesis of Organochloride compounds.

They're niche industries that require tremendous amount of upfront investment, in both physical assets to realize the utility of the open-source project, and knowledge-base required to operate the software.

On the other hand, you could have a piece of software that requires niche knowledge but its used literally everywhere - for e.g. OpenSSL. Not many people can contribute to it, yet it exists as open source. The point I am trying to make is that OpenSSL and your quantum hardware control software are very different things.
I agree, architecture departments are anti-patterns, but very soon, IC cannot grow in the value they can bring to a company by being scoped within a team and shipping code - as IC you scale by: writing some code that benefits many teams, by mentoring, helping with planning and executing challenging work, prototyping, organizing and overlooking large engineering initiatives: CI/CD, ops, migrations on a large scale, and more and more.
But you can get a generic degree in English or business admin at a community college and have a fine career as a paralegal. Don’t see why you need to go to an expensive art school.
It occured to me that two people moderate on average could have polar opposite views, and I wonder how my views might line up, as well as how homogenous Paul Graham's network of accidental moderates are.

Having polar opposites that are both "in the middle" seems to be a clear illustration of why the left vs right analogy is lacking.
Indeed, to use the title "Engineer" one has to earn it, by taking an university degree in Informatics Engineering and having the respective assemment.
That is evil and wonderful. another reason to love/hate python. I'm working on a project for fun over the holidays and of course I wrote it in python 2.7, and it needs to process unicode so I inflicted double punishment on myself ;-)

My work project just happens to use python 2.7, causing pain for everyone.
I remember when I applied to work there as an iOS engineer and they didn't even phone screen me because I didn't have a strong enough social media profile.
Agree with all but 3 - why in the world work from home if you can’t tidy up on a break, or while thinking about some work task. Certainly don’t just go do these things anytime, but I find it’s better for overall space harmony to do them on breaks.

I’d add my #7: leave the house after being done for the day if you can’t mentally disconnect. I went to the gym after every workday so I get to walk back in the door. The hardest part for me was figuring out how to switch off.
Bitcoin’s Purported Creator Says His Fortune May Remain Locked
> And having beliefs across the political spectrum hardly makes him novel.

Clearly you're not on Twitter.

Every day I see people deriding moderates for being moderates. So this post is an attempt to de-conflate people who don't subscribe to one of the parties and people who just want to be as inoffensive as possible.
Broken Promises - NodeJS Interactive
People like putting themselves in boxes, and the one he used is generally accepted classification. I don't think it's something to be offended about.

I think Tech community is quite elitist at times
That wasn't what I expected. I thought it would say all is well! Funny.
Ableton Live and/or Bitwig Studio

I don't think anything comes even remotely close to the level of productivity and rapid experimentation / prototyping these DAWs can bring to the table.
10 years of evolution together with Haxe
It asks first time - do you want to open it and should it remember your choice. Later you can set default in android settings or remove the yt app default setting.

It's buried in there somewhere.
It appears based on other comments several related datasets are also gone.
'pg posted on his own site and did not submit it here. What someone posts on their own site is clearly up to them, and definitely not bound by another site’s discussion guidelines.
This YouTuber tried selling Microwave meals on Deliveroo (spoiler: Deliveroo let them without inspection, and someone bought it!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k47u9tduwb8
He looks to be laying out his company roadmap in the open. Is this a good business strategy? Do you see similar articles from current founders?
React ScrollData Hook
Cops bust North Carolina “burglar”–family’s new Roomba robot
There is this, though expensive, and not in production: http://www.energy-observer.org/en/
10% more in raw hours is just 44 hours a week. This whole issue is not about companies with 40 hr work weeks versus companies with 44 hour with weeks. It's about environments where 60, 70, 80+ hours a weeks is the norm.

I think the argument can be made for doing a bit extra regularly to improve and grow. But that's not what is happening in this ridiculous hustle culture where people are burning 60-80+ hours week all year round in an effort to win the rat race by running people into the ground.
Wow, I forgot that multiplication result was just from this year. It’s been a long year!
I'm surprised it turned out at all. Cooking syrup to a specific temperature serves to produce a syrup of specific concentration, i.e. ratio of sugar:water. So under-cooked syrup ends up containing a lot more water than desired, as well as not being hot enough to cook and stabilize the egg whites that are presumably in the buttercream recipe.
Why wouldn't the blended ray+physics technique described in the article not work? I am imagining projecting a bunch of rays from the blade along the vector of travel each physics tick and using that to determine if a collision will occur during that tick.

I've never tried to implement anything like that, so I am curious where that might Fail.
This function even harms iOS only groupchats. I walk to an area of low reception and try and message the group chat, it defaults as an sms due to the poor signal and breaks the group in the same way.

Not sure what advantages an imessage vs sms groupchat even give me in this era of unlimited texting. Pretty hearts?
But the social pressure from the vocal minorities - especially when amplified by social media - pushes other people towards those extremes out of fear of being ostracized.
I would also suggest a 4th: Natural Remedies sometimes take longer to work and they can be less convenient than a pill.
Reverse parking works well for me, as if you can get the rear "inside" wheel on the line for the parking space, at full steering lock the car will generally rotate around that wheel which makes parking very predictable.
I don't think 2008 validates Marx. OK, he predicted worsening economic crises. So have a number of others, many of whom are not even close to Marxists. Does 2008 validate them, too? If not, why not? And if 2008 validates such contradictory positions, then being validated by 2008 doesn't mean very much.
IMO it's surprisingly easy to build small boats on your own.

Easy enough in fact that I wouldn't bother buying one until you at least get into the $1k+ range.
I install new command line utilities to use in scripts all the time, rsync, cloud storage clients, silver searcher, linting tools, many things.

Same with Python. Virtually all data cleaning scripts I write rely on special scientific computing and structured data libraries.

I’d venture to guess _most_ scripts desire third party tools, because scripts are very often highly specialized for unique purposes.

> “ Python has to work productively for people who have never heard of pip through to those who are building multi targeted native modules as part of a complex application build.”

Yep, sounds pretty standard and sounds exactly like every other mainstream programming language I’ve ever used.
Basin of Attraction
We’re becoming increasingly dependent on a handful of major tech giants to get through our basic daily routine.

Well there's your problem right there.