skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sweden ran an experiment with 6 hour days (on nurses) and it ended up having some productivity boosts but cost too much ($1.3m USD).

I'm curious if they tried this for an industry where the employee does not have to be physically present for all hours such as a nurse does how it would differ in terms of cost.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38843341
Nothing with trading, I don't have mentality to thrive there. Still doing IT, still +- same job, just started low and gradually moved to much better place. Plus (I would like to think that) I know how to negotiate salary during hiring. Or maybe just luck, can't really say.

Not even self-employed, which is great but goes opposite to stability, and some goals I have in life are not financial.
I have been using this platform for like a week and I really enjoy it. I think it's really nice place to learn about new topics and meet new people. I highly recommend it to everyone :)
> The point of life is not to work.

maybe where you're from.

where i'm from you need to work your ass off 24/7 so that you and your kids have a chance at a normal life. and work itself is a thing of beauty. the discipline and the ethics that it should entail is something that i've seen lacking in western culture recently.
Past experience and documents that ceased being classified shows that serious attackers (e.g. NSA) are at least decade ahead of what's publicly known in cryptography; i.e. we know that pretty much always when new relevant groundbreaking math was published, the classified cryptographers had known that for a long, long time already.

So if this attack is developed today, then you should assume that NSA has been able to execute this attack for at least ten years already whenever it suited them, including mass surveilance of random not-that-important people. The same applies for the collisions - the first published collision was 3 years ago, but we should assume that that's definitely not the first; I mean, only a minority of the world's cryptography researchers participate in the public, open, academic community; the majority of them are employed with a condition that they won't get to publish anything important. And since we know for the last ten years that such attacks were possible, there's no reasonable reason why SHA-1 would have been considered as safe.
That was quite nice tool, but you should remove that search bar from dropdown
Nah. That's just sour grapes. Saying that more money leads to less long term happiness and life satisfaction. It's not true. It's not hard at at all to find good investments. If you have some money, and are willing to take some risks, your investments will grow. The rich get richer. It's a law of nature.
:%s/Node.js/Java/g

All hail CICS Gateway!!!
The memory access performance on ThreadRipper (and current Ryzen/Epyc) is much better than anything prior to this generation for workstation loads. Not that the shared I/O controller is without cost, only that it tends to average out better in most cases where multiple cores across chips are in use together.

Just got my 3950X w/ 64gb ram, not sure that I'd be able to practically use any more compute than this for what I play with, which is mostly multiple back-ends and some container orchestration for local dev and occasionally video re-encodes (BR-Ripping for NAS).

Some think $4k for this CPU is too much... considering the shear performance that you can get these days for under $10K there's never been a better time to build or buy a computer. My only regret is wasting time and money on aRGB that I cannot configure in Linux.
I really liked the idea that when we go from disciplinary to multi/interdisciplinary to non disciplinary, we need to let go of traditional methods of measuring "depth vs breadth". The concepts of rework, reference, and release make a lot of sense to me for writing, software, and art. Do they make sense in other contexts as well?
> "No one regrets working too little when they die"

Or to quote the always amusing Savage Chickens [1], "Years from now, when I'm on my deathbed, will I look back on my life and say 'gosh, I really wish I had put in more overtime'?".

[1] https://twitter.com/savagechickens/status/922563259894439937
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Like computer scientist, they think binary: Either it's secure, or it's not. In reality there's a spectrum where you also have "good enough".
Govt corrects inaccurate reports on Finnish PM's alleged 4-day work week
The Federal government operates a comprehensive system to manage milk prices to consumers and also to subsidize marginal dairy producers. It's also illegal to sell raw milk and other similar products in most states. The milk producers are often not making money from the sale of milk. When milk prices drop below certain levels, the federal government steps in to subsidize dairy farmers. This creates perverse incentives for the dairy farmers to produce more even when the market is signalling that more dairy farms should close and consolidate.

The entire system is currently pretty strange. Even family farms wind up feeding into corporate wholesale conglomerates. So the "small farms" that are non economic wind up supplying the corporations who pasteurize, package, process, and market the milk for retail both as milk and as other finished products. The corporations that can bear the regulatory and other costs wind up profiting from the farmers who are indentured to the government. They may not be literally indentured but it's a good metaphor for the relationship. They get bottom price milk from subsidized producers while keeping the retail profits.

Grocery stores have tons and tons of loss leaders. Anything perishable unless it is premium priced is probably going to lose money. Dealing with low priced perishable, refrigerated, fragile, leaky products is really tough. The profits are in dry goods, drugs, supplements, and prepared foods.
Preliminary US Emissions Estimates for 2019
Forget the nanny state, here comes the nanny employer
As someone who doesn't dive deep into CSS positioning what is the significance of -5294?

Is there a reason it's not a round number?
Great work. Did you coin "Joy Map" or is that already a thing?

I'm assuming its a reference to Joy Division's iconic Unknown Pleasures cover [0] by Peter Saville?

[0] https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/joy-division/cover-joy-divi...
> The loneliness epidemic in modern times is thus attributable in great part to the erosion of family units and other early age relationships. What makes it difficult to solve is that there were a number of grievances with that model which the liberal, individualist project intended to address, such as the oppression of women who were economically dependent on their husbands, and the way in which tightly knit families often stifled self-expression. The modern system in which all adults are workers and consumers also supports the interests of capital (more workers equals cheaper labor, more consumers means bigger markets, together you get record growth). No one really wants to roll back the progress that the liberal project achieved, but the side effects are ravaging society.

Don't forget the increasingly intensifying idea that children are basically small adults that are capable of making their own decisions and that major interventions into their lives are coercion. I understand the idea of preventing repression of another human's self, but there's a massive field of conflicts and situations no child is prepared to respond to; just like actual people, they just look around their peers and other signaling for answers. That's not good.

In the case of young men, it's no wonder so many are flocking to people like Jordan Peterson for guidance later in life. People who grew up in the 90s were the first wave and now they are having children.

Effectively, it is almost impossible to pass down learned wisdom and effective judgement in a society that, from all asides, for every vector, promotes a pigeonholed rationalism that in practice turns into a kind of narccissism.
OMG that rearranging of the store makes me so angry. Just when I get a system down for getting in, getting what I need to get off my list, and getting out and they throw that monkey wrench in.

That and using stacks of items as road blocks in the aisles to slow me down in front of higher-margin items. They don't need roadblocks with my pokey-shopping neighbors who stand in the middle of the aisle and stare at the two boxes of white-label pasta in each hand, attempting to calculate in their heads which one is the cheapest per noodle (my dad and grandmother being chief offenders here) all the while completely oblivious to my nasty glares because I just want to get past them so I can get to the sauce and move on.
The TL;DR by Ryan Castellucci is excellent: https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/1214578765998645249

> Neat attack. TL;DR: A "non-exportable" finite field Diffie-Hellman private key can be extracted because the key object isn't bound to specific group parameters. XSS the site, do some operations with deliberately weak group parameters, solve for key.
Companies need to pay government insurance on their pension and if they go bankrupt, the insurance pays out a capped amount (~$60K per year) on behalf of the fund.
Basic Performance Testing in Django
Temporal facilities in SQL, and their implementation in commercial DBMSs
There is absolutely a distinction in getting website traffic and paying to manipulate public opinion.
You have a typo there, it's browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent and browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent (Current, not Content), just in case someone tries to copy and paste those into about:config
You're making bisects, cherry-picks, and backouts harder by squashing history like that.

We cover this and more in the Fossil project document "Rebase Considered Harmful": https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm.md
So, I think it's important to consider here why ultra-processed foods have been a problem.

If you ask me, it's because they've simply been a way to refine sugars and fats into purer forms. This allows us to consume more of them more efficiently, which is an issue especially as our populations are becoming more, not less, sedentary.

I see no evidence that the processing required for "impossible" foods is similar in that respect (but I'm no food scientist).
Oliver's background is in entertainment and comedy. As far as I know, he's never had a traditional journalism job.

Carlson started his career as a journalist, working for right-wing publications.
Cryptographers rely on precise definitions to make their assessments.

In particular, a primitive makes a number of useful promises. Any achievement that describes a way in which a promise is not kept makes that primitive broken, regardless of whether that achievement is theoretical or practical.

(They often talk about “theoretically broken” or “practically broken” to distinguish whether it was actually done.)

> it's not like SHA-1 is broken for every single possible usage

True, but it is extremely easy to believe your usage is unbroken and be wrong. Besides, often, primitives that are broken for one usage eventually break for others.

> why the nonsense with "no good reason"? Obviously performance is one significant consideration for the unbroken use cases

There are many much more robust primitives with better performance nowadays, such as BLAKE2, SHA-512/256, or Kangaroo12.
Wait, so the advantage of the keyboard with no tactile feedback is that you also can't see the keys, so the input is pure heuristics both from the user and the computer side? Wow. I've used many keyboards - this one, from the description, sounds painful.
I heard this argument for the 35h work week in France. 10 years later, it proved baseless.
i can guarantee there will be a queue of countries and corporations lined up to undermine any major difference from the globalised standard.
Thing is, by the time your eulogy is written, you're already dead. I prefer to leave my kids with a tangible legacy than a beautiful story of a guy who was too kind to be a dick when he needed to.

Besides, words chosen for your eulogy depend on the influence you managed to build while still living.
The Travelex website said it was down due to "planned maintenance". Is that not an outright lie, since it was obviously down for other reasons? Is there anything preventing a company from lying about something like this?
No, but you need political capital even if your goal is making cool shit and not moving up the corporate ladder.

Human interaction is political - unless your work is entirely self sustaining, you have to be able to navigate the politics of human interaction. These get worse when money is involved, and all of the other competing interests at a company. I'm not saying focus on politics to the exclusion of directly productive work, but this idea that you can ignore politics and still accomplish things larger than one man projects seems incredibly naive. I don't buy for a minute that Altman hasn't engaged in plenty of politics over his career.
Depreciating things takes a long time. It could be 10 years before 'that guy' in your office gets it in to his head that SHA-1 isn't appropriate where security is concerned. Thus you want to make it unambiguous that now is a good time to move to something else so that when it is thoroughly broken in 10 years time you're minimising the number of people who have yet to switch.
Clippy already sort is is that, though it seems to target smaller scope idiomatic changes.

It's a much harder problem for a tool to recognise the design patterns C pushes you towards and refactor that to something more native to Rust.
I took a new job in a new city. Moving to the new city made me focus on my interests, I think after realizing that I could leave work at 4pm and head straight to the mountain made me realize I have control of my life. I spent 2-3 months exploring this, then ideas just sort of came out of the woodworks. Taking control of my life was instrumental to pursuing the business idea. I wouldn't have put up $30k before then, and it took losing $30k in this venture to realize the freedom that owning your own business really provides.

I ended up quitting the new job and for the next 6 months worked on a business plan and opened up shop. Today I am back to sitting in a strict 8-5 and spend all of my free time honing the next venture.
An intro to QM by A.Zagoskin. It is indeed somewhat more technical than most pop-science books.
Bridge engineers don't have to fear the progress of science working against them, but computer security is not alone here. Consider designing body armor or military aircraft and hoping that the state of the art will stay the same! An adversary who can use the progress of science against you is always dangerous. Computer security has been rather lucky so far: the asymmetry between hashing and cracking a hash, for example, is much more favorable to the defense than the balance between bulletproof vests and bullets.
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Seriously, these two things do not go in hand in my mind.
https://remoteleaf.com
dairy farmers have spent well over a century fighting the free market.
The Most Trending Node.js Open Source Projects in 2019 – Deep Study
As Fires Rage, Australia Pushes to Emit More Carbon
I'd been running Hackintosh and an rMBP for my desktop and laptop respectively... this past year I've passed on both and now running Linux for my personal desktop, and will be getting a new laptop within the next few months, some of the Ryzen Asus laptops coming soon are interesting.

Although still not without issue, my workflow has aligned so much with Linux and it's finally reached a good enough point for my day to day use... not having to use the VM based mac or windows docker has been really nice (WSL isn't good enough imho).
How does this square with the recent court ruling that linkedin scraping is legal? After all, it's all public data, and I have no doubt that linkedin tried to IP block the scrapers.
Not really proof that they aren't losing customers as they could be overcompensating by increasing revenue-per-customer
A bigger problem is that you've now painted a huge target on your back as a company that is known to have security problems and pay ransoms.
Venomous Menace: Snakebite Treatments Are Failing in India
Sequel–A Structured English Query Language (1974 Introductory Paper, Pdf)
The way it works at least here generally is that the pension fund is held in trust, on a per employee basis, by an insurance company (usually) employed by the company to do that. So it's (in principle) immune to bankruptcy of both the employer and third party insurance company.
eBPF based tools are still a work in progress on common Linuxes
Hard Water Is Better for Your Heart
Any tool out there to determine a GitHub repo's “reputation” / “stale-ness”?
Whenever I start a new project that I think will turn into something more than just a little experiment on the side, I like to do a little bit of research on any packages that I might install from npm (or whatever package manager I might be using at the time) to see if they are still actively being maintained and how the community feels about them.

I usually go about this by doing a quick glance at how often an npm package is being installed, looking at commit frequency, how quickly / often do maintainers respond to comments, etc. I also sometimes end up doing this for multiple packages that do similar things to compare my options.

I'm first wondering if I'm silly, there is already something out there, and I can't google to save my life? But if not, do you think folks would find something like that useful?

Thanks!
There isn't one within 20 miles of my house, so I think I'll pass on that. :P
Question on your RPM: You should see one pulse for every 2 crank revolutions, right? So if you measure 600 pulses per minute, that's really 1200 RPM, right?
If Firefox kept any website-controlled interface it would give websites an opportunity to block the feature by overlaying it with a black rectangle.

Most content providers probably don't like this feature.
I grew up similar - never thinking I’d have the same life forever. I’m certainly not as well off as I’d like to be yet, but I’m starting to get my life ready to have kids (4 or 5 years out I’d guess), and I’m already worried about spoiling them too much. I mean the entire motivation has been to start a family that didn’t have to have the same issues.

Would love to read something from a similar background and how they navigate raising self-motivated, but well taken care of kids.
No, and no, because they'd just say they started planning the maintenance as soon as they recognized the problem.
When Opioids Backfire
If its healthy during infancy why would it be unhealthy during adulthood?
uh, not sure that using france as an example is smart as france has been a laggard in terms of economic performance for the past decade. this meant it being basically leapfrogged by a number of countries from across the world. end result? better quality of life, better infrastructure, etc etc outside of france than inside.
There is a relatively new platform for what you describe [1]

[1]https://www.moonlightwork.com/
Smaller HTML Payloads with Service Workers
It simply doesn't work for some non-trivial amount of videos, e.g. some instagram stories or gfycat mp4s. If you load the link directly in the browser it will say the file is corrupt. Loading the same link in chrome plays fine.
Just a curiosity, since people are talking about Git still using SHA-1 (despite work on SHA-256 since 2017).

I see that Git doesn't actually use SHA-1 any more, it uses "hardened SHA-1": https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10434326/hash-collision-...
James Webb Space Telescope on Track for March 2021 Launch
Ask HN: Have you ever been rejected on patent application? Why?
I'm about to file a patent in the US from overseas.
It's a time and money sunk cost, so I'd better be prepared and avoid rejection. Sure I'll go with a provisional application first.
Are there materials that show a ten year head start?
The Eight Rules of Multithreaded Qt
Saving, thanks!
I can't suggest Introduction to Statistical Learning enough, it's a fantastic book! I loaned my copy to another data scientist because I didn't want to hog such a valuable resource.
I always thought it was weird to be drinking the breast milk of another species.
I really enjoy coming up with micro podcasts and recording, very simple and intuitive interface!
Airbus to Offer Dimmable Windows on Its Aircraft
Not surprising coming from a country that allegedly thinks low expectations are the route to happiness.

Why stop at four days? Take it down to four hours and have T. Ferriss as a consultant.
I'm surprised you find that guests can plug into the main corporate LAN. That's a sign of totally incompetent security (unless it's a lab network or something firewalled away from the regular enterprise network). Wired Ethernet access should be locked down to only authorized devices.
BuzzFeed has an investigative news group[0] that is separate from the clickbait they got famous for. They publish articles closer to propublica than top 10 lists.

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations
_Adult_ mammals drinking the milk of other species is a _very_ new invention; lots of humans don't even do it.
I think Brooks would probably push back on the hedonic idea of "do whatever makes you happy" somewhat. He seems to advocate cultivating moral character over chasing "happiness".

In The Road to Character he writes,

"All human beings seek to lead lives not just of pleasure, but of purpose, righteousness, and virtue. As John Stuart Mill put it, people have a responsibility to become more moral over time. The best life is oriented around the increasing excellence of the soul and is nourished by moral joy, the quiet sense of gratitude and tranquillity that comes as a byproduct of successful moral struggle. The meaningful life is the same eternal thing, the combination of some set of ideals and some man or woman’s struggle for those ideals. Life is essentially a moral drama, not a hedonistic one."
It is all about creating asymmetry into your favor i.e. make them waste their time.

Make them jump through a bazillion hoops. Their will bring their managers and directors involved. Make those waste their time as well. Have them write proposals. Get their bosses involved. Have their bosses waste their time. Eventually it would get to an SVP/EVP level of sales which will permanently fix the issue.