skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean laying down to operate a computer? I've been experimenting with that on and off for about 4-5 years now. Looking to deepen / accelerate this practice recently.

It's pretty nice when it works well. I use one of those adjustable (3 joints per side) laptop desks and a mouse or trackball at my side. The laptop desk has a large lip on one end that prevents it from falling off when tilted.

The great thing about this is that laying down seems to reduce strain on the nervous system so much that it's a more sustainable working position in a lot of ways. I find that my overall working mood is much more stable, especially compared to 1h+ sitting upright. I sometimes go back to a sitting position at work in the late afternoon (WFH) and my energy seems sapped by sitting within about 30-45 minutes (not completely sapped; just compared to the laying position). Laying down, on the other hand, is much more sustainable.

I usually experiment with what I have on hand first (I used storage tubs and cardboard boxes to build my first standing desk), and I haven't yet tried any special chairs that allow laying down, except for a reclining couch.

I think my next experiment in this area will be a lumbar pillow to be used when laying flat. I've been surprised at how much lumbar support can make a big difference in chairs, couches, etc. A friend told me he believes lack of lumbar support in his chairs at home caused his nerve damage, and I can see why he would say that.

Some aspects that I don't like:

- It has a social stigma. Either "hospital bed" (are you sick?) or "lazy" (you've been in bed for how long today?)

- I can't (yet) put two 24+ inch monitors to use in this position :)

- Same with my favorite keyboard...laptops are what allow this to work.

- Some other minor things, but I believe paying attention to little adjustments can help here.
Do other people have the same issues I have with streaming dark content? I watch a lot of horror, and the compression on Netflix and Shudder (and probably HBO + Hulu) causes really horrible banding in dark scenes.

Literally if they could just fix this I would have no problems with streaming quality.
`We need more self hosted email and less centralized control`

We need to start over and build a truly open internet.
I’d assume the parent comment is alluding to FAANG or some of the hotter software startups.
You got no clue, it is not even close, most people in Saudi Arabia lives pretty good life, including the women albeit all of the restrictions.
That's still the way to go, and it's still fiddly and always requires manual tweaking until it works. Especially on Linux. Deploying binaries on Linux is just always a hassle, and never works "everywhere"...
No, that is not remotely what practitioners mean by RCE.
11 hours in a private plane with lots of room and being able to lay down flat or be in a zero gravity chair would be sheer luxury compared to many flights I've taken. My last long distance flight took 24 hours of travel to get from San Jose to Israel with 3 legs in Coach and going through multiple security gates. One time I flew 16 hours Coach from LA to Guanzhou China and that was a second leg. My tail bone was in pain for a day from sitting that long.

If an airplane like this meant being able to fly private, it's completely worth it. One other factor you have to consider is that this plane can probably use tiny airports which shaves a 4 hours of additional driving and security gates. I'd rather be in a slower flying plane for 7 hours than fly for 4 hours but spend 4 additional hours at security gates and car traffic.
I read somewhere that if you want good posture, just sit on the edge of the seat. So that's what I do and it seems to work fine.

Chairs with backs are nice, but it seems like they will always just lead to terrible posture.
can we do this plan, except make the well-financed corporates take care of the cost of cleaning up the toxic waste that they made?
There are indeed reports of exactly that, and some of them from professional aerial observers like pilots, reporting on objects in the sky performing what are to us physically impossible maneuvers of sharp turns at supersonic speeds, or accelerations from full stop to hypersonic in absurdly quick times. The 2004 Air Force encounters alone were absolutely bizarre:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-...

a military report of the same incident: https://media.lasvegasnow.com/nxsglobal/lasvegasnow/document...
I'm surprised most Dvorakers don't already tend to have a utility installed to let them remap temporarily or for an application. This must be a common occurrence?
> As an aside I get the feeling software is being written more and more to assume SSDs.

I agree with this observation in general. I don't use VS Code in particular but you've given solid evidence of a seek-heavy/HDD-unfriendly workload.

> My feeling is the VS code is spawning many threads which are each fighting each other for the disk. It's really, really poor.

I agree this is a poor match to your hardware, but if you're saying this is evidence of poor engineering, I disagree. IDEs' most demanding customers are using high-core-count CPUs with SSDs and expect top performance with heavy workloads. So the Visual Studio team needs to make this fast, and I don't think they have much reason to care about HDD-based installations' performance. Most software developers won't have trouble affording SSDs to store their OS files and current project, and the ones that will aren't paying to drive IDE development either.
That's possible. I wouldn't say that the employer has a say in whether you get surgery or not based on whether they provide health insurance. If they don't provide company housing, they don't provide company housing, but they don't get to decide whether you get to live in a house or not. "They get a say" = they are involved in the decision. They aren't though. They might not be forced to pay for what an employee decides, but they aren't making the decision.

If them not paying means they make the decision, then the government is deciding whether people get to fly to the moon. That's technically correct under those premises, but I believe we agree that it's a silly statement.
I miss the good ol days when my T410 just simply unclipped. Completely modular, no screwdriver required, almost like battery replacement was a feature!
It's hard to go wrong by telling people what's happening and why. "it's taking longer than usual to X" is a fine thing to expose in a UI.
Yes, it does, but my terminal's "silent bell" feature had been enabled. I disabled it, and it worked, though only while compiling, and not during runtime, strangely enough.
It prolly blocks DNS requests.
I've seen several of these sites. Yours is nice.

I would love to see one for "life hours lost" (due to unnecessary lockdowns), layoffs, or business closures.
Rust-PSP: Write Homebrew Apps for the Sony PSP, in Rust
On the flipside, kinetic inductance detectors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_inductance_detector) for astronomy have been around since ~2000 and in the low light single photon regime they have much less noise on readout than photoelectric detectors (CCD/CMOS/etc).
The average age of women at their first marriage in Europe is 33 years almost 3x older than the parts we are comparing against. None of them are traded in a transaction for a goat. These girls set them selves on fire because of the conditions they live in. Take a look at the photo on this page.

https://www.visapourlimage.com/en/festival/exhibitions/ces-p...

I cannot reply directly but I'm fairly certain you do not have daughters if you say the experiences are equal in those marriages we are comparing.

Let's agree to disagree.
Novel AI aims to diagnose Alzheimer’s faster and more accurately
My gut feeling is temperature and constant deep discharging probably explain most of the issues with Leafs. Like a lot of things there is a curve with a knee and it's easy to drive a leaf so you're on the wrong side of it.

I don't really know how Leafs batteries are connected but one could also expect that a smaller battery pack has less redundancy. If due to bad luck a couple of cells go bad you lose a lot of capacity. More likely to happen the less redundancy you have.
But saying this as a reason seems like they’re opening the door even further.

At most, saying “your services are no longer needed” is about all they need to do in an at-will environment.
And it will make the devices smaller? Cheaper? Higher performance?
Particularly the case with PHP and Zend from 5.0+ days. Are there other examples across other stacks?
I wouldn’t assume it’s going to happen - ever seen eastern Connecticut or Maryland, upstate NY, etc.? There are plenty of places which have been waiting for that eventually since the 1800s, with nice downtowns and plenty of industrial space but simply an insufficient number of ways people can make a living.

There’s a wicked critical mass factor where you need enough now to be able to get people to start businesses there rather than moving, and there’s a nasty feedback cycle with shrinking tax bases cutting into city services which is hard to break out of.

SF and NYC probably haven’t priced out enough diversity to get through this but there are a lot of cities which only need a couple of employers to fold or relocate to start having big challenges. Attracting teleworkers quickly enough could help but a lot of old industrial and even office space will require a lot of work to convert into residences.
I think we're pretty far off on our interpretations here, and you don't explain why you think the tactic isn't good. Epic is not asking for free money. And they wouldn't be asking for free help, either. This is clearly an issue that is impactful to other large companies in the app store, and they would simply be coming together to negotiate rather than stranded on their own. Hacker news is full of developers, that's part of the reason people care about this issue. Epic's problem could be our problem, too. Nobody wants to be exploited.
A three dimensional spreadsheet sounds interesting, but the teapot site doesn’t appear to have a link to documentation on how to it works.
Show HN: I got bombarded with ads by note sharing sites, so I created this in 1d
Its funny because its hard to gauge – the things you think are the most productive feed strongly into your confirmation bias, so maybe they aren't really that productive after all. But that's fine.

In general though, I prefer the idea of going "all in" in whatever I'm doing. If I'm going to play video games, I'm making sure I have a damn good time doing it. If I'm going to put in work, I'm gonna make sure it gets done. Distractions will do you in in both cases. Ruin your fun time and mess up your productivity.
Hah that's so well said. I had typed a response about why that piece of art didn't really do much for me, but it was like 3 paragraphs long - this is a perfect way to put it!
I found my Aeron chair triggered my lower back pain. Since then I’ve moved to mostly using a standing mat and standing up as well as strengthening my core. I might try sitting on my Aeron chair after a few months of core strengthening
Correct. In order to tell if a button is clicked, you need to know whether it was clicked last frame, which means keeping around state. One difficulty with immediate-style GUIs is that it's difficult to tell whether two widgets are "the same". Dear ImGUI mostly uses a widget's label as its core identifier, which can cause issues if the button label changes.

There's actually a lot more in common between React and ImGUI than you might think, in terms of "state reconciliation". The difference is that React is diffing to apply itself to a retained model, while ImGUI retains the state behind your back.
My personal mantra at work is: One useful thing per day.

If I manage to do one useful thing every day, it adds up to a lot of useful things over time. And that has proven to be enough.

There's a sort of mediocre Johnny Cash song with the chorus "Even I might get to Heaven at a half a mile a day"

That's basically how I try to live my life.
Seems fake.
We saw our deliverability go way up with SES. It’s pricey for what it is but we’ve had really good luck with it.
Hitches are still bad, but consistency is less needed with variable refresh rate monitors.

Also, battery life/power usage is an important factor that can push you away from focusing only on consistency.
> or they have to build a battery recycling program with the same sort of core charge applied at purchase

They will already recycle your battery for free. I think they will actually also recycle other manufacturers' batteries for free as well, and also any random loose batteries you hand them.

Seems pretty reasonable to me?
We often forget how much assumed knowledge (and accepted knowledge) went into learning OOP.

Turing Machine and Lambda Calculus are two entry points into computational thinking, is it really so alarming that if you've only learned one that trying to learn the other will make you feel like a beginner all over again?
I’m happy to be free from sugar since a few months.
I’m adding salt in my oats instead of sugar. Or just fruits. Or cocoa powder.

Cutting carbs though, esp. fruits, is way harder.
This is literally the opposite of a controversial opinion. It's just the magic solution in a different shape.

Most things in life aren't some sort of instant solution. If you run you won't live to be a hundred. If you smoke you won't get lung cancer. What these actions do is shift your probability distribution in certain ways. Running frequently improves your overall life-expectancy, smoking increases your risk of lung cancer¹. You can do everything right and still have trouble. You can avoid every intervention and still have things work out.

So, if you're outcomes-oriented you modify your environment and behaviour to match the outcomes you want based on what you know to be capable. Getting vertical mice, split keyboards, expensive chairs are all interventions that shift your distribution to better outcomes. Lifting well and frequently, having better posture, taking breaks to move are also interventions that shift your distribution to better outcomes. Each intervention moves you to a better state of being.

Some interventions require you to apply techniques of willpower and motivation. Others require you to place yourself in an environment where those things aren't tested. Yet others are just tools. I think I would go out on a limb to say that most people younger than their early 30s who aim to spend themselves into good health are making moves that are rational.

Credentials here at bottom to prove I'm not some fat guy trying to justify not working out. My lift PRs indicate I'm not a novice (though not particularly exceptional). My weight at PRs (unless otherwise stated) was 165 lbs (75 kg). My height is 6' (184 cm).

Deadlift: 375 lbs at 180 lbs body weight, 3x315 lbs at 165 lbs

Squat: 275 lbs

Front Squat: 225 lbs

Clean and Jerk: 135 lbs

5k time: 23:53 (within 3 mos of the PRs)

¹ A quick test for your intuition for these events is to imagine in your head what you think the incidence of lung cancer in heavy lifetime smokers is and then look it up. 95%? 75%? 50%? 25%? 12%? 5%?
AI Assistants Have Poor Usability: Study of Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri (2018)
Ballad of Linus Torvalds (2001)
On a purely aesthetic level, I these charts. I wish more charts gave the succinct breakdowns of many entries compromise each object on the graph, and what percentile corresponds to what number. It'd be great if scientific publishing sites tried to make interactivity online a key focus.
I’m afraid of boredom because I’m not loved. When we had no phone addiction, other people were talking more too. If I get my dose of speech/interaction during the day, I could quit twitter anytime. But since I regularly don’t get it, especially as a programmer where written chat is the norm as an ersatz of human interaction, then I compulsively need to read and write information and watch (*gobble) videos, and generally fall asleep to the sound of a video talking to me.

With enough human interaction and love, I come back to being an avid reader, consume little addictive networks, and don’t mind boredom.
I don't see how this could ever be feasible for consumers. People still struggle to drive when there are roads, what's going to happen when you add a third dimension to control?
Maybe you should stop asking for « a single example » of things if that’s not what you’re looking for?
Probably so that they can also send some mail from their own servers, in addition to sendgrid's.
Fair enough - I was generalizing heavily. I'd not heard of Robert Noyce before, but I'm glad to have some weekend reading!

In response to your comparison then, I suppose I would say we're as close (or closer) to the hippies of burning man and esalen than we are to the engineers of the Apollo program. It's certainly a mixture of both - I just think the former tends to be marginalized is all.
Quantitatively estimate the COVID risk to you from ordinary daily activities
> My definition of a sound-byte is a conceptually thin phrase that sounds good, but does not contain much content.

Yeah, same. And to my eye, this whole thing's paper-thin; it tested my suspension of disbelief to not dismiss it as an obvious joke or bad attempt at a PR stunt, and I'm honestly still undecided.

Part of the issue is that its conclusions are absurd. We can invent ethical constraints to arrive at max-profit by pulling things out of thin air; the procedure's analogous to p-hacking. For funsies:

1. Come up with a huge portfolio of ethical-sounding constraints. Include basically any ethical-sounding argument imaginable, even if it seems stupid or bad for business (the numbers can be hacked; we just need the pretty words).

2. Come up with model-transform strategies. For example, instead of calculating the threshold, calculate the log-threshold or the threshold-entropy. (Again, don't think logically -- we're hacking the math, so just come up with random things.)

3. Come up with model-hybridization strategies. For example, construct a meta-model that uses 50% of the threshold + 25% of the inverse-log threshold + 20% of the inverse-entropy threshold + a flat 5% (because, hey, why not?).

4. Whenever we want to maximize profit, just do so with simple profit-maximization. No "ethical" constraints.

5. Repeat Step (4) for millions (or more) different hybridized models, combining all sorts of different model-transforms and ethical-constraints at random. Optimize each for approach to simple-maximization.

6. Stop upon finding an "ethical" solution that effectively equals simple profit-maximization.

7. Generate a description of the "ethical" solution, and write a report on how your company's using that particular ethical strategy as part of its latest, on-going campaign to promote social equity.

8. Just do simple profit-maximization. Or the "ethical" solution; whatever, they're literally the same thing. But if anyone asks, be sure to tell them it was for ethics.

While we're at being ethical, we could even shift some paradigms to envision new modes of engagement with socioeconomically disadvantaged stakeholders to promote a synergistic realignment between our commitment to ethical outreach and disrupting the zeitgeist with our social media blitz to rapidly accumulate surprisingly liquid social capital, indelibly scrawled across the human blockchain of love and mutual respect, validated in the proof-of-work of billions of sapient hearts yearning to emerge from the trials-and-tribulations of our modern era into the welcoming bosom of a new tomorrow.

But who cares about pointlessly defining jargon for logical inconsistencies, though? It's hallow and meaningless; at most, it might fool people before they realize that it's logically inconsistent, but that'd just be lies. It doesn't seem to have an actual use.
As a recent Haskell learner, I found the indentation part of Haskell hard to learn and a little undiscoverable/hard to google.

The number of times I've used curly braces, single lines or expression substitution to bail me out is many...
Good, maybe they will all learn to stop deciding what is hate speech and what is not. Facebook is not my moral compass. At least the Indian government can be voted out if I don't like their hate speech rules, can someone vote out Zuckerberg? Companies should allow any speech as long as it is not against the law, I don't need their preaching or blocking or censoring or whatever, they are not above us all.
To understand monads, I think it helps to know a language where expressing such a concept is more natural. Although I do not claim to know 100% what monads are yet, coming across these features made it easier for me to understand the concept a little bit.

- Algebraic data types

- OCaml's let expressions

- F#'s computation expressions

I also think that it is important to write something that naturally requires the use of monads. One thing that spring to mind is Parser Combinators.

- https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/understanding-parser...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9RUqGYuGfw
I would recommend org-mode instead and yasnippet. Inline rendering of equations, and yasnippet makes writing equations super quick and easy. Also, org is just a better format than markdown.
This is a fairly comprehensive build system for gui apps in python, I think: https://build-system.fman.io/
If you haven't read the article, you're hitting on the tongue-and-cheek-ness of it.
"Before its acquisition he had been the cofounder and technical director of a small company called Dumpmines, which was in the business of digging up and processing old landfills, recovering the valuable materials that had been thrown away in a more wasteful age." - Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars, 1993.
Exactly.
This happens to me so often. I put my phone back and then ask myself: “what did I just read / watched?”
Most of the time I don’t remember.
Yep it’s especially prevalent in salaried technology leadership positions. I know some colleagues work from home without too much difference in productivity and stress. Unfortunately, I am the other side of that coin because I have to constantly remind myself to be disciplined. If I am left to my own devices I will be so absorbed in the work aspect and enjoyment of little wins that I won’t leave enough mental bandwidth for my personal relationships. I prefer the office to work from home assuming the hours are flexible. The location change is very key to my ability to mentally and emotionally disconnect from work.
Well I was thinking of King Agrippa counselling the Jews prior to their rebellion against the Romans:

"However, as to the desire of recovering your liberty, it is unseasonable to indulge it so late; whereas you ought to have labored earnestly in old time that you might never have lost it; for the first experience of slavery was hard to be endured, and the struggle that you might never have been subject to it would have been just; but that slave who hath been once brought into subjection, and then runs away, is rather a refractory slave than a lover of liberty; "

So yes a fairly different context.
I used a dining chair for a while and it was ok. It got the job done. But then I got a "proper" office chair and I would never go back. My only regret is that I did not make the purchase earlier.

Before purchasing a chair, I went to an office furniture and tested several chairs and had the employee point out why people preferred different chairs. In the end, I got an Aeron. Also, it comes in 3 sizes and I made sure to get the correct size for me.