skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found youth will overcome a lot of bad ergonomic habits.

You are doing well by standing. Keeping your core strong will help.

The thing you have to ask yourself is - are you using willpower to overcome bad seating? If you have good ergonomics you will maintain good posture even when you're tired. The idea is to balance your body so it stays in place. Keep your head balanced, your arms relaxed without hunching your shoulders, your wrists at a good angle. If you're looking to the side or up or down, you're going to use muscles instead of balance to maintain your position. (Laptops are not ergonomic and are responsible for long term damage to your body - there are no osha approved laptops)

If you have your wrists at a bad angle, on the hard desk or across the sharp edge of a keyboard, the little ropes and pulleys that get your forearms to move your fingers will wear out. (I use a wrist rest to maintain position, and keep everything warm and comfy)
This depends on the card. For subprime cards, it's true that late fees and interest charges make up most of credit card companies' revenue. But in the premium market segment that he's talking about, ~90% of revenue comes from annual fees and merchant fees. Even customers that never pay a dime of interest or a single nuisance fee are profitable.

As one case in point, most of American Express' flagship products don't even allow you to carry a balance (and thus pay interest).

Source: work in the industry
It's an experience rather than scientific. It worked for me.

There are many scientific posts about improving sleep, repeating a few common recommendations, which didn't help me.

I wanted to share something that not many people have talked about, and not repeating the common points like avoid caffeine x hours before sleep, keep low light, etc.
Certainly you don't believe that. What about child porn? Well you could say that's illegal so then it would be ok to censor it. But what about anti-vaxxers, QAnon or other blatant misinformation or lies? What if it's proven that the misinformation, is posted by foreign agents trying to stir controversy and hate in the country?

You clearly need to draw the line somewhere. But it's impossible to draw it to comply with the expectations of everyone. It's just an impossible task.
> Angst about what you've accomplished is about the processes in your mind

Yes. All of this insecurity and fear about what one has accomplished is nothing more than processes put into peoples' mind as children about what they should accomplish, should be. What is the point of feeling sad about your life?

More importantly, why do they feel sad about their lives? Is it truly their decision, based on what they truly wanted, or an expectation that society (i.e. just other people) imposed on them? I have always lived with a sense that what I chose to do is meaningful and important for no other reason than I chose to do it. Why does one need more of a reason in life to reach goals than that, as long as you can satisfy your basic needs?
Meditation is also a great way to force yourself to be alone with your thoughts. However, speaking from experience, that can lead to some uncomfortable truths -- so it's good to be prepared.
LinkedIn putting pressure on users to enable location tracking
PhpGenerics: Here Be Dragons
As someone interested in PL theory, I've long found the query language exposed by Monarch surprisingly interesting (briefly discussed in section 5.1 but the description doesn't quite do it justice). It's a functional language, a breath of fresh air compared to "real programming languages" in use at Google like C++, Java, or Go.

The most interesting idea is that its native data types are time series of integers, doubles, distributions of doubles, booleans, and tuples of the above. This means that the data you operate on intrinsically consist of many timestamped data points. It's easy to apply an operation to each point of the data, and it's also easy to apply operations on a rolling window, or on successive points. This makes the language have the feel of an array-based language, but even better because the elements are timestamped and the array can be sparse.

Furthermore the presence of fields in each data point adds more dimensions to the level of aggregation (not just the inherent time-based). Now the language has the feel of a native multi-dimensional array language. It feels amazing to program in it. You can easily do sophisticated queries like figuring out how many standard deviations each task's RPC latency for a specific call is above or below all tasks' mean, for outlier detection.
This is true, but also not true. Helicopters are stuck as a concept: large main rotor and tailrotor and also expensive parts and traditional aerospace practices. There are other physical paths, e.g. Osprey, Cheyenne.

But the big thing now is batteries and electronics and brushless motors. It allows flight at a whole new level of cost/safety.

Compare with toy-drones - your point here to me reads like ”there’s nothing new with these quad-rotor drones, we’ve had gas rc helicopters since forever”. And that is similarly wrong as saying these new vtol concepts are just helicopters. Fundamental tech enables the concept of flight to be reinvented using first principles. We know a bit of where this is going in small quads. For manned flight it is still unknown.
In what ways are conways-game-of-life or the glider-pattern associated with time-wasting?
Revisiting Apple Notes (5): Encrypted Notes
I absolutely adore sc(1) and enjoy whiling away time by crapping lovingly hand-crafted data in it.
A solution: Announce, 10 years in advance, we're all going to switch on 2030-08-29

Everyone is on the same page, and has time to prepare.
I've done this twice:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/perspective/a-tale-of-t...

Once was backpacking for 11 months with only two bags. The second was 5 months in a car. I did learn a lot both times, but I never got fully independent and it may have set me back some.

Still in retrospect, it was a great journey and I'm still glad I made the attempt.
A lot compared to what? What other market is like Apple's?
> What _really_ happens to the batteries that you responsibly deposit in the recycling container at your local supermarket?

Whatever the manager wants to happen of course. Unless you actually check some places out, see how they handle recycling and hit them with a hefty fine if they don't do it properly.
Pure speculation, but I wonder if he had gcp service account credentials sitting around his laptop which applied terraform to the wrong project. terraform apply -auto-approve can wipe out a lot of infrastructure in a few seconds.
It's funny to see this in The New Yorker, because I was under the impression that The New Yorker was an elite publication where all writers aspired to be published.

Perhaps this is supposed to be the joke, since the article is labeled as humor, but I don't think that being a writer, even in the New Yorker, has the same prestige nowadays that it used to have before media became "democratized", so the joke is actually quite sad.

Realistically, the author probably should have been smart enough to realize that careers in the arts are the domain of the idle rich, and learned how to code.
Vice versa no exercise can compensate a horrible chair.
Non nuclear EMP weapons have existed for years, and that's only the stuff they're talking about publicly. There may be other techniques, say distortion of the Earth's magnetic field to send charged particles toward a target, that we don't know about.
The same way pedestrians are discouraged from walking on the road, we may see people discouraged from walking outside in general. If you want to go for a walk, you can take your flying car to the designated walking park on the other side of the city.
Are you still using them? Why?
For emoji-capable terminals, games & simulations like that of (other-front-page-story) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24317034 seem promising with this!
And depending how much you need to send, if you’re already in AWS the first 62k messages every month are free.

The only annoying thing is their sandbox and usage limits. You’re supposed to accept a lower limit, send high quality mail, and then request a higher limit once they’ve seen that you’re not generating a bunch of abuse reports.

Slowly on boarding senders is good for delivery but makes it difficult to just do a simple cut-over if you’re currently sending more than whatever quota they’ll give you right now. You need to continue sending through your old service and slowly move your usage over.
How large of a boat would you need to really do damage though? I suspect that most undersea cables are tough enough to withstand your average sub-1000HP fishing/water skiing boat, and would need something a bit harder to come by to be easily damaged.
It's keeping the users who have chosen Apple's products from being weaponized-via-guilt-trip against them.
Venezuela Struck It Poor (2018)
You would need a rather large ship and anchor for that. The small boats that most people have access to wouldn't do much.
I got one in October because my old chair at home was dieing. I am so glad I did, its way better than the expensive chairs we have at the office, and less than half the price. I think its probably because it just has more adjustments, and I can get it exactly right for me and my desk.
I'm not a HTML person normally, so for me this is bringing back memories of old games designed to teach touch-typing.

It's rather cute, I like it.
Wouldn't it be better to just disperse a cloud of graphite like the US did in the first gulf war? Transformers seem physically rather tough, unless you can shoot an insulator(are they still ceramic or are they silicone nowadays?).
Then the point of them having to use UTC anyway , if all they are concerned with is local time, why should they care about UTC?
> The average person isn’t going to know that about transformers. Which leads more credence to the fact it’s an inside job.

The long replacement time for transformers would be known to anyone spending 15 minutes googling what parts of the electrical infrastructure are vulnerable to a sniper attack. It's been discussed on HN before [0] so you better believe it shows up on forums for linemen or preppers or wannabe terrorists. Maybe it diminishes the chance it was a random act of vandalism, but it doesn't speak in favour of the attack being an inside job.

[0]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18998596
The focus is on 'information', as in factual information. 'Apple takes 30% of your transaction' is clearly factual information that is different from general political speech.

Clearly misinformation does not qualify. I am trying to outline it as distinct from general freedom of speech, but I am not sure how to draw the line. However, the edge-cases are quite clear.
Currently anything Li-ion is around $1.50 per pound (Midwest US prices) to be accepted for hazardous waste recycling. This means it costs you the consumer to have your laptop battery recycled.

I work with a company that recycles older hybrid batteries from Toyota, Honda, Ford. Most of these are NiMH and pay $0.40-$0.80 per pound for the Nickel value alone.

So a NiMH hybrid battery is worth $50 for the core from a Prius, but a lithium battery from a Nissan Leaf would cost you ~$700 to recycle.
I've had to juggle personal and professional AWS accounts for a while, I could see someone being confused about which account they were on and accidentally wiping out some stuff. Who knows though.
Multi-level schemes are configured in order to benefit the people at the top. That is why they were created.
I would like to see some good arguments as to why a brick and mortar store deserves a significantly larger cut.

> Making your own CPUs is cool but ultimately not all that for a product that most users won't have even the slightest clue of the trade-offs that went into that decision

Is developing better hardware not a valid reason? It’s too much of a luxury to legitimize fees?
This is such a unnecessary nitpick since yourself seem to understand by calling it terrorism, people are explicitly declaring their belief that it was to political ends.

It's like people calling a bush fire arson, then you giving the definition of arson and saying "arson refers to the deliberate act of setting a fire"...

That's kind of the whole point of implicating it was arson, to further narrow the cause/motivation of an incident.

Also the nitpick isn't internally consistent, if you want to be literal and say terrorism any use of violence for the purpose of furthering a political goal, how is a state sponsored attack not a terrorist attack? Are geopolitics excluded from your definition then?

>State sponsered acts tend to not be classified as terrorism

Says who???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_state-sponsored_t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_state-sponsored_ter...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state-sponso...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terro...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_and_state-sponsored_te...

https://www.state.gov/state-sponsors-of-terrorism/
Care to elaborate ?

If you’re suggesting i missed some sarcasm, it doesn’t matter because this is a fairly common belief I’ve heard from others.
I'm a few months away from paying off a car loan $86k, 36 month, APR was negligible at %1.2. The term sheet easily could have been extended to 70 months, however, I wanted the option to resell the car before any long term (and expensive) issues popped up.

Sure the monthly would have been MUCH cheaper, but the hidden cost of additional out-of-warranty maintenance / hassle of trying to transfer an auto loan is a PITA. Honestly, if I had to do it again, I would just lease hack a nice BMW just so I can hand it back to the dealer no questions asked.
The app store market is still growing exponentially as more and more people forego a normal computer and uses their phone for all their computing needs. A few years ago the market wasn't big enough for big powerful companies to complain about, but apparently it is now.
It's pretty common for not poor people to buy lottery tickets. When the NY lottery was really big about 3 years ago, everyone at my old firm put in a $100 (so like 7k total) to buy tickets. Ended up winning $200, so we bought some champagne.

I noticed other firms doing the same thing, with the convenience store guy telling me that the building in total spent over 100k on lottery tickets within a week or so.

Moreover, the lottery isn't a fraud. The mechanisms and payouts are all known, much like roulette or blackjack. We have a word for it, and it's called gambling (not fraud).
I lop Ike this author:

> Time to scare the wikipedia editors among you and do some original research. All the code and data can be found at...
TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database [pdf]
Discipline > Motivation

Motivation invariably wanes
The Ikea POANG recliner chair, you know the one, is the most comfortable chair I have ever used, you need to rearrange your desk setup because its so low and leaned back but once you have it destroys any other option out there, your back is just relaxed.
> a different error handling scheme

Monads aren't about handling error. That's just one of two examples on the article (and yes, that one is on the standard library) and it's used for more stuff than errors already.

> You want to create a standard.

Monads are a standard. That's basically all they have into them. If you do it right, most of your monadic code won't even know what monad it's running in.
Petra, an Ancient City in Jordan a Secret Place
The average person might not know about transformers, but the set of people who know about transformers isn’t exactly small. It’s plenty large enough for there to be miscreants who know about transformers but aren’t power company insiders.
Home Depot won't disallow B&D from putting "cheaper at Lowe's" on their boxes, but they would absolutely stop carrying and selling them.
Didn't Facebook also develop is JIT for their PHP? Or have they moved on frmo PHP?
I mean, morality is an opinion, so it doesn't really make sense to try and correct someone about it.
Interestingly (sort of), 5%-or-$1 wouldn't work out well for Apple. This is because credit card processing fees are generally structured as a flat fee plus a percentage of the transaction.

Something like 5 cents + 1.3% would be a great deal on payment processing, generally. Apple is a behemoth, so let's assume they're getting a good deal.

For a $1 purchase that'd be ~$0.07 to the transaction processor... which is more than the flat percentage already. Then Apple has some amount of costs involved (bandwidth, maintenance of systems, general overhead, etc) even if they started running the App Store at cost as they originally claimed they'd do.

There's definitely room to lower the cut Apple takes... it's just that somewhere in the 10-20% range is still a reasonable fee to cover their costs.

It's also worth considering how gift cards affect what Apple can charge. Apple sells gift cards through retailers, who are getting a cut of those sales. That cut comes directly out of Apple's portion of the sale, so they have to account for some percentage of transactions having that effective cost, which is probably higher than the aforementioned payment-processing cost. (There are some markets where gift cards are incredibly common. Kids get given them a lot. They're super common in Japan and other countries for everyone.)

(The flat $1 fee wouldn't fall apart on processing costs until you reached really expensive in-app purchases... but it'd massively change the economics of the App Store, where $1 apps / in-app purchases are pretty common. I have no idea if that's a good idea or not.)
Well I think it's pretty simple - MLM companies contribute more in political funding, than than the perceived detrimental aspects of their business hurt the electoral prospects of our elected representatives.

As a token example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_DeVos
So why isn't that acceptable? Should he start accruing balances and paying only the minimums just to support the credit card companies? Seems like he is just being practical. I've never paid a dime of interest in over 25 years. None of my cards have membership fees. Every couple years, I switch over to which over one gives me the best deal on points.
So Edge is now second ? Poor Firefox
And yet, we can’t make a responsive website

https://i.ibb.co/GTFvkWJ/10-AE7-C27-098-A-4653-B7-B0-35267-A...
Something I didn't appreciate until several years into my career is that even decoupling has a cost. By adding a layer of abstraction, you're making a bet that the mental overhead of tracking that new idea is smaller than the mental overhead of tracking its implementation directly. You're introducing a new concept that the programmer didn't have to think about before, in hopes that it allows them to ignore a larger set of information some of the time. For tiny functions, especially if their concept isn't already familiar to the programmer, this may often not be a good tradeoff.
I really don’t understand this - I’ve read the parent comment 3 times and can’t see how you you come to the “gave someone the key to someone else” analogy.

Are we interpreting OP differently? From all I can read of available information, they seem to have been reasonable. Sounds more like their neighbor or the previous tenant had a meth lab.
You should have seen the massive amount of Bella thorne posts online before her onlyfans. Tons of 4chan threads, reddit posts, and subreddits for her pics, etc. (Though, the same could be said for any celeb, she was definitely a "thing").

She was pretty risqué in her social media photos/videos before onlyfans and garnered quite a following online because of it. Most of her popularity online had nothing to do with her acting career at all.
Haven't read the paper yet, but could you expand on the tuple use? It seems like the odd person out in that list of primatives.
The premise is exactly backwards. Why should the government be able to put a company like Herbalife out of business? Adults should be able to decide for themselves whether to buy products. If they make mistakes by our judgement, which is always very imperfect, that is their business.
The non-nuclear EMP weapons are very weak and have only minor localized effects. They aren't capable of taking out the power grid for a whole city or something.

And please no one waste our time by claiming that the military has some secret magic EMP technology. The laws of physics impose severe constraints on what can be achieved with conventional explosives in a weapon small enough to put in an airplane or truck.
Yes, if you want to add a node you have to manually reshard. It’s quite the process. I’d add each node is a MySQL database and you can make each shard as large you want.

The data on different vitess shards is disjoint, so I don’t know how much you need to worry about consistency for cross shard reads. And vitess doesn’t really support cross shard transactions either.
Apple doesn't want you to easily extend the life of older models; they want you to buy the new one.
So wall warts are obsolete? What breakthroughs replaced them?
If email were architected to put the cost of storage on senders then I think the spam problem would have been more manageable. Instead it's so closely modeled on physical mail that recipients get overwhelmed quickly.
You're right, Apple should charge all developers per-download bandwidth, and per-month storage fee, and ditch the transaction markup.
Why is everyone suggesting things that are so much harder than just changing the clock? Now you literally want to get lawyers and judges involved in order to enforce your legislation, instead of just changing the clock. These ideas are insane.
That doesn't make it easier for me to date at all.

For one, I probably don't live where this guy lives - the quarantine timeframe has been different everywhere.
Bill Ackman of Pershing Square tried really hard to publicize their shittiness for his massive short bet on Herbalife. There's even a documentary about it. Never seemed to work. Not sure how much he lost in the trade, but a tidy sum, to say the least.

Of course it didn't help that Carl Icahn was on the other side of the trade. Herbalife's stock has done really well for a company that sells no real product and has no real value.
See this link (previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9714417 on HN) for a different take on Herbalife (by a short seller who went long on Herbalife and made quite a bit of money).

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/06/herbalife-very-lon...
Notes on Core Image in iOS
Clever concept. Very cool! Bookmarking it for later.
Great point. What's the rationale for allowing governments to run lotteries? How can governments serve the interest of the people while running a gambling racket against the people? Isn't it shocking that governments are running lotteries rather than casinos? It would be like governments selling soda to the public rather than private companies.
So, the same reason that China doesn't have a free press, then?
Another outbreak is possible, possibly meaning more quarantine.
"PHP as fast as C" - People who are in php language development may die laughing reading this statement.

Truth can be harsh, but people sometime overvalue to such an extent is hard to understand.
I hadn’t considered this. It’s a very good possibility.
> never sold any stock

> less risky

Never selling stock is pretty risky. Sure in retrospect there's been a huge bull run in tech which made those stocks go up crazily, but most of the people I know in FAANG recommend selling your RSUs and buying index funds like VTI instead to diversify because who knows?
This was my immediate thought as well. Hilarious.
My Poång has only recently been replaced by a Lovesac, which is slightly less ergonomically correct but much better for napping in.

The Poång is an absolute steal at 1/10 the price
Almost certainly not a voltage divider. Maybe a linear, if efficiency doesn't matter.