skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I committed to living without an alarm clock in college, 20+ years ago. I fought long battles with my snooze button, and realized I was spending hours each morning hitting the snooze button. I realized if I just didn't set an alarm I'd probably get up later than I usually set my alarm for, but earlier than I typically got out of bed. It worked; I started waking up refreshed, and happy to get out of bed in the morning.

When I had an important exam or something else I really didn't want to miss, I'd set an alarm for a while. But then I just went all in, and never set an alarm. That made me pay more attention to when I was going to bed at night, and the quality of my sleep. When I started working I would set an alarm for about half an hour after I typically woke up, just in case, so I wouldn't be late for work. But after six months of that, I stopped setting my backup alarm as well. I was late for work maybe twice in five years, and it was never significantly late, and it was at times where my body really needed sleep and it probably helped me avoid getting sick. These days I only set an alarm if I have to catch a 6am flight, or if I'm getting up super early to climb a mountain or something.

If you're battling your alarm every day, I highly encourage you to experiment with not setting an alarm.
@dang why did you block me, so I couldn't reply anymore in my own thread?

Edit: + shadow-banning + super gravity, so my comments land on the bottom

What did I do wrong?
Don't use corporate apps and platforms for popular movements. They make the rules and they continue their inverted totalitarian takeover of public commons when more people depend on them for civic activities. Furthermore, they cooperate with intelligence services. It's too big of a risk to depend on them.

And, they used craptacular Telegram instead of Signal. Dumb.
> The tactic of enticing customers to buy more than they need and return what they don't want "has had tragic repercussions for the environment and business," he says.

That's disingenuous. I've never purchased "more than I need" from Amazon. But probably about 10% of items purchased for the first time simply aren't as advertised -- not Amazon's fault, but the manufacturer's. They don't meet the needs you bought them for, so you have no choice but to return them. And of course clothing is notorious, because manufacturers still insist on making up their own idiosyncratic definitions of S/M/L, when simply providing measurements in inches or centimeters would fix most problems. (Also color-accurate photography, for when the item listed and photographed as red turns out to be orange-pink.)

> "You're lucky if half of all returns can still be sold as new, so a huge amount of merchandise has to be dispositioned via some other means — liquidation, refurbishment, recycling, or landfill."

Yup, that's just how it works. That's why I buy a lot of stuff "open box" off eBay -- especially things like dongles, adapters, cheap peripherals. They all come from returns from places like Amazon and Best Buy, but are half the price. It's great.

This article isn't surprising, except for one data point about a single bag that wasn't resold. But they're probably hiring minimum-wage workers to categorize returns, who make errors.

There isn't really anything new in this article.
It means discouraging employers using an H1-B when they haven't actually looked at hiring locally, or using an H1-B to hire "cheap" labor because the employee has no leverage and can't really quit as easily as a US employee.

I'm not saying that I agree with "discouraging immigration", I'm stating the likely purpose of this change.
If you are an immigrant that wants to escape a dictatorship there are many other and better ways. The H1B I don't believe is meant for political issues.

I am not a USA citizens, but this already set a lower ceiling to America companies that want to hire me. I don't see it as a bad thing. Maybe they simply won't hire me, or maybe they will just open branches somewhere else.
One of the planned projects based on this is an email-like system, but I'm not sure I have the boldness to claim it can "replace" email.
$12 per kilowatt hour, per year. You then need to multiply by the number of years that this storage system needs to be online. Again, if we're comparing against the alternative of building a nuclear plant, this is 60 to 80 years. Neglecting to factor in the required lifespan artificially deflates the price drastically. And again this figure of $12 per KWh per year is for the "spilled wind" scenario - that is, the assumption that the electricity input is provided at zero cost.

The other poster also did more than just cherry pick particularly expensive plants. Among other things, they claimed that existing natural gas infrastructure can be used to transport hydrogen. This is simply untrue, hydrogen would corrode metal pipes used for natural gas. There's a factor of 2,000 less hydrogen pipelines. Probably even less overall infrastructure if you count natural gas transported by rail and LNG shipping.
Sadly, another "publication" on the HackerNews frontpage with really, really low quality.

Nine in 10 Adults? So how many did you survey? 2000, apparently. Not a bad number, still a bit low to use a word describing >5 billion people.

Regarding "Adults": From where? How old? How rich? Does it include female Indians aged 50-80? Apparently they asked "Britons". Refreshing that it is not US biased for once, but that is something very relevant conveniently omitted from the conclusion while still being extremely vague.

But let's get back to n=2000. How did they get so many? Oh, apparently they used OnePoll[1], which is a for-profit company specializing in PR-surveys.

And, did you really ask "would you agree that X is a waste of money"? If I would propose such a loaded question in an academic study I would probably brought behind the barn by any respectable researcher. Ask for example "How much would you agree with the following statement: If a new smartphone model is released, I feel the need to buy it" you would probably get a very different result.

But let's not unfairly presume. What did they ask? Well, the primary source is nowhere to be found. Just a bunch of News and blogs citing each other. Some wrongly cite "The musicMagpie Annual Phone Depreciation Report" [0] which does not mention this, but apparently lead to this study.

Wait: musicMagpie? So, this "study" was apparently "conducted" by a used phone reseller, directly profiting from the sentiment this propaganda piece is selling?

Meaning, this is literally, completely, PR fluff.

I am trying hard to not pull the "HN is becoming Reddit" meme here, but please enlighten me how this uncritical reception of marketing dressed up as "science" (?) seen in this thread is different from the average /r/technology experience.

[0] https://www.musicmagpie.co.uk/phone-depreciation/
[1] https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/12806082/new-smartphone-upgrad...

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Few people probably abuse the system too much. There are scamming forums and services for Amazon refunds. Scammers take 10-20% of the item cost for refunding it without giving the original.

A trend I observed here among college students is buying clothes for a party or instagram selfie and then returning it.

Small sellers get screwed pretty hard. You should check their forums.
If India, France, Tunisia, Zimbabwe and many others all have their own home-grown version of Facebook, is that a bad thing? It would reflect the local culture and keep the advertising revenue in the same country.

There have been few, if any, improvements on the user side of Facebook since inception. All their attention is focused on driving engagement and advertising revenue.
Courier was the default typeface of IBM typewriters for decades, monospaced mechanically just like everyone else.

No difficulty producing columnal or tabular data on the first attempt was forseen.

When FORTRAN programming came along, you wanted the characters to line up in columns properly too, expected with the simple dot-matrix fonts.

Daisywheel printers all had mono Courier, with some starting to also autodetect mechanical PS printwheels when inserted.

Dot-matrix printers got better fonts than DOS itself but what you see on the screen was not very much of what you got on the printout the first time. PS could increase woe. Courier was available both ways. But tons of people stuck with the simple characters like you get on the cheap store receipts.

DOS text files using a monospaced font can be reselected to a different monospaced font without all the formatting difficulty you can get otherwise.

When Windows got popular, loads of people found out their old dot-matrix printer had been capable of beautiful PS output the whole time, it had just been out of reach without a WYSIWYG drafting approach.

You can still set your email window for a monospaced font, and draft a message into a Notepad window set for mono, intentionally with all the sentences of each paragraph on a single line when Word Wrap is disabled (disable Word Wrap before copying & pasting), and with a single line space between these _paragraphs_.

Then just copy & paste the whole text linewise from Notepad to different email windows and their mono spacing can be a good way to make the different local & remote word wraps work with less headaches.

Courier's remaining universalness still makes it a top choice for this type of thing, but a new monospace font that can serve as a functional superset is good to have.
Normal consumer pressure can get out of the way of a nations internal affairs and nothing much else. The number one remedy people are asking of Apple is to back off and be more laissez faire.

I, too, can cheer on HK, whatever that means...
Build Your Own Weather App
Not at all! Just let folks shop at different bookstores.
My main problem with the AMD stock cooler isn't that they don't perform well, but that they are really noisy compared to most decent aftermarket coolers.
Who is the largest trading partner of the US? China. Also the market is global these days, it is very hard to isolate oneself, without strong policies and market regulation. The market alone is not ushering in new eras of freedom, it's feeding the beasts, and no one really puts their money where their mouth is.
I definitely noticed this. In February-March, the whole experience became vastly more hostile and stressful. I stopped getting replies with relevant anecdotes, corrections, or follow-up information, and started getting lots of replies attacking my character and dismissing my experiences.

I changed my HN account's password and logged out for good near the start of April. I still read it and occasionally make a one-off account like this to comment, but I don't see it as a community any more. In my mind, it is the new Reddit front page.

But hey, dang - thanks for all the hard work and good moderation while it lasted.
I didn't read that comment as a complaint. It seems like it's just an observation.
You actually had to pay for an unlisted number, IIRC
It varies significantly between sectors.

I for one have the unfortunate problem that my clothing size is somewhere between M and L. Whenever I buy from a new manufacturer, I basically have to flip a coin if I pick the right one. So for some clothing products, I would definitely hit 50%.
Or, you know, people who like their tech. I mean, I know I could use an iphone 6s or whatever other phone until it dies. But for a piece of tech I use more than any other, I'll spend the extra dough. Part hobby, part utility. Note also the extra dough here is pretty small compared to say a car hobbyist.

In many other ways I'm fairly frugal. I very rarely buy new clothes for instance, and for non-tech things am pretty minimalistic.

It's all about what you value.
I liked this, but the point that I feel it ignored—that a lot of similar essays ignore—is that having a dialog with someone about an external right (like property rights, that the author mentioned) is very different than arguing with someone about a right to their own identity. How do you have a dialog with someone, even someone arguing in good faith, when the dialog is about whether you have the right to be who you say you are? I could have dialogs all day about external principles, but internal ones, it’s a lot harder to talk about with someone who disagrees. It’s all well and good to decry cancel culture, but these are people who have had to fight tooth and nail to even get a seat at the conversation table in the first place.
Maybe we should be going back to local banks, personal relationships and a real-life web of trust? I remember long time ago when you could get a bank account without any identification at all. The bank tellers knew you by name from talking to you at the grocery store. The bank manager hunts with you. The owner of the bank has seen you on the local golf course.

These days, you're CUSTOMER #52219945 at SuperUltraMegaBank with such-and-such mother's maiden name. The local bank employees live 80 miles away where there are cheaper houses, and to them you're just one of thousands of customers in their corporate database. But, you never even see each other because almost all of the banking you do is via their web site, with the occasional telephone call that gets answered by a teller in southeast Asia. It's totally impersonal.
They should just make the requirement 2x of US salary. If a company really needs a foreign talent then that should be no issue.
> I don't agree that you should be allowed to post people's private, identifying data to a public forum without consent.

The problem with that belief is enforcement.

Because illegal numbers [0] are trivially shared, the only viable enforcement to prevent their sharing must have incredibly broad reach.

This ultimately collapses down into "users cannot be allowed to own and operate their own general purpose computer."

And while I'm open to arguments as to why the above is a straw man (I disagree), if you believe the above enforcement scheme is for the greater good then we have very different ideas about individual freedom and the relative value thereof.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
I'm not sure you actually read the article. They bought 12 items and one went to landfill (which Amazon said was because it arrived damaged). What they describe is pretty egregious, but not all returns go to landfill - some are resold, some are sold in bulk, and some go to landfill.
I laugh when I read this because the DataHand was so much better but inefficiently manufactured and badly-priced. Five motions per finger well, macros, and mouse control 20-something years ago.
It eventually gets to the point where all tech items are good enough. Even Apple's iPhone has reached a point where there's no compelling reason to upgrade. This after drip feeding features across product releases to keep users locked into an upgrade cycle. But there's just a point where even they run out of things to add. You can only make 'great' be 'better' through so many product iterations before the buyers start to yawn.
My solution was a Theragun, trackball mouse and a Truly Ergonomic keyboard.
I have the iPhone XS Max and I have no desire to buy the latest and greatest. I don't believe that 5G will improve the speeds I get on my phone as I get no where near the performance that 4G promises. Until the phone stops working or they come up with something really amazing I'll stick with this phone.
This certainly was true a decade ago. It isn't anymore.

I spend a lot of time staring at photos from tons of different cameras. I pull in unprocessed raw and JPEG photos from DSLR and flagship phone reviews to verify that metadata extraction and raw image data gets decoded properly by PhotoStructure.

There is surprisingly little difference in image quality from, say, the OG Google Pixel to the pixel 2 and 3.

The difference between well-lit scenes at the same zoom on an iphone 8, X, and 11 is minimal.

If you show someone photos from a current flagship versus a 3-4 year old flagship, composition will matter (much) more than the hardware as to which is seen as the better image.
They contacted me when I first filed.
The GPS tracker technique does not seem foolproof, basic QA on returned goods would likely be trashing the GPS trackers.
With this kind of policy Apple's hypocrisy really shines bright. An app like Reddit is allowed, meanwhile Telegram not only has to not show porn channels to users, but now has to ban content from the whole platform or be removed from the App Store. On Reddit, there by far more porn accessible to users, and probably more "incitement of violence" too. There's no way to support Apple here. Just another example of the tyranny of the App Store.
Thank you.

> Also please consider posting this on relevant mailing lists.

I’m beginning to accept that I’m terrible when it comes to evangelizing. Suggestions?
How to learn quantum mechanics on your own
> Every single new generation of phone makes many of these things massively better.

Do you really think that's still true? For the first five or six iterations of the iPhone it really did feel like the new model instantly made the old model feel old. Ever since around iPhone 7 or so I don't get that impression any more. It's a mature product and the new one is faster and takes better pictures but, frankly, the last one was fast enough and it's camera was great too.

If your phone is how you spend your free time, then it's essentially your hobby and from that point of view spending a couple of thousand dollars on your hobby isn't absurd at all. It probably works out to about $5 per day which is something lots of people can afford.
As a linguist (well, person with a degree in linguistics), I think Searle makes a very strong point, and I don't think it's at all fair to call it rebutted or disproven.

The core part of the room is a book where the operator looks up symbols coming in and is able to mindlessly copy the answer to the output. Such a book (or whatever book-like device, i.e. a list of inputs with corresponding outputs) that allows a person to interact with someone in a language they don't speak is an absurdity, it cannot exist. Human language in use does not work like that. But the notion is not far from the bone-headed simplicity of early AI and machine translation efforts.
Damn straight. My budget for phone hardware is $100 per year, with average lifetime of 3 years. Am typing this from a perfectly functional phone on a service only (i.e. no "free" phone) subscription, unlimited data and calls.
Anyone know if there's a full listing like this, but for all occupations/locations ?

I live in the Midwest and not even sure where to look for specific job title + location
Only with some restrictions. I can't remember what they were but it was something like a circular dep between two interface sections wasn't possible, but between two implementation sections was.
Currently working as a developer for a company that organizes itself in small groups without bosses and I must say I could not think about going to work for a company where I would have a boss.
One more comment from Elon:

> This does seem like the opposite of open. OpenAI is essentially captured by Microsoft. [0]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1309052632850468864
...And you will never be able to use a random keyboard it in the world again...
Scripting Java with a JBang
> That's disingenuous. I've never purchased "more than I need" from Amazon.

My guess is you've never purchased clothes then. Regardless, this is your own individual experience and doesn't represent the trend as a whole.
These are my favorite types of interviews. Tech skills can be learned, but getting along with various people including managers and leaders is more important.

I've been lucky I have been able to build up my network via conferences and user groups and twitter. The last time I looked for a job, all the conversations were more or less personality based over tech based.
The 2016 SE has a retina display and runs the latest version of iOS just fine. It's only a little taller but quite a bit thinner than the original iPhone. You can still buy used ones in excellent shape for well under $200. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when iOS stops supporting them -- maybe next year?
I hope that first category has plenty of archers on horses shooting at targets on round bales?

Bonus Scyth: https://d30womf5coomej.cloudfront.net/c/d4/0cb93d1b-dc27-43d...
(The bow carrier is a thing because stringing a 25 lb bow from the saddle works, but stringing a recurve is not so trivial. She doesn't have a thumb ring, but I don't know if the artist knows any better than I do by whom and when those were used on the steppe.)
Discouraging H1B abuse, which has run rampant if you look at what larger corporations have been doing recently and for the past few decades. H1Bs should not be used to enable firing someone because someone from another country is willing to do the job for much less. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2490610/this-it-worker...
If vehicles are traveling meat containers, apartments and other buildings are meat storage.
Correct, but there was a way.
> This HAS to apply equally

No, it really doesn't. IMO it has to apply consistently. And it's easy to maintain cohesion / consistency here: If you have different rights, you get different rights.

Police have additional rights, particularly when acting in the course of their jobs - specifically, they have the right of violence. Seems reasonable to give up the "right" of protection-from-griefing.
This is a very vexing situation. I applied for access months ago. I am a scientist and academic with dozens of articles on topics related to GPT (and especially survey articles and a few articles reasonably critical of some NLP/ML/DL frameworks). I am not sure I can reveal more without doxing myself.

I haven't heard anything from them yet. They are free to not release GPT-3 but not free to mislead the open community with this open and holier-than-thou nonsense.
Interesting to note - downloads from the App Store are much lower than from Google Play.

In belarus it’s about 3 to 1. Globally it’s about 10 to 1.

This isn’t to say any of this is good, but I wonder if Telegram can behave differently by platform (ex. A blacklist of channels on iOS).
Searle is a wise man.
So the entire attack is premised on me navigating to a fake robinhood domain and entering my credentials?

Seems like good password manager hygiene (which checks the domain name before filling credentials) can help prevent this from happening.
Trumps America: When Is Enough?
I don't disagree with you but I think this AMD video focused on closing the gap with Intel's single-core performance -- and many games are still single-core.
A pun that actually works better in the English translation as Dogmatix.
Managarm: Pragmatic microkernel-based OS with fully asynchronous I/O
Literally three sentences later they talk about buying clothes.
I agree that this isn't something you'd want to take multiple times a day, for an extended period of time. that said, from the original case study, it sounds like the woman was attempting the Coimbra Protocol. Whether it works or not is another question. It also requires a very low calcium diet and close monitoring of calcium & parathyroid levels - which I'm guessing the lady did not do.
Motivated users (which protesters definitely count as) will absolutely manage to successfully sideload an Android app. Especially seeing as how they are all routinely physically meeting up with many other protesters, so all it takes is running into someone who helps them get set up. Back in my Ingress days I had a similar situation where we were doing a big operation using a command and control coordination sideloaded app. Most of the people were able to figure it out ahead of time, but the last few had others help them download, install, and configure it when we met up for the op. Protests would be exactly the same thing.
It's a clever quote but it's not accurate.

Try taking an airshow or wildlife photo with a phone. Not worth the effort.