skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When I think busywork, I think work given to me to occupy my time by someone (probably a teacher or a manager) that has no actual use other than timewasting.

That is one source. The time wasting can have several (non-exclusive) motivations, however:

* Punishment

* Important but not urgent work

* Creating the appearance of insufficient resources to prevent allocation of labor elsewhere

That last motivation also applies to self-assigning busywork, of course.
Why don't messaging apps like Telegram use P2P, wouldn't that make it much harder to "block" people from using it, if the connection is directly between two devices?
What you're saying applies to crypto-currencies in general, but not necessarily to Bitcoin, which has some thorny issues.

Yes, maybe the popularity of BTC will overcome the issues, but I doubt.
Yes, this could be better. it's in the "..." menu in the Twitter website and iOS and Android apps, but not currently available in other apps.
I've seen that one and others (eg: Wox), but nowhere near as powerful as Alfred. For example, you can't even just get folders.

There's an issue open here about this:

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/3347
The housing market within that distance to Boston has been bonkers for years. My parents live in a small town about that distance away. An 8 acre lot on their street is listed for $150k.
Here’s a question I have that maybe somebody in this thread can help me with: what is the positive case for a new particle collider at much higher energies than the LHC?

It seems to me that particle physics post-LHC is just the same as it was pre-LHC. We verified the existence of the Higgs, which is great, but that meant no revisions to the Standard Model were needed as it already assumed the Higgs. And no exotic or unexpected new particles have turned up.

You can definitely argue that the technology spin-offs from the LHC have been great; but is that really an argument for another collider specifically, or just Big Science in general?

To put it another way, what’s the argument for a collider that goes beyond “provide employment for hundreds of high-energy physicists, and throw some unprecedented engineering and logistical challenges at then”? Is there a pitch that’s based on the science rather than the technology?
You're not wrong as long as the definition of "modest wage" isn't subjective and is instead collectively agreed within society (i.e. a minimum/living wage).

I think you're saying the same as this Economist article[0] which says that "the workers who are most vulnerable to losing their job as a result of the minimum wage are those whose productivity is low". Empirical data on this also shows, perhaps counter-intuitively, that a "minimum wage can sometimes lead to higher rather than lower employment".

Entry-level jobs are important but so is human dignity and freedom. I don't think you need to sacrifice one for the other here - we can (eventually) have both.

[0] - https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2020/08/13/what-harm...
Tips to Consider While Planning for Data Collection – Atlan – Humans of Data
I find this tweet the most representative [1]:

"Reminded that the Microsoft ebook store closes next week. The DRM'd books will stop working.

I cannot believe that sentence.

"The books will stop working."

I keep saying it and it sounds worse each time."

- Rob Donoghue

[1] https://twitter.com/rdonoghue/status/1144011630197522432?s=2...
there is nothing elevated about HN, that is your brain playing tricks on you. Privacy is an illusion, self is an illusion. smart people are manipulated just as easily as dumb people, by people who have been studying how to do it, and now with mass social media, have the tools to do it.
Which platforms have you used to hire them?
very possible. it could be a lose-lose-lose. but in any event it's more complicated than just trying to juice auction prices as a cash grab.
Do you mean the uncertainty principle or the observer effect? From Wikipedia:

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

> In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle (also known as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle) is any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which the values for certain pairs of physical quantities of a particle ... can be predicted from initial conditions.

> Historically, the uncertainty principle has been confused with a related effect in physics, called the observer effect, which notes that measurements of certain systems cannot be made without affecting the system, that is, without changing something in a system.

The former just means that the more precisely we know the location, the less precisely we can predict the momentum given the initial information of the system. It has nothing to do with "disturbing the atoms"; as Wikipedia explains it's a property of wave-like systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)

On the other hand, the observer effect simply says that measurements involve active processes and those can effect the system. But it has nothing to do with velocity or position per se, just the fact that measurements can have effects.
Time crystals lead researchers to future computational work
Thanks! This brings a lot of context to the table.

I have very little sense of how much the two detectors should add to the credibility of the finding. It seems like it would depend on the causes of instrumental bias and how much they vary among detectors.

However, I can definitely say that modeling background with a 12th order polynomial fit is not going to be robust. Any competent statistician would have said so if consulted. That it is the standard method among astronomers is just depressing, not at all confidence-boosting. And I don't think that just reducing the threshold when a more robust method is used will yield equivalent results.

Hopefully this prompts a thorough review and overhaul of astronomy's parochial and outdated approach to statistical data analysis.
I think you talk about bitmessage. It doesn't use blockchain, though, which is kinda useless, there is no need to store messages permanently without the way to remove them.

These systems mostly use blockchain as PKI or similar to bitcoin mempools with public crypto, but not store messages on blockchain.
> I am being constantly annoyed to keep my browser up to date as well.

Imagine how annoyed you’d find it to have all of your accounts compromised and your personal data out in public or held for ransom. We know that most people don’t install updates in a timely manner because we have 3 decades of evidence from billions of devices.
"Not for profit" does not mean "cannot make a profit" nor does it mean "cannot pay staff money".

See also: hospitals, colleges, etc.
The energy it uses right now for full nodes and all the other infrastructure minus the energy it uses for the proof of work. If the proof of work is replaced by another proof mechanism, like proof of stake, it could be applauded.
I don't think Trump beat any overwhelming odds. I think the polling was beyond horrible. A bit too many people put too much faith in the NYT and 538's methodology. I wouldn't expect the map to change too much between elections. Now, the 2022 (House & some Senate) and 2024 Presidential will be different because of the change in districting and electoral votes per state caused by the census.
If you're at a horse race, is it easier to discern the horses are running in circles from the sidelines, or from the bleachers? How about an overhead drone?
Well, there's currently 14B of value (not settlement) locked in decentralized finance https://defipulse.com/. So I'd say a significant portion of Ethereums settlements are for productive activities within this ecosystem by providing liquidity for financial primitives, like borrowing, lending, swapping, leverage and derivatives.
Adventure (Text Adventure / Interactive Fiction) – The Colossal Cave
Oh right, I forgot! The Good Place switch. Didn't fix everything afaik.
Cool. But now I want to know the tech stacks of other big players. Is there anywhere a list?
When you can figure out how to physically attach consciousness to a machine, get back to me
The things I hate about k8s.
* opinionated and promoting opinionated software
* CNI thou shalt not NAT
* Service mesh NAT
* east-west -vs- north-south as an explicit design statement
* cloud integration or it's no better than ryo with 'legacy' approaches implemented by competent SA/SE (this is the k8s design goal anyway: mirror what a competent SA could do.)
* Go
Moved to mexico, then getting an e-visa to head back to bali.
Firefox Extended Support Release: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/enterprise/
If you mean persistent databases or caching like Redis, it's still much easier to accidentally reference a global pointer due to a programming error than accidentally put something in a cache store. All systems need some sort of persistence, this is true for other languages as well.
He "beat the odds" because most models were incorrect. They have been corrected. Are the models wrong again? Maybe, but it would need to be in a totally different way, and by a much larger margin than in 2016.
Bram Cohen's chia would disagree with you. Something to keep your eye on.
Reminds me of Joel Spolsky's magnum opus "The Perils of JavaSchools".

I remain happily separated from people like this in my professional life.
The Bay Area has consistently increases the amount of commercial space much faster than residential space. This has prevented new development from actually lowering rental prices for decades. Thus looking only at the amount of new apartments on it’s own is a completely meaningless statistic.
It depends on who you are on what you define as hate. The sites both have a very clear political preference. And both are harsh towards the other. But the chans due to the way the work have less of a vendetta style activism and mostly ignore or ridicule outsiders.

There's some rough language - I would say on average the chans are certainly more direct and less signaling, but the lows are pretty equal for both sites. Death wishes are very common on both.

And of course what you interpret as hateful is massively defined by your beliefs. If you define using wrong pronouns as such, then you're gonna have a bad time on the chans. But so would you on Twitter for having a photo with a MAGA hat.

The chans can be surprisingly humane and supportive. Truly so and not just for social points. Their usual dismissive description is not matched by the actual content. Which is understandable since honestly at the moment, a very good chunk of the content is by bots and organized groups.

Related: I recently posted a long article on all sorts of c++ stuff on a technical Reddit. It also contained criticism of Git. People got their god damn pitchforks! They told me to give up my job, told me I'm a bad coder, they went through reddit and git histories, looked up accounts on other sites and sent me things to my private E-mail that carry a prison sentence in my country. And the mods didn't even remove any of it. Because I criticized Git. But they do insta-ban people for using the wrong pronouns.

Things are not like they seem if you're not in the 'in'-group. Deviate just a little and people come for you - on Twitter like on Reddit. There's no such thing on the chans.
The Megabar is such a surprisingly trivial hill for Mozilla to die on.

I made a few posts on the subreddit about it, I saw numerous others with the same complaint - the motion is unnecessary and distracting. It's a common enough opinion that surely an about:config preference could warrant being tossed in.

I ended up moving browsers, and as a consequence, all web projects I build will have first-class support for my browser of choice, with Firefox/Gecko testing later on when time allows. As a consequence of that, the web performs worse in Firefox.

I'll be back, as soon as the next UI revolution happens, but until then competitors have free-reign to attempt to permanently win me over.
I think Biden will win by a big margin, but I suspect there is a lot more uncertainty baked into the polls than the headline number shows. Polling involves lots of assumptions and making adjustments based on expected turnout of different demographic groups and people with different voter registrations. 95% of people called do not take polls, so it’s not just a truly random sampling like people assume.

This year, there are some truly weird things happening. For example, Trump is losing ground along seniors while gaining ground among non-white voters. He is polling 10-20 points better among Hispanic people in Florida, for example, than in 2016. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-losing-ground-.... Trump is significantly outperforming Romney or McCain among non-whites, and significantly underperforming among seniors. Polls do lots of adjustments based on assumptions about e.g. voter turnout by race, and I don't know if pollsters have really gotten their arms around this situation.

The explanation of the "16% chance Trump wins" got a little unscientific in the media last time. To be precise, that's the probability that Trump wins based on the statistical distribution of the different polls and the margins of error within polls. (Roughly speaking, it's "measurement error.") It does not address the possibility that there are systematic methodological shortcomings in the polls. Both things happened in 2016: there was a significant chance of Trump winning anyway, but there was also systemic errors in assumptions regarding low-propensity voters, voters who haven't gone to college, and undecided voters. Pollsters have seemingly fixed those errors, but that doesn't mean there aren't other ones.
https://archive.vn/FHixO
Warrior Diet
What is warrior diet? How to do it properly? How does a warrior diet meal plan look like and how does it differ from other intermittent fasting pans?
While built using nginx-plus as the sidecar the mesh is still free to use. There is no requirement to retain an nginx-plus subscription or to pay anything for the mesh.
I thought 538 was one of the few outlets to give Trump a decent chance? Granted, I was 16 but I seem to remember that being the case.
Where would one get started with building a graph like this? I’m trying to wrap my head around the code. Is there a simpler d3 example with less permutations that I can build upon?
Thanks! That looks better than the hacks needed before.

Although I seriously wonder if I even should bother trying to get an API key again...
The NYT I agree with, but Five Thirty Eight specifically called out Trump's chances in the final days before the election: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-just-a-normal-...
While interstellar travel would be impossible using conventional thrust in a straight line, could you overcome the distance by bending space time?[0]

[0]https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/warp/gravstat....
Unfortunately I don't really know where to start.

I mean, I'm a software engineer by training. Back in university, we had a courses on engineering ethics, environmental responsibility, stuff like that. That's where I learned the concept of lifecycle energy assessment. I know it's a thing, but I never learned how to actually do the assessment (e.g. where to pull figures, the kind of ballpark calculations you do).

It might be interesting to make the methodology of lifecycle energy assessment more accessible to the general populace. I think everybody can benefit from a new perspective.
You can buy a very nice home in most of the US for $2300/m.
Probably quite favorably when you compare that to the fiat system we have now. Look at SPACs, CLOs, or the Hertz bankruptcy stock buying opportunity, or Nikola Corporation, etc. I could go on forever.
Can you do the same for TIDAL
War Elephants, Part II: Elephants Against Wolves (2019)
The page with HN's formatting options is a bit hidden (in the FAQ). I'm not surprised people don't know about it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
As the broker of SaaS products for all departments in an all-remote SaaS startup, I agree with you.

Even with only a few dozen employees the inventory is confusingly-large.
We combine direnv with a .nvmrc
I hate that Firefox's privacy is held to a standard so high that's almost at a level of a conspiracy theory. As if Mozilla had some nefarious business in selling your captive portal DNS queries (so much private data in that IP address that isn't even yours!), but don't mind that trillion-dollar tracking-based ad network of the competitor.

Mozilla is dragged for using Google Safe Browsing service and a limited version of Google Analytics, but the browser by maker of these services is the author's choice.

When Firefox checks for updates that's Spyware Phoning Home, while the author of this complaint is probably logged in to Chrome with their real name and a verified phone number.
It depends. I, as a freelancer, am required to ask for a VAT tax but my clients can balance out the VAT tax for the services they buy from me with the VAT they ask from their clients.

Personal labour in the sense of employment is exempt from VAT tax if the person is employed but then other forms of taxes, like the income tax apply.

The amount of tax as well as the form in which they are collected vary from country to country.

My personal opinion is that the tax system is actually quite clear and progressive, at least for me as a freelancer. I can file my taxes online without any hitches and the amount to pay and deductibles are easy to get (at least in Germany and Spain).

Then again this whole thing varies from country to country and Spain requires you to give quarterly justifications on the VAT tax you owe which amounts to a lot of paperwork but not too much in my mind.
eh, ive seen pros ("pros") do eerily similar thimgs in production code
To me, that comment and response looks like a microcosm of how economics does, or doesn't, understand its subject matter.
Seconded. FastAPI has been a boon for us in our project work and the auto-generated documentation is one of its very best features.
Again, the goal, even with the english words changed in your paraphrase was not about appearing/embracing as a different sex/gender. It was in abstaining from sexual activity through castration or choice.
Not at all, first our population will never exceed 11 billion, and most developed countries are in a demographic crisis. There is no sign of this trend reversing anywhere.

Second, what does 'earth is full' even mean? We have vast swaths of 'useless' land, like arctic and desert. Cities/towns/anything cover like
1% of the world. It is easier to desalinate water / build cities and greenhouses in deserts than it is to move people to another planet. We could host a lot more people if we adopted some serious geoengineering and built greenhouses /ate less meat.

Thirdly, travel to another star system requires insane amounts of energy, and could only be done by civilisations that already have enormous space infrastructure and industry. In which case you build habitats like we build skyscrapers, you can terraform, etc. In that case you don't need or want to ship billions of people to another star system.
Somewhere Nearby Is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original Adventure
I think you're confusing it with backend. Generally in traditional businesses you have reception/front desk where the customer interacts with the business and the back office where all the employees are doing various work.
He was on Facebook too.
The next iPhone is likely some sort of AR glasses interface (whenever that hardware becomes plausible).

They’ve been laying the platform groundwork for AR for years now, that’s not an accident.
Good solar conditions in a desert are probably offset by the heating and cooling costs required for wild temperature swings in such an environment.

Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen anyone normalize the energy production potential of an area based on the energy needs that are localized for that area.
That's because people have caricatures of each other which are wildly inaccurate.

If you talked to people you would understand that what they optimize for is not really related to the caricatures of them, its not the opposite of what "your side" cares about just completely different.

When it is obvious that all the news comes from New York City and Los Angeles, and the world resyndicates that, while a large swath of America that actually matters cares about different things, it is easy to tell why the models fail.

You would have bet the farm on the undervalued bet on the prediction markets.
Likely because he indirectly said that projects using less then 180 dependencies aren't serious.
At a large enough N 5% to 10% is massive, at a small enough N 5% to 10% gets you closer to competitive, somewhere between though is where those extra percentage points are "meh".

For instance I run my computing on a TR 1950X and I could probably undervolt or overclock the chip but, to be honest, it's not worth the perceived "risk". Undervolting could break specific instructions in undetectable ways and the only way to be sure things haven't broken would be to run something like sandsifter [0] multiple times. Because I, and many others who would have the technical know how, write software on these systems it's not very much worth the headache. If I had a seperate system I built just for gaming or doing a specific task and I wanted to reduce how much I spent, or the power usage, etc undervolting would then shift out of headache -> super worth it.

The last thing I want to have to do is run every piece of code I need through godbolt and pray there's no AVX instructions that "may" be fishy.

I think this is largely why cloud providers don't do things like this as aggressively. They do it to some extent with custom off-roadmap chips but not controlled dynamically in userspace. If we can get something like this original post into the kernel that would be a massive win for everyone.

[0] - https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter
It seems more like a weird hill for you to die on.
I thought 538 gave Trump a 25% chance to win in 2016? Sure, he wasn't the favorite, but that's like the probability of a typical batter getting a hit in baseball. It isn't what happens in most at-bats, but it shouldn't be a big surprise either.
The linked website (observeablehq.com) is an excellent source to learn d3 (steep learning curve though).

I'm not a programmer and taught myself D3 last fall. Amelia Wagenbruger (sp?) has a good book too.

edit: https://www.newline.co/fullstack-d3
A scalable, realtime quiz framework to build EdTech apps
Yes, two. One in primary school, whom I drop off before taking the bus to work in the morning and take home on the way back, and one in day care, with whom my partner does the same. We rent or borrow a car for holidays.

It is true that a car is often very useful when you have children. But then, a family can have a small city car instead of two SUVs.

I am not against the concept of cars, I actually love driving a good one. But I despair when I see the growing popularity of SUVs, and sedans getting larger and larger.
>while providing low interest loans (via a local credit union) so drivers could pay for them

That's better than most predatory lending around these medallions in other cities.

>The medallion system collapsed and those who took out loans for them did indeed end up getting screwed.

Unless there was some wording in the medallion law that would prohibit competitors from entering the market or set a buy-back value, I don't think anyone was screwed. Risky assets imply... Risks!
It was flagged too many times. I vouched for it...but it will probably be flagged again
Wow, so nice to see "sane zoning" mean mixed use and allowing for density and lots of life. I completely agree with you, and have difficulty finding the type of city that fits.

A move abroad seems likely in the next 10 years.
Really cool use of data visualization! Nice work! What ever happens I just pray we don't hit one of the paths ending in a unfilled circle.