skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Productive work: probably 4-5 hours

All work related task (email / slack / reading the news / paperwork / ...): 8 hours

Time at my desk: 11 hours
I can work all day, but I have vast diminishing returns after hours 4 or 5. Especially if the work is intellectually complex or tiresome in any way. Oftentimes I overextend myself out of necessity - but usually work becomes exponentially stressful or futile at that point.
The Fiskers, the Billionaire Power Couple Taking on Tesla
>"The craftsmanship and ingenuity evidenced in the original led [Chris] and his collaborators to the conclusion that the calendar ring is actually a

354-day calendar that reflects a lunar cycle rather than a solar cycle."
Cut screen time to the shortest possible. Stop every hour look at random distances, stretch your neck and shoulders.
Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections

ICA 2017-01D 6 January 2017

Key Judgments

Russian efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential election represent the most recent expression of Moscow’s longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order, but these activities demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations.

We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump. We have high confidence in these judgments. ...

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
I continue to be amazed by the moon landings. The pace of scientific & technical developments, the organisation & coordination of such a huge number of people, and the bravery & dedication of key individuals is just inspiring. Although I've read multiple books about NASA's history, I hadn't yet covered "Carrying the Fire" - thanks for the mini-review, it's now on my reading list ;-)

P.S. And your project sounds like a good idea, I'll check it out!
Market Research, Wireframing, and Design by Balaji S [pdf]
6) Eat less meat.

Shit ton of land, water and other resources are used to grow grains just for the meat industry. If a portion of those resources are used to grow food for humans instead of animals, it would reduce a ton of waste and pollution.
It’s a failure if it succeeds.
Probably 5 hours
I’d really be curious about your experience if you do decide to pull the trigger. I suspect that with integrated (everything), that Apple is doing some fancy tricks with swap files thus making 16GB good for larger workloads, but no review that I’ve seen yet has confirmed that.
Would it be fair to say that the message here is "Sell the benefits, not the features"?
> praise how insanely ambitious the founder was

If this isn't a warning sign of a spectacular failure, I don't know what is.

Not to mention praising it, after all the ink spilled on "rockstar" "ninja" types and how bad they are, yet they still get kudos and praise.

If you ever have a manager that espouses the "we don't want the heroic cowboy type here", run, because that's EXACTLY what they want.
Put the site on HTTPS
You can easily do routine work for 8+ hours daily. The sort of work that can potentially be automated one day. What you call "coding" is routine enough in my book.

But if you're doing something novel and solving hard problems, I think 4-5 hours would be a maximum for sure.
Only on very long timescales, looking at worldwide fertility rates over just the last 100 years shows how dramatically this can change. Further, if the male vs female reproduction rate for a slice of the population is vastly different, the number of genetic grandchildren may be above replacement rate even if their children are at or below replacement rate.
How to backup your UpCloud Cloud Servers more frequently
At this point, other than degree of freedom of implementation, what exactly is the real difference between fargate and lambda?
Well, let's build something here.

The current article argues in its opening that "nobody cares" ... The immediate retort to any "nobody cares" statement -- before one even finishes the sentence -- is "then it's probably for a good reason." It's counter-productive and frames your argument from the "weak outsider" perspective.

So if we ought to frame our argument from a position of competence rather than insecurity (my original point) and assuming people care is incorrect (your point), what ought we say to help people protect themselves?
I always thought gmail being slow is because of me using firefox but now it's surprisingly snappy. What the hell is going on?
SLAs are largely bullshit.
Do not fret. This would have been the inevitable cycle of a gaming company.

Programmers make a hit Game. It's successful and the sequel brings in top developers and lots of resources. The sequel is fantastic.

Then game 3. Programmers have left the company, the company goes full Apple and increases marketing budget with a game focused of gimmicky features rather than Quality.

The third game is a let down, but not awful.

And for the next 7 games the IP is milked and milked.
I would love, if possible, to do an exact multi-word search, e.g. "Bill Gates". Currently if the phrase is not found, you get results for one of the words. Putting the search in quotes does not work (like it does when performing a search on Google).
If you click on the red status dots, it has report with timing.
The music rights boom, explained
Maybe not replace, but at least displace the phone, watch, camera. I think one of the major hurdles with smart-glasses isn't tech, it's the changing of social norms. Right now, if you walk down the street waving your hands in the air, you'll look like a crazy person.

When people first started using cellphones, from the outside, it didn't look much different than looking down at a book or portable gaming device.
Needs (2006)
Hackable no-code tool for MVPs
Top QA-Techniques to Test Your Mobile App
I agree. Short of regulating quasi-monopolies/antitrust and illegal content, media companies - regardless of their size - shouldn't be interfered with. If Apple pays to produce content, then Apple can decide to stop paying or shelf it (in accordance with any contracts they entered).

To me, Apple's own streaming offering - which at least for now has sizable competition from giants such as Disney and Netflix and Amazon as well as small producers on youtube and elsewhere - is quite different from "social media" companies with their defacto "marketplaces of ideas" interfering with legal free speech of regular people, which I see with far more concern. It is also quite different to their quasi monopolist walled garden otherwise known as the App Store.

Apple really is just a minor player in the TV space right now, and far more concerning is the Disney/Fox/Hulu behemoth, where we're slowly heading into antitrust territory.
My best take away is that if you're running the usual collection of interpreted languages (JavaScript/Python/etc.) you'll probably never get the benefit of having multi-threaded lambda functions for reducing runtime. Given that we now have milisecond billing, this can really result in real savings at scale.
Hyundai just paid the same price for Boston Dynamics.
The HashClash tool [1] was written back in 2006 and can construct chosen-prefix md5 collisions. Don't know if it has anything to do with Dan Kaminsky though.

[1]: https://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/
> The meaning of “and” in natural language predates the meaning of “and” used in logics and set theories

Yes and it's usually very hard to summarize what words can mean in different contexts, therefore it's usually harder to learn natural languages than programming languages. For example, in a programming language "while you're out, pick up some milk" would be an infinite loop. I think this is why Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri and many more are only finding usage for the simplest of tasks.
> I’ve been using this successfully for a decade.

Given how the system is setup, I find this amusing in a meta-way.
"Norway's system of timed speed cameras are particularly wonderful"

It isn't wonderful at all. UK has average speed cameras as well and they are horrible. Every time I drive in average speed zones I spend more time looking down because

1) I don't want to go 5mi over the speed limit because I will get fined otherwise
2) I don't want to go 5mi below the speed limit because then drivers behind me have to break one by one which eventually causes a traffic jam
3) I can't overtake a lorry going 65 because it would take me too long and I might miss my exit, which then makes anxious because I have to extend my commute time if I get stuck behind one
4) I can't safely let people merge onto the motorway because if I speed up or slow down then 1) or 2) happen
5) I can't calculate my average speed and to avoid 1) and 2) I have to keep looking down not paying much attention to what's going on around me

This only works on roads with little traffic, like in Scotland, where you can set cruise control and drive for miles. It doesn't work in Cambridge where AADT is ten times higher.

"These systems are safer for police and drivers as there are no traffic stops for speeding."

You are comparing average speed cameras to traffic stops, rather than stationary speed traps...

"Can speed cameras be used as a revenue source? Yes."

No because the primary reason for speed cameras is ensuring road safety, not generating revenue in which case you are encouraging installing speed cameras where they are not required. Speed cameras are not as safe you believe they are, otherwise they would be installed every 100 metres.

"Beyond that, if you don't want to get a fine, don't speed."

That's like saying "if you have nothing to hide, you don't need privacy" using the same "don't do the crime, if you can't do the time" principle, which is flawed. There are plenty of situations where you would want to occasionally speed 10% over the speed limit, but that's not equal to speeding 100% over the speed limit for a very long time. Both will get you a fine. It's not as simple as black or white.
If it's hard, mentally taxing work then likely around 4 hours total a day.

The funny thing is I also can't really do menial, brain dead work for long either. It seems to drain a different "tank" but its much smaller.
How can you presume to know if their coding is "routine" or not?
Yeah that's the biggest difference. Among Us (or Mafia game on which it was based) is closer probably. But still there are smaller scenarios that can play out in Cheat where the situation is close (you have 2 players providing contradicting information and you try to guess who's right).

Anyway my intuition about detecting liers is - people who provide too much or too personal details without being asked about them are more suspicious than the default, not less.

There's a few proverbs in my language about that ("only the guilty explains himself" and "hit the table and the scissors will speak out") - the first one obviously stupid on the face value but I think it is supposed to mean the same thing - that the guilty will have more explanations ready faster because they thought about them more and focus more on being considered innocent.

Maybe that's why the "explain to them" part is important.
Despite being convenient,I have the feeling that it might be a bad idea.

One of the key interest of C compared to more recent languages is that everything is explicit. With a finger you can follow the code as it runs and know exactly what is going on and when exactly.

At the opposite, there is c++ that does a lot of things automagically. And it is often hard to understand why you suddenly get a segfault out of blue, just because a destructor was randomly called at the wrong time.
Don't worry, you will be able to buy this exact same game for 60$ per year for eternity now
Retailers and restaurant chains that filed for bankruptcy in 2020
> The "separation of church and state" view is odd because several states had official established churches until long after the Constitution was adopted: "New Hampshire kept its establishment until 1817; Connecticut kept its establishment until 1818; and Massachusetts did not abandon its state support for Congregationalism until 1833."

That's not odd. The bill of rights originally did not apply to state governments. It was only after the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court started incorporating the rights on state governments. Of course some states had similar language in their own constitutions before that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...
This is early 2019. Different world.

There is so little need for stories of overprivilege right now, even for this audience.
Woah. I open it up at 08:44 and the picture is from less than fifty miles away from me. Small world. (I live in Maine.)
Would it be possible to add a blockchain (/blockchain-like) layer to a network like this that is tied to your node's provided throughput?

I.e. - I pay for a node in the network, and get paid incrementally every time someone accesses the network via my node? The payment being slightly higher based on the speed/bandwidth of the node I've provided.

I imagine the payment could be a combination of a "pay what you can" donation as in this example, and a generated coin based on the increase in value of having a network like this in a regional area.
I'm a phd student in physics, I'd say about 3 or 4 hours a day
Learning Representations by Back-propagating Errors (1986)
Depending on energy levels, amount of meetings and other factors I swing between 4 hours a day up to 8 of active coding. During times of severe pressure I have had a few 12 hour days (edit: This is not healthy nor sustainable for long).

This is all active code input. Tracked using Wakatime. No affiliation, just really like the service.
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Being at the office is work.

Being around, being available to inquiries, questions, support, anything, is work.

Even taking a coffee break and a nap in between two active coding sessions is work - if only because those two sessions are related in purpose, and because your mind still processes your work during the "break".

Even unproductive, lousy days when nothing gets accomplished are work; if only because it sometimes is only your mind reflecting on an issue that you will, it seems, "code in a matter of 2 hours", while in reality, it tooks the two previous days to get/discuss/put things in perspective to allow for these 2 hours to cristallize the solution.

Your productivity is in your context and output. Not in the exact quantity you put in.

The taylorist factory view just does not function at all with design/creative work.
I also found I could code for about 4 hours, so after that I like to reply to messages and read and sketch out ideas for how to approach bugs on paper, just get off the screen. And after a while of that I’ll go for a walk or something and maybe circle back around to the code if I thought of something.

I don’t mind this at all, 8 hours of screen time is a killer and no doubt led to my bad eyesight and wonky posture staring at screens when I was younger.
or rather, any game with gambling mechanics should be age rated 18+.

won't prevent all kids from playing the game, but should make most parents think twice.
This is a financial discussion though so:

https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/

World's GDP is $80,934,771,028,340 (nominal, 2017).

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2480%2C934%2C771%2C02...

$80.93477102834 trillion

Nobody would argue world GDP is anything billion, that's crazy.
GitHub repo issue spam in Chinese
EthBlock.art v2, democratic deterministic art, blockchain art
Slightly on a tangent, but I use Timing to automatically track my time.

On GNU/Linux, there is ActivityWatch. RescueTime works cross-platform.
> literal meaning of 'journeyman'

The title "journeyman" refers to the right to charge a fee for each day's work. :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeyman#Origin
If it's a hobby project I'm actually interested in, I can work all day every day. But if it's something I'm forced to do at work, 3-4 hours is the most I can do in a single stretch. If I can take a ~1 hour break after that and go to the gym or something, I can do another 3-4 hours. That's why WFH has been great for me; I can take a break as needed, and don't get bored to tears after a few hours in a cubicle farm.
So my initial thought when it said anti-recomendation was the idea that you give it a list of books and then it removes the ones that are "too mainstream", or "written by a journalist" or "proven false". In a way kind of want that more than what's proposed.
This project looks great! In a similar vein, I've been using Fantoccini[0] for web browser automation task to great success! It uses the webdriver protocol under the hoods, which means it works with Chrome, Firefox, Edge (both the old and new one) and Safari.

Chromiumoxide looks like a great alternative when there is a need for deep introspection. Its API appears to be extremely complete, on the protocol level you can get access to things like the state of the webaudio engine or setup DOM breakpoints, things that are not possible with webdriver!

EDIT: forgot the link ^^'. Thx izietto.

[0] https://github.com/jonhoo/fantoccini
I believe CubeWorld was mainly developed by one guy and eventually his wife helped out:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_World
Possibly coincidence but started around today's google outage, spamming multiple issues per minute, first one at 1358 CET.

Edit: fix typo
I was wondering the same. Still not sure how they detect whether that is incoming or just flying to a different destination?
>Instead of growing cabbage in prime real estate in Copenhagen, why don't we invest in Africa, give them some huge machines and then buy their produce?

I think you are not fully grasping the logistics of your plan. Most of Africa is pretty much landlocked, meaning shipping needs to happen by road (that do not exist today). This alone makes your plan more expensive than vertical farms.

Logistics in the food industry is a very complicated mess, with timelines so tight that we need to hack the riping process by picking fruits early and have them ripe on route, which negatively affects the quality of the produce (and with that the price that the average consumer is willing to pay).
At Google's scale, I'd expect it to be all of the above.

I hope they make their learnings, post-mortem, etc. public so that we can all learn from it.

My engineer hat is saying - "damn, I wish I was part of fixing this outage at their scale."

My product owner hat is saying - "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...."

:D
Happens when a business model is to sign up as many people as possible for the ISA (Income Sharing Agreement) and then immediately monetize that ISAs by selling them with a discount to a 3rd party.

That's basically Lambda business model. The main part is to sign up as many people as possible since in mean hard cash right away for every account that became locked in the debt.

Education is just an irrelevant theme-trick to make people owe money. That's classic sting of when a mob seduces a target person to play in a rigged gamble game just to make the target owe this mob some money.
Counterintuitively, I have previously been told that you can actually grow more than one square meter of plants with one square meter of solar panels. The reason for this is that LED lighting can be designed to produce exactly the frequencies plants actually absorb, and distributed optimally through the day. Current solar technology isn't sufficient to make that cheaper than regular farming for staple crops, but I can certainly imagine it getting there for anything that's grown in a greenhouse today.
Hi there, I'm Bruno, founder of Abstra.

We are making a low-code tool focused on secondary apps and MVPs.

The idea is that is that it is focused on people with basic coding background (even if it is not web dev).

We have good integration features that allow us to fit into existing companies or stacks very easy.

We need more feedback on the platform, so I would be very thankful with any comments or messages in this direction!
Reiss, a professor of psychology at Ohio State University , argues that a diverse range of human motivations can't be forced into these categories of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. https://archive.is/57CX
I can pretty easily work 8-10 hours in a day, and have done somewhat frequently in the run-up to important deadlines. I try not to because it absolutely kills my productivity for the next couple of days, so its almost always counterproductive.

Sure that one day is good but if you add up the work done on (say) the next two days the total is usually less than what you'd get if I worked normally for three days.
He was a phenomenally economical and powerful writer. I've literally pored over individual sentences in his books trying to pull apart how he did so much with so little.
3-4 hours of actual work: R&D, algo development, solution design. Max.

6 hours of writing and debugging SQL, simple linux systems maintenance, writing emails or powerpoints.

8 hours/day is just impossible for me.
I bought a racing wheel with pedals and shifter just for that one game. RIP Dirt Rally.
This is the classic paper that rediscovered back-propagation. Conceptually, back propagation is quite simple and just is a repeated application of chain rule. However, results of applying backprop for multi layer neural networks have been spectacular. This paper reads like a very brief tutorial of deep learning.
I’ve always considered “defer” an inelegant kludge in comparison to RAII for automatic cleanup of resources. It’s surprising that the C standards committee is considering adding that to the language. Then again, nearly none of the syntactic C features post-C89 have been very compelling or widely adopted.
The creepy stuff is when bits of such "knowledge" are taken out of context and used to compile a personal profile of you, for purposes from marketing to content recommendation to social and political engineering. Someone has those partial "facts", but are unable to extract your true motivation for your behaviours and can draw very wrong conclusions.
It's more that the less ambitious founders would be willing to "settle" for decent-but-not-unicorn outcomes for their companies, which are not the outcomes that VCs are looking for.

The VC-funded startup model will gladly have 99 out of 100 founders go bankrupt as long as the 100th starts a unicorn. Investors will push companies to take existential risks to achieve growth at all costs. Obviously, most founders are not OK with these odds and only the most delusional (if you want to spin it negatively) or ambitious (if you want to spin it positively) will go for it.
The beauty is that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
No “filtering” specifically refers to stopped traffic.

The solution is to simply avoid trying to share a lane while sitting in people’s blind spots. Someone can easily get between two rows of cars turning left without realizing it and get knocked over even when the cars are doing everything correctly.

The same is true of sharing lanes even on city streets, lanes simply are not wide enough to safely share as the motorcycle or cyclist has vastly reduced visibility and may miss construction lane markings etc that unexpectedly move traffic.
Jumping back in C always means trouble.