skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"mise en place" or prep work (not the one you mention in your comment) is important. you'd be surprised how much time is wasted chopping onions, boiling veggies, marinating meat, etc.

these should be done in advance if not the day before.
Chilling responses, thanks all
I'll join the chorus and say that I've basically disabled all notifications for my Apple Watch.

My Apple Watch:

* is a heart rate monitor
* a blood oxygen monitor
* an exercise tracker
* a music control device when exercising
* a volume control device for my airpods
* an enabler of checking phone calls easily without taking phone out of pocket
* a *very* rudimentary sleep tracker.

I use my Apple Watch almost exclusively for its health tracking benefits, and also because it's convenient as a remote sometimes.

It was also really nice in the recent Puget Sound power outages as a flashlight.

edit: formatting
I wonder when will Apple stop using Unibody for MacBooks. I don't like the body overall because it's heavier, too cool on winter, and its style not attracting not much anymore.
The best analogy is sorting forks, knives, and spoons when we are putting them in drawers. We can throw all silverware together. But then finding a spoon in that pile will take time whenever we need a spoon. The task changes from getting a spoon (execution) to finding a spoon (identification). And that's a cost we want to avoid.

I agree with his overall point about the costs of context switching (and was disappointed that he didn't talk about the low level issues of coordination on multithreaded systems) but this seems like an odd candidate for "best analogy".

When I moved to a new house a few years ago, we initially lacked an organizer tray as is typically used to keep silverware sorted in the drawer. Our solution, which we thought was temporary until we bought one, was to unceremoniously and clatteringly dump all the silverware into the same drawer, and to pick out what we wanted at mealtime.

Three years later, we're still doing it and have concluded that it's much better system. Sorting silverware was always one of my least favorite parts of putting away washed dishes, and now it is trivial: dump the entire basket from the dishwasher into the drawer, often while grinning with joy. And I don't think I've once become angry at the extra time of searching for a spoon or a fork.

Consider, if we're being technical, that the primary advantage of presorting happens when you can sort once and take advantage of the ordering many times. But with silver, it's once-in and once-out. Sorting all at once isn't actually faster, it's just preloading the pain. Also note that you can fit a lot more silverware into a drawer unsorted. Having twice as many spoons and forks might reduce utilization, but silverware is cheap and having more makes finding what you want a lot easier.

Anyway, you know the standard advice to measure before you optimize? Given my positive experience with the unsorted method, I wonder if he's even tried the approach he's using as a central negative example. Personally, I'd suggest that more people should try it!
According to one analysis[1], it's anything but tame. The word cloud[2] kind of says it all.

[1] https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/politics/a-very-disturbin...

[2] https://imageproxy.themaven.net/https%3A%2F%2Fimages.saymedi...
> Decentralisation is useless if you end up in the wild west with 100 companies, none of which can secure your data.

It's not useless, nor is it realistic to imply they are all unable to secure "your data" through their narrow lens. Treating "your data" as monolithic, necessarily implies attribution through centralization - all exchanges between multiple parties are at least a 2 way transaction of identity. It's the consequence of decentralization that there are gaps, not a fatal weakness.
People who are mad at "frugality" would be 100% on board with "not wasting money".
Discoverability.
Firefly Semantics Service Parts Profit Optimization
> There are excessive uses of pronoun without proper references to who means whom. Points backing up the idea is shallow.

I don't follow this logic that pronouns somehow means the idea is shallow. These workplace stories are usually intended to be vaguely written and not overly specific to avoid doxxing. In other words, plausible deniability.
I would sincerely like to get a breakdown of all the factors that contribute to the Japanese living to such an old age, rather than the usual "this one weird trick" bullshit that Economist and others try to swindle on the Western readership. It's quite frankly annoying, although I've lost the last ounce of respect I've had for the Economist years ago so I'm the idiot for expecting them to be any better.

I've gone through pop diet literature like How Not To Die, Blue Zone, and others, but it's mostly just people trying to push an agenda in one way or another. I just want the facts, in somewhat of plain as English as possible but I don't mind some technical fluff if it will help clarify things. I tend to find in a lot of this sort of literature that the technical fluff is useless to majority of the readership and yet takes up 80%+ of the content, as the authors try to use as many half-baked analogies and metaphors as they can to explain technical concepts that nobody cares about. At the same time, something more substantial than "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants" would be welcome. You know, how does exercise play a part in it. How does ancestry that has also lived to an old age play a part in it. Is it kind of a big deal, or nice to have? How many consecutive generations of people living to 100 does it take before it happens at a regular basis. These sorts of things. Holistic analysis that compares more than just "Wim Hof has slightly more brown fat than most people and that's the reason why he is superhuman" level of nonsense.

The latest bit seems to be from longevity research where cold showers and fasting are in vogue again, for the Nth time. Oh, but our company is the only one that provides this one unique test that checks your age biomarkers. We didn't just name drop the company in there for the sake of baiting you into it or anything.

Why is it so bloody hard?
Not exactly — it's a combination of regex on the URL and then JS injection and the like.

They're in beta now and launching soon: http://insightbrowser.com
HR don't decide any of those things, they're instructed to do those things by management.
this is generalizing hr
choose another company style
Times listed on recipe websites can go beyond optimisic as well and into just plain being physically impossible. One example I remember: https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/05/how-to-cook-onions-...
I used to love dark themed everything until I finally started letting a lot of sunlight into my office. Now I find dark impossible to see in a well lit room.

What I also discovred is that I like consistency more. So instead of dark themes at night, I am enjoying the blue shift thing that brings the blue down a lot.

What I also discovered that drives me bonkers: how come I can trivially change brightness on a laptop monitor but none of my desktop screens? I badly want to bring them way down at night.
Yes. If I need a shirt that will be critical to what I’m doing, it might be worth it. Something to keep me warm in a critical situation. But I wouldn’t expect it to last me for life, just be high quality to not fail unexpectedly.
I'm willing to bet if it was thousands of Muslims involved in that event, you would not be making this argument.
Make sure to take a screenshot of whatever confirmation you get. Because servers are overloaded, some people in my area did not get confirmation texts or emails.

If somebody is elderly, the chances of them getting an appointment is extremely low without the help (and extreme vigilance) of their tech savvy children/nieces/nephews.

Some states have also opened up their registrations to people 16+ with serious chronic health conditions that put them at high risk of severe COVID-19. In a handful of these states, many of these people have received a vaccine. But, it is first come first serve, which is an absolute disaster along with being inequitable.
I don’t camp enough so for me longevity is the more important one I guess, but mostly I just want things that will dial reliably and predictably.

Boots: I specifically mostly wear motorcycle boots and the tech on those is evolving quite fast.
I never said my way of living didn’t work for me. Why would I want kids (I have a partner).
"reasonable exchanges only happen with reasonable people."

is a pretty brilliant quote.
Yeah, the Redux docs and example projects showed "folder-by-type" for years ( `/reducers`, `/actions`, etc). But, as part of the ongoing Redux docs rewrite, we now specifically recommend "folder-by-feature" instead [0], as well as using a single "ducks/slice" file for all the Redux logic of a given feature.

Agreed that a couple top-level "types" folders may be useful for more generic/reusable code.

I do have a small Next project set up at my day job, and it does seem like it encourages a "folder-by-type" approach based on the use of `/pages`. But, I set up a `/features` folder alongside that, and have been filling it out accordingly.

[0] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#structure-files...
A few companies I have been in have recognised this PR mistake and have renamed themselves "People and Culture". However, do not be fooled, the purpose remains ensuring the organisation has the right type of people and a culture that aligns with the objectives of the company.
I remember when people said ad blockers we’re going to be broken. And I didn’t notice because the ad blocker I was using before worked fine and continues to work fine after whatever they did. (1Blocker)
This is different than my perspective. From my POV most people are good at heart and well intentioned. The problem is: we each have different perspectives of what "good" is and conflict arises.

Not only that, but as humans, we create fantasy narratives in our heads and simplify each other's complexities, categorizing each other as villains, heroes, somewhere in between - and centering our world views around ourselves.

I don't know whether this will ever be fully fixable.
Agreed with one small correction, HR is your friend before you join the company simply because internal recruiters fall under HR and recruiters are your friends. Literally paid to try and place you into the company.

Back to topic - HR is a tool.

Their job is to keep the company from getting sued by employees, the government and sometimes unions over bad practices. If the company is large enough they also report to the board.

Maybe HR's better analogy for the employee is a double edge sword. If you choose to use it, you'd better be prepared. Know the your rights, local laws/governance about your employment.

If your complaint aligns with laws then you're better setup for success, but again, it can always come back to bite you.
> I will never contract myself to those companies and people.

I read that as them saying they'll never work for a company that treats people as 'resources'.
Or...this is hard? And the long majority of long term care facilities were just turned on for vaccines? And doing consent and paperwork and injections with the elderly is slow? And there has been a huge reporting lag, because the priority is giving shots?

This doesn’t feed a conspiracy theory because it’s evidence. It feeds a conspiracy because it’s information and a conspiracy theory treats all information as proof it’s true.
I'm not sure what is counted as "sites" - i.e. if Google closes foo.bar/baz123 and the same server gets assigned bar.foo/zab345 and continues to serve malware, is it 2 separate sites? Did Google really achieve this much by forcing the changing of the URL? Sure, bunch of people that got the phish link in the mail that was sent before switch but then shut down won't be phished, but I have no idea how much that changes the picture - I'm sure phishers are well aware that their domains are short-lived and already adapted for that, otherwise they'd be extinct. However, I'd be glad to read some field-validated data about how much closing those 2M sites, whatever is meant by "sites", actually helps against phishing.

I mean if we could trust Google (or anybody else of that kind) to have blacklist strictly limited to reasonable definition of malware and phishing, and knew that usage of such list if strictly voluntary under control of the user, it would be an acceptable, if decidedly imperfect, remedy. But we know we can't trust any of this, even if whoever works on this at Google right now are sincerely ironclad committed to never any mission creep and abuse happen, once the means exist, these people can always be replaced with others that would use it to fight "misinformation", or "incitement", or "blasphemy", or whatever it is in fashion to fight this week. There's no mechanism that ensures it won't be abused, and abuse is very easy once the system is deployed.

Moreover, we (as, people not in control of Google's decisions) have absolutely no means to prevent any abuse of this, since Google owns the whole setup and we have no voice in their decision making process. Given that, it seems to be prudent to make all effort to reject it while we still can. Otherwise next time you'd want to make a site questioning Google's decisions about the malware list, nobody would be able to read it because it'd be marked as a malware site.
I'm the same way.
Nearly all break through inventions seem obvious in hindsight. I guess putting the pieces together and connecting the dots looking forward is what’s incredibly hard. The search space can still be immense.
Battery Health Reports Coming for That Used Electric Car You're Considering
These platforms absolutely do ban or demonetize people for these reasons. Dennis Prager's video on the Ten Commandments was demonetized and the reason given? "It contains the word 'kill'. Dangerous for children."

They have extremely rigid standards for conservatives and very loose standards for everybody else. That's a real thing and it's something you don't see until you are one of those whose views are being targeted.

Ultimately, I predict that conservative discourse will take a similar path to MP3s: first, it will be targeted by the big powers-that-be. Next, technologies will appear that make it impossible to police or shut down. Finally, corporate America will realize that it's better to work with people than fight them and the discourse will be brought back into the fold and corporations will once again make money off of it.
I develop PredictSalary (https://predictsalary.com), a browser extension that can predict the salary range of job opportunities. It's free but one person told me that he didn't mind to pay me if I added support for job opportunities in his country (UK). The extension has 700+ users now. I don't know whether this number can be considered as significant user base or not.

Later, I'll add the capability to predict the salary range of people from their Linkedin profiles. I would make this a premium feature. Let's see how it goes.
I would very much recommend Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson (specifically, chapter 2).

It's a relatively short read, and very relevant to your comment. Personally, I found the book quite enlightening, it gives a very different perspective to the jobs landscape than the one we usually have. An uncomfortable perspective, but one I feel one that is much more accurate.
https://flippa.com/ as quick pointer
I'm not sure if the technology is there yet. I'd simply be happy to have an iPhone with an extended screen option added to the case (like the LG ones). Those prototypes will probably be several years away before it becomes a mass-produced copy.
There are several places with different quality.

https://microacquire.com

https://empireflippers.com

https://digitalexits.com/listings/

https://feinternational.com/buy-a-website/

https://www.sideprojectors.com/

https://quietlight.com/listings/

Another alternative is finding small niche websites and make an early proposal, and you can find leads in https://betalist.com or search on Twitter "We are shutting down" and phrases like this.

I have this experience looking at someone else doing so. I can tell you it was not fun. Do all your diligence about all the details that matter, trustworthy metrics, IP, real costs, and advertising history; don't trust so easily.

Another piece of advice is to start small, don't buy a 100.000 $us business, start with something less than 5.000 $us, and learn how to measure and reprovision costs; it's not always evident how to continue with an existing business.
With the major difference that these days a lot of people get to choose their employers. Yes, it's not perfect and not everyone can afford that, but we moved significantly from "you live here, this is your lord".
Can the government do anything right? Seriously. Can you give me examples of successful government programs?
I’m not an expert, so heaping tablespoon of salt and all that, but it seems like we were on the cusp of a revolution in vaccine development due to this mRNA method of making vaccines, and Covid came around at just the right time where a big infusion of cash into mRNA vaccine research could get the technology over the hump.

Again, totally not an expert at all, but from what I’ve gleaned this whole novel mRNA thing is key to understanding why this was so fast and why other vaccines in the future could come really fast as well.
The following sites/marketplaces have a mix of SaaS sites, content sites, and affiliate sites. These are all generally higher value sites/businesses for sale (think 50k and up for many) and are often for sale at high yearly multiples.

https://microacquire.com/

https://latonas.com/

https://feinternational.com/

https://empireflippers.com/marketplace/

If you're considering lower value businesses to purchase, these two will primarily have sites/businesses for sale for under 50k, but often considerably less than (eg. 1-5k):

https://www.sideprojectors.com/

https://www.flippa.com/

As with all things, whatever you're considering buying from any of these sources, you're going to want to do your due diligence to make sure everything is above board.
Getting rid of Republicans: most in long-term care are.
Given that Apple has explicitly stated this benefit and given that Apple has explicitly utilised these exact benefits in the real world on multiple occasions, it's rather bold to propose that it might not be factually true.

Obviously it's not the only reason that Apple does things the way they do. It's probably not even the number one reason. But it's certainly one significant reason which seems to fit the objective criteria of being factually true.

(To be clear, I am stating no personal opinion about whether Apple's approach is "good" by any criteria.)
The main reason for me to use Chromium was hardware accelerated video on Linux. Can they finally sort that out or force users into a degraded experience?
Everything makes sense if you go into a job with the mindset you are not a human being, but rather a tool that the company has to give cursory maintenance to, to ensure that you don't break down.

HR is just the department that oversee's the tools and removes/replaces any tools that are not working or are becoming too much of a hassle.

If you doubt that is true, just remember that many companies would willingly have you thrown off the top of the building to your death and replaced within a day were you to even so much as thought about time outside of work if they could do so and get away with it.
If there wasn’t evidence, they wouldn’t approve it. Just find the vaccines’ homepage and follow the footnotes.
Have I got good news for you: https://webkit.org/blog/11312/meet-face-id-and-touch-id-for-... - ICYMI WebAuthn is the successor to U2F.
A normal home meal is fairly balanced, if you were eating out a lot that isn't a great representation of a normal diet. Also portion sizes are much smaller than the west.

I think you are right about fitness, in general there is a lot of riding and walking in daily life. Unlike in a lot of the west, where you can go from sitting at home to sitting in your car to sitting at your desk without more than 100m of walking.

I will admit that it's amazing the smoking is rarely mentioned. It's everywhere oh my god, I got head spins from one cafe. Your clothes smell like cigarettes half the time. I think it's getting better, lots of places choose to ban smoking inside now. But it's still pervasive.
Statewide, the first round (I'm too tired to keep track if we're in Phase 1B part 2 or what) was to healthcare workers only, and it quickly became clear there was no plan for distributing to anyone else, because this was all being done in hospitals, by hospital staff.

Now they're working on opening this mega vaccine clinic thing, partnering with CVS and Walgreens, and having SOME health care providers offer it. But that's just started, I'd say, last week. It feels like almost no thought was put into long term care facilities other than to say "they should be right up there with health care workers".
It has to do with revenue recognition. What the riders pay is not Uber's top line revenue, instead what the driver pays Uber back from that fare is. See Uber's 2019 annual financial report [1]. That amount you are thinking of as revenue is referred to as "Gross Bookings":

> Gross Bookings. We define Gross Bookings as the total dollar value, including any applicable taxes, tolls, and fees, of Rides and New Mobility rides, Eats meal deliveries, and amounts paid by Freight shippers (p. 61)

Uber's cut of the transactions is defined as the Take Rate, and was 21.4% in 2019. That means that 79.6% of the fares Uber collects was paid to drivers.

[1] https://s23.q4cdn.com/407969754/files/doc_financials/2019/ar...
I've recently been assigned a course to teach where I need to mark lots of assignments. These assignments have 12 short answer questions and each student must do them.

Slowest part about marking these is having to context switch for each question. So I'd mark Q1 , then Q2 etc for one assignment, then go over to the next one and start back at Q1.

I figured this was super inefficient since I needed to have the answer and context of the question in my mind and keep switching.

So I wrote a program to parse all of the questions from all of the reports and present them to me in question batches. So now I see all of Q1 one after the other for each student's and mark those. Then once all of the Q1's are done, I mark all the Q2's. After all the marking is done, I run that through another program that then formats that data to each student so it's back onto their individual report plus any comments or deductions.

I find that apart from saving the time to have to open tonnes of docx files, now it takes maybe 5 mins to mark everything.
Merriam Webster definition of resource:

1a : a source of supply or support : an available means —usually used in plural
1b : a natural source of wealth or revenue —often used in plural
1c : a natural feature or phenomenon that enhances the quality of human life
1d : computable wealth —usually used in plural
1e : a source of information or expertise
2 : something to which one has recourse in difficulty : EXPEDIENT
3 : a possibility of relief or recovery
4 : a means of spending one's leisure time
5 : an ability to meet and handle a situation : RESOURCEFULNESS

I'd say humans are resources under definitions 1a, 1e and 2. Those things aren't particular to slaves.
What point exactly?
Bloomberg maintains an excellent dashboard that tracks vaccination in the US and worldwide ([1]). It shows that California is one of the slowest states with only 37% of received vaccine administered. Top five states are North Dacota (77%), West Virginia (74%), Oregon (61%), South Dacota (61%) and Texas (60%).

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...