skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An internal survey among 13 employees showed they averaged 95 hours of work a week and slept five hours a night.

I'm always curious about this, about people who say they routinely sleep < 6 hours a night. Now, I know there are some very small percentage of people who, genetically, need very little sleep, but for the vast majority of humans, I don't think this is really physically possible.

I can certainly pull an all nighter once in a blue moon, or go two nights on a couple hours of sleep. But honestly, I feel like total shit after a single night with less than 6 hours of sleep, and if I do this more than a night or two in a row I always get sick and I can barely think straight. I honestly think I would die or at the very least end up in the hospital if I was continually on 5 hours of sleep a night.

I know I need more sleep than most people (I'm fine on 8 hours but my "natural" preference, e.g. with no alarm clock, is 9), but I always wonder about people who say they go months on 5 hours of sleep a night. I always think they're either superhuman or exaggerating their sleep loss.
You have to select exactly the right text, and that text will never look like "select this right now" --- if you've seen the characters we're talking about, it's like Zalgo text. Selection in an xterm is not the ordinary response to these strings.

This is a little like Clickjacking, where you'd expect a bounty hunter to come at you with "this very severe bug can be triggered simply by clicking", and you respond "well, we should fix that, but users never click in those places, so we're going to send you a t-shirt" and the bounty hunter responds "no, clicking is a fundamental user interaction, you should send me $5000".

And my point isn't even that this is a dumb bug (certainly, it's not as dumb as CJ usually is). It's that there is absolutely no fucking way it is a 9.6 on a 10.0 scale of severity. Shellshock, ffs, has the same NVD CVSS as this bug. Shellshock doesn't even care what terminal you're using.
Indeed, and you can go even further: with e2ee there is no need for central server beyond dumb distribution of opaque blobs. So the history can be exchanged by the whole network and the encryption keys shared recipient by recipient on a need-to-know basis. That's what bitmessage is doing, for example
Of course they are, but when you quit, it's you showing them the middle finger, not them trying to screw you over (unless they still owe you money, but cours there side with the workers usually... tbh. even too much sometimes).
Completely unrelated, but there is a museum in the main Haribo factory (near Orange) and it is surprisingly fun to visit, even for someone who does not like sweets.
> I always think they're either superhuman or exaggerating their sleep loss.

I think stimulants also play a factor, legal or otherwise.
I don't know about the sources, but about a decade ago the first generation of ultra-high-performance office administrators, who had made the original transition from typewriters to PC's, reached maxiumum maturity before retirement.

Their leadership was consistent that no version of Microsoft Office allowed greater personal productivity than Office 97. They had worked with them all up to that point, always modernizing at the bleeding edge.

In hindsight the only reason for newer versions of Office was thought to be occasions where there was an extreme need for features not present in Office 97.

Of course it had always been too late for them to do anything about it since they were so modern they were the ones tasked with dropping earlier versions as soon as possible after a new version was released.

Naturally that depth of knowledge will never be replaced.
I think it has more to do with the pasta taking in a lot of sauce, rather then it holding a lot of sauce. To make a good Italian pasta dish:
Take out the pasta a bit earlier out of the water and poor it into your sauce. The pasta will take in some sauce and get al-dente in the sauce. The pasta shouldn't bath in sauce but just be enough to give your pasta lots of flavor. Don't wash your pasta after cooking, because that will close its pores and hinder it from taking in sauce.
If you go to this Richard Gambler's personal site its quite erratic, there are enough spelling and grammatical mistakes to make you think he wrote it all himself with no proof reading.
Herds of earthworms mysteriously congregate in middle of the road
With a training set of all previous sessions played, I bet this would often be easy to predict.
You would need a dedicated team (starting with a dedicated person), willing to rewrite so much existing C code in a less unsafe language.

And they would need to be willing to spend a lot of time on making sure the new implementation was just the same as the old version, and can compile and run on all the same platforms and what not.

I don't think it would be easy to get funding for that, so your dedicated team is going to have to be independently wealthy, or not spend a lot of time on it.

If rust is your selected less unsafe language, as I understand it, it doesn't have as full platform support as gcc or clang, so that's a challenge (which gets easier over time as non-x86 and non-arm die out). Other languages have other challenges, but I don't think there's a clear winner here, which is part of the issue.

The new utilities will be judged on functionality (should be exactly the same), and cpu/memory/binary size which should all be the same or less. It's hard to guarantee that.

Not a whole lot of people want to develop with that framework. You don't see a whole lot of Show HN: I made a replica of X, with no changes to functionality. Everyone always wants to change things.

Anyway: be the change you want to see and all that. Pick a small package, reimplement it in rust (or whatever), and see if you can get it in distributions or convince the upstream to switch to your implementation. Then tell us how it went, and repeat with another package, etc.
Hi, I created this project, thanks for sharing it!. I hope it was somewhat useful or solved your needs.

I'm always trying to improve, so if you have any suggestion do not hesitate on reaching out!
To the OP, they do provide the raw HTML to Polaris Components (this is what I use -- I don't know React). Not sure if that's the same as HTML "components" though.
Just out curiousity what does a day in a life of investment banker looks like at work

And what kind of work they do that requires them to work more than 80hrs of weeks
This is just bad naming by the company (and or Tesla). This is 100% sure a molten aluminum die casting machine.

This company already makes such machines for Tesla and this is the newest one.

You can find videos of machines like that being assembled right now in Berlin and Austin. And you can find videos of it working in Fremont and Shanghai.

This video Tesla battery day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQfKZ5lo9dc

That they have order an even bigger one has been part of investor calls and presentation.

Here you see it assembled in Austin: https://youtu.be/02KR9sb5P6E?t=687

You can see that it is vertical, a stamping machine stamps horizontally.
Show HN: Categorize/tag your favorite people on HN, Reddit and on social media
This guy is an idiot. You don't head out without enough water to reach the next source of water!

Personally, I won't solo away from crowds without a beacon and this year since I've been deliberately aiming for empty trails I upgraded that to an inReach with a plan that includes breadcrumbs. If I did get hurt and couldn't push the button search and rescue would likely have my exact location (so long as it was still functional and had an adequate view of the sky the last breadcrumb would be within a few yards of my location) and almost certainly have a very good approximation of it.
I love this article “How to Deconstruct Almost Anything--My Postmodern Adventure” written by a software engineer: https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html

Edit: it is the best explanation for “it seemed that their insights were always communicated in the most impenetrable writing” I have seen.
I'm pretty sure Tesla only uses monoscopic vision for its self-driving features, or maybe it's just for Autopilot.
That ending made me LOL. Well phrased.
At least you can hide it.
you conflate iMessage with what is possible with e2ee
But then how could it click?
Two of them landed actually. The Austin subreddit has lots of cool photos.
GP is talking about safety for pedestrians, not safety for passengers. Is Tesla the safest vehicle for pedestrians who are accidentally struck?
This is so accurate I feel like I can just die now.
Wilfrid Sellars, sensory experience and the ‘Myth of the Given’
ABIA == Austin–Bergstrom International Airport
Wouldn't it be possible to import the new certs? It's a debian base so I think you could just download the ca-certificates package from the debian website and dpkg -i the file.
I'd assume so. Which means the first application would kill 80% of the mice, maybe more. That'd would leave a whole bunch of rotting mice bodies to putrify and smell and provide a poisonous feast to birds and other scavangers. A second application might knock off 60%. Then, with each application and multiple generations of mice, you'd end up with mice that are immune. Ultimately, you end up with totally ineffective bait.
Among many people I know who worked at FAANGs (primarily Google and Apple) from the early 00s to the present, none of this is true.

Yes, many of them worked long hours, but none of those I knew described it as a "grind", they honestly just liked their work. Certainly none of them did it to the level of sleep deprivation or damage to their physical health.
I deleted my account the moment I realized this. It's incredible most people don't seem to care.
Yeah I was surprised by this as well, but apparently you cannot use NVIDIA cards to run enterprise deep learning workloads ("in a data center")... was super super shocked to hear this.. like isn't this one of the primary use cases...?

Bizarre
Do you feel like you're unempathetic in person to person conversations or only online?

I think it's a lot easier to come off as unempathetic online, especially only written text because lots of online discussions are asynchronous, plus there's so many subtle modes of communication that get lost. It's also really easy to forget that the person you're replying to is an actual human being with their own set of internal issues and loops of thought processes.

I think to become a good listener the biggest thing is to really be interested in what the other person is talking about instead of waiting for your turn to talk or dismiss the conversation all together. Realistically most folks tend to want to talk more than listen but if you're genuinely interested then this doesn't become a thing where you're internally wishing they stop talking so you can talk. Instead you look forward to them talking even more.
It's clearly performing a casting process, just watch one of the videos.

Maybe they're calling it a press because the molten metal is being rammed into the mold under pressure vs. gravity. I agree that there's poor naming at play here muddying the waters.
It's a bit like hexadecimal and octal and binary like that, in that it's really trivial to convert between those and just see at a glance what the conversion is. Except with Cistercian it's even easier.
I fully understand.
Privacy is important to me, but it's not a binary state.

What I talk about to my friends, girlfriends and family are all on different "privacy levels".
If the chats with my friends were disclosed, I'd probably be made a laughing stock at most but it's no big deal. My family ones would probably be most boring, and the ones with my girlfriend could be material for a soap opera, and embarrassing.

But it's not the end of the world if someone at Telegram can read them of if they were disclosed by some hacker group.

My point is that it is an amazing chat app and have way too many benefits for me to not use it, but I _am_ fully aware that there are a chance what I write can be read by someone else, and therefore I take care what I write about.

Oh, and thank you for keeping the discourse on a respectful level. :)
mdma

Edit: Seriously though...

Try to be helpful by chosing to see problems as something you and other people are solving together and focus on the solution. For example, rather than saying or thinking "this is wrong" or "you are wrong", think "we could improve this by...".

This has to be genuine. People sometimes lecture to make themselves feel smart. I mean _actually_ be helpful.
Remembering G K Chesterton
>if you've seen the characters we're talking about, it's like Zalgo text. Selection in an xterm is not the ordinary response to these strings.

Yeah, with all due respect, you're not in touch with what ordinary responses are.

When people see zalgo like the infamous SO regex post, selecting it is the first thing they do.
Yes, there are common phrases used as codes. For example "made a highly competent job" -> very good; "made a very competent job" -> good; "made a compentent job" -> mediocre; "always aimed to make a competent job" -> really bad
What's funny is that Apple themselves are not helping.

If I use the following SwiftUI code, I get a button that's 24.5 x 22.5.

Button(action: {}, label: {
Image(systemName: "magnifyingglass")
.imageScale(.large)
})

The .imageScale modifier is set to the largest! That button is abysmally small. You can use padding of course, and that's what I do. I suspect I'm missing something, but I can't see a reason why .large gives me an unusably small image.
From the article: "When you think about it, click menus are actually what we expect already in most other contexts."

[slapping my forehead] For more than a decade I've been dumbfounded that nobody seemed to be thinking about something so obvious. I mean, the browser itself had well-functioning, standard menus. By the time CSS enabled web dropdown menus, the behavior of dropdown menus had been extensively tested in usability labs (all sorts of variations) and almost completely standardized across Windows, Mac, NeXT, BeOS, etc: Menus, consistent with all types of button, wait to be told to open which, also consistently, can be done by mouse, keyboard, touch, voice, eye-controller, etc.

Then some web developer decided to create menus that didn't wait for you to ask. You'd click a link at some scroll position so you'd navigate to the new page with your mouse in some random position, which would then trigger some random menu to leap out and cover what you were looking for, forcing you to find a way to get off of it so it would close without accidentally triggering another menu and starting over. And if you finally saw what you wanted on some other part of the page and moved your mouse toward it: BLAT! Some other random menu was triggered en route. Or you have menus arranged so that trying to reach one keeps triggering another nearby that then covers it (looking at you, Amazon!)

Then everyone else seems to have said, YES, I too want visitors to my page to feel as if they had just stumbled into a minefield. Instead of the extensively tested, usability-research-based standard menu behavior of clicking a menu or button when you want it, I want them to experience the thrill of not knowing what might happen and for it to happen differently depending on where they enter the page and whether they enter with a mouse or touch device.

(Tooltips are okay if they are so small that they are very unlikely to cover anything you might need. You still have to set their delay long enough to not trigger at all when passed over.)

We should be using the menu lessons that were well researched, well known, well liked, and well established back in Win95 days. We can pretend it's a newly invented concept called "click menus" if that helps.
Until today I was convinced that not breaking your products was just an industry standard.
Oh wow, I forgot about that game.
SmartAmpPro – Machine Learning to Emulate Guitar Amps and Effects (Using Keras)
Age of Invention: Sails Force
The $10/mo is for a subscription to Setapp, which bundles a bunch of apps into one subscription service.
It makes me wish I had kept my SE/30.
He works, She cooks’: Google Translate results reveal gender bias in tech
Some cultural evolution is quite random and idiosyncratic. The US had a way big photocopied zine subculture in the 90s, and reading these comments I can see a lot of similar patterns of young people mailing and sharing their creations amd expressions. Sometimes a few influential individuals or events can really kick off a wave of cultural innovation, but I also think that the spread of Kinkos in the US during the 90s and them hiring a lot of low-wage kids who would scam copies for their friends and siblings laid the groundwork for zines in the way that Amiga’s market efforts in Europe did for the demoscene.
We're patiently awaiting your rust-rewrite of xterm. When can we expect the first release?
Adjacent: I found this part of the article particularly interesting:

“People-rental services are fairly common in Japan, where you can rent anyone from a middle-aged man to give you life advice, to someone to become friends with your spouse to see if they’re cheating on you.”
I wonder if this means more CPUs/GPUs available in the next future, and less HDDs available. Given the current GPU craze, this might be a good time to invest in large HDDs.
My dog does this to his stuffed animals, blankets, etc. The agility of the motion is incredible.
a junior employee begging for 80 hours/week cap has a good business reason? it must be a truckload of money.
I think cultivating curiosity about others is integral to building empathy, but it's a lifelong practice. I still find it very easy to project my own experiences onto others - an easy shortcut that drains my interest in them and makes listening hard. After all, if I feel I already know what's important to know about them, why listen?

Where I've found the most personal growth has been in continually re-learning the strangeness of other people's inner worlds. I try to imagine each person I meet inhabits an alternate universe, just as rich and nuanced as I feel my own is. So a healthy spirit of exploration and generosity helps, although it requires treating yourself the same.

A good shorthand I heard a long time ago from someone else on HN: when someone is expressing a problem to you, consider it your job to build a picture of their mental state that you can repeat back to them and have them recognize as their own. Good luck!
Preserving or recreating the logic boards is important for historical recreation of antique machines — as the originals get destroyed, there’s less opportunity for new research. Having recreations like this lets more people play with these historical machines.
I read it as cubicle at first. Haha
I believe this may have been the grandaddy of demos in Europe:

Sodan & Magician 42 - TechTech - Amiga Demo
https://youtu.be/mB5CujcTN8A
NFTs are driving stunts and diving into the culture wars
Sadly I think you're right. The macho chest-beating kind of stuff you mention is definitely abuse in the common sense.

However I'll warn people about the more bearable, long-term stress of this kind of job, which is abusive in a slightly different way.

When I finished uni, I shared a flat with a friend with one of these jobs. Apart from at night, I had the whole flat to myself every weekday night for years. He'd rarely be home for dinner, often our only contact was him standing at my doorway at eleven or midnight, with me basically in bed already chatting with him about how his day went.

I remember locking myself out of the flat once, and I just walked to his work to get his key. My main problem was staying up to wait for him at the end of the day.

During all this time, I never got the impression that IB work was important or interesting. He'd clamour to get his hands on spreadsheet ("model") work, but it never struck me as actually sensible. There were simply too many moving parts on these giant Excel sheets to actually be a real, predictive model. There was no evidence that such a model was a good representation of a supermarket or whatever.

But most of all, the bit that seemed abusive was the way work seemed to happen. Having barely slept, he'd drag himself into the office in the morning. Amazingly, there'd be very little to do. He'd sit around all day until the afternoon, when the MD would come in and demand a 100-page deck done by the next morning.

We never did anything like a movie or a dinner without it being at the very least interrupted by work. Really important stuff like "you have to change the font on p57-89".

This was massively stressful on his relationship as well, and it eventually ended. Work was not the only factor, but it was surely a major contributor.

The trouble is young bankers see the older guys who've made it and think they can make it too. They don't see the survivorship bias, because when you've gone through a top school and uni, you ARE the survivor. The bank makes you think you're the cream of the cream. (One thing that seemed to not cause concern was that a lot of the young bankers were the children of important people, eg CEOs. You'd think that makes your own odd a lot worse.)

My housemate duly looked up to his boss, a guy with a similar background to himself. Perhaps he could work himself up on that team, and build a similar life for himself.

One day, the boss didn't come to work. The bank put out a statement that he'd suffered a heart attack at home, in his 40s. My friend knew that he hadn't. Not long after he left the bank, and shook off the idea of working himself to death.
He lost his job at PBS. PBS is right wing now?
It's common to see an ingredient "divided"* in recipes and used at different times. Though I wonder if there's a name for this specific technique. I do it too with garlic or bell peppers.

* https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-does-divided-mean-in-a-re...
I'm not sure if black companies really suffer from a lack of business. AFAIK, Watami is still well in business despite being awarded the black company of the year award multiple times. They had a 26-year-old employee kill herself two months after joining the company with something like 140 hours of overtime. I think they also had an infamous ad on their website where a man with kind of worrying look to him was praising working for the company (https://livedoor.blogimg.jp/anico_bin/imgs/e/5/e5dbf3ca.jpg). I remember when Akiba's Trip the Animation actually decided to parody that particular ad when they had an episode about black companies (https://twitter.com/chocochip1126/status/832183431819784192).
Thanks, that's really interesting product!
wants are wants because we imagine having the want fulfilled will ___________. what's your take on the blank?
Sometimes they're just stupid. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was simply the case that it's what they do, it's what they've always done, and it sometimes works, so why stop now? And maybe it's normalized; maybe you go to the bar with some managers at other companies and they talk about doing the same things. If the average person in this situation just wants to move on, and get away as fast as possible, then maybe they're more prone to giving in to your demands than fighting back.

Probably mostly the first part.