skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a mentally rough start to my work life. I graduated as an engineer in 2009 and for several years I couldn't really make much choices for myself, but after 7 years I quit having a boos. I now work for myself and all is good.

Anyway. One of the important steps (pun somewhat intended) of getting back in mental shape was to walk part of the way back from work. If I would have walked all the way that would probably have been something like 80 k steps and I could get off the train at several places on that way. And since I could also get on it again I could both choose the length of my walks and the vary where they took place.

My record during that period was a day where I in tota walked almost 40 k steps. There is something that happens after about 3-4 hours of walking like that. At least I can achieve something similar to a runners high. Also, I had some problems around let's say my more sensitive parts, which also got completely fixed by that treatment.

If you've just walked for 1-1.5 hours, that's still good and everything. But if you have the time and have some mental/physical problems, and like walking, try 3-4 hours several times a week. There's some magic in that. I recommend having a start and a goal but taking different paths and exploring. Listen to some pods sure, but also explore and think. Most important though, put in those 25 k + steps, and do it in a pace you like!
What? China is the most capitalist of them all.
Show HN: I wrote small rust crate to help build stateful app protocols for P2P
I do these walks on weekends. Doing 25k steps usually takes me a little over 3 hours (3 and ~20 mins). I walk the exact same route each time. When I work in the office, on such day I usually do about 10k step. I wish I had the time to walk more, for me it's almost as good as sleeping (brain wise).
Larry Ellison

Steve Jobs

Those are just two
I'm in the market for a new laptop just now, and there aren't many options with more than 16GB RAM - I don't understand why it's so difficult!
Hate is a strong word but he did say the CEO did something sketchy and he is not a saint. We all know US regulators dont have teeth anymore and so lot of bad guys escape with no punishment or a slap on the wrist.

So there is a possibility that in a perfect world he could have gone to jail.
> And here I thought the hidden weapon of celebrity body transformation was steroids.

The hidden (not so much, plenty are open about it) weapon of celebrity body transformation is (1) having plenty of resources for dietitians, trainers, equipment, etc., and (2) having it be central to your livelihood so that you can literally spend as great a proportion of your waking hours on it as necessary.
I am surprised, how expensive the equivalent of some root server is.
Example: 4 vCPUs (what CPU is it??), 16 GB RAM

Cheapest offer: 65,7$ per month

My favorite german provider: 4 Cores AMD Epyc, 16 GB RAM, 14€ per month (https://www.netcup.de/vserver/#root-server-details=)

And i didn't even look for other providers..

What am i missing, when i just want some root server?
It's pretty common in technology for execs to live way below their means, especially with stock options riches.

One of the Yahoo founders drove a subcompact car for years, and one of the Intel CFOs never told his family that he was worth $1 billion until his kids were grown.
It can make a significant impact.

My healthiest was when I lived in a small town of 30k people.

Everything was walkable. So I walked 30 minutes to work and back every day.

Went to the town centre for shopping and carried it back.

Put on a podcast or audiobook. Time will fly
> Sadly some of this things are quite cumbersome or even impossible to setup with (at least non enterprise) github.

All of this can be set up in-house with open source tooling, there really is no excuse. Gitlab CI with your own runners that are forbidden from direct Internet access, Sonatype's Nexus to proxy Docker images, Debian/Ubuntu APT, NPM and Maven repositories, and stuff like Sonarqube on Docker containers with a no-internet configuration. For stuff that absolutely needs Internet access (PHPs Composer comes to mind, sigh), set up a caching Squid instance.

You don't even need VMs for that any more, a single machine with Docker running is enough.
You make a good point wrt. physical cash (coins and bills) versus electronic currency. I think it's sensible to analyze the two separately.

Also, it's important to consider that commercial banks do much more than just keep track of "who owns how much USD". Banks are primarily middle men in the credit markets, and this is not related to establishing people's balance (which is all the Bitcoin network does). If Bitcoin persists then BTC credit markets will also develop, which would be very different from just keeping track of "who owns how much" (which is all the Bitcoin blockchain does).
The '-' operator has been fixed.
'vr -oculus' should work correctly now.
Hopefully, rest of our economy has rested on green power for last hundred of years. Oh wait...
> If they don't get paid their share of what they brought in, they'll quit and go elsewhere where they can be paid their share, and you'll be left with all the worst people.

You are selecting for lucky people that way not competent.
You are saying that modern countries are new and out of date?

This is a simple economy of scale. A government can provide stable security - police and military - consistent services, retirement benefits, certification, education, etc.

How a bunch of warring feudal clans are going to be in vogue again is hard to see. I mean, all of this is in medieval history. Technology did not suddenly make people "ready". If anything, it made us worse.
I was deeply amused by the title. In my world using shell scripts to analyze access logs is the obvious solution and using google analytics is the exotic approach that you might come up with in very few special cases.
If you got healthcare that's cheaper than free, you probably donated a kidney.
How could you offset it when you have no power budget to work with? The charger for my M1 is 30 watt. That can run the machine /and/ charge the battery.

Even if a comparable intel machine can get that down to 45 watt, they still need a much bigger battery for the same operating hours, which means a heavier computer (or better battery tech, but a fundamental shift in the battery to e.g carbon based batteries is something I would expect from either Samsung or Apple).

In a mobile world, power is what matters.
Costco used to be called Price Club: https://youtu.be/KAB_hwx_5WM
I played Civ 2 for many hours, but after Alpha Centauri I could never get back to the Civ series. Been meaning to check it out again, but my experience with Civ 3 and 4 just wasn't as enjoyable after having played AC.
Sleep. There you go. Nothing else needs to be mentioned. You can find dozens upon dozens of studies showing how badly the lack of sleep affects concentration, creativity, productivity. 50 hours is already insane, because it eats 2 hours a day from your free time... which has to be taken from somewhere and so you either have no social life (which is bad, can lead to divorces etc.) or you lack sleep. I can't imagine working 60 hour weeks and being productive, in an age when governments experiment with 4 day workweeks you can't possibly think that working 12 hours a day is even remotely OK, let alone productive.
Ah, that's a good idea. I'm tracking things like wages, employment rate, GDP growth, hunger, happiness, education, health/disease. Less concerned about product differentiation (how many types of juice can I make?) and more concerned about how the various sectors of our modern economy interact and how AI/automation changes the equation. Based on yours and other replies, sounds like setting various policies would be a good way to go.

A couple prototype screenshots in case you are curious as to what I'm talking about:

https://twitter.com/_DaveSullivan/status/1377196666663677957

https://twitter.com/_DaveSullivan/status/1375063612281217024
How would you distribute free food without encouraging excessive waste?
The pricing structure especially baffles me. My house is worth about 300. Why should I pay th anything if they sell it for 250? On the other hand if they can get 350 for it I'd happily turn over 10% of that extra 50...

All the ones I've dealt with just wanna push trough whatever offer comes first because 3% of whatever figure with zero work is better than 3% of a much better figure...
My recollection was a bit hazy, think I was referring to this one:

"echo \
"deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
$(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null"

But overall, that sentence you quote of mine was me trying to condense my general feel of the instructions in a bit of an exaggerated tone. Let's be honest, not all of the instructions there are super obvious if you're not comfortable with the Linux ecosystem. Most people will just copy paste everything on that page till docker works, ignoring the big fat warning saying "Always examine scripts downloaded from the internet before running them locally.".
They literally break down cute little towns and pay them pennies to relocate to increase the coal mining holes. Germany really is somewhat strange in this
Ok here is a breakdown for an 8 hour shift of a project manager vs rockwool factory worker.

Project manager:
8:30-9: Show up in office. Get coffe.

9-10:30: Check email.

10:45: Standup Meeting.

11-12: Lunch

12:30-2.00: Sprint Planning meeting

2.00-4.00: Help team and answer emails.

4:15: Go home.

----------------

Factory Worker:
6:55- Be ready and changed on post on the line:

7:00- Line take over and work:

9:00-9:10: Coffe Break.

9:10- 11:30 : Line work. Clean up some shit with no protection.

11:30-12:10 : Lunch Break.

12:10-1:30 : Line work.

1:30-1:40 : Coffe Break

1:40 - 3 : Line Work.

3:00 - 3:30 ( not payed ) : Change and go home

---
To clarify: There is no chairs on the line. So Line works means your standing....

Both jobs can be done by anyone,

But only one of the jobs requires you to have friends and kiss ass. Guess which ?
I think that money is essential for civilization. I support what Jeremy Irons said Kevin Spacey in movie Margin Call: “Money is just a made up thing that helps we don’t kill each other for food.”
I hate gym culture and I hate running too because the exercise is the 'core' of what you're doing in that time. Walking works for me because I can listen to new music and podcasts or sometimes just go through my mental monologue backlog without any stress. Living in an extremely walkable European capital is also a plus.

Human legs are heavily optimized for walking. Running is a hunting/fleeing mechanism and it just feels wrong for me to artificially simulate that stress environment.
Technical interviews are difficult. I'll help you
I sure hope the free energy market doesn’t respond to Bitcoin mining like the free graphics card market does. Thankfully, the energy market is heavily regulated in many parts of the world, so something can be done.
As a sort of recursive aside, the particular strength of the modern connotations of conspiracy theory are supposed to be a result of CIA propaganda produced to help cover up mkUltra.
Temporarily embarassed movie stars
Does anyone here have trouble focusing after a tough workout? Sometimes even a few days after? I used to do sprint training as part of my workout routine and also some weight lifting/machine. However, especially after especially tough sessions, it'd give me brain fog for the rest of the day and sometimes days after as well. Also sometimes I'd just be too sore to really concentrate. I'm currently doing a post grad degree which requires quite a lot of deep focused thinking and I've kind of stopped my exercise regiment as a result. Anyone else experienced this before and how did they deal with it?
And you would be wrong every single time because free will is an illusion.

That aside, people always make the best choices they can – no one chooses to chose badly. You can't blame them for not making a better choice since you can't expect anyone to do something they cannot.
Hmm, I don't see it like that: if the problem was solved, they actually solved the problem, they just used a human resource to fix it.
It is the annual creative writing exercise known as appraisal time at many organsiations, including mine. Why not get some inspiration from HN?

Actually this year has never been easier for appraisals, all successes have been despite the great covid challenges, all failures and delays are due to the terrible covid disruptions.
You missed the part where it isn't supposed to feel hard (author's words, not mine)
A key skill of a senior developer is a sixth sense for this kind of unspoken requirements, and asking questions to flush them out. Not always possible, of course.
No illustrations?
Kinda far stretched for a decentralized curreny to call it controlled by someone. Everbody of us can see themselfs that there hasnt been a 51% attack next to many reasons why we likely wont see one with BTC
The man in this story lost weight because he restricted his calorie intake to 2000 per day, not through “just walking.”
I won't give you straight answer, but this topic is nicely explained in Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Audiobook is great.
Roll. It's the fastest way to move under a house (I'm a plumber/electrician).
Worth including authors response to that comment (which completely ignores the suggestion)

"Peter Bengtsson 02 October 2019

Yes, it is apples and oranges but they are both things you can use for a juicy and healthy snack. You don't have to turn the apple into an orange (or the other way around) but it's about understanding the pros and cons of the apples and the pros and cons of the oranges. Then, equipped with that you can make informed decisions."

Seriously, that's the answer?

Really sad that blog post from this author made it to the front page of HN.
What a pleasant surprise, there are people still debugging code from 1990.
XRP is not an alternative to Bitcoin; it's a proposed alternative to SWIFT.
> The pricing structure especially baffles me. My house is worth about 300. Why should I pay th anything if they sell it for 250?

If you are willing to sell at that price, and thet are relieving you of work you would need to do to achieve that, they’ve provided value.

If you aren’t willing to sell at that price...you should not accept offers at that price.
Same here. I even sometimes catch myself being kind of happy about incidents like this happening, because every single one gets us closer to the tipping point at which companies staying away from third-party cloud services requiring getting unfettered access to some of their crown jewels (code, code documentation, issue data) finally have a serious moat again. Incentives are currently misaligned in my opinion, mostly because of marketing hype around everything cloud-based and still too little consciousness about the long-term consequences of outsourcing core competencies to whatever cloud service is currently hyped the most.

Our company is currently looking into alternatives to Jira due to Atlassian going the cloud-only route. One of the must-haves for whatever replaces Jira is a possibility for an on-premise installation. It's still early in the decision phase, but a surprisingly large number of candidates has already been ruled out due to this seemingly-simple requirement.
>400k a year is still an obscene amount of money.

Some people more likely have an obscene amount of envy to those who are more successful.
I was climbing up the ranks as a dev of a web agency. The owner just got into the startup scene abroad and wanted to be part of it. So he spun up a separate company, and I ended up as a lead dev there. And as the senior dev I ended up with the CTO role.

No experience with that whatsoever, and no support structure to lean on as we were basically one of first gen IT startups in my country. No established processes and we had to invent them as we go. I had read zero books on technical leadership and didn’t know anyone who I could talk to. Didn’t know which books I even had to read as there wasn’t anyone to talk to. HN was my only solace.

I was working like crazy and putting out fires, but instead of helping my colleagues I leaned too much into doing the technical challenges myself.

And it all came crashing down when I went on a long overdue summer vacation. On the first day I start receiving emails in the form of “um we seem to be having a problem, not sure how to deal with it”. It kept escalating day by day, and at one point the CEO just told me “sorry mate but we need you back” and I had to cut my vacation by half and get back to work.

On the bus ride home I kept thinking “never again” and when I got back took a _much_ more serious effort to make sure I wasn’t the single point of failure and actually be a CTO.

Read some books, took some steps back, mentored people, and most importantly actively took less challenging things so others could shine too.

And it worked, I mean I wasn’t that great a leader I’m sure, but there wasn’t a problem that my team couldn’t handle without me afterwards.

Ended up quitting a couple of years later as I was burned out and not happy with the direction of the company overall, but the team is still there more than five years later and growing.

What I learned was that you have to take new responsibility seriously and try to teach yourself for it, not expect things to just “work out”.
btw. with msix or flatpak things did change significantly. well microsoft does it a little better because production msix create a kind of sandbox appdata/storage.
Compared to CHF the dollar looks like a sad piece of currency for the past months and even years. So shorting USD sounds like a pretty good idea
Fun fact: Dennis Dragunskiy, the hero of his father's stories, is a very real person, now in his late 60s, has turned to literature too, and is very active on Facebook writing short stories. He is one of the most popular people in the russian Facebook.
I will be on a laptop/desktop always, because they are just better.

That said I can also see the business savings from switching to something like an iPad or a Chromebook. Excellent battery times, no need to manage the devices and if they are lost or stolen you just grab a new one from storage. As a company you are using cloud based stuff anyway (Microsoft or Google, it doesn't really matter).

There might be some specialized stuff that you can't do on a Chromebook (software development comes to mind) but for sales, business and everything else?

As for personal stuff? I can see more students buying an iPad or a Chromebook and just typing out their essays on that.
I read his comment as suggesting that this is a new phenomenon. Reading back, it's fairly ambiguous.

I wasn't trying to make a moral imperative statement.
The difference would be that neither of these package management projects picked up a following before being shut down.
And yet, often I want to submit a link and find I can't because it was discussed 11 months ago? Even if some recent event has rendered it worthy of revisiting?

I consider HN's combination of highly transient discussion (by design) and prohibition on revisiting a topic for a year to be its biggest flaw. Either it should commit fully to transience, and let people discuss whatever they want whenever they want (and permit people to delete comments in perpetuity), or fully commit to being an archive, one thread per link forever.
Lev Landau was a Physicist. And I really liked his book on Quantum Mechanics.

Landau's books[0] are very famous among advanced undergrads and grad students of Physics in India.

Landau also measured the genius of his contemporaries[1]. He gave himself a 1.5, and 1 to Schrodinger, Satyen Bose, etc. Eisnstein was 0.5. (Lower the better)

He also won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_Theoretical_Physics

[1]: https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/landau-genius-scale-...
Because the Russia link is so strong? Dude, everything you read about Russia in the American press is garbage. From the article:

"They cleaned the crime scene so thoroughly investigators can't prove definitively who was behind it."

That's literally in the article but it doesn't stop them writing the whole thing as if it's utterly proven beyond doubt who was behind it.
Not until we've automated every single step of the manufacturing chain.
Around 10ms for trivial reads in Postgres feels a bit slow to me, if the amount of data in the blob is small and the database (or just this table) fits into RAM. Not sure where exactly the overhead is in this case, but I wouldn't attribute it to Postgres alone without further investigation.
I worked at Goldman Sachs for 3 years in technology and trading roles so I'm fairly confident that I am largely familiar with how a bulge bracket investment bank as well as how most consumer banking firms operate work.

It's not misleading at all. It's important to consider that a large group of human operators, using a separately large set of semi automated processes, are a large component of the current energy spend of aggregate financial activity - all those busy worker bees are using energy.

Not really interested in doing some super thorough calculation, hopefully this general outline makes a little bit of sense. I'm just asserting that if we are going to criticize one thing's energy spend, you need to actually define what you are measuring and determine a baseline with respect to what the current thing's energy consumption is, ideally as line items and then sources for each input component.

Looking forward to some sources. (If you are referring to the Argentina article, please just identify that as your source). No need to be antagonistic, we're all friends here.
Ethereum just had a brief encounter with that threat. It's switching to a system that burns most transaction fees instead of giving them to miners. The miners took exception to that, and made a lot of noise about a "demonstration of force" in which at least 51% of them would move to the same mining pool, showing they could attack if they wanted to.

The rest of the community called their bluff. The miners backed down and the change is scheduled for July.

Miners don't have that much power because if users, apps, exchanges, data feeds, and tokenized real-world assets are all referencing the new hard-forked chain, then miners have a choice between running that fork or going out of business. A chain with just miners has little economic value and can't support all those GPUs.

Under proof-of-stake, a 51% attack is even less of a threat. A double-spend attempt results in destruction of all your stake. A long-term censorship attack could be maintained, but if it's egregious then users could remove your stake with a hard fork, and if there's support for that from all the above entities, it'll work.

Miners and stakers are not governors. They're service providers.
Also, this quote seems pretty illogical to me:

"""
For example, the PostgreSQL speeds depend on the Django ORM code that makes the SQL and sends the query and then turns it into the model instance. I don't know what the proportions are between that and the actual bytes-from-PG's-disk times. But I'm not sure I care either. The tooling around the database is inevitable mostly and it's what matters to users.
"""

I'd say it's pretty important to know what proportion is taken up by the ORM when comparing the speed of two DBs. It's not clear to me from the article if the redis implementation even uses an ORM.
Not really, the premise of the book seems like it's aimed at a very different problem.
Plenty. However maybe thats a cultural thing but i rarely have people insisting on any kind of investing advice. We might talk about stuff, but both sides know risks are involved. I never experienced evangelism IRL and i even spent some time in ctypto meetups