skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normal for whom?

Specialist doctors are not staying late on a Friday or working the weekend. While a walkin clinic doctor might be pushing 60 hours.

An average business owner might spend more than 40 hours a week. The most successful business owners hire people to work for them while they enjoy their lives.

8 hours of tired programming gets less done compared to a well rested 3 hour work session.
Yep. And China has done exactly that in the past when people were using crypto to launder RMB into USD.

The fact that mining operations still exist today at large scales in China means that at least the government has found a way to profit off of crypto (strategically or economically).
> With our current government I suspect they will move to legalize regardless of the referendum results.

Adern famously never had a position on the ballot despite later saying she voted yes. I honestly doubt taking such a political risk for little gain is on her agenda.

> I would be surprised if they don't legalise within the next decade.

Dragged kicking and screaming by international counterparts perhaps. Otherwise I see no one actually willing to do it.

Not sure about how it works in NZ but I would love Australia to have non-binding referendums. Even the politicians in support of higly popular issues like gay marriage were terrified of putting it to a referendum, same with Aboriginal recognition in the constitution which has overwhelming bipartisan and public support, everyone is shitscared it likely won't pass the threshold and for good reason.

Referendums are basically impossible to pass in oz, a super-majority is a very difficult thing to achieve in a country. Have the feeling the reason they are out of favour now is because it dramatically highlights how much serious electoral power a hundred thousand people in Tasmania/SA wield.
> I disagree so much with this. I don't pay 250 to 1000 euros for each of my tools because i use them a lot (even though during the lockdowns i did). I got them because professional tools are:

I've got both professional tools and el-cheapos so I'm familiar with all your plus points, but I still think that parent has a point.

IME, "buying cheap" does not mean "a tool that breaks on the second use", or "makes your life harder". It means "I don't use this tool frequently enough to care enough to pay more".

I've got a cheapo cordless screwdriver that works well enough to do battery replacement on children's toys and similar. When I want to drive self-tappers into wood I use an expensive driver in the garage.
Reckless DMCA Takedown Purges Legitimate Websites from Google Search
Go to Open Collective which lists open source projects that companies care about that they contribute money to support the project (things like CI/CD or schwag). Then you know it’s a project with companies interested in it.
Well, a minor clarification... If you have multiple projects you can set up different per-project environment variables. But it's fair to say that all jobs within a project have access to all environment variables in that project.
I don't know if I would describe the solution as just skin in the game. I don't dispute that it might lead to results (though some studies might argue otherwise https://novarete.com/motivate-employees-monetary-incentives-...). At least anecdotally, the companies I worked that most closely tied comp to bonuses or had the most stock, were not the ones that had the hardest-working individuals. I tend to believe that it's more the culture of the company, and also how closely your results tie to direct impact to the company. So, small companies, here often being startups, end up being ones where you see such impact, and also happen to be ones where you get stock and ownership.
It depends. On some people, it's medically advisable. On others, it's just a crutch for when they're failing to address fundamental stuff like having a healthy diet, exercise routine, healthy environment, healthy relationships, and an organized approach in their short-term and long-term goals.

It really really varies.
The Soul of a New Machine is awesome.
I guess he could make a dedicated game titled Internet Ad Tycoon.
the use of the neopets-like characters is kind of distracting
I believe Cloudflare’s analytics are free. I use it because they don’t set cookies and don’t share the collected data with anyone.
running posthog, which is open source and can be selfhosted ;)
stack requires a server instance + redis + postgres for the opensource deployment.
OT question: do you have news.ycombinator.com DNS-mapped to `hn/`?
Regulatory capture is a big problem here. Safety standards become outdated and even harmful but companies that have already implemented them will lobby to keep them to make things more difficult for competitors.
> can be relatively easily "taken back"

This assumes the existence of a legal system with coercive power, which bitcoin doesn't have. That was the point of bitcoin to begin with, in fact.
I know it’s a flawed analogy, but considering the influence China has on Bitcoin, on some level buying into Bitcoin seems not unlike shorting the US dollar.
> The issue with there being five volt rams on our board was, the power supplied to these chips was three volts, not five. Our design was made to power a variant of the chip that could run on three volts, but the board apparently had the wrong chips installed on it.

Ah yes, classic manufacturing error (I'm not being ironic here). BOM says X but why can't we use Y?
Couldn’t you retransmit the transaction to the nodes (assuming you had a copy of the old
blockchain) and assuming let’s say Kraken/Coinbase etc isn’t wanting to profit from the attack and already spent it to another address,
you can receive the funds “again”
Great, now you've made it possible for everyone that links to your site to track people by adding arbitrary UTM parameters which can be uniquely identified. POC: https://opendata.hexops.com/devlog.hexops.com?utm_campaign=p...

Instead of what solutions like Plausible are meant to do (only give a responsible well-defined party access to the data), now everyone can view your website users potentially PII.
I tried unplugging the network cable from the modem, and then when I enter the gateway IP via WiFi it solves 404. Any idea?
> It would make much more sense to have a laddered commission, for example: $5k plus 10% of the amount over Threshold1 and an additional 20% of the amount over Threshold2

Anything stopping this where you live? I've done this. When they quote a price they will get say sure and your commission halves under this. They have themself cornered as they already told you the price they can sell it (which they generally inflate) so it very hard for them to say 'no' without you countering why would it matter if that is the price that can get.

You have the upper hand pre-contract. Agents really want the contract at the beginning + they actually have 2 jobs according to a agent grind if mine; the first is getting a buyer and the second is lowering the sellers expectation to except offers as if often the case. This reduces the second.
My bonus target was 15%; our CFO's was apparently 1600% in 2020.
Patches are sent as emails with a format like

Commit message
--
Diffstat

Diff

And reviews happen simply by replying to the email. If the maintainer is satisfied the email can be piped in a program that applies the patch.

Most programs and people that use email for patches have pretty sophisticated tooling built around it. See for example a series of four patches (i.e. a pull requests consisting of four commits) in Patchew: https://patchew.org/QEMU/20210415130305.28640-1-iii@linux.ib...

Notably, Patchew can provide a diff-of-diffs view that isn't there in either GitHub or Gitlab: https://patchew.org/QEMU/20210415130305.28640-1-iii@linux.ib...

(Patchew was started by a colleague of mine at Red Hat).
I love stories like these. Reminds me of the PacificTech graphing calculator story (https://www.pacifict.com/Story/). Oh the weird things motivate some of us weird engineers.
Early 90's read a long article on safety. First point front and center is safety is a primary system design issue.

Example: Old coworker mentioned working on a controller for an airbag. She said the watchdog timeout was set to a shorter period than required to fire the airbag. So if the firmware went off into the weeds the watchdog would fire before the air bag.
I think it helps employees if they understand that bonuses are not rewards, or for incentivizing behavior, though they might incidentally do that. They are built-in pay cuts that companies can use when their financials don't end up matching what they plan for.

I've only ever been at one company that went out of their way to regularly present and show company financials in a digestible way, that when the year ended, it was clear to me at least why we got bonuses one year and why we didn't the other.
Sorry to hijack but I have a slightly related question: anyone know a good privacy-focussed analytics tool for apps that works nicely in React Native? Sort of like plausible.io but for apps
This is exactly the issue. I left my last job with almost two months of vacation time. No startup wants to pay that out if they can help it.
That’s my point. The donation is financially a corporate donation, but is being marketed to the employee as a perk of their employment. That it’s “their” donation.
Install yay, and then use it to manage vscode. I rely on the AUR.
Oh, you're probably right. It seemed related because the further back an adversary wanted to roll back to, the more hash power they'd need to get ahead. But it's a different category.

I wonder if there has been an analysis of how much hash power you'd need relative to how many blocks in the past you'd want to roll back.
Pelotron's previous fiasco: pedal breakage on exercise bikes.[1] 120 pedal breaks reported to the CDC, 16 leg injuries. That's embarrassing. Pedal breakage is rare on real bikes, where weight reduction matters. Having them break on an expensive exercise bike, where neither weight nor cost matters, is a bit much.

[1] https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2020/peloton-recalls-pr70p-bike...
You really shouldn’t feel bad, because what happened has a low probability.

It’s like saying I should’ve invested in X which got quadrupled in price last year.

Most stocks (even very promising ones) didn’t achieve anywhere near that growth.

So you choosing the right one among the many to “shut up and stick to it just a little bit longer” has a low chance of exceptional returns on your investment.

You cannot see the future, even the most sophisticated analysis can be wrong, and even the best companies can stagnate for a loong time before getting lucky.
How to start being an active learner?
AI Towards a Global Good Citizen System
I propose a system using Artificial Intelligence to elucidate several critical socio-economic issues. E.g. 2.5 bil adult do not have access to a bank account [1]. Another 2.5 billion individuals have inadequate access to sanitation [7], which results in a myriad of health concerns and water pollution. The proposed research program, albeit too aspirational, will depend on utilizing and interconnecting the available human, natural and industrial resources in a cost-effective manner.

Envision a system where challenge-facing individuals from all the world can post their concerns. The system will connect the individuals by allocating the proper resources and matching it with solvers/helper individuals (providers) using data from multiple sources. The system needs to effectively classify challenges [3] and assess them based on many parameters: difficulty, location, various risks involved among many other factors and learn to assess their legitimacy, urgency, adversity and impact. The system can then be designed as a recommendations system where it employs reinforced learning and solutions found across multiple experiences and connects resources and providers to solve the issue. This proposed model will be based on the premise that the service provider will be rewarded, while being mindful of the limited resources. The rewarding system can be integrated with a decentralized ledger.

Examples :
• An experienced farmer is facing drought. The farmer, can access the Global Good Citizen system looking for water resources with the closest proximity. The system will use large and sparse datasets including weather meteorology, and near-by water supplies. The system can then solve to connect the farmer with a suitable provider. In rare cases, a company or an individual may donate a portion of the needed water supply. In other cases, a provider might ask to be paid back in pre-determined monetary amount equivalent to the value of crops harvested.
Belo Monte?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belo_Monte_Dam
Isn't that the point of every redesign? To strip out all the cruft and come up with a more pure look at the problem. And then afterwards you have all your customers complaining, we used to be able to do this, give us this feature back.
Is it maybe just the result of aging?

My hobbies and interests are more established. I know which tools I use a lot, how I use them, and where spending more makes a difference. I've owned and outgrown my entry level gear.

That, and I have more disposable income. I can afford long term investments because they don't incur short term deprivation.

On the other hand, when trying something new, I still go with the cheaper option until I can appreciate what a better tool would do. In most cases, I find that the cheap tool is enough.
I think by pooling and sharing a fixed amount the reward is company wide not connected to individuals. That aligns everyone to work as a team to generate enough income that you will allow you to take a dividend. I like the approach for smaller business.
If you want a deeper dive, the chemistry here is actually really simple and (IMO) very cool.

I'm drawing on some really dusty knowledge here but TL;DR the cells can be modeled as two reactions, oxidation and reduction. One is gaining an ion and the other is shedding one. This is typically shown in the equation as some number of "e-".

Because there are two reactions, each one is described as a half cell and there are tables[1] of all the voltages that these half cells create. Therefore you can mix and match to create batteries of arbitrary voltages, though whether they're practical is another issue.

If you look at the table, you'll notice that some common battery chemistries stand out, like:

Li+ + e− ⇌ Li(s) −3.0401

for lithium Ion batteries (the other reaction adding the last ~.7v to reach the nominal 3.7 cell voltage you're used to). Similarly you can find the half cells that make up a 1.5v alkaline battery[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_electrode_potential_(...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_battery
At least in my experience, management tends to break engineers of this 'skill'. They usually just want us to build whatever they say. Never mind if we could tweak the underlying business process to make the technical system better and even save the business money.
... because it reduces the power China has over Bitcoin

... because it attracts new players to the mining game

... because it will make the argument that bitcoin is bad for the environment weaker

I agree, the "any news is good news" is a fun game to play.
Polkadot is terrific and has a place, especially in private blockchains.

Cardano is interesting but much less inspiring to me.

But I still think that Ethereum 2.0 will be the public blockchain of choice down the line.
I'm studying for the JEE and Yes! Irodov is a beautiful book. That, along with Krotov, tells me Russia must have had an excellent program, with their Physics books from the above, their Chemistry books from Landau, and their Math Circles.
I don't believe that's accurate. I linked a "documentary" elsewhere in this thread that contains purported UFO footage which is high quality in an absolute sense and much better quality relative to anything in the 1950s.
Chesterton's Fence.
No. I'm a native Chinese and from my understanding (read between lines and talking to local friends), the situation is:

1. Coal mine accidents.

2. Someone said "stop mining, make sure all the mine pass security check". Of course they mean coal mining.

3. Government officers confuse "mining coal" and "mining Bitcoin", decided to stop both just because they both have a "mine" word in name.

It's quite hilarious how they can be so wrong.
Please help me understand how the fact alone that someone is thinking if suicide change anything how they should be treated? To go to the two extremes: Aaron Swartz but also Hitler killed them self..
View: Healthcare will never be the same after Covid
Don't forget about Kusama. Expect Chaos... ;)
Nice! You’ve solved a common problem. I hate crying for different sites!

I guess you’d license this to Twitter Facebook etc?
My bike doesn't have a chain guard. If I don't tuck my laces before going for a ride I could possibly kill myself.
Ah, thanks, now I get it: it doesn't bother them that fingerprinting lets them be tracked; it bothers them that fingerprinting (and VPN IPs) mean their scrapers get hit with captchas.

FWIW, it takes very little effort to completely conceal the fact that firefox is running headless under marionette/webdriver/geckodriver. Chrom(ium) takes more effort, but these guys have solved it (and built a business around it):

https://intoli.com/blog/making-chrome-headless-undetectable/

https://github.com/intoli/remote-browser

Of course neither of these address fingerprinting -- all your scrape requests will have the same or similar fingerprint, which will lead to captchas pretty quickly.
This might help (and might even be part of the reason for buying piles of cellphones):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25379342
I can recommend this type of small “everyday carry” style torch: https://www.olightstore.com/i3t-eos.html having got one for my Mum so she could check the time on her watch during the night. Small, single AAA, single end-cap button / two modes - defaults to dim, second quick press for bright.
Eh, that describes exactly my last job (which wasn't bad, I liked my coworkers, but my last manager made it a horrible experience), worst job I had so far.

He wasn't bad as an engineer, but he had this crazy OCD to a point that even keys in YAML file should be ordered alphabetically.

He had his vision how things should be, and how he would implement them.

First, he was not happy that my solutions were done differently than what he would do.

Then, when I learned about that he wasn't happy and tried to do it the way he wanted by asking him question about it he told me that I required hand holding and as a senior should not need that. Yes I'm senior, but not a mind reader.

I would think that someone who majored in psychology would be better at something like that, but I guess the only thing he learned in psychology class was Socratic method, which he constantly overused when talking to others.

He though he was being clever but only made me think (because I couldn't say it to his face): "just fucking tell me what the fuck you want me to do"

Ugh, I'm so glad I don't have to deal anymore with this BS.
I like the closely related "Numbers n such that OEIS sequence A_n doesn't contain n.”
Absolutely
Mir publishers used to sell books for INR 10 in late 80s

I am indebted for life to these books.
Codecov failed the IT approval process at two corps I worked at.

I never understood why anyone who is remotely serious about security would run something like Codecov within their walls. Maybe an air-gapped install, but I don't recall that even being an option.
That sounds like the kind of thing they talk about on Hidden Brain (NPR). I think I found it:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/788422090

Quote (although it’s missing context if the full show):

> Yeah, I think it's really interesting. I think it's really interesting to think about why we do these things, why we misrecollect our past, how those kinds of reconstruction errors occur. And I think about it in my own personal life - I share my memories with my partner. And many of us who have partners, we have these sort of collaborative ways in which we recollect. But those collaborations often result in my incorporating information into my memories that were suggested by this individual, but I never experienced. And so I might have this vivid recollection of something that only my partner experienced because we've shared that information so often. And so that's how we can distort memories in the laboratory. We can just get individuals to try and reconstruct events over and over and over again. And with each reconstructive process, they become more and more confident that that event has occurred.
I'm not interested in playing this kind of game.

Just give me the ability to delete my fork. Currently trying to delete it via API fails with HTTP 451.
Book is a collaborative effort of many mathematicians from different soviet regions

https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Content-Methods-Meaning-V...
Uhh, not for the coins themselves but certainly for the goods that were exchanged with them?

I mean if you did this IRL, the party providing the goods would just report them as stolen and the traditional legal system can be used to retrieve them. Have fun arguing in court that a 51% attack somehow means you get to keep the thing. This is no different from paying for the thing and stealing the money back IRL. The only thing crypto allows you to do is to distance yourself _physically_ (i.e. you don't actually have to break in and steal money), it means f*ck all _legally_. A similar existing situation analogous for 51% attacks is "paying for something with a personal check and later having it bounce".

In fact all major breaches of crypto today involve stealing the coins themselves, which as commenters below have mentioned, cannot be done with a 51% attack---you still don't have the private keys.
Irodov is one of that must have book for competitive exam but very hard
Yes it does. And if/when a large enough player finds it in their interest to mount such an attack, they might very well do it. See https://www.crypto51.app/ for a (somewhat outdated) price chart.

Remember the first law of cryptocurrency though: "in case of emergency, betray your core principles."

In the event of such an attack, the rest of the system (miners, developers) may be able to simply declare the "evil" side of the fork "untrue" and hardcode the other fork as true. The fact that this is exactly opposite to Bitcoin's stated goals is no problem at all. See e.g. Ethereum's response to the "DOA Attack" as an example.
If you don't want to pay for privacy-focused analytics (in case it's some non-commercial project/personal blog) then recently launched cloudflare analytics is the way to go.
Yup, same shoddy, lowest common denominator, inconsistent UI across all devices and manufacturers.

And to complete the scenario: 1 dominant supplier whose interest is not ideal UX but just invasive and pervasive tracking, and all other actors - being marginalized to mere window decoration - don’t invest a penny in challenging the dominant‘s position, and content themselves with scooping some adware crumbs left over from the market dominator.

Does that sound familiar?
‘In this world, social media is everything’: Dubai as the influencer capital
In 25 years, exactly once have I had someone in my team that was paid more than me.

It was someone who had been in the job 5-6 years longer than me, and consistently been one of the highest performers. I believe I was the one to give him a raise to a higher base than me.

So it does certainly happen, but as you say I think they're outliers.

Usually I think you'll see this happen because companies are poor at having a separate tech promotion track that doesn't lead into management, and so it sometimes happens with people that really ought to have been promoted, but that neither they or you want to become managers.