skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I feel mentally done after sitting on calls for 5hrs in the morning. By the time I get to the afternoon, any energy I would have had for coding or research is gone. I'll typically pickup a small bug to fix or work on something brainless, and call it a day.

Agree though, someone always pings for something, so that is what I'll do for remainder of day.

The meetings in the morning are a really killer though - offshore team + 2 daily stand-ups + scrum of scrums, it's got me drained and looking for another gig.

Great crede though. Lots of good nuggets that made me reflect. Reminded me a tiny bit of Naval.
You can do anything you want to you computers, Apple won't send men in black after you if you open up your device(although they will make the parts impossibly hard to get ahold of). The issue is that apple won't let me execute any code I want on the phone/computer that I own, which is preventing me from doing something with my computer that I want to.
In the UK it is price fixed... By the NHS centrally. (Private practices exist too.)

Iirc, a check-up is £22, incl. anything relatively standard they need to do (cleaning, sealing, I think even the cheap non-white or whatever fillings, etc.). Certainly not an amount to be annoyed at the lack of reduction through competition.
Next you're going to say they should also migrate MS Teams off of Electron. /s
When people talk of playing a “game” in regard to any social obligation - especially when they admit that the playing of the game is largely indistinguishable from earnest ethical behavior - they are telling on themselves, not their environment. They are saying they view their obligations and the attitude of their interlocutors as artifice and sincerity as idiocy. They expect constant, low-level deception from their peers, over-generalizing past negative experience. If a critical mass of participants adopt this attitude, the earnest among them are turned out and the imagined hostile environment becomes real.
Quite simple to compile yourself and run
Strongly agree with the issue of choice around tracking but I don't like that the article somewhat sidelines Apples own tracking.

I do not find the argument convincing at all that Apple tracking anyone is less severe because it happens under the same roof. To pick up the analogy from the piece, if someone tracks me in the shower, I don't care if the house, the showerhead, and the window and the guy peeking are from one or five different companies. Apple also consistently needs to apply the same standards to its own services. Apple's size and reach are not an excuse to justify double standards, if anything it ought to invite more scrutiny.

Tracking ought to be defined as the exchange of information between distinct services regardless of the provider of said services, similar to the scrutiny that say, the EU applies to data exchange between WhatsApp and Facebook.
The stick is likely Neem; my father did the same in Pakistan.
This hasn't even the case for me. I have young children, so I can't sleep in anymore... I now wake up between 6am and 7am most days.

I still have trouble going to sleep early. I end up staying up too late, and then am tired most of the day the next day. But I still end up staying up too late the next night, too.

I would think I would adjust my schedule, but I struggle with it.
No, that was a different developer.
Woke politics.
Or it could just be a correlation. Same thing causes both.
I think it’s more likely I just don’t need a lot of sleep and it doesn’t matter when that happens.

These days I average 7h/night and I’m ridiculously well rested. In high school and college I could go weeks on 4h/night.
Time is the fourth dimension. Pretty simple.
There is this story that one of the oldest woman in the world had sold her house this way and that the buyer died before her.
Yup, I've got it. Android based in Australia. It's possible the app hasn't been updated on all regions on all platforms.
I used reviewable.io at my last company, and now use phabricator. I actually still prefer reviewable, so give that a look.
I recall there was another study that observed sleep deprivation being associated with alleviation of depression symptoms, so I wonder if the same psychobiological mechanism is at play here (if waking up early could be scientifically considered as a mild form of sleep deprivation). I also notice most of my peers working remotely and myself included tend to wake up later in the day and I wonder how much if any of the widespread miasma during lockdowns/mandated WFH period could be attributed to this phenomenon -- there are plenty of confounding factors but I think it would be worth investigating further.
How were you able to take the GED exam at 16? I looked into doing this while I was in high school, and found that I wouldn't be able to take the exam until I was 19, defeating the point.

Perhaps it varies by state? If so, I applaud Oregon for not forcing students into a daycare program for any longer than necessary. If I were a policymaker, I would even be comfortable with lowering the minimum age to 14 or lower.
The require agreeing to sending promotional emails before creating the video.
> The myriad of Safari "content blocker" apps are also pretty dismal, and often expensive. So ad-blocking is difficult as well.

Not really. Firefox Focus is free and does a great job. Nomorobo is a call filtering service and it's $20/year, and it also does a great job of blocking ads & other objects.

ka-block does a good job and it's free.
This is a contract of adhesion, and only holds weight in Virginia and Maryland. Of course, they will argue that since the Saracens is in us-east-1, so you might still be screwed.
Is it possible to learn Japanese as an adult? [video]
My biggest bedtime struggle is when I’m too tired to make the decision to stop what I’m doint and go to bed.
It takes some discipline but setting a sleep alarm has worked well for me.

10pm, watch goes bzzz -> lie down in bed with lights off. Even if you don’t feel like it, even if you don’t wanna sleep yet, even if it seems dumb. Invariably within 20min at most I’m asleep.

The hard part is accepting the boredom of it all. It’s sleep, you’re supposed to be bored.
Yeah this is me. I think I averaged 5 hours per night this last week.
Can you describe more specifically where the Botox was injected? What muscle(s) did it paralyze?
I'm fascinated by PEG parsers, but I don't know whether they can be implemented in a way that's remotely as performant as even mediocre regular expression implementations, much less tuned SIMD extravaganzas.

That would be a stretch goal for me: build a regular expression / automata library that's sufficiently modular to keep some components and drop in more expressive constructs (not necessarily PEGs, but maybe pushdown automata).
Covid: Vietnam detects new UK-Indian variant, health officials say
I can confirm this is super cool! We added the pylon bot to our server and so far it was the best bot that we ever had! Almost 99% of uptime. Thank you so much for this!
Talk about a family who was familiar with the fourth dimension! Charles Hinton, author of this interesting essay, married Mary Ellen, daughter of Mary Everest Boole and George Boole. Mary Ellen's sister, Alicia Boole Stott (http://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/feature-column/fcarc-boole) "was first exposed to geometric models by her brother-in-law Charles Howard Hinton when she was 17, and developed the ability to visualise in a fourth dimension." She invented the word polytope.

Charles Hinton was quite the inventor, he first set up a 3D grid of rods for children to play in and develop Cartesian thinking; this became the jungle gym, which his son, Sebastian, patented. He also invented a gunpowder powered pitching machine to train baseball players (https://www.atticpaper.com/proddetail.php?prod=1897-charles-...), after causing more than a few injuries had to be retired.

He's the great-grandfather of Geoffrey Hinton.

In his book The Fourth Dimension (https://archive.org/details/fourthdimension00hintarch) he shows how to build models for one to think in 4D, starting on pg. 230.
Yes and this also goes the other way: I'm a "morning person" and have no problem with work schedules but have had to make sacrifices to my sleep and sanity for social obligations. I wouldn't switch roles to the opposite problem, but I've turned down social events my whole life due to not wanting to miss the sleep.
I like that this makes it easy to completely avoid Amazon devices and to not recommend them to your non-technical friends. I don't care if the data amount is piddlingly small, the simple fact is you let somebody outside your trusted network of friends and family onto your personal broadband, you lose control of what criminal activities get undertaken.

There is no way I am exposing myself to that kind of liability and Amazon won't be selling me or my family anything.
Write down what you want to start back on Monday. Don't look at that until Monday.
When the orthodontist finally removed my braces as a kid, it also removed most of the enamel from the front of my teeth. I wish I had been told that and given a choice, because I'd honestly prefer strong, healthy, white, crooked teeth, to stained weak cavity-filled straight ones. (And the bottom row grew crooked anyway)
Am I supposed to sleep 15 hours during the winter?
"While English has a single word for blue, Russian has two words, goluboy for light blue and siniy for dark blue. These are considered "basic level" terms, like green and purple, since no adjective is needed to distinguish them."

So Russians see two different colors within the colors space that we English speakers identify as just blue, or perhaps 'shades of blue'.

Imagine if we didn't have two words for Purple and Blue, we just called them shades of Purple. Then when we saw the sky we would just say it is "sky purple" for example.

From the article, the tests show that Russians could identify the different blue colors faster than non-Russian speakers based on how the way they see the world is integrated with their language classification. Fascinating.
I want to see her on my wall, every day, bald, with green eyes. Spouting Shakespearean slurs at Alexa, then following up with some Rumi poetry, and a dash of Allan Watts..all powered by a Markov chain.
You’re never more than 100 miles to a Supercharger (fairly dense nationwide network), so even if you’re not getting the full range during a drive cycle, your charge will be quick and uneventful (on Tesla’s charger network).
Vulnerabilities in billions of Wi-Fi devices let hackers bypass firewalls
I suspect you are partially correct, they will roar out of fear to try to scare of the other guy, but after a successful take down, they'll also roar to show their dominance, in order to assert their position.
Then the question is perhaps even more relevant.
What I like about these schemes is they allow old people to enjoy the value of their property rather than enduring poverty just so their heirs can have an unearned pile of cash. So much value in the world is generated by hard working people then just dumped into the flaming rubbish pit of reckless children and spouses by inheritance. I wish inheritance wasn't the default way and you had to explicitly assign property in your will or otherwise for it to happen. The default would be that it goes to the state or something else not personally connected to the dead person.
I envy pot heads who are just discovering Firesign Theater for the first time. You've got a lot of laughter ahead of you.

And this reminds me of an interview I just heard with the actress that played the little girl in Manos: The Hands of Fate. She said she and her friends were huge Firesign Theater fans in high school, and would exasperate their other friends by quoting Firesign Theater all the time.
I’ve never seen it used in that way, almost always it means to completely know something on a very deep level. To know it inside and out, etc.
I will make an extension that handles this vetting for you contact me on my official email account notascam@gmaiil.co
Nassim Nicholas Taleb may be right about some things some of the time. He's also egotistical, arrogrant and painful to read/listen to. Plus this article is on Linked in, another self-serving entity.

The answer (as usual) is 'it depends'.

The trend for employers is that they want unreasonable loyalty and/or employees as interchangable parts and the power to rearrange them at a whim.

Not all employers are like this, although many of them are.

I have to wonder whether posting of this 3 year old article is just an attempt at exploiting the long tail of his book sales?
Some blog has a link to Amazon (or wherever) and the extension modifies it to include the referral code of the affiliate.
You’re trying compare apples to asteroids. Sure they’re made up of matter, but that’s where it ends.

Just because some individuals don’t get what they want doesn’t meant they don’t have a voice/aren’t represented. It means their opinions are not-yet popular/currently in the minority.
>for me a lot of the stress came from the hostility and bullying that the kids who did not want to be there

In Australia students are allowed to drop out of school in year 10 (age 15-16) if they have work lined up. When all these people left my grade got much better.
This is my issue with authy(the 2fa provider that twitch and others use). TOTP needs 2 things to function, a shared secret and a synced clock. No phone number. No email. No account. No personal information. All you need is a secure connection to send a 16-32 bytes of data and to both have synced with an NTP server recently, yet there's no way to get the shared secret from authy without giving out personal information.
> My career is just a big middle finger pointed at this dichotomy.

I only saw your comment after the parent it replied to was flagged/removed. This section of your reply jumped out to me, care to elaborate?

My experience (undergrad, minimal research -> industry) has shown me that the gap is quite real, but both sides are important. They simply align to different goals. The most extreme trope of this in tech is industry engineers making fun of researchers who produce systems which "only work on paper" (paraphrased, some meaning is lost in that phrasing).

I find that criticism too harsh (and rude), but it does highlight the differing goals: industry frequently needs to build systems which 1) work, and 2) scale, among other things. Academia can afford to push the cutting edge by compromising on constraints real world systems have to obey. It's the classic exploration vs. exploitation problem. Industry thinks the exploration isn't important because they need to optimize the local maxima/minima now. Academia cares about the global maxima/minima, pushing the state of the art, exploring new solutions in the hope of advancing knowledge and understanding.

In the largest companies, the cost/benefit analysis shifts back toward exploration. Google, Microsoft, Xerox PARC, etc. And the natural extension of academics elsewhere pushing the state of the art is finding new optimums and bringing that back to industry (e.g., as a startup). So I feel there gap is real, with lots of symbiotic back and forth.

Broad generalizations, but not unfair I think.
Looks like it got popular, played around a bit, then it crashed.
So the article tries to separate this out by using Mendelian randomization which supposedly fixes this since whether or not you inherit a genetic variant from your parent is a coin toss. However it has to make some other assumptions that are pretty hard to justify when it comes to something as complex as sleep schedules. There are some strategies to at least detect when things go wrong, though.
California at least has the CHSPE[0] which is 16+

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High_School_Profi...
And it is totally worth it to do the exercises.
> Big engines are loud, they need to breathe

Exactly. Motorcycle assholes should take their deafening fart sounds somewhere 20 miles away from human or animal habitation. Maybe to a desolate salt flat or something.

The bikes that violate vehicular noise laws should be confiscated and scrapped at the owner’s expense, and their riders’ motorcycle licenses revoked.

> slight annoyance

Subjecting your innocent neighbors to aural assault is a sadistic crime, not a slightly annoying hobby.
Amazon devices already generally don't connect to domains other than Amazon's own - the voice service itself makes requests to Lambdas and other third-party APIs:

> During setup, the Echo connects to a local wireless network. After that, it is in constant contact with Amazon’s cloud environment. In fact, if the Echo is not connected to the Internet, it does not work, because all the voice commands are processed in the cloud, and not locally on the device.

https://www.napier.ac.uk/~/media/worktribe/output-2653851/us...
What would be an appropriate name?

To respond to your point, though, the application of your philosophy simply doesn't yield a remotely familiar society. I understand how it is alluring to, in an isolated example, argue that stupid people must be coddled. But if we have to build a society where nobody can make bad decisions then we have to apply this filter everywhere. What's the end result? Humans are no longer allowed to make any decisions because they could make the wrong one. Instead a central authority must decide for them. I don't see how this is even remotely tenable.

Now if you want to devolve into a discussion about how democracy itself is in fact a failure because it depends on an educated electorate, which we clearly don't have because we can't trust ourselves to make good decisions, that's a whole different topic. But I'm trying to apply my argument in the context of the world we live in currently to keep it somewhat grounded.
Awesome, can't wait for this to get "accidentally re-enabled" after every app update...
The early bird gets the worm (the points). Early comments get higher visibility. It disincentives reading the article first. A post already has 200+ comments? Don't even bother adding a top-level comment, nobody will see it.
While the tech is impressive in itself, still doesn't look to be something I'd pay for. The lip sync is annoyingly off, and the bland expressions that comes from not understanding context make the communication even worse. If having a visual talking head is that important for a project, still seems better to just hire someone.

(On a side note, I'm not sure I understand the appeal of emotionally bland fake-smile talking heads in general, even when they're real.)
It's a maximum of 500MB a month.

This stuff is designed for low power devices sending out a kb status update every few hours, otherwise they'd just put a normal wifi radio in it, and all the people here complaining that the Amazon devices they already put on their networks are now sending more data would just connect them to their wifi networks without an issue.
> Midcentury highway projects often targeted Black neighborhoods

Now ask yourself why these cities had “black neighborhoods” instead of anyone being able to live in any part of the city they want. Fifty years of anti-housing activism pushed many vulnerable people out to the fringe cities, and now these places want to make sure those people stay out by removing the roads.
GDPR applies to all European citizens so likely also for HN if they target a european audience which is true imo.
I misread this as Uber X and thought wow they are really taking the ask forgiveness not permission things seriously if I can sign up to break into abandoned subway stations.
I think that's just being honest. Most open source projects make you jump through hoops, they just usually pretend they dont exist.
Cool. If anyone with an Emacs wants to try an Eliza quickly, just do: M-x doctor RET

> I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice.

> Hello.

> How do you do? What brings you to see me?

> I checked HN on a summer holiday weekend.

> Why do you say you checked hn on a summer holiday weekend?

> Because I was taught as a child to tell the truth.

> Is it because you were taught as a child to tell the truth that you came to me?

> I guess, indirectly.

> Earlier you said you were taught as a child to tell the truth?

> Yes, when I chopped down a cherry tree.

> What happened when you chopped down a cherry tree?

> The cherries went bad, on the ground.

> Maybe your life has something to do with this.

> I was feeling OK about my life, until I started talking with my text editor.

> What would happen if you started talking with your text editor?

> Someone would see me, then I'd brand it as a development methodology, and sell books and coaching services.

> What makes you believe that?
It's not really the same scenario you've described, but you might be interested in knowing that sleep deprivation can treat depression: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/sleep-is-the-mate-of-d...
It prepared me for leetcode interviews but I've still never encountered many of the problems they write problems for in the real world.
> This means that if someone who regularly goes to bed at 1 a.m. instead goes to bed at midnight and sleeps for the same amount of time, they can reduce their risk by 23%

That's not what it means at all. It means that people with the genetics which causes them to naturally sleep earlier might also be genetically less at risk of depression.

You'd need to make an experiment where you take depressed people with genetics that causes them to naturally be night owls and force them to sleep earlier somehow (find a way where they can actually start to fall asleep sooner and all), and then measure the impact on depression to prove that it means what they claim it means, otherwise it is just correlation, not causation.
https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues/4320

Ironically, version 4 broke this.
If I'm reading this correctly, it also seems to suggest some of the insecurities only occur on IPv6? Meaning it gives people a security reason to disable it unless they need it. Curious if anyone has more info on this:

> The rogue DNS server is introduced when an attacker injects an ICMPv6 Router Advertisement into Wi-Fi traffic. Routers typically issue these announcements so other devices on the network can locate them. The injected advertisement instructs all devices to use a DNS specified by the attacker for lookups of both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses.
one could go on and say that everything is natural. even if a human in involved. at the end nature created the humans, right?

it’s an arbitrary line that someone drew in the sand
Sarcaivety™
Not even just after a certain size, the current trend in society is to quantify everything so that it can be optimized. There's many companies(like kausa.ai) which focus on quantifying, measuring, and optimizing every facet of your business that they can, no matter the size.
I've been a lastpass premium users for a few years. The thing that annoy me the most is lastpass somehow really slow down any page that has a lot of text fields on it. A webapp I regularly used was so slow (often freeze for 2-3 minutes when displaying a huge form) I thought the developer probably didn't care about performance at all (seem to be using react), but nope, turns out lastpass was the culprit. After disabling lastpass, the page with the huge form now loads in seconds instead of minutes. I wonder what lastpass do with the dom to cause this massive slowdown.

Anyway I decided to move to bitwarden last week and it works pretty great. No noticeable slowdown at all.
A picture of the worst day of a professional engineer's life
You don't ask for drugs? Ask for drugs. I always get Xanax and it basically puts me out through the whole thing. I have, err... had a lot of root canals.

I'd think the bigger concern with a root canal is the not-insignificant likelihood they will break your jaw.

Or not get the whole root out, causing an infection and need to get the procedure done again. (Never have a dentist do your root canal, folks)