skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experiences, this all coincide flawlessly with how the "game" is played. On top of that, it embodies the gervais principle. Always talk positive, don't be afraid to give others credit and be viewed as a team player, quit thinking just about yourself. All of which aren't specifically because someone wants to do that thing like a dumb office game, but because it's a litmus test for others to view you. The better you get at gaming that system, the happier people are to work with you and say good things about you.

In my experience as well, I've had better relationships with coworkers when I half-assed stuff with a positive attitude than I did when I was just a workaholic. Nobody likes do-gooder brown nosing workers. Nobody. Everybody despises you because you make them all look bad. Making friends and getting along is worth far more than being able to do the job day 1. Every supervisor wants less work, especially with people. So give it to them.
I have a chrome extension with about 30k users and have always felt like the chrome web store feels sketchy and frankly dangerous. Particularly when dealing with extensions that offer highly desired features on hugely popular sites, e.g. 'download all images off a user's Instagram'. It's ripe for abuse, especially luring in hundreds of thousands of users when the extension is 'fine' then switching over to something not fine.

There are two things that I think would be beneficial: allowing users to easily disable the extension from automatically updating, and allow users to be able to see the source code of the extension directly in the chrome web store. I hope they already have some kind of internal monitoring system for their reviews to set off an internal alert if someone says 'malware' etc and to investigate further.
That’s indeed a possible explanation. See also:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_compact_halo_object
Both of my parents passed away when I was in my twenties. And both times, it felt like a significant period of my own life had ended, and that I was going to have to live a very different life from that day forward.

Spending time with family and friends who also knew your father in law might help. Writing down what you remember of his stories might help if you’re worried about forgetting them over time.

One thing I wish someone had told me before my parents passed away and that I’d recommend to everyone reading this: if your older relatives have a lot of old photos, spend time with them looking at the photos and talking about them. I have an entire photo collection and I wish I had the context to appreciate it better.
Ask HN: How to Optimize Crowdsourced Motivation
I have been relying on crowdsourcing feedback online to motivate me through tough times. The only drawback is that I have a hard time guiding the feedback in terms of timing and subject matter. For example, it looks like some seeds I sewed a year or so ago are coming to fruition now, but I did not anticipate it taking so long. I have already solved much of those problems within that year, but I am confident that I could have had better margins if the feedback were delivered in a timely fashion. While I have no doubt I can use this crowdsourced attention indefinitely, I have some important years ahead of me, and I want to learn how to manage the focus, timing, and energy levels of this group. A major constraint seems to be burnout as the feedback energizes me and demotivates them. In addition, sometimes the feedback is random and therefore useless to me. Any suggestions on upcoming iterations is welcome.
Fed’s Argument That It’s Not Directly Financing Government Debt Finally Fails
Contrary to the people in this twitter thread, I absolutely hate this. I don't want a car with parts that are held on by glue.
If we chew on enough of these lozenges, will our teeth merge into one, curved megatooth?
I feel bad for any patients seen by a resident who is intentionally sleep-deprived.

It sounds like a legit factor in a malpractice lawsuit.
It depends on where you live, but kids are not forced to attend in places where homeschooling is allowed.

A homeschooling option where I live is you attend classes at a local community college. Once you have completed enough credits you get a GED diploma and an associates degree.
What Honest Abe Learned from Geometry
Quite interesting. This makes sense. "Standard" marshmallows are made with gelatin. (I believe xanthan gum is also sometimes used instead or alongside these days.) Apples are extremely high in pectin. Gelatin and pectin have broadly similar behavior: their molecules link up into a network that captures water, firming a liquid into a semi-solid and helping prevent spoilage. Compare fruit preserves (pectin) and jello or aspic (gelatin).

The long slow bake from this recipe is also how you make apple butter.
"Workers own the means of production" is a major tenant, as well. And socialists had a lot to say about personal and productive property[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_property#Personal_ver...
I've never actually used Gerrit personally, but I've twice been on teams that had recently dropped Gerrit at the time I joined (once for Bitbucket/Stash, once for Github Enterprise), and neither seemed to ever look back.
I used to drink that much coffee. I got an espresso machine and started making americanos instead now I’m good with one cup a day. I don’t know what it is, clearly the caffeine is either higher or more bioavailabile or something, but it just sates my appetite for coffee.

(Actually i started making cappucinos first and stopped when i started putting on weight from them lol)
We usually did our stints at the western side yards, S-Bahn as well. Yorkstrasse, Schöneberg, and all over the city in the end. So many stories of meeting strange people when painting, most of them friendly and not "anti-grafitti", more the other way around, some really helpful people letting you into their homes after being chased by the cops once again.
I know of some impressive homeless shelters in old tunnels, not only homeless people went there, but musicans and skateboarders too.
The cops never got us, they were always lagging in shape and motivation. One night we stumbled into a yard which was already bombed by the 1UP guys at that time, we ended up doing end to ends with them and doing throwups til 10am.
The energy and dedication in those moments i've never found again. Still, i don't really miss laying in some wet gravel for hours full of paranoia and fear of getting caught and beat up. Sadly even finding an archive of photos documenting all this is not really possible, there were too many people involved being too chaotic in the end. A great part is lost and lives only in our memories.
"His stories had a tinge of paranoid fantasy about them, and felt implausible, rushed and disjointed, compared with more standard SF fare."

They're a lot more comprehensible and relatable if you've ever had a bad trip on psychedelics.
> cause my teeth to move

This is why you want one fitted across all your teeth by a dentist. And made out of a solid material so it continues to fit the same way rather than sharper teeth pushing down further. That way it sits properly and balances all of the tooth-tooth forces.

Having said all that, mine developed a hairline fracture and eventually split in two, but actually sits a bit better as two pieces until I get a new one made in a month.
Even now, sometimes it does hurt, plenty. Local anesthesia can be somehow negated by bacterial infection, something involving the pH getting altered. My endo apologized but had to keep drilling to reach relief.
Yes, they sell data. To see how this works, start an ad campaign targeted at people who love X. People who click the ad will be directed to you. If they buy stuff from you, you have their info, and you can directly target them for more X, or sell the fact that these people like X to other companies.
There was a question (now deleted) on difference between this and Firecracker. FC/gVisor/Kata use VMs to sandbox containers. However, VMs incur high runtime overhead (not to be confused with fast booting) and need to be provisioned. We use hardware virtualization to directly run system/app containers -- no I/O emulation, no expensive VM exits, scale as needed.
if you liked Ubik, give VALIS and The Three Stigmata a try. Ubik is a good “introduction” into the PKD universe. But it’s almost like there are two PKDs: one trying his hand at SF and another one that has transcended space and time. You want the 2nd flavor :)
Reminds me of an interview with Isaac Asimov. He spent all his time writing and the interviewer asked him what he would do if he had a month to live.

His answer was: 'I would write faster'.
Have you looked into botox shots at all? When I tell you my life changed completely from a 15 minute botox appointment with an oral surgeon I am not exaggerating in the least. I’d had no idea what it felt like to live without bruxism - not only were my teeth better but my neck stopped aching, my back muscles stopped spasming, and I stopped getting migraines entirely. I had gotten debilitating migraines once every month or two since I was a kid and had been taking pretty serious medicine to prevent and combat them for the better part of a decade. They stopped completely, cold turkey, after my first botox appointment. And I had no idea that was even a possible side effect(? benefit?) of the botox procedure at the time!

I’m sure I’ve written about it here before but it was wild how much the botox changed my quality of life to the point it was actually really upsetting to me at first. I had struggled for so long and I had to fight with insurance so much to get the botox covered (it was off-label at the time for TMJ, I think it’s approved now) and there had been a safe, simple, and highly effective solution that I sort of stumbled into out of sheer desperation, a lot of good luck, and a series of referrals on referrals on referrals.

Oh yeah, and much to my dentist & orthodontist’s delight, I stopped breaking my retainer in my sleep, stopped needing a mouth guard at night, and stopped needing special toothpaste for my sensitive teeth. But those improvements pale in comparison to the literal whole-body benefits.

I know it’s not going to be a magic bullet solution for everyone the way it was for me but the improvement was so night and day I have an almost compulsive need to bring it up whenever someone mentions they suffer from bruxism or migraines just in case it can put an end to their misery, too. So if you haven’t looked into it yet the potential upside makes it well worthwhile to bring it up with your doctor and/or dentist.

Or, if you happen to be in Massachusetts, give Dr. David Keith at MGH a call.
I put baking soda in my drinking water, as mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27329115 - typically 1 teaspoon per liter
My personal favorite:

> Written in PHP so literally anyone can contribute, even if they have no idea how to program.
You will probably be suspended or expelled. I wish I was joking, but the schools usually have a zero tolerance policy which around here means both the bully and the bullied are considered equally at fault.
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Dante3 a medium like editor with realtime collab capabilities
It depends how it goes.

If they start wasting their time there I'll take them out, they can work or go to Polytech.

If they are using their time wisely they can stay.

It really doesn't make much sense to go an alternative route unless you need to.

If they're at risk of dropping out and doing more harm than good, get them out of there.
The Three Stigmata is IMHO his best work. It’s like reality itself dissolves as you read it.
> possibility of artificial life at places other than planets, or made out of stuff other than carbon.

I have never heard anyone in physics describe silicon-based (or other) life as "artificial life". There is nothing more or less artificial about silicon-based life compared to carbon-based life. The best description for "artificial life" I can think of is life that is explicitly created by other life; second-order life. I am also not confident that humans aren't some higher-order life themselves.
What is the Fourth Dimension? (1884)
The Truffle based implementations of dynamic languages get close depending on what you’re benchmarking.

https://stefan-marr.de/papers/dls-marr-et-al-cross-language-...
This was 5 years ago. We're all different. Some people respond poorly to root canals, some feel moderate pain, some feel absolutely no pain.

And to be clear, the pain has been after my root canal, not during (even though ostensibly, the nerve is gone). My worst root canal was infected, but the endodontist claims that it usually doesn't cause that much pain (perhaps, but not for some people).

My mother and uncle have had the same issues. My father has never had issues.
1) The Empire Never Ended
2) What about Kevin’s Cat?
In general, capitalism only exists with small mom and pop retail and other barely surviving small businesses. The majority of commerce is run by a very few corporate oligarchs that also control the majority of government.
>Every dentist here charges the exact same amount, regardless of whether they’re in the middle of a high-income metropolitan area or in bumkinville

In the USA? If so, that's probably moreso a result of the reimbursement structures imposed by dental insurance companies, rather than active collusion among dentists.
You don't even need a full programming language... just something that does pattern matching that lets you grab "last word from a line".
Fluoride strengthens enamel. Novamin remineralizes enamel. It "rebuilds" it. How Sensodyne markets it is largely irrelevant.

Indeed, this product targets sensitivity which is exactly what Novamin does (by remineralizing those tiny holes permanently, versus traditional sensitivity products that simply "clog" them temporarily).

Note that Novamin-containing Sensodyne is an overseas thing that you have to import. For whatever reason they didn't seek FDA approval in the US so the product there is sans it.
Then your only tool is a hammer...
Add Mozilla, Mercurial and LLVM to the list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfqxCkJw0Rk
And upstream made it pretty clear that they weren't interested in contributors or building a community :( https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabcontrib/article/cont...

> To contribute to the Phabricator upstream, you must first pass a series of ancient trials and be invited to register an account in the ancestral homeland of Phabricator, here on secure.phabricator.com. The nature and location of these trials is a closely guarded secret.
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or naivety.
Augment?
It's a shame that Wikimedia couldn't donate money to Phabricator for it to stay alive, considering it raised ~$30mil in 2019.
Urine alkalinization will also slow down your kidney's excretion of alkaline drugs and their metabolites. And speed up excretion of acidic drugs.

https://tmedweb.tulane.edu/pharmwiki/doku.php/ph_effect_on_d...

And yes, you definitely don't want to overdo it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk-alkali_syndrome#History
Boy I really hesitate to offer advice on this. Just know it's coming from someone who is in the midst of starting a not yet successful startup. So maybe this is terrible advice, or I may be the wrong person to give it. Seems like enough of a disclaimer.

I found myself experiencing feelings similar to what you're describing. Something that helped was not focusing on the future end state so much.

I remember one time seeing this interview with Bezos where they were congratulating him on Amazon's stock price at that time. And he was talking about how he tries to encourage Amazon employees to think in terms of inputs to Amazon, not outputs (like stock price).

I really like that idea of focusing on doing the hard work at hand and not worrying too much about what comes out on the other side.

Obviously this can go too far, you still need some vision to aim at. But I find that not only with this experience, but with learning other things too there can be sort of a stall where it feels like nothing is happening. You keep showing up every day but it feels like there are no results.

There is value in having a sort of stubbornness in the face of that. Focusing in on doing the work of the day and finding joy in it, rather than worrying about a payoff that may or may not ever come.

I think this is one of the reasons that startups work better when it's a topic you're sort of obsessed with. It helps to be able to work on something that you don't even care all that much if it leads to anything. Just a weird and interesting thread you keep pulling on.
>It’s the equivalent of scrolling down to the bottom of a recipe page and skipping all of the “my grandma made this during the depression” nonsense.

That "nonsense" is the interesting part, though. I feel like you're missing the point of Hacker News if your only interest is getting the Cliffs Notes version as quickly as possible.
I would love to see Oregon say "Sure, if you can get Idaho to take you, go for it." and see Idaho go "No, we don't want you."

Those counties likely take far more revenue than they produce. Maintaining the roads in those areas alone is likely quite expensive. I can't imagine that Oregon would be that upset about them leaving. And I can't imagine Idaho would really want to pick up that bill.

Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.
Are you able to share what kind of organization does this? What are pros and cons versus an FFI type of library?
I had to get medicine for my mom and the pharmacy was replaced by a vending machine. Scan a QR code and the robot does the rest. I felt like I was in Japan! The world is still changing.
True. I guess I meant they could say "We default to not allowing extensions unless a human thinks the extension is a good idea," which will produce a similar outcome to the status quo - non-human review that has a high reject rate plus a frustrating human override process.
> I’ve only recently learned you aren’t supposed to rinse your mouth after brushing!

Wait, what? Where did you learn that?
> I'm afraid the RATP doesn't care much about that specific train.

This is backwards: it's the graffiti vandals that don't care.
That sounds like a fun read. I’d love to know the title if you remember.
Submit a comment to them on their support forum informing them that the bill is coming. Oh and the rate is at old cell phone bandwidth price levels :)
Yep, chase the toys away from crossing the latest Poet62 piece because they don't know better. There were real feuds between writer gangs, serious stuff til blood was shed and noses bled.
Even worse sometimes.
Some unexperienced kids were killed by just imitating the
train-surfers, without any prep or such.
I saw a guy falling four stories from a rooftop down into some bushes, i thought he died. He lived with some broken rips and a hard rash from the safety rope he had handled wrong.
I should write this all down in some ordered manner some day...
Does not have to be that way. I did feel that way when I was still doing web apps, but I left that ten years ago, and still look back on that decision in fondness.

I am making "things" now. I'm on the software side, but it's tightly integrated with the hardware side of an actual thing, that people can use. For some reason, much of the bullshit in web development just does not apply in that situation. I still care. I had to adjust what exactly I'm working on a few times, but then I still care.

One passage I noticed in the article is that the author contemplates the question "could I make this app just myself", and the answer being along the lines of "yes, but then I'd have to deal with all the marketing and so on". In my case, the answer is a resounding no. The complexity is so high that you absolutely need multiple teams, some that work on pieces essentially distinct from other teams.

Maybe that is a factor? The fact that I can only work on a specific piece of the thing anyway, but can own that to a high degree? Does that make me feel "part of something" myself? I don't know.

The other passage I noticed was "don't rewrite things". That just does not apply to my work at all. Me, my teammates, and other teams have rewritten plenty of stuff. Some of these attempts failed, but for those that did not fail I remember many times where I and others were glad that we did not have to deal with the old code anymore, that had just grown in complexity from now illfitting beginnings.

Rewriting is a regular part of all of our jobs, and without that we had probably become mad by now.
My favorite was:

> Facebook engineers rave about Phabricator, describing it with glowing terms like “okay” and “mandatory”
My high school offered a post secondary program. A student could go to a local university (Kent State in Ohio in our case) and take many of the general education classes you needed anyways. I wish I took advantage, it would have saved me some time in college! I think it was only for Juniors and seniors however.
That itself could be a standalone product -- I'd expect lots of people would prefer sucking a lozenge over daily toothbrushing
Similarly for the Order of the Engineer:

I am an Engineer. In my profession I take deep pride. To it I owe solemn obligations.

As an Engineer, I pledge to practice integrity and fair dealing, tolerance and respect; and to uphold devotion to the standards and the dignity of my profession, conscious always that my skill carries with it the obligation to serve humanity by making the best use of the Earth's precious wealth.

As an Engineer, I shall participate in none but honest enterprises. When needed, my skill and knowledge shall be given without reservation for the public good. In the performance of duty and in fidelity to my profession, I shall give my utmost.
epriestly has a weird sense of humor. The "trials" were probably sending him a friendly email. (I worked at FB at the same time as him)
This feels to me like it's not good advice, with the same theme as "drink alcohol".

People report feeling good despite taking a depressant, and self-medicate their depression with alcohol.
It's not "imminently listenable", it's "eminently listenable". The first phrase means we are going to listen very, very soon; the latter means it's very listenable.

(Normally I wouldn't nitpick, but this is a post about writing and the mistake is in the 2nd paragraph so. Also, the tip is to read aloud.)
I hate waking up early, but feel exactly the same way: because waking up early is hard for me, if I do it, I feel like I've already accomplished something.

Conversely, if I wake up late, I feel like a failure.

This is kind of unfortunate, because I can wake up anytime I want and start work, I don't have to start working at any particular time. I also physically feel pretty shitty when I wake up early. But I can't just shake the feeling of being a failure when I wake up late.

I've always thought it to be purely psychological, but maybe that's not the case.
Not a website, but...Windows 10?? Highest market share OS, billions of $ worth of engineering time behind it and due to recent changes, search is pretty much a core feature of the OS. And I'm not even talking about file search here, which is indeed a hard-ish problem (although `locate ... | grep ...` seems to do well enough on Linux) - this is just a simple word search through a list of programs that's usually under 100 items long. And it's still broken most of the time.

Then there's MDN - a documentation site, whose 2nd most important function should be search. Yet, despite DuckDuckGo (a general-purpose search engine!) consistently finding the exact results I want, MDN's built-in search often misses even titles that are searched for verbatim.

If it weren't almost 2am and I weren't running almost entirely on caffeine, I'd probably be able to think of a few more.