skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This turned into a story, tldr at the end.

I’m in a similar boat, or have been. I’ve got a new hobby - civic engagement - but it mysteriously looks very similar to my actual work; lots of reading, writing, planning, coordinating.

It isn’t healthy to only be thinking in one particular way all day every day; I tend to want to work 10-11.5 hours at my day job, and then do a few more hours of other work (usually reading some type of report, annotating some sort of law/policy, or writing some sort of email).

For a while I was baking and learning music. It was fun to learn something totally new; being able to train myself to operate my hands in a new way was pretty cool. Unfortunately I became too busy and couldn’t sustain it.

Solutions:

- go to the movies. Short time commitment, usually engrossing content, gets you thinking in a different way. Theaters are open again and they’re putting out movies again (at least in the US). If the movie is really good, I forget myself and stop thinking analytically. If the movie isn’t so good, at least I’m thinking about that (‘the soundtrack choice isn’t great in this scene’, ‘having her force herself back to life and into this ship after clearly dying space doesn’t make any bleeping sense’) instead of API design or policy design.

- Games: this is a classic answer, but don’t feel bad if it doesn’t work. Once I’ve got something I care about/see value in, I can’t be motivated by video games. Great if you’re burnt out though.

- Drugs: sorry this isn’t a great or PC answer, but it’s the truth for myself and a lot of other people. If I really want to forget work, there are many options; alcohol is quite popular as is cannabis. It might seem like only bad people use cannabis, but realistically it is more common than you’d think (on the US west coast at least). I’m a workaholic so I have trouble enjoying time off, and that helps. Also makes sick days more bearable. I really hate being unable to work productively even though I want to; something other than sobriety can take the edge off. Drugs harder than cannabis not recommended. Again, not an amazingly healthy option, but it’s worth acknowledging the ugly truth.

- Human needs: if you are single and don’t want to be, work on addressing that while you can; evidence suggests that on your deathbed, you will regret not pursuing human connection.
Depends a lot on the model and usage; I did that too (after recommendations from my friend) but ended up with low power warnings fairly often.

And now of course the battery has significantly lower capacity than new, or the OS is much heavier. The watch was charged while I took a shower after the gym this afternoon. Was fully charged this morning. It’s currently on 37% at 19:51.

(for context, my watch is a 44mm (or, large) series 4)
this is what triggered my response:

> When I transitioned to management I made a point to try to balance workload and availability across teams. It often makes more sense to let go of superstar engineers who are only available 4 out of 5 days per week and only working a few hours per day, even if their work is good in isolation.

Rarely does something needs an answer right now. Asynchronous work? Also, of course you don’t want to encourage people that are straight up hostile, but also your expectation that I’m gonna drop everything at any point in time to answer some thing that does not matter right now is pure bs. randomization is where productivity goes to die.
I think the greatest privilege is actually being able to interact with LinkedIn posts consequence free

Many employees have their speech chilled because commenting would not necessarily “align with their employers values”, so they dont

So you get some really odd takes from all founders and entreprenuers instead. Its more useful to network with those kind of people anyway.
For the first couple years of my career I was like that, then I just burned out so it kind of happened on its own. ThoughiI guess I never really blew off life to work, I was like hacking on stuff a lot.

I put some extra effort into developing more of hobbies that don't revolve around a screen just trying stuff and seeing what stuck
Sorry hear that.

I don't see how it is understandable for the media not to report the full story. The point of a free press in a democracy is supposed to be for the people to be informed of the issues and decide for themselves.
> Exactly. I don't care if someone steps out to run an errand or pick the kids up from school or to hit the gym, but they need to be available with some regularity during core working hours for any collaborative work to proceed.

But the starting premise was that some people would work 5 hour days, there's plenty of overlap there. It's not much different than separate time zones, as another commenter pointed out.
> The problem with this is that the government simply can't do it effectively

The evidence is that, compared to the status quo, it can. Perhaps it can’t meet some abstract ideal, but that’s making the perfect the enemy of the at-least-better-than-horrifically-bad.

> We had marginal tax rates that high in the past and the revenue didn't get redistributed to the people who really needed it.

They coincided with a long period of much more effective broad-based growth and less concentration of wealth at the top than we’ve had since they ended, so while the first-order nature of the individual policies may not seem like idealized redistribution, the evidence is that on balance the set of policies that included them was at least less bad at that then status quo set of policies that include lower top-tier taxes.

But even if we hadn't done better before that wouldn't in and of itself be more than very weak evidence that we couldn't do better through government.
> The extensions spoofed a range of consumer brands, including Adobe, Amazon, Facebook, HBO, Microsoft, Roku and Verizon

Does the Chrome store not require that the dev account associated with these extensions be on the official corporate domains? That would seem like an easy way to prevent spoofing of Fortune 100 companies.
As I said, the game model changes things. One of the main issues in these discussions is that no one posts what they’re actually imagining of the MMO to be doing — and we end up talking past each other.

Anyways, with an FPS or Action RPG (anything where you can act/react quickly, then you expect your peers to do the same) low state/latency is absolutely vital.

With WoW style games you could probably get away with a LOT of interpolation before it becomes a problem (it’ll quickly become obvious as people get unnaturally tweened across the screen in straight lines, but that’s ok) largely because there’s really not much for you to be doing off-cool down anyways.

The main problem is that like RuneScape/Maplestory, in WoW supporting 200 players in the same spot doesn’t really do you anything (except for those group fights, where latency becomes important again) — towns are just glorified chat rooms, because what else are you going to do? You’re not pikmin requiring x/200 to proceed

VR chat it literally accepts that chat room aspect, and so it’s more than acceptable — it’s part of the fun

That is, you can change the gameplay to better support the issues relating to large groups. The bigger problem really is do you even want 20000 people in the same session? There’s not much to do in a crowd — in a real-world crowd you basically lose all autonomy and the crowd itself becomes the unit of autonomy with “a mind of its own”. Ultimately it’s a dumb goal to have in a non-competitive setting.

What you really want is 20000 people able to affect and manipulate the same “world” — the way we do in reality. We don’t look for everyone being there in front of you — we realize things have been changed by other people when we weren’t looking. You want object persistence and manipulation with a consistent world state, shared by thousands. Which is a much different problem — you want, really, a proper simulation.
> In other words, there a great many developers who are likely to be open to someone else buying up their creation along with their user base.

As a maintainer of a relatively popular extension (hoverzoom+, ~360K users) I get business offers all the time [1]. A few of them are pretty good, actually. I'm not surprised that some developers eventually give up and take one of those offers. But I am surprised that there aren't more of these "under new management" extensions, or maybe we just don't know about them.

[1] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
2 cameras with 3-axis rotation and xyz movement to look around obstructions and see things out of reach from a fixed perspective.

Systems wise, that's going to be a lot more complex than having more cameras. Of course, if you've got enough cameras you can probably get better visibility than a human, and continuously process all viewpoints. But 2 cameras is definitely insufficient.
Can confirm. As a dev of an extension with 10k users I get 3-4 emails a month in my spam which ask me to monetize my extension by secretly changing its users' search engines. My extension is open-source and quite small, but if the change was sneaked in I think most of the users would not notice. I stick to using userscripts for the most part since you can easily check their downloaded source and disable updates.

Example:

Beth Anderson <beth@monetize-extensions.com> Mon 10:58 AM
To: Mostly Spam <dev@x-ing.space>

Hello

I am Beth and I am offering monetization for browser extensions, with everything that is going on our team was extremely focused and productive in creating a way to earn revenue on extensions.

We offer to change default search to Bing or Yahoo on your extension which can earn up to $800 a month per 5000 users. This is a premium product by invitation only and can easily be added to your chrome extensions.

You are might curious to know if it is allowed? And I must say that this is completely allowed! Please reply to this email to discuss this further!

Looking forward hearing from you!

Beth Anderson

Business Development Manager
Show HN: Scan thru 1000's on cryptocurrency using technical indicator in seconds
They seem to be all over Twitter too. This doesn't seem to be an issue specific to one social media site.
From what I can see there was a House resolution passed in 2017 which protects email. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/email-privacy-act-come...
Luminati, and companies like that, distribute an SDK to many app developers. App developers incorporate the SDK, and your device is unwittingly turned into a proxy network endpoint, and the app developer gets paid for this. A surprising number of apps do this, so you could have an app installed doing this without even being aware, as it would only be disclosed in the app's privacy policy, which people don't actually read.
Clarified with an edit. What I mean is that they require you to write up all sorts of justifications for permissions and be very specific about use cases in the submission process, but they didn't have a single comment about any of it, despite our application requiring a lot of invasive permissions. They also approved it very rapidly.

It is possible that we just did a really good job on the justifications, but I have never had a store submission come back with no required changes or clarifications outside of Google.
>plus as-of-yet unknown human vision to synthesize depth info correctly for arbitrary scenes

I have an adversarial example.

https://wallpapercave.com/wp/InAcQKW.jpg
They still use zygote, however as expected, cheap Android devices aren't the best hardware to run an AOT compiler, so with Android 7 they introduced a multitier execution, with interpreter hand written in Assembly, JIT compiler and AOT that take advantage of PGO data.

The AOT compiler only runs when the device is idle.

Starting with Android 10, they introduced a mechanism to upload PGO data into the store, so that when an APK is installed, if such data is already available the JIT/AOT don't have to relearn everything from scratch regarding the application.

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/jit-compiler

They also improved the GC several times, the latest generation is quite good,

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/gc-debug

There are several Google IO talks about how they went through this.
It is "duh" that google has access to the information as they relay it from your phone to another party. But you could imagine it being like the post office, where in the US it is a federal offense to read someone's mail en route. Google could convey the location information with a "sealed envelope" policy. But they don't.
The Quiet Code: How tech silences with severance and fear
Robert Wright on using cognitive empathy to save the world
Hit the gym after work.

This will prevent you getting sick. It is not natural to sit all day long, so with the exercises you punch against all these sort of issues, pronto.

It will also relax your mind. It relieves the slight tension that we build up when "in the zone." It clears the "electrons" from your face.

Then, it will divide the day into two distinct parts.
Around 2010 I really enjoyed working with JRuby. At that time dynamic languages weren't really a thing but I was able to convince my boss to try it in a project because of Java library compatibility. So I used it for a Swing GUI application doing data processing combined with R, Postgres and Processing. It was really fun to write it. (Apart from that I also used in on Google App Engine) I never had the impression it was slower or less responsive than any other language, however startup times were quite slow. But I think that was due to the JVM. The way Ruby developed - into the language of Rails - I don't see myself writing anything CPU bound with it though.

That said, I wish the article would just include numbers without the startup times. I also remember people claiming back at that time JRuby would be much faster than MRI.
This is _really_ cool. I don't know why a lot of commenters here are going into the weeds to grouse about Java, flash, and general anger at computational notebooks.

What we have here is a complete client-side browser environment for development. Not some half-assed language or hyper restricted toy--this is real Python, and your browser's full JS engine all available in JupyterLab's IDE (basically a simpler VS Code at this point, it uses the same editing component).

We all freaked out a bit as Apple drove out IDEs from their app store, Google locked down Termux and similar developer tools from Android. Well, here's the answer to those situations. Something no app store owner can kill on a whim. I love stuff like this and hope it helps to enable and inspire the next generation of developers.
I had this amazing extension for Google play music. it had cover art and some great hot keys. I noticed a bug with it pulling low Rez cover art sometimes so I tried to see if I could fix it in the source code. The GitHub repo was not public anymore, so I made the changes locally and it worked.

I emailed the dev (his email was on the about section of the extension). He told me that the code was no longer public because he was selling it to someone else that wanted to take it over. I had all kinds of red flags from this, so I uninstalled it right away.
I’m not interested in walking down streets that Waymo is using for their beta tests.
The difference between the middle class and upper middle class is infinitesimally small compared to the difference between the upper class and everyone else. Your argument is what's been commonly used lately to dupe people into thinking their doctor neighbor is the enemy rather than the guy who owns 2 islands and 4 yachts.

Want to know what affects housing prices a whole lot more than one person buying one house? An investor with dollar signs in his eyes buying up 20 of them.
Oh man, the piece on the Buran is simply horrible. We managed to slip in just before COVID lockdown, somewhat lucky to have seen it before it got rinsed..

And sure, les ateliers seemed to be affairs of bras-honneur ..
Travelling downwind faster than the wind [video]
Yeah, it's expensive (and I wasn't aware that there might be availability limitations in India).

Although a self balancing bike would probably not be cheap either, at least until they become much more common.
It's always possible. There may even be a strong base rate for this assumption, given what just about every other company does. But on the other hand, he is still consistently chasing the goals he outlined over a decade ago - the object-level, world improvement, not money-making goals.

Take a look at SpaceX. It has achieved success, it could double down on its existing work and earn great profits for many years to come. But instead, it's still pushing for Mars, following Elon's original plan. Never deviating, never compromising. Only slipping schedules and changing execution details[0]. They don't have to. He doesn't have to care either, he's already famous and filthy rich. And yet they keep pushing for Mars. So either Elon is that good of a conman, capable of maintaining this charade for so long, or... maybe he's just being honest.

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[0] - Which is normal for every company, and arguably every white-collar worker. For some reason, Musk gets badmouthed by plenty of software devs here over slipping a deadline on unprecedented feats of engineering - same developers who don't think twice about all the promises they break at their own workplace.
https://github.com/collections/open-data

https://github.com/datasets/awesome-data
Hey HN, shakil here. founder of tradeplan.
TradePlan is a scanner for crypto market that uses technical indicator to help filter thru 1000's of coins.

The app is still in early beta and bit buggy. Will be working on fixing issues over the week.
How is the state of LuaJIT since Mike's departure?

I don't follow Lua, but I got the feeling it is pretty much stuck on its last version.
You can't even use most of the new Chromecast's features without enabling Web & App Activity tracking on your Google account.

Web & App Activity tracking keeps detailed logs of every search term you use, every time you install or open an app, the sites you visit, etc.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Shimmering Iridescent Clouds on Mars
Well, the news business has unquestionably been disrupted. There are a variety of reasons why that has had a lot of associated negative effects.
The thing that provides the best reset for me is a couple of days entirely off the grid, definitely without cell service, preferably without power. There is something about being out on a backpacking trip–10 miles walking from the nearest road, an hours drive to reliable cell service–that really allows me to clear my head.

That Nagios alarm that might be going off right now? Literally impossible for me to know about it. Somebody else's problem. Idea pops into my head about how to solve x problem I've been mulling over for days? Impossible to get that programming dopamine hit from immediately sitting down and implementing it. Gotta just write it in my notebook and pick it up on Monday.

I very often come home from those trips with fresh perspective on big questions I've been avoiding, or good new ideas to pursue.
Christmas.com sold for over $3M. I would think texts.com would be worth a lot more than $250k.
> And that’s one big reason why Trump was elected president

He won because he's a billionaire who duped many Americans into thinking their doctor neighbor is the enemy rather than his own billionaire friends.

Sadly it seems like Biden is doing the same with his recent tax plan.
Another user-hostile. Folks laugh when I say I run my own email (FreeBSD/Postfix) and "why build your own mail client"? Because, inevitably, all these for profit service providers turn against me.
The trust industry is awful and somehow Google and Apple came up with worse versions.

Simple domain validated publishing similar to Let's Encrypt would be way better for devs and users, but that would require Google and Apple to give up control and that doesn't happen in monopoly markets.

Edit: And Microsoft. Between them those 3 companies are the gatekeepers of almost all (signed) app distribution.
> It's not much different than separate time zones, as another commenter pointed out.

Separate timezones are fine as long as there is some overlapping core hours.

If that's not possible, the work needs to be more cleanly divided across timezones.

I've had to collaborate across different timezones (as an IC). It's rough. We tried to take turns staying up late so everyone suffered equally, but it's still brutal.
Thanks for the detailed answer! That makes it really understandable :)
They use the word privacy a lot, so surely they respect it, right? :(
Yeah, I used a $40 DisplayLink adapter.
It's mildly amusing to glance at a copy of my high school newspaper from eons ago. But I still can't see any value in it.
> Additionally, Google’s account recovery tools indicate many different developer email addresses tied to extensions reviewed here share the same recovery email

What?!? This work was done by an independent researcher. Why is google providing account recovery emails to the general public (and therefore attackers)?!?

Edit: fixed typo; replaced “recovery passwords” with “recovery emails”
> I think the most notable genocides have involved murder,

They usually do, but sometimes the overt murder stops while the genocide continues. If, and this is debatable, an endpoint could be drawn for the Native Ameeican Genocide in the US, its definitely long after outright killing based on being a Native not assimilated into the White society stopped being an organized practice.
I’m wondering how TOTP compares as a solution here: would you be able to filter out bad actors similarly by using that instead of a captcha?
If there's someone very interested in archiving a given set of information I'm all for it.

Where I think we collectively have an issue is when we're super into someone else archiving it. And that they then need to figure out a way to finance it all.
One advantage of keeping everything is that it's a "neutral" approach. Especially with our history as a species, it's easy to think that we should preserve everything to protect us against certain groups of people or way of thinking that would erase some part of history.
I had explored it sometime back it seems like a better option to Metropolis/MP3 for those who prefer bikes, need assistance with balancing and don't mind the premium. But it isn't available where I live(importing vehicles is huge pain & cost-prohibitive).
Well, no more than laying any other cable.

For long straight runs it will beat copper on cost god knows how many times.
No, read more from the README. This uses pyodide, a WASM port of desktop Python that runs entirely in the browser (obviously stuff like file access is sandboxed). In addition it adds a web worker that runs a Javascript kernel powered by your browser's JS engine. All of this runs 100% in your browser, there is no server component at all.
I hate this. I have a Google phone which muddies the waters further. I'm sure they allow me to turn off every single location setting but still track me anyway. It's too bad because I truly think the Google phones are the best on the market, and have been for some time.
Perhaps a list of apps would be helpful, otherwise it seems kind of a vague deflection.
the ip, any fingerprinting that the captcha code does.

so in effect google can tie you to this visit later if you interact with anything that has a captcha. now these two thinks are liked in the borg’s memory.

so if you use google (anything while logged in, even once) now google knows everything else you do
Tech groups sue Florida over content moderation law