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Ask HN: I dont have motivation towork on Friday
Fridays are remote in company, but there is still work to be done: workers always need to write what he did and how many hours he worked. However i find very little motivation to work in friday, so i mostly dont do anything. I dont watch movies or play videogames, but it seems i spend hours daydreaming and there is very little productivity. Then i need to work weekends, so i actually bring monday work i am expecting to do, but i also dont have motivation to work on weekends. So both i cant enjoy my free days because of overwhelming feeling of guilt, yet i cant do my work and be done with it, as in weekends my productivity is even less. So i just spend those 3 days mostly procrastinating, doing some little work, i cant spend it doing side projects and engaging in entertainment because of guilt. Anyone has same problems?
The same reason that it's good to have different clients for other protocols. Some clients lean heavily to one side on the CLI vs GUI vs VR debate, some choose to have convenience over technical complexity and so make choices that other Gemini users would disagree with, some allow a degree of automation, some are a multi-protocol client that has Gemini as just one supported option.
If your thinking about using Qt, check out U++(https://www.ultimatepp.org/), its pretty powerful and I've never seen a better designed IDE for C++.
Baking Magnetic Recording Tape
Why Steve Jobs Never Had License Plates on His Car (2011)
It might work in Dragonball, but IRL they would probably come back with wrecked joints and compressed spines. Not to mention whatever effects you'd get from having blood rushing to your feet and away from your brain.
Cryptocurrencies, DeFi, and retail trading are all areas where more skilled traders take money from less skilled traders.

These venues can be distinguished from a Ponzi scheme because the participants are traders in a market, not investors in a company or managed financial product.
And sometimes when I’m really grumpy I think about just going around and manually doing it by adding comments.
Is it a danger?

What is the upside of having nudist/sex-workers/poly amory group having millions of followers?

For all of those activities it is best to keep it in small trusted groups of people. If you are really dedicated to that stuff you will find your way. Then is it really a counter culture if it can have millions of followers?
Was just talking with friends yesterday about this - Internet Computer getting absolutely dumped by the VCs who pumped it so hard from the beginning. Once I saw that they were headquartered in the Bay, had their entire team in the Bay, and wanted to be the “everything for everyone” computer, that was kinda my sign that this was a scam.
We don't know that.

She is completely unaccountable. The British press is unwilling to criticize, and people who've discussed anything with her rarely discuss it with others.

Princes Philip, Charles, Andrew and Harry have all been embarrassing, and they also represent Britain.
Hmmm ... it would be extra work that would, over the long run, end up being a lot of work. I'm doubtful whether readers would search my 'archive' vs. searching google (for example).
Surely the company is responsible for the actions of their employees but there's a distinction between company policy and individuals actions.

And the well-made arguments you have presented is how corporates regularly abuse this "distinction" between company policy and individual action when caught - it was not us, it was this guy. Plausible deniability is standard tactic of management. I would be more willing to accept your version if Apple took public punitive actions against the employees responsible here.
+1 Nicely explained.
Go‘s implicit interfaces, Rust‘s traits, Clojure‘s sequences, transducers, multimethods and spec, Julia‘s multiple dispatch, HTTP REST, JSON and json-schema.

These are all attempts to enable generic, simple code over complex data structures, while respecting and incorporating extensibility and change.

It’s an old idea but I think more importance is given to it in more recent years.
This is incredibly misleading.

I live in a community with ranches and farms. The ranchland looks like nature. Other than cows here and there, it's wildland. Coyotes, mountain lions, hawks, and all sorts of wildlife abound.

The farms are manicured flat with row crops, irrigation, fertilizers, pesticides, etc. Farming is vastly more destructive to the natural environment.

"Land use" measured in abstract square feet is not a useful concept.
That's exactly what happened to me. Found myself working at the kitchen table from 5am till 9pm. I am just not the work from home kind of person, I become self abusive.
Here it is! https://ed2592press.com/author/
got it, thanks
Shifting Gears: Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition [pdf]
Check the crime reduction timeline. It started during the first year of Dinkins term (1990), not Giuliani.

https://images.app.goo.gl/uSbaDcnVffYQ8VhJ8

Another neat thing, crime tracked nationwide almost exactly with childhood lead exposure https://images.app.goo.gl/ddYD1c3YdxB5wE866
Basic HTML doesn't need WebKit. If what you want is basic HTML 4 tags set with a couple of HTML 5 tags, this is not a big task.
While the author is correct that you can leak secrets that other users could see, in modern systems you can avoid accidental leaks via containers or host OS modifications.

If you're using containers, only other users in your container will be able to see leaked secrets. Typically there's only one user in a running container. If an application in the container gets hacked, the whole thing is vulnerable anyway, leaks or not. Or if the container was running in privileged mode, which compromises host security. If someone gets access to your Docker host, or root access on the Docker host (privilege escalation to root is pretty trivial on Linux) then they can see all information, leaked or not.

If you aren't using containers, and just a regular Linux OS, a couple methods exist to harden process information between users (such as cmdline and environ) to contain most of the leaks.

What you do want to avoid is writing secrets to persistent storage, or filesystems that many different containers or users can access. You also want to prevent passing secrets to containers as environment variables, as your orchestration system might expose them to more users accidentally, and some logging systems might log them.

The best practice for passing secrets into a container is to have your container orchestration system pass credentials to the container, such as with an instance metadata service, or temporary volume-mounted secrets filesystems. The container would use that passed credential to then access a secrets manager.
They already did. It's in the article:

"Although they saved commuting time, this did not offset the extra hours spent in meetings."
The economist article is primarily based on this study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3846680

> In order to better understand this decline in productivity, we examined data on employee time use from the analytics software. During WFH, employees spent more time engaged in various types of formal and informal meetings, especially video conferences. As a consequence they were able to spend substantially less time working without interruption. They also spent less time networking (both within the firm and with clients), and less time receiving coaching or 1:1 meetings with supervisors.These findings suggest that increased coordination costs during WFH at least partially explain the drop in productivity

Let's looks at this: More time in conferences - maybe but if one is looking closely there is a lot people get done in conferences when not watched - stuff in their household, talking a walk or real other work. Networking being measured as time with boss is ridiculous. The remote working setup in fact allows one to network fairly efficiently and the network structure changes. Instead of getting information from the boss one may now just get a pointer from the boss and gets the information from the horses mouth in a 1:1 call.

Interruptions in a shared/open floor plan office can not be silenced easily. Now one can just go offline and get things done - provided the company is sane and does not mechanically measure productivity.

And on the other hand one can indicate to be reachable while doing one's homework - allows for a small break and is a win/win for both sides but will blow up time logged into the system.

> In this paper we provide an analysis of the effects of the switch from WFO to WFH in a largeAsian IT services company.

Ok, let's parse this. There is "a" == "one" company and then it is Asian which covers a lot of countries but quite a number of them have a long working hour mindset. Not the best basis to extrapolate...

> The data also include information on hours worked, our primary input measure. This is measured in a sophisticated way, as the analytics software takes into account whether an employee actually engages in a relevant task (which counts as work time) or merely procrastinates at their desk (not counted), by monitoring which software tools the employee uses.

Right. The problem is that my coffee machine and my shower are not wired up to be monitored and a lot of great work has been done there.
But I am referring to investing into a DeFi project as a VC (= receiving tokens), not trading in Defi. Why is that not equivalent to investing in Robinhood as a startup?
Facebook was cool before it allowed to post images and the same goes for reddit. Once the multimedia content was allowed, the incentives changed, the crowd changed and things started to go downhill..

Take a look at HN, no images or videos, so it tends to bring more of the literate crowd.
This is a great article from Jess - as all her writing is.

The only rejoinder I will make here is that in my experience doing enterprise dev, the software is bad because there is little or no QA.

I only worked in one enterprise where the dev director hired a single QA engineer. This lady checked all of my code from end to end every time I thought it was ready to ship. It took me 3 months to do something I thought I could do in one because this lady caught EVERYTHING. I hated her for it. She made me fix every single bump, every pixel. Everything. And when we shipped it, it was the best software I have ever written and one of the best pieces still running.
I'd like to see some thought experiments -- done in a film -- of what would have happened to people like Steve Jobs if they were black. Or female. Or gay. Or whatever.
I have a pretty clear view of the sky so I’m hoping for the best. HughesNet is barely usable for anything but basic browsing and the plan I’m on is more expensive than Starlink to boot.
You're being downvoted but you're spot on. An hereditary monarchy is spitting in the face of democratic and liberal values.
You don't though. The article addresses that:

"Although they saved commuting time, this did not offset the extra hours spent in meetings."
Where is this big, heavy, commercially important piece of software written in Rust? What am I missing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon
I just watched
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10166/ to learn about docC, and it looks pretty much like what folks have been doing in other languages for a long time.

For example R developers usually document functions, data, etc using Roxygen in-line comments and they use vignettes for tutorials and the like. An additional advantage of R is that it checks that the documented function arguments line up with the code function arguments (at least by name -- it has no way to judge whether what the developer makes sense, of course).

I'm not saying that this is not useful, because I think it is, very, useful. It's just that this seem more like catching up than leading, at least in the broad strokes.
That seems unlikely. Look into techniques like ICSS which have no non-invasive substitutions. Banning animal experiments in neuroscience would just eliminate large swaths of research pursuits, leaving only observational techniques like FMRI, which would slow down the science greatly.
I stuck around IRC because of people like Ned providing sound advice and keeping a kind community. It's a shame that drama brews and things like this happen. Hopefully the change keeps the community happier and healthier!
>Conclusions do not require certainty.

If certainty has not been achieved, then you should remain skeptical. The lack of a causal explanation is a massive discontinuity in logic which suggests that our conclusions may be very wrong ("retrograde action" wrong).

>Height has a heritability measure of around 80%, which leaves 20% for environmental factors.

This is what I mean. The studies that determined this used datasets from wealthy Western countries that are more ethnically homogeneous than average. Similar studies done in less wealthy countries found measures of environmental influence as high as 40%. In countries of similar wealth, average height can be predicted by measuring the level of economic inequality, suggesting that environmental factors such as healthcare, nutrition, and fitness access are all significant inputs.

>Nothing you've said demonstrates this claim.

Dutch average height for men grew 8 inches in a century. For comparison, average height for men worldwide has grown around 3 inches in the last millennium. There is evidence to suggest that pre-agricultural male height was similar to where it is now, if not taller; the structure of our civilization is the difference between the average man being 5'6" and 6", i.e., more than one SD from today's average in either direction.

I understand that it is harrowing to think that even our basic physiological attributes may be determined in no small part by the way we're treated by society (that is to say, that decisions could be made to improve your quality of life but are not), but it is very much a possibility.

>Nope. Emergentism is his avowed conceptual framework, a lens through which he analyzes evidence and draws conclusions. But if the conceptual framework is vacuous, which it is, then that undermines the value of conclusions based on that framework.

You are literally invoking a textbook ad hominem fallacy.
You’re missing something important: You have built the intuition necessary to pick up on pacing cues so that you can skip ahead and quickly get a sense of where they put the info.

Not everyone understands those cues, and of the ones that understand them not everyone can process them as quickly.
Yes and the trend then continued through 90s,00s and 10s.

There is a stark difference in the people I know in NYC who moved in later than early/mid 2000s which aligns roughly with your 40s cutoff.

The before people all have stories of being robbed/mugged/assaulted and/or having friends who experienced the same. The cutoff varies by where the people moved in as some areas stayed rougher longer.

Most people I know after have not experienced nor know anyone who has experienced this.

This is especially true of zoomers / young millennials who moved into more cloistered neighborhoods in doormen buildings..

It gives people a very different perspective on the recent catch&release bail reform (which despite what people assumed, does apply to violent crimes), not prosecuting turnstile jumpers, end of stop&frisk, etc).

The pushback seems to be coming now that the surge in violence has spilled out of the poorer neighborhoods into areas where the more comfortable live/work/shop/leisure.
I agree with the chronology. But what is your claim on the fertility of the region in classical antiquity? Remember that Egypt was considered a "breadbasket", and the eastern portion was the richer one in general.
I've seen minor version bumps in GCC break C++
Most studies show at best it was a 33% contributor.
Felt the same. Excited to go office so can leave early, take longer lunch break.
The Soviet Origins of Xi’s Xinjiang Policy
Always like seeing Oscar's site pop up here, so that I can tell people to check out the lovely annotated source code for Toledo Nanochess, his IOCCC-winning tiny chess engine:

https://nanochess.org/chess3.html#book
> we have faster computers, higher level languages

There was already LISP, COBOL and (a few years later) Algol 68, so maybe the only real improvement is the faster computers, making the high-level languages more widely applicable?
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Yes, but I get to work through pointless meetings and avoid chit chat. The efficiency comes from getting more hours in the same 8 hour block to do actual work.
> ..the only way for Gemini to keep that way, is by not becoming popular. Because that's exactly what happened to the web.

I felt like the web's "change" was when it became skewed towards high-bandwidth content like images and videos, more so than popularity alone.

I can't imagine Gemini becoming as popular, but if it does, another new protocol can grow. :)

> it will probably fade away or keep very niche

Sounds nice, actually.
>work at home has more micro interruptions

The exact opposite is true in my experience.
My bad, I somehow read 30k miles, even worse.
Shirtaloon makes $20k/month writing books via Patreon
Python is not open source and crucial features like remote python interpreter is behind a paywall. I don’t see why anyone would use pycharm
Is there enough of a market for extremely short YouTube videos so that people could make a living just making “It’s 2 videos stitched together”?

Honestly, my heart wants it to be true.
> opt-out by default

That's the definition of opt-in
Probably some company exec's trying to build an argument to protect their high cost real estate assets from depreciation.

Think of it, if say 30-50% of an office can become unused in 50-70% of companies in a city. Man will the value of that office will tumble. I'd bet it would see a noticable depreciation even if it was 30-45% unused and only 30% of companies in a city acted on it.
To generalize in a simplistic way: upper management wants to go back, everyone below doesn't. So publications targeted at the former will support office work while others targeted at the latter will support WFH.
The question is about lock-in and choice. You can see on the thread the Observable authors seem almost proud of the fact that their tooling is so good that it couldn't possibly ever be made to be more compatible with everyone else's way of working. In the rapidly moving JS world, this is arrogant and shows poor foresight.

I love learning new tools, but this notebook craze is alarming. When I pay a python contractor I have to specify "a runnable script" or I get a jupyter notebook as a deliverable. I hate to think D3 is going the same way. It's no good to make your tool so hard that it needs a dedicated, incompatible (and morally superior) development environment.
My charitable interpretation is that when someone says "eat plants", they don't really mean "only eat plants" but "don't eat animal products, eat plants + enriched foods + injections/pills/tablet", because we are omnivores and we need some nutrients that are incredibly hard to get naturally from plants, like vitamin b12, so in order to stay healthy, without eating animal products, there's only the enriched foods and/or pills/injections/tablets route.
Many IRC networks have had drama.

But does anyone know the motivation for recent actions by Freenode?

I'm discounting conspiracy theories (e.g., flipping, sabotage) because I think anyone acting strategically wrt IRC knows that forking an IRC network has been part of the standard toolkit for responding to "damage", since almost the start.

I'm starting to lean towards a theory of there being no longer being a business reason nor ideological reason to Freenode's recent actions. At least not after the first few days.
Hmmm ... I thought a lot about this ie. whether to include the HN link. Problem is ... when I write the newsletter, most HN links are empty or only have one or two comments.

Later on, the story reaches the front page on HN but it's a new HN link. So if I include the 'original' HN link, it's not useful to the reader, and may even mislead them into thinking there was insignificant HN discussion.

For example, I linked this story:

[Web Applications from the Future: A Database in the Browser](https://stopa.io/post/279)

in early May but it only recently garnered significant discussion a month later in early June (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424496).

So I'm not entirely sure how to resolve this.
We'll, I take pictures. If I'm out doing something, I'll take a picture or make an instagram post. I do pottery. Women universally love pottery. I play guitar. Not as universally liked but women still have an interest in it. How I dress, all my clothing is fitting and I have my own style. Even something as lame as an outdoor walk with a fanny pack. My smile is alright? Idk cause that's not what matters. Women want to see a few things and you as a guy need to know where you fit. They want to see friends, clout, hobbies, and well taken pics. Knock those out and just like a job, it never gets brought up again.

I mean I'm not amazing, had 0 friends to help me, and I still got likes (Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge). So how did I solve the "friends in a picture" issue if I had 0 friends? Go to bars. Hang out and chat with people. Somehow organically bring it up and take a pic. Boom, looks like you have friends haha. I've done it numerous times and it works flawlessly for that. Bars are also a great place to meet new friends. But at worst, you make them feel a tad uncomfortable but still make an attempt to have fun, while simultaneously benefiting you.

Take this for what you will, but if you're really struggling with dating, I highly recommend listening to the mating grounds podcast with Tucker Max. Say what you want about him, but his reasoning and extraordinarily sound. They have a "helping joe" series where they help this average dude date. Also with some other PhD guy whom I can't remember and another frat like dude. Just don't walk in with prejudices about who they are. They know their stuff hence why the topic of dating isn't difficult for them.
With that clarification I agree that it would be a Ponzi scheme. If the project is mainly accepting money from new buyers and routing it to early participants who are selling, then it's a Ponzi.
University of Chicago to Award Posthumous PhD to Yiran Fan
Thank you; I missed that, and it makes some sense.
Two that I can think of:
- a Makefile to export and upload pico8 games to itch.io: https://github.com/tducasse/pico8-deploy
- a tiny in memory database in JavaScript, that I used as a way to keep a global state server side in a multiplayer game https://github.com/tducasse/js-db
Skull and crossbones sign given to unvaccinated in rural India
Occasionally someone will enthuse about a particular car's great Heads Up Display; but I think thats as close to a real world "AR" app as has been realized.

I have this feeling that there's a few really good, but not flashy uses for "AR", things like measuring angles and lengths at a glance in carpentry and construction. These are obvious but not pursued because the "Virtual Reality Will Make Billions" scam / reality distortion effect stomps all over them, and no idea that's not worth billions will be discussed.

Also, "VR/AR" displays are probably progressing, (surely the horking problem has been solved by now, right?) but where's an input method even half as good as a keyboard?
I’ll second this. Looks useful, but I really want links to the HN discussion along with the article (and maybe to the Reddit or other sources in those cases)