skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So the solution has been to just flow with it, I sleep when I can, stay awake otherwise.

For me actually following sleep experts advice helped. Particularly, CBT-I. The idea is very simple. Two important sleep factors are what your brain is used to and how tired you are. If your brain is used to wake up in the middle of the night, you can possibly change it by making yourself very tired. You start by picking a consistent sleep window that works for you. Let's assume you get 7 hours of sleep but need to spend 9 hours in bed for that. You pick a 7 hours window (e.g., 11p - 6am) and you put an alarm clock and get up regardless if you're tired or not. In the beginning you're going to wake up in the middle of the night and be very tired in the morning, but ideally after some time you'll be tired enough and sleep through the night. This sleep restriction practice can be dangerous of course, and it's not recommended unless you can get at least 5 hours of sleep each night.

Over time you can adjust your sleep window as needed. The key is to stick to your sleep routine, following all sleep hygiene tips, and maybe most importantly waking up every day at the same time even if you went to bed later than your usual bed time. That's why I still use an alarm clock even though I don't need to and some research suggest it's better to wake up naturally. So far it's been working for me, might not work for others.

Another tip I have is meditation. Other already mentioned they listen to stuff like audio books etc. When I cannot fall a sleep I would usually listen to some sleep meditation with a sleep eye mask. It works better for me than what most sleep experts recommend - leaving bed and reading book or something like that.
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> Why pay to rent when you could pay an equivalent mortgage?

I was always under the impression that a lot of people can't scrape together the 3.5% downpayment or don't have good enough credit.

Plus, I think most landlords who rent out houses are looking for a profit. So it would theoretically always be their expenses (mortgage + taxes/insurance + some repairs) + profit, making rent the more expensive option by nature I figured.
I think you're right about dating apps not really favoring either gender. Hiring is the first thing I think of when reading about dating apps. There's just a very strong natural imbalance.

Dating apps are especially good at making people not have to face their shortcomings, i.e. I don't have to fix my shortcomings, because with a large enough pool there's going to be someone broken in the right way to accommodate me. Maybe that's rational, or maybe it's not, it really depends on expectations.

Counter intuitively, accepting that we're just stupid hairless apes makes me believe we're rational. We're not failing to find anything meaningful; we're not interested or looking.
That would be considered off-label prescription.
It's actually a complete waste. All it produces is more security for the blockchain, which is of low marginal value. They could use that energy to produce something of actual value, like hydroponic food, or desalinated water, or run a data center, or literally anything else.
Ask HN: Why are ISPs ok with Amazon Sidewalk on by default?
I'm familiar with peering, and some of the strange deals ISPs make with each other like that. However, most ISP ToS prevent you from re-selling your bandwidth (e.g. charge next door neighbors $5/mo and give them some sort of access through your own access point).

Amazon Sidewalk on by default seems a lot like that. However, your compensation is zero along with the ISP, and the beneficiary is mostly Amazon.

For that matter, Apple's Find My service seems similar to Sidewalk with a key difference. Find My is not always on, a location ping at sporadic intervals is not the same as video streaming of a doorbell camera.

What is the idea here that by default Amazon can use bandwidth it doesn't pay for? Do startups and other businesses get free bandwidth from ISPs now too? What happens when Amazon decides to increase use of your bandwidth for their services because 8k doorbell video, or 10x more connected Amazon devices? Is there a "one way peering" agreement with ISPs?

EDIT: Clarity, and what I mean by "one way peering" is that Amazon does not grant anyone else access to the Sidewalk network.
Couldn't have said it better myself. The shore went out during the pandemic and we saw how many managers and leaders have been swimming without swimsuits. And unsurprisingly, you see a lot of them making excuses rather than finding ways to evolve and grow the way individual contributors have had to do this whole time: adapting to cubicle life, adapting to desks instead of cubicles, adapting to shared workspace, adapting to flexible workspace where you don't even have your own assigned workstation. Meanwhile Mr. Manager in his corner office loses it if he has to make a zoom call
Inform is a small masterpiece of domain-specific-language design, isn't it?
1. That the simulator must run something much larger than this world much faster than real time. How feasible is that?

2. That the same arguments also apply to our simulator operators. They also inhabit a simulated universe. And so on. Where does it stop, and why?
This is basically my feeling as well. I would prefer that we (at least in the U.S.) focus on making high school much much better, to the point that fewer people have any need to go to college/university. And then, if we still need to, figure out what to do about University.

(Saying this as someone who never finished college/university, largely because I was trying to pay for it myself and couldn't make it work.)
Surely some of that kind of thing would come down to regulatory compliance like emissions? It would be no good if right beside the BMW dealer was a shack with a dude who "unlocks" your new car's performance by turning it into a soot-spewing disaster (yes I know about coal rolling, but at least right now that's mostly done for jackass reasons not performance reasons).

Anyway, it's basically the same thing that's at stake with router radio firmware and RF compliance— yes, you own the device, but the device's hardware has inherent capabilities that if fully unlocked, you would really need additional permits/licensing/oversight to operate in a way that doesn't interfere with other people's devices and wellbeing. Having your device locked down in this regard is a compromise that lets you have it and use it within those parameters while not needing to become a domain expert.
Let me break down the analogy for you then in terms of the direct argument I'm making:

Military leaders, as the consumers of resources allocated to the military, are in a strong position to understand what resource allocation is necessary for a set of goals...

... however...

Military leaders, being inherently and existentially dependent on resources allocated to the military, are fundamentally incentivized to advocate for increased resource allocation to the military, independently of whether those resources are more necessary for the goals of the military than for other public goods.
I didn't work in avionics but a field that used a lot of GPS bits. Depending on where your error is, it can be +/- 100 feet or more or less depending on what point the cut off is. Like you say you need to know what your target is.
Social Security is investments as well.
How is stealing something better than stealing something + optionally offering to return it for money?
> Neither of these countries could do anything militarily if a sizeable number of countries did not support their value.

That kwanza exchange graph looks like it has nothing backing it.

If you doubt his point go look at Ukrainian hryvnia exchange rates graph, try to guess at which point Crimea thing happened.
My speculation is that it’s like the argument that minimum wages increase the skill floor for employment. However, it’s that a combination of automation and cost optimization eliminated all the marginal jobs, rather than the wage floor. Automation allows a salary employee to pick up what previously would have been a full-time minimum wage position under “other duties as assigned” without overworking them. Cost optimization meant that companies realized that they do not need their floors to be that sparkling clean, further reducing the number of low-wage/low-skill positions.
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A false dichotomy is when one argues that only option A or option B are available when in fact options C, D, and E also exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
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I would humbly agree, and you make good points. I never thought about why repeating points is so important. I have often wished to some extent that the bar for communication were higher, but I guess that's something most workplaces would rather just plow through than try to really improve.
And all of your ancestors were at some point dark-skinned like many Africans but with light-colored eyes (paler skin would come later IIRC)
One of the biggest boons of working from home has been that I have a lot more flexibility in my working hours.

We have an informal policy of not scheduling meetings before 11 AM, so even when I don't get to sleep until 3 AM (which is common), I can still get ~8 hours of sleep.
Egypt steps up action as threat of water scarcity looms
When the integer is expected to be dense, you have the corresponding trick

size_t count = sizeof(x) * 8;
while(x != -1) {
x |= x+1;
--count;
}
return count;
Especially in a world where so much data now "lives" in the cloud. Between my dropbox, github, google photos, etc. Very little of my data only lives on a hard drive. The stuff that does lives on a Synology NAS and is mirrored to S3 Glacier weekly.
I might get flack for saying this, but a large number of women's dating profiles just consist of "dog mom", "loves watching The Office", and something about "Jesus". It's shockingly consistent and bland, with very little to engage in conversation about.

Now I will say it's not really anyone's fault. Women looking for men probably don't see what the other women on the site's profiles look like. Likewise my profile might be a trope as well. But men do have to go out of their way to stand out to get a decent chance at a connection.
I agree with your first two points. Starting a business is hard, you'll probably fail (statistically) and there is likely someone else doing it better than you already. But part of starting a business is looking at that adversity and doing it anyways.

Your third point about dating, I couldn't disagree more. If you go on social media you will see arguments very similar to the one you made, basically if you aren't an athlete/millionaire/etc, don't even bother. I think these arguments come from a bitter place and as a result generalize women in general. I'm an average looking dude, certainly not a millionaire, but I go on dates pretty much every week with different women. I found that it's all about just putting yourself out there.
The thin line between market dominance through innovation and monopoly
How's Picketty's work not academic ?
>> The UK already applies extraterritoriality to money coming into the UK (i.e. if you bring money into the UK that is the proceeds of crime in another country that money will get taken, even if you haven't been charged in your own country).

Still... the UK is often cited as “the money laundering capital of the world,” with an estimated minimum £90bn laundered through the City of London every year (based on NCA figures alone).

London loves money laundering b/c there is money to be made.

>> The report said “the arrival of Russian money has resulted in a growth industry of enablers – [British] lawyers, accountants and estate agents have all played a role”.

>> “disturbing” prevalence of Russian money laundering in London, claiming up to half of all money laundered from the country is done through the UK.

https://www.cityam.com/top-official-warns-of-disturbing-amou...
> You're basically suggesting reimplementing semver in a clunkier way.

There is a huge difference: Most languages and runtimes do not support having the same dynamic library twice in the same process. This means that if you just bump the major version number, you can only have one version of a library in a process. Now consider the case that your library L1 has a dependency L2 and is included in an application A which also includes another library L3 which has the same dependency L2 as you.

Now think what happens if L2 has a breaking change, and you upgrade L1 to use the new version, but L3 does not work with the new version, and does not upgrade it. In this case, the application A - the user of your library - is broken, and there is little the developer of A can do about it.

However, there are two kinds of libraries: One which access global objects, like GUI libraries, the glibc socket library, and such. Or which provide data interchange formats, such as Python's Numpy. These regularly need to be unique across an implementation.

And the other ones which do things like data transformation, parsing configuration, some numeric processing, and such. In this case, you could link L2 statically, if you were using C. r you could L2v2 and the library l3 could use L2v1. But in most languages and runtimes, this will only work if L2 version 1 and the incompatible L2 version 2 have a different name.

> Just bump the major version but continue supporting the old major version with security releases etc.

My experience is that the "continue supporting the old major version with security releases etc" almost never happens. People release incompatible versions and force upgrades on users because they do not want to do extra work. If they were supporting older versions, they would still have to do some of the extra work. They might do it some time in some cases but even then they will cease to do it soon.

If one wants continuous updates and support, one is usually MUCH better off to use libraries which just do not do compatibility-breaking changes. Because these have decided to do the work required up-front, and have little extra work with supplying urgent fixes to an old API interface.
He stopped working on iPhones because of the BS.
If some country drops out I'm sure it can use some "democracy" spread by the cartel
I try this but occasionally I mentally "wake up" as my body is asleep and I start freaking out mentally. It's a form of sleep paralysis I suppose, but without the hallucinations that other people tend to have. The feeling of being mentally alert but not being able to control my own movements or even my breathing is terrifying, and I usually try to move as much as I can and can wake my body up within a few minutes.
Surely the problem here is the author taking every piece of advice as a requirement?! The person in charge of a project should not owe anyone an explanation for not committing to their advice nor be forced to implement all advice given to them.

Other than this, good article - I'll forever be more conscious of how I give advice going forward!
I mentioned El Salvador's murder rate because it is a very broken country. Literally the worst in the world. What El Salvador does isn't convincing. I'm not the one who brought up El Salvador as a model to justify something.

As to the "clear bias", I literally laughed out loud at that hilarious claim. You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding about this entire discussion.

Firstly, I don't work in that realm anymore, but secondly it's _irrelevant_ because the product that I worked on could as easily be "backed" by BTC (in fact it is used in multiple jurisdictions backed by various currencies. The net is that something of value can be transmitted between users). None of these payment systems -- including "Bitcoin Beach" -- actually operate off of the BTC blockchain (you know, because it's completely broken trash).

My bias against Bitcoin is that it is a garbage solution that solves literally nothing -- it is one of the worst solutions in every single claimed use -- but that we have to constantly hear a million pathetic salespeople for it because they've "invested" in it. If there were a thousand pet rock HN commentators pitching pet rocks in every discussion I'd shit on that too.
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way cool!

fyi the hyperlink "found here" to setup_new_database.template is broken.
Yeah. A lot of people think therapy is about changing yourself, but honestly there is nothing shamefully wrong with most of us. We need shy, anxious but smart and kind people and we need oblivious plow ahead people and charming slightly narcissistic charismatic folks. We need some contrariness and some obedience. Some deep thinkers and some rush in and try it folks. Creative folks and measure twice cut once folks. Even with sleep, if you have to keep your little group safe at night in pre history having a variety of sleep schedules is good. The old people get the dawn watch, teenagers stay up first watch, the sleep shifted get second watch. It all works out.

Therapy makes a difference thru acceptance and working with you as you are more than fixing. Part of that is getting a more realistic way of perceiving your self as you are, and part of that is finding the strengths in how you are. Also taking very good care of your precious life. Sleep when you are tired. Eat when you are hungry. Seek help when you could benefit from it. It you hate someone, don’t hang around. Etc etc.

Between the acceptance, self awareness, less shame about your actual self, and a life that meets your needs, therapy can transform your life, but not by transforming you. You are fine.
In high school my friend's dad used to tell new drivers that the stop signs with the white borders around them were optional.
The only right that seems even remotely plausible and socially independent was Hobbes's claim that we have a right to defend ourselves from being killed.

Anything else just seems too ontologically and epistemologically suspect.
Right, because financial fraud measured with 7 digits is exactly the same as being pulled over and talking to a police officer in broken English. (That's sarcasm, in case it doesn't translate well.) I'd argue if all an offender gets for a million dollar crime is a suspended sentence, maybe France needs to get a grip on their white collar crime problem.

Regardless, if all I knew about France was what I saw on "various medias", my view of your country would be just as skewed as your view of mine. It reminds me of an immigrant I worked with in the 80s who spoke of how his relatives and friends back home wanted to know if the U. S. was just like the television show "Dallas". Not in Indianapolis, Indiana, it wasn't. Nor even Dallas, Texas itself, I imagine.
> Nobody has the knowledge base to make a real informed decision on the efficacy of a drug.

This is probably true for most patients, but not doctors. Normally, a patient consults a doctor on what drugs to use for their illness and the risk of taking it.
You might want to read this: http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/science/variatio...

It is scientifically recognized that people have different circadian rhythms (thus sleep cycles).

And here’s some research about teenage delayed circadian rhythm: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820578/

You know, sometimes people are not snowflakes that require bullying or discipline to do things “the right way”.

Btw, do you have any references for your claim that most sedentary people will become night owls if they don’t pay attention? Or is it just your own personal perspective?
But surely you can see how hopeless dating feels for many men when they swipe right on hundreds of women and get 0 matches? I'm not saying they aren't getting many — they're getting none (I know you just have my word on this, but trust me when I say they are not ugly or fat or anything, just nonwhite and without high paying jobs, but otherwise average-looking guys who have dated successfully in the past).

The situation isn't great on either side, but plenty of statistics show it's mostly women having sex off these apps, so clearly there is an actual imbalance.

And you can't write off the sheer hopelessness and isolation that the thought "there's not a single woman out there who would date me" induces in young men. I'm sure it's not fun for women but it is absolutely __brutal__ for many men.
> The Netherlands is a country that keeps its citizens under a tax slavery, that will make sure 80 to 85 % of all income you earn over the course of your lifetime will be taken away.

This is flamebait and wrong. Their tax rates range from 37% to 49% which is not far off the United States 40% or so for combined local, state, and federal taxes and add the cost of healthcare (which is included in those Dutch taxes, at half the total cost as the US system).
Lol! You say none of the advice from the article really works, and then immediately follow that up by saying what worked for you was... advice that was in the article?

Excerpt from the linked article:

Don’t force yourself into a consistent bedtime. A regular bedtime is great if you’re sleeping well. But if you can’t fall asleep, trying to force it will only make things worse.
If we're not aiming for mass market, this service could use mobile device WebAuth as it's only authentication vehicle limiting it to one per device.

How do you spam/exploit that?
This is why tinder was created, having both parties express some level of interest eliminates the need and most of the benefits of mass spamming. Granted one party could spam likes, but ranking algorithms probably take into account this behavior.
> RAID or storage replication in distributed storage <..> is not only useless, but actively undesirable

I guess I'm different from most people, good news!
When building my new "home server" half a year ago I made a raid-1 (based on ZFS) with 4 NVMEs. I rarely appear at that city, so I brought the fifth one and put it into an empty slot. Well, one of the 4 nvmes lasted for 3 months and stopped responding. One "zpool replace" and I'm back to normal, without any downtime, disassembly, even reboots. I think that's quite useful. When I'm there the next time I'll replace the dead one, of course.
id's engine was famously C, not C++, all the way through Quake 3.
Safari doesn't have enough marketshare for people to get very upset about it, and more importantly you can turn it off, which people did not trust Google to do.
More Chinese provinces issue bans on cryptomining
Am I being a bit naive to think that this has more to do with public safety? In theory, there is some increased level of regulation/review of the car and medical device manufacturers that limits the risk these repairs aren’t done to an appropriate standard? You can make a trade-off between standard of repair and price for your iPhone that only impacts the device, but cars and medical devices not properly repaired could impact a life.
If that metric is true doesn't that already give google, lg, samsung, ... an out ? "manufacturer of motor vehicle equipment" is sufficiently large to include everyone we want that law for.
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And money.
Amazon, Google execs lead U.S. Senate panel antitrust hearing witness list
The FDA was required to approve all new drugs because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

I personally agree that the FDA isn't always perfect (they should never have approved SSRI's, for instance) but claiming that there's no tradeoff here is just incorrect.
Agree with your larger point but:

> This may show up as lots of superfluous/unreproducible papers and journals many not even based on the scientific method.

seems very STEM-centric. It sounds like you're saying academia outside of the realm of science is useless which I completely disagree with.