skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a tire salesman trope that the "I like to sound like I care about other people's safety because the internet gives me virtue points when I do that" crowd picked up and ran with.

Ask anyone who works in the tire industry outside of sales and they will tell you that unless your tire was really, really abused or sat in the desert sun all the time 6yr is nothing and you should inspect the tire if you want to get an idea of how degraded it is.

Source: friends at cooper.

Personal anecdote time: Over the last year I went through a two and a half sets of old tires that I accumulated over the years for my van. I was intentionally doing burnouts daily to get through old stock as I planned to (and did) get new ones once I exhausted the old stockpile.

The only tires that had noticeably hardened and performed poorly (but oh boy did they do good burnouts) were the newest of the bunch and from 2016. The oldest ones were from 2009 and the half set was from 2012.
Slowing it down would take way more energy than just nudging in a different direction. You might be better off trying to break it up into smaller pieces.
I mean, it's about the statistical consequences of your lifestyle. I would expect hiking overall to have a positive impact on your health and health expenses statistically even with the risk of a snakebite, and a beer a week to have no impact at all. I'm talking about the people who come home and drink whiskey every night. And I'm not against my insurance paying for peoples care, I'm against paying the same insurance rate as them. Health insurance should be higher if you live in a area with high environmental toxins, as well, sure. Should everyone in the country carry flood insurance so that people in flood planes can pay less?

It seems to me a lot of this is about responsibility to society, but that only goes one way. If it's my responsibility to pay into social Healthcare, why is it not their responsibility to not be a heavy smoker, or morbidly obese, or a heavy drinker? It seems to me that the moral tables are turned around in this argument, where I'm a bad person for not wanting to pay, but they arnt bad people for doing things that virtually garuntee they will need payouts.
And in the realm of online family tree services, there are two approaches. One is you build your own tree, but with the help of other people's trees and other records. That's what ancestry is. The other type is the single universal tree that is built collaboratively. That's what wikitree is, and familysearch also has that as a component.

For what I've done, wikitree is a great match, but where things are messed up by people being sloppy, it can be pretty hard to straighten it all out.
> The objective of work is not "to work", its to be productive.

Exactly. Which is why of all governments the Japanese one is pushing the 4 day week is really surprising. Here the mentality is really to work for the show, even if resulting in no increase of production whatsoever.
The Waldo example is more an explanation of "what" a ZKP is than "how" a ZKP works. Not a terrible starting point, but yep, definitely doesn't capture the complexity of the real deal.
So we need to disrupt unions unaware of inflation.

Engineers also could collectively tank the economy; wfh makes a strike a matter of not opening a laptop.

Even just the serious threat would put aristocrats on notice. Look what WSB has done to Wall Street with GME.

The last generation has no information advantage. Just a political one. It can be taken away with little to no violence. I mean for one they’re a gerontocracy.

Go forth. Disrupt.
> It only takes one person to find a bit of malicious code, we don’t all need to review every single line.

This is just objectively wrong. I have worked on projects at FAANG where entire teams did not spot critical security issues during review.

You are very unlikely to spot an issue with just one pair of eyes. You need many if you want any hope of catching bugdoors.
Scenarios when breast milk is not an option do exist, but they're extremely rare.

Story time: when we were expecting our first one, me and my wife went to the hospital for their maternity facilities tour. Hospitals have these monthly, so that expecting mothers know what to expect (a pun?).

In the end of the tour the nurse asked who's gonna breastfeed and who's using formula. 7 out of 10 went with formula. FUCKIN 7 OUT OF 10.
All were first time mothers, so no, it's not that they knew something was wrong with their tits.

So unless you gonna tell me something is in the air of Alabama [1], no, I'm not buying your argument.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/data/facts.html
That Gist is the source of the "email": #7 is fake and was added by Yegge as a joke.
In the short-term, overwork provides a productivity boost. But in the long-term, makes people less productive, people waste their time more... and the worst part: they neglect activities outside work. Like being with their families, or starting a family, or looking for a partner.
Distributism?
Not sure about the ecology in the plains states but the salt is pretty terrible for our forests too.
Over here lunch time is not part of worktime. Per law we need to have at least half an hour for lunch, but we can take however long (if the company allows). Dunno how it is in other countries. (I am from austria, europe)
So how do you explain the last thirty years in Japan? Was there a decrease in work ethic?
I'm quoting the GP:

> Especially in industries that require deep thinking, the output doesn't necessarily scale with # of hours a worker puts in, not every hour is the same. I think 10 hours of highly productive work is much better than 40 hours of busy work.

I absolutely agree with this, but I'm skeptical of a model that allows someone to come to work for only 10 hours and have those hours be the productive time. Especially for deep thinking work. My experience is that to push forward in work that requires creativity and deep thought, one needs to be immersed in it, while at the same time not pressured to come up with something on the spot. The immersion (often) requires a full time commitment to the work, even if some of that time is actually spent chatting with colleagues or wasting time on HN or whatever. Providing the needed freedom from pressure, but still enough pressure to get results, is a question of management, either personal or from good manager.
I started getting coil whine yesterday, after adjusting my fan curves. Not really sure why, but with the fans off the whine was far louder than keeping them on a low-speed minimum. It’s not fan noise blocking out the coil whine, because I still can’t hear the fans (they’re Noctua’s). I don’t know if it’s due to thermals, something to do with the power load, or what.

I’ll have to look at the polling rate thing, too - thanks for the tip.
Oddly enough, my wife started having problems recently connecting to our network on her iPhone. The access point name is an emoji (and is also a hidden SSID) it doesn't totally break WiFi but it recently started to refuse connecting just saying "Unable to join".
What’s wrong with an hour long lunch? Isn’t that normal?
What's with this obsession to 'get back to where we were before'?

Where we were before was broken, and the pandemic helped reveal that. Poor work/life balance, income inequality, industries built on JIT processes which fail spectacularly when the unexpected happens (see lumber, shipping containers, semiconductors, etc), an unfortunate wake-up call that even with entire industries shut down and almost no flights and cars on the road we only reduced emissions by 13% so we're going to need to make incredible sacrifices and green-tech investments if we even want to hope at our promised 50% reduction by 2030.

We shouldn't hope to get to where we were before. We should try to be better, and perhaps learn to live with less, because on a global scale we're not going to have a choice before too long whether we do it consciously or have it forced on us.
Indeed, there’s a sort of Moneyball aspect here. Companies that can accurately pay out only for productive time instead of assuming all 40 hours of a work week are spent producing will make huge savings in payroll, increasing cost efficiency and making it feasible to hire larger cross functional teams. A software engineer probably only really works about 20 hours a week. That’s a 50% savings right there.
iCloud backups aren't a requirement. You can have an iPhone with iCloud on disabled, and privacy-conscious users might choose that approach; additionally, those backups don't necessarily contain all device data.

But if you want to download apps at all from the App Store you need to sign in, and if that alone gives Apple the ability to verify your device PIN even without iCloud, that's a problem.
Does Tesla give out heavily subsidized (or even free) cars to employees?

Had a friend who worked at Mercedes Benz corporate and he could pretty much pick any non-AMG car in rotating 6-month leases. The monthly lease payment for him to lease a SL550 (a six figure convertible) was about the same as leasing a Honda Civic.

Seems other car companies do similar programs for their employees.
Yeah, and hour long lunch is pretty long. Most people I know take less time than that to eat at a restaurant, let alone just grabbing your sandwich from the fridge.
Only given highly parallelizable tasks wherein input linearly maps to output, e.g. picking corn, laying train tracks, chopping trees, etc.

Technology increases leverage allowing exponential outputs given the right inputs.

Overworking employees ceases to be a viable strategy for high tech industries.
Some things are just very common in math notation, enough that people recognize it better than fully named variables. Things like uppercase letter for a matrix, _T for a transpose, etc.
I enjoyed that. But I'd like to know how Geraldine's marriage turned out.
If the package maintainer's build pipeline is compromised (eg. Solarwinds), you are unlikely to be affected if you build from reviewed source yourself.
The best way I have been able to do this is to write a book as I am doing my research. I organize an outline for the ancestors, fill in the details I can find as paragraphs, and pretty much have a footnote (or sometimes two) with every sentence with a source.

For a particularly tricky ancestor, it will start as just a list of sources or leads in roughly chronological order. I work through and try to form these sources into narrative paragraphs as I piece together what is accurate, how they are connected to children/parents/spouses/etc. In some cases, I disprove other people's unsupported theories, and in some cases I present a case for my own conclusions, noting any ambiguity or uncertainty.

I then update my primary tree (on Ancestry.com) with the results of my research, and link or upload the most important original documents there. At some point, I'll upload PDFs of the chapters to the relevant people's pages.

Is there software that could organize this all and make it easier? I'm not totally sure, but I'd be open to considering it.
You can't avoid CANBUS anymore but if you go buy the base trim subcompacts from those brands the well to do parts of the internet turn up their noses at you should be able to find stuff without much or any technical bloat.
Pretty funny how any format can be a vector for miscreants. I wonder if this is a testament to Apple’s security in preventing more obvious vectors, or insecurity for allowing this to continue.
The union I joined started me at step 3, not step 1 for my grade, because of my extensive background as I negotiated salary to equal my previous FAANG salary. Union software engineers do have some power there.
Just my two cents. Logistics of current tech aside, I think it is a bit premature to make such specific laws. I am not a lawyer, but I could see using existing laws to prosecute a person or company that builds something with the intention of harming others, assuming it was not sanctioned by a government to do so. If the device malfunctions and accidentally harms someone, then I would expect the existing legal framework to deal with that as well. If your Tesla gets hacked by some kid and your car mows people down there would be an investigation and if a root cause is found, the existing legal framework should be able to deal with this. If an interstate fuel pipeline control framework is hacked and fuel supplies are shut down ... well you get the picture, this is already a potential risk in all current tech. So bring on the Ninja robots and just make sure nobody can hack into it and that it has fail-safes in place to prevent unauthorized harm. Authorized being the level permitted in a martial arts tournament or that of a personal security detail... Perhaps another angle of this would be what type and amount of liability insurance you are required to carry for such a device especially if it is allowed outside of a very controlled and secured environment.

I could see laws and more specifically rights for systems that become sentient. If something becomes self aware and/or a life-form then I think we would need to give it protections not afforded machines. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjuQRCG_sUw
"But now, more than ever, is when we need to be working harder to get back to where we were before."

the question is whether working more really leads to working harder and more output. From what I see most people just go through the motion after a certain amount of work per week. They look busy and feel busy but I am not sure the output is there. I personally I am most productive if I work around 32 hours per week with some spurts of much more work in between.
The fact that motorcycling is a choice that none of the "think of the children" pearl clutchers make means that it is fairly immune to their lobbying efforts.
Yeah, I don't know how useful it would be for this specific application just due to the architecture differences. Just for a off-the-grid file share, a ESP32 with a SD card wired up to it is still a lot less power hungry than the Raspberry Pi.

Even under full load with the radios powered up, you're looking at like 0.75W, and when you're not actively transferring anything you can go into any of the various sleep modes and hit 0.05W (modem sleep), 0.0025W (light sleep) or 0.00003W (deep sleep). That's an order of magnitude difference versus a Raspberry Pi. You can easily power that esp32 pretty much indefinitely with like... a 4x6in PV panel.

It's a fun thought experiment on where you could toss a little 4x6 inch panel that has wifi and a 32GB microsd card you can access via wifi or something. But yeah, doesn't really make much sense to me in this use case.
Unofficial Football World Championships
It is two separate issues; as I said, I think $18k is way too low for a subset of accounts takeover. Personally, I'd have awarded the full amount.
Reminds me of this wonderful stamp on a similar theme — the 2017 solar eclipse stamp. Initially showing the eclipse, the image on the stamp changed to show the moon when you warmed it with your finger.

Was pleasantly surprised to see something fun and interesting coming out of an institution that I thought no longer innovates.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Total_Solar_Eclipse_sta...
>NOW ME AND THE MAD SCIENTIST GOT TO PULL APART TORQUE CONVERTER BECAUSE IT WAS THE FIRST ONE EVER IN HISTORY TO INCLUDE A CLUTCH PACK.

The 80s called and want their AOD and 700R4 back.
Not just 2015. A lot of people, including me, would love for azure to be on par. Unfortunately it isn’t. Not in reliability, features, or even documentation. Hopefully it’ll get there.

GCP is an odd duck. It really wants you to do things its way. But if you are doing a multi-cloud strategy the last thing you want is to go all in on the GCP way. Also they just don’t seem to treat customers as seriously as Amazon and Azure. It isn’t life or death for Google and it shows.
It's not just tech, it's office jobs in general. People doing 40 hours of actual, necessary work in that environment are the exception.
Location/accent is important, but sometimes we can get by without IPA. There will be some ambiguity, but often we're sufficiently familiar with each other's accents to interpret phonetic spellings as intended. (Though I do think the ə symbol is indispensable, because representing the schwa sound with 'uh' is just confusing.)

edit: sorry, just realised I probably misread you (as saying we should say where we're from and use IPA), in which case this comment is redundant.
Most developed countries have enforced hour long lunch breaks. Grabbing your sandwich from the fridge and eating at your desk is shunned.
This would be a better link: https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imp-intro/
I found that different manufacturers often have a different "default foot" profile. For example, Nike is consistently narrow. So that 40% number might be larger when you consider that people probably shop between brands for comfort as well.

There are also some big brands that offer shoes in wide - e.g. New Balance & Cole Hann.
It would definitely be better off if more people felt they were participating in economic growth. Over the last few decades most growth has gone to a small number of people and the rest didn't really benefit. This leads to a very cynical and resigned attitude.
FamilySearch is excellent and has a ton of primary sources once you get used to how to find them. Ancestry.com's main advantage is that it provides "hints" that suggests sources for your ancestors. It's super easy to add those sources and people to your tree. That's also its main weaknesses, because these sources and hints are sometimes completely wrong, and are then copied and repeated by many genealogists until they take on a veneer of truth through sheer repetition.
I strongly agree with that, coming from Matlab to both Python and Julia. While I enjoy some of the similarities between Julia and Matlab, it does take some learning and effort to write proper code in another language. Array indexing with square brackets in Julia tripped me up initially for instance as Matlab uses parentheses, and it still take non-zero mental effort to adjust when writing Julia (despite having done C in a distant past...).

Writing proper and idiomatic code that gets the best out of each language takes even longer as it requires more knowledge and experience. Having spent the last ten years or so predominantly in Matlab, and the corporate environment moving increasingly to Python, and my own interest in Julia, I am getting a double dose of this.

Pragmatically I like Matlab best, in large part because I am so comfortable in my workflow and the large existing codebase, but also the IDE, debugger, etc. I most fascinated by Julia but find that exploiting its potential has its own learning curve, and wrangling with type stability has its own challenges. I am least enthused by Python, which I am learning mostly from necessity, but this may be colored by my extreme aversion to its use of indentation.
Hopefully a move like this will help with their declining birthrate problem
> absolutely no one is putting in a productive 40 hours of work a week

You are being a little broad with this statement. One can easily put in 60+ hours for weeks on end and be incredibly productive while doing it. Its all circumstantial. If you have no family, are the sole founder in the company, and really enjoy what you are doing, why the fuck would you stop at a 40 hour work week?

Not all of us loathe the thing we do for the majority of our waking hours.
No thanks, I like having new cancer treatment available.

That paper seems to focus entirely on tech.
with the market increasing its ability meet the credit requirements, will we see the requirements increase? Or evolve deeper into the supply chain?
> Reproducible builds are way more important than is currently widely appreciated.

Why? How will this help with the problems you're talking about?

I can't come up with a single benefit to security from reproducible builds. It seems nice for operational reasons and performance reasons though.
Will this be one of those Japanese quirks just like 5pm, where they say 4 day work week, but then still work 5-6 work weeks? Like sure, you can leave at 5, but do you want to be the person to leave at 5?
I like Black Mirror. Like an extension of the argument that "guns don't shoot people, people shoot people", Black Mirror displays the equation, XYZcoolTech+people = horrifying.

Apply that here and you can bet that "florida robot dog does stupid thing" will be a headline in the future.
Australia calling: 37.5hr week please. It be law.
> So I gave amazon a choice. 2 year contract forced pay contract, if they fired me for any reason, other than fraud, I would collect the full amount. I done this twice.

As someone who has hired contractors and full time employees many times, this is just insane. I don't care if you are Linus Torvalds himself, as an employer I would never sign a contract that is that lopsided, and to be honest I can't believe that any competent company would either. And given the description you have given of the company that was dumb enough to sign this, they definitely don't sound very competent.

So, I mean I guess congratulations that you got 2 companies to sign this, but I can't think of any decently run company that would ever sign something like that.
But hasn't Amazon expanded massively in the last 3 years? I'm not sure how meaningful those numbers are unless the employee count is relatively static.
Think of all of the opportunities to write software to calculate the complicated changes required for astrology.
What’s the definition of “really working?”

I once told a freelance client (hourly) that I solved most of the tough problems while I thought about things in the shower. On that project, very little of my time was spent coding. Client then said I ought to pad my hours by 5 per week. He “got it.”

If simply “coding” is what constitutes “really working,” that seems problematic.
That appears to be true for humans, if you don't take enough electrolytes at the same time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
Heh. I did it too, as 'transition to retirement'. Liked it so much the transition bit didn't last too long.
On the flip side, more and more companies in general need custom software for tons of reasons. There is way less available SEs than their demand. With all the new technologies coming out needing custom software to glue it all together, there isn't any end in sight to those with special and above average abilities.
Why does the government need to be involved if employers actually get better productivity in the first place? Let employers experiment by themselves and see what works best. Another typical example of top-to-bottom leadership in Japan.
That's what the creator economy is!
My wife has worked for a series of VC funded immunotherapy startups. No government money funding them. If there were no biotech patents it’s hard for me to see why anyone would invest hundreds of millions into these tiny companies. The money doesn’t go to salaries - it goes to equipment, supplies, and trials.

Central planners spending other people’s money cannot possibly compete with the private system.
All I want is a tiny display, which does nothing but copies bitmap from the phone once a minute. So there is a bluetooth receiver and nothing else, assuming the display module works serially. And ok, it is little annoying, if the clock shows wrong, so you need a timer, which blanks the display every 61 seconds. This should work years without charging, like Sanyo from 1985.