skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happened a long time ago with Harvard Extension School.
>I think the idea that work should always be engaging and meaningful is a harmful fallacy that is setting young people up for failure.

I agree. I used to think exactly this, until I eventually realized that work should be engaging because I find it engaging, not because it is naturally engaging, and it's up to me to set that attitude.
Yeah I agree that LI hasn't done a great job of protecting their data from being misused. But that's the nature of social networks though, data is to be shared in order to build the network. As another commenter said, just don't put in anything you don't want people to find out. Absolute privacy cannot be achieved when you give out your information willingly. To paraphrase WOPR, "the only way to win the game is to not play."
There was a gas scare a few years back. I don’t remember the specifics, but essentially Russia threatened parts of Europe to go without gas for a while.
Doesn't it all depend what you want out of life? And is the hard work even guaranteed to provide you what you want out of life? Hard work, desired outcomes, and goals are not in alignment.

What's the point of this essay, to convince people who don't want to work hard to work hard? Is this meant to chastise people? Motivate? Demoralize? Self-congratulate?
For me, I stopped watching TV twenty years ago - but then transfered my neurotic novelty seeking behavior to the internet. But because I quit once, it made it easier to reign in my mindless internet consumption. And then stop any mindless book consumption. Then mindless video-games.

So for my - "No TV" is a easy way to express "I'm trying to maintain a ballance between living a vigorous life and consuming meaningful media"
For some reason, staring at a blinking screen in a dark room really creeps me out. I got goose bumps all over my body. I had to give up after a minute or so.
I hesitate to declare that society is more 'rational' than it used to be, but people today are vastly more likely to think that someone who hears voices, sees visions, and makes prophecies is actually suffering from schizophrenia rather than believing they are genuinely communicating with the divine. That being said, there are still plenty of cults and new age movements out there. But they never seem to reach critical mass and usually fade away after a few decades.

I also believe it's the case that people look towards established faiths, rather than brand new ones simply because the older faiths have much more to offer ideologically. Beyond mere survivorship bias, the longer a faith has been around, the more likely it is to have better apologia and ideological arguments in its favor.
Are you using GTID's for replication? Most of my replication issues stem from not being able to use them
I would love for this to be integrated into Consul Connect so all our systems just run in one mesh and all internal traffic is encrypted without even thinking about it.
Others may know Near as "byuu". Incredibly sad :(

How the hell is Kiwi Farms legal?
Privacy benefits the few, openness benefits the masses = openness allows the masses to ferret out and punish deviance.
It seems like product hunt, with extra steps.
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Vanilla JS gets messy as your app scales. You will end up building a framework.
It's really interesting to see how a crowd of tech workers who generally are trying to pave the way are so quick to attack and be negative.

Like all things in life, when its implemented well it works and when it does not it is terrible. I still think there is room for this to be the future though. I say this as a westerner but perhaps the west is not ready for it yet but I really enjoyed the experience of using QR codes in China. Go to a restaurant I just get shown where to sit and don't need to waste time with the host/server giving me menus or telling me anything. If I have questions they are there to answer the but I can also just sit down, scan the QR code, menu opens up and I can order food. Food just shows up minutes later. When I am done I go to the front and pay with Alipay.

The benefits to me of not having physical menus is huge. From the business perspective there is less interaction time necessary to serve a diner. Sure if this is an upscale high touch experience physical menu is where it stays BUT the majority of dining experiences are not like this. The menu is up to date and easy to modify. Possible to include multiple pictures and information about the food.

I might be wild but I really like the experience and wish more places would adopt it. Like all things I think here in the west its still too new so we have a mixed bag of good and bad implementations. Give it a few years and I think it will be narrowed down to the POS providers who offer it as a feature.
Matrix.org chat experiencing spam flood attacks across the federation network
If a category is entirely optional and not based on anything inherent, why is it wrong to generalise? Buffett could stop being a billionaire tomorrow if he wanted to.
I recently launched "Scaffoldly" last week for just this purpose and am looking for some early adopters that would like to kick the tires.

I've built the automation to handle a bunch of the nitty grittys, API Templates & Web Portal Tempaltes, Auth API, Serverless, etc.

I'm marketing it as a "SaaS builder" but it also works great for small projects on a budget as well.

It's free and open source, so should do well for a project you're starting, and I can definitely help through any snags you may hit!

If you're interested, start here (https://scaffold.ly), let me know if you have questions here! Or join our Slack.
If people liked that sort of thing it would have been the business model before it was forced to be. The restaurants have declined in quality. Sometimes this is their fault, and sometimes it isn't. Either way, no restaurant is entitled to customers. A lot of places near me have decided that masks are still required, despite the state saying they aren't. In response, I have decided not to eat there. There's no entitlement either way, just the market.
John Carmack read a draft of this.
"Natural ability" is a cop-out and PG should know better. It'd be fine if this came with a disclaimer, "we don't know what natural ability is and the more we learn the more complex and diverse this umbrella term becomes." But taking it at face value is fuzzy thinking. It feels like this was included to hedge his bets.

The Polgar sisters(1) serve as evidence that while "natural ability" may be a thing it's even less important than you might imagine. Instead this and work like that of Ericsson(2) on the development of expertise point to repeatable environmental factors for success.

I look forward to a day when we can eliminate this phrase and replace it with measurable phenomena and repeatable processes.

(1) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r

(2) - https://smile.amazon.com/Cambridge-Expertise-Performance-Han...
Flutter open source UI library community
Also, can you recommend beginner python books. thanks.
guess we should criminalize bowel movements
I try to look on the bright side these days. Can't wait to find out all the weird stuff LinkedIn knows or has completely wild-ass guessed about me!

And by the way, recently YouTube has been serving me exclusively Spanish-language ads. I am probably 0% Hispanic ethnically and have no knowledge of Spanish. Would be cool to get a data leak that shows what's up with that!
That's quite an astute observation - I guess getting out of your comfort zone is a necessary part of language learning. I've written on HN before about relatively simple things I have found useful (keeping a diary in $language, or watching films with $language audio) but looking back, if I'm honest the toughest situations were probably the most valuable for building confidence and testing my abilities.
If Bill Gates was so smart why did he have to screw so many people over? Remember how many other smart people and other companies he eat for breakfast? If Bill Gates had the right work ethic would he still be so rich?
Applebees allows you to order from the kiosk. I bet that after a few times of doing that you could get a situation where the waitress would recognize you and not even stop by until she's bringing your order.

I still feel that these products are "sold" to restaurants and aren't actually all they're cracked up to be.
The last of the line, the SPARC-based CM-5 was the first time I saw one, but only on the big screen.

http://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=15
In the US, health insurance premiums are (by law) based on age, location, and smoking status only. Highest premiums (age 64) are capped at 3x the premium of ages 21 to 24.
I’m annoyed that the articles make it sound so easy. ”Just start a company and take it to the moon!”

The article makes it sound trivial to reliably and repeatedly catch lightning in a bottle like Paypal and Palantir did
(Although, as of this morning, it does appear to be down!)
In undergrad I'd listen to lectures while doing chores all the time, especially when the concepts are theoretical and it's more about just listening to the information.

It won't work for a calculus lecture, but for a lot of topics it works just fine.
“Bring back menus, QR code’s are terrible.”

Thank God somebody had the spine to say it. QR code implementation is a mess. I’ve had a terrible time when a phone is out of battery, poor reception, or buggy.

I hate relying on my phone for something as simple as a meal out. All seemed rather dystopian.
Impressive product.
Because there's no incentive for them to reduce prices.
But it'll be hard to limit these things to just a few that can be secured really well. There will be lots of potential for an energy source like this in remote or underdeveloped regions, and once you pepper the globe with reactors, good luck having everyone adhere to regulations, and not try too hard to circumvent those safeguards.
There’s also a conflation of working hard and working really long hours. Plus some cherry picked examples. Basically if you only need to find five or six examples of success you could probably defend any lifestyle to get there. For example if I didn’t have kids or need to coordinate with the west coast of the US this mode from Haruki Murakami sounds lovely.

> When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at four a.m. and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for ten kilometers or swim for fifteen hundred meters (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at nine p.m.

> I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.

> But to hold to such repetition for so long — six months to a year — requires a good amount of mental and physical strength. In that sense, writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.
At a place where I used to work, we noticed that the new project management and time tracking software, that had been rolled out to much fanfare, would let you check the salary of anyone in the company simply by editing the URL in the browser and reading the XML file it sent back. I've never seen IT fix anything that quickly.
Not everywhere but in some places it happens if it’s a slow night and the restaurant does some sort of thing where they average out all the tips over a week/month. A waiter could very well earn 3-4$ per hour if they earned 15 on the weekend. It’s not legal but it happens.

Even shadier shit happens where the restaurant makes employees repot tips that didn’t happen to keep above the minimum. Then they have to pay taxes off income not earned. Is it illegal? Yeah but it’s difficult to enforce and the people getting screwed are already very vulnerable (not your hipster big city wait staff)
> If you’re doing dishes you are not taking a college level course. One of the best things about digital courses is that you don’t have to spend an hour zoning out to a professor talking

Strong disagree - as you point out in the next sentence, slightly distracted is the standard model of consumption for in person.
Yes, it's completely possible and most people don't think about it, at all. It's not complicated.
Why worry with Windows 11 when you've got Chromebooks (and Chrome OS)?
Could SkillsHunt be the future job board?
Thank you. Any feedback is appreciated!
Yes, I think the term is the crux of it.

By declaring that something that someone enjoys doing for whatever reason is not necessary, in situations like this, one appears to be implicitly attempting to erode their right to do it.

Anyone can think of many things they do for fun which are not necessitated.

Perhaps it would be better to be more explicit, if that's how you feel: "Everyone should refrain from ...'
My biggest cheapskate-old-man gripe is how the UX as you said is systemically deteriorating in restaurants yet the tip expectations have creeped up from 15% standard to now 25% default. And, all apps that compute tip % or recommended tip amounts tip on top of tax, which really irks me as just a dark pattern to rip off patrons and inflate the tip amount. This is US tipping culture at absolute worse.

I hold at 15% standard. Yet, many apps have defaults for 18%, 20%, 22%... all way up to 30% from what I've seen. And, they allow me to "Custom Tip" which I do once I find it (it's usually small and text instead of a button like the presets). However, once you select custom I'm back into dollars instead of percents so I have to do the math myself (and I don't even remember what the total was by this screen). At this point, I'm feeling like "okay you just don't want my money then because I'm not a whale of a tipper" so I have as some act of defiance started just skipping it altogether. I know it's not fair for that server but it's what little I can do to voice my dissent of the system.
Honestly, I think we actually want a high-carbon cement: One full of graphene or other carbon compounds, pulled from the atmosphere. Per the article yesterday [1] we need to remove 2 teratonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere to meet IPCC targets. Maybe some of that will be done by taxpayer-funded carbon sequestration operations that exist only to pump the carbon 'away' in underground reserviors. But I think that if we've laid down 1 Tt of concrete, and could develop something better than that which is carbon-negative, people would be more than happy to pay for that CO2 sequestration, and that progress might actually survive an election cycle.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/engineers-you-ca...
Strangely, after having read the article, now I am wondering why the React team can't just borrow some of these optimizations. It would take a massive overhaul, but it's not like React has ever stood still, it's constantly evolving and changing. I wouldn't be surprised if the under the hood stuff continues to change in a huge way, just like it did when React Fiber was completed.

At the end of the day, I've never spoken to a developer who was using React because it was fast, but because it was easy to use and understand.
> Most of them don't. I end up bullshitting them as much as possible and getting a B so I can focus on the courses I care about

I hear where you're coming from on this (and have been in similar shoes), but I suppose there is more nuance to it, mostly because professors and departments play such an important role in the experience.

The argument of liberal arts electives lending themselves to a richer education experience is a well-intentioned one, and does reap benefits if executed well by the professor, the department, TA's and so on. If not, well, it is just like you mentioned, one is inclined to BS their way out of a class to focus on things more important to them.

Speaking from my anecdotal experience, I have had to take three electives as part of my undergrad: microeconomics, macroeconomics, and a philosophy class on the philosophy of the mind. I have thoroughly enjoyed macro-econ and philosophy simply because the professors put in an incredible amount of work to inspire me to work hard and care about the subject. Micro-econ, on the other hand, was one giant mess and I did not show up to more than 3 lectures over the course of the semester.

I believe in the earnest that students stand to gain so much if some university departments and professors gave a crap about the experience that they are offering.
https://i.imgur.com/91sn32Q.jpg
I don't have "the answer" but I will share my current experience with you.

I have worked for the company I am with for ~5 years, and I usually take a large chunk of time (2-3 weeks) off at the end of the year to recover and reset. Because of the nature of my work I am pretty busy the rest of the year to take more than a few days at a time for any vacation (read: I work while on vacation).

This year my client was particularly pushy and wanted a butt in a seat over the holidays, and because I was the newest on the contract I was selected to be the person who stayed. This bumped my year end reset into the next year (which almost didn't happen at all).

Come the end of May, I realized I was burned out, only by the way of my clients complaining, and not understanding why I couldn't sit down and give a damn about my work.

I realized I had to do something, or else the cycle would continue and I would end up without a job. I reached out to my manager and said what was going on. Told him I am burned out, I need to take a vacation, I need to get right. My manager took this news with grace, told me to tell my client I would be out sick the rest of the week, and to take PTO the following week.

YMMV, but I can tell you that if you are in a good company and they truly value you, you will get the support you need. Many managers are coming around to the idea that people burn out, and that we need time away from keyboards, phones, and having to worry about work, to truly recover.

If your manager isn't receptive to this, that is a good sign you need to take some time, and look for a new position as well. If you can afford the time, take a week or two between jobs (if you end up leaving), to recover and not just head into your new position with the same burn out you are currently experiencing.

I wish you luck, and hope you are able to get the help/rest you need.
Maybe.

In that case I must be a very special case or they are absolutely clueless or something.

I see nothing but idiotic ideas coming out from Googles knowledge of my data:

- absurdly irrelevant and even insulting ads. I can easily count on one hand the useful ones I have got (one for a local shop and one for Jetbrains products I think).

- Google Now suggesting in the middle of the night that I should text the boss two levels above me or call a random girl I once helped with a computer(!)
Hard work can be good, but only if you own a substantial capital interest in the company/result. But if you can hire people to do it for you, then you can reap the benefits and live a life worth living. If you are just part of the labor and not the capital, then there really isn't an incentive to work harder than necessary to keep you job or earn a measly raise.

If you tell people that if they work 12+ hours a day in their 20s that they would be multi-millionaires or billionaires, then almost everyone would accept that position. The real world doesn't work that way and using statistical outliers like Gates is disingenuous to the discussion about hard work and how it applies to normal people.
Meanwhile, in Norway...

Norway: The country where no salaries are secret
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40669239

Removing anonymity of searching made a significant difference as did letting you know who looked you up. This is a form of social pressure that seems to balance out their need for transparency versus the "peeping tom" aspect of open salary data.

There are some less than good social impacts but I'd say on balance the overall result is positive.

I actually think any job ad without a salary indication should be seen with suspicion and mistrust. Its basically false or deceptive advertising. Its like going to a shop to buy some fruit but them being sheepish about the price. Negotiations then ensue and you give them an offer and they say "that isn’t realistic". But you easily counter with "well you should have listed the price". The ensuing negotiation includes sich phrases as "you should know the market" and all sorts of "competitive market" slogans.

In the end they simply want to clamp the price down and take advantage of ignorance rather than any kind of ethical stance. We tolerate this unethical behavior because "that's how it is".
agree but weed is not really natural any more as we've bred it to be far more potent (thc%) than wild varieties
> education endeavours eventually turn for-profit and then the goals get misaligned.

There are companies trying to battle the problems that come with a single bottom line, like Guild Education.
That's ironic, since wood construction has a much longer history than reinforced concrete, and I'm not by any means convinced that the latter will be as durable.
It does sound a bit weird. How long do they last? In UK you would expect a house to remain standing for 80-150 years. Maybe more.
FYI RDS aurora engines do not use EBS (instead a custom replicated log based storage layer) and thus do not have this iops limitation. They are extremely fast.
Yeah this is absolute shit, and it appeals to a very specific kind of "driven" people. Nothing against them but they need to realise that most others just want to enjoy their short time on this planet. I'm happy with my really mellow stable job that leaves me plenty of free time to do the things I actually want. Life is too short.
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Ironically, the thing that supposedly no one does (setting innerHTML) in many cases is still much faster than using the finer grained DOM APIs the way React or Svelte would.
Agreed, but I also found that 3-ingredient formula to be one of the more insightful things he says in this essay. It's a good way to understand what it takes to be successful at anything.

Including, by the way, being a parent. Many of us aren't born with (or have a sufficiently healthy childhood) to have naturally great parenting abilities. But hard work and practice sure do go a long way.
The problem with this "personalized learning" approach is that, outside of MIT OCW, everyone seems to have skipped implementing the normal, long lecture in front of blackboard to watch method straight to interactive laden content.
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Yes. This doesn’t ban travel outright; just the use of state funds for state employees to travel. The state of California is not stopping LAX to Birmingham flights for example which would be unconstitutional. Due to the tenth amendment states have wide latitude on how to use their money.
> They will get more contributions from speakers of that language.

Will they?
"Natural ability" is when your skills and interests happen to have a good impedance match with a problem to be solved.
adhd and depression can be comorbid as is anxiety
I wonder if how to work hard is best answered by the inverse.

How to not work hard?

1. Work on things of little importance to yourself

2. Pretend that you dont need to work hard and that’s for suckers.

3. Work on things that don’t require your talents

… more?
My understanding is that the current iPhones offer both a traditional SIM card slot along with an esim, which gives you the option of two sims provided one of the carriers supports esim.

I also believe that current iPhones sold in China support two physical SIM cards and no esim.
Interesting that every time wealth tax has been proposed by somebody, it always interestingly has the "limit" set above said person's own personal wealth.