skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Projects are things that are easy to put on my resume.

Milestones, unless they look "project like" are a harder (though not impossible) sell. They complicate the narrative.

When I'm moving on, the thing I want to be able to talk about is what I accomplished or helped accomplished that delivered value.

At the end of the day when you're being hired you're basically selling one of two possibilities: things will get done and you will profit, or I will keep things earning you profit.
You’re right mostly. It is about reaching a meeting of the minds. And law isn’t some thing with “loopholes” and “one weird tricks” but contracts generally contain integration clauses that state that the entirety of the agreement is contained inside the language of the signed contract itself. What this means is that as long as the terms are not illegal (such as usurious interest rates or run afoul of consumer protection laws or any number of other things), typically if it’s in the contract, it’s enforced. This manifests itself in situations where someone will cross out clauses that they object to before signing and those clauses don’t have any effect given they’re stricken, or where things are added and then enforced.

This creates a little need for trust among legal peers because this sort of thing can happen if one is not careful, but in a professional environment adding in things randomly is a serious breach of trust.
A staircase takes up about the plan size of one bedroom. If that's too much, you're probably trying to cram too many people into a building.

There's efficiency, and then there's, "more people live in this city than can all fit on the sidewalks." Maybe just don't.
What a surprise that within my lifetime, having a short attention span has gone from a personal failing to a condition, to finally conferring the status of a protected class. This should really help equitably distribute jobs like, you know, maintaining nuclear power plants and putting people into space, that previously required concentration and focus that some people just weren't born with. /s
Has anyone had a locker at university? As 10000 students attend that university, I doubt the students had any idea where lockers even were.
Well, that's less funny. I was thinking of that auto-pilot feature in Tesla. Which gives one time to code.
If we stick to strict Project Management definitions, milestones are within a project.

A program (representing a strategic goal) can contain multiple projects big and small. Perhaps the author wants to convey programs which map to company or divisions strategic initiatives.
I was introduced to all of these techniques at some point throughout my childhood and pre-mid-20s life. None of them really helped me. Prescription amphetamines did, though.

It kind of sucks feeling dependent on them to do uninteresting tasks and make it through the less-interesting workdays, but it sure beats being a 25-year-old NEET.

Fortunately, as software engineers, we have the privilege of being able to be choosy about our jobs. Which means I can find a new job or team as soon as things stop being fun.

I sometimes wonder if I would be capable of doing anything but programming work without completely hating my life. I'd probably be using my prescription every day at that point, instead of 3-4 times a week.

"Once a ladder, now a crutch"
From the article:

> there’s no evidence that Americans and Canadians are any safer from structure fires than our neighbors around the world

Scott Alexander's recent article made me sensitive to the phrase "no evidence". https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence.... Alexander writes:

> Science communicators are using the same term - “no evidence” - to mean:

> 1. This thing is super plausible, and honestly very likely true, but we haven’t checked yet, so we can’t be sure.

> 2. We have hard-and-fast evidence that this is false, stop repeating this easily debunked lie.

> This is utterly corrosive to anybody trusting science journalism.

I rather suspect that having independent two exits from the building does make us safer during a fire, and that this article simply represent lazy unprofessional journalism. The thorough lack of outsider opinions (from anybody other than the author and the subject of the article) strongly reinforces this initial impression.
Market caps don't make any sense anymore.

AT&T could be worth $5 billion in a year, and a toaster maker could be worth $300 billion.
As soon as I opened the article I pressed Cmd+F and searched for "dataclasses".

This article was correct and addressed a very real need in Python programming—for year 2016. By now it is obsolete and today's standard library module `dataclasses` does all of that and more.
You probably wouldn’t enjoy owning a Tesla if that is how you operate. Which is fine, but not for who this repo is for.

Did you know you can start a Tesla from a phone and someone can drive it away with no key?
Can we add COWA to the lexicon of FOMO?

Consciousness of Wasting Attention.
> Fleet does the same thing as well.

Did you get in to the early access group? I'd be curious what your thoughts have been so far if so!
Because I dislike euphemisms.

Is it any less propaganda just because you agree with it?

Educating people of what? "Gender equality is good" is a normative statement.

And nitpicking aside, my point stands entirely, whether it's "propaganda" or "education".
> [...] However, the actual solar year has been known to be around 365.2422 days since the 17th century. Although the difference appears to be too small, it leads to an error of adding 1 extra day every 128 years. To reduce this error, the Gregorian calendar was introduced in October 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII [...]

Huh? The error has been known since the 17th century, and its fix came in 1582?
The standard is "Safety regulations are written in blood." That's short enough and better than indirectly referring to it via a named 'law'.
Don’t have adhd that I know of but always find myself strangely relating to descriptions of it.

The timeboxes you describe have worked best for me. I put them on my calendar and have the computer go “ping” when it’s time. And there’s always a workout scheduled after work that forces me to stop.

Seems to work well if not better remotely because there’s fewer external distractions to disrupt my timeboxes.

The problem with working late is that it just steals energy from tomorrow. Best to say “Fuck it didn’t get anything done today” and try again.
The thing is that being ADHD is normal. Many people are just maladapted to the work and life style prevalent in city/office living. Instead of the person being broken, it can well be the environment that is.
Another similar event happened with molasses: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
To correct myself, it stays at the same battery level, so some current must be flowing. I have not tried for extended period of times (> 2hour). The thing is, on the one plus charger it goes to 100% in that time. I will keep it plugged for the night and see where it goes.

So there is no way to fast charge it, even with some adapter? That's disappointing.

Edit: I realize it was charging was faster (but not as fast as official adapter) with my older motherboard, so I guess there is still another issue here.
Except for the usage patterns where it's faster because you avoid blowing your CPU's caches as much... The trade offs between different ways of performing i/o are decidedly non-trivial.
ADHD like autism is a spectrum.

There are probably completely different “problems” in the brain whose results are all classified as ADHD. Some people with are “inattentive” ADD, others are “hyper-attentive” ADHD.

There are also various levels of ADHD. I think everyone has some level of “ADHD”: everyone can understand having trouble starting tasks or forgetting things. These are the symptoms of ADHD. But people diagnosed have them much more severe (sometimes to a flat-out “how?” extent). Some people with ADHD can get by with mental techniques and planners, others really need medication.

e.g. having trouble getting up (normal) vs spending hours in bed not realizing any time passed (ADD). Not being able to focus for long (normal) vs losing focus literally every 5 seconds and getting distracted by anything (ADHD).
“How can we make your work environment better?” is a question everyone should be asked from time to time.
Without the forced scrolling, it would be reasonable to argue that the contract agreed to was the contract displayed on the screen, especially if the signer is a novice computer user.
It's hard to be certain but we have seen this story in Scala. Among the advantages advertised early was interoperability with Java and access to its huge ecosystem. In practice the Scala ecosystem is completely different (well, Akka is a special case popular in Java projects too).

As a trivial example people would rather use ScalaPB instead of officially supported Java library. When I worked on a Kotlin-based system people were adamant to use github.com/JetBrains/Exposed. Which had a couple pages of documentation and was missing features.

And then again there's politics. Big/successful companies always end up re-inventing PL wheels. The whole GOOG/ORCL mess gave GOOG incentive to fragment the Java ecosystem too.
It's very similar to Scrum, with some nuanced differences. He mentions "do not work on incremental changes" and "do not focus on user stories", and instead "do construct small goals that achieve more general yet still concrete outcomes", and "do prioritize those goals".

I think his advice suffers from the same problem Scrum does, which is that it's simultaneously too generic and too constricting for anyone to perform it correctly and get good value out of it unless they just happen to be really excellent at their jobs or have a great team leader.
JLCPCB; turn time has been about a week and then a few days for DHL to drop it at my door. Their website is very buggy, and the placement preview is useless, but they do have a real engineer review everything before assembly so all my boards have been assembled correctly thus far. They even caught one of my mistakes before.

I recommend finding parts using LCSC's website (their parts supplier), as it has more useful parametric search. Then cross reference to JLC's to double check pricing and availability.
Wood is very common in single story houses in the US. Large apartment buildings are made of concrete and steel. The tallest wood framed project I've seen was 3-4 stories with the first two concrete.
Why don't any of these websites have maps?
I just visited your website, and had fun in the "small internet" sense. Thanks :)

I was very surprised your pages had a .gmi extension but were actually normal html. Then I figured your "memex" engine probably automatically translates gemini content to html and doesn't bother changing the extension (which in retrospect is more of a feature than a bug). Very nice.

I noticed your search engine is not available on gemini. Any plans for that? The spirit of the search engine is a perfect fit for the gemini ecosystem!
I want to be kind to the author, he or she is seriously misinformed. An extra staircase is not wasted space. It’s a life saver and standards exist for a reason.

Is sidewalk a wasted space, maybe slate should write a dumb article on how people can walk between the road and curb and save space.

How about parks ? Should they be 1m x 1m square patches of grass.
Agreed. There was some drama with twisted years ago involving python 2-3 interoperability iirc. The title reads like clickbait and having to hook me on an article this way only serves to repulse me physically.
Meanwhile I'm carefully importing KiCad symbols and footprints (and polishing them and contributing to the community library) into a much less popular, newer open source EDA tool…

because it's just that good: https://horizon-eda.org
Exact same happened to me - lots of snowflakes on Meta[stasize].
The REAL explanation for 'cal 9 1752':

> The guy that originally wrote the "cal" command on some old Version 7 machine had an off-by-one error in his code. This showed up as some erroneous output when a malloc'd variable overwrote 12 extra bytes with zeroes, thus leading to the strange calendar output seen above.

> Now, nobody in his right mind really cares about the calendar for September 1752. Even the idea of the year 1752 does not exist under UNIX, because time did not begin for UNIX until early 1970. As a result, nobody even knew that "cal" had this error until much later. By then there were thousands of copies of "cal" floating around, many of them binary-only. It was too late to fix them all.

> So in mid-1975, some high-level AT&T officials met with the Pope, and came to an agreement. The calendar was retroactively changed to bring September 1752 in line with UNIX reality. Since the calendar was changed by counting backwards from September 14, 1752, none of the dates after that were affected. The dates before that were all moved by 12 days. They also fixed the man page for "cal" to document the bug as a feature.

> The 11 days from September 3 to September 13 were simply gone from the records. They searched the history books and found that fortunately nothing of much significance happened during those 11 days.

> Overall, this whole incident was pretty much a non-event. One science fiction author later heard about it, and blew the thing up into a full-length work of science-fiction called "The Lathe of Heaven", a book that in my opinion bears little resemblence to what really happened.

https://archive.fo/UL6zx
>Early online services (notably AOL) leveraged off military families on oversees deployments.

Any articles expanding on this story?

>Story I recently ran across of a dating app was that it was used in conjunction with a few Hollywood events as a cohort-seeding formation.

Are you talking about Raya?
Yea, every fire code I know how requires a minimum of 2 escape route for occupancy
Would it be possible to construct a building that has four sides of apartments surrounding a central spiraling stairwell, but the stairwell is also adjacent to a conventional emergency stairwell that can be entered from every floor of the central stairwell? You would have to shrink all the apartments on one side of a building to make room for it, but I can see the layout in my head. Furthermore, you could connect another tower of apartments to the same emergency stairwell.
Hypothetically, if someone was a somewhat direct competitor to an already funded startup, should would avoid Ycom matchups?
My team does async standups in a slack channel and it’s much better than the synchronous meeting for certain.
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https://compote.slate.com/images/68185c52-46c3-448f-9cdd-96d...

It seems possible to add a second stair case to this design. You’d just mirror the first over to where the courtyard is. You’d lose the courtyard and ability to see your neighbor, but it looks like the building could still be made to jut out some past the stairs to keep light on that side.
Yes, agreed. The first car I bought in 2013, in India was a 30k kilometers, 2009 model year VW Polo. In today's dollars, it was about $6000.

Most mid class or smaller SUVs, local or locally assembled (like Toyota or Ford) are around 10-15k dollars, brand new.

Interestingly, the Ford I bought in US was made & assembled in India..
Work more by working less, work faster by slowing down. You end up neglecting important things that help you work faster and better by trying to make up for not having gotten enough done or well enough, etc. Don’t skip preparation steps that help you get things done better and remove frustrations. Recognize when you’re “done” being productive for the day and just accept it.

Learn how rushing and working too long are counterproductive and think about things that are impediments to getting stuff done and try to make them better.
Not arbitrary messages and anyway can’t you send arbitrary messages over a CAN bus in an ordinary vehicle? Do most automotive manufacturers implement some kind of authentication of messages these days?
Yeah, ADHD is a difference to non-ADHD, but that doesn't make it a disability. It's just a different mode of thought, in the same way that introversion and extroversion are different modes of thought. Most people in fact have periods of introversion and extroversion, and surely modes of attention are not fixed or static in people either.

Which mode is an "ability" and which is a "disability"? The question is ill conceived.

A friend noted that ADHD is probably over-represented in the arts. That's because in the arts (but not exclusively), you need different modes of thought and action to get things done. A classic example is the arts festival, which is a collection of artistic performances over a period of time, organised around a theme, embracing different modalities of production such as dance, theatre, music, visual arts, poetry and more.

Arts festivals typically have two executives in charge -

Artistic Director - Responsible for finding the creative acts for the festival that will convey the theme.

e.g. Burning Man has confirmed the theme for its 2022 edition, Waking Dreams. Organisers have said the theme will "explore the transformative power of dreams, both literal and figurative, and celebrate the dreamers who channel this potent energy in eye-opening, often surrealistic, sometimes life-changing ways".

That's not something you can get a tech CEO or accountant or board of directors to pull off. You need some crazy, connected creative genius to frequent 1,000 bars, alleys, galleries and theatres over 12 months to find the talent and curate it into a festival.

The other executive who makes the arts festival work is a completely different hat - the Program Director. This is the adult in the room; the super clerk, the master accountant, the disciplined project manager who works the spreadsheet and the gantt chart to make sure what the Artistic Director has chosen can be paid for with the budget and delivered on time.

You need both executives to produce an effective arts festival. But the Artistic Director position is less of a discipline that can be described algorithmically and more of an art form itself. To really pull off a great arts festival, you need a hurricane supernova of an Artistic Director who will be impossible to control, will drive his colleagues a little crazy, especially the Program Director, but who will find the most unexpected genius in the most obscure artists who together will combine to deliver an experience that moves the audience and uncovers thoughts and feelings that nobody knew were there to be had.

And of course, without the Program Director, there's no way all those artists will be paid because the budget will be exceeded by a factor of 10, and the gantt chart will be spaghetti mashed pototoes Jackson Pollock disaster.

But the two of them together, and an army of clerks, interns, admins, techs, and junior ADHD creatives might just pull off the festival of a lifetime.
Hats off to the first deep network that can recognize this
Not really. The wikipage says some pretty disturbing things under the investigation section. No amount of staircases would have helped.
It's primarily because you can't easily foresee at the time you design the building where any/all future fires will occur.

If the stairway's the only way out and that's where a fire happens, then the whole thing is a deathtrap.
Seems like this field is very preoccupied with attempts to distill excellence into a formula. But the skill you need to do this approach well is "identifying doable tasks that make meaningful progress towards the overall goal", which basically just the entire skill of project management.
Martyr Made’s Fear and Loathing in New Jerusalem
Reminded me of this ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_whiskey_fire
Just curious how did these shitty SEO site harvested your affiliate links ?
For me, ADHD is a lot about procrastination, which is basically fear of uncomfortable work forcing me to do something else. I will reflexively open a new tab on my browser and auto-complete some distracting website (hello, HN!) 20 times a day. I have about a billion half-finished projects lying around the house. I finally finished some gifts for a friend recently after fiddling with them for over 2 years.
> Not the "running out soon" that you claim.

At the time, the mantra was that most of the oil would become so expensive that it wouldn't be economically feasible to extract it. There would be oil in the ground, but in every practical sense we would be "out" since we wouldn't be able to use it.

"We have very good ways now of estimating how much oil remains undiscovered. Now every so often someone reminds me that a hundred years ago someone did a calculation and predicted that we'd be out of oil in twenty five years. We obviously are not, the calculation must have been wrong therefore, of course, all calculations are wrong. [...] we're not asking today how long will the discovered oil last, we're talking about all the oil".

Mr. Bartlett's predictions and analysis are horrendous and far from "very good". From the second video you linked to, here are his predictions concerning US Oil Production, during which he derides others who were predicting a rise in Oil Production.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ghHia-M54&t=2420s

Now, let's see what actually happened (i.e. production roughly doubled):
https://www.macrotrends.net/2562/us-crude-oil-production-his...

> The biggest oil field finds in decades each add only a few months of US usage to the known reserves.

“…just to stay even we need the production of a new Texas every year, an Alaskan North Slope every nine months, or a new Saudi Arabia every three years. Obviously, this cannot continue.” -- Jimmy Carter 1977

If we were to take Carter's warnings to heart back then and make policy decisions, it would have been a multi-trillion dollar mistake and people would have been much worse off. Obviously, there are limits to all things. My point is that calling the timing on these things is impossible and is almost always catastrophically wrong like Bartlett's predictions). Neils Bohr famously quipped, "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." This is so true, and especially so when you move the horizon out decades while trying to predict complicated and chaotic systems.
Elasticsearch/OpenSearch is open source and can be a search engine.
The tricky thing is how do you tell someone this? It's like being unable to do a pullup. You can try but if you can't even get one rep in then it just feels like wasted effort.

The way that the author figured out on her own is a great way to learn how to meditate. If you can't do meditation, then don't. Try reading a book. Turning off your phone. Going for a walk. Just like how if you can't do a pullup, do light dumbbell curls or use the assisted weight machine. Do the easier thing first and then you'll build up strength. I suspect that if she were to try meditation today, then she would be ready. It's not so hard. We were all born with the Quiet.
That's the fallacy of gr[ae]y.
> That's the real problem with being disabled: you're treated abnormally.

That's not been my experience: I've been treated normally.

I have not one but two disabilities: I'm an alcoholic/drug addict, and I'm a diabetic. I'm upfront about them, and people don't seem to care--they treat me the same as everyone else.

My take is that most people are so self-absorbed that they don't spend many cycles worrying about everyone else.