skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The anti-work content on reddit should be analyzed by the feds a bit. It is promoting illegal sabotage of workplaces much of the time.

It is also very similar to an organic movement from China that got banned and censored just before it suddenly became a top three thread on reddit every day for all of this year.

I suspect movements and divisions that are studied and analyzed in (adversarial nation) are then exported, translated, and weaponized by their information warriors.

What I have noticed about anti-work is that the insane opinions are amplified and encouraged. They promote and advocate for digital sabotage of your own work places.

This all has numerous effects down stream that would slightly benefit an adversary.
> transactions with gold basically 0 energy.

Transactions with gold often involve transporting it from one location to another location.
Fentanyl number one cause of death for adults 18-45, recent government data says
>Also, RGB to HEX

do it progamatically [0]. build a command line tool so that you can just use `./file <rgb color>`

0: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3380726/converting-a-rgb...
I remember clearly it was "pulling FOR birds". I wonder why the difference. Perhaps it was because my anecdote took place in the 80's. Language does shift over time.
Also in the UK it's against regulation to have a wooden structure so close to a residential property... Although this is the US where most properties are made of wood... So probably no such rule?
The book atomic habits has some good points that can help. It is not that long and can be read relatively fast.
Inflation isn't a bad thing necessarily.
I wrote a "social media contract" for myself that specifies when and how I am allowed to use social media (HN once a day; YouTube only on weekends; Twitter only to post — never to browse, etc.). I have a simple spreadsheet where I track my daily compliance. My reward for fulfilling my contract is a green check mark in the spreadsheet.

This technique has worked surprisingly well. For myself, the key has been to flip the goal from a negative ("don't check Instagram") to a positive ("get that green check mark").

I'm now off Reddit and Facebook completely. (The fact that I still checked Facebook is baffling, it really was just a reflex to type the URL in the browser.) YouTube and Instagram have been more challenging, but I've made a lot of progress there (went a whole month without checking Instagram). Twitter has been the hardest.

Oh, and definitely don't have any of the apps on your phone.
You can have a cool TLD too. You just have to bribe ICANN.
What ‘data’ is he referring to? It’s not mentioned in the article, and for all sorts of reasons 40% for 18-64 sounds statistically fishy.
It wouldn’t have. CoinBros don’t understand that IOUs (debt) have existed across human history and will likely continue to exist. And that most economic activity is done through debt.

Once a set of “trusted” actors can issue debt, you have monetary expansion.

In Crypto, we have Coinbase, Binance and Tether - the defacto crypto banks. They have the ability to expand the crypto money supply and promise IOUs multiples in excess of their true deposits.
Also it sounds like he ran both the low voltage network cable and the high voltage line-level power wiring inside of the same conduit which is a big no-no for various code and safety related reasons. From what I understand messing with electric code violations is not a good idea, if your homeowners insurance finds out you put in some janky stuff like that and your house burns down, they might invalidate your policy because it was your fault.
> But surely that's almost never the case?

Which is why it’s not so impractical to make an occasional exception.
Almost no American car does anyway.
This is very familiar to me, I've been trying to use some strategies to limit cognitive load to mixed success.

The most effective thing has just been taking better notes. If i know i take good notes, and i write something down and know i will go back and read it, my brain knows it's "allowed" to forget about it, and that greatly lessons the load. Sounds obvious and simple but sometimes it's not obvious that spending time to write down a mix of both really basic and really complicated stuff can make it so much easier to get stuff done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms

> Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums, is an American Internet forum dedicated to the discussion of online figures and communities it deems "lolcows" (people who can be "milked for laughs"). The targets of threads are often subject to doxing and other forms of organized group trolling, harassment, and stalking, including real-life harassment by users.[2][3] Harassment stemming from Kiwi Farms has been implicated in the suicides of three people targeted by users of the site.[9]
I wondered this myself, since they usually spell out "synthetic opioid" when referring to fentanyl and its ilk, ostensibly to compare it against naturally derived opioids. I have no idea how many in use today are naturally derived; maybe "synthetic" was always a scare term on that context?
Yes, I'm fully aware that variance and standard deviation apply to any sample or population, and that sigma is normally used for standard deviation.

However, in everyday usage, saying something is a "2 or 3 sigma" event nearly always refers to a normal distribution unless otherwise noted, because otherwise that information doesn't really tell you anything. Is only with a specific distribution that can imply a percentage likelihood, e.g. 5% for a 2 sigma event or .3% for a 3 sigma event. Also, if you're looking at at annual probability, 1-in-200 year event would correspond to just about 3 sigma on a normal distribution.

Sigh
Here's a summary:

- I wear an oura ring which has made me aware of the negative impact things like alcohol and sporadic schedules have on sleep quality.

- I don't bring my phone into my room. This removes all distractions, and means I get out of bed as soon as I woke up instead of endlessly scrolling. If I wake up in the middle of the night I am not tempted to go on HN or reddit.

- I invested heavily in my bed. I got an eight sleep which is temperature controlled. I love a cool bed and eight makes this happen all night every night. I also bought nice bedding and sheets for the first time in my life.

- I take a magnesium suppliment (the science is not very strong on this but I've found it helps).

- Finally I have a wind down hour before bed, I start with a shower, do some stretching and then some reading, this calms my mind before bedtime
Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents. The last thing we need is to repeat that one over again.

That's not to say there can't be substantive discussion about Web3 but it would need to be seeded with interesting new information, not a throwaway one-liner.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thats a great idea! Trade associations like you suggested as well standards bodies (there is another for electrical/fire - National Electrical Code by NFPA) can help a lot with the grassroots efforts of working with each city.

The plan is to pursue all possible paths and get this done as quickly as possible. US has 2 billion parking spots currently [1]. If we are building 1% new every year, in ten years we can have 200 million charging spots. Range anxiety would be put to rest. We have to put in charging first, this accelerates EV adoption.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-27/why-parki...

wild assumption, not a fact! This doesn't need to be net new on vacant lots, includes rebuilding existing lots. Any development has to adhere to latest city code.
"If it's not there, it can't break" is also true for software engineering:

"No Code" or Nihilist Software Engineering

No code runs faster than no code.

No code has fewer bugs than no code.

No code uses less memory than no code.

No code is easier to understand than no code.

No code is the best way to have secure and reliable applications. Write nothing; deploy nowhere.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. -- Ken Thompson

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren’t there. -- Gordon Bell

Deleted code is debugged code. -- Jeff Sickel

Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines

Master Foo once said to a visiting programmer: “There is more Unix-nature in one line of shell script than there is in ten thousand lines of C.”

The programmer, who was very proud of his mastery of C, said: “How can this be? C is the language in which the very kernel of Unix is implemented!”

Master Foo replied: “That is so. Nevertheless, there is more Unix-nature in one line of shell script than there is in ten thousand lines of C.”

The programmer grew distressed. “But through the C language we experience the enlightenment of the Patriarch Ritchie! We become as one with the operating system and the machine, reaping matchless performance!”

Master Foo replied: “All that you say is true. But there is still more Unix-nature in one line of shell script than there is in ten thousand lines of C.”

The programmer scoffed at Master Foo and rose to depart. But Master Foo nodded to his student Nubi, who wrote a line of shell script on a nearby whiteboard, and said: “Master programmer, consider this pipeline. Implemented in pure C, would it not span ten thousand lines?”

The programmer muttered through his beard, contemplating what Nubi had written. Finally he agreed that it was so.

“And how many hours would you require to implement and debug that C program?” asked Nubi.

“Many,” admitted the visiting programmer. “But only a fool would spend the time to do that when so many more worthy tasks await him.”

“And who better understands the Unix-nature?” Master Foo asked. “Is it he who writes the ten thousand lines, or he who, perceiving the emptiness of the task, gains merit by not coding?”

Upon hearing this, the programmer was enlightened.

Source: "The Art of Unix Programming" by Eric Raymond

From:

https://github.com/rmcnew/nocode
Analyze and analyse are both British English spellings, even though analyse is more widespread.
> There are no cool tricks to improving yourself.

This is simply not true. There are tons of tricks and strategies. For me, the best strategy is to replace a bad habit with a good one. For example, replace going to the bar after work with going for a run after work.
Why not use Klaviyo?
My personal opinion is that whilst Bitcoin is not the answer, many seem to miss the point of cryptocurrencies, which IMHO is, to enable a permissionless electronic cash system. Being decentralized is an important aspect of it, and TPS and time-to-finality etc are important metrics for any practical use, but the appeal of cryptocurrencies is that you don't need the permission of others to open an account nor have to pay premiums to send or receive money. It is also truly global so there is no difference whatsoever between splitting a bill in a restaurant or sending remittances to your family back home.

I guess many people live their lives on the "happy path"[0] thus never really experience how difficult the simplest tasks can get. In the country I have emigrated to, to open a current account you need a proof of (permanent) address, and to be able to rent a flat, you need a bank account to pay the deposit---a Catch 22 that I was able to break only thanks to TransferWise and Revolut. Another example is cash being deprecated for convenience and hygiene reasons, yet banks being just as difficult to give a POS terminal to self-employed and small businesses (hence the emergence of Stripe Terminal and Square) yet alone marginalized groups such as sex workers. Neobanks and fintechs really make life easier for many, but they are still not as free as cryptocurrencies aspire to be, and to be fair, cryptocurrencies are not there yet either... I am looking forward to the day I can spend my stablecoins as easily as using my Visa/MasterCard.

Hence, in the end, it may not matter as much whether some chains are more centralized than others or if stable coins are backed by the assets of some central custodians. Bitcoin is far from providing that, I think, but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_path
> As for writing about your experience like this, write a blog about something in your own field or otherwise don't give advice.

I don’t get it. I see the majority of us, developers, writing about software without having a deep knowledge on the subject. The author’s shed is no more to me like the usual post “I built Twitter in Rust on a weekend”. Should we all stop giving “PRO tips”?
I think it's valuable to have a reference point, and I've done that myself in my comments. The frustration comes not from the comparison or reference, but as a framing designed to excuse irresponsible behavior during the ongoing pandemic.
So they knew about it for a year before doing the recall…
I suppose there isn't really any way around it. It will probably also select for those who exercise more since they are more likely to have a stronger opinion on the subject. If you exercise a lot it likely has a strong net benefit for your life and you therefore value it to a greater extent than someone who doesn't exercise at all. By valuing it more you're more likely to engage in the subject. But that's probably true of all polls like this no matter the subject.
This let's you circumvent the GDPR block: https://web.archive.org/web/20220102164149/https://www.thece...
No they did not. I recently tried to buy an id4 and was told by the dealer that there was a 5k markup from sticker price and no reservation system. They have a list of people they will call when a car gets to the dealership and the first to shore up in person will get it.
Further, I would add, it seems pretty scarey that many of the platform leaderships trend toward thinking toxicity in the leftwing direction is somehow not bad or censorable due to some absurd logical fallacy of victimhood hierarchies and such that allow leftist groups to claim their toxicity isnt toxic because they are "victims".
Our company tried to register a TLD with ICANN. ICANN's process was so complicated, when we asked questions, they suggested we hire a law firm to help us. Turns out the partner at the firm was a former ICANN employee so they referred us to their former colleague.

This law firm wanted $250k up front for the application, told us it could take over 2 years, and did not offer any guarantees that the TLD we wanted would be approved. It's a total scam up and down.

I'm no expert on Handshake, but it has a built in open auction system for registering TLDs. It seems to be the best alternative to the ICANN cabal and an actually decent use case for a blockchain. We bought the TLD we wanted on Handshake, and it cost less than $1,000. If we could only get browsers to support it...

https://handshake.org
For Instagram here’s what I do:
- delete the app
- use mobile web only, set my browser to delete all cookies so I have to log in every time I open it

Between those two things, my Instagram usage is down from 1+ hours a day to ~10m.

Part of that is because the ig webapp is pretty terrible, so it won’t work for hn.
Inflation might a problem but a world where countries would no longer be able to adjust the value of their money isn’t scarier?

Wouldn’t we be giving up an essential lever to adjust to changing economical conditions?
It was only her personal account that was suspended. The account tied to her position in government is still there @RepMTG.
They're in group life so selection should be limited. And they said the deaths are mostly not COVID.
But they could be owned by a Google account if bought through the Google registrar.

What happens when that Google account gets locked or banned?
We're not talking about the laws here but about the dumb pop-up you anyway click OK on systematically and therefore serves exactly no purpose.
> We are net exporters of energy. And we are both disgusted by how the energy company takes this energy and, effectively, pays us nothing for it while charging our neighbors who use it full rate.

Solved in other countries by passing a law forcing the energy companies to either subtract the electricity you produce from your bill (in kW mind you, not $), or if you produce more than you consume, make a record of the surplus for later (again, in kW). This way you get to produce more during summer and use that excess to offset during winter. And since it's in kW, it's independent from the electricity price.
You really think that China banning bitcoin means they no longer use those dirty coal power plants? For a country that has such a huge demand for power that it's had blackouts and struggled to keep businesses powered even AFTER they banned all bitcoin mining[1]? Maybe that might even have to do with why they banned it in the first place?

It sucks that bitcoin uses so much power, but these countries using fossil fuels would still use them with or without bitcoin mining. We need to keep the pressure up to get these countries (and our own) to convert to 100% green renewable sources.

Right now China has only promised to reduce its fossil fuel to 20% of its total energy use by 2060, which is still 38 years away and way too late. In fact they're planning to keep INCREASING fossil fuel use up through 2030!

"China is targeting a clean energy goal of reducing fossil fuel use to below 20% by 2060, according to an official plan published by state media."

"The cabinet document, released on Sunday, follows a pledge by President Xi Jinping to wean the world’s biggest polluter off coal, with a target of peaking carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality 30 years later."

There's no bitcoin mining in the country now to use it as a scapegoat either.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/business/economy/china-el...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/25/china-to-cut-f...
Check your city/county, but in most places in CA and the rest of the US, zoning allows up to a 120 square foot shed without building permits. Neighborhood HOAs, if applicable, would be the other restriction.

36 square feet? good to go.

If I were to do it, I'd make it slightly bigger and put a electrical sub-panel in it with an extension cord like an RV has. You could plug it into anywhere with an RV outlet.

It's also easy enough to move any shed like this that's 8 feet wide or less on a car-hauler trailer or with dollys/rollers underneath.
Naval has been my intellectual North Star since we went to junior high school together in Queens. This book is a wonderful distillation of his wisdom. It may change your life.
Ah, every time I read about vanity TLDs (are they called that? Can I call them that?) I sigh at the brokenness of attaching structure/constraints to domains and TLDs...

At least the country TLDs made sense, plus things like .org for non-profits and .gov for US governments. And then things like bit.ly, look.at, blah.io overrode all of that. I wonder what ".lol" should be for, parody sites? Like whitehouse.lol, google.lol? ycombinator.lol? The first 2 probably can't exist because hey, this is an oligocracy.

Congrats to AOL, I guess, their idea with AOL keywords was actually superior, and we're returning to that. Already on TV ads that I see, they just say "Search for $BRAND/$PRODUCT to find out more".
Have you tried TikTok? In my experience their algorithm is phenomenal, strikinga good balance between delivering extremely relevant content and trying new content you might like
This seems to miss the point entirely. Even for their worst example the odds of the fetus having it go from 0.005% to 7%. That's valuable information even if it's not perfect or somewhat hard to understand.
Last downturn for tech, AMZN dropped over 80%
There are automata restorers [0] featured on the television show Salvage Hunters: The Restorers [1].

[0] - https://thehouseofautomata.com

[1] - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13405620
I've been experiencing this as well, but for me it seems to be largely seasonal (very long dark days in winter around here). I find that forcing myself to get up early and get started with the day results in more energy throughout, but in the darkest months that's difficult. I think taking vitamin D helps me personally, but have never gotten a proper blood test to know if I was deficient.

Exercise always helps, but with gyms being closed during COVID I haven't been lifting, which is usually my exercise of choice. In the cold months it is so easy not to step foot outside for days at a time.

I hope you will update us with daily morning walks. I have a strong suspicion that would help me as well: if I just had the energy and willpower to get out of a warm bed on a very cold day and do it.
"unsigned" doesn't express intent. It expresses implementation, maybe it expresses assumption.

Ada's "Positive" or "Natural" or

subtype X is Integer range Y..Z;

expresses intent (well expresses requirement really), it also enforces that constraint, so it's not merely an assumption.
I’ve been told mining for Bitcoin is almost done, and therefore the energy needed for Bitcoin will drop. Is that true?
Fit and finish have really improved over the years IMO. 2021 3/y fit and finish are as good as any similarly priced fossil vehicle, if you like the minimalistic interior.
> a great narrative for profits

Pollution from Soviet collective farms isn't any better.
Strictly speaking, if the issuer of the currency didn’t get fully on board with the transition, wouldn’t it be mayhem?

If I am a private financial institution, I’m having a grand old time converting the first 1% of dollars to crypto. I can still spend all of that money on salaries and construction and mega yachts. But when we are at 50%? You have half the dollars in the world. You can’t possibly spend them. This isn’t income any longer, it’s a liability. The only way to get to 90% is if you trigger hyperinflation.

Eventually to beat fiat currency you actually have to win the government over. They collected gold coins and issues dollars, because it’s fiat currency and you can do that. How do you collect all of the silver and not issue fiat currency? How do you collect all the dollars and not do the same?

Magic thinking. It’s all magic thinking, and I’m too old for this shit.
It's a waste to you, but not to the people who use and value it.
The Genius Behind Nany Pelosi's Trades
> Blocking simply means that the specification does not guarantee an upper bound on the completion time.

I don't think that's a commonly-accepted (or useful) definition of "blocking." By that definition, getpid(2) is blocking.

> I think this is an instance of confusing what should be with what is.

Who is doing the confusing? I said "should be." Are you saying they're fast now but should be slow? Why?

> The reality is that system calls aren’t “fast” and they can’t portably or dynamically be guaranteed to be fast.

This isn't a portable program; it's a Linux program. The problem isn't that close can't be portably guaranteed to complete in some time bound; it's that Linux is adding what is essentially an extra usleep(100000), with very high probability, for the devfs synthetic filesystem in Linux.

This is entirely an own-goal; Linux has historically explicitly aimed to complete system calls quickly, when that does not break other functionality. It is a bug that can be fixed, e.g., with the proposed patch(es).

POSIX does not mandate that close blocks on anything other than removing the index from the fd table -- it's even allowed to leave associated IO in-flight and silently ignore errors. It makes little sense for a synthetic filesystem without real IO to block close so grossly.
>>healthcare generally affordable, barring stories about catastrophic bankrupting illnesses

I think you're being down voted for the 'generally affordable' and 'bankrupting illnesses' parts. "Middle class" doesn't usually equate to tech level salaries or benefits. Family health insurance can be very expensive for middle class families. The extremely high family out-of-pocket max plans can turn even non-catastrophic illnesses into a financial crisis.