skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many people suffer from this. I guess most of us had at least stretches in their career where procrastination dominated the work day. For some, this is just the standard mode of operation.

It is important to understand that this is a sign of exhaustion. Work is hard and if we don't have the energy to start then it doesn't get done. Personally I found the following to help:

1) Get enough sleep. Every day. Nothing drains your energy more than consistently not getting enough sleep.

2) Cultivate interaction with other people outside work, in person. This is particularly important now. Talking with others and listening to their little problems can help put your perceived misery in context. So does having a life outside work.

3) Say "No" more often. Focus on the tasks that need to be done to meet your life goals. Decline the tasks that look interesting or even fascinating when they don't help you move forward.
People don't properly account for the cost of reading volumes of code. They'd rather see 10,000 lines that will take them a week to read than 10 lines that will take them an hour to read.
No, it's not, because companies hire more than 1 person.
Explained in one word: waterspout
China didn't allow investigative work in the area, which might mean anything. But it also means that valid conclusions are way more difficult to make than they should be.
Nice site. You should probably update it for Brexit though. There are two GDPRs, for now.
I would not trust my browsing to someone with their history. I'd even pick Edge before Brave but for now I use Firefox and I doubt that will change.
First don't ever say this is what my manager told me to do to his/her boss, accept critics and say that you will improve. Then talk to your manager and explain the situation, you don't know their relationship and if the critics are towards you or really are a way to criticize your manager. Besides that work at your best and speak a lot to your manager for feedback
I understand the annoyance, especially when the fix is just so right there... I also understand the reasons to have a CLA process for FOSS projects.

Yet, in retrospect, I wonder if the OP considered simply reporting the found issue, then moving on with his own priorities?

After all, it's up to the project maintainers to decide how to prioritize/review any issues/contributions.

If the fix is so trivial, it sure could just be applied by any existing project member.

So, reporting an issue should not require a CLA and, indeed, in this case it was just a login away.
I'm a foreigner with a Danish job and I very much like the country. It's refreshingly different. Money is still very important but I think infinitely less so compared to the states; it isn't what motivates people.

It's also interesting to note that Denmark has negative interest rates and anyone with more than 100k DKK is really quite punished for keeping it in the bank. I'm glad that your company provides a vehicle for the upper middle classes to use their wealth well. What's it called? And what's the name of the two supermarkets you mentioned (is one of them Føtex?)
no official documentation says the start menu is part of explorer.exe

I'm pretty sure the older versions of Windows actually had that in the (much more detailed) documentation they came with.
You don't get it. It's not about you.

Statistically, with this setup, companies will constantly underpay. Yes, there will be some outliers being overpaid or those happy with their salary, but most will be in fact underpaid.
That was cool, it even shows the correct day for when I can hope to see the sun again from my house
Been using them for about a week, very happy with it.

Regional results (especially since the last update) feel as automatic as google. While I still hope they’ll add my suggestion of a bang for region switches, most queries I do don’t need one, and it properly switches between English and German.

All of the DDG bangs. Seriosuly, search without bangs is nothing I’d ever want to go back to.

Built-In Domain Blacklist. Goodbye Pinterest. Forever.

General results are great. More relevant results than either DDG or Google and a great presentation (like showing snippets from accepted or upvoted SO answers)

And I have not even played around with advanced filters like lenses (which people in their discord seem to love).

Negatives: So far, I’d say only that the widgets are less usable than DDGs.

I had low expectations, but I’m really very positively surprised.
What if you say no?

It's not really consent if declining affects your chances of getting credit or, worse, employment.
My KGB handlers are requesting me to ask you for examples.
It really seems they isolated him and / or he's working solo on a project. Dangerous place to be in a mismanaged org.
That's a good point, I wonder how many people googled their SSN or just typed it in the chrome URL bar
Punching down by skip levels should never, ever happen. If you are actually underperforming, that's something to be discussed between you and your manager. The skip level may have legitimate concerns, but by going around your manager they are undermining her, and creating a pretty toxic situation for both of you.

First priority should be for you to sit down with your manager and discuss the feedback you received from your skip level - it's entirely possible your manager isn't aware of the specifics, and also possible that the skip level has it out for them, rather than you, and is taking it out on you.
Regular capitalism is when you decide between having your cake or eating it.

Crony capitalism occurs when people start to want to have their cake and eat it too.

Capitalism’s basis is that everyone is a servant. This means we’re all lower than the king, but we are also are kings ourselves.
However crony capitalism occurs when a servant makes himself greater than his master, when the greatest king and master of all showed the way to prosperity was by becoming the greatest servant.

Our politicians character is proof that capitalism has failed, because they want to be kings, but they do not want to be servants.
Paywalled so I didn't get to read the article.

I do think that open source devs will eventually swing away from licenses resembling MIT and back to GPL. In my preference, AGPL.

Open source devs get nothing by producing code under commercial-friendly licenses like MIT except 'popularity', but that popularity can feel hollow. I feel great producing GPL code, even if no one ever uses it, because I know if someone does use it they will be giving back to the community.
This is exactly what happened when I applied for a mortgage here in Ireland. Seemed fine.
5.2 ounces? This is newsworthy? That's like a few hundred bucks of truffle they found after ten years. I appreciate the patience, but what is the promise here?
Funnily enough, Medium has a bug with Firefox on Android that doesn't show me what the "controversial statement" was, it's just a white box. From comments here I gather it is no great loss.
His life, the studies he undertook quietly over protracted periods of time . . . there is no "one book" . . . his mind was a burrowing mind . . .
If you appreciate logic, well-reasoned arguments and objective observations --the scientific method personified -- you will savor anything related to his endeavors.
That T1 van...
In Norway if someone looks up your income you can see who did it since they need to login with an approved ID system linked to your social security number. So i practice most people do not look up other people they know.
I just got the invite yesterday and used it only two times. No seo spam at first glance, the first result is usable.
Keep up the good work!
> You claim to be part of them, did you need that essay to realize it?

I'm not really claiming anything beyond saying that I believe there's quite a few successful people working in jobs they don't really need to be doing and i think the point of this essay is to encourage them to maybe have the confidence to do something on their own.
I am curious what is issue with existing migration tools? There are so many tools out there. What is the problem they are not solving?
We'll be open sourcing the extension at 5AM Pacific Time!
I'll also post an update on Twitter+LinkedIn
It will be accessible at this link: https://github.com/netvyne/ext

Its true that there are ways to add comments to your site (Disqus being a pretty big one), but you still need to make the time to set it up (and maintain it).
There's also the perspective of the one consuming the website content to consider.

Regarding traditional social media, Netvyne at least is not a replacement but rather a tool that can be used in conjunction. It offers reduced friction in the sense that the comment section is there from the start, rather than having to wait for someone to share the page.

The potential for abuse is indeed a big problem, that's why we've built in content moderation from the start. Based on the activity so far, it seems we've got it covered, and we'll be focusing on the other issues as mentioned in this thread, namely marketing and community. If you have any thoughts on how to approach these, I'd love to hear it!

Graffiti is not permitted and will be removed as part of the moderation insofar as it does not contribute to a civil discussion. I am aware of what happened with Dissenter, and I believe that civility is integral to the value that comments bring.
I share the same problem for a very long time and the situation gets worse as I grow up.

But recently at least I have more understanding of my problem on this. The most important thing I want to share with you is that:
Not most of things online are not useful to people like me, because the people are different. A lot of advices can be misleading too.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU) this one especially. Because for different people, the procrastination experience is very different.

If you have the same issue as me, the core problem is not actually about planning and decision making. It is about my ability to do things. It's a long essay but I will put the essence here: To some of the people (about half the population as I estimate), there are two way to obtain knowledge, one is learning, the other is training. People tends to acquired knowledge by learning and lack of training will be highly likely to have my kind of procrastination, especially on something we are not really trained on.

The common experience of me doing things is plan things, make time estimates and do it. This sounds familiar but it is extremely different experience among people. As a "learner" although I made the time estimates, I don't really know them well. But with something that I am more comfortable with, I have a special feeling about the time estimates, that will have a strong confidence on that I can finish in a certain time frame. I tend to have no decision hesitations on tasks like this. This is usually the reason that I can finish tasks at the last minute, because usually I will assemble the things I trained more often, and use less the things I learned.

The solution that now I am trying on, is to train more and learn less. Also I have done more things that I already familiar with(with I force myself to do because I need to resist myself considering it as waste of time), to at least know that I can get things done.

Hope this will help you. comment here if you need more clarifications or advices.
That’s it, do or die and if you’re a better worker than bullshitter, then too bad for you?

In a perfect world without discrimination, prejudice, and built-in social inequalities, you might be right. In the real world, there is a massive power imbalance between the HR people and the applicants, and often circumstances make people get a job with a suboptimal salary for a whole lot of reasons.
Because, and I'm just guessing, he's younger the 65 if he's posting on HN?

And, well because all of the actual data keeps proving that the unvaccinated are at orders of magnitude higher risk than vaccinated across all age groups.

https://azdhs.gov/covid19/documents/data/rates-of-cov-19-by-...
Hey HN,

I made a new SaaS over the last 3 days: https://whalepeek.com

You can shadow top NFT collectors and get alerted when they buy, sell or mint a new NFT.

Heavily inspired by eToro commercials that popped up all over Youtube: "copy what top traders do" - Here you can copy what other NFT influencers are doing.

A big problem in doing that has been detecting fake transactions. A lot of scammy creators are airdropping NFTs into influencers' wallet. We detect fake mints, fake buys and fake sales - and only notify you of real ones.

Technically, the project is built in PHP + mysql and some JS for the charts.
Hope you like it!
Right-wing Indians have their own app to manipulate WhatsApp and Twitter
This seems like a rediscovery of https://www.haskellforall.com/2016/04/worst-practices-should...
Drones are not ambulances, this is probably for rural or mountainous areas, better than nothing until help arrives. Smart watches calling emergency services for you based on sensors does happen already though.
Also Russia is doing it, also because it has a problem with numbers and/of soldiers…
“Russia Doesn’t Have the Demographics for War”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/03/russia-demography-birth...
I like this typo in the article: "*Monkeytpe* won’t let Keen run up the leaderboard". The author is a fsat tpyist.
Another country that comes to mind is India - but I've never been enough of a Bollywood fan to be able to make any assessment on this topic.

But it's a very effective tool to shape public opinion. I'm fairly certain without the overwhelmingly heroic portrait of (members of) the military, the public would be more inclined to question the huge investments that go into warfare. Particularly the display of highly achieved individuals in the military leads to both public respect of military members, and enlistings to service.
Where do you live now? Is it the least shitty place you've lived? And if not, where?
Once this was pointed out, I can't unsee it. It's kind of ruined movies that involves the military or military equipment for me, since it can be really obvious when creators toe the line for the military. When I see military equipment my gut reaction is to anticipate the other shoe dropping, and to look for shoehorned hero worship or some good-versus-evil plot point.
Anyone who's interested in more indepth information on him and on why his career and creative powers fell apart so swiftly after "Picture Show" would be served by reading "Hollywood: A Third Memoir" by Larry McMurtry (author of "Picture Show")

His story is a reminder of how a director is not an island, and his arc has some rough similarities with George Lucas's.
Since this is executed from Java code, we did not want to have to bundle kubectl (I'm assuming that's what you are referring to) with the Jar. We also did not want to run an exec command.

Are you asking why not GRPC between the various job pods?
Where is the contradiction?

As far as the theory goes, the transform using the DCT is lossless apart from rounding errors. The quantization step just rounds more roughly. Which is where the lossy compression happens.

Basically you’re not removing the high frequencies because they carry little information, you remove the information they carry.

If you just remove the high frequency you end up with a blurred, smooth picture that doesn’t look like the original. But if you quantize the strength you get a pretty similar looking picture, apart from the degenerate case of sharp edges in a drawing.
Linux Hibernation Documentation
The most unexpected tidbit is how much wealthy folks should keep in equities, even after retiring:

> On average for the very wealthiest of investors, for example, the model found that the optimal equity allocation is close to 100% even during retirement.

I skimmed the paper (page 36) [1] and it looks like this is referring to people in/above the 90th percentile in terms of wealth.

1: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29559/w295...
Same here, I can't wait for an alternative with actually useful search results and good filters. Search is one product I use often every day but I'm stuck with either privacy-respecting options that don't yield useful results, Bing-themes or Google, which used to produce decent results but increasingly is just full of search spam. Good luck with this, I'm happy to pay!
Maybe ad-hoc, as in "not planned ahead well at the time of designing and thus needing lots of fixes for edge cases" or perhaps inelegant as in "requiring many concepts as opposed to something like Smalltalk, which fits on a post card".
You can't really in rust, because it doesn't let you abstract over async-vs-not. If your function does something that a caller might want to happen async, it has to make a choice about whether to do it in an async way and return future (cumbersome and inefficient to use from blocking thread-based applications), or do it in a blocking way (unsuitable for use from async applications).
You entered data in a pop-up frame - how are you confident it is Equifax that you were providing your SS and birthday ?
If there is a reason that they are perceived as higher performing, maybe you can figure out why. What you might think is important might be different from what your boss think is important as a complete package.

Also a lot of people get really defensive and go into denial mode. Or are really full of themselves. People have a really hard time getting the straight out evaluation, or get despondent, and your manager is trying to give the feedback to the capacity level you have shown.
Doesn't have time for junior dev, because has so much own work. Then hangs on hackernews :D
It's also why a land value tax would be awesome

Either land keeps its value, in which case income and capital gains tax are no longer needed as government income would be enourmous

Or land loses its investment appeal, and is instead just the competition between different people in how well they can use it

It seems crazy to me that there are acres of land in Manhatten than are used for street level parking
HN I suppose? What do you need? I've been doing Flask for about 6 years now. I could help.
Don’t know about privilege, but it certainly smells like “doesn’t have children”
Used to work there as a software developer and was somewhat acquainted with the business model. If you're employed and your employer outsources HR functionality to payroll providers (e.g. PayChex, ADP, etc.), there are contractual agreements to provide it to EWS, whose business model is literally more payroll records = $$$ = stock prices go up.
one difference is that authoritarian regimes have been known to infuse everything with state propaganda, whereas almost nobody expects this from western democracies, showing just how much more subtle and even effective the latter can be.
I can relate to this. I found a typo in typescript and gave up on reporting it after 30 minutes or so. These complex systems probably save a lot of maintainer time but they do seem to disincentivize the average user from contributing.
Yes, but the "sorting" feature will break.
Because moving house every few years is awful on kids, changing school, losing friends

Kids need stability, and renting does not provide that.
If I tell you you just need to put a - in front of a domain on Google to mute it will you also pay me whatever I want?
I really doubt it. CLAs are from lawyers being in control, not something programmers would dream up.

I do think something similar about issue templates though, their main function is to give programmers "cover", so they can say "you didn't fill out the template" instead of "the bug report you wrote is garbage".
Good question!

The designer insisted that Kagi logo is "anchored" in the letter "g" and we had to agree. Besides, can't let Google own letter "g" too, can we? ;)
> I say this as someone who works in investment finance where we sell semi-rich semi-professional investors the opportunity to become richer by building solar and wind power plants, and selling them when they are fully operational. Which is about as positive as it gets in capitalism in my experience, considering we’re actually helping the world move in the right direction as far as climate change goes.

Isn’t this also exactly what causes crony capitalism. How many of these semi-rich investors, have friends in politics making regulations that will benefit these.

The fact that this is a thing ensures that a percentage of our politicians pimping climate change are not doing so because they care about the environment but because they’re pimps exploiting those below them for their own profit.

Otherwise we’d welcome and fund even fossil fuel nuclear, and gas, technologies alongside the green technologies. The modern car IC engine, is proof that there are even gains to be made while still not being fully green.

But they need to make it super scary, so they can profit more. One day I hope we can see all the money they made in roundabout ways from these green companies (and big pharmaceutical with covid by the way)
I don't think you understood what I said.

Being vaccinated results in those outcomes. Not your lockdowns.

Your lockdowns only resulted in 50% less deaths than our mismanagement.

You're right, we shouldn't be inconvenienced by a death cult of anti-science morons.

You don't have to be because your country made better decisions than mine.
Notational Intelligence
(Python core dev here.)

Python is well into the process of transitioning from bugs.python.org to GitHub issues. See PEP 581[1] for the rationale. Ezio Melotti is leading the project, and one may follow the progress on the psf/gh-migration GitHub repo[2] where the work is being managed (including specifically the Projects tab).

Hopefully, that should help make things smoother and more accessible for potential contributors.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0581/

[2] https://github.com/psf/gh-migration
That's incredible!

I'm looking for a house right now, that means I can check how much light it gets before even visiting it. Thanks!
Why on earth would employers be motivated to sell this data or provide consent to their payroll processors to disclose it?

What's in it for them? I can't imagine the per-employee revenue it brings in would be anywhere near the same magnitude of order as the FTE cost. So it's a drop in the bucket to their bottom line.

Meanwhile the reputational risk and PR blowback once found out could be severe (I certainly would never work for such a shady or ignorant outfit).
Another happy user here:

The time I save by not having to sift through all the utter nonsense that Google, Bing and even DuckDuckGo showes in my face any given day will easily be worth $10 a month alone and on top it is sanity preserving, privacy respecting and has no ads.

Its kind of like a polished version of https://search.marginalia.nu just with a much larger index.

The best explanation I can give is maybe:

Kagi is to other search engines today what Google was to other search engines 20 years ago: Outstanding quality, better than anything else I have tried - and rapidly improving - no nonsense (again like old Google) and nifty extra features (again like old Google).

(Note: I haven't tested Neeva yet so I cannot say if Kagi is better than them. But compared to all the rest I have tried the last ten years it is in a differen league.)
> And any repetitive words can be handled by IDEs, editors, and macros.

An IDE or editor may be able to write code for you but it can't read or understand it for you, and that's what takes most of the time on nontrivial projects. Macros undermine your tooling and mean the reader has to learn your dialect before understanding your code - they work best when you have a few common ones that are used across every codebase and supported in your tools, but at that point you're better off having them included in the language itself.
Is the defense department going to vaccinate the reservoir of deer and cats and hippos, and do that worldwide?

This will be with us, and mutating, approximately forever.
Thanks for the correction, I wasn't aware of this decision.