skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Polyphasic sleep seems to be the natural sleep-cycle of humanity, as proven through natural circadian rhythms.

Sleeping for 8+ hours at one time, on a regular basis, may just not be natural for a significant percentage of humanity.
I’m in the exact same situation. I’ve been working with therapists (it took a couple to find the right one), and it’s been great!

I now consider it a super-power, and a luxury—to have someone totally external to my normal life, that I talk to regularly, who understand me, and who is paid to help me. It’s the only relation in my life where the dialog is 100% about me, and my well being, where I don’t have to have any considerations for anything, or anyone else, else at that time.

Highly recommend it!
It doesn't seem to appear in a mobile browser, but I do see it if I put the mobile browser in desktop mode.
> Analogy: You owe someone $5 for an ice cream cone. Do you hand over your wallet and all of your 2fa credentials to that person, and hope they only take $5?

We do this all the time with online transactions. Just because the website says $5, in principle when they charge your bank they could ask for as much as they like.
> If they are in the US they are going to pay ~30-35%

That raise is on top of their salary so the additional dollars are taxed at the highest rate. For taht example executive, federal tax alone on the additional dollars is 35% most likely (35% for sure if single, probably 35% if married with a working spouse earning less). Then add state tax which here would likely be 10.5% and then add medicare tax at 2.35% and there may also be unemployment insurance tax and perhaps other assorted smaller deductions.

So yes, for additional dollars from a raise a good rule of thumb is that only 50% can reach you.
It's probably become more profitable for them to have the search be shit now that their monopoly is so secure
I loved Turbo Prolog.

Creating many cool things: graphical chess problem solver, watching the search process on a VGA screen on a 386 CPU, expert systems, logic analyzers.

But it's been a long time. C became my next new love (Turbo C first), and many years later a plethora of OO languages.

But Prolog still holds a special place. Too bad it really didn't catch on in my professional career.
>What are some funky, unconventional ideas you have?

All of them.
Is that able to build 16-bit x86 code, including near/far pointers, like the VirtualBox BIOS uses?

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12011
> "As another example, Amazon teams communicate product launch requirements via a future press releases including..."

Do you have a source for this, guide and maybe a book about Amazon things?
Yes. Though you can do a lot of fun and useful physics without calculus.

My view is biased, because I had some very good physics teachers in high school and an interest in the subject.

So here again, I doubt that a typical student at a typical school gets all that much out of the lectures.
Best of luck to OP, and there are some solid suggestions in this thread!

Just wanted to add that the wholesale adoption and normalization of WFH and remote culture in tech is worrying and will only make this type of issue worse and more common. Personally, I had consistently been able to make good friendships at work across several positions at different companies/cities/countries. That's until WFH and remote work hit, where now I rarely see coworkers in person (if at all), and often people are not in the same city. We feel more like automatons these days.

Tech work seems no longer a reliable vector for creating meaningful friendships or a social life outside of work. Like OP, many of us will have to learn to meet people outside of work.
This truly is terrible advice.

The worst thing that could happen would be your life gets wrapped into a religious community. This is why people of seeming average intelligence stay in churches. Everyone is pretending to believe the nonsense because if anyone admits (often even just to themselves) just how stupid it is, poof goes their friends, community, perhaps even their marriage.

> I’m not even spiritual and I avoid a lot of the overly churchy parts.

Literally EVERY SINGLE PERSON in a church says this. I knew of a literal cult, whose leaders ended up in jail, and THEY said this. Everyone says this because what's written in these books is indefensibly stupid that it's embarrassing.
Relatively simple attacks? Have you read up on the NSO attack? It’s incredible.
Travel. People think traveling is escapist and not helpful. This I don't believe. Yes you'll drag all your problems with you but now you have no excuses and you'll have to fix them. But you'll have a fresh perspective on everything and a broader perspective on life. You'll understand yourself and the now bigger world better
It's actually disturbing how difficult it is to get ahead in a country like Canada while working insanely stressful $300k positions without taking on large amounts of debt.

Even if you're making $300k. After taxes, your disposable income is still 5 - 6 years away from purchasing a home in cash in many cities.

We're using debt to fuel the economy, which is dangerous.
For the people commenting who didn't read the article I read it for you.

tl;dr

probably not but some people find just knowing that people slept like that can help with anxiety around insomnia.

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I have never really had issues with insomnia before but over the last year I have started to have it. It's like the author describes just snapping awake in the middle of the night. It's really unsettling looking at your phone and seeing you only got 3 or 4 hours of sleep and now you feel like you are ready for the day. I think it's stress related from COVID and the general new anxiety I find in pretty much doing anything. Having to worry about who is going to be mad if I wear a mask. Who is going to be mad if I don't.

I tried to go see the doctor when I had almost two weeks of only getting 14 hours of sleep for the entire week. Unfortunately they couldn't see me for 2 months. So i'm not even sure what my health insurance is paying for. Anyway i was able to sleep again after another week and have felt good with only the occasional insomnia now.

USA based if you couldn't tell. I greatly worry about the mental toll these last years have taken on people and I'm really not surprised that it seems like society is crumbling around us now.
I've had various issues with PEP 8, but mixing underscores and camelcase (in particular) has never sparked joy for me.

And pylint seems to keep adding style checks that I don't like and have to disable.

But the main principle I do agree with is to strive for consistent style within a code base.
The cardinal rule of databases: http://www.dbms2.com/2013/03/18/dbms-development-marklogic-h...

Ignoring that leads to long postmortems about how your embedded db failed in a way you didn’t expect: https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-...

SQLite is good

Rocksdb is good

You don’t need pure go.
> Imagine the year is 2030:

And I am elected God Emperor of the Known Universe.
Imagine if I said I went to some event but unfortunately there were only x person of ethnicity. Yuck!

If the OP only wants to be friends with attractive women and tall guys, more power to him but he won't get much sympathy for me for that comment. Opportunities in life comes in many shapes and forms. That short guy or unattractive woman who they could've made friends with could've also opened up more social opportunities.
tolerate then.

You have you not actively dislike yourself.
"Add a dash of truth and justice"
It wont make you any happier, but its the first step down that road.
> In case someone has any advice beyond ... going to therapy

Everyone proceeds to tell him to go to therapy, lol.
The tragedy is that poor unfortunate grunts only get to know it's a racket after it's too late - when half of them are already dead.

Unfortunately, it seems to be a chararistic of the human condition that learning about war is a slow prossess and that the horrors of experiencing it cannot passed down from one generation to the next.

Experience gathered over millennia has demonstrated that it's essentially impossible to teach recruits before they enter the military that war is not only a racket but also it will be the most horrible and devastating experience of their lives.

The fact is, it's impossible to put an old head onto young shoulders.
If you are only meeting lonely programmer types at dance lessons, you should pick something more social.

Book clubs. Films clubs. Run clubs. Hell, take up fishing and go to meetups (super social sport, believe it or not).

There are many varied ways to connect with other people. If it is a romantic partner you want to meet and you are a straight man, skip fishing meet ups and replace that recommendation with Yoga or Zumba.
Very well put. Not just tall/short but physical beauty in general tends to push or pull people with it in a particular direction (be it career/friendships/relationships). To think of it in another way, they are as much trapped with it as the person with bad looks whether they want it or not.

For many good looking people, its a big problem when the short span of these once awesome physical attributes start to reach its eventual decline. They don't have any self confidence and self worth not tied to their looks. And from then on a its a life long fight to keep looking the same through cosmetics or surgery.
When I was a child I was trying to take one apart by prying with a screwdriver. I accidentally shorted the switch that started the flash with my screwdriver. I heard the capacitor charge, but stupidly didn't back away slowly and kept prying. I got zapped through the screwdriver, and I involuntarily threw the camera all the way across the room.

I also nearly killed myself with a giant DIY laden jar I thought was discharged. It was not. I discharged it across my arms (eg, across my heart). Luckily there was very little stored power, it hurt enough to give me pause but I wasn't injured. This thing was pretty big though, it definitely could've held enough power to hurt me badly.

Lessons learned!
This is specifically OpenTable reservations. On top of the pandemic, Resy has been gaining quite a lot of market share.
-10 °C isn't unusual for Ottawa and surrounding areas at this time of the year.

Even -25 °C is something most people who live in the region would be expecting and prepared to experience at various points throughout a typical winter.
Thanks. Yes, I thought of that possibility of International Laws, but left them out for simplicity.

Keep in mind that the US did not declare their invasion of Iraq to be a war.

I did a bit of Googling on the legality of the Iraq War. Not so much to figure out whether it was legal in some objective sense, but in what the various parties involved see as the legal underpinnings of their doings.

See eg https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
While there are plenty of perfectly fine boardgame groups, if you regularly read posts on the subject you'll find that a LOT of people have discovered that their local boardgame group is full of people who lack the social skills to make friends on their own to play boardgames with.

I agree with you that it isn't bad advice per se. But it should probably come with a warning that the local group might just be full of weirdos and to cut your losses if that seems to be the case.
Aegis is my TOTP app of choice! Keep up the great work, I really love it.
There was a time, not so long ago, when having greater reach than Television was impossible.

The way I'm looking at it, the fact the graph shows that podcasts are more popular than TV is no small thing.

It is important on multiple levels.
I always thought patenting any aspect of a modem was an anti-pattern. The whole point of modems was to offer standardised end to end communication. To me that includes the control, meta or not. Paying the Hayes tax for +++ summed up everything that was (and remains) wrong in software patents.
The charging port location is horrible but, that’s about the only problem unique to it.

In horizontal workflows like video or audio editing it’s much faster swipe left/right, it becomes natural like a track pad. After working like that a scroll wheel doesn’t cut it anymore.
The author seems to have worked exclusively on trading systems, which probably explains why the section that claims “This is how most businesses build software” bears little resemblance to how I’ve seen software built.
I see. So if we could have developed a nuclear bomb for $200 and destroyed a city using it, it wouldn’t have been a weapon? I don’t understand the reason cost is being brought into the definition.
This just show that fascism means different things to different people.

There are indeed several aspects to it:

- suppression of labor unions and other political organisations that go against the interests of the ruling class, using mob violence

- a nationalist/religious/wtv ideology portaying anyone discussing orders as a dangerous enemy (dividing the people in the name of unity)

- the will to at least temporarily ignore the rules of normal, consensual arbitration within the society, to face dangerous times (for the ruling class, thus their initial approval/encouragements).

- to various degrees, the new regime goes out of hands and also ends up terrorizing the ruling class.

Many different movements/regimes in history matched with several of those points. Many military coups are called "fascist" despite they lack the "mob violence" aspect, relying instead on the support on some external army's paratroopers. And many exceptional regimes ignoring past laws temporarily to face a dire situation are also labeled as "fascist", despite they make little use of violence.
There's a lot to be said for quakers, atheist or not. And stoicism of a kind, maybe I mean kind-stoical-atheistical-quakerism.
I find the Horstmann indentation style [1], in which code is placed on the same line as the opening bracket, simultaneously disturbing and compelling. If it ever ends up added to clang-format as has been requested [2], it might become more popular.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style#Horstmann_st...
[2] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27263
I’m so sorry, my man. My very best to you.
I had a restaurant screw up my order via Google's ordering platform and there was no one to ask for a refund -- the Google platform doesn't accept complaints about the merchant, and there's no way to contact the merchant through the Google platform after your order is complete. They forgot an item in my order and so overcharged me by like 40%. YMMV
-> statistics has to say

CDC says recovered have better statistics than vaxed.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm

'By early October, persons who survived a previous infection had lower case rates than persons who were vaccinated alone.'

Statistics depends mainly on co-morbidities like being overweight. Children almost always recover without vax, according to statistics.
To add, while Obama was told he couldn't have an iPhone[0], Trump apparently had two NSA-secured iPhones in 2018[1], so the basic OS is secure (and likely loaded with MDM, maybe even jailbroken to disable safari JIT or disable safari entirely).

0: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/05/barack-ob...

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20210203152520/https://www.wired...
we are sad because we don't make enough money. money cannot buy happiness, but it definitely gives you the freedom to quit your job when you don't have any other skills than coding. It is all finance. stop worrying about now, plan for future.
You just pay when you pick up the pizza, card or cash. If it's delivery, you just read out your card number to them or pay the driver in cash. Are you in the US?

When I was in Mexico, delivery people carried devices to process credit card payments with them. That's less common here.
DOS and BIOS had some pretty crappy interrupt calls for Serial port access and as DOS was single threaded and you could hang the PC if not careful. In timing critical cases you were safer accessing the serial controller directly.. Of course strictly verboten under any real OS and one of the reasons a lot of older timing critical software was problematic to move to windows or other hardware.
Zero-copy message-passing is a thing for a long time. DMA from a NIC to a RAM buffer, from the same buffer to "disk", or to GPU, etc.
Don't know, but I really wish they are wrong and the Russians are right in their claims that the West is "hysterical". So far all the evidence points towards preparations for an invasion and failure to recognise it as such is just wishful thinking. If they were only amassing troops, it could have been an exercise, but when mobile hospitals start to appear near a conflict area, it means preparations for war. Hopefully this will end like the Russo-Georgian war. Similar military effectives were involved on the Russian part then. To get a better view on this, I'd read what Pavel Felgenhauer has to say about this. He was right in his prediction that Russia was going to attack Georgia in August 2008.

https://jamestown.org/analyst/pavel-felgenhauer/
I should write a blog post this but here’s what I do in GitHub Actions for a Go binary that uses SQLite:
https://github.com/crossjoin-io/crossjoin/blob/main/.github/...
Since you already have done it. do you mind sharing links and letter template? I think a lot of people think strongly about it, having this info handy might push more people to reach out.
All bugs are shallow (don't believe)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_law
>when I joined Azure, I asked people what the biggest risk to Azure was and the dominant answer was that if we had more global outages, major customers would lose trust in us and we'd lose them forever, permanently crippling the business

That's a pretty good question to ask, at any job interview. I will use this tip! (won't ask it on the first interview, but it's pretty usefull for a second or third interview)
>Did you try meetup.com?

So this is a bit offtopic (but maybe ontopic for HN), did meetup go through some change in ownership, revenue model etc. ? I can agree with the observation that meetup.com doesn't have as many fun/cheap/random/hobby based meetups any more. Everything feels a lot more commercial compared to a few years ago. Maybe it's area specific, maybe it's COVID, maybe it's a bunch of different factors. I think you need to pay to host a meetup whereas it used to be free earlier ?
I'm an atheist or at best agnostic, but I've met and known many highly intelligent people who are also religious. It's not mutually exclusive.
Slightly off-topic, this reminds me of one of the most-clever band names ever: "Francis Bakin".
Exactly!

In that sense they're not fuckwits but their ethics are in the gutter.
Even if you install Signal, you'll still have iMessage installed and processing messages sent to your apple ID.

iMessage on iOS is part of the OS, and does some message handling in kernelspace. Yes, it has blastdoor, but even since blastdoor sandboxing has been introduced, there have been multiple iMessage CVEs which lead to a full device compromise. See this project zero post for more about iMessage [0].

What I'm trying to say here, is that on an iPhone, no matter what messenger you use, some iMessage exploits can pwn that messenger anyway since iMessage cannot be disabled, and has privileged OS level access.

On the other hand, android does have "google messenger" or whatever the OEM installed, and it may not be uninstallable, but it's sandboxed away from the OS in the same way every other app is. There have been exploits based on kernel-space processing of media attachments on android too, but those actually did depend on the app being used, so if you switched SMS apps to one which rejected such an attachment, or otherwise processed it differently, you actually could be secure. Said another way, on android you actually can turn off the default messenger and use signal for SMS. On iOS, that's not so realistic.

[0]: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-look-at-ime...
- tax-funded working group
- might rig the market to protect banks
- advises the POTUS
- keeps meeting notes and recommendations secret
- only reports to POTUS
Try international meetups if you're in a big city. People are often open to making friends and less socially awkward (but sometimes don't have much money...)
I tried biphasic sleeping in my early 20s. I felt that I rested better but I had absolutely no social life outside work, so I gave it up. Turns out there’s a significant social advantage to being awake when other are and sleeping when others do.
"cancel culture" talks about people being"cancelled" that is losing their job, scholarship, or other means of livelihood. For saying something, usually innoculous, that had nothing to do with their job or school or livelihood. It is even worse when the thing was said years ago. Consequences should be proportionate to the actions. Not "you should starve to death because I don't like what you said." Which is essentially what cancel culture boils down to.
Apple does all of it quite well, but software inherently has bugs for as long as we use type-unsafe languages. Maybe Apple could move entirely to Rust instead of C to prevent things like checkm8 but even then the logic of a program is written by imperfect humans.
Just visited the NumbersUSA site because I never heard of the, and immediately regretted it. Ghastly. They oppose a few thousand additional green cards (a system that is already pretty exploitative) during a time when skilled immigration is drastically decreasing. I don’t get it all. If anything ever made America great it was high skill immigration.
Woosh! Please explain :)
I had to leave at the start of covid because my income source was at risk and I would have been leaving in 2020 anyway, but as far as I can tell the majority of people I knew working remotely in Bali are still there or if not have just moved on to somewhere new and exciting.

In general young fun people have done their best to keep having fun despite anti covid restrictions, with the boring, depressed inside loners being the ones demanding everyone stay boring and depressed inside. You're going to find it hard to fit in with people different from you if you're going to be coming to them with values that go against their existence.

Developers were a minority. Hell, people with jobs were a minority.
WASM can't get DOM access soon enough..
FTD = Frontotemporal demensia?
Graphics Flight Recorder – unknown but handy tool to debug GPU hangs
Plus you get to share your food with the driver[1] which is nice.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-eats-delivery-drivers-e...
I'm sorry you are struggling. The book The Road Less Traveled was helpful for me. Wish you the best.
> They exist in quiet and sometimes quite intricate underground conversations.

YES. Nailed it.

In my understand, it's broadcast that is weak at communicating nuance. But if you can figure out how to "tell stories" that propagate via conversation, then your capacity to communicate nuance is GREATLY increased. People will only take in so many bits of information, when they don't feel participant in the making.

I put "tell stories" in scare-quotes because imho they're not truly "told" and they're not truly "stories", at least not in the linear sense. It's more like they're "planted", and they're more like network stories than anything else. To tell them is more like building as escape room than writing a one-pager.
Modern OS change their outgoing IPv6 address fairly often. They could grab 10,000 from the pool and rotate between them every second.
Evolution has the benefit that it can develop in parallel. We only have limited manpower for our creations, so it's entirely possible that focusing our efforts produces better results.
How do you attach it / keep it attached on a device?
Wow it's awesome Metabo and Mafell use the same battery. I'll probably buy some Metabo cordless tools just because of this comment. (Been planning on upgrading some corded tools.)