skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly the way I feel. The best way I heard this described just today was by Anthony Fantano on his Twitch stream, where he said that a music streaming service just shouldn’t be in the news this much. That is spot on in my opinion - too much controversy for nothing.

I have never listened to podcasts on Spotify and never will, I use the podcasts app for this and it works quite well for me. I would have been very happy for Spotify to be a music streaming service with a killer app and better support for artists (hell I’d even pay another $5 a month for this, I tried Tidal as I think they pay artists well but I found their app to just not be as good as Spotify’s). As it stands, Joe Rogan makes millions of dollars from his deal with Spotify, while most artists I listen to will probably make pocket money - certainly not nearly enough to make a living, especially during a pandemic when touring is so difficult.

Ultimately I think Joe Rogan isn’t going anywhere unless he sees the writing on the wall and decides to take his millions and build his own platform. Frankly, it means nothing to me - I think it would be great if he stopped bringing on guests who routinely lie about the pandemic, but I don’t listen to his podcast so I just don’t care enough to get up in arms about it. But I absolutely reject the idea that this is censorship and I call it out when I can - deplatforming isn’t censorship, and he isn’t even being deplatformed.
Stop charging your phone like this
> Image you were robbed and the robber suddenly asked if your issue with him could be solved if he only took half of what's in your wallet.

The pejorative robbed is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Advertising is how users pay for free services. Making the form of payment more agreeable is a worthwhile goal.

As full disclosure I earn a living in the advertising ecosystem. Any feature that means stakeholders stop asking me to invent backdoor fingerprinting and correlate against data obtained from shady brokers is a welcome step in my opinion.
‘Huge mess of theft and fraud:’ artists sound alarm as NFT crime proliferates
YouTube too.
If the jobs are truly unnecessary, the company and society will stop paying for them.

If no one will do that work at a wage that the market will bear, then that job goes away.

And from other comments it appears you only believe work happens when there is An exchange of money. Raising a kid is the hardest job and work that I’ve ever done. I don’t get paid money for that…

Volunteers still “work”. The fact that they are volunteering shows they could be paid for their time and effort, but instead are doing it for free. But it’s not like they weren’t adding value as soon as the exchange of money is removed.
Elves could be released from the Halls of Mandos and reincarnated. It wasn't totally common, but it happened in the Tolkien's world more than once.

There is, for example, a remark in The Silmarillion that "Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar". Finrod was killed in Sauron's captivity in Middle Earth.
I suspect this would be considered a valid thesis by future historians if the United States had existed in relatively stable prosperity for hundreds of years beforehand and the result of such changes was that the US reduced in power and wealth to the extent that it sat on the verge of succumbing to foreign invasion by the mid twenty-first century.

(At the other end of the scale there are people willing to argue that the Eastern Roman Empire was just an administrative reorganisation and consolidation so the Empire didn't really fall until 1453. Some people measure terminal declines from the peak, some people won't acknowledge falls until something finally ceases to exist)
An analog radio is probably the best case scenario for lesion study. The main purpose of the radio is signal processing, which is done in serial with not many inter-communicating parts.

In fact I think it should be possible for biologists to repair a radio. The main discovery these biologists have to make is that the signal is encoded in electrical voltage, they would then be able to measure the input/output voltage of each discrete component and come to an understanding of the signal processing pipeline. I had an undergrad electronic design course that was exactly this.

A digital radio would be much harder, since the signal processing is done in software.
https://geti2p.net

https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/

Granted, neither of those are designed as proxies to the clearnet... and maybe that's one of the bad things about Tor besides its its history with DARPA.
It's called "free software": https://fsf.org.
I don't think this is reserved to governments, one can easily imagine corporatised versions of the same thing.
Heh, I am hoping we can keep up the pace of ACOUP articles on the front page because they truly are a delight.
ClamAV has one of the worst detection rates, even for ancient shit. Other vendors' Yara rules tend to be better.
Yeah mentally I estimate the dead time created around meetings as 2x the length of the actual meeting. A "quick checkin" actually kills an hour, an all-hands meeting may well write off the entire day.
TIL CuPy exists and is stable and mature. This is why i read this forum, every now and then there is serendipitous connection, new angle or discovery.
The calculation from the management side of 120K Euro is correct. And you are also correct that they are lucky in Europe to get paid 70K.

To pay them around 70K, you need to budget for 120K. It will go into social security, taxes, training, overheard of management, HR team, other costs centers like a margin to account for sickness, absenteeism, people who are trying to "find themselves", personal crisis etc...
it doesnt matter if the work is trivial, youre still working. if im dealing with slack pings at 9pm, thats work, even if they just need a thumbs up.

> six days a week.

Anecdotally when I was doing that much work, it was 7 days a week. When I woke in the morning my phone was full of emails slack pings and build issues, and it was closer to midnight when it stopped than 10pm. There is no down time whatsoever in an environment like that, everyone is constantly stressed and overworked and it just makes it worse
That's true yet still feels rosy ;-)

There's a lot of waiting tables, and if lucky, teaching gigs. Paid performance gigs are rarer and not that rosy either, eg, boring wedding music or sporadic & low-paid pop-ified club gigs. In COVID... yikes.

Prestige includes a lot of 'when will you get a real job?'

Even for the rare folks who 'make it', there's often a lot of weirdness, especially around the one-hit wonder commercial music circuit. Unlikely and hard to get there, and often ugly if you do.

Sound rough? Even worse in visual areas because even less money. Gallery scene is basically charity from upper crust and whatever small grants, if you're lucky. More likely, still waiting tables or some other day job. There are commercial gigs, but rarely related to your art: an artist's exploration of abstract oil painting is far from say musclebound video game characters for adolescents. Even if someone likes your aesthetic style, commercial versions for say a big hotel/ commercial/product are dead/generic for accessibility reasons.

I was around a lot of this in my early 20's. The entertainment industry is at odds with art. Happy to be away from it, and empathy for artists pushing through it.
Walmart Just Invested Big in Vertical Farming
And the grandparent is saying that it's even nicer when engineers can do it, because the managers have coached them in the economics of the situation and they have the mental context they need to make deprioritisation decisions on their own.
I cannot agree enough. Items 1 and 5 especially are worth reiterating: How to run/test/build things should be entirely documented in terms of code, not README files, unless there is no other way. README instructions become outdated quickly and are hard to test in a reproducible manner.

IMO, every project should have one single CLI presenting the developer with everything she or he can do (pull or update dependencies, build, run, test, …). Just like applications come with a UI for the user (whether the user is a real person or just some other application), every project should have a proper user interface for the developer.
And I'm using Qubes disposable virtual machines, which get destroyed after I close the browser. Helps too!
What does your mail solution cost you, per month?
Former gallery admin/volunteer staff here (2004-2008):

The site got bought by Wix a few years back and is a mixed bag at this point.

It's had a long history of junior management/hubris making avoidable errors and missing opportunities to lead (I also attribute this to being led from LA, by very inexperienced management, where media/content properties see things through a very Big Content distorted prism in and of itself).

The site still has some charms, and its print service is still quite good, but overall it's killed much of the community that built it, and is trying to become...something that it doesn't seem to have articulated very well. While many attribute this to the "redesign" I think that's largely a red herring (the sites been redesigned several times, everyone kvetched ferociously and got over it) but its the underlying drivers of what the site is trying to extract from users, and the manner by which it is going about it that is more of whats detrimental to its long term stability let alone growth.

It's UX has always been a bit of a mess, now its still that way, just differently.
Old Reddit has never been mobile-friendly.
I'm in the same boat as you, and yet my hours look like the post author's. One scenario that leads to this is that I simply have other shit to do, and need to hard stop my focus on something that I far too often want to keep working on.

This is partly a delegation problem (I'm trying to free up time by delegating certain things), and partly just a problem of growing up: What interrupts me might sometimes be other work or menial tasks, but it's often also just social life or having to go to to the ice rink.

I'm super happy with my current work-life balance, though a bit unsatisfied at how often I have to context switch. I wish I could just schedule as well as you do, unfortunately when it comes to social engagements for example I'm often more restricted...
To an extent, if you function this way, its not even unhealthy. People give me strange look when I work because I love going fast (in smooth precise way). To them it's abuse, to me it's joy (granted I can stay in my own limits). To me their slow and bored ways are unhealthy. I start twitching.
The mobile app came very late, and was mostly a boatanchor.
>The fact we work 50 hour weeks

50?! but why?
But this is the Taylorist trap mentioned in the top level comment. That somehow "managers" are hired to think, and "workers" are hired to do whatever the "managers" say.

I fully expect the "workers" I supervise to be able to identify things which need work completely on their own. Many heads think much better than one. Besides, they are on the frontlines so they have a much better view of the situation than I. (As much as I try to also do technical work myself.)
Do you feel time running gives you more opportunity for new ideas ?

I used to take 15min jog cuts, it made me have just a few more thoughts ready when I was back at my desk.
> I did work 80 hours a week, still do

> All my devs wanted to also work 80 hours a week.

> DONT work crazy hours because someone else in your sphere is doing it.

Do as I say, not as I do. The culture of being always on, and working these insane hours comes from management allowing it or leading by it. It's utterly meaningless for you tell your reports to not work crazy hours only to show them that you need to do it.

Being a manager puts a power dynamic at play; it's one thing if a team member is working silly hours but if your boss is, it sets the expectation that you can too. By working you are setting the precedent for your team
Shameless plug: my wife produces Latin content for beginners on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/SaturaLanx).

Fun fact: during 2021 she earned quite more with her Latin teaching business than me as a full time software engineer. Not bad!
So instead of 10MB you're paying 15MB? Seems like UPX is an unnecessary dependency.
I think you win the 'jump to conclusions' award for the week. An evidence free accusation based on nothing but the weirdest reading of the Finnish-Estonian diplomatic relationships.
Their foreign intelligence division (the HVA) was also regarded as the best of the best.
> pay for free services

If you pay for it, it's not a free service, so which is it? The whole model hinges on the fact that no kind of payment is advertised, not ads and especially not tracking. (If the GDPR prompts are good for anything then at least for making this bit more obvious)

If you treat this as payment, wouldn't you require an actual business relationship with those users?

Also by that logic, Google just unilaterally altered the contract without even so much as notifying its users about it (thanks to hidden, seamless auto-updates of Chrome)

In which other segment would you tolerate stuff like this as a customer?
Empowering smart people to succeed is easy, even if they dont understand your source code rune magic.

You jusy have to shift to a perspective of being an enabler/tech delegate for others. Most of that requires listening and willingness to be wrong, not individual contribution.

We have spent the last 2 years building tools and models that allow for our non-developer domain experts to handle 90%+ of software implementation concerns.

The biggest techinical key in my view is taking a data-oriented stance. This allows for you to talk about most problems in terms of excel spreadsheets, and any business logic can be developed in terms of SQL queries over those tables.

Having a rockstar developer contribute on an individual basis is amazing. Having that developer empower 1000 other employees to operate at even 1% their capacity is beyond amazing. It's also a lot more sustainable.

The elite developers who are capable of building these ecosystems don't grow on trees. If you find yourself with one, maybe have them build the fishing boat factory for you instead of forcing them to fish for every goddamn meal.
We did started this whole thing as part of a “devops transformation”, so you may be onto something.

Funnily enough, we went through something similar during our “agile transformation”.
There are exceptions. I found The Martian's movie much more entertaining than the book (I've read the book before the movie came out). The book felt like a shore most of the time.
Yes, this is the classic trade-off between optimising the time it takes to get things done, and the time spent doing things.

If you want things to be done quicker, you counter-intuitively have to spend less time doing things. Keeping a person in reserve is one easy way of accomplishing that.

(Why is it a trade-off? Because when in order to ensure you spend a lot of time doing things, you need to have a long queue of things to be done so you never run out of things to do. That long queue means everything takes longer to get done because it spends more time queuing.)
if you're gonna short it out, you can just use a resistor though
While this blog post and reading about his opinions may be interesting, ultimately it's an opinion piece and I strongly dislike when people write opinion pieces and make it sound like they did a study in the title!

For all we know, he may be completely wrong! Maybe he is the outlier and people generally, in fact do perform more "focused work" than two hours a day...

Maybe he isn't overly enthusiastic about his work place, maybe he is in a remote work environment where he isn't inspired to work more efficiently through his peers. Maybe there is a little of everything and he's just trying to warrant this one hour focused work days through "insights".

The reason I'm questioning this is because I have procastrination issues at work and take several short mental breaks, but even I, once I get going and in "the zone" (often later in the work day), I can often do focused work at least twice as long as him. He really gives nothing to go by as for his bold title, which I ask why it's not at least the more undeniably accurate: "I don't work as much as you think".
Why not offer the "dropdown" at a layer the browser manipulates?

IE, web component where you can set a format string and then the browser renders it substituting the info it has?

Then sites that need to know the date can ask for it.

There's a lot we could do by splitting stuff into permissions and some sort of standard templates.
Finding a boat on a budget is easy. What is not is finding a harbour post to moor it. At least here in south of France, this can get really expensive and you may have to wait for years before getting one.
Scientists Are Creating 'Synthetic Dimensions' to Probe Limits of 4D Reality
> Not totally on topic, but can someone explain why switched mode power supplies don't seem to have any type of inrush current limiting?

They absolutely do - NTC, and they even have a relay to bypass the NTC after the PSU has booted up. If you hear a click after booting up, there is a bypass relay.

>Often when I turn on power right after a power loss, the circuit breaker immediately trips.

The circuit breakers (domestic) tend to be B or C class, B triggers much easier than C, the latter tend to be used for motors, stuff with high inrush current. If you believer you have too much inrush current, you might wish to replace the breaker. Also, the PSU datasheets specify how many of then can be connected in parallel to the same breaker.

Last but not least - if you have too much inrush current, it's likely there is no power factor correction either, so the high value caps are connected straight after the bridge rectifier.
Everything in the universe is built on something else. Let's speak the facts, can you demonstrate how DAI has been knocked off the peg substantially and with serious effects? Even with a reach should we find a an hour in history where it did wander more than 2-3%%, that by no means discounts it from the service that it provides in the rest of it's history.

> Of course there are middlemen, it's the validators or miners and contract authors and liquidity providers. There's a ton of middle men.

It's absurd to equate these entities with middlemen in the same sense as central banks and retail/investment banks are middlemen to loans. Again, let's speak the facts, demonstrate in DAIs history:

Where did a validator or miner, deny or cheat a loan? Plenty of examples in traditional finance.

Where did the contract authors or liquidity provides exercise power over the protocol that substantively affected the users of the protocol where it was not transparent and went against the rules which the users signed up for? The same happens all the time with tradfi.
> But I'm still struggling to come up with a way to accidentally expose that on the internet.

See, e.g., https://www.armis.com/research/nat-slipstreaming-v20/ and
https://samy.pl/slipstream/
I always thought the shadow was just a way to refer to a hash -- the shadow of a thing being less detailed/unique but still capable of being used for recognition.

Maybe I read Plato around the same time as I heard of it and that biased my thinking.
If it was working correctly though. On the desktop version it seems to be working almost flawlessly, but on mobile it requires an internet connection when you're reopening a tab in reader-view mode which is a bit odd. I'm starting to thing this is probably due to the existence of pocket integration (there's an old bug report).

And the fact that we are connected 99.9% of the time doesn't make it less annoying on the next flight (whenever that will be in this pandemic :)).
Not necessarily. We had explained here yet why this age value is just an estimate that can miss for a mile.
It could be fairly common, but they would be reincarnated in Aman where Mandos is and thus would have to have sailed back to Middle Earth in order to show up in the stories. There’s just not a lot of traffic going in that direction by the the Third Age.
Given how much I can explain about how to pronounce Archaic Portuguese, even with two high school terms analyzing "Cantigas de escárnio e maldizer" [0], I doubt fellow Greeks have much knowledge how it used to be pronounced during the heyday of Latin as European common language.

Sure anyone can explain how to say it today, and even that changes between mainland and the islands.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galician-Portuguese_lyric
I used and still use macports, but there were valid reasons to switch to homebrew: macports did not have precompiled packages, did not use system libraries, and machines were not as powerful as they are now.

This meant if you wanted to install, say, ImageMagick, you would spend one day compiling stuff.

Also contributing a brew recipe was (and probably still is) easier than contributing to macports, and brew casks are pretty convenient.

I deeply dislike some of the choices of homebrew, but I can understand why it was popular, and it wasn't just because of the ruby hype.
For those who don't have a Shodan Subscription you can use Open Datasets to find the same...and more

https://github.com/tg12/rapid7_OSINT
Wow, that's a blast from the past. DeviantArt was one of those sites that made me wonder, how did they build this? I just looked at it now and looks nothing like I remember, though. Just a generic themed image tile thing now.
LiveScript (https://livescript.net/) has this, amongst many other things (mostly CoffeeScript-inspired). I used it quite a bit and enjoyed it a lot.
I looked at this sometime ago. Here is what I found.

https://github.com/tg12/rapid7_OSINT
and then you can read it out to indirectly get the time zone anyway (albeit a less specific version of it, since you wouldn't have the DST info). also, sometimes you need to actually have the users time zone for things like e.g. scheduled blog posts, so that they will show up when the user expects them to, not their scheduled time in UTC or whatever.

I use a site that only does UTC, and time zone related complaints are the most common issue asked about on the forums
That is true for me, too. I used to sleep 9 hours a day when I was in my early 20s, now I cant imagine anything more than 7 hours.
I think you're completely right, however I'd love to see a graph of average work time claims on HN plotted against this.

There's no denying that there are far more people claiming they work 60-80 hour weeks than would collate with the data that you and OP have provided.

I think these people are generally overworked but are also poor assessors of their own performance, taking worst cases as averages and calling a day in which you finish at 5pm but answer a slack message at 9pm, a 12 hour day.

Not to be too sardonic, but: I'm on call frequently but I don't tell people I've been working for 24 hours because I got a page at midnight, even if it can feel a bit like that by the end of the next day.
No one is doing anything. But let's work out who to blame instead of fixing this.
Ironically, the US enclosed mall model was created by an Austrian (Victor Gruen) who wanted to replicate in the US the feeling of Vienna's Ringstrasse shopping/dining district. His early designs for malls were much more multi-use and even had indoor parks where people could rest from shopping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Gruen