skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that's the popular cynical view, but I'd think with such a position (especially given that it was advertised as reduced hours), there would be 20% lower expectations as to what you'll accomplish. In other words, they'd expect it would take five weeks for you to do what someone else can do in four.

I mean, that's all they have to determine/enforce how much you time you put in currently... general expectations.

Some people say you work the hours needed to get the job done, but that doesn't really make sense. Somehow the work the company needs to get accomplished gets divided up and distributed to employees. And ultimately you've got to think of how much is reasonable to accomplish. Here, that expectation of reasonableness is going to get reduced by about 20% if they are hired to work that many less hours.
There's no such thing as "endless" growth.
> Automatic emergency braking is a required standard feature in the US.

Not currently; I just bought a 2022 Jeep Wrangler that doesn’t have anything of the sort.
This was not my experience with ARIN at all. I requested resources as an individual (sole proprietor) and they were issued to me under my own name. The only requirement is that you have a justified use and $250 per year, which is the cost for 3X-Small allocation (/40 or less of IPv6, /24 of IPv4). As of this year it is also $50 to have an "org" created. This is not prohibitively difficult, though it might be prohibitively expensive for some.
Seems like you're burnt out and you're trying to burn out everyone else as well. I create games in my free time for fun. I enjoy it. I have a game on Steam. It's not great but it's not nothing. And it's mine. Negative energy is what will make the world crumble, and this is a blog post full of negative energy.
Behold, Wolfenstein 1D! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSvECzuaYn0
I'm definitely aware of that. Amazon's comp was never competitive, and stagnant (or even declining) stock over a multi-year period exacerbates the issue for sure. I say this as someone who recently left AWS, in large part for comp related issues (actually kinda loved the job I eventually fell into, alas).
“So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!”
— Tracy Chevalier
It may not have been. Can the case be made, is there proof, will anyone show up? Contesting a fine takes time but the judge can reduce the amount if it was unusually high.
Vendors stop giving system upgrades for their $1000 phones after 2 years and some people are complaining about their $2 one-time software license no longer working. What a sad world...
I haven't used this, but there was a submission recently for adding LoginWithHN functionality. Maybe this could be used to verify HN users.

https://loginwithhn.com/
Probably a bad time to say blockchain solves this, but spinning up a (very) basic swap contract is trivial. He doesn’t need to trust them.
Isn't it just 1 button on the steering wheel to turn it on?

I definitely hope your car doesn't put it in some hidden menus on the central screen.
Good. If you take away something and users don't care, it wasn't important or necessary. Perfection is achieved when there's nothing left to take away.
That is where universal basic income comes in place so everyone can work on the fun stuff they want to work on.
Interestingly while there are more games, I kind of played less games on average in the past year. Plus I already have a big backlog of games to play so I haven't bought much either.
Who works on Fridays anyway?
Making a physical threat crosses a line, and those people need to be dealt with. As for dealing with the trolls making gas chamber jokes, I'd just stop reading Twitter. Or the Facebook/YouTube comments. Frankly, I don't think reading the yammerings of the unwashed masses on unpaid, unverified social media accounts is some kind of requirement for living a productive life, even when you make your bread through online content. Sorry if it sounds harsh, that's just what I think, and what I'd tell a loved one.
Yup. In css the attribute that controls the pointer is called 'cursor' these are two types are 'default' and 'pointer. [1]

In MacOS these are called pointers with 'arrow' and 'pointing hand' styles [2]

Not sure what Windows calls it but some googling shows them as 'standard select' and 'link select'.

[1]: http://www.javascripter.net/faq/stylesc.htm

[2]: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
I really think this post is best read as the author trying to convince himself that he should abandon his own indie video game project.
Played with it for 5 min. Decent free content, abysmal privacy. They keep your info as long as they deem necessary, and almost everything required linking an account. 2/5 stars, uninstalled.
In a funny twist of history MINIX is running at ring -3 on most modern Intel CPUs. So it's probably running on more desktops than MacOS or Linux.
i want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and i'm not kidding
You don't think that human driver accident rates in snowy conditions are much higher than in fair weather conditions?
It sounds like you want a Synology, at least hardware-wise. This one supports up to 6 GB of RAM, four SATA ports, and idles with low wattage and low noise.

Built-in virtualization and docker. It's $500 at Newegg.

https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS420+#specs

They make bigger ones, of course.
Dupe (oldest with most comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30184104

Dupe 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30184560
I’m not disagreeing with the premise that the police are being overzealous. I just find it hard to imagine a world where someone complaining about it online is guaranteed to result in changes.
nay Amazon SW is very demanding as far as I can tell(many friends work there), yes it has higher pay but if you divide it by hours, it's not standing out above other companies at all. have a life.
“No, you are!” isn’t much of an argument.
> If there are issues with the name "autopilot" for Tesla, the same argument needs to be made for aircraft manufacturers.

If a drivers license required as much training as a pilots license then you might have a point.
2022: "I would be “shocked” if Tesla does not achieve “Full Self-Driving safer than human this year.”" [1]

[1] https://electrek.co/2022/01/31/elon-musk-tesla-full-self-dri...
there must be some trap, if it's amazon. I think that the trap requirement must be somewhere as part of the 'leadership principles'... https://www.aboutamazon.com/about-us/leadership-principles

I mean one of these leadership principles is 'Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer', but at the same time they have attrition targets, that means there must be some zeroth law at amazon, that mandates some sort of catch... (a nagging suspicion is that all FAANGs are like that, maybe they drive themselves to be ruthless, in order to stay ahead of the pack)

references to attrition targets at amazon:

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/jun/27/amazons-unre...

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/amazons-controversial-hire-to...
Interview with Former Square Enix Translator Tom Slattery
Sounds more like experienced than cynical to me. In my experience, job descriptions and even the answers you get during interviews are not so much outright lies, as aspirational fabrications you have to take with a grain of salt.
What we currently have is pseudo anonymity. It is generally anonymous, but it's not truly because there is still some form of identifiable information which could be linked back.

As for hiding the fact, you don't have to write in first person, you could write about a fictitious person, or could change identifiable information and disclose that. It clearly doesn't matter what you say, people will assign what they assume anyway, ie trans or jewish.
Shame that there's no oEmbed endpoint.
It does have a privacy impact.
From what I've heard of working at Amazon, this sounds like most likely you are expected to still put in the standard 80hrs/week, just cram it into Mo-Thurs (or maybe Sat-Thurs).

I find it reallllly hard to trust Amazon when it comes to working less. This really just sounds like a way to get someone to work the same amount for less pay (I assume the position has a paycut).
Odd to focus on games when Seattle is propped up by a tech industry with people being overpaid by hundreds of thousands to make useless apps and websites.

Indie game devs are usually making things at home during their downtime. As far as I know, there’s no volunteer hobbyist bridge repair club, so they’re not really taking away from anything. Meanwhile you have companies that have an easily replaceable service like Slack selling for nearly 30 billion dollars. That’s what’s swallowing up money and consuming the time of people who’d otherwise be making something useful.
This is a question I've had for years: Does time of day matter for sleep?

If I go to sleep on a "normal" schedule (wake up, start day around 7am), I need 8 hours. However, I can totally survive, and even thrive, with just 5-ish hours of sleep, if I can wake up around 11am, going to sleep just before dawn.

Not a doctor, so I don't know the answer. My assumption is that it depends on the person. I'm a night-person, so naturally the waking-at-11am schedule works best for me. But staying awake until 5:30am is unthinkable for most morning people.
Imagine a medieval king who decided their castle should be lit up like day at nighttime, hundreds of candles in mirror-walled rooms, 365 days a year, and also that the entire castle save only the bed chamber would host the finest entertainers and all the most interesting friends and strangers in the world, party games and amusements in a hundred palace rooms, and a mage who could show the king any wonder of the world in his crystal ball, and a bazaar with the finest goods on display, the best academics, et c., et c., basically on tap, and this wild best-the-world's-ever-seen carnival would never. Close. So that all the king must do is open his bed chamber door, any hour, any day, to be enthusiastically welcomed into a veritable (and sometimes literal) orgy of entertainment. 24. 7. Year-round.

Think that king might have a rather disrupted sleep schedule? It seems obviously insane to live like that, no? Instant reaction is "my god, why would you do that", right?

Consider that a totally ordinary middle class house in the West is arguably worse than that.

No wonder everyone "can't" sleep or "is just a night owl" (sure, some may actually be, not saying zero people are).

Frankly it's a miracle we get anydamnthing done, and sleep at all.

I'd encourage everyone to try candle-only lighting after sundown (or maybe extremely dim candle-temp electric lighting, though if you're just trying it briefly consider the candles, they're a bad idea for a bunch of reasons long-term but fine for a few days—you'd be surprised how little you need, I found two beeswax tapers were the minimum to read by without discomfort, but my eyes are still young-ish), no electric devices whatsoever (there's actually still a ton you can do—card games, board games, play music, read, draw, write, et c.), no whole-room lighting, just for a week or so. See if you're still a "night person" by day 7.

[EDIT] Bonus round on the thought experiment at the top: imagine the king is, despite this questionable decision, actually fairly responsible and leaves the castle to go run the kingdom during the day, most days, retiring to this ultra-carnival-home only late in the day. You'll expect that to go even worse as far as sleep is concerned, right?
Maybe if they spent less time censoring/de-platforming they would have eyeballs to sell those ads to.
I was actually quite surprised to find out that self-plagiarism is also a thing, which will get you punished in academia.

It was something which I had done many, many times myself - where I'd just copy/paste boilerplate stuff from my older reports or papers, into my new papers.

A couple of years after graduation, I read articles about students getting caught and expelled for self-plagiarism in things like home exams.
I have seen this a few times before. One-click to enable cookies, multiple clicks where you have to understand the double-negatives to disable. Definitely a dark pattern.

"Disabling cookies is not recommended for the best experience. Don't disable do not track?" CANCEL/CONTINUE
>I wonder if the fixity of location provided by printed materials is a significant factor in increased retention. I noticed that I often remember what part of a page I read something on.

I find this to be very much true personally. The spatial organization of words on the page seems to provide a trellis that helps structure how I recall information. So much so that I intentionally convert epubs and other long-form documents to PDF these days before reading. I find this becomes even more important on material where I'm writing comments in the margins; the spatial relationship between the comments and the text helps me to recall both.

I also tend to favour software tools that try to preserve the spatial relationship between pages. On Sony and Fujitsu e-readers, for example, when you pinch out, the display transitions to a 16-page contact sheet view that doesn't shift depending on what page you were just reading. At first blush, it seems lazy, why not show the current page and the prior 7 and subsequent 8 pages instead? But after a while you start to realize that it's to help structure your spatial position within the document, a little like how in a book the left hand pages are always to the right of the right hand pages.
This kind of hyberbolic language is everywhere now. 30 years ago this phrase might have captured attention in a non-cynical way.

There's too much content now, and it's a race to the bottom as every piece tries to gain attention.
Do you know if Dreammachine can work with another ubiquity Access point in a mesh fashion?
....wow, that is the most counter-intuitive idea I've seen in a long time!

A helium balloon makes sense, it's lighter than air so it floats, duh.

Well, what's lighter than that? Nothing (vacuum)! It's such a dumb, but correct answer that I had a hard time wrapping my head around it.

Yup, theoretically a vacuum would be extremely buoyant if we could put it in a light enough structure.
I mean if you want to point at anything for blame... at least point at government spending. More than half of federal discretionary spending is on the military. Put a few % of that towards infrastructure...

For reference .003% of the federal budget goes towards the national endowment for the arts'
You don’t see how someone might have a visceral reaction to the prospect of being automated out of a job? Especially for those people living in countries with weak or no social nets? Plus, for a lot of us programming as it’s done now is a big part of our identity, and it’s understandable how people might feel uncomfortable about something that casts uncertainty about our place in the future.

The historical Luddites were not anti-tech. They were lashing out against automation reducing their status in society and financial security
> ...but it's how we're taught at driving school.

It doesn't matter. People have all kinds of things they are taught about driving from their parents, instructors, and even official documents that don't carry legal weight (e.g., a highway patrol website).

Even when these types of ideas are good ideas, they aren't binding and you can't count on others to follow those rules. The only true rules of the road are the subset of the laws that are enforced; where enforcement might be done by law enforcement officers, civil judges, or insurance company adjudication processes.
I have no idea either, maybe "Rust Evangelism Strike Force"?

https://llogiq.github.io/2017/09/13/resf.html
Then why not include reversability that could be executed by real world judges?
> You can ask for evidence if you want, but do you really need to do that in this case?

I mean, the job is called "acting" and I'd think someone is a pretty bad actor if they can't pretend it's a real painting instead of a fake. They're already pretending to be an entirely different person, in an entirely different setting, dealing with a reality that often has extremely different rules than ours.

So, yeah, it seems like a pretty extraordinary claim to insist that they can handle stunt doubles, fake props, and painted backgrounds... but a single green screen painting is just too much for them to handle.
Having worked for Amazon before I'd say that's a fairly safe assumption.
I think you're wrong on some of these points, and the author was trying to make these points but was not explicit.

I remember reading an article in the intelligencer by a mathematician who essentially said there are certain conjectures where if they were to be proved false rather than be thrown into a sea of uncertainty, mathematicians i
would quickly move to investigate a readjustment of basic axioms rather than accept that those conjectures are incorrect.

Then there are fields of mathematics around selecting different axioms. Investigating the ramifications of whether you take the undecidable "continuum hypothesis" as true or false. And then theres model theory and such. Presumably they study models of interest and not arbitrary ones.

You're mostly correct that the methodology is mostly deductive but the point is that what we choose to use isn't arbitrary because there are things in math which are more important than axioms as they are things believed to be "real".
Car Buying – Covid Edition
My wife’s trusty Honda Pilot from 2006 died at the shopping center. She called in panic, and I rushed to the scene, switching cars so she could pick our children up from school.

I called for a tow, had it jumpstarted and soon was on my way. Three miles later it came to a halt. Another call to the tow service, this time had to have it hauled 2 miles on a flatbed. After some troubleshooting, I identified the alternator as the culprit. Some more troubleshooting, and it turned out that the battery was at the end of its life. The Honda had been very reliable so far, but it was time for a new car.

We felt comfortable enough to visit dealerships. We started our search with the current year Pilot. We started our search in the summer knowing that it was a question of time when the car would start to be unreliable. Visiting one of the dealerships close to us we test drove trims and finalized what we wanted. We were not picky when it came to options, but with growing teenagers the back seats needed to be captain’s chairs and not bench and a little more leg room. It was early summer and we needed to bring the kiddos to sit and measure the 2nd row. We received the pricing and happily were on our way. Several weeks later, we called the same dealership and set up an appointment with the salesperson to fit the kids. We arrived earlier than anticipated due to favorable traffic, and our salesperson had not arrived for his shift yet. We were greeted by one of the dealer managers, and test drove the preferred trim. Our salesperson had not arrived yet, and the manager indicated for us to sit with financing to close the deal.

We had actually decided on the trim and preferred colors and were ready to purchase. This is when one of the managers approached and gave us a quote. When we inquired about pricing differential from what we were given previously, our character and integrity were questioned in front of my children. When it became evident, we had documentation, the individual in question then proceeded to throw the staff under the bus, in turn calling them liars. I watched as most of the staff in the showroom actually look at the floor. This was the moment I knew that I can’t trust this individual. This person clearly did not have my family’s best interest and customer experience in mind.

Suddenly a pleasant buying experience turned into an episode of twilight zone.

My wife and I looked at each other and with determination called the manager on his verbal assault with all his staff present. As we were leaving, we ran into the salesperson, who unfortunately lost a definitive sale.

I called Honda Corporate to complain. To my surprise Honda corporate had zero power over dealership pricing. The COVID driven market conditions, combined with chip shortage changed the car buying experience within a two-to-three-week period, with prices soaring.

We ended up purchasing a 2021 Chevy Traverse, but that’s a separate experience, and another story, with its own twists and turns.

Anyone have a similar experience?
> Is it reasonable to assume AV will be lower-cost than rideshare?

That's what the industry is betting on. I think it's reasonable in the steady-state: labor costs are expensive as hell.

> vehicle purchase/maintenance/depreciation/liability are all externalised.

These aren't 100% externalized with Uber, as they show up in the labor cost. They're only externalized with Uber to the extent that drivers do the math wrong on the costs they're paying[1]. Most of the analyses I've seen of this choose every possible pessimistic assumption, and still end up with net wages that are very high. They're of course low relative to "a living wage", which is what the analyses are focusing on, but that's precisely the point of what we're talking about: even the floor of labor costs is very high, when you're looking at expenses.

[1] Completely tangentially, but also note that this ignores the extent to which people derive value from being able to convert assets around. It's hard to imagine for us SWEs making 1% salaries and sitting on mountains of wealth, but liquidity is a constant and pressing concern for a large portion of the country. See also: payday lenders, where there's a stark difference between the opinions of those who've actually studied the economics of the industry and the midwit affluent John-Oliver-watcher.
The end of your life is not guaranteed. Your life may be shortened any number of ways unrelated to how much sleep you have had.

Let's say you live to be 90, sleeping 8 hours a day. That's 60 years of actual living time, 20 of which occur between ages 60 and 90.
If you sleep 4 hours a day and live to be 90, that's 75 years awake with those extra 15 years spread over your entire life - not just the last third which is likely to be less enjoyable and productive.
FWIW, it's incredibly rare for someone to bug me on a Friday in my 5+ years of remote work across 3 companies (medical devices, scientific devices, and blockchain) in 3 completely separate stages of their life (early startup, mature startup, and 60+ year old established company).
and asking Iran to give up having missiles etc after seeing what they did to Libya?
What I see as "incredibly destructive and brutal" is getting your jollies building useless toys while the planet is dying. When I hear the phrase "violating basic human rights and decency", I think of how this guy runs his warehouses. And letting your people die because you never did preparation drills, and had them come to work during a major storm so your business could save a few pennies.

Edwardsville city officials identified the names of the six deceased on Sunday, who ranged in age from 26 to 62.

Among the victims identified by authorities was Larry Virden, 46, whose daughter Justice Virden told ABC News' Rob Marciano for "Good Morning America", "I walked out of that building after they told me my dad was gone, and I dropped to my knees and screamed at the sky at the top of my lungs."

"I said 'No, my dad's coming home," Justice Virden said. "'I need my daddy. He can't leave.'"
Sounds like an interesting theory. Who will be the ones that do the productive work that pays for UBI?
yeah, I don't know about that, my indie game phase was fundamental to my carrer in 'hard' science.

computers are great creative outlets for selfexpression toying around with games isn't a bad thing

I also find the shoe making thing is a bit odd because for a lot of people it's a similar creative outlet.. for this person it's blogging