skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of this is easy to say, hard to do. But, I didn't see much to disagree with. Managing people requires patience and you have to learn how to do it (I do not believe people come formed in the womb to lead well, it develops, in some during childhood and in others its learned more formally)

I sometimes think Lord Moran's "The Anatomy of Courage" is applicable here. The courage & capacity to stand up for what is right in a "groupthink" meeting, or to confront senior managers and manage upwards is not infinite. Some people have recoverable depths here. Others become a spent force very quickly but can be useful for a precise outcome. Some can't do it.

I used to manage people. I found it very hard. Giving people bad news in performace reviews is extremely costly to me, I didn't like it enough to want to continue.
Mid-twenties bachelor here, your suspicions are 100% correct. I don't mind WFH too much, especially now that I have a companion pet, but I definitely feel like I can dig into work with more focus and vigor in the office. It also took a lot of conscious effort on my part to build a healthy hybrid work lifestyle.

For one thing, I don't have the luxury of an entirely separate space to dedicate just to work -- my home office is also my bedroom and personal computer/gaming space.

And as others have noted, its just... way too easy to fall into a pattern where you literally turn into a technological anchorite. I have refused to let myself use food or grocery delivery primarily because I realized there was a point in the depths of 2020 when I hadn't left my apartment in almost two weeks, and it really frightened me how easily the time passed, in a beige blur of life.
If it qualifies, Apple M1 series has been a real game changer for me. Its doesn't interrupt my thought process due to computing overload. Very rarely hangs and makes my idea to implementation and visual feedback process very seamless.

My productivity is up so much that I bought two M1s (one for office and one for home)
Covid has taught me that I really enjoy working from home the majority of the time. This surprised me as I did not expect to like remote work as much as I do now. I have a private office at my home instead of a crowded open office plan at work. Additionally, my team is distributed across the US; even if I did go in the office my whole team wouldn’t be there. Now that I’ve learned how to adapt to remote work, it’s my preferred arrangement.

I do miss some professional interactions. My plan is to start regularly attenuation Meetup type groups as we return to normalcy. This is likely even better than only networking with folks who work at the same company as me.
I absolutely love remote work and have a very hard time understanding why anyone would want to spend 14h a week commuting their laptop to a noisy cubicle, buy a shitty $18 lunch in a plastic container and get extra tired on their way home.

I have multiple zoom meetings every day and feel much much closer to my coworkers than during office times.

Also I don’t get interrupted all the time and am able to actually get stuff done.

I guess I am not an extrovert and don’t need to crowdsurf to feel adequate.
The Curious Case of the Responsible Process
16ths and even 32nds are common wrench increments.

>Usually very physical based

Land records in the US are all feet, acres, furlongs, arpents, sections, and townships.

That's not changing.

And they all divide easily from townships of 36-square miles to 10-acre quarter-quarter-quarter-sections to 66x660ft-acres.

66 ft is a gunter's (surveyors) chain = 100 links

10 chains = 660ft = 1 furlong = 1/8 mile

It's a brilliantly thought out system, but most people promoting SI won't take the time to see the benefits.

Personally, I find it much easier to make blunders with SI, because a decimal shift one place over isn't always an obvious mistake.
they have very different goals. game engines and such make all sorts of performance compromises you positively wouldnt want your CAD software making.
If it truly is a dollar (which seems like what they're aiming at given UTxOs, etc), there's no recourse for the dollars (tokens) themselves - much like dollars today.
And a great example why self driving needs more sensors than just vision. Otherwise it will keep making many of the same errors humans will. Someone is going to wipe the floor with Tesla simply by having a system that avoids collisions, rather than avoids collisions with things that can be seen.
Must’ve been autocorrect
I think the joke was the fact that lamination involves significant heat, which would immediately destroy the thermal receipts. Thus speeding up their destruction, not their copying.
To the OP/author: the homepage is devoid of details that would be useful. Could you please include details on how it works so that people can know without signing up?

Questions:

0. Which email address should users add to their address book or allow list so that the chances of the emails going to spam are reduced?

1. What time of the day does it send the emails? From other comments it seems like the user can choose, but does it account for time zones that the user would understand easily?

2. Within the email, is the entire chapter embedded in plain text or is it HTML formatted or both (left to the email client to pick)?

3. For works that are originally not in English (like The Count of Monte Cristo), which translation by whom and when is included on your site? Why was that choice made?

4. What is the source of the public domain books on this site?

5. Do you need any financial support (such as donations) or are looking to create paid subscriptions (though the books are public domain, there is a cost to operating this platform)?
The many meanings of event-driven architecture
https://youtu.be/STKCRSUsyP0
Chesterton's Fence sounds like it was retooled by Jordan Peterson in his definition of truth (broadly: anything evolutionarily useful, Making Sense podcast w/ Sam Harris).

Peterson takes it to weird places, IMO, and Chesteron's Fence works better.

"Don't remove a fence until you know why it was put there."
That already exists, although is still in its early stages:

https://www.theclearinghouse.org/payment-systems/rtp

https://www.zellepay.com/
I've considered integrating fasting with my weight loss program, but if I don't eat for 5-6+ hours I'll occasionally get light headed with vision artifacts. This doesn't always happen and while I'll recover I'm usually starving after.

My mother says this is related to "blood sugar" but I'm unsure if there's any deeper meaning to it.
Perhaps, but the marketing has been very careful to only show things like "account to account transfers, bill pay, and person-to-person transactions"[0]. There is a slight mentions of paying for services at 2:25, but it's brief.

0: https://youtu.be/WGOW_1cYgM4?t=111
Appreciate the extra context from both of you. Lots of that makes sense - I’m glad I could get an answer on this. Thanks again.

(Regarding the post you linked to, I’m not going to dispute whatever’s going on in that thread, but I’ve had multiple comments removed over the years that were critical of YC specifically. That is neither here nor there and it’s been too long for me to recall specifics, though I do remember being thoroughly confused more than anything.

So, personally, that guy might be asking in bad faith but it is something to be diligent about, even if it’s just avoiding the perception, as his underlying logic holds up even if it’s clear he’s looking for a fight today.)

Best regards to both of you.
I suppose it makes it easier to print...
I still harbor a certain fondness for "'long long long' is too long for GCC", which is superficially a bit silly while also subtly acknowledging that an ISO-conformant C compiler could support "long long long" as an implementation-defined type.
Viewing a life (90y) as months is chilling.

I just did an actuarial estimator which asked good questions to genetics, lifestyle and mental state and it gave me 25 +/- 3 which I suspect is not wrong. It brings you into sharper focus on "do I really want to waste 1/20th of this remaining time, in work I don't enjoy" type questions.

(I did it to estimate how long my superannuation has to last, as a drawn down sum. Many people target 'never spend your capital' but I believe the system was really designed for spend-to-end and thats what I am targetting)
What do you mean by sexploitation?
I don't mind hybrid and I especially do not mind a casual office environment but...

I'm getting a bit annoyed with the the lack of core hours. You don't need to pretend to be working, but what happened to being reachable during work hours? I feel like what was once a quick walk across the office room can be a two day turnaround these days.
This is exactly the problem. The idea of GMOs is fine, but if it's increasing the load of gut damaging chemicals in the food supply that is not good. And the truth is we simply don't know, so it's crazy to just assume that these GMO foods are gut safe. These days it seems everyone I know has some kind of gut issue (myself included), so I think we should be cautious with GMOs.
Have you used wxPython at all by chance? Curious how it compares in developer experience compared to PyQt/PySide. I like that it uses native widgets, but if Qt is that much easier to deal with I may just go that direction.
>You implied that Syrian Kurds exemplify how effective armed civilians can be

Yes, [ although I suppose technically they are maybe not civilians once they pick up arms in a war. ]

> I pointed out how that is nonsense because they are being backed operationally by the most powerful military on the planet.

You have no fucking idea what you're talking about, and I have the memory burned in of many now dead faces in my mind of those who died with almost no "backed operationally" presence by the US. Imagine literally being told by some dude on the internet that my personal experience defending Kurds from ISIS is wrong because he thinks based on what he read on the internet that we were 'occupied' by the US. You can say whatever you like, I'm sure it will stroke your own ego to believe that.

I can recall sitting in a border town with literal children one building over sleeping with guns, hoping they would survive. A month later I found out several of them were dead. I personally viewed this town and there was not a single US soldier there, barely enough provisions to survive, and those defending themselves had essentially no US weapons.

The effort of the Kurds fighting Syrian government and ISIS is critical to their defense; the US contribution standing on its own is completely incapable of maintaining Kurdish Syria. The boots on the ground is by far Kurds (not part of Syrian gov) themselves, with arms largely either coming from those privately stashed or brought in via militia. In a number of attacks on Kurdish territory such as in Kobani, essentially anyone with arms engaged in defense with whatever they had.
Hey man,
Thanks for the advice I’ll definitely reach out to you
I'll definitely look into that next time I'm buying one ( the current one's battery is no longer in great shape), the beeps are very annoying and long.
> Can you imagine what would happen if we applied your argument to other important communications channels like postal mail or telephone calls?

The only reason we don't is because unlike email, it's the sender who pays not the receiver. Telecoms do monitor and block outbound international calls if the connection times are excessive, if they occur at unusual hours, or if they going to certain "blacklisted" countries where phone fraud is common. They do it because hackers will break into a business's PBX and use it to place a bunch of international calls and the business suddenly gets a massive phone bill. They call their phone company about the changes, the phone company waves the changes (once) but that leaves the phone company on the hook for them. When false positives happen, the business has to call into the phone company and explain the calls were legit and they will be whitelisted and similar outbound calls will be allowed going forward.

I wouldn't oppose using regulation in the US against US based mail services if it meant forcing them to do a better job preventing spam from leaving their networks, but I'd be hesitant to support legislation forcing them to accept more spam. Maybe the largest ones could be pressured to invest more money in handling the influx of spam after they accept it, but I'm guessing there would be costs to consumers such as long delays in delivery, or "free" services like Gmail suddenly requiring payment or closing their services for good. At the ISP I work for now we stopped hosting our own mail servers and outsourced email services to a third party because spam filtering was too expensive and time consuming, and now we're looking at possibly no longer offering an email product at all and telling all of our customers to migrate to services like gmail and yahoo. Killing our email service today would eliminate a lot of problems in terms of help desk calls, phishing attacks, and spam problems. Make it too much harder for people to provide email service and there may only be giant providers left.
Here is comparison of 13 pro max and X. Notice the blurriness and lack of detail in eyebrows and eyelashes of my kids doll. The eyebrows are more detailed in X (picture 2) though there is sensor noise.

Picture 1 iPhone 13 Pro Max

https://i.postimg.cc/Rhb4Jq2F/61-D79076-B244-4-BDF-9-CD1-898...

Picture 2 iPhone X

https://i.postimg.cc/L4yHb0hp/EF1-FCAF0-D1-A6-488-E-8-F03-B8...
I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing, or what your conception of advanced cancer is. There are relatively few people with advanced cancer who could be considered healthy or would consider themselves that way. This is what I see in front of me with my own eyes every day. Of course they would rather have the time, or any time, than not.

You can chose an example of a slow growing low volume malignancy like a neuroendocrine tumour, but that isn't representative of the majority by any means.
For the counterpoint from the late great Joe Armstrong,

> Rewrite from scratch with zero external dependencies - always the fastest way (or at least the most fun way) - it increases understanding. [1]

I don't have a permanent viewpoint on this, I kind of bounce back and forth. I definitely think that whole rewrites are important for getting the module boundaries right, and I think it's important to have seen a problem from a bunch of different perspectives, ideally some of them really bad and borderline outrageous, before you commit to one solution. (“This problem is NP-complete, you just want to brute force it?!” -- yeah it turned out that in practice n was no greater than 9 and you could in fact easily hardcode an upper limit and try all possibilities to find the best one. But even if you don't get lucky, the fact that ridiculous ideas came to mind suggests that all the good ideas were on the table at least once.)

Right now I am more inclined to enjoy rewrites because I am working on a project which itself was a rewrite, and I would like to rewrite it back to something more like what it used to be, hah. If I do get my way you can bet I will turn coat, “we can't rewrite this now, don't you know how expensive rewriting is?!”

[1] https://twitter.com/joeerl/status/837781189385674753?t=RRItS...
Face time at the office is essential for career development. Also important for mental health is leaving the cave and a cognitive change of scenery.
You thought about asking for a 4-day work week?

32 hours
It's sharp enough but when compared to a native 1x/2x scaling, it still looks blurry, and it's only seen physically for me. Currently I run my M1 MBA at native 2560*1600 (BetterDummy, non hiDpi), and my 27" 4k at native. Set default zoom on chrome to be 125/150%, and VSCode also at "zoomed". I mostly use Chrome and Electron based apps (Spotify), so the increase in text sharpness is worth it. Native apps (Pritunl, etc) UI becomes too small, but again it's worth it for me.
Look up mindfullness. Learn to enjoy the present moment
My Year of Reading Lemmishly
Watching this kind of behaviour, or dustbaths, is fascinating. Anything which doesn't go directly to territory, home building, breeding, or feeding in birds, always interests me because it seems to fall into the "optional/at-will" category. All kinds of models of mind emerge when you bring this choice to the table. Why now? For how long? To what end? Is this pleasurable? Is this more pleasurable than alternatives?

Crows play, slide down roofs, birds catch wind for the fun of it. I guess jumping in puddles may have a biological basis of need.. gumboots or not.
Good riddance, basically HN is a hate-speech and rant free-zone and it's better for it.
/s/MVC/MVP/ ... I should never comment on my phone.
> Fiber is so incredibly important

Incredibly important to what?
True in respect to direct lockdown orders. However the Feds were responsible for obtaining vaccine supply. A pretty dismal timetable for that led to the term Vaccine Strollout...
Oh yikes, good catch; I definitely thought they did smtp as well
I'm referring to WSL1. Putting Linux in a nicely integrated VM is not so much a neat trick or as ambitious (and that's good).
That's not what sealioning means. I'm asking for data for the one central assertion you made, and you are unable to provide it. Typing out increasingly waffling and verbose answers without providing that data, making yet more assertions you have no evidence for, and linking papers and data which do not answer the original question is the problem here.

You can't just cry "sealioning" after you make unsubstantiated claims and refuse to provide evidence for them.

> Correct. This is a public internet forum where private or restricted access sources are not shareable, not an open science conference.

Very convenient you just brought that up only after several back and forth posts that showed you were unable to substantiate your claim with actual data. You can see why I don't believe you.

> For any reading this comment chain who may be confused -- vaccinations reduce community spread, the evidence has been provided in the comment linked, and I encourage you to strongly distrust when people are "just asking questions."

Evidence was not provided. If evidence was provided, then you wouldn't be talking about these non-public sources of evidence you claim to be privy to, would you? They would be irrelevant because you would be able to just provide the evidence.

Your story has fallen apart badly. It's clearly pointless to keep beating a dead horse here and obviously you're not the type to ever admit they're wrong. Just keep it in mind for next time and stop yourself from spreading misinformation.
> So what you're saying is they can finally just do my taxes for me?

They will be able do that, not for you, but to you.

And so much more.
Just look at the promo video of the digital wallet of Bill Gates funded Thales for how this would combine with vaccine passport and ESG scores to usher in China style tyranny

https://youtu.be/PxvNzzgoJX8

Of cause, because on a government controlled digital currency there would be no anonymous transaction and like the Chinese anyone with a low ESG score can be stopped from spending their cash. Yes, all across the world a social credit score called ESG is adopted by banks.

https://youtu.be/8f1Z57hwbWY

Or what if they decide you used up your quota? No flight, no meat or no car ride for you because they won’t let you spend your money
Matrix is the only one of those that is fully open source in a meaningful way (i.e. it's practical to actually patch your client and use it on the network) and has identities that aren't tied to phone numbers, both things that should be absolutely bare minimum for anyone taking privacy seriously.

All of them use broadly similar E2EE protocols from the same cryptographic lineage (except possibly Telegram who have a history of making false claims about their encryption protocols). The Signal/WhatsApp implementation feels a bit more mature than Matrix's.

I don't feel super great about any of them, but I'd absolutely pick Matrix over any of the others.
I don't think I want the Fed to have access to every recipient and source of every dollar I ever spend. That database can only be misused.
Having kept my finger on the pulse of cryptocurrencies on and off over the last few years, I'm very interested to see how CBDCs are marketed to society. I feel like it could be a new peak in political two-faced-ness (no mean feat given very recent history, but also merely an extrapolation of the current trend line).
Remember, it's the knife which stabs people, not the sociopathic narcissist.
I made a post yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30223880) about my own twm use in Windows 11; I think it could help with the problem you are describing of application window reorganization.
Or you could try a package repository for one of the C/C++ package managers. For example, for build2[1] we currently have ~300 packages[2] which you can all build in a uniform way.

[1] https://build2.org

[2] https://cppget.org
Also if the bar goes all the way across it can be pre-assembled without regard to left- or right-handed doors.
A missing option here is Work from home, prefer working from home and meeting regularly (e.g. a week a month) at some nice destination (e.g. Hawaii).
Beijing built Olympic ski slopes ‘from scratch’ on the outskirts of a desert
Most inflation and money supply is handled via the interest rate nowadays as the bank's own money they lend and store has been mostly digital for decades.
I guess one distinction is : at the office , do you have your own private office, sharing an office, or completely open space ?

For me, the ideal is my own private office at work, and my commute to the office is walking distance.

There, you have the benefit of serendipitous encounters, own space for zoom meetings, and quiet space for uninterrupted work.
Is Nerdle Harder Than Wordle?
I think you've summed up all online discussions since the invention of networking. Be cynical of everything. Always ascribe malice first.
Married people date too. Ever heard of polyamory?

The problem of finding the perfect partner doesn't seem so intractable if you
recognize it is completely unreasonable to expect one person to satisfy 100% of your needs for 30 years+.
I wasn't really speaking as to the morality of the thing, more so just arguing the reality of today's legal situations in the US. According to current US Supreme Court precedent, its an acceptable abridgement to a student's speech within the bounds of constitutionality. Not saying that its right or wrong, only sharing what a court would usually find today if you made that argument.
This can be quite true. I have gone weeks barely checking email and nobody said anything. Nobody even noticed.
"Et al"? Google provides a file manager for Android.
Previous discussions, for reference:

Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized communication https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24239564

Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20157809

Matrix 1.0 – Are We Ready Yet? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19416678

Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21835749

Automattic invests in Matrix https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23256050

Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23107564

Running your own secure communication service with Matrix and Jitsi https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22802645

We’ve decided to rename Riot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611863
Well, if this monstrosity ever come about, just run an experiment: try to do it and see how long they let you do it before deplatforming you from the entire economy.
Now polices are active to arrest "spoiler (netabare) sites". That's why they are actively suspended/arrested.