skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no doubt in my mind that happiness predicts and causes success. A simple predictor of long term success for everywhere I have worked is mean loud laughs - whining.

An old psych study claims that one year after some great or terrible event, winning the lottery, or breaking your back. People are roughly as happy on average as they were before the event. It makes sense in many ways, happiness does not seem to change much over life. To me it looks like happiness is regulated towards some fix point. This is often cited as a reason not to despair, which is nice, but for someone like me it is horrifying. Much like with weight, there is no reason to assume that you are being regulated towards a healthy state.

I am successful by most metrics, but I am so despite being miserable, and well aware of it. But it is also a question of what kinds of tasks I focus on, positivity and natural happiness is extremely important for most sales people, and beneficial for teamwork, especially high stress teamwork. But less so for solitary independent work like research, and too much positivity seems to make people easier to scam, and I would prefer a cynic as responsible for it sec (not that I have ever seen one that wasn't). Happiness has a wide range of other positive effects too, but it is difficult to decorrelate, and if I was optimistic Id say something like teamwork and sales are easy to measure, so anything which is positively correlated with work productivity will be biased due to selection bias. If I was pessimistic I think Id just say yeah its probably true, but hey, the world isn't fair, and while I am miserable, at least I'm not stupid, and I would not want those two reversed.
Nobody ahould be expecting that a flush actually flushes because the biggest manufacturer of hard drives tells you it doesn't.

Read documents and specifications like this tester didn't do.

And don't use random enclosures and pull the plug since the design spec assumes hold up times and sequencing that enclosure may not be compliant with.
OK, you are really interpreting words in the worst way possible. So I will write it less ambiguously:

Atlassian is a big offender in terms of page load times and energy consumption associated with that and therefore energy waster through their bad software. In the realms of how much energy you can waste with a bad website, they are probably somewhere close to crypto currency miners while loading any of their pages, since they give multiple cores a 100% usage at page load time.

Just because you put something into relation with something even bigger, it does not suddenly become no longer a problem or irrelevant. If we went by that methodology, we would never fix the tail of not-the-biggest offenders. We need to fix things on all ends. Offenders stay offenders, even when there are much bigger offenders. It is only right to also call them out for what they do and what I witness day by day. It is as well a hint at others, who also waste lots of energy with their bad websites. It is not only Atlassian. There are many examples of basically rendering a static page with a few words, but loading multiple seconds for that.
(Saving the article to read later)

My first thought on seeing the title: my experience is that this is a causal loop; the key is not to focus on how good/happy people are at their peak, but how to reverse a downward spiral where decreasing performance and unhappiness are driving each other.
they'll run into flag being a language construct and have to rename variables fl4g
It is the agents that require trust: they are known to hold some currency and receive all kinds of visitors. Agents that screw their community don't tend to be agents for long, and you can take that any way you want.
Ivermectin fails another Covid trial
It's taken. That they don't seem to know this points to a profound cluelessness.
> This whole approach of paying what the local market offers, rather than what the job is worth kinda sucks.

Yes, it kinda sucks. The alternative though, seems worse.

It's nice to be able to move to a low cost area and still have a very good salary vs. local cost of living even if it is lower than in silicon valley. It's also nice to be able to live in silicon valley or NYC and get a living wage (much higher since it's needed).

What's the alternative? Same pay scale everywhere? Sure, but it won't be the silicon valley scale. It would be based on the lowest cost of living location the company cares to cater to, making it impossible to live in silicon valley. That's worse.
So much of an overstatement that Musk has to compensate by calling it FULL self driving, and then break it down into levels of not full-ness.
Just a heads up there's been some controversy around some of the claims he makes in the book:
https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
I see it like this:

A lot of resource —> happiness.

A lot of resource —> energy for curiosity.

A lot of resource —> energy and time for high achievement at work.

So happiness is a correlate for staying in high-resource state in a stable manner, which correlates with high achievement, the quality employers seek.

Immediately one can consider a trap of unhappiness, similar to the trap of poverty: being worried makes you perform worse, which leads to problems with employers, which males you even more worried. Unlike poverty, this potentially could be countered by antidepressants.
I'll maybe add a wee video.

Tickets are created via a form.

Tickets go onto your dashboard.

When you reply the submitter gets an email notification.

When the submitter replies you get an email notification.

So on and so forth until you mark the ticket as resolved.
I'm a skier and it frequently annoys me that a lot of skiers don't check uphill before setting off from being stopped - skiers seem a lot worse for this than snowboarders.
Wish there were some tables and charts to consume the data easily.
>happy unemployed - unhappy employed

I see you've never been under any economic hardship ever in your life. Good on you, but that really, really doesn't apply for most people.

Poverty sucks.
Actually its just Bootstrap5 :-)
That batteries cannot be replaced in phones is such garbage.

My phone right now is a Fairphone 4, with replaceable battery (and the rest too!).

It'll come with a 5-year warranty and software updates, but the big question is of course if hardware specs will be good enough in 5 years.
Well, first of all, these two regions (Donetsk, Luhansk) were part of Ukraine since at least 1922, when the borders of republics of Soviet Union were drawn. They were 'part of Russia', only when whole Ukraine was part of Russia. And no, Crimean Tatars are not indigenous people of East of Ukraine, Crimea and Donbass are very different regions with different history.

You base your opinion from an article by guy who knows some Russian nationalists, who do not believe in Ukraine sovereignty. Somehow you extrapolate their opinion on the whole region.

There are plenty of people, more than 1 million, who left separatist controlled regions for 'mainland' Ukraine (that also meant that they lost their property, most of people in Ukraine own their apartment/house, so that is a big deal).

There are plenty of people from Donbass region who volunteered into Ukrainian army to fight separatists.

Ukraine is a big country, with long, varied history, and multi-ethnic regions. That doesn't mean that invading this country is justified.
There is Hungarian community in the west of Ukraine, would it be ok for Hungary to invade?
A cracked rib is significantly less bad than some of the wrist/hand injuries I’ve seen from snowboarding. One of my friends pushed the radius and ulna either side of his wrist.
Not an expert in any way, but from what I have read the symptoms of Havana syndrome pretty closely match panic attacks.I think this is likely the security/intelligence community refusing to acknowledge the mental toll of their job and attributing these problems to their enemies. It doesn't help that speculating what kind of technology could cause these issues is much more interesting than "it's stress"
Doubtful. That already happens with the "known to the state of California to cause cancer" labelling on products sold in California. Some companies just put that on everything when they have no idea if it contains those chemicals or not.
When I visited Kenya a year ago, and I was surprised how M-Pesa was the primary means of payment. That was light years ahead of my native, European country, where in many places nothing but cash goes. Even the Maasai have widely adopted it.
Well if you're ready to spend a month's salary on a phone, you'll probably get better hardware/software from Fairphone or Librem. Pinephone is also an option (at a more accessible price point) but it's still in some kind of beta where random users who just want to take photos and have a long-lasting battery are not the target audience.

I know many people who use Fairphones and they've never been disappointed. You can still find the spare parts, remove the battery, and setup the OS you want. Be careful though the "setup your own OS" part may not be supported for a few months after a new model comes out so be sure to check the compatibility list on lineageos.org.

Unfortunately to my knowledge all other vendors are just scammers who will sell you half-functioning phone due to spyware bundled as part of the system (just try to remove Google Play Services :)) where you can't unlock the bootloader to setup your own system.
Oil price nears $100 and stock markets fall as Russia orders troops into Ukraine
I'm just using bootstrap5 and the design (if you want to call it that lol) is my own.

I don't believe css frameworks should be used for "design" so to speak, as in themes.

I just use the helper classes like padding, margin, flexbox etc

The actual design is just something I came up with.
There are some things that you eventually want to learn. One of them is the underlying data types. For example if you use Clojure on the JVM you are dealing with Java strings, if you use a JavaScript runtime with ClojureScript, then you get JavaScript strings.

The tutorial showcased here runs on ClojureScript for example.

So:

(reverse "abc")

Becomes:

("c" "b" "a")

In ClojureScript. But in Clojure it becomes:

(\c \b \a)

Since Java has a character type but JavaScript doesn't.

It's little things like this that. The benefit here is superb interop, but in turn you aren't as isolated from the host language as you would be in another language.
Yeah helmets are absolutely mandatory for all downhill sports regardless of if you're snowboarding or skiing. The last 10 years I haven't seen anybody in any of the mountains here without helmets (something changed in this regard about 15 years ago I think when you could see people without helmets still).

But the next most important protection for snowboarding is a wrist rail protecting your os scaphoideus, it's the larger bone in your wrist (just at the base of the thumb) and it's the most common snowboarding injury as you fall backwards and instinctively reach out with the hands behind you and the impact most often fractures the wrist bones. This happens even with you standing still!
hmm cheers I'll look into this. Should be fine though....
I'm annoyed by employers pretending to care about happiness and mental health.

It's usually something like "here's a link to a free one hour e-course on mindfulness". But do take it in your free time. Or the many internal emails from leaders about how they "appreciate" the difficulty of these times.

It's all performative, hollow and cheap.

If you really claim to care or appreciate it, walk the talk. Give people 1K out of the blue, for sticking to their performance despite enormous challenges. That's still really a pathetically low number.

Or...it looks like you're exhausted. Take a few days of on my expense.

Or...we normally produce 500 of whatever unit, given the incredibly hard balancing act of you managing your family at home whilst trying to get work done, we'll temporarily slow it down to 400 of whatever unit.

All of these are just examples of humane and simple signals to tell that you really do care. If you do none of these things, you don't care. So stop pretending.
> Even after the researchers controlled for previous performance and a range of demographic factors, soldiers who were the happiest and most optimistic went on to earn significantly more job performance awards across the next five years compared with those who were initially unhappy and pessimistic.

How does this study account for the scenario where people are happy because they are on a good career track and others are unhappy because they are not?

For instance, someone who wanted to ace an entry exam for a new leadership position but failed to pass. Or someone who notices they lack certain core skills. Or someone who has life obligations or health issues that prevent him from making career progress?

I suggest that if you have relative high certainty that you will be successful in the next few years you will be happier on average than when you already know that the following years will be shrouded in stagnation.
Easily one of the weirdest places I've ever been! Old town fantastic though.
Ok this is amazing feedback. I'll work on this today and maybe even make a dummy dashboard that folk can play with.
Sounds like another reason why they pushed to get rid of cables and ports, risk of damage and warranty claims. I mean it's a win-win for them because Apple devices get a reputation for being reliable then (which is counteracted by things like butterfly keyboards). I mean wireless charging is a solution for a problem many people run into, dust / lint buildup in the charging port.
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Thanks so much. What extra customisation would you like to see?
This isn't fraud.

The tester is running the device out of spec.

The manufacturers warrant these devices to behave on a motherboard with proper power hold up times, not in whatever enclosures.

If the enclosure vendor suggests that behavior on cable pull will fully mimick motherboard atx power loss then that is fraud. But they probably have fine print about that, I'd hope.
> What is the job worth?

Doesn't matter.

Pay is set by what they need to pay you to keep you in that seat. Company will (rationally, from their perspective) pay you the least possible that won't make you walk out.

Viewed that way, it is inherently location-based. I'd be more than happy to stay for, say, 100K if I live in a very cheap area since that's enough to live very very well.

But if I'm in silicon valley it'd better be more like 300K due to cost of living.
Still one of my favorites: On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8
That’s interesting but it doesn’t answer the question why it’s okay for the US to do business with Putin but not for the EU.
Well, we need to consider that, if changes were made, in order to satisfy one relatively small market, it would reverberate throughout the entire world. Other nations would jump on the bandwagon, or Apple’s entire App Store bottom line could be affected.

I suspect that Apple would not let that happen, and would probably be willing to shut down the Dutch store, if need be.

It would be a different matter, if it were China. I think that Apple may have caved, there.
Your "Browsers and PAKE" suggestion requires everybody gets new browsers with this special feature and every web site upgrades to rely on that feature for user authentication.

So that's a Big Bang change and thus not at all practical for the Internet. The Internet's last successful Big Bang change was 1 January 1983, almost 40 years ago.

We can get where we want to go, without passwords, incrementally with WebAuthn.
Pyspread – Spreadsheet with deep Python integration
The first app I used that implements this is a great little campsite reservation app.
I usually come there from an email notification anyways and I find it much less annoying than fumbling for my phone to dig out a 2fa code.
It's not founded on skin color you're right, but you're wrong about heritage. Obviously Not All French People Are Like That (I should hope so, as a French person myself). But the ones concerned will be MUCH pickier about people's grammar, spelling and pronunciation if they perceive them as not French.

But yes, elitism is also present: If you're perceived as French and your french is bad, you will also be treated poorly. But it's a different kind of "poorly". In fact, Paul Taylor talks about that in his stand up "Franglais" (I HIGHLY recommend a watch, it's hilarious especially if you're familiar with both French and British/American culture, and it's available for free on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pae2AMnmUVA)
I mean have you seen some of the Trump fanart?
Or Ctrl AND Shift, as in Ctrl+Shift+PgDn. I use it all the time. Fn+arrows drive me mad.
> I’d like to see your hypothetical keyboard where control (to say nothing of esc) is anywhere near as easy to reach

With multi-function keys (as supported by e.g. QMK-powered keyboards, or software like kmonad) allows adding multiple functions to a key.

e.g. "tap-hold": "tap CapsLock key sends 'Escape', hold CapsLock key sends 'Ctrl'" would be useful for someone who uses Vim and/or Emacs.

Taking 'tap-hold' a bit further, you can try putting the modifiers (which are only useful when held) under the home row keys: putting Alt, Gui, Ctrl, Shift underneath ASDF, (and reverse: Shift, Ctrl, Gui, Alt underneath JKL;). -- So called "home row modifiers".

The advantage is not needing to move the hand, and not needing to use the weaker pinky finger. Although, it can take some getting used to.
SVMs are incredibly performant and is one of the most easy to use, low hanging fruit if you have a practical ML problem.
Thanks so much. Adding an API would make sense given this is targeted at makers.

Great feedback.
If you dig the whole website (or geminisite, I dunno) you can find a post to which the very same criticism of the OP applies:

https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/36-localized-programming-lan...

We all draw different lines for what feature is not common yet not rare enough to remove, so the context always matters.

For this subject of character encodings, browsers have already reduced their repertoire of suppported encodings for a good chunk of the last decade: the Encoding Standard [1] is substantially smaller than what it used to be (I know because I did implement all of them back then). Some of them (e.g. UTF-7, not exactly "removed" from the Standard because it was never added AFAIK) caused security issues but others (e.g. HZ) didn't and only got removed by the lack of usage. This kind of decision, either for or against, can be only backed with telemetry-like quantification anyway. No criticism in the issue was based on the concrete evidence; Henri Sivonen is right to say that he "can't address remaining non-Latin problems without seeing concrete examples that need addressing".

[1] https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/
Not sure if this helps, but I bookmarked a relevant thread from the past

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24737026 | Good sleep, good learning, good life (supermemo.guru)
In the same vein: I discovered the pleasure of the major modifier being under the thumb on MacOS, triply astounding on the MS Natural 4000 keyboard with its huge alt keys (they map to ‘command’ on Mac due to the position). And then I learned that Emacs was made for keyboards where the ‘control’ keys are under the thumbs.
I worked with HyperNeWS for a few years in the early 90's and did a fair amount of development in PostScript, which is actually a pretty nice programming language.

Performance of NeWS and HyperNeWS was pretty good in the early '90s so I'd love to see what it would be like on contemporary hardware.
>There are many other companies with much better track records

like which?

you can either buy an over-priced apple iToy, inferior samsung clone,
or some chinese android with buggy bloated software
A lot of chronically unhappy people are adept at masking - faking they are happy and/or neurotypical. Especially so when they are aware that they are being tested for it.

It's quite possible that a percentage of the top performers referenced on the original article are just doing that.
Hours and days of jobs need to be rerun in my experience, our researchers do a poor job of check pointing.
Of all the issues we have with lustre, data loss has never been one whilst I have been in the team.
When I snowboarded for the first time, I ended up accidentally going very, very fast and when I tried to slow down just ended up travelling backwards. Then I hit a ridge of snow, flipped over and head-planted.

I had a helmet on, but I still felt pretty sick for a while after. I suspect it was a mild concussion...
No Java knowledge required.
Indeed it is. I once bought a Sony phone for which Sony only offered 1 year warranty, but the store had to offer two (as per EU regulation).

The touchscreen started losing sensitivity on the edges (curved glass) after 13 months. The store made a bad decision carrying that phone model. They fixed/replaced it.
Oblongular is a word that's not used often enough.
Yep, that's what I do now. I still need to wake up early (for me) in the morning though. There's no winning.
so what do I win if I disprove your 'I see'?
Well, having already made enough money to always be able to just say "you know what, I'm out" whenever you feel like it is necessary to be happy in any situation and interested in everything.

Anyone who's not "secure for life" and has to keep the salaries coming in will have to deal with bad people, bad decisions, bad culture, etc. and become unhappy.

I've sort of dabbled in that situation: I made and lost a fortune on the stock market at the start of this millenium. Not filthy rich, but enough to never have to work again and live a comfortable, middle-class life.

I didn't "get out" because of greed, and voila, the bubble burst and the comfortable situation was over - I was at the mercy of my salary again, and everything that comes with it. Dumb colleagues, inept superiors, boring work, etc.

My employment situation didn't change - but when I had the theoretical opportunity to just quit with no financial worries, I was happy despite everything. Once that stopped, I became unhappy, or rather, baseline neutral again.

When I was in the comfortable situation, I was carefree and open to pursue ideas and projects brought to me which I knew were stupid and prone to fail. My colleagues loved it, of course.

I learned that worrying about whether I'll have enough money to live somewhat comfortably until death is what makes me unhappy, and extremely wary to avoid failure. There's nothing else to it.
I'm starting to use this at the moment. I've often felt that coding something from scratch is too labourious for the task, whilst a spreadsheet isn't functional enough to do what I need. I think pyspread hits the sweet spot.

I see this as basically adding a user interface for free on what is otherwise the usual numpy / scipy / etc code base. Quite lovely.
Heeey year 1 got rid of "x" already, why's it all over the place in the final line???
Germans tend to rent, and overstretched mortgages aren't a thing over there. If you are fired you still have access to healthcare and unless your professional qualifications are in terribly low demand you will find work for adequate salary (unions in Germany sit on the boards). If everything else fails, you will get social security subsidies, albeit much to keep you out of poverty.
On being a good team member