skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - It makes other people resentful of the fact they have to work longer hours, or change their schedules, to keep up with features or testing. That leads to more staff churn.

It shouldnt do though, your team should be able to work any number of hours and still be productive because things like illness, pregnancy, deaths, holidays occur and they are not always expected or planned.

> - It's harder to have discussions about the work being done when someone is working outside of office hours, which leads to things being done as one person sees fit, or needing to be reworked often. That annoys other people on the team.

Depends on the role the person is doing, a good team will be able to cater for those who do more hours, just view that person as like two people working then you can see your team is incapable of working with two people performing a task/job.

> Other people on the team who choose not to work more than their contracted hours would be very annoyed if they saw hours as a factor in compensation, leading to more staff churn.

Seems like a rehash of point 1 and that shouldnt matter.

>- In a small business that charges for time in days, someone working 16 hours a day is essentially giving the customer work for free. If you charge for 2 days work, and tell the client you're doing 2 days work, but only work 1 day, that's dancing around the edges of potential fraud. A client could very reasonably argue that if you did the work in 1 day they should only pay for 1 day...

Then you have a contract issue which is not handling your charges properly. Flip this around, what if you got super busy and had to do 16hrs a day to complete the job more quickly to get onto another project/source of income, would you still work 8hrs because you contract charges are wrong?

> I would much rather have a good team of people working well together than have one hero doing most of the work.
I sense you despise individualism which might explain why so many people go work for themselves.
He did do a guest week on Pearls Before Swine post-retirement. https://slate.com/culture/2014/06/bill-watterson-does-pearls...
The massive pace of blockchain technology, applications of math, innovation, and open experimentation is great to see.

Don't try to stifle innovation because users are finding ways to interact that are simple, or you think its not decentralized enough. There is great work being done beneath the surface applications you are complaining about - by respected researchers.

Cheers
In some legal systems, physically occupying the house gives you ownership rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession
GDPR already covers this. If companies with EU employees were among the 2.5% ( not unlikely), they should have disclosed this, first to the ICO and customers, then the public.
Total anecdotal evidence, but a stiff wedge pillow solved 95% of my snoring and apnea issues
Oh man, it sucks that they were hacked, but at least they weren't hacked.
> Has there been a good charter city? I can't think of a single one.

This precise kind of charter city is a new kind of thing, but plenty of the closest existing or historical analogues have been successful, in as much as they've been more prosperous and more pleasant places to live than comparable cities that don't have such special treatment. Hong Kong. West Berlin. Danzig. Singapore. Shenzen. Shannon.

> The proposed governance model is a foreigner gets control over a section of domestic soil, domestic individuals, makes the laws, and can bring in their overseers. This sounds like every other attempt at colonialism.

If an unaccountable foreign entity really was running it as a possession, I agree that would be just as bad as you say it is. The positive version is if the city has first-class representation in that foreign governance. Compare somewhere like la Reunion, which is more prosperous and a better place to live than its comparable neighbours, because it's part of France, in a sense that I think is not usually understood as colonial (at least, one that is seen by its residents as positive, in a way that colonialism generally isn't).

> I'm just advocating for a government accountable to its people. A government not accountable to its people, sounds to me like an inherently poor idea.

I agree that accountability is important. I don't think central governments in developing countries are particularly good at it, to the point that I find it very plausible that a foreign-involved charter city could end up with better accountability.

> Would you be ok with a CCP run charter city in the Nevada desert to mine for minerals? How about a CCP state-run enterprise controlled charter city in the Nevada desert? Or a Russian Gazprom controlled charter city in Alaska? How about one put up by a Russian oligarch? Each with their own immigration policy where the state and federal governments have limited oversight. Why is it distasteful here? I'm sure they would each argue the governance in rural America doesn't have the best track record.

They would argue that, but they'd be wrong, wouldn't they, at least relatively speaking. The reason those examples are distasteful is, as hard as it is to make this argument without sounding naive, that the CCP and Russia have a poor track record of running governments for the benefit of their citizens, worse than rural America. Sometimes the details matter and we have to actually make a judgement about which actors are good and which are bad. I'd be perfectly OK with e.g. Norway or Switzerland sponsoring a charter city in Nevada.
Here’s video: https://youtu.be/fAADWfJO2qM
And they acquired one of their main competitors, Auth0.
Poll: Who of you use avatars on HN?
Poll after more than a week of tomxor post[0].

I have been using since seeing this post with Tampermonkey.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668137
I'm using
I saw the post, but I don't use
I didn't see the post, but I'll start using
I'm not going to use
My beef is with a system that allows foreign guarantors.

> Better terminology would be 'formerly foreign guarantor.' They are domestic to the charter city.

Do they surrender their home country nationality? If not...
The problem is that NFTs aren't legally binding (and they really should never be, I'll start the campaign to assinate anybody who tries that).

It's all well and good to say you are selling some deed, but that doesn't provide you ownership in any meaningful way. Any of these knock off websites making bank off of "NFT" assets would be better served by dropping the NFT nonsense and just straight up selling links to your logged in account.

Congrats, you have rediscovered online token stores. We already paid too much money for world of warcraft gold, now we get to kill trees doing it.

Honestly, the idiots these days...
Awesome, I was looking for this a few days ago. I can't understand why such a basic function is not integrated in Windows directly!
Even if such a law was enforced, there is a workaround: rent the consoles instead of selling them. That way, you don't legally own the console/phone/car you're playing with and they still can do whatever they want. Leasing is common for expensive items, down to cars, sometimes phones, it can be used for consoles, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lease
> I want to see this through to the end, one way or another.

Would you be OK if you were terminated for an unjust reason? If so, that's great. If not, that might mean you have other expectations than just working on the problem. I would reconsider my strategy in that case.
I think that's very much the case. I stopped reading the paper daily about 15 years ago and my comic strip habit has dried up since then. I used to read them all, and even had a daily blog to take down Mallard Fillmore, but now I occasionally remember to look at xkcd and that's about it. I kind of miss the daily comics habit.
Prot is one of those contributors who has made his contributions accessible in the form of videos, tutorials, blogs, and other documentation. As far as I know, he's not contributing to the Emacs internals and instead providing packages, he has given most of his code to be part of GNU. I came across his work on modus-themes and understood from his documentation that he's done a lot of research in making it compliant to accessibility standards of WCAG AAA. This theme is going to be bundled with the next stable release of Emacs 28 when it comes.

One can truly see his journey in contributing to free software, including philosophy, documented in his videos. Congratulations Prot.
> It makes other people resentful of the fact they have to work longer hours, or change their schedules, to keep up with features or testing. That leads to more staff churn.

It is more of resentment of lower quality of output and a lot wasted time while looking like super hard worker.

People who work 80 hours a week dont have actually higher output. They get tired , myoptic and they get all their socialization in work. That means a lot of wasted time for everyone around while acted offended on suggestion that he/she is not the most performant person around.

And yes, this was repeated observation.
ah, yes, the cabal of companies all collectively colluding to drive up inflation across every industry / sector of the economy... "we've always been at war with eastasia"...
If crypto's main use case is to skirt common agreed upon societal rules that might be debatable, imagine it can be used extensively for all causes that are not up for debate - for ex financing terrorism
Using stock trading is a TERRIBLE idea, that's how you get caught. SEC doesn't play around. I doubt they are doing that, private bidders seems way more likely.
Of course it’s surprising. How many other elite athletes can you name that retired at (or more likely, before) their physical and competitive peak?

It doesn’t appear irrational either, but it’s certainly far from the norm.
The first Tether / stablecoin transaction in a Lightning channel
Is this an American thing to work super long hours?

Most people I know and work with do less than 40 and aim to be more efficient at delivering in less time.

I had a friend who worked in the states for GE and he mentioned people just had to be seen to be in the office for at least 12 hours a day even if there was nothing to do. Is this kind of culture real?
That isn't how it works at all.

The whole reason that Bitcoin has smart contracting is to enable this kind of scalability without compromising the security. After all, all that fancy decentralized stuff wouldn't be useful if you had to go use a centralized server (or abandon security) to make use of it.

Imagine you, me, and some of the other posters here decide we'd like to transact efficiently amongst ourselves without the resource expenditure of telling others about our transactions but we don't trust each other, so we establish a set of rules about the records we need to keep when doing so. If there is never a dispute great! But if there is a dispute, we take our agreement and our transaction records and head off to court to settle the dispute.

To apply that to Bitcoin: the rules and records get made machine interpretable. Transact as you like, and if there is a dispute you take the relevant records to the blockchain and it enforces according to them. Because the enforcement is automatic and untamperable there isn't any reason to cause a dispute in the first place (which creates some challenges for software Q/A)... so then when channels are used globally broadcast transactions are only needed to enroll or unenrole coins in a scheme (or in the event of a dispute or a software fault).

You could, of course, instead have some insecure trust based way of exchanging coins-- that is, after all, how all legacy banking technology works. But with Bitcoin you don't have to. The system offers a spectrum of different ways to transact, each with their own costs and benefits.
> The point is the 9-5ers have held the higher moral ground for years

This has nothing to do with moral high ground.

People get mentally or physically exhausted after a normal day of work. You are the exception apperantly. Since I cannot find what you actually do I'm going to count it as a very easy job with no mental of physical exercise required.
Discussion here: https://stacker.news/items/15917
It seems pretty obvious that you work at a very small company with little or no layers of management, and most likely, without any other typical constraints that most workers deal with -- like fixed hours, an inconvenient office or commute, lots of unproductive meetings, limited amount of annual PTO, lack of knowledge/understanding whether anything you do has actual impact at the company, etc. Putting in 70-80 hours week after week in a scenario like that where it's very clear you're simply an employee is pretty crazy. But for a passion project, where it's just you and a few close friends/coworkers, sure, go for it. Hell, for about 3-4 months during Covid I was easily putting in 90+ hours on a project I loved working on. It's not really as heroic as you're making it out to be.
I don't remember exactly the problem since it was a couple years ago. There was a lot of issues in regards to failing to run / build rails which regarded doing special nix stuff to fix. It wasn't possible to include a custom gem from a separate directory. I had to disable some sort of sandboxing to prevent Nix from complaining. Nix kept getting in my way and as my team members were not familiar with Nix they couldn't fix it themselves. Sadly, I ruined their opinion of Nix by showing them it with this project.
Depending on how you view the world and whether you think nation states and government-backed fiat is a good or bad thing, probably defines your stance on blockchain and cryptocurrencies IMO. I still contend that blockchain has its use cases - journalism, games which wish to institute a real economy instead of a virtual one, voting, etc...

Blockchain has been maturing and bitcoin has been around for a minute, but ethereum and the whole smart contract bit is newer and POS is around the corner if you believe those working on the project.

I view bitcoin and blockchain as a big FU to fiat and I'm okay with that, because IMHO hierarchical power structures are inherently a bad thing.
The point is that HK became much less of a charter city in 1997 (today it's not so much a "Chinese charter city" as a "Chinese regular city") and this is closely correlated with it becoming a lot worse for its residents.
I'm not denying that fact. I'm debating the precision of the statistic, and pointing towards other evidenced disparities that are not directly related to the murder rate.

You seem to be bending over backward to skim past those, focusing on a single statistic that allows you to push a simplistic, prejudiced narrative.

Even if the murder rate disparities are 100% accurate, that does not explain or justify any of the other disparities we see in evidence.
In an employer throws you out, then they ostensibly don’t value you enough to keep paying you.
Interesting, thanks for sharing this. I'm curious how you know you've "worked enough"?

I find that I'm someone who works well in nonstandard hours and would like to take this approach to work.

At the same time I find the "work whenever" structure very dangerous for me. There's always more that needs to be done than I can fit in a day. It's really easy for me to spending most of my day thinking about work or working, even when I'm doing something else.

Maybe I'm just not built for this kind of work, but I'm curious if you have a technique for dealing with this kind of thing
How does this work with nVidia Mosaic?
https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/design-visualization/solutions/...

So Mosaic works with certain nVidia graphics cards to make monitors appear differently to the operating system like Windows, ie you could have 2 or more monitors but windows will see only 1 ultra wide monitor.
What would the image being on the chain change? You're buying a signature.
This is applying technical solutions to social issues. Nothing technically prevents credit card or other online payment means from being anonymous, there are implemented that way for social reasons.

This is also where I see the cryptocurrencies going: regulatory bodies putting more and more resources and restrictions to align them with other monetary systems, to a point where them being based on blockchain will just be an implementation detail.
crazy, right? who cares that SA itself is running an ongoing war that so far left 100k+ people dead (wikipedia), or dismembers a journalist, if they can be useful to the agenda.
Given it was a photo and not a screencap, I suspect that the TV just had terrible color reproduction. Some people like to crank the saturation way up.
For the record: Returning from an interrupt is fully serializing on x86, which I believe means that all modern operating systems on x86 will handle this properly.

https://pvk.ca/Blog/2019/01/09/preemption-is-gc-for-memory-r... is a very good blog post about exploiting this for a high-performance membarrier daemon.
I get that. For me this works because I gave myself permission to do what I think US culture (where I grew up) forbids us to do; set clear boundaries.

Not acting rude or harsh to people, but instead just being honest and protective of our time, both work and personal. I do have a reputation of being "difficult to work with" from some people, but almost universally those who have that perception are the ones making heavy demands on my time because they themselves cannot influence the resolution. Sales managers, customer success managers, they spam meetings and unplanned calls and emails with no more content than "this has to be resolved yesterday" and other cliches. I have no qualms just outright ignoring them or calling them out for violating procedure/policy.

The same types that just want to keep a channel of updates open and to help buy time? Much better relationships as they understand the process more and respect people's time.

Basically there is a stress aspect, and it's not for everyone. For me, having those firm boundaries and being honest with myself that this is my time and it's my choice, I don't need to feel guilty for protecting it, it helped a lot
> Afaik there can be several NFTs for the same object (URI) and none of them is inherently more legitimate than the other. You'd need some kind of endorsement by tha artist to know which NFT is the "real" one. But I'm not an expert so please correct my if I'm wrong.

You are correct. Note that there can be multiple different URLs pointing to the same file. And note that multiple files (unique sequences of bytes) can represent the same object, say, a JPEG with slightly different compression ratio.

The point then is that neither the the url nor the hash matters. What matters is that the artist says "this NFT represents this work of mine". Everything else is just extra.
I can't unsee it now (:
"About the author: Eliot A. Cohen is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and the Arleigh Burke chair in strategy at CSIS. From 2007 to 2009, he was the Counselor of the Department of State. He is the author most recently of The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force."

Given the stated goals of the insane dictator in the Kremlin, and that Ukraine’s fight is for its survival as a sovereign nation, the author's proposition that the current situation has high potential for a Ukrainian 'win' within the brutal, barbaric parameters imposed upon them seems valid to me, given the all too likely alternative of an all out collapse of the Ukrainian resistance to Russian forces.

I would be interested to know of any alternative courses that Ukraine could take given the resources available to them and their situation between the Russian 'rock' of blunt force war criminal tactics and the 'hard place' that NATO has left them in after their post Soviet expansion..

Longer term, the prospect of Ukraine returning to the trajectory it had been aspiring towards since the Orange revolution is fraught for reasons including the dim prospects for a stable resolution to the current invasion and the problems you mentioned.. Care to discuss realistic steps that Ukraine or the NATO members could take?

I think the author states it well here:

"
The Ukrainians are doing their part. Now is the time to arm them on the scale and with the urgency needed, as in some cases we are already doing. We must throttle the Russian economy, increasing pressure on a Russian elite that does not, by and large, buy into Vladimir Putin’s bizarre ideology of “passionarity” and paranoid Great Russian nationalism. We must mobilize official and unofficial agencies to penetrate the information cocoon in which Putin’s government is attempting to insulate the Russian people from the news that thousands of their young men will come home maimed, or in coffins, or not at all from a stupid and badly fought war of aggression against a nation that will now hate them forever. We should begin making arrangements for war-crimes trials, and begin naming defendants, as we should have done during World War II. Above all, we must announce that there will be a Marshall Plan to rebuild the Ukrainian economy, for nothing will boost their confidence like the knowledge that we believe in their victory and intend to help create a future worth having for a people willing to fight so resolutely for its freedom."

..which is why I posted the article.
The thread is about the norm "be open". Seems like you're saying society flourished in spite of having that norm.
> It seems they care more about their shareholders than their customers.

isn't this how publicly-traded companies are supposed to work? I agree on critizicing that approach and capitalism model, but I don't understand how that isn't common knowledge here.
A standalone app that accepts MIDI IN can be controlled by a DAW.
How to Download Twitter Spaces That Aren't Yours
It's weird, but I think you are right. For context, I worked like you for most of my career and only recently joined a scale up that has very strong work life balance. It feels like the people don't care and I am demotivated. When my tech lead told me that if he'd be expected to work overtime he'd quit (he's great otherwise).

I kept telling myself it's good for me because I have a baby now, but the truth is I found another job to do over evenings and I feel less and less motivated at my day job. When you say that you enjoy working with people that are not 9-5, it resonates strongly.
Isn't that Carrie-Anne Moss?
> you still need to shell out $2-3k to get something decent

Honestly 16GB Air is pretty epic for $1200, though you probably want to spend the extra $200 for a storage bump as well. I'm very happy with the performance for dev tasks, and with my (displaylink) dock it runs multiple screens just fine too.
For me the components of a fully healthy life mostly fall in the following categories:

- Social life. Both some new social experiences, as well as more intimate long-term social interactions are necessary.

- Exercise. For long-term well being, having a healthy and fit body is really useful. It is also a great stress release and releases a lot of endorphins. It can give an easy sense of accomplishment, which is sometimes invaluable if other things aren't going great.

- Nutrition. Also swings into the health side of things, and eating good food is a great pleasure. I personally think cooking is an amazing hobby due to the combination of creativity, technique, culture and, again, a quick sense of accomplishment. Eating well doesn't necessarily require cooling though if you have a bit of money.

- Relaxation/meditation. I'm talking about meditation in a very broad sense, painting, listening to music and many other things can have a meditative component and leave you with a sense of relaxation and fulfillment.

A lot of these things can also be combined. My "meditative" component is mostly fulfilled by running, and my social component is partially filled with bouldering.