skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me the problem sounds like there is way too much pressure on the short term prize and constant publication rather than value density.

Sounds like “capitalism” became the philosophy that drives our research nowadays and researchers optimize for it.
How is it lucrative?

Would a pad mapper intentionally make some listings bad in order to reduce effective supply?
> But the sense of aloneness is something I never knew I had until I went back to India.

I only lived in Bangladesh until age 5, and have spent nearly my whole life in America, but this sense of loneliness hit me really hard when I had my own kids. I remember being surrounded by aunties and cousins at their age, and my kids aren’t. Just in the last year we had a critical mass of neighborhood kids move in, but for my oldest, it was a very solitary childhood until age 8 or so.
The other issues still exist; not everything is GPLed.

Particularly the license has been an issue getting through legal in older companies where it might not be whitelisted. Particularly with their FAQ still saying not to use it for software.
There are some points in the middle, but it's rare. I work on one of these [1]. We've been building the system for over ten years, and are starting to see some truly killer apps being built on top of it [2, 3].

While it has some great benefits once you arrive, the upfront costs are enormous. You need to find a funding source (or sources) that will pay for this product while you're building it. Also, in order for the research payoff to be worth it, you need both the product itself, and subsequent innovations it enables, to be research-worthy. Not all areas of research can support this. On top of it all, even when you do this, you'll still spend years of effort in activities that are essentially not research. You're basically responsible for all of your own customer support, sales, marketing, etc.---like a startup, but without the financial upside if you succeed. Yes there is recognition and so on, but the payoffs aren't as dramatic. Most people aren't ready to commit to this path.

Keep in mind that you can't build this in 5 years either. So a single generation of PhD students can't get it done. The only reason we were successful is because the key staff on the project stuck around for 5+ years after our PhDs because we all believed in doing the work.

Given all that, I don't hold it against people at all who just want to build prototypes and then move on to the next thing. It's way less risky and higher reward relative to the costs.

[1]: https://legion.stanford.edu/

[2]: https://flexflow.ai/

[3]: https://developer.nvidia.com/cunumeric
Is it physical energy or will/motivation?

If energy, then I'd question your sleep, diet, job stress level, then fitness level (in that order).

If not, then I'd question your device addiction/attention span degredation and then perceived value of alternate activities (i.e. do you REALLY want to read? Or just want to want to read?).
You enjoy wading through other people's rushed code?
Maybe some value a wider taskbar over one crammed to the side, even at the expense of 3.7% of their vertical space.

Or they value their horizontal space more than you do, because they like have a few windows side by side.

Or any other number of imaginable reasons.
I'm not so intellectually fragile that I need everything I read to fit my worldview. Note that I'm referring chiefly to its literary qualities (which in my mind trumps editorial lines). There are publications out there that line up better with my ideological bend, but they're "written with the feet" as we say.
There's no English equivalent, so please excuse the use of Google translate:

https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Auseinanderse...

This is the German wikipedia entry on the conflicts that trade unions and employers' associations in Germany have fought over the reduction of weekly working hours since the late 1970s.
I wish all apartment listing included a floor plan. I could easily reject 90% of apartments without having to go personally look at it if they's show me a floor plan. It's a little surprising to me they aren't more common.

In Japan they're often missing other things like lots of pictures but at least the number 1 requirement to list an apartment is a floor plan.

https://suumo.jp/jj/chintai/ichiran/FR301FC001/?ar=030&bs=04...

I wish Craigslist would require one or somehow strongly suggest that the person offering the apartment would get better matches and have less of their own time wasted if they'd add a floor plan.

I also wish they'd add some examples of good and bad pictures. So many people take pictures with their phone and the field of view is so small and lighting so bad the pictures are basically useless. I'm not saying they need pro-equipment but my guess is there are at least some guidelines that would be helpful. How about no portrait mode pics as just one example that would likely lead to more useful images.
Solidarity Forever.
It would be nice to see courts make that judgment affirmatively.
Guess who spends the most money on lobbying?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/257344/top-lobbying-spen...
I remember when web3 used to mean opposing the de facto requirement to pay for the information. This goes against my principles.
Because there's really no reason to question whether government should reasonably limit standard business practices – we've seen, in spades, how business practices are driven entirely and only by concerns of profit while the labor market has very little flexibility that would allow workers to "vote with their feet" and move to "better" employers without outside influence.

Put another way: Of course it's a good thing to force businesses to make work more humane and sustainable for the humans who have to do it.
Prior to the automobile era, we were all pedestrians. A small town was a town you could walk the length of. Europe is dotted with old villages denser than contemporary North American cities.
Go for a walk. Meet up with friends. Have a date night with the SO. Work out. Have a drink (this one not every night though).

You basically just have to force yourself to do things. Also, don't work too hard. Don't care too much about work. It's easy to get stressed out and kill yourself working but that doesn't help anyone because you can't do it your whole life. Force yourself to pace your work and have work-life balance.
Sorry about that. I looked for official clips (it's just before a relatively famous segment) but they don't include the Jimmy Carr joke
One, there are a lot of businesses that operate on margins well under 20%. Some percentage of these would absolutely go out of business if you somehow mandated 80% of the current hours for 100% of the current pay. Now you can argue they should go out of business anyway, and maybe you're right, but it's still the government passing a law to intentionally put a lot of people out of business and make a lot of people lose their jobs.

Two, FTA "the proposed bill would require these employers to compensate employees who work in excess of 32 hours per week at 1 ½ times the employee’s regular rate of pay" - it's unclear to me how this impacts exempt vs. non-exempt workers. If you're salaried in California and you work 50 hours a week it's not like you get paid any more. Those are 10 hours of unpaid overtime. This doesn't seem to change that concept. If they're only talking about hourly workers, then it's a pay cut no matter what. In the "Disadvantages" section of the article it further implies that these changes would mostly impact hourly/non-exempt workers.

Three, why the differentiation between <=500 and >500 workers? If I'm an hourly worker someplace with ~490ish employees who works 40h/wk I'm going to have to worry about my hours being cut because of hiring I have nothing to do with. If I'm consistently getting overtime for a larger employer at ~40 hours a week, I'm going to receive a pay cut if they downsize and that work is no longer considered overtime.

Four, and perhaps most importantly, this is never getting signed into law. It's a publicity/donor stunt by some politicians and nothing more.
Yeah, I broke my wrist as a kid rollerblading. I do think cycling is a much better activity in terms of minimizing injuries while building cardio.
Sure, but a lot of general plagiarism is done because of laziness or the high reward/low risk math of whatever context it's in. If I plagiarize some code as part of my job and don't say where I got it from, it's unlikely anyone will care, or even see it, let alone know where I got it from.

Almost everything a major pop artist would put out has at least a shot at becoming a worldwide hit where a vast chunk of the population will hear it. To decide that you're going to plagiarize in that case, when you easily have a massive pool of songwriters and producers who could help you come up with something more original, AND to plagiarize a past #1 hit? You'd have to be pretty dumb.

I'd almost believe it was intentional more easily if they were plagiarizing some band I'd never heard of, or from another genre/country. The Coldplay/Satriani suit was a little more believable to me in that way, since it would be easier to go "eh, who even listened to that other song. No one will notice."
I mooched my copy. Bought blanks, went to friends at university and had a music and copy evening.

DOS Cane with some Amstrad XT class PC I got at a thrift in 92 ish timeframe.
Unfortunately. People should be able to negotiate between themselves without interference from the government.
Paying content creators is a very valid problem, however using proof of work in place of CC processor fees is just moving the problem around - and arguably, making it worse: you're essentially taking on environmental debt, which all of us will eventually have to pay down.
I agree. I think a central reason that software, and the process for creating it, have not improved is that no standards for software quality have been demanded of the industry. The creation of no electrical or mechanical device on which people comparably rely is as underregulated.

Few software developers are required to acquire professional certification, or perform in compliance to standard practices intended to assure due diligence in design, implementation, testing or documentation. Very few software systems must undergo compliance certification. It's unsurprising then that software engineering continues to founder and fail to advance as a discipline.
If I subtract the time I spend checking my social media while pretending to work, I'm probably already doing a 32 hour work week...
I do agree with a lot of what you said.

> While structured concurrency gives you this guarantee, this is orthogonal to whether a function the thread runs is "red" or "blue".

I disagree with this.

Making sure that threads join before return is a big reason why I can pass functions around easily as function pointers and not worry about it.

An example is in my up-and-coming build system. [1]

In that code, I have a function that opens a threadset (my term for trio's nurseries) and executes a build. Once my build system is out of alpha, the direct call to that function will be replaced by a function pointer to the build type of the user's choice. (For example, you might want a "quick build" to just rebuild a file saved by your editor, or a "full build" regardless of what is already built, or just a normal build.)

Despite using function pointers, I don't need to worry about whether threads are spawned or not. In Zig, you do need to worry about if a function is async or not when using function pointers.

This includes if I make a build type whose function will not spawn threads at all, by the way. (For example, if building on a platform where you don't have the memory to spare for extra threads.) I can use that build type's function as a function pointer the same way I would use any function that does use a threadset.

In other words, while Zig is colorblind at compile time, structured concurrency is colorless at both compile time and runtime.

[1]: https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/src/commit/a7f535f8d0df45120e...
I'm always slightly puzzled by the people who bring their phones into the gym. I leave mine in the locker. Disconnect and focus on the workout.
I've started going out on an ebike. Not too much effort but if I want to I can turn the motor off for a while for the exercise. The sense of speed with the wind cooling you as you pedal is a real pleasure. Half an hour does the trick for me.

Otherwise.. preparing food is a good way to mark the end of the working day.

It isn't perfect though - I suffer from the same thing. I'm less engaged with my own interests than I used to be.
Carter successfully deregulated the railroad industry, the trucking industry, the airline industry, and the craft brewing industry. A huge amount of the economic growth often attributed to his successors is actually due to his success in identifying sources of stagflation and systematically eliminating them. Carter was better than a good president, he was just a victim of shitty politics.
Are you saying the punishment for shoplifting should be less if you're disadvantaged compared to if you're not?
Yes and those actions can be understood independently of their grouping
By prisoners dilemma, do you mean that people are free to negotiate amongst themselves as they see fit? Oh the horror…
"creating a pipeline with different tools and languages to scrape data from a website with the use of Puppeteer, load data into a SQLite database using Go and visualizing all the data with Python and Folium."

So much sophistication based on at least partly incomplete, filtered/distorted, and inaccurate data. So much important aspects that cannot be in an ad or intentionally left out and can only be extracted by painstaking efforts. Even the initial filtering out could be unreliable then.
Once one asserts that the plural precedes the singluar, fresh vistas of tyranny open to whoever is in control.
they can patent molecules and synthetic routes. but once one company shows that targeting a particular receptor works, or binding to some site on a protein, other companies can find drugs that so the same thing but look different.

for instance, Prozac was a breakthrough (the first SSRI), but it was easy for other companies to make their own SSRIs.
I can relate so much so much with this post, but not because of lack of opportunity. Quite the contrary, I actually won a green card lottery, came from SEA, work as a SWE with FAANG salary. Now I live in NYC, married to a wife (also not from US, but also not from my country), sponsored her to live here with me.

Now I am torn, or specifically, we are torn. Our heart is in 3 different countries. These two countries (non US ones) do not recognize dual citizenship, so if we do get US citizenship so that we can leave US and live in other countries, we have to be extra careful.

Even when these 2 countries do dual citizenship, the challenge still exists. First, I do speak my wife's country of origin language, though not fluent. My wife doesn't speak my country of origin language. We both speak English fluently though.

What should our kids learn? We currently don't have kids but are trying to. We would need to prioritize language learning for our kids more than anything else. We want our kids to be born here, in the US, and they will have automatically 3 citizenships at birth, until they have to choose when they turn 18. I wonder how they will feel if we constantly move around like this? I know military kids and missionary kids feel the same way.

On the other hand, if we live US, and work in my country, my salary probably won't be as good as US salary, but if in the future our kids want US education, I won't be able to afford it. Same with my wife's country as well.

The reason why I am pondering all of these now, and I've been living in the US for 10 years is because, once an immigrant, always immigrant at heart. US has its good things of course, but other countries as well, and most importantly, family. Family, friends, in which we both still have strong ties with our origin country. Time passes, our families and friends aren't getting younger. Money is useless to us, having combined household income of around $500k, but we don't enjoy our money. What's use is money if we can't enjoy it with our friends and families. We live modestly, never go into lavish vacation or lavish things.

My wife country is a 1st world East Asian country. My country of origin is a 3rd world SEA country. I've seen that my country is getting better and better, and there are many many, many opportunities back there. Even people from 1st world countries are retiring and creating companies here. 3 years ago I visited, I'd never imagine in the middle of nowhere while I was eating random street food, 2 foreigners spoke in their foreign language next to me. How, when did this happen. So much growth has happened.

I don't know, I'm just sharing here. I think our plan is, we want to make as much money as possible now, and see in 5 years what will happen.
I did something similar 10 years ago during my move to SF. I needed to find an apartment within two weeks, so I built a crawler to do complex filtering and notify me immediately.

In my case, the tool was ultimately useless because I discovered the way SF housing worked for nice apartments was 1) Openings are posted on Friday 2) Saturday, open house collects applications 3) Deal is signed on Sunday and post taken down. Anything my crawler picked up was stuff that was overpriced or in bad condition. For all my sophistication, the dataset was just the bad stuff.

Apartment hunting is a great example of needing to know the underlying behaviors of your dataset before you use it to make decisions.
I don't see how that has anything to do with the rent control regulation? What would your expectation be without that regulation?

Doppelte Haushaltsführung is a tax relief for people needing a 2nd place close to work. Also the work of your gf needs to be at least 1 hour away from the main apartment [1], she has to pay at least 10% of the cost of the main apartment to be allowed to deduct it (and maybe more requirements that I'm forgetting right now). She also has to pay 15% additional Zweitwohnungssteuer on the rent of the 2nd apartment.

[1] https://www.haufe.de/personal/entgelt/verwaltungsregeln-zur-...
Do you think the workouts have a positive effect on your sleep quality?
So now instead of paying for getting sued you also are going to have to pay people $200+ hour to go through hundreds of hours of video and transcribe the contents for a court to show that you didn't steal a song, and in the end they will use the exact same method to determine if you did or didn't than evaluate the evidence that you thought would somehow be beneficial.
uBlock Origin fixes this:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Settings#d...
The actual reasons why Fast failed
Some people just have that. I also suck at child's play. I've spoken to teachers and speech therapists who do, too. On the bright side, you get to be the parent who helps them feel more grown up when they're ready for that. It is a different kind if nurturing but is a wonderful feeling.
Third world is literally about affiliation or lack of to the erstwhile two super powers. Ukraine war has reshown that India is indeed third world.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience. Many people don't have a better choice than keep trying with unions.
Asymmetric information works in favor of the landlord so I doubt it'll ever get better barring some legislation -- which we know will also never happen because most voters and politicians are also landlords
Ed Sheeran has been actively producing music for twice as long as the Beatles though. I'm not sure Ed Sheeran was as popular as the Beatles at 8 years in…
What I’d like to see is less government power, which means they stay out of my life, which means more freedom and less coercion, which means I can negotiate my life as I see fit like a grown up who is responsible for himself.
Why share the cake when you can have it all to yourself. After all they did spent their entire life getting to that point shouldn't everyone else suffer as well? Maybe just a little worse every iteration until we just stop paying them. /s
> Because such cases are so rare, it does not make any difference for me if I have to add "/*" instead of the slightly shorter "/" (even when I also have to add "/.*" for hidden files/directories).

I think this is the wrong way to think of it. It's more like "rsync foo/ bar/" means "make these two directories the same" - it does change the last-modified timestamp on bar/ to match foo/. If you use "foo/*" it excludes the directory and last-modified becomes now.

For all the combinations this is what's in my head, and I find it for the most part very consistent and predictable:

* rsync -a foo bar/ -> put this file in this directory (a directory is a special type of file, so you end up with bar/foo/)

* rsync -a foo/ bar/ -> put the contents of foo/ into bar/ (but also we're syncing the directories, which is why bar/'s last-modified is changed)

* rsync -a foo bar -> put this file in here, whatever "bar" is (makes a file named bar, unless foo is a directory - you can't put a directory inside a non-directory file, so it makes directory bar and puts foo inside it)

* rsync -a foo/ bar -> This is the only one I have issues with because it doesn't particularly make sense so I never have reason to even try using it - put a directory into a file? But it's the same as "foo/ bar/" case.
Looks like an attempt to get suckers to come in and supply personal information.

Both Shark Tank and Dragon's Den release their rules before you tried to join them. Here they want you to register without telling anything about themselves, I smell scam.
What we should do right, hear me out, is build a really big spaceship, put all the middle managers on it and fire them into space.

We’ll tell them it’s to escape the giant mutant star goat or something and the rest of us will be along later, but they don’t need to know we’re not going to.
Whenever I read this, I think of some out of touch career academic who has never experienced the real world, yet knows exactly how the world should be, and can't wait to tell you.
You can already have this as a salaried worker if you negotiate well when you get a new job, and I highly recommend it. Most people barely work on Friday anyway.
As should children! Why should the pesky government step in the way of my child working in a factory.
I suppose he’s neither one.
I Google translated some random comments and saw calls to ban Ukrainian ips from GitHub.
This was definitely ahead of its time. Too bad the source code is probably lost, would have been an interesting read.
There's a rot in US academia ... ballooning costs, useless degrees that confer no perceivable boost in the job market, swollen bureaucracies. Unions might help one part of the ecosystem: the grad students, but it could also make overall reform harder.

I look at US Academia's complexities and it seems to me an easier approach to reform is to start from scratch via new institutions.
Seems like we're mixing up couple things here--(a) the level to which a government represents the people and (b) the powers that a government should have.

It's easy to lose sight of the fact that the government is--in its ideal essence--just a way for a population to collectively enforce compliance with / contribution to a social good.

I don't think it's controversial to say that if 100% of people wanted a 32 hour work week, the government should probably pass a law mandating that. Separately we can argue about the tendency for the aims of government to diverge from the aims of the citizenry or there being a slippery slope, but the "legitimate role" of government is representing the people.
> A huge amount of self-selection goes on before an application to an elite university is even filled out

Probably a lot less self-selecting out than you think.
I hate it when company policies talk about immigration to the US (or Western countries) and then talks about Expats when talking about locations in other part of the world.