skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What works for me: Take a minimum of 2 weeks vacation in one block (3 or 4 is amazing if you can negotiate it - don’t be afraid to ask if you are at $bigcorp). If possible don’t use a computer in that period, don’t check work mail/slack on a phone.
Don’t do side projects if they are computer based. You need to try to do something (or nothing is ok too) as long as it is different physically/mentally. You need to get out of your current mindset and environment. That likely means getting away from your current location to avoid the temptation to just sit around at home and watch Netflix (which is not a big enough change).

Let your team know you’ll be offline for the vacation period, the world will continue while you take a break.

See how you feel on your return.
US man wins $450k lawsuit after unwanted office birthday party
Most people in Canada don't have a home, they rent - especially in BC.
Good reminder that I need to migrate my data away from Google. They are notorious for terrible customer support. I'd rather pay someone competent.
Let the market decide. Stores or restaurants can put chargers in if they want the customers
Assuming everyone can afford a home...
An EV at 50% battery has enough juice to run the seat heaters for a month.

And no dangers of plugging the exahaust and killing yourself with Carbon Monoxide.

I've made 500km blizzard trips in my EV, and I consider it much safer than my ICE car. It has better traction and is more reliable, especially in the cold
Sorry what? A fast charging spot handles maybe one car every 15 minutes. The smallest gas station handles 4 cars every 5 minutes. Using gas station land for fast charging doesn't make sense... far better off requiring grocery stores, parks, shopping centers, etc. to install banks of fast chargers. That way there's at least something more to do while waiting for charge than... "hang out at a gas station for far longer than anyone save perhaps beggars/drug addicts would willingly subject themselves to"
Versions are not speeds.

3.2 continues to describe everything in 3.0, which means it continues to describe how to make devices supporting 5 gbps over USB-A/B
It's... it's just Microsoft's compression technology for 3D video.

The article title is grossly editorialized but the actual article isn't much better. It's just really expensive AR.
soo-doo

Siss cee tee ell

I will die on this hill
I don't know if those things actually affect taste. Maybe they do. But do they?

There's a bunch of benefits to eating home grown eggs (or free range eggs): the hens are treated better, and you won't get all those nasty chemicals.
What government laws were broken here?
They're around 60 cents right now.
They run on gasoline.

About 98% of oil consumed by Germany is imported. Which country is the largest source?
You can't go east from the Basque country without leaving Spain.
I know. I'm saying there IS a need for Unity, while Casey argues that either you go full UE5 or you write your game engine. Black or white.

UE5 is too complex for most indie devs, not good at 2d and pixel art, and writing your game engine as a small team is a good way of spending 2 years on engine code, instead of, you know, actually developing a game.
Can I pay you with this new Crypto I created in the last 12 minutes?

It's called Y3J5cHRvc3Vja2Vycw==
Show HN: Automedia – a tool for managing bitrot and formats in media libraries
I think, whatever you should do strongly depends on yourself and your circumstances. Burnout is mainly a stress response, but the way to find your balance again will really have to be your own way.
It is great, that you discuss this already with some proper guidance.
Whether your team and job can help you here, also depends. If that should be the case, it needs to happen in a way that reduces your stress. If you think so, why not try, but don't expect outsiders to give that final recommendation.

On that Netflix topic... You'd be much certainly better of simply trying to sleep or do relaxation exercises. Also trying to code during that time does not help relaxation. Try to establish clear boundaries between these different modes in your life.
>While code is not “law” literally, in this case it is the lawful contract definition. How else can you possibly interpret this?

You can have a contract that both parties thinks says one thing, but they each have something different in mind. That's a failure of mutual assent. You can have contracts where the thing which is contracted on becomes impossible. One party can misrepresent the contract, either deliberately or innocently. The contract can be agreed to under duress; or be so uneven in its obligations that is manifestly unconscionable.

To a greater or lesser extent, all these scenarios can give rise to rescission of contracts or their avoidance in courts of law. The idea that code is an unambiguous statement of the contract and therefore definitively legal and perfectly binding is nonsense.
I was writing in perl in the 2000s and early 2010s.

I don’t want other languages to be more like perl.
I think gas stations should charge 10k annual fee to Vancouver for the inconvenience of having endless lines of cars waiting to park and take space to recharge for hours if they choose to install electric charging products.
Gas stations are literally the worst places to put EV chargers. Just mandate that every employer with >50 employees has X chargers, Y of which must be publicly accessible.
In the web engine realm, it is very true (like apple web engine).
Their web engine is open source and is massive and "beyond sanity" complex (including their SDK) and to stay honest, this size and complexity is not pertinent for tons of services provided over internet (basic web forms can do magic).

But GNU is doing kind of the same, for instance with gcc and the glibc.

So it is nasty open source vs nasty open source, and it happens with US software which the whole world uses.

open source software is not enough anymore: lean and simple, but good enough to do an okay job, stable in time open source software/protocols seems to be the only reasonable way out of this.

It is going to hurt, because it makes planned obsolescence very hard to do then scammers and brain-washed web devs will fight it.
No, it's just unrelated things.

Nature is decentralized. But if you car was burglarized, which is perfectly fine under laws of nature and the glass physics, you still call the centralized police.
I feel like a carrot might be better here… and for places other than gas stations.

I think it is too early to go stick on everyone. Let alone some unfortunate malicious compliance that doesn’t help.
Oohhh. This could be done without postal service cooperation. Just stamp all the junk mail, and put it in a curbside bin.

Once a month, a service pickes it up, then leaves a dumpster of spam next to the local USPS mail drop. (Or shovels it over the counter at the post office.)

Also, provide a list of houses subscribed to the service to the USPS. The ball's in their court now!
This sounds something like an insider would know and do.
If I were in the Spanish government, I would give Catalonia a legal binding referendum.
But splitting a country is not something you do in a weekend, we can't have Catalonia splitting with 50% + 1 of the votes just for "+1" to change his mind next week and Catalonia joining again.

So I would give Catalonia a legal binding referendum... with a requirement of at least a 66% vote in favour. For each person that wants to remain, there would be two that don't; and if you are at that point, it's probably better just to let them go. Being a politician, I would surely try to at least round it up to 70%.

They would never get 66% of the vote. If it looks risky, I could send the police in the Looney Tunes ship again... to vote!

And if they refuse my offer... well, it's way easier to argue "I have given them the referendum, they are not taking it". Right now, Catalans have the easy "freedom" argument.
moving to Gnome 3+ is what killed ubuntu imo

i loved Unity 7 desktop, it was the perfect mix between macOS and windows, i was hyped for Unity 8, going full QT and finally getting rid of gnome, when they announced moving to Gnome 3, i nuked my ubuntu partition the same day

people didn't believe me whenever i said "with this move it's the end of ubuntu", there we go, gnome drive away people
This has nothing to do with PoS.

Q2: Agreed - this does not qualify as "cryptocurrency".
> I’m curious why controlling levels of the token were on the market, and I have to assume that’s what the creators didn’t account for: the possibility that the people who were supposed to manage this thing would be buyable at a realistic price.

From the article:

> A still-unidentified attacker had borrowed $80m in cryptocurrency and deposited it in the project’s silo, gaining enough voting rights in exchange to be able to pass any proposal instantly.

I’m not sure but my guess is that they basically had an uncapped token that mints in exchange for deposits, and that’s used for voting. So you didn’t need to buy off existing holders, just deposit more than everyone else put together and mint more tokens than have previously existed.
>It's not that the principle is no longer valid (it is), it's that the practical issues around upholding that principle are different, because the world has changed.

I think this is where we differ and don't follow after. The world hasnt changed. It's curious. Liveleak no longer exists because: "The world has changed a lot over these last few years, the Internet alongside it, and we as people," said Hewitt.

Its not like liveleak and gore went away... virtually all the 'cherry bomb blew up in his hand' or 'ukraine soldier stabs russian pow in brain' are simply on reddit now. The world hasn't changed at all. Its not like 'we are better people and above this' this shit hits reddit front page all the time.

Beforehand it was about his political opponents the republicans who were censoring free speech. "porn and video games"

They saw themselves as the victims and fighting against those republicans. Then "the world changed" They started to become the ones who started censoring and the republicans became pro-free speech.

They rationalize this censorship as the 'world changing' but absolutely nothing changed.

>Both sides think the platform is institutionally biased against them.

You just admitted the problem. Censorship is hard and misapplied constantly. You argue here for no censorship at all. In reality you admit to your own failure, the correct move would have been to stop your censorship.

>The internet is not a "frontier" where people can go "to be free," it's where the entire world is now, and every culture war is being fought on it.

The culture war is over. It ended in 2015 at latest and we know who won. Now that we moved past the culture war, it will result in real war. This will happen in the next couple years.

Elon is trying to prevent this.
> I’m not going to argue with someone that’s just looking to win rather than actually be curious about stuff.

Ah. The inevitable ad hominem argument.

> I think you’re probably wrong.

See, the difference between you and me lies in this "probably". You believe, with nothing to back your beliefs.

I look at reality (including the reality that I worked at a company that worked with memberships, ticketing, "gated community access" etc.). And I evaluate it for what it is, not for what I believe it is.
I always think twice when a company offers me an "app" for an application that is already available as a web app or that is already inbuilt in the system or doesn't use existing standards. Like, I perfectly understand the need for a Proton Mail client as some would like offline access to their mail and a backup of their mail in their system. But I resent the need of a custom and locked-in app, instead of the service being available over existing POP3 / IMAP protocol. (Yes, I understand how email encryption creates hurdles of using it over POP3 / IMAP, usage, but it would be a lot easier to trust a company if they actually built an extension over existing protocol or create a new standard that makes it easy to access their service. E.g. https://fastmail.blog/open-technologies/jmap-new-email-open-... ). ProtonVPN app also seems a bit redundant when most OSes already have built in support for VPN. Though I understand that it does make configuring, changing / choosing VPN servers a lot simpler, and probably helps ProtonVPN in load balancing, it provides more avenues for data collection and data leak.
> people feel much less safe walking down it at night and if I were to decide to steal a car or burgle a house, I'd pick that street

A lot of it comes down to feelings. We need actual data, how much does crime actually goes up, not how people think it does. Otherwise, these people need to pay for the infrastructure and electric consumption. There is no reason why everyone should pay for their feelings if it does not bring concrete benefits to everybody.
> Most people can charge at home for their typical needs

A lot of people in Vancouver can't!

For example they may live in an apartment building whose strata council refuses to install chargers in the garage, or they may live in somebody's basement suite and not have access to a garage at all.

(I'd rather charge my car at a cafe, though.)
“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”

Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell.
I've taken a multi-pronged approach including better bedtime routine, exercise, and tricks to get back to sleep when I wake up.

Over the last 9 months I've been focusing on health and losing weight. A large part of this is that I'm doing 5+K on the treadmill every week day. I prefer to do this in the morning, and if I'm not on the treadmill by 7 it is going to interfere with my work. Between getting ready and cooling down, it's a solid hour or hour and a bit to get 45 minutes of jog/walk time in. This morning I was on the treadmill by 6:30, got up at 5:15 and did some work first.

A few months ago an HN discussion mentioned An Algorithmic Solution to Insomnia, and I read that and tried some things in that. Largely it boiled down to: Taking a harder line on waking up early, getting a better bedtime routine. I go to bed usually around 9:30, but I've tried this last week to pushing it a little later to try to stay asleep. I have an all too frequent "wake up at 3am" problem.

I try to be in bed, not using my phone or computer, by 9:30. I take a 5mg melatonin, and read on a Kindle (because of the paper-like experience, dim front-light). I'm pretty much out within half an hour.

If I'm having problems getting to sleep or staying asleep, I use this trick where I go through each letter of the alphabet and think of 3 unrelated words that start with each letter. Probably >50% success rate on falling asleep when I do that. If I wake up at 3-ish, I'll try the letters, then I'll read some and try again.

I try to keep my hands off my damn phone. >50% success rate there, too. :-)

https://ilya.sukhar.com/blog/an-algorithmic-solution-to-inso...
Having sat around in EVs charging with nothing to do, it would be better for Vancouver to incentivize charging stations at places where people might spend that time doing something, like stores, restaurants, etc. It would also be nice for chargers to be installed for street parking in popular areas.

Sitting at a gas station for a half hour to an hour sounds more like punishment for having an EV.
I'm going through something similar and was able to negotiate some time off with my employer. In my experience, there's no way to push through burnout, and you're not going to be doing anyone you work with any favours by trying to "be there" through it.
certainly you should ask Copernicus or Darwin if their hypothesis and experimentations were enough to reach consensus in the scientific community of their times.

They were right eventually, but they were very controversial and their ideas started very strong debates.
> But if he is using open source free software as a replacement, shouldn't he have tested and fixed said software?

You can’t put the onus on him to personally write and fix all software he uses. He has written quite large amounts of software, so I’d say he’s done more than his share. He is still, if only tangentially, involved in some software, and you could perhaps reasonably criticize him if he were using, say, Emacs to do his presentation, and there was a bug preventing him.
> Fully autonomous weapons are also a code is law problem.

In the same way that a serial killer is a “psychopath is law” problem.

The problem with both descriptions is that both use “law” to mean “something that happens and has consequences” rather than, well, law in any more specific sense.
The film industry made a record-breaking $100 billion last year - https://www.forbes.com/sites/rosaescandon/2020/03/12/the-fil...

The fault lies with us. Do you pirate? Abstain from entertainment media? Or do you fund lobbying efforts to keep circumvention illegal? The numbers in the Forbes article suggest most do the latter.
National do not call registry
He/she means the Soviet astronomers called themselves cosmonomers. Like astronauts and cosmonauts, har har.
So if you have the NFT, and I have the physical good, how do you get it back? Take me to court? How is this better than a regular contract?
If they rent, where do they park at that residence? That's where it makes sense to charge. How many of the renters without parking have a car?

If it's really true that "Most people in Canada" don't have a home, then do you really think that the 66 gas stations in Vancouver can accommodate all those people?
I read "probably" as implying uncertainty, but I concur with his assessment. When I was around 20-25 I used to program or game while watching TV while listening to music, and it felt good because my brain craved overstimulation during that period. In retrospective, my main focus was the computer, the distant second focus was the TV, and the background noise was the music. I wasn't gaining a lot by doing the three at once.
Exactly. NFT monthly sales volume is up ~1500% since the Dorsey tweet sale (down 1/3 from January highs though).
I had burnout before and I took an entire year off. It definitely helped. That might sound extreme, and probably I could have taken less time off with similar results, but that's what happened.

So yeah, I recommend taking time off. Maybe a lot.
I'm familiar with the general concept but never read that specific article. Fun reading though, thanks!
True, but if you're over a few months old, your SSN has probably already been leaked.
Gas stations sell gas but also the use of land. I doubt the economics are still going to work out when drivers are staying for 45+ minutes. EV charging likely needs higher value activities attached, like shopping, to subsidize the parking.
Vancouver could certainly increase property taxes across the board – a very divisive issue with strong support in some corners and vociferous opposition in others – but the city doesn't have the authority to adjust property taxes in special cases, for example for properties that don't provide EV charging. That would require a legal change by the province.
Related:

A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19237702 - Feb 2019 (8 comments)

A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19023734 - Jan 2019 (84 comments)

Also related:

John Hennessy and David Patterson Turing Award Lectures (2018) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18118957 - Oct 2018 (5 comments)

Hennessy and Patterson win Turing Award - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16637803 - March 2018 (32 comments)
I've been ripping my old physical audio and video media to a server running locally at home and have been worried about bitrot. I built this tool to check a large media library for correctness (by test-decoding it with FFMPEG), and to prevent future bitrot by automatically adding per-directory PAR2 files.

The tool has another feature to transcode your entire library to a given format - I'm using this to keep a USB key in my car filled with AAC 64k files for listening when Spotify is out of range or I'm too lazy to connect via Bluetooth.
Dogfooding at Armory
> You need to differentiate the spec version from the features talked about in the spec.

Maybe make a separate spec version for each transfer mode and require backwards compatibility. It's easy for the average person to understand "the higher the number, the newer the standard, the faster it goes". It's not as easy when there are 3 numbers, 2 of which are optional. If you have to use 3 numbers, you could at least make it look like a version number, so "3.1 Gen 2" would become simply 3.1.2. These are easy to understand too because everyone has at some point installed software updates.
And providing significant funding of the North Korean regime to keep crushing people under their boots.
Recommendations for good commercial email services?
> Gas stations would be required to provide 50 kilowatts of charging power — enough for one DC fast charger.

Convenience is greatly sacrificed if only one charger is installed — it'll be a gamble if your local gas station has their charger free, etc., which makes planning on when to charge tricky. As many gas stations are likely to only invest the bare minimum to avoid this fee, this could become a common frustration if this goes ahead.
Talk with your manager, and see if you can come up with a plan to take a long vacation (I'd recommend at least 2-3 weeks, if not longer depending on how you handle burnout historically & what the nature of the burnout is) - at worst, maybe consider unpaid leave as well if you can afford to.
I wonder how many will buy the cheapest compliant EV charger they can find and just hang a permanent “out of order” sign on it.
Why does energy consumption matter?

In any case, I was able to start programming my first games using a pirated copy of GW Basic on a PC XT. That's all you really needed.

Then I think around the 286 or 386 PC clones I discovered open source libraries like Allegro (a competitor of today's SDL), and it wasn't even pirated anymore! Really, all you need to program games.
I suspect that the largest declines in mental health, and in heart health, associated with aging is associated with obesity, but not directly because of obesity, but because of sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is very prevalent among the over-weight, and it prevents quality sleep, creating stressors of all kinds. Now that apnea is being more aggressively treated in the last decade, I actually suspect that associations between cognitive health and aging to be pushed back even further.
I guess this is just the usual hate-posting...

But up until today;

Ethereum (ico: $0.3, now: $2912)
Basic Attention Token (ico: ~$0.03, now: $0.74)
Avalanche (ico: $0.5, now: $74.28)
Fantom (ico: ~$0.04, now: $1.09)
Terra (ico: $0.8, now: $84.89)
Cosmos (ico: $0.10, now: $23.27)

To name a few of the big winners. You said long-term so I assumed you meant someone was bag-holding since the ICO until now... so I omitted that all of these topped out at way higher prices.

Just because a lot of the ICOs were dogshit doesn't mean that all of them were
Flagged because no for multiple reasons.
Q: Why do multi-million and billion dollar agencies seem unable, or unwilling, to accomplish the simplest of tasks? Why do so many of us spend our lives in the real-life bureaucratic nightmares satirized in the The Office and Office Space?

A: Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution -- The Shirky Principle

AKA It's what pays.
https://youtu.be/J6eS6JzBn0k
Agree, best to keep BEV charging well aways from anything inflammable
Former attorney here - if you ever end up in some kind of dispute, you will be glad you notified people in writing!

I agree, that it's annoying in the meantime though.