skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left Facebook shortly after they abandoned their own plans for a 3-day-week pilot scheme which I'd been very eager to join. Someone I'd worked with before was now head of engineering at a reasonable-sized tech company, and was willing to give the 3-day week plan a try for me.

This was right at the start of 2020, and only working 3 days a week definitely helped me avoid pandemic burnout. But unfortunately I ended up working the 3 days that had the most meetings (this was a double-sided effect - it made sense to work those days else I'd miss important meetings, and then important meetings that included me gravitated to those days). So I ended up with 3 days that were stuffed full of meetings.

This was unpleasant enough that when the division was sold to another company, I opted not to take the transfer (and staying with the old company wasn't an option, as part of the terms of the acquisition deal). I'm now doing some flexi-time consulting that, while not as lucrative, gives a lot more latitude for scheduling my time.
I'm curious whether it's this "work chaperone" concept, but I'm not sure. Until recently, I had two other people working in close proximity to me, before they both quit. I definitely got that weird unproductive feeling when I was off-focus, but it was decidedly negative. Think a fear of punishment or embarrassment vs. the positive feeling that I had today. But at the same time, coworkers and SOs are very different in terms of relationship and motivation.
> except for a formal GDPR right to be forgotten request (or any other compliance situation)

That "any other compliance situation" includes things you probably want to have a soft delete for, like deleting/closing an account. Customers accidentally deleting their accounts, then wanting it restored happens more frequently than one would hope.
Comcast has attempted to dismantle net neutrality at least for the last 15 years, and it's arguable they have allies in government. They even paid seat warmers to fill up a FCC hearing so it would seem like nobody was countering their viewpoints [1]. They were fined for that, yet they continue efforts to dismantle net neutrality as K'Tetch describes in that clip. The degree to which monopolistic broadband ISPs are willing to manipulate the system is dastardly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEXuK073bkE&t=749s
There are a lot of apps available, just search on mental math. I've found that relatively simple arithmetic done repeatedly works well, look for those kinds of apps. About 10-15 mins of these problems per day is enough.
I had a debian chroot on mine. The official firmware is just running awesome WM on X11 so you can run normal arm Linux software pretty easily.
The 80s and on into the .com boom was all about money. For the first time, the world saw that programmers and software could generate insane amounts of money.

Nothing has changed, you were just young and naive.
On this note, I don't read the full text of blog spam. I skip to parts that are interesting which were none in this case, all obvious behaviors.

I make exceptions for Peter Norvig or John Carmack.
When I worked in defense aerospace the majority of software engineers were 40+. Plenty in their 50s, a few 60+.
It's very common in the US too. When I had knee surgery that involved cutting my kneecap in half(long scar), they superglued the skin back together. Sutures are actually rather rare for most procedures.
I worked at Microsoft when stack ranking was “eliminated”. Groups still stack ranked (at least mine did) but they had more local control over the process and distribution rather than having to follow one company wide system. Old habits die hard.

Maybe it’s different now, but I doubt it. Any place that pays for performance has to differentiate rewards in some way.
I think the proactive version of this is the third space: the club, the pub, the shop, whatever it may be where you go that isn’t work or home but is a space that is safe, comfortable, and conducive to interaction. These have often been neighborhood pubs, exclusive clubs (country club, elks, rotary, fraternity and sororities, etc) or community activities.

It does require that you keep showing up though. Which is a challenge for some.
"Without a way to easily import data directly from my banks/credit cards"

What is this wizardry? I go to the web portal of my (banks) and basically do double entry.
HN strips the variation selectors—there aren't any in your comment (also, they go after, like combining characters).

What do you see here? https://qaz.wtf/u/show.cgi?show=15%3A%E2%86%94%EF%B8%8E+16%3...

Edit:

I think you're stuck with the emoji arrow for that font: neither U+2194 ↔ LEFT RIGHT ARROW nor U+2B0C ⬌ LEFT RIGHT BLACK ARROW have any defined variation sequences. ⇔ and ⟺ are probably text-style, but you can't change existing content.

Hmm… U+2192 → RIGHTWARDS ARROW doesn't vary either, but U+27A1 BLACK RIGHTWARDS ARROW does: https://qaz.wtf/u/show.cgi?show=15%3A%E2%86%92%EF%B8%8E+16%3...

…and as the only one of the four in the Dingbats block, is stripped by HN.
You can see the future of search..

No longer is it a description of what currently exists, but an expression of what's been queried.

Which may demonstrate something entirely different.
rj11 cables I.e. telephone wires are straight wires so the pins at the end of each cable are reversed… compared to Ethernet rj45 cables they cross over so whether you are connecting the left or the right side of the wire the pin order is always the same…
One metaphor I used to describe my depression was being stuck at the bottom of a hill on a rollercoaster with too much friction. I could push and push and push my way to the top of one hill, but I'd just come to a halt again at the bottom of the next hill.

Not only did it take a lot more effort than usual to get moving on things, the effort I did put in did not result in any long-term momentum, making it really difficult to find motivation to keep trying.
It seems like he wasn't robbed because he posted his location, but because he posted his location as well as ludicrous amounts of cash, jewelry, and vehicles.
What a wonderful idea. Thank you.
Divide based on role, responsibility and stage. A 15/20/40 split is better than 25% split 3 ways.

If you divide equally chances are future incoming VCs will ask you to “clean up” the cap table down the road. that can leave founders feeling like they got shafted
> That is still racist, the same way it is racist if you prefer to only date people of a certain skin color.

That's not racists at all, that's just a person's personal preference for what they find attractive, and it often can't be helped.

We develop our models of what we find attractive early in our development by what we are exposed to.

It scares me a little that you don't know this, yet feel confident enough in your knowledge to type out these words.

Is it racist if I only like blonds? No, but that does rule out more than a few races of people that can't naturally grow blond hair. You're allowed to have physical preferences for certain traits. What you shouldn't do though is treat people differently because they don't have those traits that you value.

What would be racist is if I said I only hire [insert race], or I only let [insert race] people rent my condo.
I honestly had not thought to ask her to make something for me, but it's a fantastic idea.
There's a lot of gotchas/drawbacks with the current approaches, which is why it's an active area of development. Remix, Astro, Qwik, and Marko are all taking different approaches at mixing client and server side rendering.
NES was a game machine, built specifically to work like arcade machines of the time.

Spectrum was trying to be a general purpose computer. It had a BASIC in the ROM, for goodness' sake!

That it was able to do that, at a similar pricepoint to the NES, earlier, and yet in spite of lacking dedicated arcade-style sprite hardware, it still turned into a successful gaming platform? That's pretty impressive.

Not being sprite-centric also meant that Spectrum games included early 3D titles like Mercenary, Sentinel, Elite, and even Freescape games like Driller which featured fully shaded polygons.

Apparently Elite made it to the NES in 1991. I have no idea how that was achieved.
Yes but then I have to,
1. use python,
2. deal with the nightmare that is python packaging
3. hope I don't run out of memory while Python does its thing.

Getting non-technical people to do all that (a project manager wanting to see some simple stats for example) becomes difficult. Having a single binary that's easier to distribute, faster to execute and can be plugged into an existing query tool (like DataGrip) is a huge win for actual usability.
My Kindle has been on airplane mode from the second I unboxed it and turned it on -- waiting for this very moment. But yes, get someone to put it on airplane mode?
> The Welfare State is meant to be a stabilizing force to avoid social unrest and to guarantee that the elites can enjoy their power/status

Those are your beliefs, not facts.

The Welfare State exists because some politicians genuinely care about people and want to help those who fall ill or have a divorce and no where to live or lose their job etc.

Not all politicians are calculating sociopaths.

> You can not think of it as something that has a ROI,

Say that to the people in the US dying from cancer because they cannot afford the expensive treatments. Or a researcher 70+ years old, but who cannot retire (although he's 70+), because then he couldn't afford his medications.

Or youths without money to study at University.

Quite odd beliefs and ideas you've ended up with, from my perspective.
I'm an old man with children. Fortunately when I was dating, internet almost didn't exist. Women barely had any choice except the guys they saw everyday. Now is a total different world.
Tofu I can understand. What would a tofu emoji even look like? A white brick? It's just going to be too confusing.

But poutine was declined? That's an outrage.
He said that he knew it was a kludge at the time, but it was seductively easy to implement... just add a special case to the type checker so that if the type being assigned to a reference is wrong, allow it if it's null. Properly working nullable and non-nullable references (or making optionality and references orthogonal concepts) would have been a much deeper change to the language and the compiler.
At the end of the day, there’s a bonus budget which makes bonuses more or less zero sum.
Rust is one rabbit hole I really, really regret going down. Put weeks of work into it, got frustrated nearly every day, wrote copious notes, re-read things, and the end result is... I still can't use it for anything gnarly (ie everthing, because why else would I use a systems programming language if I wasn't doing funky stuff with memory?)

Rust has great PR but I found it to be a profound waste of time. YMMV.
I've been wondering whether I have ADHD for a while now. I have not went to a professional to get diagnosed but at a glance it seems like I share many of the same symptoms. I am ASD though, so maybe it plays into that? I've never taken Adderal, I almost want to once just to see the effects.
> I was stunned to hear that some people preferred the Spectrum in this games graphics comparison I've put together : https://imgur.com/a/D7Ocd

Maybe it has nothing to do with graphics. Having no nostalgia for either machines, in the video comparisons I've seen on youtube the Spectrum games tend to run much smoother than the CPC versions.
My girlfriend is 5'11" (and taller than me, and a model, dancer, etc etc) and yes it is a bit hard to reach standing, but I figure that's a common human experience. Sitting down and such you don't even notice.

I haven't asked if the concept of needing an even taller guy has ever occurred to her, but the even stranger one of either of us caring if she's wearing heels sure hasn't come up.
I bet there is a direct correlation to Instagram usage here, particularly filters that allow you to lengthen your legs in this particular case.

Instagram is a ticking time bomb of mental health problems related to self image issues, particularly in younger women.
Ask HN: Help me to find a blog, he posts about his sideproject every month
Update: Found (https://tinyprojects.dev/) Thanks to Slater for commenting.
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Long back someone wil post a link every month in Hackernews with his sideproject idea, stats and earning. He is a gem. I was going through lots of threads here. Can't find him. (He is not levelsio). It's someone else.
And the view-vs-copy shenanigans - a bunch of the API's will print warnings about using the wrong one, and direct you to some docs, but don't actually tell you whether you've just viewed or copied, and the docs don't make it particularly clear which API does which either.
Orra White Hitchcock’s Scientific Illustrations for the Classroom (1828–40)
>Keep in mind also that that's because in high school the number of hours per week are far more limited.

I don’t understand what you’re claiming here. At least in terms of classroom contact time, the number of hours is much higher in high school (typically five 50 minute periods per week vs. three 50 minute periods per week in college) and the school year is longer (20–21 weeks per semester vs 15 in college).
This line of thinking ends badly for the 6'4" muscular guy [particularly with a dark complexion] when he ends up in a jury trial. Size jokes seem to have a negative impact on all men.
I have tried GnuCash in the past. It was too complicated for my needs. All other budgeting software I thought was too complicated and complex for the average person. I use a spreadsheet to handle my budget. I keep it as a reminder that temporary solutions can become permanent. The file name is "planstemp". It was temporary more about ten years ago. I found using different banks depending on the purpose of the transaction the easiest way to keep track of expenses. I use one bank for regular monthly expenses and another for daily expenses. Regular expenses are predictable. If I was running a business, I keep that separate from personal.
You can still, but unless the libraries needed to do it are updated you'd need to use the last version of Calibre built on python2.
Good luck with your court case concerning whether or not the government can require your real details to be on your driver's license.
Seems like an odd bug to slip through testing, especially for a 4.1x release. Considering that validating string inputs, etc., is pretty much textbook. Unless Unity doesn’t bother to do testing, which also seems unlikely for their flagship multi million, or billion(?), dollar product.
One of the favorite tricks tricks I've ever seen is how Twilio uses human-readable prefixes[0] on their various identifiers - you will never mistake a device (HSxxxxxxx) for an account (ACxxxxxxxx). It's prevented us (Twilio customer) from making similar mistakes in the past.

[0]: https://www.twilio.com/docs/glossary/what-is-a-sid#common-si...
LPG fueled oven getting sooty?
Absolutely none of the appeal is anticipating a crash. If someone claims to be a race fan and likes the crashes, they are by definition not a race fan as there is no racing in a crash.

I remember watching when Jules Bianchi had his fatal accident and I remember where I was when I read of Antoine Hubert had his fatal crash and I remember watching Romain Grosjean somehow walk away from an incredibly violent crash. Each one made me seriously consider giving up on the sport, but the racers racing and each crash has led to massive safety improvements.

I hope there is never another fatal or injury accident in motor racing. In F1 there was a long gap between Senna and Bianchi, let's hope the next gap never ends.
Sidetrack : Wonder can they do gnuCoin, openSourceCoin or even …
PDF text reflow which the Kindle can't do out of the box is reason enough to be interested in KOReader. I also found support for DjVu format very useful, which is used for many old book scans on archive.org (while it's possible to convert this format, the resulting file sizes will be much larger).
Not crashing on null is part of what led to the remarkable stability of iPhone apps vs Android. Same with javascript apps. Can you imagine how painful the web would be if the entire page 'crashed/disappeared' every time an unhandled exception was hit in javascript.

If programmers today treated software like a car, they would blow up the car every time the air conditioner button didn't work. Desktop and console apps work this way.

Perfect is the enemy of the good, many times your app isn't running a nuclear reactor, and even if it was you might want it actually be able to recover from a failure. Think Erlang.
I think this might be a second language thing. My understanding of index would be the one you have at the beginning of the book, with the chapters and their page numbers. The reverse index appears at the end of the book and lists topics and the pages where they appear.

For example, in the index you'd have chapters:

3. Data structures 25
[...]
7. Graphs 154

And in the reverse index:

trees: 25, 154

But maybe those are just the table of contents and index?
I tried picking it up recently. Not for any real reason, just curiosity. I didn't get terribly far, but found a lot of frustration. I then watched a YouTube video where a guy was saying how even though he knew and liked Rust he still got frustrated a lot by it and found that developing in Go was much more productive. I dropped Rust and started experimenting with Go because I began to get afraid that I wouldn't get past the unwieldy stage with Rust.
Maybe it's a bit naiive, but I'd imagine having a small-core interpreted Clojure and different host implementation would incrementally overload functionality and reimplement using the host's features.

But the design (granted I'm judging from the docs and API - not digging through the source) seems like things weren't designed for multiple hosts in mind.
That was my generic "sample question," not necessarily hers. As she discusses what interests her she will say things along the lines of, "depending on what (factor X) is relevant." I would like to simple be able to respond to her as she talks, unlike now where I feel like I can only say, "What do you think will be?"

It's very much like communicating in a foreign language with only a basic phrase book. I'd like to at least be able to speak pidgin.
I think the GP is probably thinking about Java's Option<T>, which adds an extra layer of indirection and is in some ways the worst of both worlds. In Java, the Option<T> could be null, or it could wrap null. The clue here is that the GP is talking about extra boxing/unboxing related to Option<T>, which you don't get in languages with better Option<T>/Maybe<T> implementations.
Ah shit, well I guess you found the 0.1%
I don't think there are any (many?) studies on this subject. Much less that confirm this particular bias you've shown.
I used to go out with a friend of mine, he's a multiple business owner, a miltimillionarie since he was 25, blonde, blue eyes, etc. Also he's very social, he was always the 'soul of the party' etc. Me, at that time I had a 10 years old car, but I'm 5'9 and he's 5'6.

I always was the one that got the phone numbers, always.
I found the solution to getting hired a long time ago. Be self employed. My boss is a bit of an ogre and he never gives bonuses, but at least I get to sleep with his wife, so that's a plus.
Yes, in the US. She plans, as it stands now, to complete basics for the first year at a local university before declaring anything other than a generic major.
I looked into Milo a couple weeks ago and it seems like a complex financial product, compared to a traditional fixed-rate conforming loan. The interest rate depends on the value of your collateral and you are subject to the risk from the change in the value of your collateral [1].

From their FAQs, it's not clear to me whether your house is at risk if your crypto collateral gets liquidated, but you stay current on your mortgage. But your rate will go up if your collateral value goes down, so you might no longer be able to afford your loan. It sounds like if you get liquidated, they keep the liquidated USD as collateral [2], and if you defaulted, that would be credited to your loan balance (but this is not stated in their FAQs).

From an investor perspective, if I'm understanding this product, this should be pretty safe. You still have a lien on the home as collateral, along with the cryptocurrency. They mention an appraisal, so I'm guessing the loan-to-value ratios are still capped at 100% (they won't lend you more than the home is worth). The crypto liquidates at 35% of value, so that means in a default, they just need to recovery 65% of the home value to be made whole.

Still, might be less hassle to just liquidate the crypto yourself, buy straight cash, and realize the tax gains.

[1] https://help.milocredit.com/en/articles/5915495-can-the-inte...

[2] https://help.milocredit.com/en/articles/5915515-how-much-can...
I wouldn’t assume the ev fleet is cheaper than a gas truck fleet.

Tesla model Y uses roughly 0.3kwh per mile. Pge charges roughly 30 cent per kWh to residential customers. That’s roughly 2.7$/30 miles.

Yet the Tesla model y is a 60k car where-as a Honda CRV is roughly 30k. So we’re talking easily needing to drive 200k miles before break even. And that’s not including any depreciation, ev charger installs, higher insurance, higher car tax, etc.

the Crv has minimal ICE maintenance for its first 6ish years.

I do agree tha usps should use EVs for a large portion of its fleet. But it might pay to slowly ramp up usage to get a true sense to costs involved, and which technologies to use.
But human evolution is basically a story where bigger brains coevolved with increased reliance on more diverse and higher quality food sources. Otherwise, for example, we would have much lower requirements for exogenous Vitamin C, like many other mammals.
> seems like non-Americans in this thread are unhappy that their ceilings are lower.

Maybe a few men here who would want to maximize their income, save for the future? Seems like a good idea,

Still, they're a bubble and not representative of people in general.

Have a look, happiest countries:

https://www.google.com/search?q=happiest+countries
Disclaimer: this is from the perspective of someone who is NOT a Senior engineer.

My experience so far has been that there is very little work in a large organization that doesn't affect multiple teams at some point.

So if you're a Senior+ engineer building a complex system, it's highly likely to impact a lot of other people in the company. Building something like that without getting impacted teams onboard with the idea seems like a recipe for organizational strife.

Another thing that comes to mind is organizational goals. If the company has high level goals they want to achieve, having people (Esp very Senior people) working on multiple things unrelated to those goals doesn't seem conducive to success.

Also, the more senior you are the more visible you tend to be. So what you work on is probably going to be noticed more. I know that I would find it weird if I found out a Staff or Senior Staff engineer was off working on random things instead of leading an important project.

I definitely think Senior+ people should have some freedom, but absolute freedom doesn't seem like a good idea for anyone. When you're at a certain level what you do affects way more people than just yourself. Titles have a lot of weight to other people.
Likewise, Beancount.

https://beancount.github.io/
It's likely because it is an order of magnitude harder to use Rust.
It is possible to convert handwritten notes to text[1], but it requires a paid subscription to Connect. I imagine you already knew that, so perhaps you meant something else?

While we're at it, what pen did you get? If you got the black one, how useful is the eraser? These comments about it piqued my interest.

[1] https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000266143...
Agreed but ISPs couldn't get away with it without us voters endlessly reelecting pols who trade law+power for campaign cash.