skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m in a very similar situation to the original poster. My ADHD is strong I refuse to take meds for it after a bad experience. I have a doctorate level degree but early on in my career got sidetracked and now make more money in database management than I ever would have if I used my degree. However, my job is boring and meaningless. It is also easy enough that it is fine to be a little buzzed from weed the previous day. I quit on and off and try to take breaks but have never been free from it for over a year. My last return to use helped me confirm that weed really isn’t that exciting or useful for me.

My most recent successful quitting cold turkey was the result of a mis-dose of RSO oil. I took way too much and blasted off to the cosmos. I realized the only way out of the “trip” was to work on what I needed to change about my habits. During my session I made a list of changes I wanted to make in life and decided (or rather was told by the universe) that I needed a break from weed and everything else could wait. I woke up the next day and threw everything out related to mj use with the exception of a 10 mg edible in case I had any sort of withdrawal. After a couple days with no withdrawal symptoms I threw that out.

A month in and I can say there is SO much to look forward to after cutting out weed. The dreams alone are worth it. I had a single dream last week that seemed like a gift from the universe. It’s too subjective to share but it altered the way I react to and perceive any anxiety-inducing stimuli.

I still have so much to work on but it all seems manageable after this one win.

TLDR; Try to focus on one single thing you want/need to change the most and don’t let anything else overwhelm you. You need a win right now. The rest can wait.
It isn't every six months, the Earth doesn't rotate that regularly. They are introduced "at most" every 6 months, but usually far less. There have been 27 leap seconds since 1972, so less than one a year.
It's not just Facebook: apparently in 2015 most countries wanted to drop leap seconds, though some wanted to keep them: Most countries, including China, the United States and many in Europe, favour scrapping the leap second and basing UTC on the continuous tick of atomic clocks. -- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18855
Children in medieval Europe had weak immune systems because they were not fed a wide variety of diets, and many died before they reached adulthood due to the high rate of disease.
Does it not require to go through 3DS for recurring transactions if billed in USD?
An important lesson I've learned in my career: don't resist repeating yourself. You can communicate something to someone extremely clearly and they'll have forgotten a week later, because they have a whole lot of other things going on in their lives.

When I worked at a large company I started out incredibly frustrated at feeling like I was having the same conversation over and over and over again. Eventually I realized that repeating myself was part of the job.
As someone who lives in a region with gravel/"dirt" roads, I often wonder how they compare to paved roads in terms of overall effect (possibly more fuel usage, but not, itself, made from hydrocarbons; fuel usage associated with maintenance, etc.) and what the relative health effect of the rock-dust is compared with the tar-dust/gases...
What early Agile knew and Scrum has obliterated is that basic advice you got from your high school or college teachers who pointed out if something is important you can't leave it until the last moment.

The counterargument about deadlines is always some sad sack story about shipping for the holidays or having tax software done in time for the start of the tax season. Those stories are all true, but they have fuck all to do with deadlines.

Continuous Delivery means that if you need something by Friday, the conversation is about the relative risk/reward of shipping the build we're going to do on Tuesday, or the one we did last Tuesday, or one from three weeks ago. Not whether the important features will be done by CoB on Friday. Because the critical bits of the important features were finished over a month ago and now we're just making everything pretty.

What happens is that "the work expands to fill the time" is not just a law that applies to developers, it also applies to management in spades. "Sure, we need this feature, but why don't you hold off on doing that while we do this other thing that feels important but only because I told someone it would happen and I'm too much of a coward to tell anyone that I was wrong about something, and I outrank you so you and your social life are going to pay for my mistakes, not me and mine."
That depends on the state of your paint. If the paint is still good it will help a bit because the coating will take some of the wear. But if the paint is already damaged then rust will have started and applying a coating on top of that won't make much difference, though it may slow things down a little bit.

The best protection against rust is to keep your car clean, especially from leaves, bird droppings and other debris. Wash but not too frequently and if there are scratches or other minor issues fix them immediately.
> farm was more social than a city

The farm has less overall "social points", but if you subtract the antisocial behaviors your are subject to in many cities the rural areas can come out ahead.

Take all the interesting subway conversations you have had on one hand, then subtract all the times you have smelled human urine or stepped over a heroin needle.
27, not 37
Not every nuke needs to be a city destroyer. You could use tactical nukes instead of tanks and mass infantry for example. Maybe you have a few elite squads on the ground who basically just serve to mark targets for orbital ICBMs to quickly destroy. Wars would be over by the time the ICBMs are launched. You could identify key industrial sites in advance of the war and basically blow up any capability for a follow up response or armament buildup as soon as war were declared. With enough ICBMs you could overwhelm air defenses; maybe with a swarm approach you could get away with a lot of decoys that are just made of cheap inert material versus the air defenses that have to assume each decoy is active. People think an ICBM only army would just be a huge hammer, but really it would be best used like a robotic surgical scalpel.
> make people put down 25-50% as down payments.

I wonder, though, what percentage of buyers this would affect. Lots of houses are behind purchased now with 100% down.
Whoever made that first line chart should have used step interpolation. There is no point in time when none integer amounts of seconds have been added, but it gives the impression it's been smeared over the whole year
In my circles Intel is a famously awful company to work for.
Exactly. This is something that a lot of comments seem to be missing about this article and Mill's larger point.

Free speech, as Mill views it, always helps individuals better understand why they hold views in the first place as well as why others hold seemingly unsavory views as well. If you want to successfully combat those unsavory views in the political sphere, it is necessary to understand the other side; censoring them pre-emptively is ineffective both for your own understanding and in terms of politically opposing them (see also from the other side: bans on teaching anything related to CRT).

Especially in a democratic country like the US that is highly polarized and divided into very different political geographies, supporting free speech is necessary if you want to understand where the other side is coming from better. (See this article about how both sides, but liberals in particular, misunderstand the other: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...)
You don't even need it on the 2m x 2m area. You just need it illuminating your workspace and/or your face/retinas.

Bonus points if your desk is light enough to reflect the light around you.
Isn’t it reuse?

Reduce - don’t buy another car,
reuse - keep using your car, or buy a used car,
recycle - sell your old car for scrap.
> Society has already decided that these costs are well worth it for the value of living in suburbia

Maybe - I mean I'm not sure that society is really making a choice since there doesn't seem to be any sort of market mechanic to decide what to build. But also you'll notice that houses in dense areas are more expensive than suburban homes so the market has decided that the suburban homes are less valuable. It's also not necessarily a good argument in terms of what we should or should not do.

> It's debatable whether it's the need for a detached house that makes housing unaffordable outside of city cores. Again, the solution is to decentralize.

We are decentralized.

> Great, but they love to select their desired area then try to force changes on existing residents that purchased a home in the area for a suburban feel. That's the concern people have. Nobody would mind if density advocates founded a new jurisdiction to build a place like this.

See point #1. Alternatively if the people who move there "decide as a society" that it should be different then that's an equivalent argument from your perspective.
I remove the wheels, put bags over rotors/calipers and spray mostly everything except the exhaust and body panels.

I don't drill holes in doors or anything like and don't spray inside them.
I'd like to see a deep space version of the Gaia astrometry space telescope.

It measures the parallax shift of stars, and is basically the one reliable way of directly measuring how far away a star is from us. Unfortunately, it's at L2, and therefore has a baseline of 1 AU. Another Gaia way out at 20AU would have capacities no Earth-based telescope could ever have.
When I run into this I like to suggest "lets sketch out the design of the whole system, and then only build the part we need right now". This helps make sure you're not building yourself into a corner, while also letting you focus on just building what you actually need.
I would argue the opposite, actually. The storage model or database layer should be in a single repo. And thus there would be less code to grep through.
Unless you happen to think that reduced car ownership is good for the world!
Everyone is treating this as some idiosyncratic proposal of Facebook's, but removing leap seconds is a mainstream position. Representatives of the US, China, France, and a majority of other countries were in favor of this when it was discussed at the 2015 ITU meeting [1] though the UK and Russia's were not. This has been under discussion since at least the 2003 ITU meeting in Turin.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18855
I think the idea is reducing consumption and it falls under that.
> it doesn't take long - only until 2028 - until "midnight" is sufficiently far from "the middle of the night"

Honestly from my perspective, 3am is the middle of the night (night-morning-afternoon-evening starts at 0-6-12-18 for me) and somewhere between 4 and 5 most people are probably asleep and the date change should occur. I can't count how often I've heard people clarify what 'tomorrow' means when the word is spoken after "midnight" but before going to sleep.

But yeah gotta pick something for the date change, it won't be worth the cost of change now. If we do end up ever switching to something like decimal time, this should be on the todo list though.

And I know "midnight" is historically supposed to be about the sun being the furthest from its zenith rather than in the middle between when you go to sleep and get up, however that occurs somewhere around 1am here (01:41 at its extreme, from July 17 till August 5th). If that's not enough to warrant a redefinition, 27 seconds accumulated since we started counting leap seconds are also not enough to warrant an update yet (following Facebook's logic here).
I've run into this, while searching for a replacement machine screw in fact, and it drove me batty. I ended up just running to a few local hardware stores and then more specialized supply storefronts to solve my problem.

I don't want or need a 'related product' I need exactly this product!
> However, the code was so poorly written that the system would lose data during the double 1 am window that occurs during daylight savings time shift.
> [...]
> Many people in this thread are treating this like some sort of display of incompetence, but if you've ever written code that deeply interacts with time, you'd know how difficult it is to get right.

Your example only speaks for the incompetence argument.

In reality, times and dates are really complicated. Luckily, the engineers at Facebook, Reddit, and Clouflare are being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to show off their expertise. Is it that much to ask for them to read into details like leap seconds?
Yes, and they confirmed it was the same galaxy using spectroscopy: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/035/01G...
It is perhaps a relevant observation that "free market" and "capitalism" don't share a Wikipedia page.
Deterrence is the primary enforcement mechanism. Which is also true for every other type of crime. Again, the US doesn't even clear the majority of its violent crime. The rule of law everywhere is primarily achieved by deterrence rather than perfect enforcement.
But how does the research center around that? What response is seen most strongly at two weeks?
The problem historically is that "using namespace" was undesirable in headers, since it would apply to anything that included them. And with the tendency for modern idiomatic C++ to be heavily templated, many function bodies have to be in the headers.
Currently living in the US (citizen), originally from the Soviet Block, but I used to live in Spain (1 year), South-east Asia (4 years), and Germany (1 year) as well. Have been to other countries as well (Mexico, Dom.Republic, etc.).

From my perspective, Germany is one of the best choices. There are few things that should be in the country you live:

* Laws, police should work (well, to some degree).

* Healthcare should be decent.

* Shouldn't be too cold.

Most of the island/equator countries don't have this option. Once you face a legal issue, you will want to run a country with a law system that, for example, works the different way to locals vs immigrants (like Mexico).

I was thinking about moving from the US to Germany/Netherlands multiple times in the last few years.
In the context of a university classroom... yes?

I support government subsidies (either explicit or through beneficial taxable status) of academic institutions in the hopes that they can create a liberal culture where any and all ideas are open for consideration. If as institutions they don't want to create a place where freedom of thought is paramount, that's fine; but at that point I don't see any particular reason they should be eligible for subsidies.

As for you, you should feel free to attend or not, but I'm not interested in subsidizing you sitting in a classroom but only hearing ideas that never challenge you.
Okay, I watched this video[0] and I'm sold! I'm going to try it out myself, and it seems like my co-workers wouldn't even have to know that I'm using it. Of course, if it works well I'll definitely advocate for it!

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE59cfwWL7M
You did say "vaccines don’t prevent the disease".

How is that different than 0% efficacy?
Totally with you regarding all points you made. I believe in a horrible recession not only in Germany but also Europe lasting for longer than just 2 or 3 years. I also do believe, that the totally overheated housing market will crash very badly, which might open up interesting opportunities, once it happened. Still, all the other problems remained. However, thanks for your thoughts.
I'm guessing you are referring to the new format they released with Chitubox 1.9 that encrypts portions of the layer data. The Chitubox file format has been reverse engineered and their encryption as well. The format is in the CTBEncryptedFile.cs of the UVTools project, and the encryption specifically is handled in the CryptFile mehtod: https://github.com/sn4k3/UVtools/blob/master/UVtools.Core/Fi...

010 Editor templates for both the encrypted CTB and the decrypted CTB are also provided in the repository: https://github.com/sn4k3/UVtools/tree/master/Scripts/010%20E...
I was able to get an eye exam appointment today and just got my eyes dilated so i r probably won't be going to the theater. Oh well.
There is no way you'd had faced formal repercussions for just discussing it in the late 90s. While I can't prove this, I would be stunned if you got much more than a few eye rolls and the like, essentially all in private. It is conceivable that some faculty member may decline writing a letter of recommendation, which could be significant. I am speaking about good Canadian schools and American ivies.

The suppression today involves professionally disasterous public things like firings, censures, formal censorship, pressure to sign petitions, reputational destruction, doxing, physically threatening pressure and screaming and possibly violence, etc. If only it were eye rolls.
Reasons to Not Do a PhD
Thanks for your comments, this is helpful.

I especially like your point about planning for simplicity and making it an explicit design coal. Communicating this clearly to the team seems super important.

As for adding things out of intellectual gratification: This is so true. I've seen this all too often, myself included. Many good engineers are curious by nature, and it can be tough to restrict this curiosity. Maybe it's a question of having different outlets for that sort of creativity, either at work or in private.

If your list is available in some form, I'd be curious to have a look!
There are lots of comments here talking about how living in a single-family home is nicer than a condo, and while I generally agree, it doesn't mean we shouldn't build apartments and condos. A variety of options is good and people look for different things in a living space.

If I was forced to pick between walkable + apartment or house + long commute to anything, I'd do the apartment every single time. Especially since it would likely be cheaper.
if more than half PMs come from tires and dust, I'm not sure
Understandable but I imagine you're not trying to sell your coworkers penis enlargement pills.
Didn't feel like sarcasm to me. I've seen a heck of a lot of people go through this transition, to the point that this tweet is indistinguishable from common opinions.

Sarcasm that's mostly indistinguishable from real opinions is just intentional miscommunication.
I can't imagine people who need accurate timekeeping (like scientists, astronomers and the telecom industry) preferring UTC over TAI. They do however prefer UTC over UT1. UTC was a reasonable compromise in the sense that it's almost TAI, but is close enough to UT1 that you can get all countries on board without much effort. Imagine getting the whole world on board to accept a mysterious device that counts electron transitions, without giving some kind of reassurance that it won't deviate in any relevant way from the timekeeping system they are used to.
I don't think I've ever seen a French film that did NOT have Canal+ in the credits.
We haven't really had a significant recession since 2008. The 2020 was too V-shaped to make anyone change their behavior. It has been 14 years worth of people overextending themselves.

I wonder how its going to look when the coming recession (we're clearly not in one yet, just look at the headline title here) really starts to bite and just as one example the "influencers" who are at the margins see their youtube revenue kneecapped by more tightening by Google and then all the shit they've been buying on credit comes back to haunt them.
Terrific, thank you! I've never seen this, but it's good to know if I ever come across such a device.
In central Florida, there are now entire rent-only single-family home communities. Yes, entire neighborhoods are owned by investors similar to apartment complexes. Apparently, renters will eventually have the right to be able to purchase the home, but until that point they won’t be enjoying any of the benefits of home ownership and in the end it will be costlier to convert that home to ownership, while the developer rakes in the cash. This is a very troubling trend that I believe could be very harmful to the housing market.
because space man bad
I see a lot of these retrospectives from companies that (to a certain degree) failed to live up to their hype. I don’t want to invalidate the sort of lessons you can only learn by living through these hyper scaling phases, but I sometimes wonder if some of the lessons folks learned are potentially why things went wrong?
How can you possibly know how much a country spent on military to conclude they almost never understate their funding?

A perfect reason a country may understate their military spending is to hide their capabilities. For that matter, they may overstate their spending as well.
Lol. Bruh, I'm from "The Bell Curve" era. Yeah, you're gonna have to listen to people you disagree with. And I fully believe this goes both/all ways.
Its practitioners should be used for medical experiments.
Deciding one wants kids later in life after thinking they would not is fairly common. Sterilizing young people means a great number of expected people who will be unable to conceive despite wanting to later on. The statistical expected utility of doing the operation may well be negative. Especially if abortion care is readily available (the fact that it is not is a key point here).

People getting sterilized because they’re afraid of lack of birth control rights and abortions is tragic.
Whoa, you can't break the site guidelines like this - we ban accounts that do that. Would you mind reviewing them and sticking to the rules when posting to HN? We'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it unfortunately looks like you've been doing this for a long time. It doesn't look like we've warned you before, though, and I don't want to ban you without giving you a chance to correct it. Please do correct it though!
I feel like the only thing stopping it is political taboo. If the U.S. actually supplied tactical nukes for the bay of pigs invasion as planned I think we would see nuke only armies today. As it stands the only time it was used in combat was WWII and no one has ripped the bandaid off diplomatically speaking yet using them in another situation.
I know sugar is bad for me, but I ingest it anyway. Why? Because I like the taste. The same for coffee and alcohol. The same goes for every other self-destructive behavior I indulge in.

I like the smell of cigarettes. I never smoked because I knew I'd like it a lot, and would not want to quit. Smokers I know like smoking.

How about you?
What worked well for me was pretty simple: If I got too chuffed with what I completed, I'd meditate for 5-10 mins to ground myself, then look for the next task. If I got really distracted and found myself unable to keep my attention, meditation also helped with that. To keep things on-track, I recommend a meditation app or guided meditations on youtube so you aren't relying on your own burnt-out self-discipline.
My lesson from Clubhouse is that if you want to make social media app then you either need to be lucky or able to enlist tons of celebrities. MySpace, Twitter and Clubhouse are all examples of how they skyrocketed as celebrities pulled in and how then fell to ground as they left the scene. In early hype, it was obvious that founders were able to leverage their connections to celebrities very effectively.
> I got intrigued though, and indeed you can read the thing both ways: an optimization gave a 100% boost, or an oversight missed out a 100% boost.

To note; a 100× speed up is a 9900% boost. A 100% boost is a 2× speed up.