skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work four days in my current role and will continue doing so in my next one. I don't have much choice in the matter so I always raise it at the earliest opportunity and have even added it to my CV to make sure I don't waste anybody's time.

I've found the majority of the companies I've spoken to over the last few years (in the UK) have been open to me working 4 days a week but I've also had the frustrating experiencing of being told this isn't an option after interviewing successfully.

At the moment people with my experience are in huge demand so having this leverage must be a big help and I'm happy to take advantage of it while it lasts.
How to Stop Wasting Your Life – Carl Jung as Therapist [video]
It's not hard to use that waiting/traveling time productively though (which might include zoning out etc.).
Much harder to use driving time productively. Self driving cars will obviously change that equation, and I expect will make cars more attractive for many uses.
Everyone I know they had gotten a plasma TV had it die within just a couple years. The article says burn-in became less of an issue, but I'd never seen one that didn't have a burn-in problem. Even if that problem was solved, the public sentiment was that they were heavy, expensive, and unreliable.
It's not like the average taxi driver was rolling in cash either. There are plenty of hidden fees with leasing a cab and medallions as well. I have little sympathy for taxi industry because half the time they try to hustle me.
We made the change company-wide a few months ago. No reduction in pay, employees are able to choose their 32-hour schedule based on their needs. Some people take off Mondays, some Fridays, some work 5 days but shorter hours. We're just expected to coordinate with our coworkers which has worked out fine so far.

As someone who has historically worked long hours, I wasn't expecting to enjoy the change so much. It will be very hard to move back if/when I move companies in the future.
I have negotiated a four day week twice. I would recommend a four day week to anyone who can afford it. Don't forget that because of tax bands the effective pay cut is less than 20%.

The first time I just straight up asked my boss in a conversation and with a request in writing. I said I was unhappy in my life in general and wanted more time to spend on other things than work. There is legislation in the UK that means that employers must consider these requests and reply with an answer and explanation in a fixed time frame. They accepted and I worked it for about 4 months before other circumstances meant I had to relocate and leave that company.

The job I moved to was a start-up. After a string of executive resignations and engineering team redundancies I was left as the most experienced team member. I had another job offer in hand that I didn't really want but took it to the only remaining senior lead and asked for 4 days (at full pay this time) or I'd leave. They accepted in an informal way rather than modify my contract in this case and just called it "taking a day off when you need it". I would not recommend accepting this in general as it puts you in a vulnerable position for being punished for doing what you thought was the agreed deal. In any case, working 4 days at this job was a disaster because the company was such a mess and I had so little support that I spent my day off and my weekends obsessing about work unhealthily. I ultimately went back to 5 days in a more senior role to try to help right the ship but couldn't take the stress then either so ended up leaving.

I'm now at 5 days again. If I stick my new job out I plan to request 4 days after my probation period ends.

The decision for an employer comes down to retention - do they want to keep you enough to accept 4 days instead of the risk of you leaving? So if you have a manager who can understand your value and represent that to internal decision makers then that's the main key.
Do you have any sources for those exorbitant claims?
FTA:

Even the best plasma TVs could only reach just over 100 nits of peak brightness in a 10% window test.
Evidence is not proof, it is evidence. It is still valuable because it can guide the way to experiments that give us empirical proof, or refutation of the conjecture.
> I think we can all agree this is not a problem in Finland.

Schools in Finland are starting to have problems trying to recruit enough teachers:

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12555574

https://www.aamulehti.fi/pirkanmaa/art-2000009014541.html
> Ok, so what gives you reason to think subsidisation (or even just recognition) of non-traditional marriages is going to damage your culture at all?

Traditional nuclear family is a tenant of many cultures, including the one I have a feeling of belonging to. Also, the amount of propaganda and censorship which is needed to push these things is quite worrying.

> I actually thought marriage itself was likely to die as an institution

That's unlikely, at the very least because of Lindy effect [1]. In the traditional sense, it is under attack though.

> something close to 70% support now

First, these things are measured by polls, and the outcome of course depends on how do you ask the question. Do you think you'd get the same outcome if it was phrased as "subsidising" instead of "the right to marry"? Plus, how much propaganda and censorship did that take? Are people free to make fun of these things or harshly criticise them without fear of "consequences"?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
What books about such topic have you read so far?
The two are not mutually exclusive; you can pay less for healthcare than other countries, and still get a bad deal.

Eg: It's currently almost impossible to get routine or early-stage healthcare. If I want a routine doctor's appointment, I have to phone every day at 8am when the next batch of appointments are released, and hope I get one. Last time, it took hours on hold, and attempts over several days, to get one.
In the greater scheme of things, you’re probably right. On the other hand, 2019 was the last “normal” year we will experience for a very long time. That doesn’t feel good.
But they plan to make money from selling the stocks, not from actual dividends.
> After Covid-19 pandemic upended supply chains, American companies are shifting jobs and processes to the U.S.

Let's not be naive. This has nothing to do with these being "American companies" and they want to bring jobs back to the US. This is a business decision, often enabled by Crony Capitalism. Nothing more. Nothing less. Borders and nationality don't play a legit role in this song.
Taking magnesium (like in Calm) knocks me the F-out.
That's interesting because sunlight is also something I imagine a lot of doctors (certainly a dermatologist) will recommend avoiding. Do you wear sunscreen?
Yeah, I always convert DVJU to PDF (pretty easy) but it never compresses quite as nicely.

DJVU is pretty clever in how it uses a mask layer for more efficient compression, and as far as I know, converting to PDF is always done "dumb" -- flattening the DJVU file into a single image and then encoding that image traditionally in PDF.

I wonder if it's possible to create a "lossless" DJVU to PDF converter, or something close to it, if the PDF primitives allow it? I'm not sure if they do, if the "mask layer" can be efficiently reproduced in PDF.
you know, CSS is a thing

change it to something more readable
Or using an Oracle style AS OF query:

https://oracle-base.com/articles/10g/flashback-query-10g
In NYC "summer Fridays" were a thing where some 9-5 jobs gave Fridays off for a couple months. Back in 2005-2010 I worked at a magazine that did that until my boss was like, wait, if we can put out the magazine in four days for a few months, we can do it in four all year. No one objected, and thus began the best job I ever had. Managing editor for a 4-day-a-week magazine.
Currently working 35 hours a week, in a unionized job with banked time starting at 36h (1:1), (2:1 at 40+ hrs), 4 weeks vacation & unlimited sick days up to a point(6 per year I hear...), meaning I can take a day off whenever I'm too tired/sick. Due to the negotiated conditions, it's also really not advantageous for the employer to force us to be on call or have us do any amount of OT. Thus the workload is really stable. In a way I now have too much free time.

It's been a bliss overall on my work/life balance. I've never been that healthy and my stress level has never been so low in my life. I know I'll live longer and once I am more stable financially, I'll be able to have time to contribute to my community.

The salaries are also quite good. I highly encourage people to unionize, it is the only way to get proper leverage in this highly inequitable period we live in.

The union we have is small and consists exclusively of people with at minimum university degrees. Most of them have some form of life accomplishments due to the hiring process also. Due to the conditions negotiated, the well provisioned pension fund and general job advantages, most people coming in are experienced (5+ years) except for some amount of diversity/equity hires (which the company kinda needed since everyone stays there until retirement...).

Thus, the union is well organized to have leverage, well structured and reasonable with whom they should defend when there is abuse on the side of the employer. People are mostly diligent in their work obligations.

There is some rare exceptions, some employees with too much mastery of transferring issues to others. Frankly, I've seen the same or worst in Big Corpo, mostly in middle management, the only difference here is some employees do it instead of the managers...
I do this for a living. A lot of people think it's wrong to automate other people's jobs because they will get laid off. What really happens is usually that their job changes from data entry into exceptions handling.
The savings isn't labor, it's throughput, giving the company an edge over competitors and in many cases that prevents the company from going under, there by saving a lot of people's jobs and creating revenue that can be used for promotions and raises.
If that's unlikely where you're working, leave. The only reason companies that behave poorly can continue to do so is because you're helping them.
Finally, as for profit, the heart of your question, the way this goes is pretty simple. You arrange to introduce a third party who has a solution for something. The third party, joins you and boss for a sales meeting, which you will arrange. Like a good human being, you will admit shamelessly that you have a stake in said third party. This is a lot more common than you think and no one is going to be surprised by it.
Good hunting.
Iron is really a touchy one to get right, as its easy to go overboard. Good thing you know you have low iron, but if you're not sure a blood test can illuminate if a problem is there - a good "talk to your doctor first" supp.
Not sure how this is relevant. The more automation, the more free time, the more people are able to be social.
Does Go not have more than one Map implementation in the standard library?
I have successfully contributed *thousands* of patches to many large projects. I don't need help.

And as is very typical you are concentrating on the wrong thing. I am not important.

The bugs that ruby users are experiencing *today* are important. If I die tomorrow that's not going to change.
But how different, really? Bach still has a lot of relevance in the present day. Try out Paul Simon's "American Tune". Based on a Bach chorale.
It's super easy to convert a DJVU file to PDF though. There's an increase in filesize but it's not the end of the world.

And since you're creating the PDF yourself seems like you can trust it? Since nothing malicious could survive the DJVU to PDF conversion since it's just "dumb" bitmap-based.
>However, public TV didn’t get the better end of this deal which is my concern as it demonstrates the obvious loophole.

Why do you consider it a loophole? It seems like a clear win win in retrospect? They got decades of high quality licensed programing that they wanted.

Why do you think they didnt get the better end of the deal, or at least a good deal? Maybe they could have payed more for more rights, but that doesn't account for other shows where full rights are worthless. Should PBS have done the same for every show they contracted with where the IP ended up worthless?

Companies don't acquire every vendor or contractor they work with for good reason. There is a reason that Netflix or HBO dont buy perpetual IP to everything they air. You dont know what will be a winner or loser, so you pay less and license opposed to buy.

It is easy to armchair past decisions with future knowledge, but those making the decision didn't have that knowledge. You and I should have invested in apple, google, amazon, tesla, ect for pennies. however, we would be broke if we invested in every company that could be worth something.
The Guardian is ok but it doesn’t have the staff for real investigative journalism or long form. There’s a reason why the big breaks journalists got in the last decade or so were whistleblowers delivering them data dumps, not journalists following up a story - Flat Earth News talks about this - newspaper staff has been gutted to the point where that sort of thing doesn’t exist anymore.

And without that staff, The Guardian can’t do proper investigations on london real estate’s connection with major money laundering for instance.

Indepedent like someone else pointed out is owned by a Russian oligarch. BBC doesn’t have the mandate to do investigative deep journalism, they can only do reports or documentaries - but that BBC can’t break a major story or investigate anything of political importance because that would jeopardise their “apolitical” position.

This leaves the right wing media, which is the majority in the UK (opposite to the US, in the UK the right wing dominate the media) and they manufacture and manipulate the stories into seemingly-real controversies that are actually just a cover for them to get some law or change passed in Westminster. Read the book “Fake Law” - the way the Mail/Times/Telegraph have distorted even simple judicial cases into something they could use to get popular support for whatever their owners wanted is profoundly disturbing.
Is there a website that lists a collection of all the times people complain about having their face eaten like this by App Store Review?

I’ve thought about this from time to time and thought it might be a fun pastime to create a collection of these.
We were talking about 1990. 1994 was much, much different. Not that that isn't also interesting.
As with most things, "because money"
I think you may have to admit there's not enough data to really come to any conclusion. But if you at least feel better, that's good!
Reflection as in they are both saying "There's a lot of people out there saying crazy stuff, what should we do to counter that?", but it seems likely to me that the crazy stuff we have now is a direct result of what this memo inspired, and that is partly because the memo itself is crazy, and all the people on campuses complaining about the environment that it's complaining about were right.
Ah sorry I didn’t state that clearly — calling the function From SQL (rather than C/FFI) is frowned upon I think
That might be even worse (or just as bad) for users, as now they won't see any updates to the underlying data set even if they want to, and will presumbaly need to perform some explicit action to get a new snapshot.

Personally, if you care about users not missing any item in a query, you just can't use pagination at all, and you have to give them every item in the query in a single huge dump (running the query again would be the "explicit action" mentioned above that gets the user new data). Conversely, if you use pagination, users are free to assume that they might miss some items unless they already expect the underlying data to be immutable.
The site in SF is closing because the reality is nothing like the social engineering utopia you describe.

Every service offered has only resulted in increased use, increased homelessness.

Safe injection will increase drug use, destroy communities, increase crime.
Well sure, ignoring the problem is always an option.
I had a hunch that may have been the case but I was hoping it wasn't that simple.
GP didn’t say that the world is terrible because it is comparatively worse than it used to be, that would be a different statement. “Terrible” is not an objectively quantifiable adjective subject to factual policing.

For example, one person can say “The world is terrible because fascism is on the rise in many countries.” Another person pointing out that polio infection rates are very low does not cancel out the first statement. Everybody gets to have a subjective opinion!
Some great points on the other aspects of religion! I specifically focused on metaphysical belief here, because that's one of the few things that separates religious communities from other communities. E.g. (as another poster pointed out) the military has many of the religious aspects you mentioned above.

I also think the idea that Buddhism and Hinduism aren't belief-oriented is itself a Western misconception. Both have intricate pantheons and a wealth of mythology. Zen Buddhism is probably the only exception here.
Also https://upvotetracker.com/

Gives a few more variables, and the different sample times show a different set of transient effects.
A friend on mine quit his FAANG job, took a one year sabbatical, and went back on the job market. He found a remote-only job at a boutique bank in NYC, negotiated his compensation, and then told them he'd only accept the offer if it was 4 days instead of 5 at the same salary. They accepted without any pushback. He totally loves his 3-day weekends.
CS SYD – How to deal with money in software
Yeah, this is a deal breaker. While technically the key order doesn’t matter, in the real world it really does matter. People have to read this stuff. People have to be able to differentiate between actual changes and stuff moving around just because. Luckily it’s a solved problem and you can write marshalers that preserve order, but it’s extra work and generally specific to an encoding format. It would be nice to have ordered maps in the base library as an option.
Part of the Supervision package, including Supervised Release for Supervised Petty Theft. It's like Newsom is doing this because he bet someone that he could.
Before about 1800, when the world didn't have billions of people?
And who knows how shitty it really did feel for most people throughout history, when they had little else to compare against.
What's funny is that it's not a secret that alcohol isn't good for you; we shouldn't need a WHOOP to tell us the obvious. But here we are.
What commercial compressor/performance are you talking about?

AFAIK the best compression you see is monochrome pages encoded in Group4, which for example ImageMagick will do which is open source, and ocrmypdf happily works on top of.

Otherwise it's just your choice of using underlying JPG, PNG, or JPEG 2000, and up to you to set your desired lossy compression ratio.
What was the rationale for publicly-traded companies again? Because it sounds like having publicly-traded companies make things worse for the companies themselves and for society in general.
To be honest - none. I'm going to assume there are many out there and was hoping to discover what people think are the best. I would prefer to focus on the top 3 that are most beneficial.
Oh boy. Music theory, as such, has no "rules," and so of course Bach did not invent them. Music theory is a descriptive enterprise, which aims to make sense of music as composed/performed/enacted by humans. (I have a PhD in music theory.)

Bach's chorales were functional music for the Lutheran church, and to the extent that they form any sort of "rules" in music theory, it comes from the fact that they have been used to teach harmony for a long time (since at least the 1940s, as evidenced by this article). The reason for that isn't so much that they're prime examples of Western common-practice harmony, but rather that they have a homogeneous texture that's easy to use in classrooms, because they're easy for one person to play at the piano or for students to sing.

Recent music theory pedagogy has largely been moving away from the reliance on Bach chorales to teach harmony, especially as music theory has taken a broader perspective on what music we should be studying anyway. Studying the Bach chorales is just fine if you want to know about how Bach used harmony, but there's a whole lot of music in the world, and there's no meaningful sense in which Bach's music intrinsically defines a set of rules any more than Mozart's or Clara Schumann's or AC/DC's or Meredith Monk's defines a set of rules.
If kids were learning high school math just fine 50 years ago (and, as far as I know, they were), then that suggests that advances in pedagogy are either not forthcoming, entirely irrelevant, or overwhelmed by other factors.
The global smartphone market is irrelevant, since the majority of global non-Apple purchases are cheap, one-time hardware purchases with low margin and no long tail revenue. Apple absolutely dominates the market in revenue (~65%) generated on those devices (which is recurring and high margin). They control the only roads that matter, and they only have 1 real competitor in Android. That's not a competitive market by any metric I am aware of.

Additionally, they have and continue to enforce regulatory authority on their platforms, which is the role of government, not a private company. It's anticompetitive for a massive private enterprise like Apple (or Google) to arbitrarily use its' distribution platform to control the economic fortunes of the companies built on that platform.
>> In other words, the hallmark of a religious mind is a smaller ego.

> Is it?

This quote is a bit out of context--it's a summary of William James' position. Later on I refute and expand on that position, saying that religion also leads to extreme egotism. Which I think coheres with your other points.
Well, our regular ICE rental car (2020 Hyundai Elantra) got stolen, likely using a low tech viral method [0]. We went back to the rental company and they wouldn't replace the stolen car until we had a police report. We needed a car, and the options at the airport where we rented were limited. We could get a pickup truck or a model 3 for about the same price. We opted for the model 3 to try it out. There was only one supercharger in the area, but it was close to our hotel, so it wasn't bad. I'd been wanting to try a Tesla, so despite the crappy circumstances, it seemed like a silver lining.

[0] https://www.today.com/news/news/kia-hyundai-vehicle-theft-in...
Your day is 8 hours long and includes 5 hours of meetings, 1 hour which is composed of duties and and maybe 30 to 45 mins for lunch. You've now got 1.5 hours to make "small adjustments" to the 4 classes you teach. Also, maybe you need to do some grading, deal with unruly kids, document what you did for those kids with IEPs, field emails, and adjustments for whatever latest fad the school admin is applying to the curriculum.
The problem isn't the technology, it's the cost. Given a far larger budget, you wouldn't run the hard drives at anywhere near capacity, in order to gain a read speed advantage by running a ton in parallel. That'll let you read 20 TB in a hour if you can afford it. Put it this way; Netflix is able to do 4k video and that's far more intensive.
> It's triggering for some people to be told that they are wrong, even if the person who said it doesn't actually know them specifically, wasn't thinking about them as individuals when they wrote the blog, and has no idea that they exist.

...and, of course, when they're not actually wrong.

> No shit, buddy, I wrote it, who else's opinion would it be?

Okay, if OP can have an opinion that "Your Makefiles are wrong", then I can have an opinion that " Your article is wrong". Fair?
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