skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming you're a programmer working on software, the best way I've found to keep focus is to set up your development environment such that a) it's full screen on a big monitor without any other apps or notifications and b) the feedback loops are as tight and automated as they can be - as soon as you hit save, automatically run the tests associated with that portion of the code. This has the effect of "gamifying" the software development process - every change is filled with the anticipation of how the test will respond. I haven't measured such things but other commenters mention dopamine and I suspect that a tighter development feedback loops produce more of it, allowing you to keep focus.

More generally, I've found that blocking off calendar time for "deep work" is effective if you commit to a plan for each time block. Before starting, I define what I'm trying to do and what the outcome would look like if successful. The first step is always to write a test that measures success in that context - it does not have to be a unit test or even something that you commit, can just be a simple curl command or bash script or a "I hit refresh in my browser and I see the image". Then I iterate until the test passes or time is up (generally because there are bigger issues)

And finally don't be afraid to engage in social media or games or other distractions - but do it in a mindful way. I use time in between deep work sessions to chat with friends, browse HN, write long rambling comments on HN, etc. You have to allow yourself idle time but keep it well and truly separated from deep work.
Illiquid but solvent
Perhaps, though we would need to do that long before the turn of the century. People just don't want to believe how little time there is left to stop catastrophic global warming.
This is what I thought the undo redo quandary would be. The fact that you can undo an undo seems like tablestakes to me.
Right, okay. That makes more sense now. Thanks!
I respectfully disagree. There is no "inherent" fairness for salary in my experience (older in my mid 40's). For example if you feel you are underpaid and deserve 15K more per year... make your case. If you have a reasonable case to be made (others make this for salary for the same job ... or I am worth it because) then make it. If they don't offer anything then perhaps you do work for a crappy company and should consider another job.

However the idea that everyone should be paid the same for the same position is just not how the world works.

Here is a personal example. Long time ago I worked at a bank.. I did simple teller operations and some loan document processing. My co-worker did the same job. However when it came to number of transactions processed and number of loan documents processed I literally was twice as productive. So should we be paid the same since its technically the same position? Or do I have a valid case to be made that I am worth more? Would my coworker have a valid reason to be upset that I make more?

Another example in my IT career, In general I get things done quickly and am easy to work with. There are people in this profession that sometimes lack social skills and can just be difficult to work with. Is my ability to easily work with others and get things done quicker (technical skill and people skills) worth more to my employer than say someone in my same "position" who is hard to work with..add hurdles to get things done... etc.
An indication that it might be ADHD is if you struggle to focus on the things you genuinely want to be focusing on. Not like “I should be studying” but like “I want to play this new game I bought.”
Very little as a percentage of all the professional content that’s in the world.

And the value of IP without execution capability is overrated. Warner also has iconic content. But Disney has been able to make successful movies out of its 3rd tier IP while Warner has struggled with its first tier.

Sony isn’t doing too well with most of its Marvel content except Spider-Man and that’s produced by Disney.
It's funny how differently people can read things, and how different contexts color our impressions.

On most topics, this community mostly values pursuing personal curiosity even if it's not for a larger purpose. We never know where we will find larger purposes, after all! And following interest and desire is generally a valued habit.

I didn't get the impression they were a rando "cutting someone up for fun" (note "someone"). I did get the impression they were a rando who wanted to know more about the human body, with a particular interest in the nervous system likely from a career in AI/ML. Note how the author has a better appreciation for the effects of disease, for the effects of exercise, and how they had intuitional leaps around brain structure and its applicability to ML as well as nascent intuition around the importance of social systems to evolution.

Personally I'm really glad that these opportunities exist. Most bodies become ash or sit rotting unnaturally slowly. This is a better use, even for lay people with idle curiosity.
I clicked through to this thread to ensure someone linked that.
The caveat here is you want to be highly valued. If low pay alone is an advantage, the company is in big trouble.
>The whole matter cannot be resolved in any way other than victims taking action to oust predators

Sure it can. It means dismissing all MPs and everyone potentially implicated from politics.

>which doesn't happen for many reasons

Which doesn't happen for personal reasons. Clearly the women in question prefer to risk a small chance of sexual violence over potential career implications. For their personal consideration it is clearly the right choice, avoid the people in question and almost certainly you will be fine.

But what is missing here is that these people hold very significant amounts of power and responsibility. Without a doubt their duty as politicians is first and foremost towards a functional government.
If this sort of thing interests you and you're in the UK, there's a show in the next couple of weeks called My Dead Body where a woman narrates her own dissection (through recordings and ML-based voice recreation): https://www.channel4.com/press/news/channel-4-announces-movi... .. apparently the woman was the first (identifiable) person in the UK to donate their body for "public display".
> If you exercise, we’ll know. Their insides just look different.

I've seen some video footage of minimally invasive operations (during a dies academicus lecture) and OMG fat was just so ugly. I know it is a natural part of us but when I saw that footage I promised myself to do more sports.

Or IDK what they were referring to.
There's tons of "unused space" in every city every day - hotel ballrooms, conference centers, even unrented offices.

It would have been interesting if WeWork had aimed at utilizing that unused space - a hotel that didn't rent Salon G could set it with some tables and power in desk form, alert WeWork it was available the night before, and if you wanted a desk it could point you to it.

The hotel gets some revenue for a room that would have sat empty, you get a desk to sit at.
Random but CRISPR babies are going to sweep the Olympics in 2040

China and Russia have to be fiddling with it at this point and it will either be completely undetectable or un-bannable in competition by then.
My immediate thought was a more useful list would be “Books recommended by repeatedly profitable founders”.
This advisory will be about as effective as all the other prior attempts to get the message across.
Michael Crichton opens his book Travels with a pretty detailed description of dissecting the head of a cadaver.
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I've create a Hugo blog Template used to create a Hugo blog quickly:

https://github.com/openpress/easy-hugo-blog
I read "Start Small, Stay Small" back in 2011 and it helped me set realistic expectations. It helped me create a long term vision for my product with the expectation that it may always just be a side project and that was okay. I've been running it for 11 years now and while it's not a full-time job, it's a nice sustainable side business that keeps chugging along even if I have to ignore it from time to time.
Innovative by mathcore(TIL this is a genre tbh) standards. Frankly I'd think GP is spot on, even though I love Vocaloid songs.
Of course emacs implements it as just a long linked list.
Hunt for secret nuclear weapon tests revealed most violent explosions ever
Made in Japan is an awesome read. The books recommended in this article are more relevant as they are from bootstrapped founders.
SDG is basically dead afaik ... It still works, but is left to rot away. Signup does not really work anymore and I had to contact the admin to get my new account activated.
All the trends I've read recently put us to going to no higher than 3 degrees of warming. The trends that put us toward over 3 degrees of warming were made around the time period of ~2010 when the trends were much worse than they turned out to be over the 2010s.

3 degrees is very bad, but it's quite survivable. We can of course always do better. But right now I'm quite happy with the direction things are going and the current trends but still push for trying to do more where we can.
I wish VS Code would expand on that feature, coming from IntelliJ. It's really annoying that you need to type the name of the file you want to see the local history of, even when it's the currently active file in the editor. There should be a sidebar widget for it that's active for whatever the current file is.

The cool thing with IntelliJ is if you accidentally deleted a file you can just touch a blank version of the file and the history comes back. Not sure if VS Code does that yet.
FTX Files for Bankruptcy Protections in US
Loyalty would not require enlistment contracts that generally last eight years as an active duty member, a reservist, or individual ready reservist — which if broken might result in jail time. Just imagine how “loyal” employees, marriages, etc would be if there only choice was to sign similar contracts.

As for the battlefield, there is not duty to country, only those you’re in direct line of command with. Better hope they never break the law, since if they do, you report them, you will end up dead if you’re in active combat.

The “drilling” you referred to is more comparable to brain washing than loyalty bound to reasoning.

Yes, loyalty is an idle frequently never found, but to call someone loyal because they signed a contract or because they know what will happen if the report those willfully breaking the law, to me is not loyalty.

In US, military within recent past had to literally and repeatedly remind all the military that their duty was to the country, not an idealogy or person — which would not have been done if the military truly was loyal, trusted itself, etc.
Thanks for sharing these details. I've visited some places specifically marketed as "rescues" in my area (such as the Raptor Center in Charlotte, NC), but didn't realize some zoos have the same standards without explicitly promoting it.
Are there really states that pay higher taxes than federal? In California, a high tax state, it was nowhere close.
This sort of topic does not interest me, but I clicked, and to my surprise I gulped the article. This is one of the most interesting posts I've read on HN, ever. Awesome writeup, I love the POV of a non-expert in the field!
He literally says why at the top of the post. People find it too complicated.
It does not look like the sun. For one the center is dark. Literally the opposite of what the sun signifies. Never seen sunrays resembling screwdrivers and half going one way and half the other either. And that is the moon? Even after knowing it was astronomial society I wouldnt have guessed it was the moon. I have never ever thought of the moon as a black spot.
Who would this be for? It feels very introductory but haskell is unlikely to be one of your first programming languages[1]?

The same author wrote a very popular book about category theory that introduces Haskell in a way i’d think most developers would find more tractable.

[1] there’s exceptions of course, at UofG they threw Haskell at us right after Ada back in at the turn of the millennium. That’s an interesting trajectory for course design, first lang is ada and second is haskell
> Except backing your payment, it really doesn't.

I think this is the point I was trying to make as well. Obviously this service has value, but not because of cryptocurrency, which was the matter of discussion
This is still an acyclic node graph, it's just implemented as a tree.
Didn't find it in the list, but I heard it from Patrick Collison: The Dream Machine

"The story of the man who instigated the work that led to the internet—and shifted our understanding of what computers could be."

https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine-M-Mitchell-Waldrop/dp/1...

High confidence that most HN users will like the story. The book gave me a sense of purpose and belonging in the 'computer industry'. Software and the internet were already magical to me. After reading the Dream Machine, even more so.

Learning about computing pioneers' vision for what could be has kept me motivated to learn and one day contribute to humanity's greatest endeavor.
Yes, I know I am in the minority but I do admire politicians. When you work with them, you realise the skill-sets you need to become an elected representative. Imagine CEOs who have to manage not thousands or tens of thousands, but millions of people (in populous countries like India and China). You need to command respect from the people, know how to deal with people of varying personalities, you need to know when to follow and when to lead, you need to have the ability to identify potential leaders and teach them to lead, you have to watch out for backstabbers and political opponents, you need to be clear about your self-interests and other people's interest, you have need to know how to negotiate between various power brokers etc. Most of us cynically mock them and even despise some of them, but it really is not easy to be one.
This should be a two way advocacy. Advocate for the employees to the company. Advocate for the company to the employees. When they align in the middle they'll both succeed.
Braid is a video game with time travel as a core mechanic
Thank you very much for this, I too despise the shorts interface with a passion, I have been manually frobanzing the url back to the desktop page for a while now, while i have been meaning to investigate what it would take to do a bookmark or user script(easier than I thought) I never got around to it.

salutes
Not me but my wife. Will just put this out there for anyone else, the advancements made in Cancer treatment in the past few years are impressive. Don't lose hope.

Also, listen to your doctors as all of the sudden everyone is oncologist. Listen to your doctors, seek second opinions, do research but question everything as there is a lot of snake oil for sale.
There are definitely organizations within the US government developing software that need to be convinced.
It's a bound on inaccuracy from assumptions made about communication delays? I believe a protocol like NTP assumes delays are symmetric, and uses half the round trip time. There's no guarantee that delays are symmetric or repeatable, though.
>Anytime the government does anything, it is not to help you or me.

This is a Regan Republican era talking point. Government is supposed to work for the people but for the last 40 years it has been used as a boogieman to push agendas which are actively not in the interest of the people.

In the US much harm has been done by under staffing and purposely slashing budgets of organizations that benefit the people. The amplification of "government doesn't help" comes from those regulated by the government. OSHA enforcing safe working environments? "Government meddling in my business driving my costs up!" IRS auditing, catching tax cheats, and closing loopholes? "Government stealing my hard earned profits!" Look at the attacks on the EPA since they are trying to protect vulnerable waterways that property developers want exploit and manufactures want to dump into.

So let's fund and staff the FTC and let it go after all of them. We need government in our corner going after the Banks, Big Tech, Oil, Commercial Agriculture, Pharma, etc.

The narrative needs to change so we aren't dealing with these issues in a reactive way.
The original Markdown spec is very clear that HTML is allowed. So MD itself is absolutely a superset of HTML

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html

But in practice people mostly use MD variants, such as the "GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec" which may have some limits on HTML usage

https://github.github.com/gfm/#html-blocks
They do organize the worlds data. They organize it to best ensure that advertisements displayed next to the data are the most likely to affect the user on the site. They organize it at the request of corporations and governments. They organize it to be addictive, flashy, entertaining, divisive, and time consuming.
I think that most problems being caused by VC cash would disappear if the interest rates would stay above 2%.

Is pretty hard to keep Uber, Netflix, WeWork, etc. afloat if the VC cash was so cheap to VCs.
In regards to alternative Youtube clients. Not sure if it fits your requirements but I've used MiniTube which is pretty decent: https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube
> I could be mistake but isn’t a site like Pinboard largely static.

Not if you want to make AND operations with tags (which is crucial functionality for bookmarking).
I also dislike users that think that the home page is the subscriptions page, and complaining that they are missing videos (go to the subscriptions page!).

But I have personally seen on my own account videos from channels I follow that weren't displayed on the subscriptions page, and I noticed because they were displayed on the home page.
I've had this discussion countless times and maybe we've got the same problem in just not thinking in budgets.

Then again I've often thought that I simply don't need a budget for X if my spending on X (as analyzed over a year, or five) is so much below of what I would put as a budget if you'd asked me to guess one.

Example: If I like buying music, I'd maybe give myself a budget of 30€ for music per month, that's 2 albums. Looking at how many albums I actually buy in a typical year, or in an excessive year - I've never even come close to buying 24 albums in a year. So that thought process might have happened once, 10 years ago and until I start to earn a lot less or albums get a lot more expensive, I'll just buy as many albums as I want, and usually end up with 5-10 per year.
I know I'm missing something here, but I still see the option to sort by upload date. This shows me the most recently posted results.

There are other granular options for upload date, like last hour, today, etc.

I'm about as far as you can get from an apologist for these folks, but what am I missing?
Wll, it's a tree that is collapsed into an array - which makes it an array to all intents and purposes.

The point is that the "tree-ness" is never exposed to the user. This is the problem OP is claiming to have solved - the cognitive burden that the tree solution introduces.
Sure.
The difference to any other workplace is that these people have significant power over millions.

Millions benefit from having a functional government, is this more or less important than a few political careers.
https://archive.ph/oJTJN
No, you need to use the dedicated youtube music app (on mobile) or webpage (web / desktop).
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I love the salary transparency. Realized I was underpaid/underleveled and increased my salary over 60% in a year. It was a brutal grind but now I’m a good place. I see other job postings and know I’m being paid fairly, so I don’t worry about it.
Thai people also move from Thailand to Korea. But it's not because conditions are any better. In fact, probably worse. It's just because they have family at home and the Korean currency is much stronger. Primarily due to massive state interventions to support export oriented businesses. And the US currency is very strong since it is the global reserve currency.

There are many reasons for people to move countries for work, and they are not clear indicators of better relative pay or conditions, necessarily.

I don't know about Germany so I can't say what the situation is there, but the flow of migrant workers is a very unconvincing form of argument.
rustc has been successfully subjected to diverse-double-compilation (https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/) via mrustc at various points in its history, which plausibly rules out trusting-trust attacks for those versions.
> If they do not find relationships / friendships there, where and when will they?

Because of the plitical climate. Very few people would be inclined to pursure romantic relationships with coworkers. Meanwhile people at the same coworking space is a fair game. I am speaking from my own experience. The bad thing is it also becomes like high school. Because there's no HR policy to keep people in check.
Sticky Fingers have a great take too.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=N3zMmc8UG2g
It depends on who "we" is. This sort of endorsement will likely speed adoption in larger organizations.
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Semi-related: What I really wish all my editors and IDEs would have is some kind of "delete history" view into my deleted text (especially blocks of text).

I'll often delete something, then work for a while, then realize I need that thing back again so I have to VERY carefully undo everything after the delete until I get to a point in history before it, copy the deleted text, then re-do everything back to my original state while making sure not to accidentally execute any inputs which would burn down the redo stack.
On a related note, I would like to strongly recommend Jacob Geller's YouTube essay "What's the Point of Taking Apart a Body" [0]. It uses video games for the main examples, but goes quite deep in multiple directions in search of deeper meaning. I found it to be very poignant.

[0] https://youtu.be/ohco3PB6eBw
After a small amount of Googling I've found that a "self-custody" wallet app could provide enough user friendliness. What are some good wallets that allow exporting the private key? e.g. The Coinbase wallet app provides a recovery phrase to recover the private keys through the app, but what happens when the Coinbase app stops working? Ideally a wallet should provide an option to export the raw key (with all of the consequences of course ...)
>Tell me which retail brokerages lost their customers assets because they gambled them away?

Banks are required to keep a percentage of deposits in risk free assets as part of the Basel Accord[1].

Banks were marking risky assets such as Super Senior tranches of CDO's as risk free when, guess what, they were actually super risky. When the value of those tranches dropped, the banks lost tons of value and all of the sudden couldn't cover their debts because they were gambling with what should have been cash.

So to answer your question: all of the banks (who were dealing in CDO's) did this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_III#US_version_of_the_Ba...
Braid is a game about time travel.

This is not like Braid at all, since the game works by "overwriting" your past actions (with a few other mechanics).

The Braid editor would be like "Normal" undo except a ghost cursor continues to make the edits you just undid. Would be a hilarious April fool's feature.
FTX Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, SBF Steps Down as CEO