skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Productivity is said to be "the ratio of a volume measure of output to a volume measure of input".

If workers are getting more and producing the same, how can their productivity not go down?
I work like that. I work fully remote, around 20-25 hours a week but when I start working I do focus on work for 4-5 hours without any breaks, no HN, no social media, no eating, nothing. In every company/team I've worked in, I was almost always seen as the most productive person, while others reported working 40+ hours a week. It can be done if you have proper environment for it.
I am convinced BTC and ETH are both here for the long haul or at least until Fidelity dumps them. That’s when I will know the game is over. Just get ready for the next shitcoin era in about two years. My guess is Elon will roll out crypto tied to Twitter when he’s ready to cash out.
I am no expert on this. But I believe in the case of a buyout, all the outstanding options and RSUs would be automatically vested and exercised. Lockouts wouldn't make any sense now that the company is no longer public.
I never heard that, but in Interstellar a teacher says the moon landing was faked to provoke the Soviet Union into financial ruin.
I wonder if it's related to the EVE Online meme of o7 (ascii salute)
Your father in law sounds like a virtuous man. If he has earned his money, he must have provided goods and services for others. If he does not spend the money, that means he asked for nothing in return. Is that not virtuous?
Ahem, but, since Proton Drive sends the 'web worker' code to my browser, said code can do absolutely anything it (or proton.me, or a hacker, or a government agency, etc) wants! This requires complete trust, so you may as well keep your files unencrypted and transfer with https to avoid in-transit snooping.

According to ProtonMail’s transparency report, the company was given 3,572 requests in 2020 from Swiss courts, more than double the previous year. Yen says the company fought over 700 of the cases in 2020 alone but did not reveal how often they were successful.

Storing data may fall under different laws than email.
My only complaint is that moving one character a long way can be quite awkward with click-drag-drop-click-drag-drop-click-drag-drop. It would be much nicer if you could just drag the whole way then release in one go.
"It helps me stay in my golden cage" is what I tell my GFriend.

I don't give a shit about my job but it allowed me to buy a house, take vacations and sometimes buy an extensive toy.

I would gladly stay in my own world and daydream away, doing some woodworking and see birds in my garden but if I lose my job all that will go away.

So I take my ~3€/day pill and try to do my best. I've lost so many opportunities before getting diagnosed...
I’ve given up on good battery life in Linux. Any time I ask I get the “it’s easy, just do all this ridiculously complex stuff” and then it doesn’t work anyways.

So now my battery is just a UPS. Which is actually kind of nice at times!
Crypto lender Genesis had sought emergency loan of $1B
Most reviews can be done quite quickly. Small changes, test plan is convincing, low potential to break things. Besides, if engineers are good, code is easier to review.
> X is so powerful we really should consider the social benefits ahead of what is part of our existing legal framework.

Laws can be slow to catch up, that's a feature. The legislature and courts exist for a reason. You can argue they're moving so slow it's better to ignore them. But that introduces a very real liability, at least until you can convince a court or elect representatives.
This is tangential to your submission, but PDF is the file format I use for exercising any library that claims to be a declarative file format (ala https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats#readme )
> he was forced to buy it.

No one forced him to sign a binding agreement to buy Twitter. He chose that for himself.

What happened next was he got cold feet when he decided that he didn't like the deal he himself had proposed and agreed to, and then he spent six months trying to back out of it.
It does raise some valid points: does color encoding belong into unicode? should we roll back bold and cursive alphabet unicode sections and relay these to fonts? or should we extend unicode to include horizontal and vertical mirroring of characters?
I think calling me a sweet summer child means you're agreeing with me because that means it wouldn't be hyperbole if I said it.

More seriously though, google is threatening severe damage to someone's professional livelihood here. It's not the biggest threat but it's in the top ten percent. And google is one of the most frustrating entities to deal with period. Combine those and you have a real contender.
You are basing that off of what, exactly? Nothing... They do have recourse under the law, unlike in crypto. And if you hadn't noticed, they kept it on an exchange so they could get interest off of the coins, so what difference would it make to them to store them locally? They aren't trying to hold crypto, they are trying to seek an immediate return.
Expensive, but basically obsolete now, thanks to the M1. I had a 2019 MB Pro (i9, 32 gigs RAM) as a dev machine. It was terrible: fans running constantly, throttling. My M1 Pro machine is soooo much better.
Depends how he spins it and how much he will be able to control narrative.

I guess he will use something like - Twitter was broken before I got in and I could not save it anymore.

Being Elon, I would be more worried about the fact that Saudi's are supposed to be as one of the investors in Twitter and they already have trace of killing people. If Elon won't be able to spin the story as somebody's else problem and instead of it will be presented as his managing failure, well could be interesting.
Slow reviews means that you need to context switch a lot to answer their review suggestions and resubmit the review, that is much worse for productivity than taking a few minutes to go and look through what a teammate is doing now and then.

Alternatively your code review culture doesn't give a lot of suggestions for changes before submission, and that leads to more technical debt which will produce bad results long term.
Ask HN: How do you network as a developer?
I'm returning to the workforce after a sabbatical, and I'm realizing that my professional network is very thin. Former colleagues mostly work at FAANGs where they don't have any pull, or they washed out of the profession and went off the grid. What I've tried:

- online meetups: no opportunity to interact meaningfully with others

- a local hacker space: very few software engineers hang out there, it's mostly semi-retired former manager types not-really-working on impossible unfunded startup ideas

- Rust (IRL, on Reddit, on Discord): shallow community of mostly students and sycophants, actual Rust devs seem to work in isolation or only communicate on Twitter

What else should I try?
What precisely is the virtue you see here? My personal moral code considers hoarding wealthy to be unvirtuous.
ASML looking to finally get ahead of Moore’s Law
YouTube will be the last remaining social media platform because it's the only one that actually makes enough money to stay above water. Every other platform is gonna be gone in the next decade (some probably sooner than others).

The people that care about the content they are hosting on Twitter should request an archive and start figuring out where to go next because one way or another Twitter will have to change in order to make enough money to at least pay the bills for their data centers.
Careful there, you might burst the libertarian-leaning conceit behind the "difference" between libraries & unregulated e-books: if libraries didn't already exist today with centuries of tradition in their foundations, the very suggestion of an institution like them would be met with howls of the inevitable destruction of the written word and bankrupting of our already starved wordsmiths.
There is no sensible reason, except perhaps money. And using it as an attempt to increase funds or raise the low pay levels hasn't worked and won't work. It is likely to be stuck that way until Chrome stops serving plain HTTP at all from the Internet and someone gets a kick in the bum to fix it, after which a few clicks with Cloudflare or other HTTPS front end provider will sort the problem. And possibly even save money due to caching and not passing on much bad traffic.
Okay, I still don't understand if you got the point that filing for bankruptcy in a DE court doesn't mean you get DE bankruptcy law applied.
You don't even need HTML.

e.g. you can build a website in pure SVG without even wrapper HTML docs. (may need a server tweak for directory indexes though).
So is brainfuck. Orders of magnitude simpler, in fact.
I'd say being outcompeted by already thriving local flora. When "planting" they must have made sure that the conditions were optimal for survival (soil condition, no competing crops etc.).
Mighty would have been huge imo if they just waited a bit longer and pivoted to powering browsers inside of mobile VR/AR all day wear devices, like the upcoming Apple visor, where there are basically no resources available to be used for things like figma yet having a fast, scalable browser anywhere would be amazing.
Serverless deserves more than a database
Holmes defrauded many average people who thought they were getting medical tests with accurate results when in fact they were not.
Twitter confirmed that it was an "official company communication." Seems like a pretty open-and-shut case if he tries to renege on the offer.
there is a Perl library that does this, but it only supports pdf 1.5

https://metacpan.org/pod/CAM::PDF

I have used it in the past.
OK let's go, give us your top 3 favs.
>decided to invade Middle East for oil

You mostly had me until this point. Did you know there is more oil in the US than Iraq and Afghanistan combined? Do you have any data on the number of oil rigs set up during the invasion? Who gets this oil by the way? Do you know how many trillions were spent in Afghanistan and Iraq? More than it's GDP of the entire period the US was there. Please provide some source for this claim. If anything, the US would invade a country just to "stretch it's legs" and keep the machine running.
Show HN: How to properly clean your phone and other devices
My understanding is that this is largely because you're fighting an adversarial format provider in Adobe, I've read a few papers and journal entries on file format polyglotting, with some focus on PDF and approaches are constantly shifting in nature due to Adobe mooting pathways to success, I think it's partly for security and also IMO partly for obscurity as PDF is a horrific format in all reality except for human visual interpretation. Many organisations and industries ONLY produce public data via PDF and it makes the parsing of that information a far more difficult task (again, I suspect by design). After trying a few parsing options for PDF, I've come to hate it as a format. Luckily though, some options from a few cloud providers seem to be really hammering the problems complexity down, but the cost of the solutions can be very steep.
The worst fear for me is both. You remain conscious forever even as your body dies and decays.
You basically end up with a bunch of employees who don’t have other options.

Why would employees who do have options voluntarily take on that abuse.
Good equipment... and here I am playing rust with 30 FPS (not exaggerating) and wondering why my KD barely hits 1.
I would be thinking about make ecosystem, where will be something central, may be even distributed for free, and have powerful api, to which hooked modules, which could be fixed price, or subscription.

For about policy, natural for people, to have similar to property. Mean, if you have property for a long time, you will got some additions which not included for new buyer, for example, Scottish property owners got Lord or Lady title, but if one just buy property, will not.

This remember me gamedev. Mean exists title "Game Designer", who mostly spend time in spreadsheets, computing game balance, for example, counting, if some achievement will add +10hp, how much will change gameplay, and even how much money will company pay to players for additional wins.

And yes, I spent lot of time on learn gamedev, we could talk about hire me, or for consulting, or just talk, if you interested.
Resignations over the Thursday "agree to hardcore mode" deadline.

Verge reporter: "Story to be updated soon with more: Am hearing that several “critical” infra engineering teams at Twitter have completely resigned. “You cannot run Twitter without this team,” one current engineer tells me of one such group. Also, Twitter has shut off badge access to its offices."

https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593399683086327808
S.F. audit finds severe problems and missing money at homeless nonprofit
If you're working 8 hours and do at least 4 breaks per day - that's a break every 2 hours. If you do a break you might as well skim through emails and do some reviews. And remember that everything* is Pareto distributed, the review request sizes too. It's really not hard at all.

[*] it's an exaggeration, but close to reality.
I believe you could open a Roth, put dollars in it and buy anything your Roth broker would sell you in that tax protected container.

Exotic offerings are not going to be available to regular people, but if you could get access to bespoke financial product, like some exotic swap or derivative, or something else that would increase in value 1000000% or something else crazy, and you’re all set.

There are specific restrictions to what can go in a Roth, but I think all financial products are allowed.

You can’t put “a lottery ticket” in the IRA and win the lottery with that ticket and have it be tax protected, but only because it’s a physical object like a collectible.

If you do it through stonks though it’s fine the ways the laws are written.
'Love of ones fate'. I interpret it as being more accepting and forgiving of yourself and your life. Sometimes we are our biggest critic.
Yesterday there was a post on HN on ADHD and top comment on dealing with it was something like - 'You know you do not need to be a high-performing individual.' [1] I think that is an example of Amor Fati.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33633512
The irony is that the damage is almost exclusively done by Conservative governments who are traditionally view as more fiscally responsible and more competent at economics, while the left side of politics are often viewed as more ideologically driven.

A similar reversal of roles can be seen in Germany, where the greens economics minister surprised the business community with effective solution oriented "realpolitik" and the free Liberal (a pro business/free market party) finance minister is blocking decisions for purely ideological reasons often against the recommendations of large portions of the business community.
I wish there was a one click way to set this up in my domain registrar. I’d pay a few dollars a year per domain too.
I recently tried pdfplumber [1] to extract tables from (relatively) difficult formatted tables in PDF, and it was a great experience. I can recommend it. Before I ended up using pdfplumber, I tried at least three other PDF packages and they did not work as easily or as expected.

[1]: https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber
Perhaps recall the context of the discussion was "intuitive", which is the anti-definition of RTFM.

Documentation is an admission of failure. - Eric S. Raymond, The Art of Unix Usability (2004)

Secondly, please accept my humblest apologies for a poor choice of proverb; a better one may have been 井底之蛙 whereupon the well in question is Apple-land.
Twitter is bound to have a rocky time after losing so many people so fast. It's going to be a lot harder than it needed to be.

It'll survive, of course, but it's not going to be easy now.
I tried, the first result is Pornhub. What are you expecting?
> ... but you're not going to stop me

Take care making public statements like this if your work is highly attributable / traceable.
It is interesting. Boomers came of age in one of the most prosperous societies ever. And while we can't talk about all those tens of millions of people as one unit, there are major and obvious trends from that generation where they emphasized fear of crime and drugs and sex (just look at the politics), and focused on job and retirement security over most other aspects of life.

I'd have expected them to be a lot more decadent and care free. Maybe it has to do with being raised by a generation that could not be decadent or care free (by and large).
I suggest you read Tim O’Reilly’s “What is Web 2.0” post first [^1]. Most of what you mention hasn’t progressed beyond that. To be clear, Web3 is MBA/“crypto”bro snake oil sold to an audience looking for a quick fix. Don’t fall for the scam. XR, blockchain, decentralization, distributed computing, etc. will continue to progress on their own.

[^1]: https://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.ht...
It is more. Amazon gambled the money and fate of these employees hoping growth in covid will stabilise or might even grow. Now the small bubble of online shopping fiesta is coming to an end they are throwing out these employees as a dead weight, while they were the load bearers in high demand
I used to play in a Z-list bar band that booked gigs through an agency. The agency took a healthy cut off the top of our pay and that stung a bit when the time came to collect the money, but what really ground my gears was that playing any agency show at any agency bar was a three-way contract between the parties (band, agency, bar) with an agreement, renewed each show, that for the following 18 months the band and the bar agreed to only book shows through the agency. Sure, in theory you can wait it out while playing other bars, but does anyone? Nah.

If your band builds enough profile and sticks around long enough, you can always approach bars yourself that you have no history with, and we did actually do shows without the agency at a couple of places that we had never booked through them, it was fine, but involved a lot of hustle on the drummer's part as well. TANSTAAFL.

Now, I'm not actually comparing the above to Ticketmaster's shenanigans. For starters, there is a good argument for the role of the agency, in that every single gig we ever played, we got paid in full, on time, with zero hassle, and I boil that down to the implicit threat of losing access to the agency's bands. A similar dynamic guarantees to the venues that the bands they book will show up on time, play for the required amount of minutes, not be on bad drugs, etc.

Would I prefer that we had split up that extra two hun rather than hand it to those sharks? Sure, but I'm also a wimp and would not be able to do anything about it if some scumbag club owner told me, flanked by his bouncers, that it was a bad night and we can't get paid. It's far from perfect, but they're our sharks too.

But I bring up this very typical contract for a working band to say that it goes way way back through the centuries that the music business (not the industry - the business, as in the promoters, club owners, circus operators, Vaudeville stages, village Inns, etc) has spent literally centuries figuring out how to keep the talent from controlling anything. Opinions about this are fine, but it also means there's always been some reliable work for talented people who just want to provide a service for folks who want to do something involving music, rather than Be An Artist or whatever.

But Ticketmaster, and later the streaming platforms, really amped up that process of predatory contracts to levels previously unseen. I have always been a bit cynical when "artist" type musicians, people who exclusively play their own compositions I mean, complain about their lack of ability to make a living at that; I have a lot more concern about the ability of music teachers and wedding/event/bar bands to make a living with their craft, because they are the ones I consider to be "working" musicians, but even stipulating that, things have clearly turned into a free for all at this point.

We do actually need artists, as annoying as they can get.
Guy invented memes and the YC DAO (a podcast)
The 'i' button brings up the info page, but the words are too large, and the bottom is cut off in my browser (Firefox Nightly on Windows 11). I cannot scroll down to see the rest of the page.

To read it properly, I had to zoom the page (pressing Ctrl + '-' repeatedly).
It allows me (us?) to make conscious change. It didn't fix everything, it allows me to see more than 1 week ahead and make conscious decision to acquire new knowledge and automatism.

I never had a racing heart taking it and it didn't elevate my tension. It allows me to take a nap when I want without those racing thoughts about "life"
Ask HN: CS Master's and non-traditional background. How to get first internship?
I’m a 1st year master’s student in CS at Columbia University looking to intern at a company this summer. I would like to gain industry experience before I graduate as I’d be able to learn what I can improve in terms of my skill set before looking for a full-time position. Before this, I got a bachelor’s in piano performance from Juilliard, the performing arts school in New York City. During undergrad I got interested in programming and learned on my own through things like Harvard CS50 before officially taking CS classes at Columbia through Juilliard’s exchange program.

In terms of my internship search, I’ve applied to 78 internships so far and have done a few online assessments but otherwise haven’t been successful yet. Aside from my classes I’ve been practicing 1 or 2 leetcode questions each day (also following the Blind 75 list). The job market seems particularly tough right now. I’m open to any suggestions or leads. I have a few personal projects on my website: https://rsoeyadi.github.io/projects. Thanks!
Making contributions to the foundation, profitable parts of the business is one of the best ways to be a hotshot.
What do you think of folks who secretly outsource their programming work? It certainly gives them a leg up in the market.
>What I’m hearing from Twitter employees; It looks like roughly 75% of the remaining 3,700ish Twitter employees have not opted to stay after the “hardcore” email.

…

>As we’re all very aware, folks on visas are stuck, so thats who makes up most of the roughly 25% (or less than 1,000….) expected to stay. The actual impact is not yet known — there have been no internal comms about what comes next. We’re nearly 2 hours post deadline.

>Update: Employee’s badge access has been disabled until Monday. It does seem like there will be … not much left of the company by then.

>Something I can now add: 10% of the 3,700ish remaining employees deemed critical were called to a meeting an hour before the 5PM deadline today. The invite was sent around midnight but got cancelled by noon.

https://twitter.com/kyliebytes/status/1593397277837565952
Can you explain more about the focus on hover feature being intentionally missing? I’ve never heard of this.
Yes, we additionally have functions builtin to the runtime that let you evaluate a term before you evaluate it to make sure it doesn't call any "forbidden" functions.

So in our cloud runtime, we blacklist EVERY IO function, then we can in our cloud runtime give you back the ability to do, for example, http requests, but not any other network IO. We won't let you open arbitrary files, but we'll provide ephemeral / persistent block storage through some other runtime ability.

This could also be used to do something like blacklist functions with known security vulnerabilities to catch people that aren't applying their patches!
I mean, he may be finding himself a good reason to repay the Saudis their 44 billion dollars after mismanaging their investment that terribly or he may find himself having an "accident".

This is no threat, just a very real concern that I have for him. That is not the kind of money you blow.