skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think household brands are the exact opposite of where there's been movement: ime, it's concentrated in spaces where there's a need or incentive to dodge moralistic payment processing cartels. The classic example is obviously DNMs, but it is expanding into areas that are legal but difficult to process payments for, like firearm parts or porn. Since those payment processors are, if anything, getting more opinionated, I bet that trend will continue, along with the "I personally disapprove of or do not require the utility provided by the technology, so I will claim it has no utility at all" arguments.
> You're trying to compare Ethereum staking with the Fed's overnight lending.

I don't know how you're drawing that conclusion from my comment.

I am responding to your comment about coinbase and suggesting that they aren't the only product on the market. I also wanted to point out the fact that there are other actually liquid solutions to eth staking.

The coinbase product is more like staking as a service, but centralized, and not recommended.

https://ethereum.org/en/staking/#how-to-stake-your-eth
Wonder how possible it would be to get something similar if you paired a sound engine with a health tracker/automation/ML model?

Am I exercising? Pump up the music, I need jamz! Am I at the store? Play inventory music.
If you don't complete a task today, does it automatically gets moved to tomorrow?
> Hell, I'm sure many Linux users would be willing to pay a premium if all the other aspects are there.

Evidence so far indicates that they do not, when given the chance.
A codebase is a living thing. Inlining a function or splitting it into multiple cases should always be an option, and boolean flags are generally a code smell. I don't see this as an argument against DRY; when the facts change, your code structure needs to change too, but that doesn't mean your original structure was wrong.
You have to be smoking some harsh shit to be letting any exchange hang out with your money longer than the minimum amount of time possible. It's only reason is to exchange worthless crypto for cash into your bank account.
A couple days ago I wrote a new class. Went to write a unit test, it wrote several hundred lines of functioning unit test for me. It's worth it.
Here is a Swedish company making a heat storage system that outputs electricity using a Stirling Engine. They claim 165kWh electrical storage capacity.

https://www.azelio.com/the-solution/technology/
It's been economics and politics for a while. Yeah, HN readers have to pay attention to this but it's more opinionated and less technical than "computer stuff". Maybe it's a sign of economic/political stability vs. technological stagnation? And, of course, layoffs are important to know about due to their effect on the industry as a whole.

News, as well, as the multiple Taylor Swift articles point out. Perhaps the number of vaguely(?) pleasant places to e-chat are decreasing?
> As soon as you interface with other teams, or even hardware that is still in development, you better make sure that everyone is aligned on the critical details before plowing ahead. Otherwise it can get very expensive (in terms of time, money, and motivation) to prototype yourself into a corner.

Even then, writing a prototype is often a quicker and more effective way to flush out disagreement than endless discussion.
Beautinda GmbH
We are digitizing the beauty industry in Europe. Any tips?
To be fair, one of these vendors has also access to undocumented APIs that the others need to discover and reverse engineer to level the playing field:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/10/improving-firefox-responsi...
I think people conflate "being productive" with "work."

The work is simply the contractual agreement between you and your employer. He or it has a notion about how long it's supposed to take, and you do too. And so on your end, you have to be willing to give up a certain amount of freedom in order to stay productive enough for the workplace to want to award you for the time spent in their service, whether that time is productive or not.

On their end, they of course want you to be as productive as possible, but they also know that it's not possible 100% of the time. And so that is the basis for the contract.

Then there are ways around it. Say you can make a hack that'll make you able to complete the job in half that time, or less. Lots of people get paid obscene amounts of money for very little "work" but the value of that work is simply that high, and so that's what they're paid for it.

So instead in thinking in terms of hours or work, I tend to want to think in terms of how much time I need to provide value. And the less time that is, the better - for both parties. They get better value for money, and I get more time to dream up better ways of creating value.
Oh... snap! =)
I usually complain about "thought pieces" that push a product at the end.

But now I realize I like that a lot more than being aware that the article I'm reading is going to push me to take an action (start a discussion with my team) and a probable outcome is "enforce no Co Pilot on company machines".

Sneaky! Good catch. Article should have a disclaimer at the bottom
> On the other hand, if people are spending 30 hours per week messing around on the internet, browsing social media, chatting in social Discords, or other activities that are clearly not work related, that's not normal at all at well managed companies.

It all just depends on how much ambition you have my friend, you too can slack off for 3/4 of your workday if you don't take on more responsibility than you can do in 1/4 of your time lolololol
But... Costco already sells apparel. I buy a lot of clothing there.
I agree with most of what you say, but it still leaves room for efficiency gains if there’s 15 hours a week of meetings and building relationships that could be done in half that time, leaving an entire workday freed up.

I’ve worked on plenty of teams where nebulous “team building” was an entirely enjoyable and majority unnecessary excess way to spend time at work. Loved those teams, but we could have worked a 4 day week, still had a tight team, and gotten just as much done for the business.
To add my anecdata to the pile, if I "live right"[1] and ignore the pressure to work work work, I naturally have about 6hrs "bum on seat" work time per day, give or take. And that's without a commute. Or kids.

I haven't personally noticed being at the computer for 2hrs less a day causing me to be less productive.

What noticably makes me more productive:

- Not feeling exhausted, depressed, shitty, or feeling like I never have time for anything

- Working bum on seat until I feel like I'm not productive, then taking a break (go for a walk, empty the dishwasher) and let my brain solve the problem for me.

- If I really want to get more done and focus, and I have a clear goal, rounds of pomodoros

[1] get enough sleep; exercise each day; cook healthy meals; spend time with my partner; have time to myself; have time to perform daily chores and errands, etc
This used to be handled by having a non-free cafeteria.

The cafeteria will still be cheaper for employees than going out to restaurants, and it will be cheaper than the company picking up the tab for everyone.

It used to be common to make a lunch and bring it to work too.

This recent stuff that tech workers are entitled to a free meal at work or to go spend an hour+ to go to a restaurant for lunch every day is a very new thing.
Nobody holds you from adding as much comments to APL code as you wish. I once wanted to write a parser generator in J, a very incomplete version is here - https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/User:Alex_Mikhailov/Parsing . This is practically text, as you'd expect from a math article, with embedded code which allows computer execution to have those ideas working.
Why are you blaming globalism for this? I'd argue that a lack of globalism is at fault here. Fishing in international waters is a problem that can only be solved by the global community. The problem here is that corporations and monetary interests act globally and always will while governments aren't.
This graph shows it well- https://www.science-climat-energie.be/2021/11/18/la-nature-i...

And the title is a banger too. Nature ignores COP conferences.

Edit: oddly enough, I kept trying to find a source that wasn't climate change denying, but I can't find one!
The last man drafted into the US military was born (I think) in 1953, and retired more than fifteen years ago. Senators sometimes make sweeping statements about universal military service, but the Pentagon doesn't really want the size of army it would get even with a Vietnam-scale draft.

As far as I know, the US military has always accepted foreign nationals.
It's complicated. I would never want to work for 40 hours/wk (honestly 20 is about my limit) in a hierarchy, but I could easily see myself doing more than that in a partnership.

Yes, you get diminishing returns on work if you're working a lot of hours, but you can still get more done per day even if it's not as efficient. Also, constant immersion in a domain causes acceleration/synergies that you don't get with a more "healthy" work-life balance. That being said I think chasing this is never worth it unless you're getting the same share of the loot as everyone else. (Or if you're the one who's disproportionately set up to benefit from the group's success, but I generally consider that to be immoral)
I love this concept. Where is the apparel manufactured? How much transparency / accountability is there re the supply chain?
But sometimes you do, which is why lenders get to charge a premium, to deal with that kind of risk.
Most of these conversations seem to come down to weird definitions of "productive time".

Most of us managers would consider meetings, mentoring, work-related Slack conversations to be productive time. Yet I read a lot of the comments here where people don't consider anything to be productive time unless they're actively writing code, which ignores the realities of working in a team environment.

A better metric might be tracking the amount of non-work time: Time spent on HN, social media, reading news articles, running errands. Again, us managers are realistic that everyone can (and should!) take small breaks throughout the day. However, if those breaks expand to fill 20-30 hours of the supposed 40-hour workweek, something has gone very wrong. That's certainly not normal at any well managed company.
The point being that the monopoly's back has been broken. We're no longer in a situation where there needs to be >100 CAs for market competition purposes; there's now a free, universally available, public service.
No government can do it as easy as Turkish government, in many of the countries they have laws and there are mechanisms to ensure they are followed - if not there are punishments. Turkey does not have laws as for 2022 (they only exists on paper and no one cares). If Turkey does this there won't be any punishment to itself for harming the CA company and any journalist reporting this incident will be thrown to jail, if not killed for exposing Turkish Intelligence secrets.

The probabilities talk. 0.00001% this is happening in Europe (which would ended up with punishment for liable parties) vs. >50% this is happening in Turkey (punishment of journalists for exposing this etc).
Researches find poop-throwing by chimps is a sign of intelligence (2011)
So, there will be an Eugenics War…
The spirit of this is good, but the implementation is garbage - you need a lawyer or team of lawyers to do this right. You grandstand and soapbox in this weakly written paragraph, and it hurts the whole thing. You discuss social rewards, intentions, etc. This just reads like a stallman-esque tirade
> Crypto has to mature now.

"Mature" ~= "lose the decentralized anti-regulation design that was its entire reason for existing in the first place"
Got a list? Just so I know which companies to avoid like the plague.

Sometimes I'll wander round the house and read docs or make notes on my tablet while doing housework, still contributing to future work/planning but definitely would show as 'inactive'.
I still have never EVER seen someone actually buy one of those. I swear they stock the shelves with them and then return them.
Maybe Mars lacks the gravity to hold the sort of atmosphere humans like.
You're probably right, I still think it's neat to hear what my teen and their peers think. My teen is part of the generation that graduated from Musical.ly which they barely remember when I mention it. They grow up fast!
I like the idea, I like the prices I see(all 2 of them), but ultimately the thing with clothes is it's physical. I need to be able to order one and try it on before I know whether this is worth it for me. Let us know when you're actually selling
> They follow from the underlying principle of addressing functions not by their name but by a hash of their normalized syntax tree (ie their code).

The first time the language or compiler changes such that the same code generates a different syntax tree they'd have to do something pretty fancy to avoid rebuilding the world. (That, plus all the usual caveats about what happens when old hash algorithms meet malicious actors from the future.)
I'm in the same boat exactly. Some people are saying they're more productive with it but all I can ask is 'howwww!?'

What's odd is that I'm noticing almost every single report of it being useful is from someone who is anti code licenses. Or rather, not that they're philosophically opposed, but they disregard licenses altogether because it benefits them and they can't be stopped. I've seen so few reports of usefulness coupled with legal or moral skepticism.
The tech industry greatly predates Silicon Valley so saying this is East Coast vs West coast doesn't make any sense.
Interesting. I wonder of they also work closely on the firmware like system76 does.
I agree about the 4 day week. During Covid may company reduced work hours to 32 and we took off Friday. I definitely felt that people were actually working these hours and meetings were way more focused. Overall i don’t think our release schedule got hurt at all by being less hours at work
Employee? Sure, aim to get your workweek as close to 0 hours as possible unless you genuinely love what you are doing, then clamp it at 40.

Startup/founder/significant equity holder? Sorry, no -- at least in the first year or three. Working 50 hours a week vs. 40 can be the difference between success and failure in the first few years of a company. I work anywhere between 40 and 60 hours depending on how critical a looming deadline is. No platitudes about "oh you're more productive < 40" are remotely true. My extra effort has translated directly into dodging many snares that would have screwed us hard. I do however place 60 as my soft limit, beyond that I will pay for it hard after a week or two.

Contrary to the cliches that abound around this topic, I am in good shape, healthy, have a rich-enough social life, and am a great dad.
A team with a background in data analytics, starting a fully hosted browser platform? You don't have to squint too hard to to come to that conclusion.

Although they did claim to keep your browsing data privet: https://www.mightyapp.com/security

Maybe four years ago it was seen as a strong counter to ad/tracker blocking. But now, with increased regulation and consumer resistance they couldn't make that play?
The files start at around 700mb and approach 1.8gb by the end of the series.

I've got 64gb of ram and 10 cores to work with, but it seems single core compression might be in order?
Well, First the auther shouldn't use "Light" font for the main body text. It makes the site unreadable/unusable. The text very light/thin, underline is very thick and dark.

The wholse site uses a lot of unnecessary css/design.
For creative positions I don't see hours/week as a useful metric for anything. Most of my time 'working' is not sitting at my computer typing or whatever.. it's thinking about things while laying in bed while I can't sleep or when sitting on the can or when taking a walk (etc.). Often my subconscious comes up with something while I'm not even thinking about it. So I'm working when playing games or reading as well. Working isn't labor, it isn't something you do. It is all about how much value you create.
This is a very interesting problem - how to be fair to the users in case recurring business costs are zero or negligible.

Can you not support the newest version only? If anyone needs help then they would need to update. Some people could keep-up with subscriptions, other would stay with the outdated software that was good enough for them.

This would mean customers pay larger price once (for a "license" to own app X indefinitely) and then a smaller update fee every month/year (subscription) that is completely voluntary.

Do you have some custom file types or internal data that could have changed between versions and would be hard to migrate if someone decided later they needed support after all?
I'm looking for a library that draws lines and arrows between boxes, but the boxes can generally be plain old div's or iframe's. HTML can do the box content, it's just the lines & arrows that are the hard part. The box connection can be the 8 compass references: N,E,S,W,NE,SE,SW,NW
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The most challenging thing I found at a large tech company was building and maintaining relationships. Grabbing food with coworkers on campus is a cheat code for this. Similarly if I visited a new office, I was guaranteed to be able to do the same thing with partner teams.
> Significant enough that if the license is GPL (which some has been) it will "taint" the entire codebase and license it under GPL. Significant enough to be found by automated OSS audit tools, which would trigger a re-write and education for the developer who committed it.

That "significant enough [...] to taint the entire codebase" remains to be decided in court.
And the number of projects that I have seen follow them is fewer than the number of projects that just seem to wing it. Which is my point... perhaps this standard is superficial and unnecessary, and maybe we should discard it.

IETF/whoever can write whatever they want, I only care about what I actually encounter. That's "standardization"

edit- All those nice looking checkboxes depend on the individual implementation. It's a nice concept but how many projects have actually implemented it to the conventions about idempotency/etc shown?

edit2- who is for-GET anyway? A random github link doesn't have much more worth than a random Medium link
Cortlands get mushy and flavorless quickly, even if refrigerated, and so are bad supermarket apples. But I'd rather have one straight off the tree than any of their top rated apples.
Maybe instead of that sentence, if you really like them and would like to see them again, tell them you would like to see them again sometimes?
All human rights group are fake after they criticize your side. It is the rule right???
That would be my idea, store the files in git and then backup the whole git repository.
It's interesting you mention Zotero, I use Zotero all the time especially for university work. It has similar functionality in that it saves webpages. Is there any overlap with Singlefile? Or might the integrate?
Time to go back to BBS. Or teletext.
I know you're being sarcastic but what you said is true. USD is currently the best currency on stability, usage, acceptance, etc.
This is epic, thank you for sharing
>What started as a way to anonymously pay for illegal services on the dark net, morphed into a Ponzi scheme aimed at low IQ tech bros.

That was never the point of Bitcoin. Read the whitepaper. Satoshi wanted to decentralize trust in the ecommerce world with the help of transparent P2P decentralized and distributed database called blockchain and he wanted to enable micropayments. There is no mention of buying drugs or any other illicit activities in the whitepaper.
How is it nonsense when we have a concrete example (Assange) that proves it’s true?

You can criticize the government but if you air their Real dirty laundry you’re going down.
MoMA Installation Marks Breakthrough for AI Art
what town in MA are you? I'm in Shutesbury, and we're building a new library in the coming years. would be great to do this, and have an example to base from.
> linux is super easy to fix yourself

You just have to recompile the kernal.
In the handful of CS:GO/Apex competition videos I watched, none featured such extreme arm movements. I also asked my hardcore gaming teen nephew if he "arm aims" and he was not familiar at all. His exact reply was "you mean aim with your whole arm lol?"
The point is that gold is useful, crypto-coins are not.
It's amazing how snappy computers from the mid-90s actually are.

https://plaintextsports.com/
Oh it seems that people accepted that and thought Blockchain is the new technology and here we are...
Except by venomous snakes.
>CPU: We gave users a 16 core machine just for their browser, but it turns out that the web is largely limited by single core performance (think JS, layout, html parsing, etc).

I'm pretty sure that javascript being largely single-threaded was well known knowledge since day 1. Did they not know this? Did they think that mulit-threaded javascript was just around the corner?
I have to agree that Cosmic Crisp was unfairly ranked here. I did a blind tasting of ten apple varietals with 14 friends and Cosmic Crisp was the winner.
>My fear is that if you’re being productive 20 hours and unproductive 20 hours a week and the work week is reduced, how do we know you won’t just end up being productive 10 hours and unproductive 20.

Unless you are a cashier or some other customer service position, the time you spend working should be matter very little compared to your output.

If you a job that takes you 20 hours, you can either do it in 20 hours and get a huge chunk of your life back, or you can do it in 40 hours and spend a lot of time chatting with your coworkers making them unproductive.

It's up to management to understand how much time it takes to complete tasks and to staff accordingly.
Is it, or is it that you aren't a professional poet? (no offence[1]). I imagine a poet trying to program something non-trivial and wondering how the IT guys get it just flowing off their fingers. Poetry done well takes skill, time and experience which maybe you don't have yet.

The pros do something I love and it seems like magic the way it comes out, but then, they do a very different job

Green upon the flooded Avon shone the after-storm-wet-sky
Quick the struggling withy branches let the leaves of Autumn fly
And a star shone over Bristol, wonderfully far and high.

- John Betjeman

rest at http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/art...

[1] maybe you are?
Scrum also has the sprint planning and retrospective phases in between the sprints. Many teams also take time to do "backlog refinement" as a second-order sprint planning process.

My scrum trainer said, with full conviction, "I've never seen a retrospective done well that took less than four hours."

Nobody does Scrum. Everybody just does the part where you have a defined list of tasks for a sprint and burn it down until you get close enough to zero before the next sprint starts. It's called "scrum-but."
I am sure those companies won't pop on your radar but they will for Indians and other foreigners that want to earn average US salary in their own countries. And yes, you should completely avoid them, they have typically terrible reviews and treat devs as machines.

I know one UK dev who took a job in one of those, moved there from some hotel booking company, earned $200k, lasted almost 2 years and then got unceremoniously sacked right when one of his close family members passed away due to missing required metrics.
Not to mention illegal in the EU.