skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How can I work less?
I leetcoded to get a big boy job and now I’m paying the price.

My team runs lean and the work is complicated. As a result, I’ve been working long hours and supplementing my days with stimulants to maintain interest and focus to keep up.

Not only do I end each day with extreme exhaustion, but I do this in a cyclic fashion each day leading to cycles of apathy, depression and excitement. Problematically, I now live like this habitually and sort of forgot how to be a human.

I need to figure out how to feel comfortable working less in ways that don’t mentally feel like it’s impacting my work while also figuring out how to live my life outside of a screen.

Additionally, this makes me very boring at parties.
If you weren’t aware of the orgiastic frenzy over his donations to democrats… I dunno, you been living in a cave this past month?

Posted seven times on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I wonder, if I searched those threads, would I find your alias?
Just desparate apple apologists equating installing your own OS to installing an app.

Would I like to have an unlocked bootloader? Sure. Is having a locked bootloader equivalent to only being allowed to install Apple approved apps? Of course not.
Company A issues 100 stocks and sells each one for $100. Company A has a $10,000 market cap.

Investor X sells a share of Company A to Investor Y for $110. Company A now has a market cap $11,000 because each of their 100 shares are now valued at $110.

Investor Y sells the share of Company A, but can only find a buyer (Investor Z) willing to pay $90. Company A now has a market cap of $9,000 because each of their 100 shares are valued at $90.
How do they "manage" passkeys? There's nothing to manage except your fingerprint/face authentication.
The DEA might be the most useless, money-pit government agency out there.

close competition.
Commodore wanted new C64 drives to be backward compatible with VIC-20 and vice versa. They failed the second goal, and C64 sold ~10x the number of units VIC-20 did making whole exercise pointless.

All to sell more outdated garbage chips made by MOS instead of using proper FDC controller on CPU bus with cheap standard floppy.
There used to be a site dedicated to script-fu which is a scheme like language.

There used to be a registry of scripts, due to the following it was taken down:

> The main problem was maintenance. Every version of gimp more or less required an update of plugin. People would write their plugin, upload it and probably never updated because it was a one off for them.

> Then there was something like X-thousand plugins.

> And then hackers got into it and vandalised the site.

https://old.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/8wye88/why_was_the_re...

Internet Archive : https://web.archive.org/web/20121102092052/http://registry.g...

github archive : https://github.com/pixlsus/registry.gimp.org_static

Lots of manuals out there : https://www.uoxray.uoregon.edu/local/manuals/GUM/write_scrip...
Stock isn't currency. It's an ownership claim on the assets and future profits of the company. If a stock price goes down it means people in aggregate have judged the assets and future profits to not be worth as much as they used to be. No value was lost, the stock still represents the same ownership claim. People just in aggregate changed their prediction for the future of the company.
Against Cannibalism
Can you offer any constructive advice to us engineers, and help us move towards more value-creating contributions? I hear your "disconnected from reality", but I'm not sure what to do about it.
every word you typed sounds true to me, I'm also in same age group and job , social situation etc, i have not figured out everything, but on the social interaction part i can say something, that i observed and trying to do, in school and college i did this unconsciously, so when I was with my friends, i have not necessarily thought i have to engage in conversation or etc, but i would be with my friends silently and talk when some topic i like comes, but as i get older and got into job, i came to a mind set that i have to constantly engage with people verbally, which is the trap for avoiding social interaction and getting lonely, sometimes you don't have to talk when in group, you can just sit there and watch people talk or engage in some imagination , but the being physically present gives some kind of fulfillment, that i did my social interaction for the day,second thing not to do is trying to judge or correct all the time if someone is wrong about something, we can just cross over it and find something common to talk about
Sorry, I don’t have the time or inclination to engage on this. I’m frankly flabbergasted that you think literally every single company in the space is a scam, no exceptions.
Fly is pretty cool whilst free.

Very easy to setup stuff. Would recommend using prepaid credits because there's no capped billing.

Getting closer and closer to heroku deploy and auto config handles everything.
Interesting study. What could the mechanism of action be here?
Show HN: How to start integrating your site with Web3 Smart Contracts
Sorry these people died. But the fight goes on. When the time comes, I'll help in what way I can to fabricate scientific studies that say that fentanyl helps with cancer remission or depression. This is one of the few ways to make it palatable enough for the public to make legal. Pain is insufficient to convince them, but disease often is.

It worked with weed. It worked in some places for shrooms. And it worked for ketamine. With a little bit of faked data, I think we can make it work for more things.
So in a meeting, is this person who is presenting going to copy everything they need from their desktop? If it’s a group meeting will no one else have their computers with them?
Not the OP, but this looks like the definitive resource. Still skimming it myself out of curiosity.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title4/pdf/U...
When I was studying we had to use the computers in uni when presenting homework.

It gets really annoying when you want to sign into $service on those machines, but you need to use a magic link. Because the you need to login into your gmail, which requires an additional 2fa (and you can’t receive sms in a building that has 6 stories but no femto cells).

Unfortunately google requires either their app or SMS. They dropped pure totp for some reason.

Awful experience.
> US businesses willingly shipped their operations to China

Western governments encouraged it! “They’ll want to democratize!”
haha the only ethical alternative is the ActivityPub ecosystem.

If that (Mastodon or other implementations) are not good enough, make your own or get involved with the W3C to standardize AP v2.
You're missing that a large number of people don't go into it "trying to break it"
Valid why? Do you not trust compilers? Is it infeasible to (at least occasionally) run automated tests on cloud instances?
Personally I've been pretty used to quite significant differences between local and production environments - it's rarely an issue, and I don't remember CPU architecture every being one. Things like timezones or firewall restrictions/ network differences (including talking to 3rd party APIs with IP whitelisting) are far more likely to cause problems.
Be nice if they can implant it in a monkey brain without killing the monkey first, though I realize that kind of minor speed bump hasn’t stopped Space Karen in the past.
Chiming in with my anecdote. Took all honors classes throughout high school, so I pretty much never mixed with kids outside of that bubble. Was one of the few Asians in my high school in the small midwestern town, so I'm sure there was potential for bullying. But I wasn't bullied, and I credit some of that to the tiered class system.

This is one reason I'm up in arms about public school districts near me shutting down their gifted programs because they made certain not academically-inclined demographics feel bad about not being represented. So now, kids in my demographic get to feel bad about being bullied.
What's the "problem"?
Steve Brunton has a most righteous youtube channel chocked full of wonderful lectures.

https://www.youtube.com/@Eigensteve
> In a statement to Drive Tesla, a Caltrans spokesperson confirmed the 399 Model 3 sedans are the Rear-Wheel Drive (RWD) variant, putting the value of the purchase at more than $18 million, making the previously unannounced deal the largest known EV fleet order from a US government department at either the federal or state level.

> Government agencies have been criticized at times for buying Tesla vehicles because they are considered “luxury vehicles,” but the purchase was approved by the Department of General Services, and the agency argued that it offers the best value for taxpayers than any other all-electric vehicles.

> Caltrans has reportedly already received the first 236 Model 3 vehicles out of the 399 vehicles it ordered.
Ah yes Twitter - the ultimate credible source.
That's like say "why does cancer happen?" "because your cells will die"

Well obviously that's the most basic reason why but that doesn't help us solve the problem.

How exactly does it cause a loss in revenue? It's very possible the benefits that come from being more open improve the platform for everyone and increase sales. So it's valuable to be very specific on where the costs are.
Subfield Prestige and Gender Inequality Among U.S. Computing Faculty
I guess you have to claw back those billions you are lighting on fire somehow. Solid business plan. What could go wrong.
Firefox has ctrl-tab to do this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-preferences-and-set...
I've used GIMP so much through my life. Krita is pretty good and better with the Wacom stuff, but I just reach for Gimp. Not for any good reason since last time it was unbearably slow on Apple Silicon.
I'm sorry but this has to be the lamest attempt at a comeback i've ever read
“Have solved many similar problems in the past so you can parse these problem statements quickly”

This sounds like an advent of code specific thing. The problem itself is trivial, no need to have solved anything similar in the past, but the description is so verbose (because it’s a cute Santa-related story) that it becomes hard to parse the problem we’re trying to solve, quickly.

I don’t think this is common in any other competitive programming environment.
I bring up DifferentialEquations.jl specifically because it is supposed to be one of the flagship julia packages. When I paste their examples into my repl and get errors or infs where I should get well behaved values, that's their problem, especially when I have the exact version installed that the docs claim to be generated from. I'm not the only one with a similar take that julia has quality control issues, e.g.

https://yuri.is/not-julia/
Usually industries try to self-regulate at first. Sometimes they do an acceptable job, and sometimes they get regulated by outside agencies.
I'd love to but alas I don't have it public. Googling, I found a few other folks like this one:

https://github.com/Limmen/Advent-Of-Code16-Prolog

Don't know if this is "beautiful" prolog but the programs seem pretty short compared to what a typical AoC question is.
Happy, awesome, enormity, sophisticated, egregious, cute, bully, girl, ...

And of course: fast, inflammable, sanction, cleave, dust, bolt, oversight, peruse, table.
(there are 300+ comments and I have only skimmed)
Q: Is there not a single (former) bully who is reading it who can share why they did what they did?
Being a short guy and a motormouth, I got bullied aplenty (perhaps beaten up is the correct word), but I want to believe that it didn't leave any long-term effects. But then I do have a short fuse and I procrastinate like there's always a tomorrow. So maybe, my self-analysis is all wrong.
It's not "big" like climate change or space exploration, but it seems pretty likely that within the next ten years it will become possible to simply write a script and have it rendered into video/audio format, i.e. I write a Rick and Morty script and automatically render an episode with quality and voices similar to the real thing.

This will lead to an explosion in content that dwarfs the present "peak" TV.
it depends.
I'm not much of a tab person, so this is pretty personal. My way to cycle through tabs is `SHFT + ⌘ + [ ]`, or to see the "Tab Overview" with `SHFT + ⌘ + \`.

Honestly, I'm not even aware of the Chrome tab-switching you mentioned, I use the same `SHFT + ⌘ + [ ]` to go between tabs.

I'm more of staying with as little and minimal extensions, plugins, menubar apps, as possible. And learn to use the native commands/shortcuts as possible. Perhaps that is one of the reason.

The project does look nice. Best of luck and have fun while building it.
Probably wanted to scout if you’re on a business trip and more likely to tip. Don’t assume malice…
Very nice, concise, and de-jargoned explanation of how value is “created” and “destroyed” in stock ownership.

Also, here is a relevant Gordon Gekko quote from "Wall Street":

"Money itself isn’t lost or made, it’s simply transferred –- from one perception to another."[1]

[1]: https://amontalenti.com/2011/12/16/wall-street-the-movie-25-...
We have been living a reality where you truly have to worry about your career and safety. This, in a western country where freedom is supposed to be the law of the land. Yet, that isn't reality today at all. Say the wrong thing and your career is over. Or worse.

And, yes, I am sorry to say, the blood is entirely, 100% on the hands of the ideological left.

Anyone who does not think the current status-quo is wrong and seriously detrimental should take a moment to imagine a reality where the right, rather than the left, has that level of dominance and control. That scenario would be just as horrific as the current reality. This isn't good for society, no matter which side has dominance. The public has the right to be well informed with facts and not to be subjected to constitutionally-protected indoctrination.

The problem with the vast majority of the MSM and social media being ideologically one sided is that they create ignorance and false narratives that permeate the population.

A simple example of this is what has been happening at the US southern border. People who only consume leftist MSM/social media material have absolutely no idea whatsoever that over five million people have effectively invaded the US in the last two years. No clue at all. Even beyond that, they have no idea that these people, who, by definition, are unemployed, are not counted in unemployment statistics. Or that a good number of them will likely take entry level jobs away from other --existing-- communities. They have no clue about just how badly this has expanded both human trafficking and the mass entry of dangerous drugs into the country.

The fact that these kinds of things are not covered at all by MSM/social media entities makes for a population that is utterly ignorant of quite a range of realities. When it comes time to vote, this amounts to voter manipulation. If every media outlet constantly lies and manipulates the message, well, you are manipulating votes. This, again, is objectively wrong. Would you like the right to have dominance of the MSM and do the same thing? Likely not. It's wrong.

The press is protected by the US constitution in order for them to inform the people, not lie, indoctrinate and polarize through constant pounding with unified one-sided ideological messaging.
This resonates. I wish it didn't. I'm experimenting with ever more delicate communications to avoid spoiling the soup.
> site should ask for the language used to solve the problem and then use this as semi-scientific data for comparing "time-to-solution" for various languages.

I think this would just show you the average time zone of the language's users.
Fwiw there’s a few recurring formats, the old hands have a bunch of helpers for that and other things. Sometimes there’s something completely bespoke but the most commons are space-separated lines of things, usually ints, commonly fixed-size.
> Sorry these people died. But the fight goes on. When the time comes, I'll help in what way I can to fabricate scientific studies that say that fentanyl helps with cancer remission or depression. This is one of the few ways to make it palatable enough for the public to make legal. Pain is insufficient to convince them, but disease often is.

> It worked with weed. It worked in some places for shrooms. And it worked for ketamine. With a little bit of faked data, I think we can make it work for more things.

Are you out of your mind?

And you have no idea how many lives are being destroyed by easy access to weed. Teens unable to function day-to-day unless they've had some. They only thing they care about is when can they have some more, they schedule their entire lives around it. (I'm aware it's not physically addicting, but it is psychologically addicting.)

I really don't understand what you think you are accomplishing with this.
If you want to experience what using a "safe" language looks like, complete with bounds checking amongst other things, there's the JavaScript ecosystem.

...which has evolved its own, much worse, horrors instead.

Before that, there was Java.

Do not want.
Length not being modified during iteration sure, but not the exact length. It's not possible in the general case to determine the exact length of a Vec at compile time, whereas Rust arrays can never change length so their exact length is know statically (unless you've got a slice, which is different)
Yahoo is still very popular in Japan, especially the Auctions site.
They were involved enough to get their names on a $14M condo in the Bahamas. Will be interesting to learn whose funds paid for it.
Being a good math teacher is just as important as being a good math researcher
It has been 14 months since my wife passed after thirty years of marriage. There is a lot of good advice here. All I can say is things can get better. Grief is a process. Be kind to yourself. Seek out the company others if you can remotely tolerate it. Honor your wife by trying to be healthy and happy. You are not alone in your struggle.
No, the distinction is key in your "One may claim they're just complying with the law of the land". This basic difference between respecting the law and succumbing to autocrat's lawlessness is the entire basis for the apology. Ie. we don't collude with criminal dictators, we are following legal code like we do in the west. (Like there is a law that citizen data must be hosted in country so we have Chinese icloud now or we remove Taiwan flag emoji because it is not recognized.)

And my point was that there is no such law in this case. Apple cannot excuse itself with it. Developers who implemented this feature must consider what they are doing and in the name of what.
On the contrary, wasm is extremely opinionated for an assembly-level language. I mean, starting with the part where it literally doesn't have goto, and "almost every language" like C++, C#, or really anything else that has such a construct on language level has to rewrite it into (sometimes much less efficient) loops, conditionals, and/or duplicated code. Or we could talk about how code and data are strictly separated in memory, so no JIT and no language features that require it.
No idea what you’re talking about. I know several people on doses that worked & hadn’t been changed/increased in a decade that have had their scripts ripped from them. Some killed themselves, others stuck around & spend every day in suicidal misery for their young children.
Interesting, which is hard and which is higher paid?
Emotiv Insight 2 – Advanced Brain Computer Interface
What does “exclusive” mean?

“Exclusive AI products…”
That bit about North Dakota is interesting, and it really seems to undercut your argument here...
Nobody is going to post 150% collateral on a capital expenditure where the delivery can take months/years.

Cryptocurrency is finance as imagined by people who have never bought anything more expensive than a car or house.
yep, emotionally i felt stressed and anxious during work , that i started to notice now, so i put my mobile on a corner and recorded a time-lapse, i seem visually angry or anxious as well,also on a out of work thing, when on family event i was so trying to make sure everything goes right, my friends and relatives pointed out that i seemed angry and cheer up, so my focus mode connected to angry and anxious i think
You're missing the point entirely.

When you're on prem you only have to worry about your own employees opening sketchy PDFs. When you're not, you have to worry about everyone in your supply chain opening sketchy PDFs.

Nevermind the fact that the next time a major world conflict occurs, the big 4 cloud providers will probably be destroyed, taking about 90% of the western economy with it.
I don’t know what you are referring to.
Well explained. A PoC video would make it even better.
I'm currently doing interviews for a senior firmware dev position and was stunned by this. Today I talked to a guy who couldn't tell me what an interrupt was in any technical detail. His coding was worse than a first year college students. 5 of the 6 people I've talked to so far bombed the coding portion.
We decided to retire the whole infra about 8 months ago. A lot of our consul complications happened about 18 months ago.

The consul clusters would keep failing in QA (they were running on t2.nanos – but that should be plenty of bandwidth for raft not to blow up every couple weeks, same happened with t2.micros too).

Before we pulled the plug we had started seeing something about ec2 health checks failing and the autoscaling groups yanking servers out and replacing them with new servers. but this is exactly the kind of case where consul should've just added the new machine right in. Instead, the 3 node cluster (now 2 nodes) would just sit there saying "hey I can't find a leader... aaaah. I can't find a leader" – well, to paraphrase Mike Myers on SNL, TALK AMONGST YUHSELVES and figure it out, there are two of you remaining.
On 1.: Birth rates are stable since about 1990 and declining since 2017: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-births-b...
China had almost 30 million births in 1963, but only had 10 million last year.

The rate of population growth is decreasing much more quickly than expected: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-growth-the-ann...

On 3.: In Germany the share of wind/solar in electricity production is more than 37%. How is this unproven? Supply is getting more stable almost every year: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachthemen/Elektrizitaet... Nobody is shutting off energy. And the EU has subventions for personally owned vehicles trying to increase their usage: https://ecf.com/news-and-events/news/money-bikes-financial-i...
Ask HN: Are there things that Flash did that we still can’t do with today’s web?
As I recall, as of a few years ago, that was the case, ie web apps could not do some of the things Flash was able to do.

But maybe web technologies have advanced recently so that that’s no longer the case.
> It is intensely weird to me that people hold the opinion that their company is building something that is bad for the world, and yet they stay there and continue to help build it.

Facebook is a giant privacy-violating advertising company that demonstrated repeatedly that it was bad for the world long before Meta happened. And yet they attracted a huge amount of great talent who knew going in what FB was. Microsoft did the same thing in the 90s.

People have their own reasons for joining such companies. Maybe it's stability, or the quality of the team, or freedom, or it looks good on a resume, or maybe it's just the money. I'm not going to judge somebody for any of that.

If I had been working at FB I might have tried to transfer to the metaverse team. Even if I had no confidence it would work it would have been much more interesting than that dying social network. And probably less evil, because it will probably die before it gets big enough to matter.
The polar dinosaurs revealing ancient secrets