skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many more bike stations than truck depots. You could conceivably swap batteries multiple times during a 12h shift without having to make detours. And if you know there's going to be a lot of plowing, you could place batteries throughout the city ahead of time. Heavy storms rarely show up without warning signs. Elsewhere I suggested stockpiling batteries from other non-essential vehicles, so you don't need excessive redundant capacity that sits idle 95% of the year. That's why repurposing bike stations could help: you're not stuck with a lot of infrastructure that is needed only 5% of the year.
When I asked what difference my caloric intake would make you responded:

> Yeah if your eating 3k calories a day as an average height person it does invalidate what your saying. If your eating 1800 to 2k calories a day and still are obese then id consider what your saying.

So I guess that was just a complete non-sequitur?

I'm not going to try eating 1lb of anything for obvious reasons, but I can tell you from experience if I fill up on greens I'll be hungry again in an hour. And I don't really care for greens. Constantly snacking on food I don't enjoy doesn't meet my definition of "easy". In fact it'd take a lot of discipline (wait isn't that what I said about maintaining my weight at the beginning?), and would be quite difficult. I believe it works for you though, because, surprise surprise, different people are different and have different experiences in life.
60 sec segments with 30 sec overlap window seems to work quite well for me but YMMV
he talked about starting mondays and ending fridays, but the analysis is counting weekends. strip those away and the numbers are way off. he also talked about doing a weekly review for each book, not something you can keep up if reading one of the books takes you over a month (21d per op, over weekdays)
Does your appetite not adjust to your intake?

I did a “dirty bulk” while working at Trader Joe’s in my 20s. At the beginning I could barely eat one frozen mac and cheese. A month of heavy eating later and I could easily finish 2 and still feel hungry.

Im older now so I don’t eat like that anymore, but it is still very noticeable to me how easily I get full when I am dieting hard.
Were those not-gmails free or paid services?
No surprise about that and was all expected as soon as Stable Diffusion, DALL-E and ChatGPT were unleashed into the wild.

We already have seen plenty of AI grifters on HN creating clones and copies of AI SaaS and bot offerings with almost no use case on top of ChatGPT with the AI bros selling their snake-oil as "the future" and AI totally replacing everyone's jobs almost just like the extreme crypto maximalists screaming about their utopia of replacing the banking system with crypto coins.

It is another grift for the AI bros, with OpenAI and Microsoft being the winners and can easily gate-keep and price out the majority of these grifter jumping on the bandwagon late, unless Stable Diffusion drives everything down to zero by releasing a better model for free.

But the truth is both crypto and AI are here to stay no matter the grifters and the opportunists. The inevitability on both of these technologies is that the laws will catch up with them eventually.
I think that's more than reasonable to assume. I set a goal of a book a week, knowing that some will take longer some shorter. Same when planning projects for the year.

Why not assume the most reasonable thing? I think the dude even said in his initial tweet: "I'll keep adjusting the list".
This runs contrary to my firsthand experience. Have been disappointed by Amazon engineers who couldn't solve simple level-1 problems in an interview. I know there are smart people there. Somewhere. Else.

One time the candidate had a bunch of video games out in plain view (Switch and Xbox, IIRC). Apparently couldn't be bothered to put them away for the remote interview. They proceeded to flail and scored a zero on every question. What are people thinking in these scenarios? -_-
I don't disagree. Which is why I labeled it a conspiracy theory. ;) But I totally wouldn't be shocked to see it in a tell-all someday either.
Do you mean specifically studying literature (in this case the books themselves, and their authors/period etc.) or trying to acquire knowledge from a scientific work?

In any case, I don't think that rushing the process is helpful, it might depends on individual factors.

I used to read very quickly as a teen, a trick to impress friends or to skim through boring books. I did not find it enjoyable, at all.

The nicest part about reading (for me) is the thinking part, when I stop reading and reflect on an interesting/surprising idea, taking the time to write mental or literal notes.
Agreed, although as far as grifters go he's far from the worst one. But getting worse lately and fairly rapidly.

The biggest mystery in the universe: how does he pull all these guests?
Or...the strongest survive. Amazon being one of the strongest, obviously. That is, and MBAs thinking longer term would know, it's not a downturn. It's opportunity. Opportunity to come out the otherside even strong.

Jeff is saying "save your money." Amazon is saying "we're cutting." It's self-fulfilling. And once it's over Amazon rein will be even further solidified.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRMpNA86e8Q
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738
Thanks! I will say though, people should give up sometimes. I gave up on a bunch of the other projects I started that time, and there's an argument that I should have given up on Preceden too and found an easier business to start.

On that happy note, I wish you all the best with Sqwok. May growth come easier to your business than it has to Preceden.
I know what you mean. My doctor prescribed Naltrexone. The first day I took it I ate half my dinner and felt full for the first time in my life. As a middle-aged man I had never had that feeling before. Previously I assumed what people meant by feeling full is that you felt like you literally can't eat anymore.

Unfortunately that stopped working for me after a few months. Hopefully this one will work better.
What is a set point not influenced by? The way you framed it, it seems to take everything into account. In that case, why wouldn't "your current weight" not just be your set point?
I think those two are related, but survivorship bias seems more random.
I can't imagine it being anything else in that year. That must have been a struggle-bus of a UI to work with for something this laborious, though.
Bro Ive been on some "business is business, it's strictly financial..." energy with employers since day zero. I pity the fool that never took a financial relationship for anything more than what it is.
Your browser is running locally on your own network. These comments are out of touch with the reality of web and native apps of the last decade
I abandoned newsboat the day it introduced the first Rust dependency and switched to the Android app Feeder.

Some just prefer simple and minimalist software for their daily life, and there's no place for the Rust ecosystem there. For this reason projects like dwm, st, dmenu, bspwm, sxcs, sxhkd, nsxiv, xmenu, xplugd, fzy, nnn, xbanish, scdoc and many others will never be rewritten in Rust or adopted by users who strive for simplicity rather than colorful terminal output. memory safety is just not worth it.

Judging by this list [0] even Python or Go have more chances to align with the philosophy that encourages building simple yet functional things. And I hope this trend of fresh starts continues.

[0] https://suckless.org/rocks/
> Ex-russians, who (or whose parents) left Russia, seem to have some kind of romantic connection to the country, they have never been to (or been there when they were young, thus "sun was shinning brighter, grass was greener, trees were taller, and the ice-cream was tastier"). They read old russian classic literature, watch soviet movies, and imagine the better Russia it really is not.

Is is bad though? Not forgetting your roots is a good thing. Nothing wrong with being proud of your heritage.
That isn't the way a business works. There is no intrinsic value to "staff", positive or negative. The value comes from the way staff (or any other resources) is utilized. Building twice as many widgets by building and staffing a second factory could have a huge negative value if there is no demand for twice as many widgets in the market, for example.
Somehow soothing to know that organizations small and large, legal and illegal, all suffer from something getting in the way of vital security information reaching those who would act on it.
I have an M1 now and it is glorious but back when I had the MBA with the butterfly keys, someone pointed me to https://github.com/aahung/Unshaky and it helped eliminate 99% of the double-typing or ghost keys. You will have to tweak the ms until you find the right number that fits your typing speed but once you get it all setup, the butterfly keyboard will become much more tolerable.

Or.. you could just swap it for an M1. :)
Yes — specifically the ones who gunned down Antonio Mays Jr near Amazon HQ.
You're saying rushing. But where is the rush here? An hour a half a day. That leaves more than enough time to stop and reflect and go for a walk and write notes.
geekhack.org
This is what I was thinking. Someone needs to introduce the OP author to a tiling window manager.
That's not how things used to be.

Some of my younger colleagues can't even tell me the name of what they're listening to, because they only encountered it in passing and can't say "Oh yes, that song by Bill Withers is amazing..." because they just listened to it as background.
In most large businesses the most significant work is done by 20% or less of the workforce (I work for a fortune 100 company).

Too often the team size is a proxy for how successful an entrepreneur is. Although I’m not a fan of the solo entrepreneur/ build in public fad, there is a lot of merit to starting with one or two and only adding great people to the team when needed.

And I think entrepreneurs overweight their indicators for when more people are needed to continue scaling. A business can usually continue scaling by refining processes and building or buying better support and tooling software.
That doesn’t feel like a rigorous argument that it is “emotional” to me though.

A musician can improvise a song that sounds sad, and their brain would be firing with sadness-related musical information, but that doesn’t mean they are feeling the emotion “sad” while doing it.

I don’t think we gain much at all from trying to attach human labels to these machines. If anything it clouds people’s judgements and will result in mismatched mental models.
They are unrelated things. The lindy effect says the future lifespan is proportional to how long it’s been around already (The Bible writings have been around 2000 years, so it will probably be around for another 2000 years). Survivorship bias is saying that things that survive are representative of the whole sample (saying the The Brothers Karamazov was typical for literature of that period without other evidence would be an example of survivorship bias).
It's coming along!
One of the better decisions of microsoft was to say we are just going to use openssh instead of trying to invent their own client, well done.
That makes you part of the precipitate.
Very neat! I also worked on something that uses GPT-3 for reverse engineering last week. The basic idea is that right now GPT-3 is limited in how much context it can see at once. So instead, to summarize a function in context, I use the call graph to find all of its dependencies, and summarize them one by one, providing the summaries of the callees when summarizing the caller:

https://github.com/moyix/gpt-wpre
Realise that you will never experience being dead. The same way that you didn’t experience anything before being born. So there is nothing to fear. Appreciate that you are one in billions of unborn people that get to experience life! So enjoy it and don’t waste time worrying about things you can’t change anyway.
How does it work with indices? Don’t you need to setup each combination?
If staff produces less value than they cost, then they get cut.
Two older and interesting studies:

Urine streams aerosolize bacteria present in the toilet; sitting understandably causes more exposure than standing. A custom foam covering the interior surfaces is effective at negating the splash effect (though it presumably needs reapplication after a flush).
https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1375...

A recent literature review https://ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jam...

This mentions a paper by Yahya 1992 https://www.jstor.org/stable/44535384 which examines use of surfactants (soaps) in flush water, and finds them to be effective. Seems to be more useful than disinfectants like chlorine.
> Switching of trolley buses at intersections is not really all that well solved of a problem as is

Like the parent comment said, it would be a hybrid able to use battery power when not on the line. With this type of system you could then just run parallel lines instead of criss-crossing lines.
Could you elaborate on Sapiens' anti-human bent? I was going to get around to starting it soon.
I'm a new grad in Seattle, most of my tech friends are at Amazon. I hope they keep their positions.
I understand you’re trying to dismiss a CFO sponsoring the murder of Antonio Mays Jr and working to rebuild systemic racism with name calling.

I think that shows a lack of morals on your part.
They were wasting resources not because the technology didn't make sense but because the business model didn't make sense. There was no way they were going to get distribution when Android was also free and had revenue share to boot.
Example: Former Uber Executive Sentenced To 18 Months In Jail For Trade Secret Theft From Google https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-uber-executive-s...

> Anthony Scott Levandowski pleaded guilty and was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for trade secret theft related to Google’s self-driving car program, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and John F. Bennett, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Levandowski was also ordered to pay a $95,000 fine and $756,499.22 in restitution.
I started at Amazon in 2001 when we had around 400 servers running the website, it was large, but it was around the scale that most Fortune 500 companies operate at.

I'll agree that a team of developers with 20 microservices sounds obviously wrong (which is really my point that the site should be divided around data and the orgs should probably reflect the needs of the data--not the other way around). And Amazon back then didn't have that problem.
I started buying stock with my first real job.
> Too many people are convinced that everyone has the same subjective experiences of hunger and craving, but it's simply not the case. Some people implicitly hold this idea because it's a convenient ideology that allows people to morally congratulate themselves for having a functioning satiety circuit.

As someone who's always been thin and doesn't have a strong appetite, I couldn't agree more. I'm just enough outside the norm yo be able to recognize it.

There are times when I simply can't force myself to finish my food and it goes to waste, but the upside is that many people assume that people in my body fat range are somehow virtuous for not "overeating". That's not the case at all - I don't eat particularly healthy, don't have any particular exercise routine beyond walking, and I don't limit myself. I just get full quickly and have a metabolism that burns what I eat.
That doesn’t sound like a rigorous definition of emotion to me at all.
His original tweet he explicitly said "Start on Monday, done by Sunday"
People feel really uncomfortable sitting down to have a meal with someone who isn't eating.
> I also find it really sad that a lot of the small teams who are on the road to success get distracted by applying "best practices" that were built for big teams (e.g. Google uses kubernetes, we should too).

Totally. It takes some experience and maturity to be confident enough to resist the big business “best” practices. That, or a very intuitive entrepreneur
I didn't say anything about genetics, though I wouldn't be surprised if that plays a part. Might be how you were raised. Might be simply your cumulative life path leaving you in a particular state. Might be toxins in the environment. It doesn't matter; in the existing present, people have wildly different responses to food and diet.

As for your actual question, it depends on the particular thing we're talking about. For obesity, we've tried telling people to do more hard work and discipline, and it's been a spectacular failure. Plenty of people who do work hard and have incredible discipline in other areas of their life fail when it comes to getting to a normal BMI. There are large subjectivities involved, but when I got down to a 22 BMI at one point via the hard work and discipline route, I was constantly overwhelmed with thoughts of food, literally every waking second; this was despite trying and adhering to probably a half dozen different diets. Most people able to maintain a constant 22 BMI don't experience this.

This also is more common in our current society, for whatever reason (likely not genes, since we're close enough to our grandparents), than it was historically. This isn't some natural state of affairs we live in.

So, bring on the drugs! If there are ones that help other things with minimal side effects, bring them on too. Everyone wins, because we end up with a better, happier, more productive society.
Was this meant to be posted publicly? :D

archived: https://archive.ph/F6All
This and the posted article mention a speaker or driver. No mention of how they deal with aging or fatique effects in e.g. a flexible ring connecting to the frame and holding the cone. Have done applications where a special "high cycles" acoustic driver had to be sourced.
Strictly superior? Dunno, not sure I'd call depending on some additional authentication widget that has a battery that dies every year or so strictly superior.

Doubly so when it's temperature sensitive, so most likely to strand you when you are very cold. If given the choice I'd rather have something that works for the life of the car instead of depending on a battery powered dongle.
Similar but not the same concept. Lindy is that age predicts life expectancy for non-perishable items. Survivorship bias has nothing to do with the future.

I could have used survivorship bias in that post and lost little, but the implication is that Dostoyevsky is highly likely to have more staying power than a randomly selected novel published 142 years later.
No company has the slightest clue what the economic environment will look like in 3 years, much less 5.
A plea for culinary modernism (2001) [pdf]
I feel you on restarting Dostoevsky, was using an audiobook and a list of characters at hand to reference and it still took me six times to get started with The Brothers K, without concentration the sounds would go into my head with no comprehension. IIRC there are way too many times where the author refers to different characters with the same title, like father and son are both Prince so hearing someone speak the parts differently helps a bit. I also have to pause when French is used to translate bits or do a lookup on the text with Gutenberg and translate it.
Scrolled around and decided to try the TikTok app. It’s perfectly functional but immediately pops up asking to install the native app for the “full experience”.

The first popup was dismissible, so I kept swiping. Within two videos the same popup was back and it was not dismissible.

Companies intentionally cripple the web experience.
I like how even on a site like HN people are just like yeah whatever.
Be an employer people don’t want to leave. Same logic as they enjoy.
Where would a Roman run? To somewhere in Gaul?

"Ave! Auxilium requiro."

"Oxnychz navar werun dosh? [laughs in extinct language]"

"Quid?"
I'm not saying attach the overheads to the light poles, I'm saying we do things of similar scale/difficulty all the time (while we are very far from at-scale battery based transport).

Batteries are fun and all, but they are way harder to deal with vs. anything you described; they're just earlier in the development curve, so the problems seem more solvable.
This is a wonderful observation.

When I was a kid my dad said "companies won't think twice about dumping you, don't worry about dumping them."

But he worked in the same place for forty years. Sometimes he was treated well, sometimes he wasn't.

It occurs to me what a relic that world is but also how it sounded bizarre when my dad said that to me in the early 00s. At that time there were still "lifers" all over that place. Or people who spent 10-20 years working up in the same company.

That's all gone now. Everything is more ephemeral, more disposable. I'm not sure if it's a good thing but I'm pretty sure signing up to be a "company man" wasn't, either.
It's hard to neatly elucidate, but what I find really strange for this ostensibly highfalutin mass-market enlightening text about the essence of humanity, is that it's been written by someone who absolutely hates the human race, and that comes across quite clearly if you read between the lines. Avoid it. There's better books and you already likely know much of the content.
So it works by reducing hunger? Bit obvious if you eat less than 1kcal per day you will lose weight.

The article mentions "along with some lifestyle changes". Is what they mean?

Every animal will engorge itself given the chance. All that is happening is the great abundance of cheap food and less activity. Thats it - except maybe for a tiny minority with metabolism / hormone issues.
Isn't getting PIP'd and then fired not, "bare minimum to not get fired" though?

Sounds like those folks are doing much less than required not to be fired.

My understanding of "quiet quitting" was

a) it's a stupid term made up to give people a sense that they're in control of something they're not - needing to work to survive and;

b) you were explicitly not trying to climb any ladder and merely doing your job as it was described, not shooting for promotions or accolades of any kind.

"Quiet quit" team members are 100% fine to have around IMO, as long as they stay out of the way of the folks trying to take on the larger/harder problems. That's the thing I reject about modern workplaces: this idea that everyone has to be "progressing" or "climbing" all the time.

It's totally cool to punch in/punch out 9-5, it just needs to be clear that's what the role is, and how much that reduces your ability to determine what it is you work on during those hours.
In fact, bad writers with good ideas might benefit tremendously from AI tools.
> Is is bad though? Not forgetting your roots is a good thing.

It is absolutely good thing. Culture, language, roots are definitely worth cherishing. Though you should not build an illusive and false picture of the country it is today.

> People are allowed to be proud of their heritage.

Sure, but better not to follow propaganda, which uses that heritage to build a basis for war while manipulating history.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34242028
Thoughts on Impostor Syndrome
A raise, no. A new salary at a new job, absolutely.
“Quiet quitting” = rational behavior
Given the quotes and examples given, sounds like something an AG might (should?) be interested to look into.
Let's say there were a drug that made people motivated to study hard and get a lot of work done. Would the successes people reaped from that be less useful to themselves and people around them, than those which other people reaped from being natively predisposed in that direction?