skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am 34. Start HIIT (high intensity interval training) 10 weeks ago. First time in my life I am in a gym. I also notice the transformative effects.

The way I am managing to build my habit: Only do group sessions. If you want to go fast you go alone, but if you want to go far you go together. I know that group sessions are the only thing that give me enough structure to continue.

So maybe it will help you get started as it did for me? Personally I went to a fairly expensive gym so the groups are small. This to minimise risk of injury. Try it if you can afford it.
> those running the currency are accountable democratically

Except they can't be fired, and there's absolutely zero pressure for a presidential candidate/sitting president to hold this person accountable.
They're not all homogeneous, but most are
Good point in general, but I think the US, even in SV, don't actually lack more traditional, slow paced companies. So they kind have both.
Handle what, exactly? Are you actually experiencing any issues from not doing these things or are you experiencing FOMO? You've not articulated any problem you're facing.

Accusing others of being fake and producing crap may make you feel better for not being good at it, but it won't help you either way. I hope you're not a Principal Engineer I'm forced to work with - the work of those people are important for what we work on to succeed, whether you value it or not.
> I don't know if this task is just an especially bad fit for me, or if my mental abilities are declining?

There could be so many possibilities I'd explore before cognitive decline (at 40??)

1. You are not communicating well enough with team lead / members to get ahead on the task. Maybe they have good advice/feedback that you're not getting because communication is off.

2. You are a bit burned out

3. You ran into some difficulty with this hard task and drove yourself into a state of panic. This panic can feed onto itself and prohibit you from making any progress in a reinforcing loop. Now you're in such anxiety you can barely focus on anything.

4. You're not attacking the problem right. Maybe you can use debug messages, or a debugger, or write diagrams, or a small POC, whatever it is you're doing now maybe you can make some adjustment on how you're trying to solve it.

5. You're not taking care of the basics - sleep, nutrition, exercise. This will basically harm you in countless ways, don't do this.
>Most New Yorkers pay a full-time minimum wage salary in rent every year (or more). It used to be unsustainable for the working class here, now it's unsustainable for anyone but the very rich here.

As as New Yorker with a rent stabilized lease[0], I pay about half in rent what my neighbors do.

Even so, my monthly nut (rent/utilities/ISP/etc., not counting food and other consumables) is ~$4,000.

I could probably cut that to $3,500 or so if I wanted, but not much less.

Add in food, toilet paper, toothpaste, etc. and I'm easily at $4,750-$5000 a month.

That number doesn't include clothing, laundry, hair cuts, doctor visits, transportation and some other stuff, so it's actually a bit higher.

But let's just work with $5,000/month for the moment. That's $60,000/annum net income that's required. As a ballpark (counting FICA, NYC, NYS and Federal taxes), a minimum gross salary of $95,000-$100,000 is required to support that.

But that's just basic necessities. And don't forget, I pay ~1/2 what my neighbors do in rent. So for other folks it's even more onerous.

There certainly are less expensive places to live in NYC, but with my stabilized lease, not so much less expensive for a comparable place, even in the outer boroughs.

So let's assume a single person making minimum wage (in NY, that's $15/hour) and actually able to get 40 hours of work per week.

That's $600/week or $31,200/annum gross pay. Which, including FICA, NYC, NYS and Federal taxes, comes out to ~26%. Meaning net pay is ~$23,000/annum or ~$1,900/month.

According to most recommendations, one shouldn't spend more than 30% of net income on housing. For a minimum wage worker in NYC, that's about $600/month.

And since the median rent in NYC is $3,395/month, a minimum wage worker would need at least two roommates to afford such an apartment and still be paying ~50% of their income on rent.

Yes, half the rentals are less than that. And half are more.

So yes, people can survive on minimum wage and would still be tight making the national median[1] income (~$70,000/annum in 2021).

But even at the US Median income, it's not a "Living Wage" which implies the ability to meet your immediate needs and have a least a small surplus.

So it should come as no surprise that the median income for a single person in NYC is ~93,000, some three times minimum wage.

What does all this say? That NYC is very expensive (housing is the biggest issue) and even those making $100,000/annum are likely to need to make tradeoffs. And someone making minimum wage ($31,200/annum) or even the national median income (~$70,000/annum) will have trouble making ends meet.

[0] https://rentguidelinesboard.cityofnewyork.us/resources/faqs/...

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-27...

[2] https://www.nyc.gov/site/hpd/services-and-information/area-m...
Dope was originally heroin (or in the really old days, morphine), but over the last few years it has increasingly come to mean "a mix of opioids and other drugs/adulterants". As the article references, it's a lot more likely to be fentantyl, which is stronger and cheaper than heroin. Given the relative potency I would imagine that its proportionally a lower percentage of fentanyl compared to heroin, but I don't recall the article specifying.
Exactly, I’ve done OMAD continuously for two years now and it has worked well for me. The only thing you should be looking at is it’s hard to get all your vitamins and minerals from one meal a day so make sure you take a multivitamin.
I'm 42 and I forgot my bitwarden passphrase. About 20 hours later I remembered it.

I just sat down and was typing a much older passphrase despite having used the current one daily for over a year. That was probably the scariest part is that I remember the past few weeks as if I were using a different passphrase than I actually was (down to having typos on my phone that are impossible with my actual passphrase)
It's going to take a little more than a sed statement to make this change
Only if your curriculum is from the 1950s. Modern leadership & HR programs emphasise multiple benefits of happy workers:

* More productive

* Less likely to leave (which is expensive)

* More motivated to share cost saving ideas which can save companies millions of dollars annually.

Healthy companies can employ workers longer too.

A good manager doesn't need to know how to build the product. They need to understand their market, the company's strengths, make strategic decisions and create an inspiring culture.
The generic name for these panels are "HUB75", based on the interface they use for driving them. I can confirm, these are $10-15/ea in small quantities on sites like Aliexpress. But you're likely right, they were probably buying retail from Adafruit.
A living wage isn't what's just enough to stay alive, it includes what's required for a satisfying life (my words, not part of any definition).

If you look in the source data from the article, expenses are broken down into categories like food, child care, housing, etc. There are also categories for "civic" and "other", which together can account for 20-30% of expenses.

It's hard to have a meaningful discussion about this from a click-baity headline without diving into the details.
It's difficult to drive these LED matrix devices from a typical MCU, especially with chained panels, lots of LEDS, etc. Either due to the ~10Mhz+ output needed, or the memory to hold all the pixel data. Consider, for example, that each of the two panels in this sign has 32x64X3 (6144) leds. You have to send on/off for all of those, and then control brightness for each color by using PWM...meaning half-red brightness would be changing that pixel so it's on/off/on/off fast enough to beat persistence of vision.

It's more common in the pre-built devices to have a controller that's using a main CPU plus a FPGA or CPLD. The better hobbyist drivers use things like a beaglebone black and it's onboard "PRU" that can drive real time from memory it shares with the ARM cpu and Linux.

Also, since it's pulling train data, you need more smarts or cycles than a typical MCU to pull via WiFi/https, transform text into pixmaps, etc. Though there are examples of beefy MCUs doing all this well, like an ESP32. Or examples of small MCUs driving a small single color matrix.
> If it wasn't "worth it" to them - for whatever reasons that may be - they'd be living elsewhere.

Moving can be extremely costly and people who don't earn a "living wage" probably aren't traveling to see if the grass is greener somewhere else.

I've been watching Louis Rossmann's saga for a few years and it has been interesting to see what it took to get him to finally leave NYC. And I'm sure he had far more means to leave than most.
Sure can do!

Here it is: https://streamable.com/vwj0hs

I did three things there:

1. Replace the prefix of several variables from `$mock` to `$stub`

2. Added a prefix to all properties of the object `$r`, which left the camelCasing missing an uppercase letter, I selected that letter on all properties and used "Transform To Uppercase" action on VSCode to camelCase it properly back again.

3. Aligned some keys of two arrays. I selected them, placed some minimal spacing, then hit `Home` to align the cursors to indentation, then used `Ctrl+Delete` to trim the added spaces.

I'll try the range based search, I never used something like that and might like it.
The Reality of Brands: Toward an Ontology of Marketing (1999)
> The original Squad Leader was notable for having a rich system, but a progressive path to learning through several scenarios that added on more and more of the rules as you proceeded through the scenarios. ASL is much more complicated than that.

ASL now has a series of "Starter Kits" which provide this progressive path pretty well. There's also Chapter K from the ruleboook, but Starter Kit is a better path, and less expensive.
Ha. Well true that sustainable is a very vague metric. Working out of a faang definitely puts you in comfort zone and as I get older I am trying to see how to wean off it and go independent (even if it is a bit more of a slog) so I can diversify more and really utilize more of myself. Retirement isn't close but isn't looking rosy either :)
The real costs are nothing. The broken bureaucratic costs are high.
Neat! One idea might be to switch it to one octave at smaller (mobile) viewport widths... the keys get a little small :)
Uh ? Aren't your .toki bundles autogenerated from picks in the CherryOrchard directory ? Don't touch them - let the NoodleBlossom pipeline trellis abstract that for you !
Why did it get removed? This kind of thing needs to be left up as evidence of their incompetence and as a warning to others that would follow in their footsteps.
Are you doing exercise, like aerobics or weight training?

Are you sleeping well?

Are you doing early time restricted eating? I.e. intermittent fasting

Hows your diet? Any alcohol or nicotine?

Those can have profound effects, and, though not an expert myself, they can be synergistic with each other

Exercise spurs neural growth in the hippocampus, which is key to short term memory

As you age sleep quality naturally deteriorates, starting a rapid decline at around age 45 if I remember correctly. Meanwhile, phsycal activity and sunlight exposure to your eyes during the day improves sleep quality. In addition, time restricted eating can have a powerfull effect on sleep quality

Intermittent fasting also increases neural growth and energy

On diet: Read a book called "Biohack your Brain" by Dr. Kirsten Willeumier
The statement in the article is a strong and detailed explanation of why.
I think it’s also a canard that the CEO is in charge. They’re responsible, but often the CFO or COO are in charge, or some rule class culture of middle management. My understanding from engineers at Boeing it has not had engineers in charge for a long time and it’s entirely run by accountants and business development.
> older is inherently inferior.

As an “older,” I’ve encountered this exact attitude.

Really uplifting.

As a positive, it pissed me off enough, to “drop out,” and lean into early retirement.

I spent the majority of my career at the antithesis of “pop culture,” which was a 100-year-old Japanese company.

I am grateful for the lessons and habits I got, there.

Plenty of stuff that they did wrong, but they also did a lot of stuff right.
Just be mindful of what you share with Chat GPT because conversations can be reviewed by humans.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230107031618/https://www.washi...
You're looking at a piece of code that's doing a type of metaprogramming mostly unique to Zig. Additionally I'm using a for loop capture syntax that is not common in other languages (closest thing I can think of are Ruby blocks).

You're just looking at a piece of code that is understandable for a newcomer to not find familiar.
I mean... that was true 15 years ago...
Did you intentionally leave out Arduino from the "what to drive with" options?
Early chemists gave cutesy names to chemicals, like "vitriol", "salt", and "cholesterol". Today we know the proper descriptive names for these substances, of course.

Vitriol's correct name is "sulfuric acid".

Salt's correct name is "sodium chloride"

Cholesterol's correct name is "(1R,3aS,3bS,7S,9aR,9bS,11aR)-9a,11a-Dimethyl-1-[(2R)-6-methylheptan-2-yl]-2,3,3a,3b,4,6,7,8,9,9a,9b,10,11,11a-tetradecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-7-ol".

That's not a name! It's a serialization of a molecular structure!

See, the problem is that what's "descriptive" is opinionated, and a hot topic for bikeshedding. It's like the argument between natural and artificial primary keys. If you go with natural primary keys, expect managers to bikeshed exactly what's in there and how it should be encoded. They'll change all the time. Your "name" turns into an encoding of the object itself. If you call your computer "OaklandDev19InTheBasement" then what happens if you move? What happens if you get more than 100 dev computers in the Oakland basement? How many arguments are you going to have about whether it's the proper place to put some service that may not be "devvy" enough?

Some people are hitting this, but most of these can be broken into different functions:

Identity: always meaningless, always.

Finding a service: if this is hard, you need a directory. You need this anyway, even with descriptive names. If you need a directory, can you automate it?
The submitted title was “telemetry.optIn defaults to true”, which is verbatim text from the page.

The changed title has mislead readers into missing the point; top comments are now a generic discussion of telemetry itself and don’t even acknowledge the discrepancy between the setting name and behavior.
Additionally, it would appear that the Cornell data set, coming from the Census Bureau, suffers from the typical problem in most of these data sets -- it is income only, not income net of taxes and transfers. About 1/2 of the US population pays no direct income tax, and of that 1/2 many receive a large share of transfer from government in the forms of Medicaid, food stamps, EITC, etc. After taking into account all of those non-taxes and transfers, this group is much better off than a lot of the publicly available data sets would indicate. This is mostly due to the difficulty of getting all of that information together on each individual in the data set, whereas looking at a reported W2 value is comparatively easy.
Find accountants are actually much better at C* positions than MBA’s.

It seems like there should be a lot of overlap, but I think accountants have a better grasp of the underlying business reality. Or at lest the idea that you can’t get something for nothing so saving money on X likely costs you elsewhere.
I don't mind subsidizing it because I'm taking on significantly less risk by paying taxes, and these people aren't doing it out of some villainous intent, they're having a hard time getting by to the point that it's a worthwhile risk.

On the other end of the spectrum we have billionaires paying accountants and lawyers to exploit every tax loophole they can find. They don't even need to do it, they could easily just pay their taxes owed, but they choose not to.
I'm still not sure I understand the cultural appropriation argument as a whole, including this one.
> The general counter-point is, why would you want someone who doesn't understand the work done by the company to run that company.

That reminds me of a great quote and one of the most important takeaways (running the opposite direction) from The E-Myth Revisited.

"That Fatal Assumption is: if you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does that technical work."
Unless it's red leave it in the shed.
Startups are pop culture cults.
Having a lot of exposure to early stage startups, I get that most founders have essentially zero management experience, but the Darwinian process of VCs and go-to-market doesn't seem to favor them actually going out and acquiring some.
App access could have been $1/mo. They could have expanded to other cities.
I don't want to see OpenAI absorbed into the mothership. I feel like Sam and his team thrive under a lack of "parental guidance" and we might lose some of the innovation once you have 38 department heads telling you yes or no for every idea.

That, and everything getting moved behind closed doors (much like all of Google's AI work).
> Did you read the book?

Yes, and I did not get your interpretation at all. Considering the fact that in our discussion you've misrepresented a quote from Kendi, and built strawmen to argue points never made by Kendi or myself (to the point you couldn't even recognize my argument, instead favoring to argue against the strawman you've built), I'm wondering if you haven't strawmanned the entire book.

In a previous post I asked you to substantiate your argument with quotes from the book, but you haven't. If you don't want to substantiate your argument I think we're done here.

> Racial equity (as opposed to racial equality) by definition requires racial discrimination.

This idea is unrecognizable to me. It seems more like a caricature of what progressives and anti-racists believe than what they actually believe (which is a common thread that unifies your posts). If we want to try at a definition, here's one as good as any:

"Racial equity is a process of eliminating racial disparities and improving outcomes for everyone."

https://www.raceforward.org/about/what-is-racial-equity-key-...

Here's another one:

"Racial equity is achieved when race no longer factors into or determines one’s socioeconomic outcomes. It is when everyone has what they need to thrive, no matter where they live or how they identify."

https://unitedwaynca.org/blog/what-is-racial-equity-definiti...

So we have a definition for racial equity used by a notable antiracist org (united way) that explicitly says racial equity is achieved in through an absence of racial discrimination, not through it.

Again, bring some quotes or some other source to support your position and we can have a discussion.

> There is no other way to achieve the "desired" equitable outcomes other than racial preferences.

You also insisted that the only way to determine someone's race is to use a color chart (and also your view of race is very narrow -- it's not about skin tone), so I think your imagination is lacking. In fact if you actually listen to anti-racists (which is distinct from pretending to listen and then putting the words in their mouths you wish they had said), you'd hear that equity is achieved through anti-racism, which is not just reflected racism as you are claiming.
There is a lot that occurred 40 years ago that can no longer be experienced, or even known by anyone today. Wouldn't refusing to call it history be disdain for history?
Maybe the people involved are not old enough to ever have heard about Godwin's law? Its now 25 years ago that UseNet users have discovered this. I guess HN still needs a few years to get there.
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That's fair criticism, my choice of verb in that sentence was poor. The reason I used it was to emphasize that with Meta they honestly be very unlikely to be offended. That said though, one should always behave professionally regardless of who the counterparty is.
I first read the title as "naive" technologists.
> Boeing sold deadly products under leadership by their engineer CEO.

I remember hearing I think in a documentary that the merger with McDonall-Douglas made it have a more business-y culture that lead the the terrible failures.
So you name your keyboard "character-event-generator-1", your chair "butt-and-back-holder-1" and your desk "four-stick-and-board-to-hold-items"?
Why would you buy retail if you are a company buolding and selling hardware to begin with?
The article outlined several reasons why the choice of “Apache” and its conception show classic errors people make by romanticizing indigenous cultures and then appropriating their terms or cultural symbols.
I've never experienced this and I've been a developer for 18 years or so.

Find better employer ?