skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, gotta wonder about this entire study. You can find partial definitions in Introduction (p2,3) [see the PsyArXiv link]. Just skimming it raises all sorts of serious questions about the participants and the authors' subjective definitions of "task" and "rest". Forcing participants to stare at the wall is not "rest", more like "enforced boredom" or "isolation". A gambling "task" or a facial recognition "task" are seriously different. And for the gambling task, presumably the outcome of the gambling and the reward/loss had an effect on affect, even if there was no money being gambled in this particular case.

> Introduction (p2,3):

The participants were "19 large and varied cohorts, totaling 116 healthy and depressed adolescents recruited in person, 1,913 adults recruited online from across the United States, and 26,896 participants performing a gambling task in a mobile app."

> An important but implicit notion amongst behavioural and affective scientists is that each participant has a baseline mood or affective state that will remain constant during an experiment or only vary with emotionally salient events. Mood is modelled as a discounted sum of rewards and punishments, but many models hold that the time scale over which these events unfold is irrelevant and the passage of time itself has no effect on mood.
>
This assumption of a constant affective background has profound methodological implications for psychological experiments. First, consider a “resting state” functional brain scan in which a participant is asked to stare at a fixation cross. Based on the constant affective background assumption, comparisons of resting-state neuroimaging data between (for example) depressed and non-depressed participants are thought to reveal differences in their task-general traits, rather than their response to experimentally imposed rest periods.

> Second, consider an event-related design, such as a gambling or face recognition task, during which participants experience stimuli (wins or losses) that elicit emotional reactions. When analysing these data, responses to task stimuli are thought to occur on top of (and are often contrasted to) the affective baseline, which is presumed to be time-invariant.

> ...

> We find that participants’ mood worsened considerably during rest periods and simple tasks, an effect we call “Mood Drift Over Time” (“mood drift” for short). This downward mood drift was replicated in 19 large and varied cohorts, totaling 116 healthy and depressed adolescents recruited in person, 1,913 adults recruited online from across the United States, and 26,896 participants performing a gambling task in a mobile app. It was not observed when participants freely chose their own activities. We show that mood drift is related to, but not a trivial extension of, the existing constructs of boredom and mind-wandering. We show that mood drift slopes are positively correlated with reward sensitivity and that this relationship is moderated by overall life happiness. These findings may have profound implications for experimental design and interpretation in affective science ..."
Associations of timing of physical activity with mortality
Defence/gov £250k base. CRUD apps, nothing fancy, just lots of data.

The salary curve in the UK has a long tail of rubbish pay because that's what people accept. Budgets are often much higher, and supply of skills is low.

You just have to follow the money and negotiate well. Firms with deep pockets don't care if you cost 90k or 300k when the project is in the hundreds of millions and the fallout of failure would cost much more.

The important think is to show you represent 5x less risk for 5x more pay.
It's incredibly cold in the outer solar system right? So why is it that there is liquid water in these moons? Is it some sort of geothermal heating?

What's the most complex life which could conceivably exist in such a cold environment? Presumably there's very little sunlight penetrating through the ice to the liquid ocean.
If there's enough demand that all of this is causing housing affordability issues, then the right answer is always to build more housing.

I am certain that banning short-term rentals will not solve housing affordability. And no, "but it will help a little" is not a valid counter-argument.
Parking requirements apply to multi-unit housing.

There are a ton of other silly requirements that get piled on top of each other and burden all new construction.

For example, if your house in California needs a new electrical panel to charge an electric car? $700+ permit for the panel, plus parts and labor. Adds up to several thousand.

There are definitely building codes that should exist -- earthquake safety, fire safety, etc. But quite a lot of them are just the state interfering in things it has no business dealing with, like the solar panel requirement that lets politicians feel better about themselves while making homes more expensive.
I love seeing teardowns of old space tech. Having worked on safety critical projects I know that if something is proven and works it is generally not replaced unless something substantially better comes along, so I wonder if the soyuz still flies with these electromechanical wonders.
I think the difference between sound cards was made irrelevant when CD-ROM games started using digitised audio instead of MIDI soundtracks.
Lol that has been there forever. All links from HN get redirected to that page. I believe it checks HTTP_REFERER.

You have to type the url manually. That jwz is a funny guy
Sydney or Melbourne?
>meanwhile don't touch it, and, oh yeah, "make it secure"?

Yeah never take such a job, this is the manager trying to screw you.

Security is a big word, from stability to observe-ability to hack-ability, there is no way to secure a system without touching it.
The Sound Blaster 16 actually has the OPL3 chip, which is OPL2-compatible, but also has extra waveforms and allows combining 4 waveforms per instrument, rather than just two.
10 hours over the default American work week does seem a bit much.
> In America almost all of the homes sold today are purchased with money from income, rather than being inherited.

How would you even had stats like that and what is that supposed to mean? How would you distinguish money from "income"?

> That is very different than being angry that the Compte du Whatevertheheck inherited a chateau from his parents.

Afaik, America has currently low movement between social classes - rich people are the ones who had rich parents and poor people had poor parents. The issue with landed gentry was not that they inherited stuff, it was disproportional power these people had combined with fixed social classes where your fait was pre-determined.
If they don't misuse it(which they always do).

For "ad" purpose only I don't see much of an issue. Targeted ads are nice(compared to untargeted one).
> add to Ruff a way to write rules in a DSL

But if you start going down that route, isn’t it likely that you’d end up making Ruff into a full-blown interpreter?

Or that you end up embedding an interpreter into Ruff. Such as for example.. Python.

At either of which point, the motivation to use Ruff instead of e.g. Pylint might begin to disappear?
I have this issues as well. I sometimes find that I need to disconnect from mental tasks to recover.

For example:
- Stop listening to music or podcast while you exercise
- Go for "silent walks" outside
- Meditation

Sometimes we need to find "the other battery to recharge", so to say. For me, just resting isn't fulfilling that need.
RSS would be a cherry on top :)
I also see a bunch of fabricated stories about how Airbnb is the reason why housing is unaffordable, with the implication that if short-term rentals were banned, housing would somehow magically become affordable overnight.

I got news for y'all, though: the only thing that solves housing unaffordability in places with demand is... building more homes.

Don't get me wrong, Airbnb as a company has and causes a ton of problems, but they are not the cause of housing unaffordability.
Not all current homeowners are sitting on their house as an investment. The true value in a house is that you have some property and a roof over your head as long as you can pay the mortgage, taxes and insurance. Much better than being at the whim of landlords in a lot of cases.

My father has owned a house for 29 years and when he’s gone I don’t care about cashing out or making a profit. Its just great to have a literal home base to rely on in case things get rough.
Quite ironic that the title of the blogpost, “Accessible but never boring”, is completely unreadable to me because of the horrible font.
Seems like a pretty risky investment. Especially as fewer and fewer people will have anything to gain from the NIMBY policies artificially increasing prices.
Surely there is some economy of scale here, where a standardized first round interview'taking a bug fix to production' fits multiple companies. Noone should have to do more than one technical interview
How would you consider public/council/local-authority housing then? They certainly don’t own the property as an investment - especially as oftentimes thise properties cannot legally be sold anyway.
Only ~9% of mortgages in the US are variable-rate mortgages, and variable rates are not criminal.

People love to blame corporations and "foreign investors" for bidding up the price of housing. Canada has banned that in various ways multiple times in the past few years and it has had no noticeable impact on the price of housing. It turns out that institutional and "foreign" investors, just like anyone else who has their heads screwed on straight, don't overpay -- the price of housing is what it is no matter who the buyer is.
Usually it’s about how they drive up rent and make apartments unaffordable for the locals.
Regarding the theft issue at Walmarts in Oregon. A few years ago, the Walmarts in my area switched from 24-hour to 6-11. I asked a security guard at one and he said it was because of the tweakers who would throng through the store at night doing massive shoplifting. He said Oregon law prohibits private guards from checking people's personal bags as they exit the store. A group of employees standing around as we had this conversation said they were all relieved they didn't have to deal with the night crowd any more.
> The lack of Haskell's popularity is a clear indication that the abstractions added are not as valuable to programmers as the abstractions removed.

No it's not. At most it's an indication that of the group programmers familiar with Hakell's abstractions that they aren't enough to try the language more.

For it to be a clear indication those programmers would actually have to learn to effectively use Haskell's abstractions and compare it to a version in their former language that doesn't utilize the abstractions.

Almost nearly no one does this however... I can recall one instance that comes close:

http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2013/06/09/choosing-a-python-r...

However that's not a comparision of abstractions.
Revanced.
That just means the government is your landlord.
This is a view on unregulated building that I don't get how you came to it. If you're free to build whatever then the most profitable thing is probably a townhouse. Whatever marginal gain might be had selling one fool a bigger house than anyone needs is less than the gain of selling two or three people a far more modest, somewhat shared living arrangement in the same floor space. Not exactly urban density, just well, town density. I legit don't know what sort of seedy business you reckon is held back merely by regulations right now. Put another way, as a rational profit seeking venture, I certainly can't see any such business wanting to set up by a school in particular. Kids aren't known for their disposable income and there's no real benefit towards picking a controversial position.

But in any case this is all solved by Tokyo minimum nuisance zoning. In short, what that means is you can't build your seedy business in your school zone but you can put your school in your seedy business zone. The zones don't directly prescribe how land can be used, only limits the amount of tolerable disturbance allowed per neighborhood. Things get built where they otherwise wouldn't, but no one has to deal with more annoyance than they bought into.
A HUD with natural hand-gesture interface would be very nice and the revoluation of next level of digitilization and UI. Being able to analysis thing infront me brings so much values.

Also, replaces monitors, no more expensive setups just to get half-decent workstation.

Gosh, I sound like salesmen but I really wish this to be true.
What are some of the best tools people are using these days to consumer research papers? (outside of clicking on the PDF)
> But please don't even try to argue this in an intelligent community

This is a great and intelligent community. Very respectful and articulate. That's something I really like about it, don't you?
That's the trouble though isn't it—leaving it to mature gracefully in the cellar gets you to a point where only an expert somilier in that particular varietal knows really what to do with it, and you pay through the nose for their knowledge.
You seem unnecessarily angry.

I choose to not respond to everything, because it's not all constructive.

You don't choose Rust because you hate your employer.

You don't choose Rust to make development go slower.

I'm not sure what the definition of "unmanaged language" is, and how Rust ends up being one.

There are reasons to choose Rust when you could have chosen another language as well.

For example: I worked for a company built on PHP and TypeScript. They had a stable cashflow, but the performance of the apps was down the drain (poorly made, poor technology), but the money was there. Gradually refactoring the busy parts in a performant language by competent programmers would solve the scaling problem. Choosing a popular and performant language would ensure new hires. A solid choice here would be C# or Java. Rust would be another option: it attracts qualified candidates, and you don't need to experiment much with the software design and architecture.

> This is complete non-sequitur.

Just because I'm responding to your comment, it does not mean that what I say should logically follow from what you said. I'm adding information.
I have some apps on iOS App Store and I got charged 99 bucks per year for listing, assuming there’s no breaking changes both in terms of API and listing policies on iOS in the next couple of years, they probably gonna last until my credit card expires. Hopefully at that time someone interested enough would fork my repos and continue maintaining them.
Ask HN: New to Rust. Are there networking frameworks (like Twisted) in Rust?
I would like to get myself started with networking frameworks and libraries in Rust.

Any pointers from Rust veterans out there are always welcome.
> In 2021 alone, the homeowner racked up $984,000 in defaulted penalties, none of which have been paid, a Bloomberg calculation based on city records shows.

This is just dumb, and has nothing to do with short-term rentals. If you've fined a property owner, you should have legal means to collect those fines. If you don't, then you are a bad city and you should be ashamed at your poor governance. If you do have those means, but have still failed to collect, then you have only yourself to blame. Bad city!

> New York has tussled with Airbnb Inc. for years over the proliferation of illegal listings and has spent significant resources chasing down violators.

How is this a thing? Issue a court order to Airbnb to take down a listing and ban the address from the platform. Airbnb fails to do so? Fine them. And actually collect!

> New rules taking effect in May [...] Hosts who want to list on Airbnb or other platforms will be required to register with the city and receive an operating license.

What? How incompetent is NYC's government? This has been standard practice in many other locales for years!

I really have little sympathy for NYC here. They seem to have been badly mismanaging the situation for many years now. My sympathy goes out to NYC's residents, who seem to have a terrible local government. And I say this as someone who lives in SF, another city with a terrible local government.
I guess mass, unchecked data harvesting is a "waft of fresh air" to yanks?

Makes sense once you consider the usual target demographic of HN, which is the temporarily temporarily embarrassed millionaire type.

Here's to hoping that the EU does indeed kill the cancer that is A"I" before it ruins the world with all of the "fresh" air it blows over the entire internet.
> The Chinese, for all their faults, don't seem to care what you do in your spare time.

No, they'll just dutifully record all activities in a dossier, until something interesting presents itself to be leveraged against you, or until they decide at a later date that what you do is distasteful.
> Haskell doesn't have exhaustive pattern matching it just gives you a warning.

It can have exhaustive pattern matching if you use `-Werror`.

That's frequently the default in an industrial Haskell setting.

I wish that non-exhaustive patterns would be an error by default though.
There could be options beyond rent buy or be homeless. But a number of steps would be required, such as growing up and taking the boot out of our throat.
https://www.montecruzfoto.org/03-06-2017-Bike-Wars-Carnival-...
The reviews are blind as you suggest, always have been - OP is lying.
It can make sense sometimes, but I think it can often be awkward. If the thing being cited is highly known (which will often be the case, if it is still being cited despite the original document being lost in time) it will probably be cited in many secondary sources, and the citing author might very well not have learned it from any of them (but instead from a university course, a blog, etc.). Sure, one can randomly pick a textbook that they like and that cites that content, but this looks rather arbitrary to me. Personally it's not worth introducing that arbitrariness to solve this problem of "ghost" citations which is not especially common nor harmful.

Maybe this is just a biased view... I'm from a country where they obsessively count metrics to evaluate researchers (not that I agree with that, but it's what they do), so being cited or not can be a big deal.

I think the best solution might be to use the original citation but mark it somehow as inaccessible, that way it would be explicit that one is just citing for credit and did not really read the document. (I don't think I have seen this ever being done, though).
Yeah, but on the other hand the "we ignore the resume thing" makes it increasingly hard to hire and keep people. Because when tech becomes too much legacy, developers can not afford to stay there. Your employees will be selected for more passive bunch. Or you have to pay more to keep them.

And I do work on project exactly like that. I am paid more then would be market rate for same position and everyone is scared we (as in seniors) are going to leave. It has advantages, not just in pay, definitely. But some of these advantages are disadvantages for the company to be frank ... like that the whole environment gets biased toward more passive and sort of sleepy. (If you are non sleepy you get pay raise, they are trying to reward it, but the force of the system is strong.)

It does not result in the best spend for customer or a company.
It exactly is marking paper.
Haven’t used Airbnb in a while but I could swear that’s how it worked. Which is why I’m confused reading all these experiences about retaliatory negative reviews.
If you have a family and your family uses all this self-hosted stuff (backup, file storage, email etc), what would happen when you die or get a serious health issue? Do you think your spouse or kids can get the data out themselves? No-one will have a clue where the backups are, how the emails are stored, where those pics are etc. And even more difficult in case you have implemented some clever encryption and 2-factor etc.

We all think it's simple. It's just to copy the files from "that" folder on the server to your own machine or a USB disk, but it is not so easy in practice for most people. Even for someone competent it can be difficult to sort through the mess if it is not well documented.

I say this as someone who hosts the backup and all the pics on a NAS.
Tidal heating [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_heating
Indeed you shouldn't compress twice.
I was thinking the same thing just now, after getting an email from my dynamic DNS service to update my hostnames.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34954111

> What's the best way to preserve the artifacts of your own life and ensure they're disseminated after you're dead, or at least available, especially if you're a solitary person with no foreseeable descendants?

There should be some kind of service where people will keep your digital stuff running (until running out of the funds you gave them access to), like how lawyers manage one's estate.
A world where you cannot rent is also one where there isn't a huge class of people who own more housing units than they could possibly live in.
I assume that's a joke? Sounds like going back to manhole covers.
NVD Makes Up Vulnerability Severity Levels
I've never used Wise (or hardly heard about it), but I think their use of textual currency names under the balance numbers was ... odd.

I mean, even as a Northern European, I expect to see something like "£2163.00" for a balance in British Pounds, or (of course) "€4,718.16" for something in Euros. Obviously that would extend to "$4711.17" for something in US Dollars, too. I admire the clarity of spelling it out in full, at the same time as I'm uncomfortable about the missing symbol. Does that make sense?

Of course for my native Sweden, which is not in the Euro zone, it would be even more interesting the the name of the currency is (shocker) in Swedish, and the symbol too. Translating monetary values is non-trivial, basically. I guess if the app is in Swedish, I would expect the "4.711,17 kr" formatting (yes, we use thousands period and decimal comma) but if it were in English that would be "SEK 4,711.17".
People are not usually fired for being obnoxious.
Rationale Behind WardleyToGo #WardleyMaps
wardleyToGo is an SDK and a language to do Wardley Maps as code/data. This articles explains why those tools exists.
I did mean salary, I'm not sure about total comp because UK firms don't seem to operate similarly for the most part.
If you like more maths/complicated sudoku's you should try variant sudoku. Killer cages in particular make the puzzles quite mathy
Landlords don't provide housing, property developers do.

Most people who currently rent don't want landlord. You already make that point yourself: the alternative for them is being homeless, because they are unable to buy due to high housing prices and restrictions on getting mortgages.

In many cases the landlord are making boatloads of money, simply by being the middleman between tenant and bank. They are not the selfless charities you are making them out to be.
I doubt it. I was just the annoying freshman next door. He was nice to me (and to everybody) but I wasn't in his circle of confidants.
Puzzle link: https://sumplete.com/
Good luck at the tribunal