skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may live longer but you may not be awake longer.

I find that the 16 hours I have after clocking 8 hours are infinitely more "awake" than the 19 hours I get when I only clock 5.

Which is basically what the sleep researchers say. The bottom line is that there's clearly a tipping point, not the same for everyone of course but averaging around 7 hours, below which "wakefulness" (and functioning metabolism in general) experienced throughout the rest of the day rapidly starts to tank.
Or just have two Desktop Environments. One for the hoi polloi where the designers can go wild and the bean counters can push MSN "news", and one for Enterprise/Professionals that is more or less "Classic".
> In my mental model, propaganda can come from anyone with a political agenda, and that will certainly include economists from time to time.

The person/people/groups writing the thing may not even be aware they’re creating propaganda. Arguably it’s more effective that way.
> "That's like me saying I "value a lower wage" when in fact I'm unable to get a higher wage because I've stagnated in my career doing the same thing for 20 years."

A person in that position would probably phrase it as "I value job stability". Some people prefer that to chasing higher salaries.
Let us do this - car in a box. If you are in Pacific NW, we can start it as a side project :)
So should I be voting Democrat or Republican to get that? /s
12 years is what you have with you child, after that parents are far less important to them than their friends.
Be available and not appear busy.
Frankly speaking, I love screensharing instead of sharing a screen/desks.
So while physical meetings has their places, mentoring is not.
> unrelated to the writing (which I enjoyed)

Aw, thank you. :)

> related to the horizontal scrollbar

Thank you very much, I was not aware of this issue. Changed both to `w-full`, hope scrollbar goes away. :)

BTW As a pizza aficionado I deeply enjoyed "wood fired pizza". :D
That chat can really jam. Nice design too.
I think you mean 4:3
In my experience most applications do need an escape hatch from a strictly tree-like lifetime pattern, it really is limiting.

Object layout is the primary reason for the performance differences between low-level languages and manages ones — Java uses a thread local allocation buffer, which is for all practical purposes just as hot as the stack. What is more expensive is arrays of references and such, but that will be solved by value types once, hopefully.

EDIT: What I’m trying to say is that there is very little overhead to creating short-lived objects in Java.
+1 for startallback
I just paid them $5 this morning and I couldn't be happier. I am able to have my taskbars exactly how I want them. The productivity gain has paid for itself many times over.
RenderMan 25.0
Two severe pinches on the cervical spine here. Always start with a physical exam and let the doctor order the appropriate imaging. X-rays will not likely reveal anything going on with the spinal cord itself, that is in the realm of MRI or CT. A good neurosurgeon will know what to order.
Well, I hope you are wrong :) I imagine that most transformers etc are somewhat over-engineered. I mean, they get destroyed by things like lightening strikes, but are we talking about the same energy levels? I really have no idea.

You make a good point about rooftop solar+battery. Perhaps an event like this would make us more open to decentralised energy production.

Regarding how vulnerable solar panels are - in my limited understanding the problem comes from things that will induct electrical currents from EM, so basically anything with long wires (transmission lines and transformers etc.) So I would guess that semiconductors like solar panels would not be damaged directly. I'd also like to hear from any experts though.
You're not calling out anyone. You're calling someone's else work a waste of time because you don't like it. That's just rude.
Not debating that it would be good to see more tech start-ups succeed in Europe. But there are a couple clear differences between Europe and the US.

1. Europe is more linguistically fragmented than the US. For example, the EU has 24 official languages while the US effectively has two. Because of this, in Europe network effects and economies of scale are more difficult to achieve with products that could compete with YouTube, Instagram, and so on. Instead, many European products that are popular are those that don't rely on network effects: cars, appliances, clothing, and food. Meanwhile, because of its more cohesive market, the US has seen higher returns to investment in movies, music, and social networks. Thanks to having more resources, many of those products become enormously successful domestically and end up being exported.

2. The stock market generally plays a smaller role in financing companies in Europe than in the US. For example, the Czech JetBrains is not traded in the stock market at all, and the Swedish Spotify's debt-to-equity ratio is 47% while Meta's is 8%.[1] Two companies with equal future EBITDA streams have different valuations for their stocks if one of them is primarily debt financed and the other is primarily financed through the stock market.

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/SPOT/debt_equity_ratio https://ycharts.com/companies/META/debt_equity_ratio Although admittedly this is an imperfect comparison.
It's not just the part about promoting an opinion that make it propaganda, it's the part about promoting an opinion that a. there is a problem at all, and b. advocating for a particular solution to the problem as defined.

A huge part of propaganda is about setting the terms of the debate. Ideally, as George Orwell wisely pointed out, a successful propagandist makes certain opinions seem obvious, common-sensical, and even inevitable, while making other ideas all but literally unthinkable.

So next time you read an opinion you disagree with, ask, "what would happen if that opinion were the dominant one in society?"
The thing about gippie is it will never shut up, it lists in bullet point fashion, and it uses alot of filler words: like, 'however', additionally, 'currently', 'also', 'that', etc.

i feel i can start to read when someone uses gippie, because i use it alot. I imagine a future where i use gippie to write an email and the receiver uses gippie to summarize and respond. There's also a future evolution of 'typo', where gippie hellucinates some non sensical answer. "Oh my bad, my bots trippin' LOL'
very interesting, any more details?
> I don't want to derail

Too late - that train’s already left the station.
It's also tempting with an online conference to think "I've got this other stuff I should get done today but I can always watch the video later." If you're like me, later rarely comes.
Man, who cares. Doesn’t limit the number of esims you can have.
I find this much more likely than others' explanation that they're evil, that it's just about power, that there is a conspiracy among world leaders, etc.
Yes it is almost just literally learning how to do this, vs everyone starts commuting in. Put another way, I get it’s a change, but Eng Managers make filthy money, and maybe they can add Slack comms and related mentorship to the excel and cross-functional working group wiki pages. Excel and email were new once as well.
People who designed Java are on the record expressing elitist reasons for Java's success and design goals. It boils down to: Java classes allow code monkeys to write spaghetti code that is forced to stay inside classes designed by others.

The reason I always hated Java was because it was designed by good programmers for bad programmers in a looking down at them way, not a good programmers for themselves to use.

btw. Java design team licensed the Oberon compiler sources years before to study it.
The HN readership truly is unique; nowhere else will you see a community so virulently opposed to advertising/marketing, in an industry (tech) whose largest players have no other way of making money.
Yeah all those high end headphones with famously crackling connections.
>$8/mo is the price range that attracts scammers and hustlers

Don't forget about the trolls!
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> becomes a full day for a junior engineer

A full day of honing his own problem solving skills, which pay off quite a bit more over time than watching somebody else do it.
That Industry vs Sam's garage chart is hilarious :D Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/605/
Amazing work. Would be great to see more of the gear used and the processes themselves and how feasible it is to reproduce this. I'd absolutely love to be able to do for instance a homebrew 6502 or so. But I fear the gear costs will be astronomical.

Check the 'general high vacuum' page linked on the left there as well.
Funny thing is, promotions in your career are very rarely about your pure skill at something. Hard pill to swallow for the Just Log On And Deliver crowd but it's more like (skill * how much your boss likes you * social connections in the team where others vouch for you).
It's actually random double spaces scattered in the text and "white-space: pre-wrap" CSS property.
It's very, very convenient to have your CI/CD yaml just trigger make targets. Still get the benefits of everything running on Someone Else's Computer, but mostly-to-100% reproducible locally for debugging.
And you feel like you've added something worthwhile to this conversation?
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Chez Monique saved my ass. Despite doing my best to plan and ration my food, I burned through it at an alarming rate. I re-upped hard at Moniques and it got me through the remainder of the hike.
Give us examples of films you like then people will tell you why—and what generation you're from.

Incidentally, it's been touted on multiple occasions that Gone With The Wind has been shown somewhere in the world every day since 1939—an all time record. It's a remarkable success story that's crossed many generations, and its production for the era a remarkable technical achievement.

I first saw it decades ago and I enjoyed it, but a large part of my interest was technical, it being one of the first spectacular color films (it still stands up very well by today's standards).
Wait, they're not - at least, in the example of the article. Allow me to digress:

There is a figure with 4 cards, showing: all orange, all blue, the number 2, the number 1.

The only condition is that an even number must have an all blue flipside. This condition is either irrelevant or satisfied for the blue card. For all other cards, we don't know. The card with "1" may have the number "4" on the flip side. So we need to check ask other cards.

TL;DR: only a blue face guarantees compliance with the rule, all other cards need to be flipped.

In the second case, the unstated assumption that the cards all have one side worth digits and one side with symbols is still unstated, but a lot stronger. (These are things to check for age-alcohol compliance, so logically they must contain both age and alcoholic state of consumption.)
Yes, at this rate he'll outrun TSMC in a couple of years.
It's Azure but, Apache Atlas : MS Purview
A grand example of a solution in search of a problem and a prime overuse of AI, to the point of showcasing its gimmickry.

This solves no problem and is a grave case of techno-solutionism.
That's roughly the extent of interest in fuchsia within Google itself.
it's not LVMH in this case but Kering (another French luxury giant)
Can you speak more to why you think taxes are barbaric? Is there an alternative?

They strike me as one of the cornerstones of civilization. I.e. the state builds things that are for the common good using those resources.
"At least 10 times a day, Erika Becker, who works as a sales development manager at a technology company called Verkada, turns to her boss with questions. “Did I handle that correctly?” she asks. “What could I have done better?”

almost no one does that. Me smells a marketing piece done for property owners.
what i'm arguing is that c compilers exist primarily to support the base of existing c code and to run it correctly and with adequate performance, not out of some unhinged notion of 'competitiveness' or to entice people into writing new programs in it

that is, i do think it's acceptable to have code that's harder to write and with worse performance, but not because of some hypothetical; rather, it's because that's how people did do it 30 years ago, and 20, and sometimes 10, and i want to run the code they wrote. this could be described as a 'retrocomputing hobby' except that that code is, for example, linux, cpython, gcc, r, libreoffice, gtk, glib, grub, bash, freetype, emacs, vim, libjpeg, libpng, postgres, mariadb, ssh, openssl, gnutls, apache, poppler, ghostscript, tex, gpg, zlib, memcached, redis, etc.

if you want to describe running vim and bash and cpython on linux as a retrocomputing hobby, i guess that's kind of defensible actually, but it comes across as wishful thinking when we don't have a working non-retro alternative yet

(moreover i have no idea why you think omitting these risky optimizations makes c code 'more buggy')

i agree that there are numerous deficiencies in c's semantics, and plausibly silent wraparound is one of them, though it seems like rust's alternative is that overflow crashes in debug builds and silently wraps like c in release builds
Well as the Millennial who wrote the comment, I can confidently say that it is true. Just because you preferred to learn programming through reading tutorials doesn't mean that the same is true for everybody else or that text is the best medium for the majority of skills out there. I'm pretty sure the majority of mechanics and construction workers would prefer to see videos of a repair over a text description.
Connections/network are indeed fundamental to career growth and learning, accomplishments, etc.. but those don't have to be in-person at all. I mean, I have been learning, building new things, making connections with new people, and I've been 100% remote for the past 3 years. There has been no discernible adverse effect on any career-related criterion I can think of. The literal only downside for me is not being in the super-awesome building I got to work in before, and maybe random off-topic chatter with people. I have that "off-topic chatter" on chat/videocall now, which is just fine anyways. And I don't have to donate 1-2 hours a day to my employer by driving to/from an office.
I'm going to take a guess that nothing was translated, but instead misinterpreted as UTF-16.
I mean wouldn't most food spoil and tons of secondary effects of not having power for a long time?

Some people think that 90% of people in the USA would die in a year if the electric grid completed failed.

As far as I understand we don't have the parts to repair the grid in any reasonably timely manner.

https://emptaskforce.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/A-Call-to...
No one has a problem with the BBC existing. Just that it is de facto a state funded and government affiliated news agency.

One of the funnier stories supporting this is that MI5 had to ask the BBC to stop sending everyone for vetting because it was unnecessary!

> when MI5 suggested scaling back the number of jobs subject to vetting, the BBC argued against such a move.

Something the BBC lied about repeatedly and only admitted years after other news agencies broke the story.

Now it's run by the guy who was the PMs boss and who organised a loan for the last PM. And people claims it's totally independent? These sound like stories about RT.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-43754737
"Religious purpose" is a pretty good description from what I understand. Water was the religious currency of the Inka. It was where their origin myths believed humans came from, ethnic groups were ideologically connected by spiritual rivers, conquering water sources was how kings legitimized their rule, the empire was divided internally by drainage basins, and the major pilgrim routes tended to follow springs and fountains/baths [0]. Within Huanaco Pampa, the baths are in a walled area of the city used for important leaders and religious ceremonies (of the movie kind), with expensive architecture. One of them even has its own dedicated canal to avoid sharing water with the other residents of the city. And yes, resources limited to elites tend to be religiously significant because religion was one of the most important legitimizing forces the Inka had. There was very little separation of church and state to say "this is just for wealthy people, not for religion".

We also have early Spanish sources that talk about the pilgrimages notable locals would take, bringing small jars of their water sources to other settlements/religious sites (and vice versa), to symbolize and reinforce their religious connectivity.

Hyslop's old book Inka Settlement Planning is getting a bit dated, but chapter 5 specifically talks about how the religious significance of water impacted the construction of places like Huanaco Pampa if you're interested in learning more about this topic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceque_system
> It probably makes more sense to account the costs for building superchargers in car sales and profits, rather than the electricity costs.

Why would that make more sense? You'd need to raise the cost of the cars, which would decrease sales. Also, people who charge at home would be paying for super chargers they might not use. Usage-based charges seems totally logical here.
A 6K display typically refers to a monitor or screen that has a resolution of 6,144 pixels horizontally and 3,456 pixels vertically. This results in a total of over 21 million pixels, which is significantly higher than the resolution of all traditional high-definition (HD) displays.

You can read the article on our website: https://www.getreview4u.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-6k-displa...
I gave up on RSS a long time ago. It's ironic how people think it's great to send full articles through email, but only want to push short (some times even misleading) summaries through RSS.

Yes, RSS should be even better than email for the marketing people.
Why the Answer Is So Often Ads
lol. glad you associated that jason guy with these rats
How would banning facial recognition databases work? Would there be a limit to the variety of photographs one can have? To the metadata one could associate with them? What would happen if a general image and video recognition module for a robot began to recognize different people? This seems like a slippery slope to me.
I feel like industry-wide the cuts & "fiscal discipline" is virtue signalling to Wall Street
Thanks! That's actually good feedback :)
Well, if you were to ask in this very same forum if the trade-offs of private and permissionless communication, as granted by cryptography, should apply to money. You would get a much different answer.

So either a large part of HN has already been co-opted by this public campaign, or is uneducated/obtuse, or is able to trace a very different set of weights for what you can do with your expression but not your money.
> Most mid-level and senior people have not learned the skills to mentor while working remotely.

I do not understand why you would choose to generalize to such an extreme degree. How could you possibly have the confidence to speak in such broad terms?

Reflecting on my last 6 years of experience as an engineer (which includes both office-based work and being remote) this is not true at all.
I need to do a lot of work on this extension but I made one that filters out negative and political content: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/healthy-surf/

Also works on old.reddit.com/r/all which is its main use case for me
Income tax is the problem. I wish governments solely relied on property taxes and user fees for funding, even if they had to increase them a lot to make up for the loss of income tax revenue.
> everything in your monolith probably should depend on the same version of third-party libraries.

And definitely runs on the same underlying language/compiler/runtime version
Tip for searching acronyms: put the word “acronym” in the query. Works for google and gpt.
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Sounds like a good reason not to take the pager more than necessary.
Like, obviously rebreathing CO2 is deadly, but that's more of a "plastic bags and children" kind-of issue. Luckily your body doesn't like the feeling of breathing in CO2 so it is uncomfortable if you leave the mask on without running the machine, but even then, it vents a decent percent when you exhale.

I'm not sure what a doctors prescription does for this. I imagine the doctor is just a middle man in most CPAP journeys. As-in, the doctor is not the one who provides or trains you to use the CPAP. A third-party medical device provider does (Also, the training is a two minute, "put-the-mask-on and use distilled water, now sign here" kind-of-thing)

Edit: BTW I think the deadly thing is how long it takes to get a CPAP, from scheduling with a doctor to finally seeing them and getting a device it takes like 6mo to 1+ year. EVEN IF THEY THINK YOUR CASE IS VERY BAD. (I went to a sleep doctor in a hospital and they said I had one of the worst apnea cases he had seen, it still took another 3+mo from that point to get a device...)

You have 1. a device manufacturer, 2. a third party device seller, and 3. a sleep doctor. It takes time to get seen by a sleep doctor who then orders a sleep study device that needs to be provided by party 2 who gets it from party 1. Party 2 then provides results to party 3 who then prescribes a device, party 2 then needs to give you one of there devices if they have them in stock, if not they need to order them from party 1.

IMO there are two middle men here, the doctor and the device shop.

If you get a prescription you can get devices directly online (from sites who are just a more market-competitive version of party 2 above), but sometimes ResMed and Philips only sell there newer devices to people in the middleman scenario described above. E.g. for the first year or two of the ResMed AirSense 11, online shops (still requiring prescriptions) were not able to sell them.
The name is really unfortunate. It's way too close to an ethnic slur which is spelled a bunch of different ways, but darkie is almost the same as Darke.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/darky
I cannot agree more. In my opinion it's the only music platform that hasn't been entirely captured by the mainstream record labels. I get all kinds of cool DIY bands recommended through it. I got more good recommendations from using it in a couple of hours than I got in the last few years via Spotify.
hypothesize all you want, imagine the causes all you like, I don't care, but don't say you know, when you don't, that's all.

if you don't know, and you're talking to a layman audience, don't say you know. don't pretend you know, don't even present guesses, even when they are framed as guesses, because people will hear you saying you know.

"we think [educated guess] but we don't know" is the only acceptable phrasing, to me.

Remember this: science can never tell you when your hypothesis is correct. science can only ever tell you when your hypothesis is wrong.

I think the entire world has forgotten this.

Richard Feynman explains it very well in this lecture, particularly in the bit starting at 20:04.

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/fml.html
> I might say if you haven't experienced carrying a meaningful text-only relationship over years and treated it equal to your "real life" relationships, then you can not know the effectiveness that comes from it

See, this is dismissive. You're assuming something about me. I'm not assuming anything about you -- I'm just saying, you clearly haven't been bitten by this yet. I have, and I'm trying to share that experience.

When I was younger, just like you, I thought I had discovered a new way of working. To a certain extent, that was true. You can do a lot of things remotely. But the best things in my own career, without exception, have come from in-person relationships.