skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given things like Viet Nam, the Cold War/Iron Curtain, the inflation of the late 80's, a couple of Oil Crises, brushfire wars, ... it's safe to say that people starting out then had various distractions that kept them from doing their best. Before the boomers, they had wars and the Depression, making everything I just mentioned small potatoes.

I went to uni in the mid-70's and I've sat thinking about it while having coffee. Science major, 36 courses with lots of math and labs, so they're probably comparable to today. I had computers to play with, but they were big, honkin' things I had to walk a few blocks to get to. There was a good party scene with booze, soft and hard drugs if you knew where to look. Racial tensions were present in various cities. Music was great, both radio and concerts. The only real difference was that there was no 24/7, on-line presence.

We had phones, but to interact with others on campus it involved getting together somewhere - smallish groups no matter how you did it. The phone was used to deal with one's parents or a remote social relationship but even those could be dealt with via snail mail. But nothing ate huge blocks of non-academic time as even gaming and D&D required a clump of people to do anything with it.

This suggests that yeah, the current and preceding generation have it worse than those before them due to the network, not due to economic or social activities. Campus life might be a little less safe than previously, but the urban campuses in the Northeast in the 70's were not peaceful islands of tranquility. The effects of the network and social media are that significant, and as I type this, I can see the staggeringly enhanced communication opportunities and time sinks being the significant difference between "now" and "then".

Given that the VC culture has funded much of the network and all of social media, it might be hard to look in the mirror at times? The joke was that the best and brightest of these generations aren't solving great problems - they're selling ads and collecting people's data. Hell, a large chunk of the young protested such things in the late 60's! Is this the best we all can do?

Oh, and statistically pretty much everybody had to write the "Is Hamlet Mad?" or "Was Hitler inevitable?" papers at least once back then. Perhaps that continued to today, but the AI tools should make such things way easier. That's something that you don't have to sweat anymore :-).
For inference? Not really. LLM observability startups are a thing. Arize.ai probably the most well known.
>I’ll just take out a 5% loan to speculate on the stock market

Ok.
What a bunch of nonsense and whataboutism.

Mobile phones are very important for European citizens: there's so much stuff that depends on them... companies require their employees to use them for 2FA, governments use them for logging into various government services, it's the preferred method of interfacing with banks, supermarkets, post office... my son's school has a phone app, which is the only way they communicate school schedule, or stuff like teacher's absence, going on field trips etc.

Apple is just another empire of evil that needs to be regulated in order not to treat its customers like slaves. It's absolutely not a waste of time to make them play nice or gtfo.
I get tunnel vision when I've been coding for several hours. I'll be stuck on a problem and I'll keep switching back to the same two areas of focus that I've already exhausted. I'll get frustrated because the problem seems totally inexplicable. The other day I was stuck on such a problem at 8pm. My sister in law suggested I just go to sleep, and look at the problem with fresh eyes tomorrow. Doing what she said, I solved the (stupidly simple) problem within 5 minutes of turning my laptop on the next day.

There are SO MANY environmental and physiological factors which go into your state of mind. Some variables that I try to control for:

1. What (if anything) did you eat today

2. How much water did you drink

3. Did you shower today

4. How much sleep did you get, or how long have you been awake (probably the most important one right here)

5. What is the warmth of the light where you are working (is it cloudy and rainy outside?)

6. What is the temperature of the room

7. Is anything else going on in your life occupying your mind right now? If you take medication: did you take your medications?

8. Did you exercise today? Do you exercise at all? Are you healthy?

9. How is your posture?

10. Is your work environment clean? Is it noisy?

11. Do you work better with music on, or in silence?

12. Did you drink so much caffeine that you are now manic and can't focus?

13. Are you happy?

The brain is a part of the body
> I'm surprised that Carmack seems to find this absurd.

It's like asking superman how much weight we should be able to lift. Doesn't apply to most average folks.
If my employer isn't paying me, then what value are they providing?
The number of submitted links to Reddit being submitted per day now is about the same as it was a month ago before the API controversy started, roughly 5 to 10 per day.

You are probably just noticing them more now because there have also been a bunch of recent submissions to articles about the current Reddit API controversy which is made you more likely to notice all things Reddit.
I will try to gather some resources later tonight. If needed I’ll type up something more comprehensive.
Not their human rights, but many of their civil rights, yes.

A good example - the Sikh believe that men should maintain their beards, and should wear a specific head covering. Freedom of religion/expression laws in the US prevent schools, or public institutions, from requiring those men to remove their head coverings or to shave. However, for the longest time, Sikhs who wanted to serve in the US armed forces had to chose between being religiously observant,or being eligible to serve (saying "no" in boot camp when they come by with the clippers does not a happy career make).

Even now, there's a dispensation for Sikhs, but in times of war/necessity, that goes out the window. (Tangent - the reason the armed forces have facial hair regs for men is a) conformity but also b) so that gas masks/CBRN protective gear can get a good face seal. Additionally, and this sounds dumb but it's true...helmets aren't designed for people to have a lot of hair under them, which is something women in combat conditions she had to encounter as well)
> But in order for a 4 day work week to be more productive than a 5 day work week then that means your work output on the 5th day is negative.

You are assuming equal productivity (per working hour) in both scenarios. However, it just might be that the worker who just came off a 3-day weekend, and knows they only have to work for 4 days before their next break, will be more productive per hour than someone who just came off a 2-day weekend, and who knows they will need to work for five days before their next break.

Basically, you are assuming that people are robots and get a certain amount of work done per hour regardless of circumstances.
More anecdata, since I've felt both the same way as most of the commenters here, and as Carmack

If I have a bunch of tasks that are part of something interesting and worthwhile to do, and I don't need to meet with people to get them done, I can hang out and work on those tasks for 14 hours no problem. I can keep doing that every day for a really long time too, I don't get burned out.

BUT in the real world that's almost never the case. That's how it worked when I was making unsuccessful SaaS business attempts and drawing down my savings. Now that I'm back in Silicon Valley working for the FANGMAN on a tiny piece of His next attempt at world domination, I get exhausted and burned out pretty quick. I've got maybe 4 good hours of concentrated effort in me per day, it's a struggle to drag myself into the office, the week just crawls by and the weekend is gone in a flash..
Restricted shitty breathing, both chronic and short term, jack up your blood pressure, stress and cortisol levels, etc. Healthy athletes know how to breathe. Chess is no different. You can be a great chess player in spite of your terrible body mechanics, breathing patterns, etc. It doesn't mean it's "good" for you, and certainly doesn't mean it's unavoidable.
How do you plan your week?
This is how I plan my week. How do you do it?
Flakes rule, impure eval drools.

But also, my "personal config" has two dozen imports and overrides nixpkgs on most of those. I have a list of complaints regarding flakes that is only dwarfed by 6+ year old general nix issues, but I could never go back.
You use the acronym FSBO on the web site (and here) without indicating that it means "For Sale By Owner". Spelling that out on the site might make it easier for the average person to understand.
Your idea is literally illegal in some states like Michigan and Ohio, where it is illegal to teach inmates programming topics.

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/aug/17/prisons-c...
I really like the term "athlete engineer". Thank you for that.
>In the spring of 1961, when he was thirty,

Ellsberg drafted the top-secret operational plans for general nuclear war issued by McNamara to the Joint Chiefs of Staff...

Ellsberg believed that he was never charged with possessing the nuclear papers because senior government officials,

unaware that the documents had been washed away, feared that he would leak them...

"They were afraid that, if they charged me, I would release it all," he said,

referring to President Richard Nixon and his national-security adviser, Henry Kissinger.

----

I'm reminded of the satirical Cold War farce film when thinking of

Dr. Strangelove : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb : https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dr_strangelove

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/
“If that time holds true as we grow the sellers savings are between $22,000 and $60,000 or event more depending on your home value.”

Should be ‘even more’ I think :) nice site!
> Looks interesting, not sure what "deep" MicroATX is other than being out of spec for MicroATX by about 19 sq. inches

Look at the orientation of the ram slots and the fins on the heatsinks, this is clearly designed for 1U and 2U rackmount chassis front to rear airflow. The board being slightly smaller than regular ATX is helpful in fitting more ridiculous-speed 40mm height fans into the center of a chassis that isn't too deep.
> total bankruptcy and life debt

Those are two different things. Bankruptcy isn't fun, but it clears your debt.
The red team, offence, manufactures crimes, the blue team, defence, solves them. Crime plots that happen to be completely staffed by agents dont get reported.
Snowden remains a US citizen.
"That cloud backup service for incidental images in Google orkut, chat, hangouts and other dead Google spaces has been canned, years later "

0k.. I guess. I moved two images from 2016 out, I'm good.

(I suspect like millions of others I had no idea this was a "thing" so on that anecdata shutting it down is ... meh)
That's certainly a valid opinion to have.
Note that this is entirely different to Google Photos Archive. I have appear to have two pictures in Google Album Archive -- one of which I have used in a blogger post (maybe 10+ years ago). I have no idea whether this shutdown will break my post -- the support page seems a bit short on details.
Well that caused a certain amount of WTF this morning and head scratching. Thanks for posting this.
IIUC "stochastic" in this case means selected via random or otherwise difficult to predict process. In contrast to Deterministic.
Uranium came out of the ground as well, and there were natural reactors.
Touche ;)
Many of the people who have that freedom are the enslavers, or the tollbooth operators whose fees prevent others from achieving freedom.

I dont disagree that its possible! But i see the need for the people to band together and get some of that freedom through some sort of rule setting
If its something you're interested in doing what's the worst that could happen if you ask?
I wonder what the consensus view on trying to use exogenous testosterone for gaining muscle mass, I always thought it was somewhat risky.
> If the cost of losing data to hacks was, say three times higher than the cost estimated to secure it

I’d estimate that if this happened, the cost to secure data would grow by about a factor of 3.
It looks like the relevant state law is missing in the ToS:

> These Legal Terms and your use of the Services are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of ________ applicable to agreements made and to be entirely performed within the State of _______ without regard to its conflict of law principles.

Also, not sure why you are loading your ToS in an iframe and making it non-selectable and non-copyable? Seems rather user-hostile.
Merging bcachefs
> as much credibility as astrology

If this sort of scientific astrology ends up providing precursor signals for future earthquakes, why would geologists have a problem with it?
I did a five-year bid in Tennessee. What the article doesn’t point out is that Go players ranked way over the chess players in prison and almost always had a cell per person plus guaranteed trustee privileges. Because they were by far the best strategists the prison would not issue them any kind of writing implements or paper. These things had to be bought on the black market if you played Go.

But the checkers players always ranked way under the chess players, no matter how well they did in competition. There were usually 3 to 4 per cell and they were not allowed to look the Go or chess players in the eye.

Checkers players died on the average 14% more often than chess or Go players.

</kidding>
Beware persuasive communication devices in writing, reading scientific articles
Abridged title.
> “Over a longer period of time — not too long, but a matter of two or three years — you’ll eventually become aware of the limitations of this information. There is a great deal that it doesn’t tell you, it’s often inaccurate, and it can lead you astray just as much as the _New York Times_ can. But that takes a while to learn.

This is a part that would be good to remember in UFO discussions. You have no idea of what supposedly all this secret information about UFOs are, or about the context that is being suppressed, or even how much there is as opposed to Chinese whispers recirculating the same exact original datum, wikiception-style, slowly rising from some garbage better discarded to 'the intelligence community has reports'...
What a bunch of crock.

I have this new Nokia phone with a replaceable battery. It came with the pin you can use to open it (probably costs a few cents to manufacture, but if I had plenty of time to spare, I could've made one with a sturdy piece of plastic and sandpaper). The "mechanism" that keeps the back panel is just a piece of rubber, probably the same kind you find on hermetically sealing food containers.

Also, very few people want their phones water-proof (what for?). And even if you really, really wanted that, you could like spend 5-10 Euro on a water-proof case.
This was my source (in German): https://www.heise.de/news/Akkus-von-Smartphones-und-Tablets-...

The new law seems to exempt some devices by article 11. But I now think the article might just be dated or wrong.

Here's the passage translated by DeepL:

> However, Article 11 explicitly leaves room for more specific rules that ensure a "higher level of environmental and health protection." For smartphones and tablets, the Commission and member states already adopted so-called ecodesign rules in November that give manufacturers a choice: Either they design their smartphones and tablets so that users can replace the battery. Or they install the battery permanently, in which case it must still have at least 83 percent of its capacity after 500 charging cycles and at least 80 percent after 1,000 charging cycles. Smartphones must then also be dustproof and waterproof.

> From the EU Commission's point of view, these special ecodesign rules for smartphones and tablets guarantee a higher level of environmental protection and health protection than the Battery Ordinance. This applies "in particular due to the durability requirements," the Commission informed c't in response to an inquiry. Therefore, the ecodesign rules are applicable, it said. These come into force after a transition period of 21 months and thus earlier than the Battery Ordinance.

From my limited reading, article 11 only applies to devices that are built to be used in wet environments though.

The original proposal: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

Quote Article 11:

> 2. The obligations set out in paragraph 1 shall not apply where

> ...

> (b) the functioning of the battery is only possible when the battery is integrated into the structure of the appliance.

A smart lawyer could probably argue that a phone can not properly function when exposed to the elements without being integrated into the structure. But I don't know.
Super cool. I really like how clear, clean, and concise the main landing page & pricing page are.

Also, as a 36 year old developer, this product and you yourself, are inspirational. This sort of thing certainly lifts my spirits as I begin the job hunt after a sabbatical.

Thought I'd mention as well-- I heard about this Japanese developer who made an iphone app at age 84 and even met Tim Cook. [1]

[1] "Meet the 84-year-old Japanese app developer who inspired Tim Cook" November 23, 2019. Nikkei Asia. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Meet-the-84-year...
I bet many of them were groomed by special agents the same way.
Alternatively its fun to see which fan make even comes close to noctua, if not expensive
Subway Suitors Weigh $3B Securitization to Fund Buyout
I use my "low energy" time for the more menial tasks, and during those times often my subconscious surfaces useful ideas. This has been so successful for me over the years that I still haven't bothered to learn regular expressions.
By far the most memorable college class I took was an advanced electronics lab where I ended up as the "unofficial TA". I was by no means an expert but I guess I got a reputation for picking the material up quickly and being able to help guide my classmates to the same understanding. It was honestly a little stressful but in retrospect being pushed to internalize what I was learning deeply enough to be able to explain it clearly to fellow students was highly beneficial to my own learning process. I was never all that interested in grad school or academia, but the meta-lesson of that course has stuck with me in guiding career choices... I tend to seek out opportunities for consulting or mentoring type roles knowing that they will help further my own learning as well.
Because the 1% of fans of toxic journalism directly contribute to their income, and the 99% of haters don't cost them any money and still contribute by hate-retweeting. Readers with neutral feelings will neither subscribe nor spread awareness.

Hoffstader isn't a good example because the 99% of people who don't follow her don't have any bad feelings against her.
A seller can post a listing on Zillow/trulia for free and get massive exposure. What is the advantage here? Is this somehow complementary to those marketing efforts?
Your parent literally said

if, for example, your liquid net worth is 100x the replacement cost of your
home.

and

for the vast majority of people, rebuilding their home is not feasible with
their current net worth.
Too many eggs in the same basket. Why did so many agencies rely on Moveit?
Ebou: A cross platform Mastodon Client written in Rust
Great question marckohlbrugge. I will read your link a bit later I seem to have a lot of questions which is blowing me away. I am looking for critical, helpful, honest reactions. You cannot offend me. I am nearing six decades in real estate with an unusual history. Initially I was a huge supporter, and it took me 25 years to begin to turn contrarian. I believe real estate has many problems and I have tried to fix them from the inside. I wrote a book, I answer consumer questions on my dearmonty.com website, I finally realized to have an impact I had to do something much larger. Thank you for your questions. I appreciate it. Richard
That's absolutely normal for something meant to be in a rackmount server. This is not a desktop workstation board.
This is a silly point to make and discuss because the goal is not defined. If your number one goal is to build a company then other sacrifices along the way won't necessarily make you unhappy. If your goal was to maintain a happy family and that falls apart, guess what: you will not be happy.
I'd be curious to hear @patio11's thoughts on how much the prevalence of fixed rate loans in America influences the high rate of bank failures. IIRC the USA is one of only a few developed countries to have this system (Germany is another but the housing market there is much more rental based). Most others have variable rates, so banks simply raise the rates when interest rates go up. This has other consequences, specifically for consumer ability to service those loans, but it does help stop banks from going under. To the extent there were problems in the UK and Australia for example, they were largely fixed by regulatory changes after the GFC.
Actually, he did. lol
Huffman should have just come out and said "we cannot support third-party apps using our API any more, we are losing money on them, so they need to go". The constant BS is where the issue lies.
Battery is the only part of the phone that is guaranteed to fail with normal use, and making the battery hard to replace is a huge pain for end users (and in turn, to their wallets and the environment). Just pulling off the back plate and using your fingernail to replace the battery has turned to having to heat the screen, insert a wedge under the glass, but not deeper than X mm, scrub away the glue, without beaking the screen, unscewing a zillion screws, removing the mainboard, just to reach the battery, then unglueing the battery and the nfc antennas, inserting a new battery, which is sometimes impossible to buy from an OEM, assembling all together, reapplying glue, sticking it all together and hoping it won't fall apart in the pocket... or paying >100eur for a battery replacement, which is sometimes more than half the price of a new phone.
Your link contradicts your comment:

“In October 2012, Chen exposed the real name and details of Violentacrez (a moderator of several Reddit jailbait communities), a Texas Internet developer, who was subsequently fired from his job.”
Many businesses would behave much more conservatively -- making much smaller bets, conserving cash instead of investing it -- if they could not offload certain risks. So that ability does increase overall productivity IMO.
Your small town in SW Georgia wouldn’t be Buena Vista by any chance? Would be a small world.
> it would make the world “less unequal” if everyone was prevented from working longer hours. Yes, it would, but I am deeply appalled at the thought of trading away individual freedom of action and additional value in the world for that goal.

The film "2081" based on the short story "Harrison_Bergeron" depicts such a world, where everyone is forced to be equal, at all cost:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1282015/
The half-life of carbon 14 is 5,730 years. All living things are composed partially of carbon 14. But nobody worries about the radiation from it.

Anything with a long half-life is emitting very, very little radiation.

Anything with a short half-life isn't going to last long.
Hosting images and videos has a powerful lockin effect. For example I look to repost things from Reddit and then realise I can't because Reddit is hosting the video. It's additional work to go find the original source and post that.