skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Melatonin supplements are not good for napping. If it's having the proper effect, it should get your body into full sleep mode, and you'll want to get a full 8 hours or whatever. Forcing yourself up early will have the exact effect you describe.

> Taking it at night time doesn’t quite show how powerful it is - since you’re sleepy anyway.

If you're already sleepy enough to fall asleep at what you deem to be a reasonable time, and you're able to sleep deeply enough for the length of time you want, then you probably don't need melatonin supplements.
> The typical range of a fully charged electric car these days is sufficient to get out of the way of almost any predictable natural disaster.

Maybe, and maybe not. The one time I had to do this myself, I started with a full gas tank and still ended up stopping to fill a couple of times. An evacuation is hardly the ideal condition for range, with lots of stop-and-go traffic. You need to not only get out of immediate danger but also find some safe place to lodge overnight that doesn’t interfere with the people behind you that also need to get out.
Not the types of partners we're talking about, not in this part of the world. I suppose if some Yemenese or Saudi has 4 wives, it's technically that many fewer you could potentially have...

The logic works out "close enough". You don't really live near any FLDS compounds anyway.
Lease deals like this tend to be structured as an amortizing loan over 3-5 years. They also probably did not finance the entire value, but the entire value will be collateral. If they financed, say, 70%, then a couple years in the remaining exposure may be well under 50% of original price; four years in, they likely need only a low recovery to become whole.
Would you sleep in a hotel who's owner turned voyeurism into a business?
As a 90s kid a remember peak oil. It was taught every where except in one class - economics. The teacher was adamant we would never run out of oil because as the supply dwindled the cost would go up and new oil or other forms of energy would be found. Makes perfect sense now but at the time this was not the norm. Economics ended up being my favorite class. Slightly related he also predicted the internet bubble collapse as I was explaining how I as a teenager was making money on the internet doing nothing in 99 - and his response was that will end because you don’t get money for nothing forever.
Funny how Fred Brooks keeps repeating history.

I am just watching as the young and optimistic learn the hard truth.

Build one to throw away - mythical man month.
>So German doesn't need another set of Unicode code-points for A-Z; it just needs codepoints for those extra letters.

The extra letters would sort differently though right? I wouldn't expect ö/ä/ü to sort after z. For ß I guess it's not a concern since it never appears at the start of words.
No, there really are climate deniers. Paid for it otherwise.
A lot of universities in China have or used to have hotels on their campuses. It wasn't weird at all staying at a campus hotel at Peking University 20 or so years ago. It is seen as kind of old fashioned however (like hotels at similar company towns), so it is a bit surprising to see Google doing this (disclaimer: I work for Google, but not in Mountain View).
They are different and not mutually exclusive things. Window Maker is a window manager with a NeXTStep-like look. GNUstep is an application framework.

You can use GNUstep with Window Maker (and many do) but you can also use it with KDE, GNOME, XFCE, FVWM, IceWM, JWM or whatever window manager you like. AFAIK GNUstep also has a Wayland backend so you could also use it with Wayland compositors.

Similarly you do not have to use Window Maker with GNUstep or any ObjC runtime or libraries, just use it by itself as a window manager. Personally i do not use GNUstep at all but i use Window Maker.

(note that Window Maker does create/use a GNUstep directory in the home directory but that is a historical artifact and IIRC in recent versions it can be made to use a directory inside .config instead).
This is 0.3 and not 3 right? I just checked and my pills are 3mg. If it's supposed to be 0.3 I will buy a new bottle immediately and see if it improves my sleep.

100% agree about taking it early, I get a bit of an "omg I'm sleepy" effect immediately, but I'm pretty sure it's placebo, I have to take it about 1-2 hours before I want to sleep. But it's still not super effective on its own.
My primary use case is augmenting my napkin math. That doesn't necessarily mean doing all calculations on the calculator, just offloading the parts where my intuition is likely to fail, to help narrow down the result.

For anything where precision and correctness matters (long formulae, sums of values) I'm usually using more specialized tools, from math software to spreadsheets. They could be tested and verified, unlike calculators. And that's exactly what I don't want to see in a calculator I use, because it turns it into something more heavyweight. Calculator is a bicycle for me, not an earth moving machine.
for any1 checking in I havent been able to test it yet because i got my motherboard and ram replaced. so i had yet to check would be nice if there was some program logging this for me automatigically
Yes. N if they are running on Intel they can run just about anything. On ARM you can baked your own or use one of the handfull of distros designed specifically for this.
I take 3mg most nights and find it's an very effective asleep aid. I've tried breaking up the tablets to take around 1 to 0.5g but I don't feel like it does anything. Of course, this is purely anecdotal and it may well be placebo. But it works and as someone who often struggles with sleep I'm not gonna complain when I find something that helps, placebo or not.

At worst, it's far less harmful than drugs, and at best, it may have a bunch of other benefits from reducing cancer risk to reducing depression, to helping with acid reflux and GERD - none yet proven though.
The last time a company tried to get me to pay for my own room and travel expenses during "unapproved business travel" at their home office when it came time to expense it, I found a new job within a week.

My CEO called me, highly upset that I was leaving. I asked him what did he thing would happen when he's the one who requested my presence there in the first place. He wouldn't budge on the expenses, so I wouldn't budge on getting the fuck out of there.
Yes, it is natural for people to look at what's offered, see "it's free for me to use" and think that it's open source software like everything else that the broader community has worked hard to accomplish over the past 25 years. The hard work that created a bountiful commons of public software that anyone can use for any purpose is taken for granted these days.

One day they may understand what they didn't have to fight for. But I hope they don't.
It isn't oriented at local employees, probably. More like...hey some Googler from Seattle needs to visit Mountain View for a few days, and doesn't want to drive, where will they sleep?
How’s the song go?

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime.

That’s why I sleep on company time.
I didn’t know Californians to be this stupid.
If you want to send a copy of your camera stream to everyone on the call from your device directly for lower latency...
You're saying this as if it's self-evident. Why not?
> Where are the other fast moving plants?

Seems there is a bunch of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_plant_movement
If you don’t like remote work, it’s always “your problem” somehow. Everybody has to like remote work, I guess. And if they don’t it means they are flawed somehow.

It’s kinda nuts the lengths people to go put down those who simply hate working at home 40 hours a week.
Am I the only one who finds that author gives very little details about what "working asynchronously" is and how it actually functions, focusing mostly on some benefits it ought to provide or some other behaviours benefital in traditional office life as well?
I suspect this is paid for by employees to stay on one side of the "line".

If google provided bedrooms for employees, they would be seen as a sweatshop.

Additionally, what if someone did "something" in their bedroom? Google might be responsible.

But if there is a hotel, and the employees pay, then what happens in the hotel room stays in the hotel room, especially legally.
One of the best things I ever did was to come up with a straight-forward definition of UI components in our CMS, so our designers and front-end developers could speak to each other and be on the same level. When new features were developed, and new components introduced, we would all agree upon what made up that component and document it.
Can’t they include the hotel fee as part of your salary? Could be part of total comp.
Yet another case where capitalism incentivizes pathologizing natural human behavior. It is absolutely normal to want to talk to people, to chitchat, to be social for some portion of the half of your waking hours that you are getting stuff done. At least on assembly lines you can have some of that. WFH can be demonic.
Seems to be for business travel. All the adjacent hotels in that area can reach $200-300/night with business travel. If you're Google size, that cost can be quite high.
It is their name on the masthead. If they don't agree with it they shouldn't publish it. Doing this 'at arms length' allows them to have this under their banner while at the same time being able to say 'that wasn't us'.
I have seen this story repeated in many media outlets but no mention of what this ingredient actually is.
i think it’s mostly out of fragility, fear and denial.

It’s so much easier to put your head in the sand.
Taiwan has a secret doomsday plan for China
I think people are more annoyed than anything. No one really knows where this is going, signs are promising yet the number of obnoxious contrarians who are quick to dismiss the potential is high. They are far worse than people who really want to believe it's real.
I've really been wondering what the plan is for the construction industry through climate change. A lot of people on job sites around the country are experiencing temperatures unlike anything that was ever normal, day after day after day. Most states do not have good protections for their workers in the heat. There is no federal OSHA heat safety regulation, despite the common misinformed assumption that there is.

If the USA keeps sending its construction crews to sweltering jobsites with no legal protection for their safety in the heat, hotter summer after hotter summer, people are going to suffer and die for no good reason and there will be follow-on effects. It is a heavily unionized industry that the entire country relies on and generally undervalues.
really exciting stuff, waited years for this kind of news from that mission. I think its the case our solar system is only part of another previous solar system that went super nova. Finding information about that previous system is pretty cool
Most if not all systems had threads before POSIX Threads. POSIX Threads brought a standard interface to replace the chaos that reigned. It took many years for the ridiculous amount of thread API portability cruft in Unix ecosystem software to be excised. You saw something similar with atomics until C11 and C++11 atomics displaced old interfaces, though that switchover seemed to happen much quicker, perhaps because it was principally a userspace issue and you could bring newer toolchains and binaries to older platforms.
It makes sense for it to be available and also for traveling employees to be able to expense it. I wonder what Google's policy is on that?
In this context it has a technical meaning, as in Taleb's book "Black Swan" [1]. His hypothesis is that the distribution of (stock) market events is not gaussian, as usually assumed. In fact, the distribution is not even knowable. He uses the example of a turkey: every day you get fed, life is good, until Thanksgiving when you get killed. Nothing in your experience prepared you for that event. (I think market black swan examples would by 9/11. Maybe Lehman Brothers collapse, but I think that something like that was predictable.)

Given the OP's question, it's not clear they are using Taleb's definition, either. As GP pointed out, Taleb's black swans are by definition unpredictable and un-reasonable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
You can read for enjoyment and you can read for self-improvement; either is fine by me as long as you aren't deceiving yourself. Imbuing a recreational activity with moral heft can devalue both recreation and morality, and I think that's one component of the tension the author of the article is wrestling with.
Collectively we have a lot of power, individually much less.
It was never really my jam, but I used to follow the up-and-coming fantasy-land specs with great interest. It just seemed like a sharp dedicated community of folks trying to figure out better fp & algebraic stuff. I'm not sure who trailed off - in general I feel like there's much less connection in tech world, that the tech twitter and every other ultra-active tech channel has somewhat decayed. https://github.com/fantasyland/fantasy-land

Thanks for the links. I know I've seen @gcanti's name a thousand times already, but had utterly forgotten fp-ts.
This is a parody of the letter about Gen AI right?

edit: for reference: https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime...
Reasoning in Large Language Models Through Symbolic Math Word Problems
Content-Addressable Storage vs. Location-Based Storage for Websites
> (And at <$500, not much more expensive.)

It's even worse.

From the article:

> But right now, you can buy a "new," unused Flip C302 for $550 from Amazon or $820 via Walmart's Marketplace

So it's actually cheaper to buy an ipad than an unsupported chromebook.
I think it’s some ultimate “dad joke”
Is a fork more expensive than starting anew? How?
The root cause of my “issue” is I’m human and I’ve evolved to work with people face-to-face, not through a computer.

I’m not yearning for social interaction because I need a friend. I’ve got friends and they’re not at my job.

I’m yearning for the variety of different communication methods I have in a physical domain with the added bonus that I can change the environment I’m in to accommodate different tasks.
Ok I think we're talking about two separate things here - you're referencing a root module and not a "stack", as in a stack is a full service/application that uses multiple modules to deploy. Your db module, eks module, etc. All independent modules, not combined into one singular module. Say it's sitting in the /terraform/app1/services/db(&)app folders type of scenario.

I think you're talking about putting stateful and stateless objects inside of a single module. So you've got /terraform/modules/mybigapp/main.tf that has your microservice + database inside of it.

If I'm right and that's what you mean that's really interesting I don't think I've ever seen or done that but now I'm curious. I'm pretty sure I've never created an "app1" module with all of its resources.

Am I totally off here?
I'm not saying that the fine should be some fixed percentage of the revenue, I'm saying that it absolutely must be high enough to ensure the expected profit of just eating the fines and carrying on is negative. A sufficiently small fraction of speeding is revenue-generating that it's likely not worth the trouble, but in that example, you should probably be fined $10,050 or something. Though speeding tickets are a bit different because they already also come with points and a path to revocation of license.
Yeah but it becomes a totally different thing if you have it in your pocket whenever needed.

The best camera is the one you have with you, and the same goes for this too.
Interfering with firefighters is a bit different from driving around and starting fires though, init?
We are slowly moving in that direction, but I see almost 0 chance for it to happen in 2023
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Totally agree. I really hate how so many people paint those who want 2019 normal office interaction back are somehow deeply flawed and just need to straighten up and fly right somehow.
They are locked down beyond what the average lay person is willing to go through before giving up.
Maybe, just maybe, man and wife till death do them part is a solution to a problem that has long been forgotten, and countless civilisations have fallen after adopting the attitude you project in your hypothesis.
I will sometimes give an obviously temporary name, like “foo”, if I can’t immediately think of something decent. That way I’m not slowed down. Once the code works I’ll update the name. For me, it can be easier to name these things after I’m mostly finished writing the code.

If I can’t think of a decent name I’ll mention this in a code review comment to get others’ input.
it's signed by "Dr. Eustace Thermomagnus", so yes
Humanity will use 1.7 Earths' worth of resources this year
>a very fat country (the fattest ever to exist)

Not quite -- https://obesity.procon.org/global-obesity-levels/. Kuwait seems to be the only 'big' place that's ahead of the US, but your characterization is inaccurate -- there are many middle-eastern countries right around the US's percentage.
Richard Hanania Wrote for White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym
Pretty awful joke.. had me going until it hit the 6 month pause moment
FreeBSD is one of the largest and oldest democratically-run open source projects
Non-starter.

Libraries were never meant to be distributors of pornography. Especially to minors.

There are plenty of outlets that provide free smut. Libraries should not contain materials that make people (especially women) feel attacked.
Meanwhile, I'm still sitting on my unsupported Google Pixel 3 without absolutely any reason to upgrade it besides "Google decided to not give it any more security updates". There's nothing on newer phones that I want, this one works just fine, even its battery levels! Why, oh why!?
I try to always add comments to such code that explicitly says exactly that. Something like:

> This is a best effort hack based on X and Y. It might not be 100% correct. Feel free to improve it.

> - Name, 2023-08-05
Wait until you hear about what happened when you asked the librarian for an audiobook when I was a kid.
Xv6: A modern, x86 reimplementation of 6th Edition Unix
how about making music with synth-style language?

https://glicol.org/

the ablenton learningmusic is also a good resource:

https://learningmusic.ableton.com/
I have the observation:- first version is never the best it will work with bugs, then you iterate and improve structure and arch. The third is the best.
No time to waste doing that.
Some people like dark themes, others like light themes, so gray is the middle ground :-P.

FWIW GNUstep is themable so it should be possible to customize it. Though i'm not aware of any that follows modern trends, but at least it is possible to make it kinda sorta like a broken telephone version of early Mac OS X using the Rik theme[0] (the screenshot also seems to be using a custom theme and setup for Window Maker too and judging from the shadows it most likely also uses Compiz as a compositor).

[0] https://github.com/AlessandroSangiuliano/rik.theme
Ditto for Windows 95.
I was in DC during the wildfires, and the construction companies there seemed to hire (I assume undocumented) Central Americans to do all the construction work during that whole ordeal. They'll probably continue to resort to undocumented labor.
> (Nature!)

I have no opinion on the topic of LK99, but the nature article posted is not from the world-famous peer-reviewed scientific review, it's from an affiliated science news article.

You are right that there is a lot of hype around that topic, which isn't necessarily warranted, but people would also be right to point out that an article that transform the lack of certainty barely 10 days after the initial article into a reason for doubt is a bit of a clickbait.

I'm all for scientists publishing early, but if the consequence is news organizations and the general public breathing down their necks, I can understand why they don't.
I think you’re right. Would be very hard to exploit I imagine though.
This is hilarious. Love the goofy names at the end

"Countess Valentina Quenchfield, Inheritor Emerald and Copper Mines Company"
The movie overdramatizes history to make Einstein seem more significant. Einstein never worked on the Manhattan project, and the Nazis were earnestly working on their own attempted nuclear device. They just didn't finish it first. The "big powerful rocket" would have been quite valuable if they did.
great discussion on this exact topic from yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36989569
My guess is simply to deter people from using it as their more permanent option.
Nevertheless, the phrase "I owe my soul to the company store" starts ringing in the back of my head.
> The implication that some people just live at a hotel for part of their life is still, I feel, like 20x better a quality of life than where we were pre-pandemic with commuting. But it's still bloody weird.

For a long time now, it's been not-weird for a lot of people.

Within the realm of tech jobs, it's not-weird at some large companies to have folks travel, so everyone crunching on one project can be together to work on it.

For certain types of IT equipment (mainframes, supercomputers, big tape libraries, and more), it's not weird for support and installing engineers to travel from location to location, working on service calls or new installs.

For electricians with high-voltage experience, it's not weird to travel to where a new data center is being built, or other facility that needs major electrical work done under time constraints.

And then your have pilots, railroaders, long-distance truckers, etc..
There's a gym, with showers.

A cafeteria of course.

Locker for my stuff.

I think that's all covered.

Is there a laundromat?
I’m skeptical that when the next generation takes over there will be a huge change. It easy to blame boomers but it doesn’t appear there is a huge appetite for a reduction in carbon footprint that would include significantly less travel on airplanes, less energy usage and diet changes for reducing meat consumption.
I use 0.3mg and it has also improved my sleep drastically. It’s not a typo. I also give it to my kids who had terrible problems with sleep (staying up until 1am and bad stuff) and it’s made bedtime happen promptly.
Very cool! I'll be trying it out this weekend!
I don't see what you are talking about. There is still no mention of play protect.