skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leisure hours in a 5-day work week: 72 (8 hours per day and 16 on weekends)

Work hours in a 5-day work week: 40

Difference: 32 hours

Leisure hours in a 4-day work week: 80

Work hours in a 4-day work week: 32

Difference: 48 hours
tl;dr Nothing to see here, move along.

0. All of OP's submissions are from this researchinenglish.com

1. Link to the actual paper: https://psyarxiv.com/wsvq8/

2. It's pre-print.

3. It's based on a survey (self-reported).
I wrote my own irrigation controller with a web front-end on a pi3 and have used it for ~7 years.

Deployed a Qt app to dozens of pi4-based machines for doing clock-in/out and generating various PDFs in to support the business I was working for.
Show HN: Visualize SQL to help faster understand the meaning
SQL is a powerful and popular language, but it can become hard to understand once the queries become lengthy.

We have developed a tool that capture the logical intent of queries in visual diagrams that can help users understand the meaning of queries faster and more accurately than SQL text alone.

You can try it, just copy and paste your sql without schema information.
This is fascinating to me.

What fraction of companies in Croatia are "money laundering"? Because if the fact is that most companies start out this way, and we end up with Rimac due to a magical grouping of people, then their success is hardly ignoble at all; it should be celebrated, supported, and leveraged into a moderate size organization. In that sense, they were successful despite their beginnings, which would normally be structured to not foster innovation. So they should be celebrated by Croatia and by Croatians since it is an example of what companies can be, and not so much an example of how companies can start since we already know the probability of success with that method is very low.
As a grey/gray beard, I fought long and hard for $reasons against any distros that switched to using systemd. I lost that fight and although I wouldn't say I will ever fully embrace systemd (for the same $reasons), I accept that it is "the way forward" chosen by so many flavors of *nix that I might as well suck it up as the de-facto way of doing things. To be clear - I'm not salty about it because, meh - life's too short to take a teaspoon to the incoming tide. I've upvoted this submision and bookmarked the link for easy reference.

That is all.
Which is yet more reason to give us something to put a thumb on the younger side of the scale.

An age limit would be a crude form of that. So would a term limit.

We could alter the seniority system that gives much more weight to people who have been there the longest. But that's a rule Congress passes for itself, and it's hard to imagine many incumbents giving up on a privilege they've been waiting for.
Would there be some standard between companies to always agree on the same day being the day off?

Seems like a nightmare for working with other companies if the employees are off on a day you are not, and you need to contact them to work on something with them.
oh right, sorry, thanks.
Ordinary banks create money everyday when they issue loans.
If you would read the first link, you would see that what you're claiming is unsubstantiated. They could track it to a great level of detail because they identified the threat vector and patched it quickly.
This is how we solve it in Manhattan https://i.imgur.com/qLYlbya.png
This article is so dramatic. "Look at how hard it was for these companies to go to four days a week."

It's not hard. You just declare Friday a weekend. Then you do everything like before.

Did you have meetings on weekends? No? Good, move the Friday ones to another day because they're on the weekend now. Who is going to answer customer support emails on Friday? The same people who answered on Saturday and Sunday, and maybe you'll pay them extra work on the weekend. What if we can't get everything done? You probably weren't getting everything done before, and you either worked on Saturday or just said screw it. Do the same thing.

The only slightly reasonable issue brought up was the lawyers who wanted to work four days but kept having to go to court on Friday. Yes, if you work with external entities, you either have to be willing to say no to working on Friday or if you can't, you have to wait for them to also move to four days. But very few people are actually in a position where they can't say no to the client (the lawyer being one of the few exceptions).

The WSJ wants to make it sound like a massive undertaking because they are pro-business and anti-worker. Don't buy the hype.
Jitterbug tried to have that market, but that was years ago. Looking at them now they seem insanely overpriced (almost $80 for a flipphone!)

Amazon has unlocked bar/flip phones for just over $20.
There needs to be a catalogue for this!
That's only for userspace apps. In fact even on Mac, only userspace code can be handled by rosetta2. For most applications this isn't a problem but a lot of games these days come with kernel components for anti-cheat.
Really nice visualization! I like the way the controls are shown/hidden by simply scrolling the page!

I once implemented a simple tool to explore binary hypothesis testing. [1]

Maybe adding an option to denoise the pixels by thresholding would be interesting.

[1]: https://static.laszlokorte.de/hypothesis/
Encryption still won’t stop it. You will need many blinders to get a fix on enough satellites.
there's a comment above : search for kaggle and you'll find such.

also:

https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced_guide.html
> Government spending on the other hand, is mostly decided by poor people (majority of voters)

Government spending is decided by Congress and the President, who are not poor people. There is a convoluted selection process in which rich people (donors) select the pool of candidates from a group of rich people, and then they let poor people vote on which of the rich people selected by other rich people they would like to have make decisions for us.

On a practical matter it is clear poor people do not make decisions because poor people want things like universal health coverage, but we do not have that.
If you've spent any time in the corporate world, I think you know that the majority of people slack off for part of the day. The medical profession has its own set of time problems that I don't think should be conflated with the time problems in the corporate world.

Your second point is definitely valid. Changing habits is really hard, and some of us are able to get by while spending very little time doing work because we work so much more quickly than the average drone.
That's a useful technology. Second Life / Open Simulator do not have that, and need it. It's good to hear about a success with that approach.

Improbable tried that, dividing the world into regions but moving the region boundaries around based on player density. This worked, but apparently required huge amounts of inter-server traffic. The system was too expensive to operate. (Running it on Google Cloud with metering for every client/server transaction didn't help.) Five indy free to play games, some of them good (look up Worlds Adrift), went bust because of server cost.

Improbable then pivoted to simulators for the UK military, a much less cost-sensitive market. That worked, but they had way too much company and funding for that niche. Then they tried to pivot to crypto metaverses, two years too late, and hooked up with the Yuga Labs (Bored Ape, Otherside) crowd. Lately, they're trying to do something with US Major League Baseball. Their solution to the cost problem is to only run special events that last a few hours, for which they can short term rent some huge number of servers from AWS or somebody.

There's still no good off the shelf solution for this kind of scaling, with big worlds and big moving crowds. Epic and Roblox were making noises about working on this problem a year ago, but not much has been heard recently. Now both are in money-losing and layoff mode.
New Sense-and-Respond Implant Technology Could Halve Cancer-Related Deaths
Yes, "hog" is slang for penis. Telling someone to "post hog" is a particularly common expression among more... online leftists. A degradation of their character, basically telling them that their opinions are worthless so they had better have a large member to make up for it.
For what you want done, $5k likely isn't enough, and here's why:

The kind of work you want done requires specialized knowledge of several domains (or the ability to quickly develop an understanding). The kind of people who already have that specialized knowledge or who can get up to speed that quickly typically get paid on the order of $200k/year (but probably often much more) in terms of base salary. If you consider that after taxes that can be as low as $150k/year or less banked, that translates into roughly $2884/week.

After taxes, your $5k offering is going to be roughly as low as $3k - $3.5k banked.

So what you're really saying is "here's potentially several months worth of work that we want you to do for not much more than what you would make elsewhere in 1 week and you're not going to see a dime until we see results".

Considering this could take up to two or three months of dedicated time and effort, here are more reasonable terms:

* $3k/week retainer (before taxes so this is less than what a skilled dev would get working full time but necessary for you to attract talent and take on part of the risk yourself)

* weekly progress check-ins

* $5k for C programs compiled with Zig targeting wasix-libc
running in Wasmer

* $7.5k for Zig programs compiled and running in Wasmer

* $2.5k for all Zig changes merged upstream

* $1k/bug retainer for future maintenance on this new Zig feature
There's a folkloric belief that ESR got very wealthy, because he wrote a blog post about how wealthy he believed he had gotten on VA Linux, but I don't think that really panned out. If you paid attention to his blog, while he was writing it, the last couple of years the narrative was instead that he was on the edge of not being able to do open source stuff anymore because he had no income; some of his friends/fans even wrote comments complaining about him asking for money, when everyone else just solves this problem by getting a job.

I don't know any more than anybody else who reads blog posts about this stuff, but I strongly suspect that he did not in fact blow a giant fortune, but rather, like a lot of people who briefly had a lot of paper wealth at that time, it never really materialized. It's an embarrassing blog post to write, "I thought it was rich, turns out I'm not", so there isn't the matching post.
Great ... typical Microsoft again, unlimited greed.

I was planning to redo my laptop, put in some new drives, remove old ones, maybe upgrade the gpu if possible at all.
It would mean installing win10 again, but it has a built-in windows 8 key.
So that would mean I'd have to double pay.

I'm pretty sure this is against some law in the EU at least.
Last time I looked at JAX MD it didn't support most of the force field terms necessary for simulating proteins and DNA. For example, it could do n-body simulations with some potential, but not the bonds/torsions between atoms. It's unclear if they added support, but that's a huge gap in functionality compared to other systems.
> […] and I've met mostly CEOs who exploit those people and the value they create for their own personal gain.

And also turn once-great companies into basket cases:

* https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646497/flying-blind...
Great news, but I'm still sad due to the lack of interest in funding a replacement. To put it in perspective, the cost of just one football (Premier League or NFL) stadium would pay for an entire radio array.
The adapter flashes a QR code on your monitor. It's not plug-n-play.
Yeah, but the original submission title (not the title of the article nor clearly based on the article) implied that in the US people are not supposed to (as in by some medical rule) drive after having their eyes dilated. It was something like "Soon people in the US can drive after eye dilation". Considering plenty of people drive after eye dilation already and there is no rule barring it the title was weird and bordering on nonsensical editorializing.
Could this be said for just about _any_ intrusion? Once you’ve been compromised, is there any way to know that no back doors were installed? Is this situation different than others?
massive telescopes still win in terms of light sensitivity per dollar. apature synthesis/VLBI are the clear way to go for angular resolution but for bigger fainter objects, you care more about area where a big dish does better.
Highway (https://github.com/google/highway), Google's SIMD library, lets you write length-agnostic SIMD code. It has excellent support for a wide range of targets, including both RISC-V and Arm vector extensions.
Lookie the thing is as long as interest rates are down, wages might go up nominally but in actual material terms you end up poorer. Unless you already own substantial hard assets or have access to the low interest rate loans. At the end of the day what matters is how many barrels of oil/kWh your monthly income can directly or indirectly be exchanged for.
Since becoming a freelancing contractor I’ve experimented a fair bit with my work week and for me the sweet spot is 5 6-hour days, split up as 2x90min, 2 hour lunch and another 2x90min.

I prefer a five day workweek with shorter days because I rarely have 8 good hours in me. That, and as long as the rest of the world is working 5 days a week it’s easier to conform.
> edit: Looks like there is some research being done, https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-07-26

Lockheed Martin and BWXT will build a demonstrator vehicle that will power up a reactor in space by 2027.

If that timeline holds, then actually seeing a nuclear-powered rocket in space is very near.
Also my radiologist neighbor works 3 day workweeks in 12 hour shifts I think. Or used to. I forget the details. So that example from GP doesn't make sense to me either.
Yes, you can. I'm less sure about "receiving updates for other ms products", but I never really knew what that did anyway.
It may be better to just treat the waste water and skip the desalination in that case.
> So unless you set your cluster to UTC

sounds like a good idea to me
> By that measure, are the type safety hints of Python not really giving any type safety?

If we're talking compile-time, then: yes, absolutely!

Type hinting doesn't provide type safety, because type safety isn't a spectrum.
This agrees with my experience when I was a young mathematician looking for math that is useful.
Ok fair enough - I was unclear on the definition of paper gold. But the idea that

>There is a belief that there exists a lot more paper gold than actual gold. So when the run on the reserves starts, the price of gold will explode as billions of dollars worth of gold in the market disappears.

is probably not representative of what would happen. Derivative bets can come and go without really moving the spot price.
So can numbers. What's your point? Do you think it's right to throw people in jail arbitrarily?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
"Only" for a day; Jeff Bezos makes $8 million per hour. $150 thousand per minute.

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-m...
> Theoretically: why not? Kernel is not something drastically different from userspace. Sure, some rules are different, but I don't think that it's completely impossible to adapt Rosetta to the kernel.

It's not impossible but very infeasible since kernel has critical sections where you can't take an interrupt or fault (leading to panic); such code sitting at the translation boundary would not work.
There is, I have some older purchases where there's no longer a download link at all and it just asks you to contact the artist directly
This has been a solved problem for a very long time. The nice thing about GPS satellites is that you know where they should be, and where they shouldn't, so long as your RTC is properly set and you've got a compass.

A GPS Digital Phased Array Antenna and Receiver (2000): https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA452307.pdf
This sounds attractive at first reading, but it has a logical fault in that many things that are 'invented' are not just a creation of the inventor. Math is an obvious example. It is 100% a human 'invention.' Yet it's "real" enough that it will certainly be involved in the first dialogue with another intelligent species. It's a reality, even if it exists outside the material world.

Our economic system is dysfunctional and getting worse, but I don't think it's about capital so much as it is about endless interest requiring (and assuming) endless growth, as the article hits on. Another perverting issue is governments going infinitely into debt, the US in particular, really distorts economies, and consequently societies. Here [1] are a series of graphs across a practically endless series of data. It focuses on the inflection point of 1971, which is when the USD became a completely free floating currency, enabling infinite 'money printing.' It's not hard to see that things haven't really gone so well with that ability unlocked.

---

As one interesting aside, as I was typing 'wtfhapp..' into Brave Search to grab the URL, I found it telling that one of the autocompletes (likely due to large numbers of searches for it) was 'wtf happened in 1971 debunked.' The inflections following 1971 are so extreme people clearly just can't even believe it. But there's no trickery there. One can read more about the Bretton Woods System (which is what we pulled out of in 1971), here. [2]

[1] - https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
I don’t entirely disagree, but while deltas can be small emails are usually pretty small themselves. It might be a single 4k write to each mailbox either way. And remember that appending to a file requires the OS to do a read plus a write, while adding a file to a directory requires a write plus an update to the directory itself (another read+write at minimum). Both require allocating sectors, which means updating the freelist(s), Of course there are filesystems like ZFS that can batch up all of those writes so that they become linear writes instead of random writes, but that’s not available if you‘re running Exchange.

I have no doubt that email servers could be better optimized, but only because I have that optimistic belief about all software as a general rule. (The probability that we have already found the most optimal way to write any non–trivial program you happen to examine is pretty low.) On the other hand, I doubt that Exchange has made _no_ progress at all over the decades.

The fact that their email server fell over from the load probably has more to do with poor choice of hardware than any software flaw. Their Exchange server apparently fell over while sending email to “thousands” of people, while the Bedlam DL3 incident at Microsoft involved a mailing list with 13k people on it. In 1997. Maybe that order of magnitude difference means that the Senate needs to buy an NVME disk. (Of course that ignores the fact that asking thousands of people to send you their location via email is pure stupidity; this is the Senate we’re talking about.)
You're right. I'll probably get the naughty stick again for that. It would end their emissions of CO2 though.
I think you were a little harsher than necessary, but this is a good point. Surgeons aren't doing surgery 40 hours a week. They'd be making tons of mistakes if they did that and they'd be getting burned out. The last surgery I had the doc only did ops on Tuesdays and Fridays.

In many ways it's a good analogy to writing code 40 hours a week. It takes high concentration and the quality of output drops heavily when you're tired or need a break or rest.
Yeah. Both "she's too old to run" and "she's the best candidate under our current system" can be true at the same time. Elsewhere in this thread, I proposed changing the system to have an upper age limit (65) on running for office, which nicely solves the problem, as someone else would have had to step up before her brain turned into pea soup.
It's a vulnerability that needs to be patched and may have major impacts on some services.

It's _not_ a vulnerability that needs to be mentioned alongside the webp cve lest the public be caught unaware of something they need to update on every phone and laptop they own.
The genie is out of the box. How would 2008 have played out if Bitcoin existed back then?
Another semi related thing I've thought about is how the invention of words comes about. I know most words today have an origin that can be traced back through text over hundreds of years, but what about the time way way back, Indo-European era, was there anything to trace back to? Was it just one or a few people who realized there as no grunt sound that meant "cold" or "elbow" so decided one day that that was the grunt sound they were gonna use and it spread naturally?
I have a split lunch schedule -- I usually take 30 minute lunches during Mon-Thu and take an hour for lunch on Friday. Based on my internal notes (and a bunch of metrics) I am more productive on Friday (especially afternoons) than I am on a given Tuesday afternoon. There's a ton of other variables and probably some contraindications in that anecdote, but it's the kind of counter-intuitive result that a 4-day work week is based on.

I'm also amazed at how variable an hour can be in terms of output. I can easily do 5-10x work at my best compared to my worst. The key here is being completely in the zone, and not trying to do it all the time.

I believe a 4-day work week could help put more people in that productive zone,resulting in as much/more output for less hours spent. Of course, you have to have employees trusting enough and stable enough to use the extra time to decompress.
10-12 hours back a week here. Life is so much better.
While I don't disagree that her staff was making decisions for her, most of the people in Congressional positions are making far less than $100k, and their pay has gone down in recent years, especially in context of inflation. Their pay is all available online: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44324 So I doubt that's a driving factor for any of them.
And does it fix it, typically, or is it like the network troubleshooter that never finds anything wrong and just gives up?
>Some modern AI tools are getting a late release in Europe because of regulation, some major apps like Threads are not even released here.

Sure, but how much of EU's economy is negatively impacted by Threads not launching here earlier?

And regarding AI tools, I too want them regulated in the sense that they must prove the models are trained exclusively on non-copyrighted material, or material they own the license for.

Sorry, I don't want to live an a wild-west where unscrupulous trillion dollar mega-corporations can just train their models on content without the owners' permission, and us citizens should just back off and support that blatant IP theft, because otherwise that poor trillion dollar corporation will not dominate the world and loose the AI wars.
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