skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I already spend an embarrassing amount of time slacking off daily, it's not like I'm pressed for time to get stuff done in the office.

Just because that is true for you doesn't mean it is true in general. Like, imagine a surgeon -- would he/she spend 8 hours a week slacking? Or a radiologoist -- can he/she read the same number of slides in 32 than 40? Or a barrista at starbucks?

Also, if you worked 32 hours, would you still slack off? Is there a reason to expect that your slack/work ratio would change? You claim you'd be "in a better mood" -- but as humans we tend to adjust to the circumstances we are in. So I'm not sure that would be the case long term.
If the dude had a couple more brain cells, he’d still have it.

> Domingos said that he was initially asked by security if he knew what the device did. The technologist replied by stating that the Flipper Zero is capable of, among other things, scanning and copying badge cards such as those used by the airport’s security personnel.
The Fed not being part of the government is a sham designed as a workaround to the Constitution not empowering the government to print money.

The Fed chair and board is appointed by the President and approved by Congress. It hasn't been tested in court whether the President can fire them.
peek productivity not means peek output, i'm agree than the possibility for 30 or 20 hour work week should exist but i'm working 20 hours and even when less productive i will make more in 30 hours, i don't want so i work 20, but i will make substantially more output in 30 hours not 50% more but 35% so my compensation make sense being lower , the 4 day work week means that productivity compensate the loss of hour so the output and to consequence the salary don't change.
This aged animal explains a lot. [30mins]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8NBSwDEf8a8

But essentially, the red shield aka rothschilds
Imo that segment used a flawed design.

> The MythBusters hid a mouse under a ball of elephant dung, planning to flip the dung over and reveal the mouse when the elephants approach it. When they flipped the dung and revealed the mouse, the approaching elephant was startled and quickly moved away from the mouse. The MythBusters then flipped dung without the mouse under it, but the elephants did not react at all. They then repeated their first experiment to confirm their results, and the elephant noticed the mouse and actively avoided it. Even though the elephants did not panic at the sight of the mouse, their acting cautiously around them was enough to have the myth be considered plausible, as it was not known whether the reaction was due to fear of or empathy for the mouse.

... Note how they were wild elephants, in an unnatural environment, facing weird dirt behavior.

In any case, elephants still avoid ants.
It seems like that most formal studies show that it’s just as productive, at least in the few nations that did made specific processes to test it out.
Just being curious, how can you know with an antibody test that you had asymptomatic covid on a particular time period, and not, say, as a result of vaccination.

Different antibody types maybe?

And are you sure it is long covid? Your symptoms don't look very specific, and the risk of long covid is usually proportional to symptoms (with no symptoms being the lowest risk). I say that because I had somewhat similar symptoms (very non-specific) and it wasn't covid (antibody test negative, blood test normal, it was before the vaccine), but if it was I would certainly have blamed it. It took time but it went away, I will probably never know what it was, my doctor couldn't tell either, and since I could handle it, I didn't want to get lost in tests and trying remedies. Maybe hormonal or something.
I'm a senior software engineer, but, yes, there are lots of complexities. 3 day work weeks might only work for top performers, but a lot of them never ask.
Why? Pay isn't related to output. It's related to what it costs to get me to work for you, ie worker supply and demand.
at my workplace it's done by having the same employees we had before, but working fewer hours each.
In the sense that it is "homologated" and has had to pass all of the same tests as a car that will sell in the hundreds of thousands, or even millions of units.

https://www.tuvsud.com/en/industries/mobility-and-automotive...
how did he make woman uneasy? Is dirty neckbeard a crime now? :(
You're breaking the license agreement (licenses are tied to the hardware and die with the hardware) but there's no technical limitations, no.
One can always find bad deals if they're inclined enough.

However they can also research about good Windows/Linux laptops and contribute to the conversation.

Some models among these are great: Thinkpad (these are legendary), TP Yogas, LG grams (ultra slim with almost a day of battery life), Dell enterprise line. I'm sure there's more.
Because you're jesus smuggling extremely flawed assumptions through your question.

e.g. If you don't kill every 3rd cute puppy born, all the pandas in the world will face gruesome deaths. Do you want all the pandas in the world to die gruesomely @grecy?

If "being paid less tomorrow" is caused by inflation, wouldn't it make more sense to tackle the root causes of inflation?

Because its really odd that the only feasible solution you guys have on the table is to double down on Byzantine regulations and Federal Soylent™.

Idk maybe we should instead:

- Get rid of minimum wage

- Get rid of excessive OSHA, SEC, FDA, EPA, FTC rules etc

- Maybe we don't an extra 80,000 IRS agents.

- Since its not the cold war anymore, maybe we don't 18 different intelligence agencies

- Maybe we should replace all welfare and entitlements with an "essentials" program where "if your poor, you failed but we help you not starve or die of a treatable illness, however it comes with strings attached".

- Maybe we should look into how the military is extremely corrupt and inefficient. Why is the F-35 built so many different states, how did we run out munitions so quickly, why will it take that long to replenish it?
The next Bond villain's evil plan will involve either local zoning law or capital repatriation taxes.
Ctrl+f "Elop", knew he's already mentioned. There exists some weirdest demography and social network among whom the CEOs are recruited from. They receive tens of millions as effortlessly as low level employees don't receive basic pay rises neither bonuses. They just exist and show up.
€ 5,8M fine for Grindr confirmed
A released 0day is an oxymoron..
“

Pro tip: Patreon has no meaningful competitors,
and also it sucks, so there's a huge opportunity
for somebody to kick sand in its face and take
its lunch money. But to do that you would have
to understand what actually Patreon does that is
worth it to creators to allow Patreon to take 5%
of their proceeds (and then pass on to them a
second 5% in payment processing fees).

[…]

1) Pseudonym support.

[…]

2) By-works funding model support.

[…]

3) Non quid pro quo patronage

[…]

4) An audience relationship management system, ideally one with an API one can build against.

”

All four are a lot more than they say on the tin, worth the read.
WoW is not in the same league as EQ, AC, DAOC.

WoW is a 2nd or if you count Meridian 59 as gen1, 3rd generation MMORPG.

It was not the 1st that had seemless maps, but IMHO it did that best.
EQ2, while not having seamless maps, would be in the same league as WoW.
Low Code suffers from same problems DSLs suffer from. You need to nail the abstractions down to be proficient in getting systems up and RUNNING.
Thanks for that one, I hadn't seen it yet. The comic about Candyland is one of my favorites: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/58
Apparently the owner decided to make jokes in an airport:

> Domingos said that he was initially asked by security if he knew what the device did. The technologist replied by stating that the Flipper Zero is capable of, among other things, scanning and copying badge cards such as those used by the airport’s security personnel.

> “If I can copy your badges, then you might want to fix that before banning a legal device,” Domingo reportedly said.
Funny how the images of early manuscripts look suspiciously like capchas.
geez. I've been thinking of doing some fake door tests but wanted to launch something like 10-20 experiments. Even at $500 that's 5-10k, which is not feasible. How can any startup afford these tests?

If I ran 10 experiments/week, with the $2k measure, you're looking at 80k/month, just to get some validation.
> However, you don't need to make women uneasy (among other things) to promote free software.

Plenty of people with physical disabilities make people "uneasy" -- who's wrong here? The burn victim or the person taking offence to it? Stallman didn't do anything towards women that warrants the criticism he received. The claims have been debunked and it just comes down to him coming across as a 'creep' -- aka considered unattractive. Yeah, okay.
Evertime a 0day thar granted privilege escalation was found on installed bins/libs, we ran a script that looked at setsuids on anything and everything and did a report on what was found. We managed to find a crypto miner once.

Obviously I won't run it on my personal computer, but i'm not renting my pc to anyone.
I think sometimes they are paid to do what from outside looks like bad s** on purpose. Like transitioning a company from public to private or other weird things like that.

You need someone that can put their face, that "shows up" even if it's kind of obvious where it will lead to - the article calls this "constraints".

Imagine being hired exactly with the purpose of doing a bad job that nobody wants to do. You need to offer an incentive for doing such a thing.

Or it's just sheer incompetence. I just can't believe that someone can get paid 20 millions or so for crushing a company.
Show HN: Stable Diffusion Clock
This is open source and running with three different clock faces, in Pacific time.
The plane is probably following a flight path and not an actual straight line as well.
Bitcoin has greatly increased in price while the USD has dumped in value exclusively for decades. The dollar has lost 95%+ of it's original purchasing power when they took it off the gold standard. The dollar doesn't hold value at all, it's losing value due to inflation every single day. Just less rapidly than some other currencies that are manipulated to an even higher degree. Do you pay attention to food, housing, or insurance prices? They have increased _significantly_ in just the past 3 years.
That would still be the case; I don't see what justification you could have for describing the suggestion above a dictatorship.
You have weighed "words in general" against ads. For me that is comparing an average with those ads. The average of generally used words/speech is very, very far from Trump's tweets and similar communication, IMHO.
> However, when someone today claims they're colorblind, I accept that they most likely don't mean it in the same way that MLK did. And too often, I'm proven right.

I guess, two questions:

1) What is different between what MLK wanted and what "those other people" want today?

2) If two people advocate for the same policy but each has different motivations for it, how does that affect the policy (implementation?) itself?
mkaic isn't saying definitely they would be in a better mood, just that they -think- 3-day weekends would be good for their mental health and mood.
"Slacking off" doesn't enter into the equation. Is your output worth more to the company than it costs to pay you to produce it? If yes, then great there is no problem to be solved.
> No. Members of the public can own stock. The public does not own stock.

Members of the public own stock, so the public owns stock. Your distinction here is pedantic at best, but generally plain wrong.

> No. I have not purchased a Ferrari, so I do not own one.

It seems the concept of a metaphor struggles to take grasp. I'll leave progress in this area to those certified.

> This link does not talk about public ownership.

It's very literally the first line.

If you're going to be a pedant, be right.
I made a comment about this the other day:
Many of the world's biggest companies operate like a royal dynasty. Leadership/board positions are inherited by family members, or given to close friends.

I have no hard data, but I would wager that it is more common that nepotism plays a role than not.
Nicholas Bloom is an economist & yet he appears to be conflating productivity & output!?
That might be one of those things that works well in the short term but may also have severe tail risks.

I heard a similar story about an algorithmic stablecoin called Luna (I think). The analogue of difficulty adjustments there worked fine until one day it didn't.
Perhaps the physical rigours of work will dictate a retirement age, similar to firefighters retiring at 55.
I'm very happy with WSL2. The only (well known) problem is the issue with routing when running containers in WSL while behind a VPN. Strangely WSL-vpnkit can't help anymore after some recent updates. It seems WSL 2 2.0.0 will help with this
There's probably an optimum number of days to work and the suggestion here isn't that lower is always better, just that 5 is above the optimum amount.
Zero interest rates will most likely return one day, but crypto will be heavily regulated by then. That’s what I meant — the combo isn’t coming back where crypto is an unregulated sink for ZIRP speculation money.
I just now asked some friends who work in the enterprise space the question "how many hours per week do you spend in meetings that feel completely pointless and a waste of your time?"

The lowest answer was 8 hours. The highest answer was 15.

We can absolutely cut a day and lose no productivity. We already have a four-day workweek, we're just forcing people to spend a day of their de-facto three-day weekend in the office with their thumbs up their ass.
I find this very interesting from the tax perspective too.

In case you reduce your pay by 20% to accommodate for fewer hours, in many countries with progressive tax rates, the effect on take-home pay in absolute terms is not as significant as relative.

For example, in Germany, 100K gross leaves you with 57 after tax. Whereas 80K results in ~47k. In absolute terms, it is 'just 10k less', on a salary of 57k, but with 20% less working hours.
You should use bing. It’s chatgpt-4 and it’s miles better than chatgpt-3. Bing even searches the web for answers.

My only issue with being is that it’s extremely sensitive and will end a conversation for the most ridiculous things. But it’s still well worth it if you’re prepared to deal with its pettiness & stubbornness.

I’ve been using it to help me figure out React hooks (I’ve only used class-based react) and it’s REALLY good. It even warns you of bad practices.

It’s also pretty accurate at giving me a specific tailwind class. It’s much quicker than browsing the docs.
Was this the same advisory board that didn't have LLMs as a future risk in its reports and was caught completely blindsided by it's emergence?
“Remember how easy it was to learn your ABC's? Thank the Phoenicians – they invented them.” -Dame Judi Dench, Spaceship Earth
anyone offended by that isn't worth listening to
Increasing money without increasing productivity doesn't change anything. It's a representation of something real.
>Say you want to target HR decision makers using Facebook ads.

But such limitations are not all due to GDPR, and EU's economy is not stagnating just because you can't target all EU citizens with fakebook ads.
>> or just pointless stuff like some redneck plinking cans in his trailer park

> This is rather offensive to a large subset of people, btw.

Is that offensive to rednecks or to people plinking cans?
Let's say I have something like $1M to my name (total assets) and I'm accused of a serious crime. I'm ready to spend it all to not go to prison for decades, but the AGI of the prosecutor is like 1/3 of my respectable private attorney. State prosecutors make garbage so this isn't far fetched. I now have to fund the government and give a significant percent of my assets just to defend myself?

Making somebody fund their own prosecution during trial is probably the least rebel thing I've ever heard.
There are 13 telescopes on Mauna Kea already - and some are already due to be decommissioned. It’s not unspoiled and pristine. If they don’t continue to develop the site, the telescopes there will fall into obsolescence, and ultimately disuse. Pushing back against continued development on the site is, ultimately, pushing for it to go the way of Arecibo.
> So... same captive situation, you're just hoping they exploit you less?

I don't feel very captive. Plus Apple devices have great resale value should Apple's interests ever stop aligning with mine.
>For instance, pharmacologically-induced mydriasis causes sensitivity to light (photophobia) and blurred vision, which may make it difficult to read, work and drive.

The article content mentions driving though.
How Google helps people sell cocaine online
> ATTOM defined "unaffordable" as someone who must devote more than 28% of their income toward paying for a particular home. Factoring in a mortgage payment, homeowners insurance and property taxes, the typical home priced today would require 35% of someone's annual wages, ATTOM said.

Uh, not sure where they came up with the 28% number. Given the traditional advice is 1/3 of income, 35% is not that far.

Also, they are only looking at single-income purchasers. Given that I don't know many single people buying houses for just themselves, they should really be looking at overall household incomes.

I get that home prices suck, but 99% of Americans not being able to afford a home is obviously not a real statistic.
The two go very much hand in hand. The studios want to produce nebulous "content" to feed the maw of "consumers" who don't seem to care all that much about the quality of it.

I'm on Thompson's side on that. I'm also a Shakespearean actor, and she was one of the strongest influences on me.

And yet... she and I are entertainers. In the end, our craft is sterile if nobody sees it. Nobody owes us a medium to connect us to our audiences. I can tsk-tsk at audiences who would rather watch yet another 30-second dance video, but I can't dictate taste to them.

She's a star, and people come to see her for reasons that are only loosely related to her immense talent. I'm not, and few come to see me. I wouldn't dare compare my talent to hers, but there is some genuine merit to my shows, and the audiences could usually fit on a school bus.

I don't think it's over yet. I think we're still figuring out what artists and audiences mean to each other. So while I don't love the way studios produce "content" for audiences to "consume", but I'm going to pursue my craft and hope somebody wants to see it.
Poland Opens GDPR Investigation into ChatGPT and OpenAI Amid Privacy Concerns
> If your module relies on compile time checks for validity,

...then it's broken, because the Go compiler, factually, cannot (in general) check or enforce the validity of specific values.

> there's no reason for you to also include runtime checks. Other developers breaking your defined contract is not your responsibility, it's not even a bug.

It is absolutely the responsibility of the function

func PrintColor(c Color)

to ensure, at runtime, that `c` is a valid Color. My example code -- which allowed an invalid Color value of "orange" -- is absolutely a bug in PrintColor.
> the T was only pulling in roughly a third of its operating expenses in revenue

This is not a great argument, in that public transit is a public good and should not be expected to fully pay for itself. Public transit enables other economic behavior. Similarly, we don't expect roads to pay for themselves -- they're a public utility that enables other revenue producing behavior.

> people living in Worcester, Springfield, Pittsfield, and Chatham were contributing to a system they don't use

I don't have children but I'm happy to pay taxes that support public schools because I reap the benefits of an educated populace.

Boston produces the plurality of state revenue[0], far more than Worcester, Springfield, Pittsfield, or Chatham. The residents of those towns are happy to take revenue generated in and by Boston to pay for their services, but consistently vote against properly funding the T. Which is shortsighted, because cities with public transportation produce $1.5B more revenue per year[1], meaning those cities would have _lower_ taxes if they supported the T.

[0]: http://www.bostonplans.org/getattachment/cb7ed639-177c-43f0-...
[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-08-14/public-tr...
My Windows 11 install recently was already such a pain in the ass. I had to open a command prompt and enter in some commands just to be able to install Win11 without a fucking M$ account. Seriously not even disconnecting LAN gives you the option. It was a new install and it worked using the "key" or activation from my previous Win10 install that I used a 10€ win7 key for. I do not think I have the key in my bios because its self build rig that I bought without windows.

I still need windows for playing AAA games unfortunately. I am going back to cracking windows if they not allow to activate it with some cheap win7 key. They already spy on me, try to force me to use a fucking online account for a OS, that is insanity why should I feel the need to give them money? When I was young I just did not give a fuck and was poor, I never really had a "moral" thought about cracking my windows, it just what my friends and I always did. We saved the money for a better rig instead. But when I learned about the win7 key method for win10 so I bought myself one on ebay once.

But now that M$ has evolved into a digital bully I even feel good about it. They are not even offering a "get out of jail" option that cuts all the ads and spying for a extortion fee right? They want both my money and my data. They are not getting it! Well at least I hope so I used https://github.com/builtbybel/BloatyNosy to try to disable all the spying after installing with a local only account.

Valve is unfortunately still not all the way there with Proton. But I think there will be a day in my life where I will remove my Windows partition with great pleasure and only use Linux.
You can use redis or memcached, but every MMO or online game I've been involved with, unless it was a "web game", has eschewed those for the most part. The game server maintains the state, knows all the objects in the universe, or at least its portion of the universe, and is responsible for retrieving and updating those objects. Even redis and memcached would be considered slow by comparison. Those game objects/world objects/MOBs may eventually be pushed out to a key-store server, but generally are not. The only portion of the database on any MMO I've worked on that has cared about "proper indexes" has been the area dealing with account retrieval. Traditional databases, at least on the non-web MMOs I've been involved with, when it comes to game state, are not normally used. RDBMS are used for boring things like account management, customer management, and so forth. Our database on the current (non-web) MMO uses a few more web technologies than I have in the past for this particular problem, but once the shard is loaded, and the user is connected, it is back to tradition, for the most part.
Do you have any idea how much break time surgeons take? Tons of them work 3day weeks because it’s more efficient. The rest of their time is either at home or “in clinic” doing busywork.

https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/3-day-work-week-wit...

I suspect you’ve pulled “surgeon” from you-know-where on account of it being a high-status, high-value role. But don’t bring that baggage into the conversation.
One way to think of it is that you're not always being paid to be doing something specific, but rather to be available on short (e.g. 15 minutes or less) notice.
Fossil is used. Mercurial is still used. There are probably others.