skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vacations are for life itself! Some people are super happy working every day, that's their life. Good on them. They might still use vacation for funerals, moving households, other needs of life. If you work to live rather than live to work, they are for doing things that make you happy. Is that mental health? I guess. But that frames the goal as maximum working not maximum life.

Think about it, seniority comes with more vacation time. As a "perk", it's desirable on its own. Unless work is inherently unhealthy, and it's a perk to be less unhealthy.
Apple Cancels the Problem with Jon Stewart over China and AI Topic Concerns
I feel like it is the same about German politics on x. When you go to the replies of posts about politic, you see a vast amount of verified pro putin posts. They are all fit in the same category. Like they all have a generic name, profile, some autogenerated description and often a flag in their name. But _all_ have Twitter verified mark.
We have now reached a whole new level of grift, this looks to be the juicero of AI.
"kernel™ is the cloud-based infrastructure that makes real-time interactions viable."

Sigh
I do the same (ledger, not GnuCash). A few minutes each day. I used to outsource (part of) the work to my daughter when she was ~8yo (and paid her for that) to teach her that work is where you get money from.
>But nobody seems to care about a Ukrainian soldier as much as they care about just one person from Russia, isn’t it?

Ukrainians should be grateful for support they get and dramatically reduce sense of entitlement. US provided more material support to Ukraine in the last year than to any other country in history. Constant whining becomes tedious and defense of the democracy argument is questionable.
For a lot of salaried workers in the US these days, there's a single pool of time that covers for vacation time/personal days/sick days.

And for people who do have some flexibility about coming into an office, it seems very common in my experience that they may do a little work and maybe drag themselves to dial into a meeting that would be hard to reschedule, but generally take the day easy if they're not feeling well.

Aside from maybe one or two medical things that really did take up a full day, I haven't formally taken a sick day/PTO because I was sick in years.
So far it hasn't been increased performance. Microsoft seems motivated by the dream of making Windows incompatible with Microsoft Windows applications

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/03/windows-1...

forcing people to "drink applications through a straw" from the slim pickings on the Windows store. Why? I think platforms always want to have what some other platform has. Microsoft is envious of Apple's App Store, YouTube wants to be TikTok, Instagram wants to be Twitter, pursuing this vainglorious dream at best dies with a whimper, at worst it is just plain death.

(Now it it a business school case study: Why does Microsoft fail when third parties succeed? How is it you can download games from Steam with the greatest of ease whereas the Windows store is a struggle? How is it Dropbox works and OneDrive doesn't?)

A distant second motive is better battery life. A third seems to be "acceleration for acceleration's sake". I remember reading some articles six months ago about an acceleration framework Microsoft was pushing that would give some effects for video conferencing... But I can't find it now because it vanished without a trace. Nobody cares.
It doesn't just rub me the wrong way, it's actually bugging me. The hubris of claiming an exceptionally well-defined word in concurrent use in computing from the very beginnings of modern operating systems is staggering.
Versioning data in Postgres? Testing a Git like approach
I was also thinking that this is a great way to harvest some birthday date info to combine with other data from tracking
OVH has unmetered VPSs: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/vps/

I suspect the bandwidth is lower, but that is fair enough.
Confidential computing and AI fit together
I wrote my own tool for this: https://77zzcx7.de/gitea/MK13/financer

Ticks most of your boxes. Nothing fancy, but gets the job done.
Sounds like a matched filter.

I agree in principle about dwell time but for exoplanets that must be some combination of the eclipse time, JWST's intrinsic pointing stability, detector saturation, maximum time allotted on a fiercely oversubscribed telescope, etc.
Not to worried about the site getting my birthdate, but seriously people, don’t share that…
Pi makes finding particular digit patterns somewhat hard. A number in which any digit pattern can be more easily found is Champernowne's constant [1]

C10 = 0. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ...

([0..]>>=show in Haskell) which is provably normal in base 10 (for pi it's widely believed but unproven).

Of course the minimal index i(w) at which digit sequence w appears is about as long as w itself...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champernowne_constant
Absolutely my experience is well, I have been writing .NET for over a decade, and I think I have seen a handful of cases mainly when we were bored or when I remembered the Interface Segregation principle and tried to shoehorn it into code (though the principle does work well to have methods take the minimum number of props needed to do their job, but that's a whole other topic).
> So now I'm using Firefox containers and I'm mostly happy with them.

Seconded if for no other reason, I rarely restart my browser.

As an aside: Each night I copy my profiles over to a Firefox instance in a VM. I access it as a remote app so I can get to my containers/logins while I'm away.
I find the idea of putting a natural language model in front of my OS silly and misguided, because I naturally know how to use my computer and translate my thoughts into actions on the mouse and keyboard swiftly. Putting a (probably poor quality) text input as a barrier feels like it would degrade my experience
My downstairs neighbour believes in crystals. Which is fine because she's not in a position to force me to use crystals, or the teaching of crystals as a healing method in schools (etc).
You still have to figure out when it did. If there's a tree with 800 rings, but it died 100,000 years ago, then there's 100,000 years you have to date by some other method, and add 800 on top.
I haven't needed to take a single sick day in 35 years, just good genes I guess - my father never did either in 50 years.
Some advice I would give to a junior DevOps Engineer
In the context of whether or not a process is compositing or inpainting, that's factual. The output is a 2d plate placed in front of a background. Both achieve similar results. The level of manual (or automated) effort is not what's being discussed here.

So I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
Real-time MRI of the moving wrist at 0.55 Tesla
To be clear - I do think OpenCascade is impressive. Incredibly so, once one becomes aware of the magnitude of the problem it is trying to solve. I will also admit I haven't used it in the past couple of years, but when I did it's limitations in filleting and chamfering alone were enough to make it a non-starter for industry use.

My broader point was that there is a need to start from a new paradigm that leverages the possibilities of modern, highly parallel computing hardware. The hardware requirements for performant and reliable CAD software are incredibly high, and their reliance on high clock speed single core processors is quickly being left behind by modern processing hardware.
As a dev that uses tuples to standardize returns. I welcome the new using feature.
You're 100% correct. My ledger git repo has 1300+ commits (about 0.8 per day on average).
In my previous career before I worked for Big Enterprise who doesn't track sick days, my job had (for employees under 5 years) a separate pool of 2 weeks "vacation", 5 days "sick", and 2 days "personal" time off.

In a very controversial move they changed policy to pool them together in just "PTO" of two weeks. Probably a pretty common story. Lot of people were mad at losing the dedicated sick time because they would cash out their unused vacation at the end of the year.
Your coding process is different from mine
I want to balance the overall negative response here. I think people's criticism falls into one of the following categories:

- "This is AI bullshit.":
I haven't tested it extensively, but I think giving LLM's or similar constructs the ability to execute tasks and perform actions is the next step in AI capabilities. So this makes sense to me.

- "This is not an Operating System."
Maybe we need to rethink what an Operating System is. As long as computers were boxes under our desk, an operating system was the thing that operated these boxes. Now computers are everywhere and - when connected to each other in the cloud - form sort of higher level computers. Calling a system that operates the higher level computer an OS is legitimate in my eyes.

- "They put TM behind Kernel"
Ok, that one is weird.
Honey / Rakuten are very useful extensions, but I don't want them having access to every site I visit.

In Chrome I use profiles and set up those extensions on my "shopping" profile only.

In Firefox I use containers, but can't isolate these extensions the same way
Well in those cases they don't typically skip over the fun part and just break their legs immediately.

Eating something that you know is going to be extremely unpleasant is closer to jackass territory than sport.
This is greatly improved. It’s a beautiful, functional page.

Back when I was playing with hex grids, the orientation he was using (pointy top) wasn’t what I wanted to use, so I really wasn’t able to apply any of it to my work.

So I ended up doing it much on my own. I did scavenge Google for a “distance” formula and that took a couple of goes.

I’ll have to read it in more detail to see whether it’s worthwhile to adopt this vs just sticking with what I have.
US federal laws do not require employers to offer paid sick leave. In my experience, paid time off is pretty rare on the lower end of the hourly pay scale.
So the question asked was:
> Question: What social networking sites/social media have you used in the past 12 months?

And it is noted elsewhere that the survey was taken before the rebrand in June. So I don't think this _actually_ tells you as much about Twitter in 2023 as the title implies. What this really says is that more people claimed to have used Twitter in 2022 than in 2021, maybe with some overlap into 2023 at the edges. Of course, it also says nothing about the nature of that use.

Anyway, that's irrelevant, as I didn't say Twitter is dying, I said:

> the death of Twitter as a semi-reliable place to put status updates

I absolutely stand by that; again, it is showing random incidents from the last four years in random order on their status twitter unless you're logged in. That makes it clearly unusable for status updates.

I would not, by the way, that even if it meant what you thought it meant, it would not be _great_ evidence against the death of Twitter, in that it's scoped to a single country. On that basis, you could claim that Orkut, or Bebo (depending on country chosen) was the dominant social network of the late noughties.
There are no practical problems found in error handling, period. They aren't anything special. It is no different than handling a person's age, and who has problems with handling that? You have failed to grasp programming at even the most basic level if you are struggling with handling values.

The discussion is always just about the pleasantness of the development experience, and exception handlers are simply not pleasant to use (when carrying errors) – to the point that, when using those languages, developers go out of their way to find ways to avoid having to deal with errors to not have to write out the monstrosity that is to catch an error thrown.

Indeed, that's life. You have to deal with the hand you are dealt. If that means changing how the application functions to not make your developer life a complete living hell due to quirks of a programming language, so be it. But idealistically, that does not make for a good language design. There is a reason why they are called exception handlers, not stack traversers, or whatever.
Someone is starving for VC cash for a vapourware product which this is a solution in search for a problem that doesn't exist.
They pretend it’s both an OS and a new device. I bet $100 that they’ll fail at both, and create an iPhone app backed by ChatGPT instead.
thanks! this is great reporting.

I think that this list might be talking about unsecured claims though. I think that secured claims might be separate. So, for example, if an individual declares bankruptcy and they owe $500k on their house, that claim would come before child support payments. I am definitely not a lawyer and bankruptcy law strikes me as particularly complex.

The third priority is tough to parse. From looking over it quickly, it seems like this might be claims from doing business between when i file bankruptcy and when i go into foreclosure. Again, not a lawyer, but my guess here is that if I'm a store and I file bankruptcy on Monday, but don't have a trustee until Wednesday, and I put in an order for a palette of water bottles on Tuesday, then the distributor of the water bottles might have a priority claim.
And they would do well to understand what that actually means
>> Does it have decent camera profiles? How do you find working with it (raw editing + culling/managing catalogues)? I use fuji mirrorless cameras.

I only tried it a little. My Fuji X-T1 is supported and I plan to get back to it real soon - I've got about 500 pictures on the camera to go through.
As a boss, I encourage anyone on my team to take time off whenever they need it for mental health or stress reasons. I also tell them that they do not need to tell me or any other team members the reason behind why they're taking time off. Privacy and trust are important.

I also make all team meetings optional. If you're not feeling it, don't show up. This has a two fold effect of keeping people well rested/motivated and not having negative energy in meetings from people who'd rather not be there.

This has resulted in a very high performing team. Well rested, trusted, not burnt out. Comfort leads to creativity.
I don't think Office 95 had a different UI than the rest of the system. The only thing I remember being different about it is the title bar where they introduced the gradient that was later picked by Windows 98 and 2000. The menus and toolbars looked and worked the same as other Windows 95 applications.

You may be thinking of Office 97, which introduced the "flat" look for the toolbars and the animated sliding menus.
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/1794

Note the full API may be accessible via a cli interface.

The above work will be merged hopefully soon.
Dogs can jump on and over taller obstacles than can a similarly sized tank.

The special forces ideal is small packages with large firepower. I can not imagine anything that better meets that definition than quadracopter scouts and robot dogs with missile launchers.

Falling over after the shot is irrelevant. Basic marksmanship training teaches recruits to pull the trigger until the shot going off surprises them. We only care about what happens next if we want a quick follow up shot, which is not possible with single shot rocket launchers.
AI tidies up Wikipedia's references and boosts reliability
Agreed, data entry in GnuCash (back when I used it, about 10 years ago probably) was a pleasure. Very streamlined experience. Nowadays I use ledger with Emacs, so it's hard to beat that, of course.
He basically sees that advertising on Twitter is dead.

He needs to create enough paid clients to male up for it.

So thus his conundrum. He's desperate for a workable plan.
Needles Nellie
The problems with Helium (and how we solve them)
A perfectly healthy person can get a cold, need a day or two off, and then be back at 100%. I don't think a day or two off is going to take someone from the verge of a mental breakdown, to 100% mentally healthy. So they're not really equivalent.
> ‘I Just Wasn’t in the Mood to Work.’ American Employees Reinvent the Sick Day

The title mocks on people personal problems. This is the kind of meritocratic speech we hear from millionaires and CEOs, "People worked harder back in the day".

> That confidence has only grown as record low unemployment persists.

They aren't even trying to hide anymore. High unemployment is necessary for capitalism, is what makes workers accept poor job conditions.
They almost took out chili Klaus lol
This is not my experience, I know accounting but transferring that knowledge (and interest) to people that just want to simplify the registration of a basic movements in a seamless way makes them to look at other tools. It is the UX at the end beyond if you are right on the concept.
I'm sure workplaces differ but, over decades, I've never felt it was the norm to formally take time off for a 2-3 hour appointment/errand for a dentist or anything else.
They are only closing their automated status account. Slack still has thair main account on X, according to the article.
The power to walk away: CFPB moves to give consumers control over financial data
How to go from single-channel to multi-channel notifications
It's good keeping in mind the ThinkPad X13s was released with a Snapdragon as a way to prepare for Snapdragon X.

Performance was not good, and the CPU was a bit hot (but fanless). Linux support was imperfect, but for a first attempt it is not too bad. A M2-like machine running Linux, with good support, would be fantastic as an ultra-mobile laptop.

However, AMD is catching up in terms of performance per Watt, and has already caught up in terms of raw performance. Will a Snapdragon X have a sufficiently wide market niche?
When you take it step by step, slowly increasing to the next pepper, there's not much pain involved. To my mouth, a California Reaper is just a flavorful hot pepper in the same way that for most people a Jalapeño will be but with even more subtility to its flavor profile.

"Carolina Reaper chile peppers have a sweet, fruity taste with hints of cinnamon and chocolate, followed by a very intense heat that continues to build and lingers in the throat."

What I personally don't understand is the people who eat peppers that are way past their level. One chip challenge and such. That's just a recipe for a long lasting discomfort, but then again I can empathize with the whole "mind over matter" thing.
And how does this filter not clog?
I see. I'm more familiar with the software side of things, this sounds analogous to open source licenses encountered there.
What Covid showed my household, despite me working from home, was that ALL of us being isolated at home, meant no more sickness. No longer were my kids bringing home crud from school and making me sick for weeks at a time while we all passed it around until the crud got sick of us and moved on.

This is why it still boggles my mind that companies with antiquated RTO policies aren't embracing remote when they can. There are many days I'm not feeling great enough to get dressed up and drive a couple of hours into an office, but I can get up, put on my shorts and a t-shirt, and sit down in my home office and work.

The guy's story about never taking a sick day and falling asleep at his computer while on meds, only to eventually get fired, would be a huge wakeup call. It's just not worth it to give that much of yourself to a job.
That's your choice, law is not
Lot of healthcare services have extended hours because they are aware that their customers can’t take time out during the workday. Why would that be a surprise?
Can't you harvest birthday info by just selecting all the dates?
why is there a rabbit pooping into a large vat?
Just got started a couple weeks ago on mine, it’s:

https://www.writescribir.com/en

The goal is just to simply answer a single writing prompt in Spanish or English everyday (depending on your learning language). I hooked it up to give LLM corrections to responses, show a diff, and provide translations.

Already learned a lot so far as I’m a C++/Python dev at work - so been trying to learn the web side / full stack / get up to speed on some newer stuff.
Haunted DevOps
The heady days of the PowerPC, what could have been.

Who else was waiting for the 615 and OS2 to replace Wintel?
Not at all. None of this money goes to fund operations. They use it for shit like coffee makers and gym equipment.
So I wonder : do they take any amount? Say like $20 or $100?

The article doesn't say ( I think ).
A state-by-state list of CAF practices and requirements for both sides here[0].

It's important to note that this obviously doesn't include the federal government who have the means and authority to do basically whatever they want where ever they want, especially in airports and the laughably large "border zone"[1]. 65% of the US population lives in this "special" area with expanded powers for the federal government.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-14/mapping-w...
> Sometimes someone is trying desperately to not self harm.

If that's the goal, taking time off work seems like it would be actively counterproductive.
This is true but I actually don't mind this at all.
Technically already happening by people themselves, except they call it "sponsored content".

It's so common that there's an addon for that:

https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock#sponsorblock
I understand what you said, I just don't think it is true and none of the provided sources say so. Meanwhile, everything I have read says they are simply priority creditors up to a limit. Beyond the limit, judges will pay other creditors before employees.

>Because claims for unpaid wages due to insolvency do not fall under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) unless the employer willfully failed to pay wages owed and filed for bankruptcy as an attempt to avoid paying wages, the U.S. Department of Labor has no jurisdiction in this area and will not accept claims.

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/hr-...
I find it amazing that unix pipes are possibly the best inter-program communication system we have, and they are 50 years old, and things are pretty much the same as written in the book from 1984 https://archive.org/details/UnixProgrammingEnviornment
Just because it doesn't work for the minority, doesn't mean the shouldn't do something nice for the masses
> You can always find some metric where your side looks better and the other worse, the trick is not to let yourself use it to excuse your own bullshit unless you love to actively harm yourself.

This is such an important point. My family’s been in the Los Angeles area since the 1950s and I remember a semi-constant stream of whining from conservatives about California’s environmental laws, and that “someone else will just pollute more” excuse for inaction was a common refrain. This was always annoying because even if we assume that the global situation will get worse, it’s not just less bad than it would have been but also locally they reduced a massive number of deaths, illnesses, asthma cases, etc. not to mention the quality of life improvements from not getting headaches or having days where you can’t see across the street. Even if removing plastic straws or bags isn’t going to save the world, anyone who likes going to the water is going to appreciate not having all of that trash visible.

The other thing we always need to keep in mind is that we are living in huge, well-developed economies with millions of people. We can do many things at once and something like a ban on single-use plastic is not a huge time sink. We banned disposable plastic bags here, and despite all of the dire predictions it took less than a week to adjust.