skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Despite the replication crisis in social science and behavioural economics, this was an effect that we immediately verified in our own user data at Lifesum. People began diets at the start of a new year, around their birthdays, and at the start of a new month. Even within a week, there was a micro-effect: people used us more on Mondays, and then usage would taper off over the week.

I started my fitness journey around the time I turned 30 years old. I don't know why, I just somehow decided to do Couch to 5K, and from there it turned into something that I really enjoy and spend a lot of time doing.

That said, I'm a _little_ skeptical about the premise here, which, if I'm reading it correctly, is that "people start things and don't finish them." I guess that's true -- certainly of myself -- but OP is talking from the perspective of Lifesum, a dieting app.

My mind goes to this question: if people use Lifesum on Mondays and then drop off, is that the fault of the customers or the fault of the app?

To put it a different way, I exercise every day. I watch what I eat. I'm in very good shape. But sometimes I think "I should track my calories," so I download LoseIt or MyFitnessPal or something else. And I track my calories for... a week, maybe two, maybe three.

In real life? Still eating healthy, still exercising daily, still enjoying my fitness journey.

On the app? Gone. I've dropped off.

Why did I drop off? There are probably a few things.

One is that I am possibly not the target demographic. (Although, am I? As a fitness person that is tracking macros religiously, shouldn't these apps be critical for my success?)

Another is that I just lack the discipline to track my food and diet. But that can't be true, either, can it? I've exercised in some form or fashion every day for the last 1843 days. I read every day. I call my parents twice a week every week. I have discipline to follow schedules and plans that I stick to.

A third is that I just don't care enough. This feels most likely to me. I'm doing well in my fitness journey. The app doesn't provide enough value to me. I don't _need_ it and it feels like extra cruft getting in the way of my enjoyment of life.

I'm not saying OP is wrong, but I'm offering an alternative view: maybe it's not that people can't stick with resolutions and that temporal milestones are, well, temporary. Maybe it's that we're making the wrong resolutions in the first place. Or perhaps that the tools that exist to tackle the "wrong" resolutions aren't sufficient.

Anyway, just my two cents.
Ask HN: Resources and courses for learning UI/UX design
I'm close to graduation and after doing a few SWE internships I've become increasingly interested in learning graphic and UI/UX design in the hopes of a starting a design agency like MetaLab or Designjoy.

I was hoping to get some guidance from HN in making this pivot, there are loads of popular design courses out there and I'm not sure how to vet them, especially given the price tag for some of these.

If I were to instead pursue a career in design, do these certificates have any real weight in hiring decisions? I'm assuming my portfolio would be most important when interviewing.

I'd also appreciate any thoughts from those with experience running an agency, particularly about early client acquisition.
Metaverse? Crypto?
Your personal view is not widespread though, your original message would have been better left off with out bashing PHP because YOU don't find a use for it.

There's billions of dollars in revenue generated yearly from PHP sites. And not just "legacy" either, I'm talking evergreen PHP apps being built and generating revenue.

It's just as alive and well if not even more alive than some other languages people prefer over it.
Never really understood this "we can't enforce the rules because people routinely ignore the rules" attitude. This should be dead simple on an airplane, where the airline knows who each passenger is by seat. So have one flight attendant make one pass down the aisle warning everyone to put away their phones, then have another one follow a minute or so later just making note of which seats are still using their phones. No-fly-list them all later. After this policy became known, people would be strongly incentivized to get with the program.
Barrier is succeeded by input-leap

https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap
Inequality increases criminal activity. No imports necessary.
> Those flaws probably exist because the text was written by AI

Do you think that an average anti-AI internet activist would do a better job all on his own?
Doesn't that open license then have to add a restriction that then prevents it from training closed models?
Is this on Windows? Or maybe you're on an older version of Git? I make branches with slashes in the name all the time, never had a problem with it.
I have noticed a strong undercurrent among some on HN that has bought into the anti-work movement that seems to have a very high overlap with anti-capitalist/communist/socialist crowd (and also, I suspect, a very poor grasp of history and economics).
(All IMHO) Which is great! Copyright is stupid and it is time we derogated that 350 old law which at this point is stifling innovation.

As I said in another thread: Sorry if your 40 hour work won't pay you $10 bucks a month forever. That's the case for most of the rest of us: we produce for 40 hours, we get paid for those 40 hours, regardless of what we do. Welcome to the club!!
Having lots of garbage information is not the same thing as not having useful information.

Lots of reasonable people are used to being able to find timely and accurate information via Twitter (either from accounts belonging to first-hand sources, from accounts belonging to sources the user trusts, or via links to one of those). You may argue that they shouldn't, or no-true-Scotsman the definition of a "reasonable" person, but the simple reality is that Twitter historically earned that expectation from tons of people. It was the example of a platform, social media or otherwise, that, with a little curation, could produce "timely or accurate information about a current event".

It was an exact counter-example to your assertion. Whether it still is, I don't know.
I don’t think it’s valid to exclude open source contributions.

Not everyone supports their political representatives.
My understanding is that it's a bit of a roll of the dice exactly when the kill screen appears, so in theory you could continue playing longer. I suppose the significance, then, is that it's the first time that someone has played the game and not lost.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417
I don't have many words for you, but I would like you to consider that:

"Do you have any outrage left over for the parents who brought children into the world without the ability to feed them?"

Is an unnatural question. One that is not just inhumane, but inhuman. It has been etched into the back of your brain by a continuous assault of vested media designed to manufacture your consent.
We're doing it already without everyone living a first-world lifestyle, so whilst the source isn't cited, it's highly likely.
> Demonstrating the problems of AI (what it has produced is dodgy in various ways).

So you believe the LLM was prompted to produce faulty or imperfect licenses on purpose with the intent of highlighting the deficiencies of the current tech, and they did not intend anyone to use these licenses?

That'd actually be an interesting way of protesting, even if it ignores both how prompting can affect LLM output quality and that these models will only improve. Add to that, if one such as myself (and seemingly most people on HN) misses this part of ironic protesting and just takes them seriously (i.e. their intent is that people use these licenses), that harms their cause by making them seem unintentionally unprofessional, rather than intentionally unprofessional.
He did make the "classic, amateur, movie thief" mistakes of spending lavishly and stealing a large fraction of coins that couldn't be covered simply by driving a crappy '77 Chevy Malibu. (That was a particularly ugly car with bad paint. [0] My parents had a '78.)

This is the idiocy of committing various forms of graft or embezzlement in the Western world: the rewards are small and short-term compared to the nonzero legal and financial consequences of getting caught. It's that most people are bad at quantifying the probabilities and qualitatively assessing their risk exposure before they're caught and rationalizing they're different and somehow smarter than everyone else at all times. His theft didn't go unnoticed and they eventually had to hire a private detective

Even if someone could steal much quickly the equivalent of, say, a billion dollars without raising any suspicion or leaving any trace evidence and launder it covertly, the problem becomes there is no country to disappear to where the proceeds could be utilized and where property rights are respected: countries including Iceland, Switzerland, Ecuador, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, Belarus, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Yemen, China, and DPRK will not help you. One could attempt to live openly, but they would find it difficult to launder their funds from nowhere into the legitimate banking world without inevitably raising suspicions or being caught through forensic accounting.

Therefore, a wise criminal™ is generally better off using legitimized means to facilitate large-scale wealth transfer from people and organizations that lack economic and political power using trickery, obfuscation, and complexity. Either that, or by creating genuine (or genuine-appearing) value and monetizing it well through work that doesn't involve criminality reduces the risk of ending up poor and/or in prison. Apart from specialized IP or knowledge work ability that can be productized as a startup, the areas of real estate, public markets, and fintech are the most obvious targets for non-lifestyle business models. Other non-/semi-lifestyle business models readily achievable by an individual is becoming a B2B supplier of high-value, high-margin specialized goods that present one or more barriers to entry, i.e., aircraft parts, nuclear energy parts, safety systems, or medical devices.

0. https://topclassiccarsforsale.com/chevrolet/288637-1977-chev...
One of the reasons why most job spam from recruiters is absolutely garbage, there's no pay ranges listed. I'm already not interested and good luck getting me to dig deep to see what the actual pay range is
Location: Istanbul UTC+3. UK+TR Citizen.

Remote: Much preferred.

Willing to relocate: Prefer not to currently.

Technologies: Rust, Python, Pandas, Haskell, Scala, Kubernetes, AWS. Of course willing to learn more.

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aO3_LZEPukJjnYEmvpz8Z9o5ae7...

Email: justin.kutlusan@gmail.com

I'm Justin. I have 5 years of industry experience. BSc. in mathematics and MSc. in computer science.

I was most recently researching and building arbitrage strategies between stablecoins and FX. This was all done using Python and Pandas.

Previous to that I worked as a quant developer on the automated market making of cryptocurrency options on various large exchanges, using Rust.

Other experience includes banking, high-performance data analytics and smart energy.

I'm mostly looking to remain in the cryptocurrency/finance world working as a quant developer. Disregarding compensation, I'm interested in the algorithmic/technical challenges that it provides. However, I am genuinely open to working in any interesting area.
The meritocracy myth is s fundamental tenet of tech and Silicon Valley culture.
As someone just learning React today, I have to say that the ecosystem feels a complete a mess.
yep, Western brand + China build = strong combo. Also ICE OEM's can't seem to compete directly with their own efforts atm, and it's a do or die race over the next 2 years
> among the wages that are posted, high wage firms are more opaque, with more and wider ranges

That seems about what I'd expect. From the entire universe of job postings, I'd expect jobs at the lower end of the compensation range to have less potential for productivity differences among employees and, therefore, less range in posted compensation.

Roles with higher likely productivity variability among employees would be likely to fall into one of two buckets: variability ranging from some middling amount to very high, where firms would try to find those high-performing employees who could perform at the higher end of the range and variability ranging from some middling amount to very low, which roles would tend to have narrow ranges and companies hoping to find adequate employees to fill them and perform at the middling performance.
Location: Ghana

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JavaScript || React || Ruby on Rails || Ruby || Redux || PostgreSQL

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QpQPCcmzF2FK18qpCrmniC0AenvnAd2gBlk_wm2fdN8/edit?usp=sharing

Email: collinskwamebawa@yahoo.com
Well... I could argue.

Based on my personal experience, whether you exercise or not you are still going to be miserable when on caloric restriction.

But when you are exercising your portions do not get so small. In fact, you could be eating exactly the same and if you add walking about 10km (6 miles) every day, you are putting yourself in a significant calorie deficit of about 600 kcal (adult male, regular height, a bit overweight).

While it does not matter where 600kcal deficit comes from from thermodynamic point of view, it makes dieting easier:

* The food portions have the size you are used to. Your stomach is used to about this kind of food. At least some satiety signals are going to be the same as before you started dieting.

* Exercising will preserve muscle mass. We have a mechanism where if the body needs to access stored energy it will spare the muscles that are being exercised. This is how bodybuilders are cutting -- during cutting phase they are reducing their fat without building new muscle but are still exercising. This exercising is necessary so that the body burns fat preferentially rather than going for muscle protein.

* Exercising seems to prevent most or all of BMR drop from calorie restriction. Normally, if you just reduce your calories without much activity, the body will start conserving energy in various ways (for example I felt cold on hot days which was super interesting feeling). If BMR drops, you need to reduce your food intake even further to ensure the same level of calorie restriction. And if you do not do this you might find that a) you have reduced your calorie intake and b) you are not losing weight. Terrible place to be in. Activity prevents that from happening.
I don't know much about the PHP landscape but at least with Javascript it seems like trendy frameworks change every 5 years. JS -> JQuery -> AngularJS -> React -> Angular 2 -> React Hooks -> Next -> ... Feels like the "right" way to do things keeps changing.
Quite the contrary, actually. Some games check for inputs every frame, and computers nowadays can run modern games at up to hundreds of frames per second.

The simulation rate is often lower than the draw rate though. Minecraft is as low as 20 updates per second, while something like Counter Strike 2 handles events immediately and sends precise timestamps to the server, not discretized to any sampling rate beyond your hardware.
None of the Creative Commons licenses are particularly great for source code. CC licenses are best suited for photos, videos, audio, etc.
A couple of Robert Brightwell's (Thomas) "Flashman" series* have the eponymous hero as a shipmate of Cochrane - first in the Mediterranean in "Flashman and the Seawolf" [0] and later in South America in "Flashman and the Emperor" [1]

Both are great rollicking action adventures.

* Thomas is the uncle of the more famous Sir Harry Paget Flashman, V.C., whose memoirs are edited by George MacDonald-Fraser.

[0] https://robertbrightwell.com/my-books/flashman-and-the-seawo...

[1] https://robertbrightwell.com/my-books/flashman-and-the-emper...
3M and I think others make black retro reflecting stickers that turn silvery when reflecting at night. Craft and vinyl cutting machines can turn them into shapes, numbers, etc. Motorcycle riders will sometimes use them on their helmets or motorcycles which is how I came across this 25 years ago.

Motorcycle Black Reflective Tape 3M Scotchlite™ DYI Kit ME RK-99 https://a.co/d/2pNM5Js
So I was wondering if there were any Google or Microsoft employees who might quietly do hundreds if not thousands of corporate workers a good deed to start 2024 off right ... wishful look
This is pretty true most places, hiring non contract (e.g. full time) employees in a different country is a pain in the ass. Europe is trickier than Canada, fwiw, on average at least.

These days there are a number of companies that specialize in simplifying this, including liability shields, but of course for a fee.

Honestly it’s easier to do it as consulting or freelance contracts, but that puts the employee in exactly the same position as OP. Still, for e.g. typical tech jobs an account to sort it all out for you will be maybe 3k or so, many will opt for that.
The Faroe Islands have the best one according to this article I read recently https://prospect.org/world/best-tax-system-on-earth-faroe-is...
the problem outlined in this research is also that when pay ranges are listed, they diverge from reality.
Massive expansion in tertiary capacity and increase in tertiary enrollment delaying births (25% in 2010 - 60% in 2022). I'd expect slow TFR rebound as the early cohorts finish school and settle into new jobs* in a few years, but still net decline in fertilitiy due to higher education. IMO not many educated or urbanized couples wants more than 2 kids.
Get rid of Banks and many different things change.

Some wealthy investors would setup a lending operation using their own cash, based on historical examples of such. They would however need to charge higher interest rates than banks because they would be more capital constrained.
All buildings - including stations should have maintenance schedules. There are things to do hourly (or when open), every 2 hours, 4 hours, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. In addition you have 5, 10, and 30 year remodel cycles.

Of course you always have someone do urgent maintenance - if a pipe breaks you fix it now. However replacing that pipe might leave a poorly patched wall until the next 10 year cycle when the fix is made invisible.

You have to empty trash, clean the floors, and other similar things several times per day.

Every year you replace filters and do a deep cleaning. (check the documentation for equipment - sometimes this might be a 1 month cycle not 1 year!) You also do a full inspection of everything, touch up paint, and patch anything else. This should be very routine, and thus always cost the same (inflation adjusted).

Every 5 years you repaint. You also replace carpet where overly stained. That is touch up the cosmetics in a more in depth way. However this is a small cost.

Every 10 years you have to do significant work in the bathrooms (While toilets can last for centuries they start to look bad when you try in a commercial setting). If there is a kitchen it also needs significant work. Avoid moving major things, but this is a higher cost. You should probably be replacing benches on this schedule.

Every 30 years you do a major remodel. Here is where you update everything at sometimes high cost. Add elevators if you don't have them. Expand the station footprint if it is too small (you need more stains). Move where the doors are. Change the station approaches. Add more bathrooms. This will be expensive.
Nice work! Animation on the event reveal is smooth and responsive.

Does it integrate into existing calendar to make it more seamless to leverage the web calendar?
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You can learn more about me at https://adnansiddiqi.me

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Summary and Achievements of PostgreSQL, the DBMS of the Year 2023
I think the results are very interesting: just to reiterate, I would love to see what you've done here, and I hope you publish it.

Obviously, it's your right to decide... but especially if you think of it as a hobby, why not release the source? It would make your work much more valuable for a lot more people.
Depends on your circumstances. The UK seems reasonable for most.

For the employed, you let your employer worry about it. You might occasionally get given a "tax code" which essentially equates to your tax free allowance. If that happens you just let your employer know and they'll sort it, and you can confirm by checking your payslip.

If you're determined to have over or underpaid tax (e.g. your income went down unexpectedly), your tax code for the following year will be adjusted so that you'll end up clawing back the money over time.

Unless you are self employed or have special circumstances, then you'll avoid having to file a "self assessment" form.

And to be clear, the "special circumstances" are nothing like the US' system of hundreds of different "deductions".

Even if you do have to fill in a self assessment form, you can do so with an online form, which actually takes into account answers rather than making you manually have to do things such as "Skip section 5 if you have put a number of in section 4b or a number less than 3340 in section 2a" that the US forms love to make you do.

Filing my US taxes is literally 99% of all paperwork I have to do each year, and I don't even earn enough to actually have to pay anything. Yet I still have to calculate everything, then write down the right numbers in the "foreign earned income exclusion" boxes, then tally it all up to make sure it's still zero, then make sure I've copied the right numbers to the right boxes and haven't mistakenly transposed any numbers, then copy those zeroes down to the right boxes through the rest of the 1040.

The UK has had this system for decades, it has had online tax filing since 3 July 2000. It's had PAYE (pay as you earn tax, i.e. tax deduction at source) since 1944.

The UK feels stagnant as heck, so I wouldn't recommend people actually move here, but its tax system is trivial to the point of ignorable if you're employed.
In the late 1990s, a Wingate proxy server for sharing an Internet connection to other students in the dorms.
By "remove a commit" do you mean rebase A to point at its previous commit, HEAD~1?

A commit SHA represents the entire DAG up until that point, not a given changeset. So in your example, branch B is still a pointer to a commit, and branch A is a pointer to a different commit. Where is the convenient lie?
I have a simpler theory.

The law is the way it is because of the influence of lobbyists. Those lobbyists include lobbyists for companies that do things like payroll. They would like the system to be complex to provide a regulatory moat that keeps other businesses from competing with them. And by siding with this or that special interest that cares about their piece more than how sensible the whole is, the law is easy to turn into a mess.
Arm conquered the chip market without making a single chip