skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed.

Alternatives include:

Take the next few Fridays or Mondays off

Look through your workload and slow walk anything that won't result in a significant impact

Delegate some work, if you are able

Get help with some work, if you are able

Change your schedule to maximize how you feel during off time

Sort your workload into reasonable daily work and get it done a bit early so you can manage your pace and avoid potential burnout.

If you are in your first four decades of life and especially if you are in your third or even second, feeling tired after work should be raising alarm bells!!

Fix that. It may be medical, diet, significant others, financial, work environment, whatever.

What is causing it is only important in that you need to know why you are how you currently are.

Then address it no matter what the cost.

If you do not, you risk doing yourself real harm.

Peace, no judgment, live well.
These keys are based on elliptic curves rather than products of primes, aren't they?
George Gilder: When Bandwidth Is Free -- Lead to my idea of the BitGrid

https://web.archive.org/web/20000620164302/https://www.wired...

Alaskan Alpine Club -- Offbeat, but interesting. (I can't find the reference, CURSE YOU GOOGLE! but somewhere in this rabbit hole, I found a profound essay that talked about human conversation as an error correcting mechanism, and it changed how I talk with others forever)

https://billstclair.com/doug/alaskanalpineclub.com/index.htm...

Travels with Samantha by Philip Greenspun - showed me storytelling on the web in a way I had never seen it before

https://philip.greenspun.com/samantha/
YouTube is fine as a distribution channel for now. Though there is some risk of being extorted or losing access, the bigger threat will come some years down the road when video is a legacy distribution format.

Diffusion at the edge is going to change a lot of things. Especially since it won't have to encode to linear formats.
Was school consistently easier for you than it was for your classmates? Was it much easier for you? How about compared to your smartest classmates?

I think the answers to those questions are pretty strong indicators. Fundamentally, though, IMO most people who are gifted know it.
Suspect in custody after apparent Trump assassination attempt
I wonder why it wasn't mentioned in the article.
An alternative would be to use YouTube Kids instead of a regular YouTube and to ban MrBeast's channel. Problems solved.
> supercentenarian birthdates are concentrated on days divisible by five

Very funny
I think you're mistaken about the Africa situation. France participated in the NATO Libya operations to preserve the dominance of the CFA Franc in Africa.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190410234309/https://www.foia....

It's a shit fest up and down.

The CFA Franc is effectively economic imperialism. This is something Qaddafi wanted to get rid of in Africa.
An Era of Chinese Adoption Ends, and Families Are Torn over Its Legacy
Absolutely this - management will do whatever it takes to help management get through whatever problem they currently have, and if that's outright lying to IC's, or stringing them along for a few months they will do that, and not even regret it for an instant.

A really solid engineer I know was working with a failing mobile payments company, got an offer somewhere else and like a fool took it to his manager, who matched the new offer and the guy accepted... for 2 months until the company went bankrupt and he was back at square one looking for a job.
I haven't read the spec entirely, but couldn't "infer" mean "check with a compressed list of millions of urls already categorized offline and cached on disk" ?
Scary thought, difficult to unthink.

I'm afraid you might be right.

We've accepted a lot of crap lately just to get what we think we want, convenience is a killer.
Dysfunction of the visual thalamus in developmental dyslexia
SWAT = Special Weapons and Tactics. Which usually involves blasting out the door, jumping inside while covered with body armor and / or tactical shields, expecting unusually fierce resistance with military-grade weapons, etc. This is warranted in special cases, like storming a building held by terrorists.

What was that is very regular tactics and barely any weapons. It was a polite visit by police expecting reasonable cooperation from the target person, not heavy armed resistance.
It's a weird trap. With no analytics, it'd be difficult to attribute any conversions to a particular user type, so I'd wager that, if the hypothesis that lower tech users don't block ads/analytics holds up, the metrics skew that way. We can't make any realistic assertions without the data for that user group. Shrug.
A number of people have already increased their social platform presence by adding Threads and Bluesky. The moral integrity comes when they leave their large following as the platform diverges from their values
Re: alternatives, there's also Linkhut: https://ln.ht/
Website literally unreadable on mobile!
One Line of Code Almost Blew Up the Internet [video]
So your point is that well-renowned graduate programs are on an equal financial footing as those that are less well regarded?

I think it’s fairly well established that better programs have better funding. This generally results in more funding for PhD prospects. It’s great that you want to share your anecdotal experience, but don’t pretend that it means it’s a incontrovertible generalizable truth.

>Nobody here has any evidence

When someone relies on absolute language like “nobody” or “everyone”, it’s a clue they are making an emotional rather than a reasoned argument. In this case, there is data about funding and PhD opportunities.
They're both short sighted attempts at extracting profit while ignoring all negative consequences.
At face value, this is not a culture that would reward risk taking. It's very operations focused. Get x done on day y or you're fired. Maybe they do value risk taking on the creative side?
I'd argue KHTML could give Linux a run for its money for that title.
Earlier discussion:

Linux kernel contributor swatted and handcuffed live on stream [video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41532098
Wild, I would literally never work for a company where I had this kind of relationship with my direct manager. My direct manager should be in my corner and on my side always. They will get me the highest pay, highest title, best perks, lowest amount of stress and work, most time off, best benefits they can and anything they ask me to do is in service of that. If I find out that my direct manager is the one gating a raise or promotion from me I'll just quit.

I had one manager like this after an acquisition, he literally threw his head back laughing when I said I was up for a promotion and raise (documented prior to the acquisition) and said a number which was what everyone at $ex_company with that title made. He said no, and that he was the one who got to decide if I get a promotion— I quit less than a month later for an actually good manger.

They pay had better be incredible to make playing those kinds of political games worth having your soul drained.
> Scientists define a rogue wave as any wave more than twice the height of the waves surrounding it. The Draupner wave, for instance, was 25.6 meters tall, while its neighbors were only 12 meters tall.

> In comparison, the Ucluelet wave was nearly three times the size of its peers.

> The buoy that picked up the Ucluelet wave was placed offshore along with dozens of others by a research institute called MarineLabs in an attempt to learn more about hazards out in the deep.

> [...] For centuries, rogue waves were considered nothing but nautical folklore. It wasn't until 1995 that myth became fact.

ScholarlyArticle: "Generation mechanism and prediction of an observed extreme rogue wave" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05671-4
If electricity is being used to generate heat (for a house, hot tub, etc), and that heat happens to be generated by a bitcoin miner, is it more or less wasteful than only using the electricity to generate heat?
Sometimes? Sure. All the time? You'd likely to hurt yourself pretty badly doing that, eventually (and maybe sooner than you'd realize). Nutrition-wise, I think, people starting to understand that. Information-wise, not so much.
I have a shelf full of histories of British science and engineering during WW2, so I feel like I have some remote idea of what being an engineer in an actual “wartime mode” is like. Think about, e.g., working in the lab trying to improve radar to be able to stop the daily bombing raids. It’s hard to imagine “wartime mode” as being an appropriate metaphor for any US company, other than as a sort of fantasy role play.

I normally hate sports metaphors, but as an alternative to war, framing a tough business situation as “fourth down and 10” or whatever is a lot healthier way to think about it.
> I think it's important not to micromanage to the extent he is--it's necessary, maybe, for his business

I think it's pretty clear he has figured out how to "master" YouTube better than anyone else ever has by a very wide margin.

So if he doesn't micromanage, how can he teach people how to do something that nobody else has ever figured out how to do?

It's not like people will show up and be good at what he wants. There is no school for this, no "Here's my past experience". None of that matters at his level of success.
The footage of the camera looks like an IR cut filter of a daylight camera rather than a thermal camera...
> 1. Are you or others in immediate danger? If so, get out and help others get out.

Wanting to help folks out is great, but if there's one role going in some related company, and there's a few on your team who are going to be out of work, then I don't think there's going to be too many advertising the job posting to others.
lol so the answer is "probably not".
The charge definitely has an impact on the market lifespan of the phone. It makes an older phone less attractive.

Let's do a thought experiment: The cost of an iPhone 16 is $800 brand new in 2024. The year is now 2028 and someone is giving a student the phone for free (and they need a phone), but warn that the battery is glitchy and worn out. Let's say there is no third party replacement. At what price will the student accept the phone and replace the battery? At what price would the student just get a brand new iPhone 20 at $800? Assume the following replacement charges: $700/$480/$240/$120.
That's a fair argument in general, though in this case I would both say that

- the risk of somehow abusing self-reported city-level location data is very low

- the effort involved in bypassing the proposed security measure is so exceedingly little, anyone who is passingly motivated to abuse it will also simply do that

As someone who works in the digital risk business, I fully subscribe to managing risk and that (as you say) 100% security is usually not a realistic option. Weighing risks against benefits is key, though
> You said that “-3” = “0-3”.

No, I didn’t.
They identified something their customers (viewers) like and the competition can't provide, and play to that unique strength. That's pretty standard, they just give an example instead of obfuscating the principle in management speak.

With some rewording this would be perfect for the USP slide of an investor deck
Imagine doctors routinely asking their patients if they spend too much time on their phones. Would feel a bit intrusive but for some vulnerable populations like kids it might be a good thing to ask about.
> She's saying plainly that majority of your quota (hours) is spent towards work, if those amount of time is not spent towards "moving you toward where you want to be", then those time is counted as wasted

Well, yes, that’s the bourgeois part.

The fact is, most people work to survive because they have to. That’s perfectly fine and respectable and it doesn’t need a large amount of self-realisation guilt tripping thrown on top by people who want to sell self-help books.

People don’t need to strategically tackle their career and its progression to live meaningful life. They can if they want to and have the luxury of being able to do so but I will always oppose anyone describing work as wasted time on principle.
Well, one could argue that when you’re over 40 a lot more is actually directed at you because that’s when you’ve got the most money to spend. Cars, properties, services, vacations, kids etc. Everything might start to seem to be out of control, but major products finally start to seem to hit the right spot for your taste and promise that control in some sense.
> Why is this BS?

Because the cure would be way worse than the disease. Both parties don't have my best interest in mind, but only one party has the power to ruin my life. I am not inclined to add to that power any more that it is absolutely necessary. And we're so far beyond that point that any addition at this point is extremely suspect.
I, like many people, lamented about the media dumbing us down with lazy, brainless content. What blew my mind was when I read someone online respond to this assertion: “you have it backwards, the media is delivering what the market demands”.

As with most things it’s likely a bit of both. But deep down I suspect it’s mostly the market demanding trash.
> the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels

What I am not understanding is why the sentences themselves are the worst possible construction and painful to read, rather than decent opening lines to the “worst of all possible novels”?
Magazine ads don't bother me, especially if they're on-topic (e.g. PC ads in a PC magazine.) I find ads in vintage PC magazines to be particularly interesting and fun.

But web ads are typically obnoxious, intrusive, and off-topic. Delivery formats such as pop-up windows and auto-playing video are so disruptive that there are browser settings to block them – settings which web advertisers work tirelessly to subvert. The commercial web has become unusable without ad blockers.
I said levels. You're not looking at data on levels (measured empirically using simple physics), but emissions, which is a smorgasbord of combined government data sources that aren't very likely to be complete.

If you check levels, you'll see no impact. Therefore we must conclude that either:

1. Emissions do not affect measured levels (carbon cycles are complex so this is possible).

2. Emissions data is wrong.

3. The tiny reduction in emissions was just too small to actually show up in measurements.
Prefunding pensions out of operating revenues is onerous relative to similar federal agencies, but is it really bonkers?

The main problem with pensions is that they often get funded with promises instead of dollars. Then whoever made the promise walks away and leaves the problem for others to fix.
Thank you. This makes much more sense.

Whoever made that page should've had some better information.
That’s one of the most interesting parts of this document. Many people will read it and think “I would never work at a place like that,” and many others would think “that’s exactly the environment I want to work in!”

More startups should be this transparent about their stated/desired culture (even if unintentionally).
Such a notice is not required for personal blogs..
Broke my nixos steam/proton setup also. Using game scope as the compositor. Switch to LTS (6.6 I think) solved it. Frustrating bug but they don’t call it nixos-unstable for nothing.
7900 GRE
YT has RSS feeds for every channel.

So I’ve switched to using RSS to follow the specific niche creators that add value for me. As a result, my YT experience is entirely unlike what the YT algorithm suggests.
I worked in corporate environments for decades.

The original comment I responded to said they regularly imported large data sets and the in the case of the genetists they also are regularly importing data into Excel. In other words Excel is a regularly used and fundamental tool to their work. In this case I would expect someone to learn the basics of using it. Just as I would expect a developer to learn their editor, build system, version control system, etc.
The SEK/MEK (i.e. German SWAT equivalent) operates differently. Shocking, I know, different countries, different procedures. Their daily operations look pretty much like this.
I don't agree.

All languages fall on a spectrum, different priorities, strengths and weaknesses.

Forth is all about simplicity of implementation, it's the number one idea driving every decision. Which means a lot of other priorities, like higher level abstractions, are more difficult to achieve.

It does make a nice DSL sometimes, so does Lisp, to an even greater extent, while providing plenty of higher level abstractions.
> Just ask any of the data faking cheating scientists I channeled my trauma into exposing who got me kicked out of academia. But that's how I got rich.

I don’t know what you are referring to, but I am curious. Would you explain?
I have a lot of memories in my childhood, but I can't remember anything on this level. Sure, I grew up in a very different environment than the US, but even in the US - say, was there a constant stream of content aimed at kids that is optimized to be maximally extreme and maximally attention-grabbing? All I can remember was cartoons - but were kids spending hours glued to the screen watching cartoons? I surely wasn't.
I have a score of 5. I was in my district's GT program [0] from 5th grade until graduation (I only mention this since you said "gifted" in the title and this is the most "official" proof that I have). I failed many classes in high school (algebra, chem, physics, English) mostly from lack of effort. I had a lot of trouble attending class during high school and dealt with depression.

I went to college a couple of states away and being in that new environment helped a lot. By my senior year I was doing much better -- still had issues and only had a 3.2 GPA but I never failed a class. I was able to get an internship at AWS and a full-time job there after graduation.

Now (at 27) I'm starting a new job at Pinterest tomorrow, doubling what I was making at my last job. I'm halfway through my masters in computer science. I don't think I have any giant accomplishments, but I'm definitely comfortable and conventionally successful. The biggest dissatisfaction I have are around relationships and fulfillment, though I am slowly making progress.

I don't have any major diagnosed issues, but my upbringing definitely continues to have a huge impact on me. Therapy has helped a lot.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifted_education
Took a swing at this myself, please see:

https://www.blockscad3d.com/community/projects/1814083

which is mostly parametric --- only the placement of the rounding of the last radius is hard-coded/fudged.
> As for integration, I don't see why people who are judgmental.

People are judgmental because mass migration from high-crime countries transformed Sweden from one of the world's safest countries to having the highest rate of gun violence in the EU, and Sweden has been increasingly transparent about the situation.

Because of the political climate in most Western countries today, we can't have a rational discussion about negative effects of mass migration, or consider scenarios where the negative impact might outweigh the benefits. It's just a conversation we can't have without shallow knee-jerk accusations of racism and fascism and Nazism and so on.
> For me, the purpose of life is searching for that purpose. That’s the job. The chase, the utter determination in the effort of search, the relentless seeking. It forces you to adapt to the changing world, not build expectations for the future that one day all struggle will stop. It demands training like an athlete for that purpose, enjoying the time with an ever-changing priority list. It asks you not to lose time with seemingly innocent but utmost time-wasters like Facebook, Instagram, or the latest news. It invites you to make the journey more enjoyable by building things that matter—like real relationships with family and friends and community around rituals—and seeking timeless ideas. To be able to do all, it also tempts you to make the journey safer.

Sounds to me a bit like the grown-up version of "The real treasure is the friends we made along the way".

How do you do all the things the author wants you to do while also having a day job and trying to keep your boss happy?
Swede here. Talked to an Arab immigrant about this. He brought it up, and he thought it was a great idea. Will pay itself back many times over.
> 4. Rewarding employees who make value for the business and think like founders/equity owners, not employees.

That is simple to do but not something many companies want to do. Just give employees equity via mutualisation. (Real ownership not discourse ownership)
>the rust bros are extreme drama lovers

"Rust bros" have been involved in approximately 0% of the Linux kernel drama that has surfaced to the level of being covered elsewhere, historically speaking.

Linus Torvalds is not averse to "drama", and given the needlessness of your phrasing neither are you apparently. Stones and glass houses, etc.
Disgustingly inappropriate.
Poll: How much programming do you do?
I'm interested in the tech/programming experience here. I'm limited as to the choices I can offer, and all optional polls suffer selection bias, but even so, I'd be interested to see the responses.

So ... How much programming do you do? Probably no option will exactly match your situation ... pick the closest.
All day, front-end, it's my job;
All day, back-end, it's my job;
50% of my day, front-end, it's not my primary job;
50% of my day, back-end, it's not my primary job;
Spare time, front-end, some days most weeks;
Spare time, back-end, some days most weeks;
Little to none.
It was in Germany.
Of course there is unity to thoughts, but that unity just boils down to ordinary cause-and-effect. There's nothing out there in the real world that points to a "single, unchanging" person or entity having the thoughts, if only because people in general are constantly affected by their surrounding environment, quite far from being "unchanging".
Does this kind of criticism apply to US parties?

Like a pro-slavery party?
it's really common for people to form groups after a layoff to help each other get hired.
YouTube caters to every niche. Including the more snobbish demographic who “claims” they don’t understand the appeal of YouTube videos (aka don’t understand humans and entertainment in general)

Check out stuff by Johnny Harris , veritasium, etc… for more educational stuff.

Also I didn’t like the ageism comment. I’m about your age and I can definitely understand the appeal of Mr. Beast. I feel a lot of the disdain for him is more snobbery than anything. Some people think they’re better or too good for that type of entertainment. If you truly don’t understand the appeal I think that’s actually a sign of autism. It’s unlikely you’re autistic and it’s more likely to be snobbery disguised as lack of understanding.

Entertainment is usually mindless anyway. It’s not like Shakespeare is some higher form of entertainment. It’s all snobbery that segregates these things. Transformers has more technical complexity and represents a bigger human achievement then Shakespeare.

The technical know how of thousands of people utilizing technology decades in development combined together to achieve the transformers movie to tell a story with more clarity then the equally cliche story of Romeo and Juliet.

It’s all mindless entertainment and class based prejudice.
In addition, the On Call section has just completed its 500th issue:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/15/on_call_500_columns_c...
Excel doesn't change CSV files when it imports them. If the imported file was being changed then the user was saving back to the same file they imported from.
Lack of SEK uniforms.