skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool but the only way I can stick to self-imposed deadlines is with medication. No amount of self-help and work philosophy can fix what's broken on a hardware level.
Unnecessary alarming title: there are several caveats at the end of the article.

Study limitations:

- Reported bowel cancer rates only up to 2017, potentially outdated.

- Used subnational data from small populations, limiting generalization.

Caution urged by experts:

- David Robert Grimes (biostatistics professor) warned about comparing international cancer data due to variability in data quality and availability.

- Emphasized avoiding conclusions from conflicting data.

Regional discrepancies:

- Bowel cancer rates in under-50s increased more slowly in other UK nations compared to England (1.55% in England vs. 0.64% in Scotland, 0.54% in Northern Ireland).

Need for more research:

- Katrina Brown (Cancer Research UK) highlighted the uncertainty in why rates in England were rising faster than other UK nations, calling for further research.

Overall impact:

- Despite increases, bowel cancer cases in under-50s remain low, accounting for about 1 in 20 of all UK cases.
Before companies went global 24/7, this was really a rare problem.

These days, you could have a global company where some emergency occurs and you have to call a meeting at sometime on Saturday wrt your location timezone, but one of the other locations is several hours ahead of your timezone such that the meeting occurs during/around the transition period for their location's timezone.

So, not common at all. But it may happen. That's why they choose the transition times to occur when most of the LOCAL population DOES NOT schedule meetings.

I don't think there were any Saturday/Sunday virtual meetings when this timezone stuff was created... Simpler times...
My hunch is that people like you and the HN crowd are the outliers. The majority of people don't actually hate cold emails or what we perceive as "spam".

For example my wife and mother love advertisements for discount deals. They actively look for them, and object when I try to clean their computer/mailbox from that sort of stuff. The last time I said this on HN, I received sarcastic mocking replies, which just prove the point that it's the HN crowd that's "weird".
Most of the Ploopy trackballs are designed for fingering(!). The one shown in the article looks to me like the Adept model which I have too and is not a thumb-designed one.

(My Elecom left-handed wireless trackball on the other hand is a thumb-oriented one. They take more getting used to as thumbs aren't quite as dextrous)
The early conquistadors were horrible people as well and they brought about epochal change.

I'm not supportive of any billionaire much less the ones actively corrupting democracies. But that doesn't mean that they won't cause historical things to happen.
"I am not a madman for saying that it is likely that the code for artificial general intelligence is going to be tens of thousands of lines of code, not millions of lines of code. This is code that conceivably one individual could write, unlike writing a new web browser or operating system."

- John Carmack, Lex Fridman Podcast (August 4th, 2022)

This was around 3 months before ChatGPT's initial release.

Timestamped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4&t=14677s
I've been receiving hundreds of these emails per day, and they were hard to filter due to them being ChatGPT generated (also in native language/s).

But I started my own spam filter that filters out the rotating networks of those companies, due to them having multiple ASNs and multiple load balancers that they rotate on a daily basis to avoid being filtered by e.g. spamhaus.

If they use a public email service and fake gmail addresses, they are blocked via domain due to gmail itself stripping out the relay trace of IPs :( other than that my inboxes are now super clean and I love it.

If you don't want this type of spam, or if you want to give me spam samples to filter out, this is the repository:

https://github.com/cookiengineer/antispam
An AI is not capable of only harming the user.
Nah, just take a look at their own comparison page:

https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/v6e

The A100 (from 2020) had 300 TFLOPs (1.5x) and 80GB HBM. It's only now with Trillium that they are starting to actually beat Nvidia in a chip vs chip battle, but being faster per chip was never the point. TPUs were supposed to be mass produced and connected into pods so that they become cheaper and they indeed are.
Seems like you need your accountant since you can’t count to three
That’s an unspoken truth that some therapists don’t want to admit. Some will push you to the limit, while detracting from medication, even when it’s necessary, because as you said, no amount of software will modify (enough) the hardware
The thing is, I am not talking about the burden or morality. Just what will happen.
> Every single human behavior that you could perhaps use to identify 'people', it faked.

Except, you know, actually playing the game well. The bots all play aggro decks and get lower than average winrates.

> I quit Hearthstone within that week.

Why? Their presence makes climbing the ladder easier, so you get more rewards.
I like this idea in theory. It seems to be empirically a good observation. I do take issue with the solution though.

Maybe it comes down to how you model the minds of those around you, but I notice a pattern in articles like this, that the solution seems to be presented as universal. In my experience, deadlines, especially self-imposed ones, are very effective for some (say 40%) of people, but they're not a panacea.

Wouldn't it be nice if there was some more general theory that explained Parkinson's law, and suggested various solutions that will work for various people?

> I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. - Douglas Adams
It's worth noting that our metabolisms slow down when we start losing weight so it gets harder and harder to lose fat.
From the page:

> Buying and setting up adjacent domains.

> Optimizing your domains for deliverability

There's a term for this, it's called spam, and the specific method is snowshoeing
I have my seedbox behind hideme vpn. They seem not that good privacy wise, but for torrenting that's not the main concern IMO.

Port forwarding works and you can get a raw wireguard config to dockerize it.

For general use in e.g. open hotspots I still use mullvad/mozilla vpn as I trust them more. (And can pay cashfor mullvad)
I'm cofounder of https://talkjs.com, and I strongly disagree. We do not believe that Parkinson's Law universally holds, and in fact we do not use deadlines at all. If I'm not mistaken, the standard lore goes as follows:

1. Work is awful and people hate doing the work they get assigned

2. Therefore, people will try their best to do as little of it as possible

3. Thus, if there's no deadline, or the deadline is very lenient, then people will mess around to fill the time -> Parkinson's Law!

Turns out that if you stop the military carrot & stick model of work, and instead try to actually be a place where people want to do great work, then this dynamic changes completely. We do it like this:

1. Make sure every employee does some amount of customer support. This makes everybody feel that real people are facing real problems that need real solutions, fast.

2. Give people a lot of freedom in what they work on, in what order, so long as it fits broad company objectives. If a customer reports a bug and it "nerd snipes" you completely, go for it!

3. Teach people scoping and iterative delivery. Stuff like "ship it when it's better than what's live now" (vs "ship it when it's perfect"). Many engineers like to polish things forever until it's perfect (this is the less cynical interpretation of Parkinson's law) but you can just coach people in this, takes a few months max.

I can honestly say that our dev team is the most productive team I've ever been a part of, and we do this without deadlines, without yelling managers who turn your estimations into promises, without overtime, and anything else like that. Parkinson's Law doesn't need to hold. It's a consequence of a shitty low-trust working culture.

Admittedly I've no idea whether our approach scales to larger companies - we're 15 people. Also we hire explicitly for people who are able to handle this kind of freedom. But it works excellently for us.
Seems like a good way to get your whole domain blocked at my MX
> achieved a 15-hour work week

I think we did. And just filled the rest of the hours with performative work instead of going home, because of the "moral hazard" of plebs having free time and energy to invest in themselves and communities.
Globally probably - since now it is bigger. Have a look at Teleholding in the netherlands as an example, they printed money mostly with recordings not even people on the other side.
I don't understand, if the operation is not defined, what exactly the compiler should do?

If I tell you "open the door", that implies that the door is there. If the door is not there, how would you still open the door?

Concretely, what do you expect this to return:

#include <cstddef>
void sink(ptrdiff_t);
ptrdiff_t source();

int foo() {
int x = 1;
int y;
sink(&y-&x);
*(&y - source()) = 42;
return x;
}

assuming that source() returns the parameter passed to sink()?

Incidentally I had to launder the offset through sink/source, because GCC has a must-alias oracle to mitigate miscompiling some UB code, so in a way it already caters to you.
As a software developer I have learned that if there is something I wished existed then I should just write it myself. Otherwise I could be waiting for eternity or for something shitty.

Most of the things I wished existed, only to end up writing myself, tend to be things like:

* Dashboards. I don’t mean bar charts or business analytics insanity. I just mean a flat list of things and whether they are green or red in real time.

* Media access. Jellyfin and Plex are great and really solve for 90% of that space, but for that last 10% I have personal solutions.

* Container management. Kubernetes is too complicated. I can really solve for that more directly with a good dashboard and proper scripted access on top of that dashboard.

* Managed streams. Services work better when they are bit streams instead of over-engineered HTTP insanity. So for that I wrote my own WebSocket solution that I can independently scale and extend in different ways that may sometimes violate RFC6455.
What a terrible article. When you have a section titled "The Problem With Hardcoded Filters", it's entire contents should be about how the only way they have to prevent their bot from emitting outrageously libelous claims about people is to shut it down completely. So the other 8 billion people on earth who are not in that 6 name blacklist will continue to be defamed without consequence.
Here you are primarily focusing on what's happening to them.

But we shouldn't forget that a big part of the "incel" community is actively pushing for reducing rights & liberties of women, because they see them as "things" or just "lesser humans".

If you replace real women by AI sexbots, not only you remove them a source of income (I know, it's not perfect today either, with pimps & stuff like that, but at least some women can make a living with this) but also there's a big risk that the AI are going to be quite extreme in their behavior, alienating "incels" even more, which would be harder for real women to do.
You can hand that GELU definition to a mathematician and they can interpret it as a function of a real number b. The definition does not depend upon b being a floating-point number with a particular bit representation.

In contrast, the fast inverse square root really exploits the bit representation of a floating point input to cheaply compute an initial guess.
I literally agree with the second sentence. Humans control fire. If we can make it rain whenever we want we also control the weather. If they didn't they wouldn't need laws preventing them from overdoing it.
> The usual way to do that is to stop smoking entirely and eventually forget about it. You cannot stop eating. Food tastes good. We have infinite food available. The hell are we supposed to do about it?

I think 99 out of 100 doctors will not tell you to stop eating.

Just

- eat less

- eat less shit
How do you prevent people from smoking? Eating processed food?

Is the fact that the process of suicide is slower/more conventional a difference?

People seeking this process go through a psychological evaluation to determine if they are under duress and of clear mind. Also there's liability to the ones applying undue pressure which can be criminal.

I think there's a point of personal responsibility. Potential abuse of the system should not be the reason to deny it to everyone. I want to have control over the way I live and die. Alzheimer's is unfortunately in both sides of my family, if it has no treatment and I start showing signs I would rather die than live. It would be torture for me to put my family through that.
Monads can be thought of as arbitrary function colourings, hence the prior mention of Haskell potentially being a good fit. Of course monads are implementable in almost any other language, but few have as much syntax sugar or general library support as Haskell does, except maybe Ocaml
I use htpy and it's great. There are others like htmy[0] too.

The problem with templates in general is you can write malformed HTML in them. The nice thing about htpy et al is you simply can't do that. I feel like what we really want is JSX in Python, where you can write XML-like syntax and it's converted into Python at import time.

[0] https://volfpeter.github.io/htmy/
I actually think that you are correct.

I employ ad blockers, mass delete cold emails, and intentionally do not click "sponsored" links (even if they happen to be the one I really need). And yet, I had to "teach" my wife to avoid clicking ad links, and install ad blocker on her computer. And I assume most "regular" people are like this.

And "our" mentality, at least in my case, makes it hard to run a business as I see cold emails and ads as scam.
I never unsubscribe (as I never subscribed in the first place) I just: right click > junk > block sender

If I keep getting stuff from them/they mildly changed email addresses - I just block the whole domain.

I suggested to our Cyber team that for the majority of people here we could just block all incoming emails from domains other than our own - and then operate a whitelist or holding pen for other incoming emails. In an average year, I can count on one hand the times I need to email externally, or am expecting to receive an external email - my roll (as many others) is inward facing.
Interesting to put this besides Hofstadter's law, which looks to be also real, which states "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."

I don't think these need to be reconciled though as they are about different things: one is about imposing psychological threats to induce action and the other is about the inherent incapacity for humans to reason temporally concerning complex tasks.

One problem that arises though is that when tasks can't be sufficiently estimated, how do you reliably impose said psychological threats which don't turn into casual "oops, software's hard and is hard to estimate, hopefully better luck next time."
Girls-only classes might be a bit more silent, making it simpler to focus. An advantage.

Maybe this speaks for offering kids who want to study and focus in silence, a place to do that. Both boys and girls.

Different classrooms based on who can be silent, and who cannot? Rather than gender.

At least when I was a kid, all noisy classmates who were disturbing others and making the teachers angry, were boys.
This is also my observation. The cheaper I sell stuff on the local version of craigslist, the lower the quality of the buyers. No shows, non responsive to messages, whatever. I gave up on putting up stuff for free.

The reason I put it up for free is that I value not having the item more than having it, so much more that I don't care about the 10 or maybe 100 euro that I could theoretically get for it. The idea is putting it up for free will let me quickly get rid of it, and instead of throwing something useful away, maybe someone will be happy with it. In practice this rarely works, I now much better understand why some people with limited time just toss out whatever they don't need. Getting it into someone else's hands is just too much work. The environmental impact is horrible though

Another insight: whenever i donate my time fro free (volunteer work), my time is not valued at all. We start with a 30min coffee break with strangers I have no real interest in. Then a speech thanking so and so, and then someone starts preparing and finally after over an hour I can start contributing with whatever is the cause I want to help with. What a waste...

If I charged my normal rate everyone would be prepared and make sure they make the most effective use of my hours.

So this is such a paradox: people under value what is free, so giving something for free is not appreciated enough for me to do it.

Final observation: I run a repair-cafe, and a very significant portion of appliances people come by with are cheap, ireppairable junk (often nespresso and senseo coffee machines, but also toasters etc). Im am suspecting that the people that buy more expensive coffee machines (the ones that are serviceable) are less inclined to actually take the time to repair it and just discard and buy new
A fundamental indication of what's wrong with society. Human beings cannot handle scale. Economies of scale and technology turns into perversion and gives individuals at the top too much power.
'pain-free' and 'organized' perhaps, but don't fool yourself, it's never 'dignified'.

Makes me think of this:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0606035/quotes/?ref_=tt_dyk_qu
One very useful outcome of setting relentless deadlines is forcing engineers, who are rather prone to overengineering and analysis paralysis, to just do 'good enough' and unblock themselves.

Its a mental trick to get them to focus on outcomes instead of the journey. Far better to let them mutter darkly about perceived 'technical debt' that is incurred delivering business value than to actually let them try and do things their way :D

This doesn't absolve management of picking the right problems to solve etc, nor absolve engineers of solving those problems in a competent manner.

But what it does is make good engineers work on the right thing, because lots of engineers have a tendency to not see the business wood for the trees and go off solving the wrong problems if self-organising.

Of course it is not nice to be an engineer and see how, as a generalisation, we can all be manipulated like this :)
Wonder if its some sort of chemical/food additive, but which one?
Aluminum. It's American.
Love this

>>> "ship it when it's better than what's live now"
Is a fantastic rule - as it is almost always measurable (even things like engineering quality can be measured (a little)) and so justifiable.

Also your last line (Deadlines are poverty) suggests that it’s a term you use a lot in your company - want to expand?
You can firewall any app/service on Android with RethinkDNS.
was that story inspired by the last side project thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376682
> Doesn't that mean you only get recommended the most popular stuff?

No, the only recommendations are the ones on the side of the video and they’re varied in popularity and age (from just posted to a decade ago). They seem to be related to the same subject or type of creator of the current video. They’re very hit or miss in terms of what I’d like, and that’s fine with me. Believe me, the recommendations have nothing to do with what’s popular on the homepage, and I know that because I remember well when they didn’t hide it; the homepage was absolute garbage and mostly shit from my country.

One thing I forgot to mention is that I also use iCloud Private Relay, which may further affect it. That in particular isn’t always good as sometimes YouTube refuses to play the video and asks me to sign in to prove I’m not a bot. Fortunately that has happened fewer times than I thought it would. When it does I either temporarily switch browsers or just close YouTube and go do something else.
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In practice, they have someone giving out the free samples.

Also, social shame generally applies and people conform to social norms.
The fact they answer themselves or with help from someone is one thing. The fact they are sincere in their messages in another one.

I know there are also some people who pretend they are falling in love with the prostitutes they pay to have sex but the terms are clear both in physical and online prostitution. It is all a business about pretending and consumers should expect that.
Tips from 10 years of Hotwire Native
From my experience, it is about 3h per day where I can be productive. But one also has to include the problemsolving thinking that takes place outside of these hours.
The reality is mostly against that benefit though. I've seen so many bad decisions to be made in a short timeline to keep up with the deadlines, which leads the project to be dead soon later. There's always a deep balance to be tracked on.
I agree with Mallory that we make money to live but I also think that modern technological society has turned pursuits into highly specialized perversions that aren't even inspiring any more.

The worldwide coverage of mountain climbing has even turned mountain climbing into a somewhat arbitrary thing in terms of "climbing everests": first it was to the top of the mountain (cool), then it was to the top in a certain time, then it was without supplementary oxygen, then it was climbing all 8,000m+ mountains, then it was doing THAT without oxygen...

At some point it's diminishing returns and becomes stupid -- and results in people just killing themselves, and AI is already on that level.

With every achievement there also comes a responsibility and our society is just achievement without responsibility.
Manipulation and coercion can oppose the suicide too. There's some cases where family members don't want their loved one to kill themselves.

I'm not sure how these were resolved but it's very messy and hugely traumatic for all involved.
It appears that the problem is not in sitting too much, but rather in sitting in chairs specifically. Apparently, hunter-gatherer people also spend about 10 hours a day sitting. But they sit on the ground. Or kneel or squat. And they don't have the issues we get from sitting too much:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1911868117

So... the end-game of ergonomic chairs might be no chair at all.
Conversely, a very tight deadline might well mean that the project/feature gets shipped - but corners will have inevitably been be cut and the chances of a major rewrite of the feature in the future will have been increased.

So it's important to get the balance right.