jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Is it?

As somebody who got involved in the Agile movement before it had that name, I initially thought the productization of the movement was a positive. In retrospect, it was terrible. The packaged version of "Agile" ended up having most of the nutrients and all of the fiber removed. It was empty calories and an organizational sugar high, all the feeling of process improvement with none of the work (and none of the value).

My expectation with packaged, CEO-friendly wellness is more of the same: a way for CEOs to pay lip service to the trend of the moment without ever having to do anything difficult, without solving the systemic and organizational problems that harm the health of their workers.
Frankly, pretty much all of these items (albeit often phrased differently, but objectively same pattern/issues) lined up with adult ADHD as well. Adults are hard to diagnose, as they'd generally accumulated a lifetime of habits and coping mechanisms that can mask the underlying patterns, with various degrees of success. Some of the how to do better items listed in the article are classic coping mechanisms, and do help - if you can do them.

If you've struggled with doing these methods, or persistently fall back on old habits besides trying them, and it's causing you some distress - you might want to check out https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/adult-adhd/sy...

Nearest as anyone can tell right now, it affects ~ 4-5% of the adult population, men and women in equal amounts, but is poorly understood and often attributed to other causes. Women in particular.
For the last couple of years I've been wanting to learn about how and when recycling works, cost comparison between recycled products and new products, environmental impact of landfill vs recycling, etc.

I don't know where to look for information.

What books should I read? what websites have good information and explanations? whom should I trust?
I always thought it had more to do with the sweetness of dessert will make you lose your appetite, desire, or reduce the taste of the less sweet foods you eat first.
I've worked at a few .. there's one that immediately comes to mind from your description, but some are much better than others at giving freedom to their staff to pursue their own ideas.

There is funding like LDRD which is meant to support ideas from the bottom up.
Yeah, but for every policy in the US someone on HF has to mention that either Europe or one of the Asian countries does it better.
I think this paper should explain it https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/5666.5673
Brilliant story. This reminds me so much of David Foster Wallace's 'Little Expressionless Animals,' I wonder if DFW was aware of the broadcast and took it as inspiration
Can anybody actually produce working code at the same pace as they touch type?

Typing hardly registers as a factor when it comes to how long it takes for me to code anything, at least.
Just in time to vie for "most overhyped scientific headline of 2010."

The paper, "Bimodal gene expression in noncooperative regulatory systems" (available at http://www.pnas.org/content/107/51/22096.full), addresses the question of how bacterial populations achieve bimodal phenotypic distributions (basically, 1 blue cell goes in, 5 blue cells and 5 pink cells come out in a stable ratio, wtf).

This phenomenon has previously been explained by a) cooperativity or b) feedback loops. Cooperativity is a phenomenon in molecular biology where the binding of one protein to, say, DNA will increase the rate of binding of a partner in crime (which can, say, turn a gene on) -- this is a relatively simple regulatory scheme that allows proteins that respond in linear fashion to their environment to produce a non-linear output. Feedback loops are pretty self-explanatory (one thing worth mentioning is that if the feedback loop involves the transcription of a gene, then it is much slower-acting than cooperativity).

Cooperativity can explain the bimodal distribution problem because cooperative systems can act as "regulatory switches" where very small fluctuations in environment can result in very different behavior (see http://bioweb.wku.edu/courses/biol566/Images/MCB3-29hemoglob... for a simplistic example of hemoglobin response to oxygen). Thus, one blue cell goes in, 10 cells come out with very slight environmental differences that are on this response-boundary - voila, 5 blue cells, 5 pink cells.

Anyway, this paper shows that a cell population can have a bimodal phenotypic distribution without cooperativity, simply by having single proteins that respond in non-linear fashion to their environment. That's...a new statistical law?

I don't have the time to fully deconstruct this paper, but after a skim I'm left with the question, "so how does a single protein achieve non-linear response?" This paper seems to provide a mathematical model without giving a good explanation for how it would be achieved in nature. The only answer I can come up with is cooperativity within the protein itself - say, cooperative allosteric regulation. Which would make the theoretical contribution of this paper a lot less exciting.
No, not at all intended as a slight against FW. Rather, against most everyone else. The majority of investors and columnists are surprisingly clueless, but as FW actually knows what he is doing, he is heralded as being especially savvy.
My key takeaways:

1. Uber is actually a higher cost/less efficient producer of urban car services than the taxi companies it has driven out of business

2. Individual Uber drivers with limited capital cannot acquire, finance, maintain and insure vehicles more economically than Yellow Cab

3. Expenses other than drivers, vehicles, and fuel account for 15 percent of traditional taxi costs but Uber charges drivers 25-30 percent without coming close to covering their actual costs

4. Uber’s surge pricing does not improve efficiency, it simply prices those night shift workers out of the market

5. And as Uber has demonstrated, unlimited taxi market entry can lead to ruinous overcapacity and can allow part-timers to cherry-pick the peak revenue that full-time drivers depend on to cover their costs

6. Uber’s investors knew that it needed raw political power to accelerate growth, and to maintain its hoped-for dominance

7. Uber’s major strategic breakthrough was to treat business development as an entirely political process, using techniques that had proven successful in partisan political settings

8. All of Uber’s early popularity and rapid revenue and valuation growth are explained by the billions in predatory investor subsidies needed to drive those more efficient (but poorly capitalized) incumbents into bankruptcy

9. That [early popularity] allowed [Uber] to pursue more stratospheric valuations by exploiting anticompetitive market power and rent-extraction and buying out any potential competitive threats
People really should read Michael Porter's Competitive Strategy:

http://astore.amazon.com/hypernumbersc-20/detail/0684841487

He points out that pricing power in a supplier relationship is held by whichever side would find it easier to integrate into the other ones space. So Apple vs App Makers, Facebook vs in-Facebook games, Twitter vs Twitter apps...

There can be a healthy acquisition route for successful startups in a supplier relationship - but only for the first one of its kind.
Saturating download can prevent acks from getting through in some cases on some mediums. So throttling download a bit speeds everything else up.
Isn’t booking.com up there as well in that field?
What incentive does Florida have to lie here? What other reason could they have to want to ban certain math textbooks?
Not only have used in non trivial situations but 1000% would use again and now consider it my default go to language of choice.

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread it clearly DOES do well at exceptional scale given that the majority of Google’s revenue is all run through Dart. It’s also a really critical part of the new operating system they are currently spending stupid amounts of money building.

It’s funny that you mention TypeScript because for me every time I touch it I wish it was Dart for a million different reasons.

Not sure when the last time you used Dart but some of the things you mentioned gave me the impression it was either a while ago or you were doing some very specific stuff with it. I absolutely do not associate Dart with large amounts of boilerplate and especially not compared to a language like Java.

The package you mentioned built_value was just a clone of auto value in Java and similar to how the language made auto value no longer needed the same is happening in Dart this year as they are bringing in the concept of static metaprogramming to remove the limitations that lead to its initial existence.

I actually think of it as having the best language ergonomics of any C style language I’ve ever seen.

Guess we value different things…
Yeah, he still sounds like an arrogant douchebag, he's just on the other side now.
I hope HN voters are not down voting for that reason. The Brown incident is a very strong point for michaelochurch's argument and a good, current example.

The DoJ report was specific and full of examples. Brown was in the wrong (hand up was a media creation), but the Police were systematically oppressive (the tickets for the monetary example). I have several issues with the current DoJ, but the investigation and documentation looks pretty well done. They prove there is a real, systematic local problem, but the focus of the investigation is not an example of it.
Fixed it: a classic js error of writing != instead of !== . Thx for noticing! Shift-reload to empty cache of the old js file :)
After some digging this is a syndicated article from here: http://www.shns.com/web/guest/shns-search?p_p_id=listenersea...

That's a horrible URL.

Who cite the Digital Power Group, who seem to be here: http://www.tech-pundit.com but don't appear to really exist.

Finally you end up at this WSJ video: http://live.wsj.com/video/what-uses-less-energy-an-iphone-or...

Where they say it's 38c/yr for power vs $66/yr for the iPhone.

What they're talking about is total energy including manufacturing the cellular network and the whole internet. Quite different.

[edit: added manufacturing to the energy list]
I've been a developer for 8 years. I have a good job already. When I get an email from a google recruiter, I usually think this:

My free time is very limited and valuable. Google sounds interesting, but here are my options:

a) Spend my free time exploring and building small projects with new technologies and techniques. Maybe work on a mobile app that could make some money.

b) Find my old CS textbook and notes and do algorithm studying and exercises just to prepare for an interview.

Doing a) directly improves my skills and has lots of benefits. I've been able to improve projects and gain a lot of good reputation at work because of things I discovered doing a). a) could also lead to making a revenue-generating mobile app. And perhaps most important of all, a) is FUN.

Doing b) just feels like a giant waste of time. Doing b) is a direct opportunity cost of not doing a). The potential return for b) is what? Going through a day long interview with judgmental engineers trying to look smart? And it's boring. It was fun learning in college when it was the first time and I had that aha moment of understanding. Now its just boring to go over it again and again just to rote memorize things. I would rather be building or learning something new.
I'm not sure if my memory is playing tricks on my, but I've found quotes unreliable. Google will spit out "close" suggestions that have nothing to do with what I requested, despite using quotes.

Google also happily returns results which do not fulfill even the "close" suggestions: e.g. I ask for three words, Google searches for those three words, and returns a bunch of pages that contain only two or one of those words. Google, that's not what I asked for.

Google's attempts to tweak my queries and also return results that don't fulfill all requirements makes it much less useful to me, because they usually backfire. I don't want my queries tweaked -- I want exactly what I asked for, and only what I asked for. If I made a mistake, I can figure it out and fix it myself.
They swore other oaths when getting clearances to be sure.
> I "Google" less and less for search results

Google is absolutely unusable for some search terms that are not part of the primary association of the term. Try searching for "caravan" in a query not related to buying caravans, or caravan holiday parks (I was searching for a particular book that featured a caravan). If I don't mention the word "buy" or "holiday" I would not expect to see either.
My impression is that they are trying to market themselves not as cost-savers but as providers of unique experiences. That takes all those other sites out of the running.

A few years back I had a revelation when I read a study of satisfaction among automobile buyers - the customers who paid the most had the highest rates of satisfaction. If you can tap into that sort of customerbase than there is a lot of profit to be made.
BLM also does not "canonize rapists and drug addicts", as if the movement had a pope. Saying that someone unjustly suffered violence at the hands of police isn't near that level. I flagged the comment, but also appreciate your thoughtful response on discourse.
Houdini is a package for authoring procedural content generation tools. You can construct tools in Houdini like a building generator or level generator and no longer need to use up licenses to include them in your software at runtime.
"Personalized Ads for Small Businesses" What a bunch of malarkey. I've worked in ad space and the actual ability for SB's to compete is laughable. Their budgets are so comparatively small that they simply don't get the assistance necessary. They're drinking through paper straws while the big dogs swim in lakes.

SB's absolutely need a platform to compete, but I'm absolutely incredulous that FB is that platform, much less Google or any other like company.
I can think of a few. An app might need to know if Twitter is installed so it can show a button to open a link in twitter or a web browser (This was before App Deeplinking was a thing). Maybe if an app company had multiple apps that it wanted to cross sell and see if they have both apps installed to enable certain functionality.
Try webpack-hot-loader, you can not only hot reload CSS, but you can hot reload some JS, most notably React components! It's really a treat when you see it work, and it's just one more way to tighten up your dev loop.
Dickerson rules:

"Rule 1: "The war room and the meetings are for solving problems. There are plenty of other venues where people devote their creative energies to shifting blame."

Rule 2: "The ones who should be doing the talking are the people who know the most about an issue, not the ones with the highest rank. If anyone finds themselves sitting passively while managers and executives talk over them with less accurate information, we have gone off the rails, and I would like to know about it." (Explained Dickerson later: "If you can get the managers out of the way, the engineers will want to solve things.")

Rule 3: "We need to stay focused on the most urgent issues, like things that will hurt us in the next 24--48 hours."
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No shit. That doesn’t alter the discussion around how dangerous it is to have a censorship on a nationwide platform with more reach than any government forum.
My comment was corrupted by rowhammer. Not only was it misdirected, the content is also probably wrong.
I'm not super attached to the word "terrorist". What's relevant to me is that it was a violent incident which people enthusiastically engaged in; nobody seems to have premeditated the specific deaths that happened, but many of the participants spoke quite openly after the fact about how excited they were to be able to break their way in and how glad they are that it happened.

I do agree that we need to calm down rather than going down the rabbit hole of making 100% sure it can never happen again. But one of the critical ways in which a society calms down is by reinforcing its commitment to nonviolent norms of communication, and that involves a collective recognition that glorification of violence is incompatible with norms of kindness and respect. Reading a comment on how neat it was to watch people break into the Capitol is like reading someone's detailed story of how they'll kill burglars who break into their home - I get it, I really do, but it's incredibly poisonous to polite discourse.
Sure, rectified, my apologies!
We already have enough wealth in the world to share. There's no need to continue oppressing the global south in order to fuel growth that's going to kill us.

I may have agreed with you before capitalism pissed away our future. But, we just don't have the time left, and we must sacrifice in the short term to save the long term. These are facts. If we don't take drastic action now, climate change will abolish capitalism for us in a few decades. Is that what you want?
And you actually could be wrong.

Have you defined the term “two”? You didn’t here.

“But everybody knows what ‘two’ is! You’re being facetious.”

No, not really. Most of the ranting here comes from

1. not precisely defining, and agreeing to, the terms that are being used in discussion, or

2. misinterpreting, intentionally or not, how others are using a term (so easy because the term was not defined properly by the poster in the first place)...

This provides the opportunity to reincarnate a long-neglected topic of study, closely connected to San Francisco, known as General Semantics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics

If this “discussion” occurred among US intellectuals 70 years ago, someone would have already made my observation about defining terms.

A basic tenet: If nobody is defining and gaining an acceptance by others of the terms used in a discussion, you will get intellectually nowhere in your discussion and you will come to no agreement...or...each of you will think an agreement means something different. Dead waste of photons...

Soviet communists hated the idea at the time. “How can you rile up the masses if they objectively and rationally discussed things” seemed to be the concern. Ironic, because if the German people had used the basic techniques in the Nazi 1930s, there would have been 50% more young Russian men alive in the 1950s. Which is why it was so popular among the young intellectuals in the US after WWII who really didn’t want another war.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42573948?seq=1

It is particularly appropriate for a Bay Area group since one of the leading proponents was S.I. Hayakawa who was President of San Francisco State University and former US Senator for California. His book, Language in Thought and Action, was a popular explanation of General Semantics for normal people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_in_Thought_and_Action

It was a Book-of-the-Month club selection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Month

Sold a million copies and was his ticket to politics. An easy and pleasant read even today.

If you pursue General Semantics further, skip the esoterica by the founder Korzybski. It is sort of Eselen-culty without any nudity, so, what’s the point?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esalen_Institute
That's a great book!
If sites actually respected accept-language, I think this UI problem would be fixed by browsers in short order (change accept-language and reload)
that's what I meant. Before taxes social hatred would brew and brew until finlly it was unleashed violently
Maybe true for Ferrari, but Porsche's reputations isn't come from just 0-60.
protocols.io is manually entering all protocols related to COVID-19 on the platform for free and this would be a good fit for it. There are protocols for making your own hand sanitizer and things, in addition to coronavirus research protocols.
What is a virtual card?
Elon Musk is buying Twitter to increase his wealth, mindshare, and influence. He does not actually care about free speech, and its naïve to think that he is buying the platform for "altruistic" reasons.

He is also the lead of a company that has seemingly fired an employee for posting about their publicly available features, and is also facing one of the biggest labor lawsuits ever in the state of California.

He is a billionaire who has built huge amounts of wealth by exploiting people, and he wants to control the flow of information and build his wealth even more.
http://archive.is/RyPYV
I thought the "unintended acceleration" was proven to have been due to older drivers who got confused?
Slight technicality--goalkeepers can't use their hands if the ball is passed back to them by their own team.
If you find it, please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can take a look. If we got something wrong, we're definitely interested in learning from that.
I cannot upvote you enough. Humanity needs more things and more people to produce those things. If humans are constantly wound to mundane tasks, when will I get things that involve more intense labor? But the only problem is there is no easy transition from innovation, so much so that it is called disruption.
... and if the baby isn't born in one month, hire nine women! A lot of the development of mature software can't be parallelized. Paying Simon Peyton-Jones twice as much, or even cloning him, won't make Haskell improve twice as fast.
Which is why you need a process for shipping out emergency fixes. Microsoft can do it in 24 hours, and on the desktop, the impact of a broken build for Microsoft is staggeringly large when compared to Apple.
A great photo set of the bone yard: http://www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/sets/32971/
I had an eye operation using a YAG laser. Whatever is not transparent gets heated up and destroyed fast. The blacker the better.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. Of course I can click through and check the date. I'm just suggesting that since HN is generally a news site that the general expectation is that the articles posted will be current, and I think it'd be handy if we tried to call out dates in the title when posting old stuff. My original comment's relatively well upvoted now also, so I don't think I'm alone.
It seems to be a very active project:

https://github.com/tuulos/disco/commits/master
Windows is not running on their servers, and the computer shown running windows seems only to be used by the techs who are putting the servers together.
I flipped through and there doesn't seam to be anything about weak hash tables, but that's not surprising seeing as TAOCP is written around an assembly language, while weak hash tables make most sense in a GCed environment.
Found it weird that the only explanation they could come up with for why students still buy ebooks was "saving the environment". How about the sheer weight of all the books you need to carry to last through a 16 hour flight?
Defective by Design is a FSF commentary about about how you should be able to use digital media in the same ways you would use physical media.

They say nothing about the existing limits on your ability to re-distribute software or media (in fact, the FSF and GPL depend on copyright protections).
I agree textbooks on a laptop are really great - no heavy books, and Ctrl+F works really well. I can't imagine they work very well on e-readers though - it seems like flipping through pages would be slow, and ctrl+f would be pretty difficult without a real keyboard.
it's crazier that they fly in powered hang-gliders for drug drops over the border [1] crash [2]

[1] http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/may/19/flying-marijuana-over-b...

[2] http://kpbs.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2011/0...
one thing the review didn't mention was just how beautifully atmospheric the game was. the writing is spare, but very evocative; from a purely science fiction/fantasy point of view this is a great experience even before you take the puzzles into account.