jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is a large open space with small 'break spaces' (soft carpet covered cubicle walls left scattered around) that break up sound/spaces between different groups. They have the soft drop ceiling tiles to help absorb sound. The floors are carpeted.

There's really only so much you can do with a hundred people in a large open space-there's a constant background hum of people moving, shifting, eating, listening to music that you just can't get rid of
Yeah. There's a great recent post by Jeffrey Ventrella on "Slow Programming"[1] highlighting the problem that comes from the "fallacy that all engineers are fungible"[2] and throwing a bunch of programmers immediately into an iterative development cycle without proper up-front planning.

I think it's important to note that big reformations, like Agile replacing Waterfall, are reactionary; by necessity they tend to be overly so; to promote change they demonize the old way. Unfortunately there's usually a core of good ideas that get thrown out as well.

I don't think the Waterfall methodology works for most products, but it made up-front planning and careful consideration part of the design process that's missing in a lot of projects today. I think a balanced approach is needed; just enough up front planning to provide a strong, clear vision to the team, consideration for the tools and processes that will be used to get there, and someone with the vision and technical knowledge to lead it. These are some of the points I like to hammer out before launching into a project:

* Design - what is the product supposed to look like?
* Testability - how do you intend to test your code?
* Documentation - how will the code, product be documented?
* Tooling - what's your preferred dev tool chain?
* Code architecture - What's your design philosophy?
* Prototyping - straight to product or prototype first?
* Delegation - how to structure for future delegation?
* Security - how to audit the security of your app?

These points often seem to get left as an afterthought, but these broad strokes have worked pretty well for me and still allow for iterative development and functional refinement.

1. http://ventrellathing.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/the-case-for-slow-programming/
2. http://www.datamation.com/career/article.php/3757311/The-Myth-of-the-Interchangeable-Programmer-Can146t-We-Just-Offshore-Him.htm
3. http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/
Finally an article I can cite when people act like I'm just trying to hold on to the old ways of development when I complain about open floor plans. No one listens to the goddamn developers.
The problem is when it stops doing its job.

How much are Apple II parts? How easy is it to find people with the know-how?
How much do they charge? How about 10 years from now?

Long term tech is hard. We haven't had time to figure it out yet.
Here is the actual paper they refer too.
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2208795

The title seems to be a bit sensationalist. As they say at the end

"For example, Stewart says that because men have joined the profession more recently, women tend to be more senior nurses. But as such, they get to work preferred day shifts, even though night and weekend shifts tend to pay more.

Peter McMenamin, a health economist at the American Nurses Association, says that while ANA policy "is that there should be pay equity," he's not convinced the problem is as large as the study suggests. For one thing, he says, with so many women compared to men in the study, the numbers for women "are much more precise.""

Essentially, men might get the less desirable night shift that pays more, and also the numbers for men might not be precise because its a lower sample size.

I worked in a hospital lab, and the night differential was around 3-4 dollars more per hour, a big deal when your base pay was 15-20 dollars per hour.
Awkward or not, $100,000 will be going to a charity at the end of this. I think we can all put up with it for that alone.
Tragically, the anecdote I've heard from our local techs is that Verizon corporate would love to switch to Comcast's model, and are applying attrition pressure to make it happen; their mobile business arm isn't unionized, and they're looking forward to switching out their retained employees with contract staff for all of the hookup work.

... which is a shame, because it's actually something I consider to be a distinguishing factor in their service options.
I'm surprised at someone actually taking the other side of this bet as I thought Sam was _very_ conservative on his projections.

1) Any one of those companies (besides Pinterest IMO) could conceivably achieve a market valuation of $200B by Jan 1, 2020.

2) Again any one of those companies (besides Teespring IMO) could conceivably achieve a market valuation of $27B by Jan 1, 2020.

3) Easy win for Sam.
I've heard in a recent interview that the work force will be over 50% freelance by around 2020. Looks like even the cab industry is going that way.
Groups is a mix of native code and React Native, but Ads Manager is pure react native. The app is completely written in Javascript.
Are you talking about the same kind of consistency as the parent post?
It sounds like you just may have a few things to learn about how networking works. Comcast is selling you a coax line into your house and, if you rent their modem, giving you an ethernet interface to it. It isn't making any claims about what happens after that. They can't have control over all your networking hardware and how you configure it.
Unfortunately, the evidence is classified.
Too much boilerplate list manipulation here, to be honest.
Now, I understand that is BSD licensed, but I am bothered by their proud "we support OSI, but never GPL" attitude. I wonder what happened to the original developer, but does anyone know why he has GPL issues? Yes, I know he is not unique in the industry at large, but I rarely see project download pages with GPL with a red line through it.

http://www.shenlanguage.org/download_form.html
No, that's easily solved: you can set the product the button purchases (obviously), and the day after the API is made available a zillion little intercept-button-push-then-scrap-n-compare projects will pop-up on HN that find you the lowest priced product just in time when you push the button.
Stuff doesn't repeat, it rhymes. We may see the economic cycle upturn again, but interest rates might not go along for the ride this time. For example, in the 70's, stagflation was pretty different that time. Also the balance sheet recession in Japan was also pretty different.

We're riding some major trends in increased productivity that may go exponential, so if that's the case then yes, this time it is very different and the downward pressure on rates from this might put us into a secular deflationary period of a pretty long time. Nobody is saying we'll never see a period of rapid inflation or high interest rates, but merely saying that we may be in a secular period that lasts long enough for that not to matter for anyone alive today.
See the Capitol Hill Baby Sitting Co-op[1] for how real life hoarding of stores of values mean that exchange completely stops. It is a classic currency story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Babysitting_Co-op
clickable : http://bajanbot.com
I don't see any resistance to change; it's more like Clojure folks are generally going to demand that changes be unequivocally positive. I remember the fixed-position args in Scala function literals being particularly irritating in certain circumstances; whatever one's gripe about the chosen sigils, being able to write #(%2 %) is damn handy.

This widespread Scala/Clojure rift is a myth AFAICT, outside of various spitball fights on Twitter.

Oh, and if you want to have userland reader macros in Clojure, have at it: http://briancarper.net/blog/449/clojure-reader-macros ;-)
I've used Opera Unite like this occasionally, via this [proxy plugin](http://unite.opera.com/application/272/). Unite's fallback proxy servers are usually on the slow side, though. It doesn't support HTTPS, though.
Would you back a Kickstarter project
http://wiki.netbeans.org/RubySupport

Edit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2466938
$50 +
Exposing yourself to the people handling the food at fast food restaurants for a single meal is not what I'd call a remotely wise trade-off vs. a single grocery trip bringing home literally a month of calories in rice and beans.

Consider the likelihood that whoever prepared your fast-food took public transportation and lives in cramped, shared housing, and is so desperate for income they're working at a fast-food joint. You can't even reasonably disinfect what you receive from the drive-thru before consuming it.
The JAMstack pitch is to sprinkle a bit of JavaScript on a mainly static site to achieve personalization, geo-based content, etc. A recent intro video shows exactly how to do that with news displayed based on browser language settings, etc.[0] It is a bit more complicated than a plain static site, but with recent tooling, not much more complicated.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_l0qrPUJds
Ohhh. Me too! ;)
And with what logic does it help to post it again with basically no change to the content? You make it sound like downvotes are a calamity of nature and not a deliberate process.

(The old post for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7304693 )
When is it stealing?

As soon as you have to ask, "When is it stealing?", it's stealing, simple as that.

As much as people would like to believe otherwise, all the rest is hand waving, semantics, and window dressing.
Ooh that's really pretty.

I was going to bring up the IPython notebook functionality, in part because it was used as a follow-up to another xkcd strip ("Regex Golf", http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/xkcd1313.... ), but I gotta say that one looks nicer :) The use-cases are slightly different, though.
Demand a refund. My girlfriend ran into this problem (we're pretty much a Linux household). Just could not get the audible books to run on Ubuntu and I wasn't willing to spend the time hunting around for a way to get around it. Fortunately, Audible was pretty gracious about the refund.
Forkenheit 451.
I started my post with:

Sign into Amazon. Hit this link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/ays

View->View By Type->Music->Amazon MP3

But then tried to actually download my music or Kindle books. You're right. It's actually quite difficult to. Not pleasant.

EDIT: Apparently I'm a dolt; see /u/thaumasiotes's response below.
Loose = A loose piece of string.
Lose = To have lost something.
I think that I didn't convey what I meant, so I'm going to re-phrase it a little bit (and also copy to other replies, since apparently I can't edit the comment).

When I see someone referencing 1984, I think of them as conspiracy theorist and don't take them seriously. I do it because I'm an idiot.

But I share this trait with a majority of population. We are born and die idiots. I can't defend the "position" of being an idiot; but that's who I am and I can't change it. Neither can millions of people.

So, if you want to persuade these millions, you have to take their (our) idiocy into account.
Whatever it is, somehow most people still have Flash installed on their computers, and a lot of them have Java.
Politics, mostly.

The same reason it took (takes?) asm.js to move towards a virtual-machine with a standard bytecode so you can pick your language of choice.
That just seems like the average English-language US Twitter thread. (Well, average non-abusive such thread.)
My opinion is probably unpopular too.

With the cost of execution these days, I'd like to see life with hard labor used more as a replacement. You know, earn your keep.
But we did have data from cruise ships early in 2020 which showed that deaths were heavily age-specific, and that the death and hospitalization forecasts from organisations like Oxford were highly inaccurate.

Yet for some reason the West seemed intent on pursuing lockdowns, demonising countries like Sweden and Belarus which didn't.

Hospitals have never been overloaded (apart from places like New York where symptomatic patients were sent back into nursing homes - or Italy, with generally inadequate pandemic preparations) and in places like Sweden deaths in 2020 are up only single-digits against 2018:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

As soon as we realised we were over-intubating patients, and that proning and oxygen treatment were sufficient for serious admissions, and that Vitamin D and C (and other cheap and generic treatments) were enough for the general population, the potential for hospital overload (beyond what flu waves incur anyway) was also eliminated.

And yet we still persist with lockdowns despite them causing a greater amount of harm than the virus itself due to factors like interrupted education, mental damage, and interrupted regular medical treatment.

There were political games afoot in both China and the West in terms of this virus. The fact that the American economy was booming just before the re-election of a non-mainstream, anti-China president, and that pandemic responses justified mail-in voting on an unprecedent scale is too coincidental to ignore.
If you read any of those "huge threads on HN" you would easily know the crux of why Scott wanted to remain pseudonymous.

"Scott Alexander was demanding everyone else's assistance in maintaining his pseudonym and pretending the real identity behind it was unknowable."

Absolutely false. Scott admits many times that it's trivial for his real identity to be known if you search around for Scott Alexander.

Scott Alexander -> Scott Sisnick (trivial)

What Scott was concerned about what his searching his real name being resoundingly brought to Scott Alexander, a major issue for his psychiatrist-patient relationships, as he demonstrates that psychiatrists need to maintain a blank slate for their patients to project onto, so that the patients don't hide or alter the behavior knowing something about their psychiatrist. That's very mainstream psychiatry. And there were concerns about current psychiatric patients he was seeing possibly being affected by this.

Before:
Scott Sisnick -> "psychiatrist, bay area, studied at X, etc."

After:
Scott Sisnick -> "Scott Alexander, rationalist, providing a platform for white nationalists, racism, etc."
> I have a slightly unpopular stance that death penalty is appropriate if there is overwhelming evidence of an unrepentant killer. I don't see any value in keeping them around in prison, especially if they will continue to have a negative influence on peers in prison for decades.

This isn't an unreasonable thought, but (a) I would prefer to have a bright-line international rule that that killing prisoners is always unacceptable to make it easier to condemn countries that use it to violate human rights and (b) in the American system, the death penalty inevitably leads to more time and expensive of appeals, more publicity for the convict, and more expensive than life sentences.

And I agree that life sentences are really just death by another, longer means. I would also reserve them for the most extreme cases, where you are really convinced that someone will never be able to live in society again without causing serious harm. There are definitely some cases out there that meet that, but many nevertheless tragic cases that don't. Even them I'm not sure that there is any need for "life without" as the whole purpose of a parole board is to make these decisions--if the individual continues to behave poorly in prison and does not accept responsibility, he will not get parole.
I agree with 'courage', but the problem is that it all depends on the courage of the people with money rather than the courage of the researcher. Someone has to take the risk and hire you for a tenure track position, and someone has to choose you over someone else (from a better school? with a more en-vogue topic?) for giving out grant money. Ideally it should be a meritocracy, but how do you prove in advance what is good research? And I guess, then it often boils down to 'no one ever got fired for buying IBM'.
Even with a big step like Java 8, Java is very very far from being comparable to more modern, expressive languages.
This seems risky.
I feel very lucky to have been brought up in a house where reading was never fetishized, or necessarily encouraged, but my parents and siblings did it incessantly.

Reading was a leisure activity, rather than some kind of moral imperative. As a result, I tend to ditch books I'm not enjoying after ~ 50-100 pages, and I tend to reread books I've enjoyed a lot.

I used to have a slight issue with continuing to read books where I wanted to know what happened, but wasn't enjoying them. Films too. Wikipedia plot summaries have solved this!
Not to sound cliche, but try Gentoo. It takes a bit of getting used to be it's concept of USE Flags are designed exactly because of "everything is getting intertwined so much that it is hard to actually pick and choose applications".
It works great on Firefox ESR 31.

However on Android 4.3 and 4.4 with Chrome 39, using a Qualcomm Adreno 305 GPU, I just get a black box. As usual with most WebGL stuff.
I noticed the other people hanging about on the summit of Mont Blanc looking slightly miffed - not sure if this is because they are unhappy at finding a party on what they were expecting to be a peaceful mountain top or disappointed that they aren't getting an invite to join in!
It's totally illegal to work in most of South East Asia on a tourist visa [1]. It used to be easier to work in Cambodia but that's changed recently [2].

[1] - http://ashleyconnor.co.uk/blog/2014/09/07/the-digital-nomad-...

[2] - https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/work-permits-now-required...
A pre-requisite to automating and finding optimizations in the way Ferris describes, is to first be really good at what you do. Tim Ferris himself is good at what he does.
Surprisingly enough, it doesn't run deeper. Boeing was once an engineering center of excellence. Building bulletproof planes were what they did, and it showed. Then they decided to acquire McDonnell Douglas - who was run by accountants. For reasons I'm not sure anyone can explain, the MD executives somehow not only survived the merger, but took control of the company. The end result was a move to pinch pennies and maximize profit vs. a focus on quality and engineering.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing...

>With ethics now front and center, Condit was forced out and replaced with Stonecipher, who promptly affirmed: “When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.”
What's the price for the EDA?
Can I download my designs or is it cloud only?
Yes, I understand that ECS is probably good for more low-level stuff like particle-like systems. But what about gameplay-code? Unity ECS is mostly about that, to think in a data-oriented way about your gameplay programming. The thing that bothers me is why huge commerical engine like Unreal Engine or idTech don't even lift a finger about that?

About structured column databases, the same thing could be said about Lisps like Clojure which match the RMDB data model. But people still find it hard to grok it, hence the low adoption rate.
At first I thought this was something to do with ternary operators[0]. I know in JS you can do something like this:

var resultofexpression = conditionasboolean ? truepart: falsepart;

You can actually get away with /never/ using if...else statements and do everything with ternary operators, but it's harder to comprehend the code.

Also as a separate observation: Adding quantum computers into the mix of these writings would really jazz it up.

[0] https://www.javascripttutorial.net/javascript-ternary-operat...
I don't think the flat tax is a good idea, but I would love a simpler tax code.

But I remember having a long conversation with a friend who was an economist on why corporations were able to deduct things they needed to provide their services, but I as an individual couldn't do the same. It's a valid and interesting topic to discuss, imo.
why do western countries spend so much time judging other countries? is it related to the colonial times? or is it all about hegemony, constantly trying to keep down other countries through whatever means?

since in this case it's the parliament, I imagine it's not really a deliberate strategy, but more like something cultural that brings together all the members of parliament that voted for this.

you could say it's the value of human rights that brings them together but I suspect it's rather the desire to feel superior.

anyway, I think it's easy to pass judgement without knowing all the context. and only China knows all the context.
It sounds like you’re suggesting preemptively increasing sales taxes on luxuries to prevent richer people buying them with their UBI and thus pushing the prices up. The net is the same, prices including sales tax (which everyone pays anyway) go up.
If this is an attempt to fund UBI with sales taxes on luxuries (and I’m speculating here) then this could be achieved with progressive taxation - cut income tax for the poor and increase it for those who would be buying the luxuries.

I don’t subscribe to the view that this is necessary to support UBI though. Most of it, outside of the well off will get spend on basics anyway. More of a concern for me would be employers cutting wages.
ECS is commonly described as "data-oriented", not "data-driven". It's confusing, yes, but the have separate and unrelated meanings in the game development space.

The former is a methodology for building engine systems that are cache-friendly, the latter talks about workflows that are more flexible to artists and developers.

You can use ECS without "being data-driven", and you can use data-driven workflows without ECS.
They don't. You're only thinking in three (spatial) dimensions. Time is more fundamental than you think.
When massive amounts of money are involved than a cynical take is the right take. The burden on proof is on the company to show that they are working in good faith not for everyone to assume they are working in good faith. Hiding things, denying association with things and avoiding questions should not be taken as a good faith effort but rather as proof of bad faith. I think we've had enough crypto scams by now to no longer be naively optimistic about them.

edit: You can see in this very thread the CEO use every weasel words way of avoiding directly answering how many coins they currently hold. A very simple question which is always answered in a way which doesn't answer it.
They can make an NFT and retire.
> Maybe not in the top decile we are discussing here. Things like age and prep time matter a lot.

Not really. Of course studying for any test and preparing strategically/emotionally/psychologically makes one able to perform at their potential. If you didn't study, didn't prepare, don't know how to sit for a test or what the test will look like, no one expects good performance. Even though I run several miles every day, I'm never going to have the innate ability of an East African long distance runner.

Your extraordinarily excellent performance was not about your preparation but about your brilliance.

“

Yet research has consistently demonstrated that it is remarkably difficult to increase an individual’s SAT score, and the commercial test prep industry capitalizes on, at best, modest changes [13,17].

Short of outright cheating on the test, an expensive and complex undertaking that may carry unpleasant legal consequences, high SAT scores are generally difficult to acquire by any means other than high ability.

”

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/7/4/26/htm