jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why must editors title articles this way?

The article says: there are many ways in which open offices are not great.

The headline says: they are destroying the workplace.

The article doesn’t come close to making that claim, even if “destroy the workplace” were a meaningful idea.
OK, I see things like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813313 or http://kukuruku.co/hub/haskell/how-to-implement-deutschs-alg... or http://haskelldata.com/
I don't know if RAW editing is the best example of heavy load. RAW editing in Lightroom and Photoshop (don't use Aperture) don't really test my machine at all unless I am "publishing" and that seems to be more IO bound than CPU/GPU bound (on an one year old i5).

Gaming and BitTorrent (e.g. Battle.net launcher) are the only things that "upset" my machine heat/utilisation wise. Maybe full virus scans but that is more IO again.
My best friend works for Cargill and they're going to an open floor plan for all of their offices. She said her and few of her co-workers are germ-a-fobes so they're going to have a ton of Purell around.

I was pretty shocked since I thought the open office had been well debunked over the past 4 years or so.
How in the world can heating a laptop repairs it.
I changed jobs fairly recently and the new office has "Busylights" on all PCs - which works brilliantly as its linked to IM/calendar/VoIP status.

I can look round and see exactly whether it's OK to approach people....

http://www.busylight.com/

[NB I wouldn't mind one on a hat I could wear at home!].
A video of something you can't readily identify is not an evidence of space aliens. It's not even an evidence of it being extra-terrestrial. It could very well be a normal aeroplane or an optical illusion. Given that one is far more likely than the other, it's hard to assume that it's from the outer space. There is no actual evidence of aliens, I'm afraid.
I posted a employer ad on SO Careers, and also GitHub Jobs. The SO post resulted in a satisfyingly large set of high-quality candidates. I was satisfied with the value.

In contrast, GitHub was surprisingly disappointing. Maybe one or two worthwhile candidates, and a ton of junk. It appears that GitHub's jobs get scraped and posted elsewhere, and the bulk of responses to my ad were low-quality (and that's being generous) candidates responding to those reposted versions.
what valuation did they get?
From the intro:

> The papers in this volume are the contributions to a special workshop on problems in communication and computation conducted in 1984--1986. The structure of this workshop was unique: no recent results. no surveys. Instead. we asked for outstanding open problems in the field. There are many famous open problems, including the question P =? NP, the simplex conjecture in communication theory, the capacity region of the broadcast channel. and the two-helper problem in information theory.

> Beyond these well-defined problems are certain grand research goals. What is the general theory of information flow in stochastic networks? What is a comprehensive theory of computational complexity? What about a unification of algorithmic complexity and computational complexity? Is there a notion of energy-free computation? And if so, where do information theory, communication theory, computer science, and physics meet at the atomic level? Is there a duality between computation and communication? Finally. what is the ultimate impact of algorithmic complexity on probability theory? And what is its relationship to information theory?

> The idea was to present problems on the first day. try to solve them on the second day, and present the solutions on the third day. In actual fact, only one problem was solved during the meeting ...
Hey, your site is great, just a suggestion, you might consider submitting your site to PocketCasts (email support@shiftyjelly.com), it's the most popular podcasting app on Android, and you don't seem to be in their directory. I've added your feed to their app, but it would help people discover your show.
Seems like blatant false advertising to have "$99" in big text and nothing but an asterisk to indicate that this is a rate you're allowed to have exactly once ever.
You're forgetting the people who are new and coming in. Having a hundred options to choose from leads to initial paralysis.
Your judgment is based on the assumption that Bitcoin will not fail which is far from clear. On the other hand really profitable investments are usually also risky. I personally would not even bet $1000 on the success of Bitcoin.
http://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-public-elevator-scheduling...
I can totally believe that and have fought similar bugs (basically unexpected references that keep memory around way longer than necessary), but memory leaks of that form affect both strict and lazy languages, i.e. it's an independent problem.

Lazy languages can have that same problem in addition to space leaks.
any chance you use fzf for history search too? ;)
Since it is pretty much the only system used today, that is kind of hard to avoid.

But on a serious note, the command economy of the Soviet Union did surprisingly well despite its profound number of flaws.

Literacy rates, economic output, educational levels, scientific output etc was significantly improved in Soviet times, relative to the Czar area which after all was capitalist.

This all happened despite the fact that:

1. They had a bloody and destructive revolution.
2. Their country got laid to ruins by the German invasion.
3. They had to rebuild the country after WWII with most of the healthiest and youngest members of society dead. Yet they pulled that off surprisingly well.

Yes if you compare Soviet growth to a number of other countries it was not always stellar, but considering that these countries had not received the same kind of devastating blows, it was still quite remarkable.

China is another good example. India and China had the same GDP per capita in the 1940s. China had a destructive Japanese invasion and then a bloody civil war. Then Mao did the crazy cultural revolution setting them back even more.

Despite all this China has 3x the GDP per capita of India. All despite the fact that India had democracy, private property and capitalist enterprises in this whole period.

Even today almost all key industries in China are fully or partially owned by the state. Such as construction, energy, banking etc. Yes China has lots of private enterprise as well. But they got growing rapidly long before these dominated the economy.

No, economy has pulled as many people out of poverty as China, and they did that with what can best be described as hybrid system. The Chinese economic miracle had been ongoing for many years before private property was actually made legal in China.

NOTE: I am not advocating these kinds of system as they are dictatorships. But I think they are worth pondering before people push the truthism that capitalism is so superior as an economic system and that alternatives cannot perform. The evidence seems to suggest that other systems can work and perhaps the best systems are hybrid systems.
Why not just list everything in one html document? This is a bit annoying to navigate.
At an Amazon Tech Summit I was at in London this month, it was mentioned that Jeff Bezos expects AWS to eventually exceed the profits they make from retail.
Books from 20 years ago already advised to stop using FLOPs as an estimate of computational power. And for a good reason. I know you admitted it's not a fair comparison, but statements like this help marketing departments to do their job convincing the masses of "facts" that are highly unscientific.
Roughly, bitcoins are generated by hashing some metadata about the state of previous transactions together with an incrementing nonce until you find a hash below a certain target value. If other users verify the hash and you were the first person to find one this round then you get some bitcoins.

As the computational power of the bitcoin swarm increases, the hash target is automatically decreased, leading to a roughly constant rate of generation.
He just told you, you can turn them into 28 cents.
> To make matters worse, the connection to the DVR is using HTTP, not HTTPS. It is unencrypted, allowing someone to eavesdrop on the video feed, username, and password.

What is the proper way to provide certificates to devices with embedded servers?

- Generate a self-signed certificate with the appropriate IP address and train users to bypass the browser's scary warnings?

- Buy certificates for every deployed device. Make each device download a new certificate when its current one expires. Set up dynamic DNS so the user can reach the device at a URL that matches the certificate.

- Make the device use an ACME server to provision its certificate. The device must be publicly accessible so the ACME server can reach it.

- Proxy all device connections through a central server. This could be expensive for high-bandwidth uses like streaming video.

All of these options are poor. Why has nobody solved this problem? Is it because the powerful browser makers (first Microsoft and now Google) prefer lucrative centralized technology? Google will make a lot less money when everyone can easily run their own server to do shared docs and messaging. Or is it because IoT companies prefer centralization so they can sell subscriptions to users and gather user behavior data? Or is it just that nobody has put in enough effort to solve it yet?
Ms. Trujillo is also a woman.

6 men. 6 women. What do you think the distribution should be?
You were doing so great until that last paragraph.
There is enough evidence to be suggestive. Much of it comes not directly from tech - for example, there were studies done with identical resumes, as you suggest, which showed bias, but not in tech. Still, there is enough of that, as well as enough anecdotal data, to debate about. However, there is nowhere enough data to arrive at a solid conclusion either way.

Regardless, all this is offtopic for this article. This was a lawsuit between two parties, not an attempt to prove sexism exists or does not exist among VC firms (much less tech in general).
After reading The Intercept article posted on HN earlier this afternoon I thought I'd stick this together. Comments welcome!
In general it's very hard to control for all factors. The most compelling analysis with robust controls that I have seen is: http://www.nber.org/papers/w5903

The paper shows that adding a screen to orchestra auditions significantly increased the number of women who were chosen for symphony positions. The study is very compelling because the cause/effect relationship of gender-blinding the auditions can be observed very directly.

A musical audition is somewhat unique in that you can conduct the "interview" in a way that the "interviewer" remains blind to gender/race/etc.
Another way to interpret it is that Asians aren't as sensitive to racial issues as blacks or hispanics are.
I find myself embarrassed for the sexism expressed in each of those situations -- for the stereotypes the men endorse when no women are around, and vice versa.

I'm also single and depressed so take with grain of salt eh.
What justification is there for a dynamic entry raid outside of clear-cut, verified cases of armed hostage taking?
a grad student with an e added to the grad, I think.
Poland does seem to be a laggard on EV's, I seem to remember reading that the UK has thirty times as many public charging points as Poland.
Shouldn’t it be better to mine RandomX using the CPU?
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Do you really think the Obama administration wanted to do this? Let's look at the alternatives.

International courts have the power to freeze and appropriate assets abroad, this has been used many times against various governments. If previous Republican administrations were not prepared to engage in the process, they could have withdrawn at any stage in the last 5 decades.

The problem is, that would mean the US dealing with sanctions, or not being able to use the international court system or arbitration mechanisms in their own interests in future. Bear in mind it's these processes that are used to impose sanctions on Iran and other governments like North Korea. Are you really saying you'd rather walk out on having any influence on these systems?

So what would you have done? It's easy to fling mud when you're unwilling to accept any responsibility for the consequences.
I live in the Boston suburbs. Not a single person at my work or social circle have kids in the Boston public schools. In fact no one even lives in Boston (because of schools of course). This would actually have the opposite effect on the Boston public schools if you ask me.

Private schools in the Boston area are booming because of Corona. Actions like this will continue the trend unfortunately.
That type of targeting doesn’t even work.

A study showed that it was barely 40% accurate for some breakouts.

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/mksc.2019.118...
> But suspending gifted education programs expressly based on the racial makeup of the kids in the program is illegal discrimination, plain and simple.

Just running the program is a legal risk.
Stricter implies that I am applying more conditions to myself, 'holier-than-thou' implies that I'm somehow applying them to you too.

I've chosen my morality for me, I'll happily advocate it if you are interested. However, my act of choice in no way threatens your own act of choice.

What I find frustrating is that because I've made a choice for me people choose to assume I'm judging them.
It's entirely relevant to technology.

Whether you like it or not, technology doesn't happen in a vacuum. Technology relates to people and society in a big way.

When usage of a device (like the millimetre wave scanner) is misguided and unappreciated by a large number of people, why on earth _shouldn't_ it be discussed on a tech forum?

It's not enough to take the view that 'I just make the stuff .. other people can choose whether it's a good idea'.

We all have a responsibility to consider whether what we create is going to result in anything 'good' and what 'good' actually means.
I like the community. I like the TSA stories. I like the lack of a downvote button. Maybe the community does too and that's why they're rising to the top.

I honestly can't think of a post from mattmaroon.com linked from hacker news that's ever taught me anything or made me think. I learned quite a lot reading the TSA articles and I've been thinking about them and the enforcement of the policies they describe.

Internet people tend to be somewhat libertarian in my experience. Not left leaning or right leaning, just protective of their liberties. This unconstitutional violation of American's civil rights fits nicely into those views. So people like it.

If you really want to see a community on it's last legs take a look at digg. It's become a cesspool of political insanity combined with NSFW top ten lists.
I see these $50 ones all the time:

https://squareup.com/shop/hardware/us/en/products/chip-credi...

Plus if your customer drops this, they're not breaking your expensive iPhone screen.
a moron. if someone tells you the golden gate bridge has an emergency exit that goes straight to the water are you going to take it?
FWIW that hasn't been my experience at all. The documentation is great and well maintained. The repo is public and you can see all changes here: https://github.com/laravel/docs
But again, if you only have an atomic-sized memory location, and you bother writing an optimisation for atomic stuff, why bother with barriers when you could just perform an atomic update?

Also SeqCst is way overkill for a mutex, that is literally the use case for acquire and release semantics, the two barriers were named after the lock operation.
I’d measure by users and not requests. HN does in 2 requests what other sites do in 50, so it’s easier to serve more users.
102k/yr. And an up vote for you.
Considering they're confronted with a strident "Use the free Yelp app" banner, it's no surprise people steer away from the Yelp web experience on iOS.
> The articles I've read and podcasts I've heard

I share your optimism, but I don't think this bit helps your argument. Podcasts in particular do not scream "credibility"
It's sad what's become of http://symbolics.com/. I thought it would go to some Lisp-related project eventually.
That's true. thinkcomp's argument probably should be that the reason the largest exchange is in Japan is because of U.S. regulatory regime. There have been legitimate contenders (TradeHill) who had to shut down because of regulatory issues, or banking issues related to regulatory issues.

That's not even counting the serious entrepreneurs who passed on the opportunity to establish a competent exchange because they knew it wasn't possible to establish one legally without tens of millions of dollars.
notions of fairness aside, github doesn't need hackernews.
in the slightest. for attention, or for anything else...

and i'm fairly sure that paul graham would say that himself.

-bowerbird
I'm very curious too. This may make or break it for me.
Have you been to a dry-cleaner's? A bakery? A hair-dresser's? All of those were startups. Actually, South Korea has recently seen an influx of female entrepreneurs because their barriers to entry in tech were so high, it encouraged a lot of highly educated women to pivot into the start-up scene (12% of all working age women! [1])

So it seems at least a modicum of women are somewhat interested in "launching startups," and many of them already do in domains outside of tech. But the hostility to them in tech in the west is tricky. It's not overt, which is easier to protest, but subtle, sometimes even well-intentioned – for instance, your claim in this very comment, when spoken "around the water cooler" during a lunch hour with many coworkers present will make many of the women in the room question themselves – is this true? ("Is there something wrong with me that I am interested in this?") Those instances aggregate – how often do you think that your personal failure might be a failure of your entire demographic? How debilitating is that for productivity? They'll think of the lack of female Elon Musks and hang their head in shame, and many who were considering doing something like that will be a little more discouraged, despite many powerful figures in domains outside of tech.

Again, this is encapsulated into my theory of greater acquiescence to social acceptance for this group of people, and greater measures needed to fight it.

1 - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/business/south-korea-wome...
you might be overthinking this
Yeah but we have 200 billion years until the universe ends and 5 ish until the heat death of the sun.

Let's focus on one thing at a time!!!

(*All numbers are estimates)
I do think that after you release and more or less go "1.0" (even if you don't call it 1.0) you should start treating master as always-releasable. At that point if you have a lot of work to do and need checkpoints, do it on a branch. Same with major breaking change features. Keep master always ready so that you can release for bumping your upstream deps, releasing security fixes, or other interrupt driven housekeeping to stay current.
If you haven't looked at them before take a look at 3D mice. Commonly used in 3D modeling and CAD drafting they are the best at interacting with items in 3D space but I wouldn't actually like one for text/flat image interaction. Mapping 3D movements to a flat plane is less intuitive than it may seem if you haven't done it. Most the 3D professionals I know use a touchpad or regular mouse for 99% of the non-3D usage.
> A message that said "Cigarettes will kill you" didn't stop smokers

That's the opposite of true. It didn't stop _every_ smoker, but research has established that anti-smoking marketing and labeling has a massive impact on how many people smoke overall.
I like Kim Stanley Robinson’s take: that humanity’s off-planet presence will be like our presence in Antarctica. We will put a bunch of scientists there and continue to actively support them there, because self-sufficiency is unlikely in such a hostile environment. It is hard to imagine anything else in my children’s or grandchildren’s lifetimes.

All the arguments about colonization of other planets strike me as tautological. We should have people on other planets because it would be good to have people on other planets, or we shouldn’t because we don’t have people on other planets and we do have them on Earth. So people will argue, and each side will direct the resources they have to their side of the argument. Not sure what else there is to be said.
Cool, thanks for the explanation. It sounded Biblical, but I wasn't sure.
I think systemd is okay offering this feature, but NOT ok picking the fallback.

They should just have some standard way for a distro to specify the fallback servers, or no fallback.

The the various distros could populate that user-driven, conscious decision somewhere that systemd-resolved can pick it up.
The reason this is a daemon is ... because a process started from dhclient/slaacd/unwind couldn't directly write to /etc/resolv.conf?

I mean, resolv.conf is only going to change based on some event happening in one of these other daemons (or user input), so this could just as well be an executable that is started to handle that event? Am I missing something?
You can crowd source this by allowing people to rate the material. Sounds like a good idea for a startup. A "rottentomatoes.com" for self-published books? User rating and "pro" rating?
Actually, if you look, you'll discover fats and oils have increased more than sugar. Consumption of fats and oils increased 90% (from 12.6% of diet to 23.9%), while sugar consumption only increased 34% (from 12.9 to 17.3%).

(By "increase", I mean from 1909-2004. See table 4 of my link.)
Excellent analysis and line of thinking. The tech community really needs to give up the idea that hard work should be given away for free. Trail periods are fine, but legitimate businesses need real cash flow, and very, very few can survive off advertising alone.
> I don't think anyone claimed it is wrong?

click170: The point is to penalize sites that employ paywalls by taking your pageviews elsewhere.

One usually penalizes behavior they consider wrong.
Elon musks are the exception. Look at the average rich person.

They have often used protectionism(doctors), manipulation(sales) and other methods to get rich. Lots of people get rich in finance by finding ways to transfer risk onto other people. Is that productive overall?

Not every rich person is someone who adds unbelievable value.
That's why I feel dynamic code generation is the future. JIT. It's madness to write high performance code to take CPU [1] and DRAM [2] specifics into account.

It's easy to write something that performs well on one system.

[1]: 32-bit or 64-bit -> how many registers are available. SSE2, SSE 4.1, AVX2, etc. Different prefetchers, cache configurations. Different instruction level limitations and performance. Differing amounts of cache with rather variable latencies.

[2]: Different number of memory channels, different distance between DRAM page changes.
In the long run. IIRC labor supply is a lagging indicator, so in the short run (e.g. 1-2 years) it would be a bit closer to a zero-sum game.
Inflation is measured by a basket of goods that are weighted by consumer expenditure on them. In short you can make your own index that measures changes in the important for you prices - "yourflation", but that is not what inflation is and there is no conspiracy there.

In my country in addition to the headline CPI number there is another basket with items consumed by the poor and also a calculator on the website which helps you figure out your personal inflation by having you specify on what you spend your money on. You could try the BBC version for the UK: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-22523612