skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always been struck by an odd irony in academia: People tend to have left-wing political beliefs, but maintain an organizational culture that is decidedly authoritarian.

Perhaps this is necessary: I can't think of how else to manage a classroom than to have hard deadlines for things like homework assignments. Even in college, by definition, the work is finished when the semester ends.

I'm personally guilty of missing deadlines at work, and if I were permitted to be honest about it (or if it even mattered), my three excuses would be:

1. Managing the complexity of my job is over my head, because there are too many internal dependencies.

2. I'm going to miss this deadline because x[n] didn't happen, and I can't make those things happen.

3. I was kind of hoping the task would vanish, as roughly 75% of urgent tasks seem to.
If best buy employees are acting as agents of the government they require a warrant and cannot search by acting as computer repair techs as a cover for an otherwise illegal search.
TIL Amtrak is trains :)

Do they allow cars on trains? Parking a car on a train, then relaxing in the dining car for a few hours works well. Drive off at the other end.
I do take that as argument against sleep deprivation.
Ok so that might apply one level deep, but not 2+ levels, which I think the simulation argument is mostly based on (the more levels the higher the probability your universe is a nested universe).
I find the logic presented in this article to be ridiculous.

If markets for healthcare can't exist, why is medical tourism a thing?

But enough about that, let's proceed.

Yes, if you just got hit by a bus you have no ability to comparison shop for ambulance services, but you also have no ability to do literally anything.

Outside of the comparatively rare emergency situation where somebody is bleeding out and going to die literally right there without treatment, there's always an opportunity to reasonably comparison shop for medical services even if you're sick.

I don't believe that the insurance system advocated in this article is a panacea. Because of the crazy insurance system that exists, simply getting the actual prices of procedures is nearly impossible. It's easy to comparison shop for a phone or a toaster because stores advertise prices. But it's difficult for even trained professionals to figure out the ballpark prices even for the most common procedures because of the crazy insurance system.

There are many articles like this where people call healthcare providers and try and determine pricing of even common procedures like child birth and get the complete runaround.

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/what-does-birth-co...
If you to treat your employees as children, you will end up with a culture of excuses. If you give and take responsiblity for both your own work and the work of helping others do their work, you will realize that excuses won't be needed. People will inherently know they are either messing up or have messed up and will volountarily ask for help from others, who will help.

Not trusting and respecting in your employees will corner them to behave like children and you will eternally (be unhappy to) be their parent. Treat people with trust and respect and expect the same. It will make for a much more happy and a much better performing team and ultimately, company.
Perhaps you didn't make it to this part of the article:

> By accountable I meant, “We agreed on a delivery date, and between now and the delivery date, it’s OK if you ask for help because you’re stuck, or something happened outside of your control. But do not walk into my office the day something is due and give me an excuse. It will cost you your job.” That kind of accountable.

> The goal wasn’t inflexible dates and deadlines, it was to build a culture of no surprises and collective problem solving.
I've been there. I was missing the "I" tiles for a scrabble game and it was the funniest thing ever.
Not to detract from your main point, but authoritarianism exists across the political spectrum. See
the USSR and Nazi Germany, or modern-day Venezuela and Russia.

That there are authoritarians in academia isn't too surprising - it's all about politics ;)
> Go back to the pointless arrow logo

ah, the amtrak logo that looks utterly identical to the >>= haskell operator. I love it!
As a recent vegetarian, I wish gluten wouldn't get lumped together with simple sugars and processed foods as unhealthy. The taste is great and protein needed.
I always find it curious that people can consider ideas that they have personally been aware of only for several decades to be ultimately universal.
One of the problems I have with buddhism is the withdraw from society and the world around you, it behests you to focus on your internal mindfulness at all costs. The way Irvine describes Stoicism (and the tenets set forth elsewhere) puts the stoic into the world for their own and everyone else's betterment.

There's nothing wrong with the way buddhism says to withdraw, it's just one of the reasons I don't fully jive with it—then again, you don't exactly have to love it or lump it, you can pick and choose for sure. It's just an observation.
Would you be interested in helping me out as well? See profile for info and business (DevOps-as-a-service and infrastructure) consulting company.
Ah the 'I'll fire your ass if you give me an excuse on the due date but of course an attempt to maintain an open line of communication between now and then will be met with sunshine and rainbows.'

Let's call this disingenuous bullshit what it is - management by fear. Don't tell me you're about 'collective problem solving' in an environment where people are constantly fearing for their jobs.
True, the dream world makes sense as an analogy. They just wouldn't know how it was technically possible to create a "virtual dream" world.
Because it is metaphysics. Philosophy.
Read an old stats text. One reason why Bayesian statistics was less popular in the past was that people didn't know how to do it, except in special cases. Techniques have e loved since then.
There is limited funding from the government to support residency positions.
Not sure about the Mars bar, but the Hershey secret is adding butyric acid to the chocolate [0]:

> The process is a company and trade secret, but experts speculate that the milk is partially lipolyzed, producing butyric acid, which stabilizes the milk from further fermentation.

Fun fact: butyric acid is also what makes vomit smell.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_bar
> Off limits were dairy, eggs, peanuts, lunch meats, vegetable oils, soy, coffee, black tea, soda, alcohol, sugar, gluten, artificial sweeteners, and fruit juice. These items often have harmful additives

Why not give up harmful additives, then?

I really don't like when people put "sugar" and "eggs" in the same category of "bad" or "maybe bad." I think this kind of conflating leads to many people trying such a detox, realizing it's hard (and IMO unreasonable) to cut out so many things, and then they give up the whole thing. It would be much easier to simply stick to cutting out sugar.
It would be great to see one of these frameworks offered as an offline solution. Right now the only options are WSR/Sphinx4, which have significant accuracy issues, and Nuance's products, which are extremely unfriendly to developers.
It exists everywhere, no need to single out specific countries.
"Daylight Time"? Nowhere that I've been. Mackal said that Arizona doesn't observe "daylight savings", and Osiris corrected them with "Daylight Saving Time". That's the difference that I was referring to. I hear "daylight savings" quite often.
Transformify: Building a Socially Responsible Business Around Remote Work
Ask HN: Is it worht learning OCaml?
I am looking into learning OCaml, from the first glance it looks quite interesting as programming language, I like the pattern matching and the functional side. Beside exploratory learning are there any real opportunities in learning this language? What about a good editor to use with it (I am currently using vim)
If you have a disease such as depression, make a list of conditions that can cause it. For depression, vitamin deficiencies would be on the list (but also things like hormone imbalances, and many other conditions). Bring this list to your doc and let them add probabilities to each condition. Now work your way down the list, and get the blood work done.

In any case, make sure your doc presents upfront an analytical approach to curing your illness. Don't let them just do what they think is right because you're likely to end up in a maze.
I never finished watching Breaking Bad, but the season or two that I did watch did make me think:

How much safer would 'recreational users' be if they had a legal, clean (pure), supply and a place to use it where they are monitored?

As the parent posts have said, the above combined with help for getting out of the hole in the same place would probably be more effective. It would /ALSO/ be the most effective way of defeating the criminals that make money off of the drugs; by depriving them of sales.
Some of these suggestions are actually pretty decent.
Gotta say, I had low standards for 4chan
CS Lewis spoke on this very subject: http://www.lewissociety.org/innerring.php
Looks like irony ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion
The whole problem is 'hands off management'. Just get out of your jacket and work along periodically with the people that are below you in the org chart. That will create an atmosphere of being in it 'together' and it will work wonders for team spirit. It will also help to convey that you actually know your stuff (which will cut down on bullshit excuses like nothing else). Miraculously, even when you're in meeting with higher ups or other departments, the work will continue (who would have thought).

Of course that would require management to be able to actually do something. The best managers I worked for did just that, and I copied their style as much as possible.

Managers that isolate themselves from their department are the very worst kind. One guy I knew literally had a code-lock on his door to make sure he wasn't bothered when he was doing 'important' stuff (which was all the time, his door was always closed). Guess what happened to productivity in that particular company.
I wonder if the writer of the original article misunderstood the reason he started a side project. To me it sounded like he started it to have fun, to play with things, and to learn. Later he tacked on the goal of to make something for the world.

Who feels guilty that their crossword puzzle or frisbee football or model airplane hobby has yet to yield a practical product, to sell to the rest of the world? Maybe we confuse our goals while software dabbling because software has the potential to be a product, while it's much harder to be tricked into thinking that our finished sudoku puzzle might somehow help mankind.

I think it's helpful to first correctly identify your reasons for doing something, before you try to judge whether you are doing it well or should keep on doing it. For example, it helped me to identify that the real reason I check my email too often at work is because I was lonely, not just because I wanted to gain information or to give information to others. I think this is making it easier for me to stop checking email so often and to find other ways to fulfill my needs.

As the writer of this response article indicates, writing software to learn or to play is a good enough reason in itself, and we need study and play for the same reason children do: to stretch ourselves. Or, more practically, it is a shortcut to pleasure. The commonly acknowledged pathway to pleasure is (1) work, (2) get paid, (3) buy something that makes you happy. But with play, the work itself makes you happy. No intermediate activity is required.
I was expecting something along the lines of an anime character saying "charge moar 4 Jews and kill niggers TOP KEK" so yeah. Low expectations work well for modern cinema too.
What's amazing to me is that this question of a simulated reality would not have even been possible to comprehend 150 years ago.

I don't think you're giving enough credit to thinkers of the past. They didn't have the technology that lets us play with some of these ideas more directly, but they were still very capable of thinking through the philosophical ramifications. Descartes' Meditations comes to mind: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/#3...
> Do they allow cars on trains? Parking a car on a train

Some do, e.g. the Lorton - Sanford Auto Train.

It's 18h for 900 miles and the ticket for both you and your car is $400.
When an ~6 lb US gallon of no-ethanol gasoline is burned, it produces ~20 lbs of CO2 and ~8 lbs of H2O. The extra 22 lbs coming from oxygen in the air.
Here's a question—if you have

> more than one clear customer who already wants you

...but they only want you as a full-time contractor (i.e. an employee-in-all-but-name), is there a good way to convince them to pay for your expertise on a consulting-as-needed basis instead?

It's easy to "become a consultant" if what you really mean is signing on for fixed-length engagements to produce low-level piece-work (as e.g. an artist, or a programmer, or a content writer), but how do I break into consulting as, say, a distributed-systems scaling expert? I'm offered many opportunities by large firms to just work for them on a full-time basis as a systems architect—but I'd much rather be coming into businesses and increasing the competency of their own staff to do such jobs, so that they (eventually) don't need me.

In my experience, large businesses are interested in such engagements, but only want to hire other large businesses—consulting firms—to do it. And small businesses or startups are iffy on the concept of hiring consultants at all, preferring instead to bring all manner of expertise for one-off tasks in-house (though this myopia never seems to extend to thinking they need to employ their own accountant or lawyer, oddly enough.)
Ah I see, has Discourse improved as a comment system or is it still quite hard to set up?

I was mainly recommending OpenShift because it's free but I don't know if the setup I have now is still available.
Social dependency is not binary.
Developers in a company a much more dependent from each other and the boss, than reviewers of free software.
Nolan charts, or the more typical 2d 4-coloured political compasses used for displaying results of buzzfeed quizzes are not exactly a thorough and accurate representation of the intricate nuances of the political spectrum, but they do improve on the typical binary left-vs-right. The authoritarian left is very much a thing, and in the context of the organisation of educational institutions, quite a nice parallel.
> I was expecting something along the lines of an anime character saying "charge moar 4 Jews and kill niggers TOP KEK" so yeah.

Not all boards are /b/ though.
Tiny nanoclusters could solve big problems for lithium-ion batteries
But if you index it. You have it.
They do, but only on one route that runs down the Southeast to vacation destinations in Florida. (This one: https://www.amtrak.com/auto-train)

Expanding Auto Train service is one of the suggestions in the linked thread, and it strikes me as a very good idea. I'm not sure if it's something that could be done without a lot of unrealistic up-front expense (upgrading track, buying new rolling stock, etc.) though.
Yes, but isn’t that the problem with Android security updates? OEMs need to (and fail to) deliver closed-source binary blobs to end users. If open source is the real goal, then we* need to be demanding much more openness from OEMs.

* Not me strictly-speaking, because I’m an iOS user for the reasons specified by GP, among others.
Might be best if you've a long fall: hold your breath until you pass out (children can do it, I assume adults can too). Saves the lengthy torment of a long fall, possibly increases chances of survival?
Check out Thoughtbot's "playbook" - https://thoughtbot.com/playbook - it's a thorough and up-to-date guide to running a consulting firm.
If you order anything at all for consumption from China be aware that you may get anything and everything besides the product that you ordered. White powder of any kind is an easy substitute for white powder of any other kind.
Descartes pretty much got it.
Archived version https://archive.nyafuu.org/n/thread/1050512
Better be prepared to calculate in a lot of $ for lab testing of what you think is worth $20,000 before you kill a bunch of people.
I think it's a matter of degree.

If you usually sleep 7 hours a night, and you're only getting 4, then you will feel tired grumpy and sad. But if you stay up all night, you may start to feel euphoric and energetic. Of course, you'll need a good long sleep the next day or so.
What fun!

I did a similar project in minecraft with my teenaged son a few years ago. We started by designing gates (made of torches and redstone), then a clock, then a divider chain, then a demulitiplexer which drove the 7 digit segments. We cheated slightly because the clock counted in hexadecimal. It was a great father son bonding project, being able to teach each other about minecraft and electronics!

It looks a whole lot harder in life though, but I guess when you've mastered the basic gates it must build up the same way. Building it in 2d makes an extra challenge though.
http://reddit.com/r/sorceryofthespectacle
I've never heard that about magnesium, thanks for the heads up. It's worth a shot a suppose. Cheers
This example code must be monomorphized at compile time, meaning that each closure will have a different representation. "Tail call optimization at the type level" is not possible with this compilation model.

(The problem is solved by using a trait object to dynamically dispatch the inner call. https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=0d3c0a5f1291eb34ba61bd39449...)
I don't know why this makes you so mad, but the title definitely helped me be interested in the article and I ended up learning a few things about myself through the article.
I'm surprised that nobody here realize that this marketing team has reinvented part of agile and lean managment?
Making devs accountable but not holding responsible, group solving problems and Andon, prioritizing tasks, a bit about handling external dependencies, kind of sprints, visibility, staying on budget...

They're obviously not following Scrum in Action at the letter, but I really saw a striking resemblance with the "agile & lean" company where I work
Just pushed out an asynchronous (cooperative, it requires the child process to touch a file to let the spinner know when to stop) Unicode and colorized progress spinner: https://github.com/swelljoe/spinner

I wouldn't call this one production ready yet. It needs to be in a function and needs to get its variables scoped and such. But, I was curious to see if a POSIX shell script could be coaxed into doing those super fun spinner designs with goofy shit like happy faces or peace signs or the like. And, it turns out you can. Long code points don't work, anywhere that I tried, yet...so my dream of a clock face with a moving hand is not yet possible. But, some day, it'll happen.
Heh, I think it made sense upto the point where he threatened firing people. I agree that is too extreme: you're gonna quickly lose a lot of people who perform best when they're not under constant pressure.
I don't like that article. I believe that it's entirely backwards actually.

If you actually do everything right in your organisation, you'll end up with a "no empty excuses" culture anyway. If you try to enforce a "no excuses" culture without doing all the other things right, then your team is likely suffering and often won't get the chance to express themselves in actually pursuing what they think needs to be done instead.
Sometimes, your team members have an equally good idea about where you should be focusing your efforts to get the most value out of them or avoid future pain points, despite what most management people think.

So if you go about this wrong, you might lose that, but what's worse you might end up losing the wrong people. Sometimes things are out of your control. And even when you can get help, when everyone is focused on doing their best to avoid being fired, help from someone else is hard to get.

So if you fix everything that would make following such a management strategy a huge disaster, you quite possibly end up not having to enforce such a strategy, because you got people willing to help each other and people who know what matters and what needs to be done.

You end up with a "no excuses" team after you fix all these, but that's an emergent fact not the fact that got you all your success.
Feeling nostalgic ... Window Maker was my window manager of choice per year (up to the GNOME 1 days when it was still easy to run gnome-panel on top of WM).

The NeXTSTEP way in which menus can be triggered by right-clicking is really usable - I only wish it's possible to attach the app menu bar as well. The global menu bar approach of macOS and GNOME can feel a bit ridiculous on large displays.
You missed Steve Blank's point.

My interpretation is he's simply advocating that if someone is aware of an issue that will set a project deadline back, don't keep it a secret and surprise everyone when the deadline isn't met.

Instead of "management by fear", build a culture where missing meeting deadlines is OK as long as a valid reason was communicated to the stake holders BEFORE the due date (no surprises). If a someone who's a project dependency had a family member pass away which will likely lead to a project delay, Blank is suggesting that's something that can be communicated honestly + transparently to a superior (and very much understandably - should be no fear involved). The upside is the superior can potentially reallocate resources to keep the project on track while not be getting caught off guard with a project unexpectedly derailed.
I wonder if a younger Bill Gates would have supported heavy taxes on his company's computer software that allowed 1 accountant armed with a spreadsheet to displace the jobs of, I don't know, maybe a dozen experienced accountants using paper?

Surely, society is so much worse off with so many workers being displaced because of all of this technological progress created by Microsoft and others and being denied of so much extra tax revenue?
> Not sure about the US, but there has been significant overdoses and fatalities relating to fentanyl and other related.

Same here in the US. I live in a heavily effected area and its always the same thing fentanyl. People are used to taking a certain dose so that's what they do not knowing fentanyl is in there and it usually results in a death unless someone has or can get narcan there quickly.

Part of me wonders why they don't just do a little first and then do more, but I guess I get it- they are addicted and they just want their fix ASAP.
> California truly is the biggest waste of existence in this country, I wish the Oreville dam washes the entire thing into the ocean.

Can we not ever link to 4chan ever again? Thanks.
Some would say it is just karma or blow back for all the unjust wars the US of America keep on waging to keep its monopoly on resources, be it oil, drugs or human resources...
Lightweight “go” HTTP router with versioning support
Or /pol/
Three of those four URLs are .edu, and if you look at ../ in the other one, it says it's a college project. The web needed no advertising or tracking or marketing because basically everyone on the web was an academic.

The new web is no longer restricted to the ivory tower; you can get a lot better answers on StackOverflow than you could have ever gotten from the old academic internet. But it does have to feed its new master, capitalism.