skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've a widely used program and you've never run a profiler on it, that's the problem, not using list.sort()[0].
Being forced to adopt others beliefs about diversity as their own is the definition of hegemony. You're taking part in making sure they have the "right" beliefs about business structure and hiring practices, and it's all the more insidious because you claim you're not.
To be fair, we do frequently talk about 'context switching' in a metaphorical sense of flitting between programming and conversations/meetings, or among different projects.

If anything, I think I agree with GP that it's more unusual to see the term used in the 'real' (not metaphorical) sense on the front page.
There's not so much difference if you're writing C code, inspecting the resulting assembly, and tweaking the compiler flags and your data structures to get it to produce the assembly you want.

But if you're not aware of what the compiler is emitting, it's often not hard to pull an order of magnitude improvement out of the code.
Actually, the high-assurance field that does such things is very small. A tiny niche of the overall industry. Most people doing embedded systems do things like the parent described. The few doing formal usually are trying to achieve a certification that wants to see (a) specific activities performed or (b) no errors. Failures mean expensive recertifications. Examples include EAL5+, esp DO-178B or DO-178C, SIL, and so on. Industries include aerospace, railways, defense, automotive, supposedly medical but I don't remember a specific one. CompSci people try formal methods on both toy, industrial, and FOSS designs all the time with some of their work benefiting stuff in the field. There's barely any uptake despite proven benefits, though. :(

For your pleasure, I did dig up a case study on using formal methods on a pacemaker since I think someone mentioned it upthread.

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/publications/ssiri10_pacemak...

David Wheeler has the best page on tools available:

https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/high-assurance-floss.html

Here's a work-in-progress of my list of all categories of methods for improving correctness from high-assurance security that were also field-proven:

https://lobste.rs/s/mhqf7p/static_typing_will_not_save_us_fr...
The most depressing thing is leaving work after its dark. The brief amount of sunshine in the morning is not nearly enough in a day.
> We need to understand high-performance employees based on what they are tasked with and their core principles, not how much they produce, or even worse on standardized personality traits.

So high performance employees are whoever thinks they're important enough to be one?
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> why you think it's unconstitutional

They didn't say they thought it was unconstitutional. They said they thought it should be unconstitutional.
I worry a bit when I see something like this that people will think Erlang is even clunkier than it actually is.

Erlang pattern matching is sufficiently integral to the language that it effectively wouldn't exist without the feature. It's so much more powerful than "here's a list of data shapes, pick one."

(This concern holds true for a lot of other attempts to take pieces of Erlang and incorporate them into other environments too. Erlang's features are highly complementary to each other, the synergy is the language.)
Long article, but here is the main part:

> Leading theory is the ‘phase-shift hypothesis’: the idea that shortened days cause the timing of our circadian rhythms to fall out of sync with the actual time of day, because of a delay in the release of melatonin. Levels of this hormone usually rise at night in response to darkness, helping us to feel sleepy, and are suppressed by the bright light of morning.

Edit: And alternative hypothesis from the article:

> When melatonin strikes a region of the brain called the hypothalamus, this alters the synthesis of another hormone—active thyroid hormone—that regulates all sorts of behaviours and bodily processes.
Share your trips and real-time location from Google Maps
I've found that spending my lunch time walking or otherwise being outside very helpful.
I don't agree with this, because it's just like the normal helicopter parenting of refusing to let your kids play outside / be exposed to dirt / have bicycles / take risks etc; what happens when they grow up? The transition has to happen at some point, and it's better if you're there when it happens.
It's counterfeit branding but it's not counterfeit production. It's worth distinguishing the two, at least in terms of consumer harm.
Have you considered maybe you are living inside a bubble?

After all, you consider C# an uncool language.
63 here. Still doin' it...
If email is broken for sending invoices, then the correct response is to stop sending invoices over email. Banks figured this out already: Stop sending things directly in email, and instead send notifications. Have the user log into the banking system to see the notification.

So, host invoices on your own domain, and only send links to clients. Clients can confirm they are talking to the correct server when downloading the invoice. Same as they should be used to doing for any email with links regarding money.
postal management concluded...
> Source: black friend in college wrote an essay about this for a journal I was editing at the time, plus, common knowledge. There are some interesting cultural questions about how in North American society, natural black hair is deemed unacceptable, and this has generally been internalized by black women. If you choose to just be natural (as my friend did) you get a lot of flak from other black women.

I have to disagree here. There has been a 'natural hair' movement circulating through the black female community for some time now[1]. I'm not sure if it's because the dangers of chemically manipulating hair have become more prominent or other factors, but black women in my circle (which includes high school, college aged, middle aged, and 'professional age') have all been transitioning to a more natural style and it's a very well embraced trend.

My girlfriend has been natural for a few years now and while it is harder to maintain she's told me that she will never go back.

Source (anecdata of course): A black man.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_hair_movement
The mistake here is using JSON for configuration.
I no longer have an age, I have a version.

I am version 4.8.

I already used that once but I think it's worth a repeat ;)

---

On another note, this age subject has come up a few times:

Old Geek: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12503458

Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9361580

Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age (2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9710936

I also wish I could copy paste this comment I already wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9362508
Given that I'm not the only one in this thread pointing out that the source of this offering is most likely driven from features designed for three-letter agencies, I'd argue my comment was substantive (though I'll give you the point that it was written a bit cheekily).
What happens if someone's name is "all"
The source for the claim in the title is:

>My latest anonymous survey shows that 58% of HPEs need more private spaces for problem solving, and 54% of HPEs find their office environment “too distracting.”

Seems kinda weak.
Ask HN: How do you write effectively?
Hey guys,

Just wondered how you churn out effective content?

I.e. If you have to write 10/20 pieces of content a week how do you do that? How do you 1. Come up with the topics. And 2. How do you actually sit down and write it and not get distracted?

thanks!
I signed up for this to try it out. Hopefully, I am not giving up too much privacy (if I have given up any privacy at all).
If you can see the pedestrian crossing light, they usually have countdowns to yellow at least. I use these a lot to estimate the staleness of a green light.

Many traffic lights in China have countdown timers.
Parliament shooting
Yep. NASA can't release patches (hardware, least) and switching to "version 2" costs a solid $800,000,000. I feel confident that if the development costs of reworking a webapp were measured in years and millions, we'd see a pretty different approach to building them.
Can't we have an office with a variety of different workspaces that we can move between as our needs change?

This would require companies to invest in their people beyond "Here's your paycheck, here's your healthcare, be glad we're giving you this much". Granted, some companies do-and some probably do come with a variety of workspaces. I used to work at one, but I don't know how many people would answer in the affirmative if polled how commonplace they expect that sort of workplace to be.
He thought that no one would bother to look for him in Lithuania, too bad Lithuania is a member of EU and not forgotten nook.
As others have said, this imagery is already created and stored. That said, people with PO Boxes who don't necessarily check them daily would probably be a good use case for this.
In Scala, you mean?
Not much discussion of the anonymous survey - are these "High Performing Employees" Self selecting?

My gut says quiet spaces are a boon to productivity - but why not prove it instead of a research methodology with holes so large I could drive a truck through them.
> In the baggage hold it will have been scanned better

What information is this statement based on?
relevant https://xkcd.com/505/

I know it has been mentioned in this topic several times but again, anyone with an interest should definitely check out Permutation City. All of these concepts are explored in very entertaining ways.
Also you can tune the location and amount of propulsors, and have a high efficiency rotation rate with direct drive electric motors.

The current turbofan engines are close to the size limits in
relative fan size and bypass ratio without a gearbox, which adds cost and mass. (Only one manufacturer is in the process of introducing a geared turbofan.)

Because of no high speed jet exhaust and large area thrusters, these aircraft have the potential to be able to take off really steeply and to be really quiet.
Turn an old tablet into an Alexa enabled Smart Mirror
https://freeyourmusic.com

Offers please send to b@hern.as :)
The question is, how much does vim use editing anything. IIRC the vim-runtime takes up a whole lot more than 8MB nowadays. It's a seriously weird argument.
> Being forced to adopt others beliefs about diversity as their own is the definition of hegemony.

Okay?

I really don't have any interest in where this conversation seems to be going.

If you're dealing with a troll, doing what I said will disarm 99% of their tactics. If you don't like that, take it up with the trolls.

If you, rather, have a problem with diversity itself, then let's end this discussion here.

EDIT:

> You're taking part in making sure they have the "right" beliefs about business structure and hiring practices, and it's all the more insidious because you claim you're not.

Okay, this is clearly not a discussion worth having.
Agree. In my company it is practically impossible to change vendor account details without going through a lot of process and paper work. Suggests controls in these tech companies are surprisingly poor.
i'm almost certain they are just using a simple viola jones type face detector that doesn't need additional training
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...
Agree with this. If founder cannot make work this without loosing sleep and enough rest.

1. Can they take sound decisions? Is there any datapoint on this. i.e. List of companies gone south due to this specific type of working

2. How will they build the team with this kind of culture?

3. If they value these for themselves would they value it for employees / customers?
> most sysadmins use their favourite language and a bit of JavaScript

I think more likely is that every nodejs developer considers themselves "devops".
Venture Capital for Middle America
Was asked to participate in an early test for this last year. It was terrible.

I have a PO box and as that address includes the post office address you would receive notification and pictures of ALL mail going to that address, so everyone's PO box. Not good.
HelloFresh's Migration to a New API Gateway to Enable Microservices
These clickbaity articles have become way more common on HN
That helps a ton. Still sucks leaving work when it's dark though.
Containers as System of Record
> I'm curious to hear why you think it's unconstitutional.

Most of these cameras can't demonstrate that the owner of the car was the one driving at the time. In a criminal court that'd be plenty of reasonable doubt, but red light tickets (at least around here) are handled as civil manners that go to collections agencies if unpaid to circumvent that issue.
Your internet sarcasm is strong.
More likely to be a tow line (like are used already for gliders) or a tow aircraft?
I don't know what infrastructure youtube has, but I work in the same building with another known "youtube clone" from Europe and they are spread on 7-8 floors and have a lot of remote infrastructure. (serious question) How can you realistically compete in this area with a basic youtube clone ? From my point of view, the infrastructure and operational costs dwarf the development costs.
Incidentially, "just do it" is the same advice typically perpetuated by said YouTube channels.
This has been my experience as well. I made the change when I realized that I almost always get to work before sunrise and leave after sunset. Among other things, it seems to mostly defeat my typical mid-afternoon slump.
> Farmers are an independent group

...who receive billions in federal subsidies.

> They are used to relying on their own skills and hard work

Almost universally using machines and seeds designed by engineers and scientists in "The City". (excluding Amish farmers, in which case, my sincerest apologies for the skepticism.)

> I think it is an overreach for John Deere and other manufacturers to control what I do with my (my!) devices. I really hope this law gets passed to prevent companies from doing this.

Agreed. And in return for that legal protection, farmers should concede their subsidies.

> I think they picked a fight with the wrong people.

Definitely. Not because farmers are rugged individualists, but because they have extremely effective lobbying organizations and are very well-connected in DC.
>But anything that's genuinely important probably isn't going to come unexpectedly through USPS.

Any notice from government offices comes this way. And usually the important notices are ones that weren't expected. :(
For a long time people could spend their whole career at one company - now not so much, do you think we may be swinging back to that?

From a business perspective its better to keep your high performers as long as you can - pay them what they are worth since someone else will any ways.
These disruptive methods of self-termination are protests, of course. Humane society should provide painless and immediate and no-question-asked exit services to people of all ages. It would save zillions. Most of the expensive healthcare is done to the very old, who have little choice, all they can hope is that the expensive operation fails and they die under sedation.
To expound on this: It's nearly unconscionable for a security-oriented site to mandate JS for basic functionality. There were no alternatives provided, the noscript blurb did not offer a list of domains which were serving the JS, there was no fallback rendering, and so we are forced to trust an unknown party to execute code in a leaky ambient jalopy of security failure.

If we stop pointing this out, then we lose.
I would like my browser to detect websites that break the "Back" button. I hate that.
> But a storm surge would be unpredictable, right?

No we know what sort of storm surges are 10, 100, 1000 year events etc. At that point it's just a question of what you design the tunnel to withstand.

> How do the physics of "crushing" a boat by
> raising water level in a confined space work?

This is an elementary application of Archimedes' principle. The weight of the ship is equivalent to the weight of the water it displaces[1].

If the ship is stuck against the ceiling of a confined space the pressure it's excreting on the ceiling is going to be the equivalent to the displacement of that "extra" water.

1. Leaving aside the full calculation which takes the difference in the weight of air & water into account for the purposes of this explanation.
What's your source on parts of the animal going to waste? I was under the impression that absolutely as much as possible was being sold or used somehow (rendering plant, pet food, chicken nuggets...) -- anything wasted is just lost profit, after all.
Honest question: Why would you use cheques instead of bank transfer? Isn't that cheaper all the way around?

I live in India and practically haven't​ seen any company use cheques for payment in the last few years.
This is surely the year of Linux on desktop :)

more seriously, once you get the hang of it Ubuntu machine is just ridiculously more productive than win and osx.

I'm surprised that not more devs are using it.
For us, winning means stopping their advance. This is not a civil war, there is a clear external force to counteract. What you call "stalemate" is actually a big achievement for us.
> Okay, this is clearly not a discussion worth having.

100% agreed.
The obsession for open plan offices continues to amaze me. Companies that invest huge amounts in staffing and other strategic programmes don't seem to spend much time challenging the default suggestion that 'openness = collaboration'.

This article mentions high performance employees - but most knowledge workers (designers, programmers etc.) that I know all struggle with open plan office environments irrespective of their performance level. If anything, an open plan office is maybe less worrisome to the more executive people I know - their core work processes of communication & meetings are less negatively impacted by the inability to regularly get large blocks of quiet productive space.

Some companies obviously get this need (e.g. FogCreek) but it really feels like sugar consumption or smoking. Once people really interrogate the status quo they are quick to realise how negative it is - but despite this the sub-optimal default approach has an unbelievable amount of momentum.

My condolences to all the 'high performance people' surveyed who are desperately wishing for less disturbed work spaces!
I'm hopeful about this -- it looks like it fits my personal use cases anyway.

I've used several location sharing apps to share my location with family during commutes & road trips -- and all of them suffer from various feature, reliability or performance flaws. There might be better ones than I've tried so far, but I basically stopped trying new ones out of frustration. (Plus, I'm usually running Google Maps anyway...)
I made the switch a few years ago from working primarily on Desktop apps to primarily Web apps, and beforehand I had this exact feeling.

In my experience, web apps are way, way easier than Desktop apps in almost every way, aside from maybe if you have to figure out scaling really big (which you probably don't most of the time). You can probably learn everything you really need to know about web apps to clear that spooky feeling just by working at a new job for a month or two. It's not a huge shortcoming at all in reality, because at the end of the day, software is software. You can write software, so you'll be fine and may already be better than people calling themselves "web developers."

Also, I don't know if this applies to you, but in my case part of the reason I had this spooky feeling was because the people who I knew who called themselves "web developers" before I actually started doing "web development" were not very skilled, and were inclined to portray it as Magic to other people, so that they could they could feel the satisfaction of being a sort of Arcane Web Magician. Plus, it was magic to them, because they didn't really understand it. If you have people like this around you, I suggest you ignore them and, if you need support, find people who are able to explain details clearly to you without presenting it as magic, or at least point you towards resources that can. Once I was able to do that, it made a big difference in my confidence in my own abilities and helped me improve as a professional tremendously.
That's called a "bomber".
The structural penalties for making "most of the weight of the aircraft" removable will probably lead to a plane that doesn't fly.
lesson #1 is stop piping curl output to bash as part of your software installation procedure.

that probably won't work on mars.
I guess companies having presence in both hemispheres and / or allowing remote working have a potential hiring advantage :)
FB and Nokia successfully boost existing undersea cables from 13Tbps to 32Tbps
Exploitin the Mechanism of Addiction for Mobile Game Developers
Yellow legally means "do not enter the intersection if you can safely stop" where I live. Of course that involves a judgement on the part of the driver. The duration of the yellow is generally based on the distance across the intersection and allowing cars to clear from inside the "safe stopping" distance.
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility (2010)
Man, it's been 23 hours since this was posted, and lots of negative feedback. With that intro, you might expect me to be different, but sadly, I'm not.

If you haven't read the graphic novel about Honest Tea, I recommend it. One thing made an impression on me: you can't sell sustainable organic tea if it tastes bad.

This was born, as you say, out of "frustration with paying high rent for crappy apartments." It seems your 1st attempt at solving this frustration is to charge a high price for crappy containers.

People have become strongly accustomed to excellent design, and so what used to be passable is now off-putting.

The core problem is that there is nothing about what you're doing that provides credible justification that your approach is a real advance. The trial program ain't it, neither is the rent-sharing. You need something more surpising. What would be compelling enough to tempt a claustrophobic person like me to buy a Boxouse? Nothing I've seen yet.

What about building a little hotel out of stacked Boxouses? I'd be more apt to try it if it came with all the amenities of a normal hotel, and gave the perception that lots of people stay there. (Yeah, I know, I'm a follower, whatever.)

You obviously have something going for you if YC took you, but whatever appealed to YC does not come through on the website. I hope things turn up for you guys (sincerely).
http://www.theoncueapp.com

Never knew how to market it
Not the same service as Outbox though. The USPS is not opening the mail. It's just scanning the envelope. You know who has sent you something but not the contents.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7678847
A big plus of automating tickets is that it's no longer biased. You're not more likely to get a ticket in a poorer, more high crime neighborhood, just because there happen to be more police there. This way, rich white people in the Loop are just as likely to get tickets as poor black people in Woodlawn. To me this democratization seems like a big plus.
Inside the Jewelry Startup That Wants to Reinvent Women’s Work