skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly mileage varies. I've been more or less fully remote for a top tier financial institution about the last two years. (I show up every few months to meet up for some face time, sure we make time for some meetings and the likes but it's mostly a chance to socialise in real life.)

I can't imagine going back to an office. I'm generally much happier, I feel like I'm more focused and I feel a stronger commitment to my work.

My brother once told me that most people keep their jobs simply because they show up. I didn't much believe him but having working in this business for more than a decade now I tend to agree. Maybe it's not most people, but a significant number anyway. That's not trying to be mean spirited or anything – I totally understand those who choose to wear the minimum required amount of flair. They care just enough not to get fired, maybe a little bit more but not much, and that's ok.

For me, I'm not going to lie, I've had those days where I've felt that I've done enough just by showing up. It's not been most days, but I've sure had them. But now that I'm remote I never have those days. I like showing up, because the balance in my life is so much better – I think it's because now it's mostly on my terms. Sure, I more or less have to, or at least try to make sure there's as much time overlap as possible with my co-workers, but where I work or how I work is up to me.

It wasn't always enjoyable though. Initially it was a real struggle because most people were in the office, and I'd get left out because they'd do face-to-face meetings or discuss things offline and I'd get a pretty crappy tl;dr out of it. But this is something I pointed out early on, and coupled with a growing need in the business for people to work remotely we just kind of figured it out. They're getting rid of office space because it's expensive, and rather than making people redundant that they would probably have to re-hire anyway they just have people work from home either fully or most days, and employ a desk sharing solution. I think we're up to something like 3 or 4 people per desk now. Now everything happens in emails, chat, github, etc. It's all online, it has to be or it just doesn't work.

Anyway, this is turning into a rant, so I'll stop. I just came to say I can't imagine having to work in an office again. I don't mind it from time to time, it can be nice, but I'd like it to be my choice rather than something I have to do. Again, mileage clearly varies.
I'd love to know, too. Best as I can tell, the only really secure option is to read them in from STDIN.

Depending on how the process is running, it may also be reasonably secure to read the secrets from files. But getting this right is tricky, and really prone to human error: all it takes is one errant chmod/chown to remove the security.

Honestly, given the challenges of those options, keeping secrets in environment variables seems like a reasonable compromise to me.
If you want to prepare for unknown unknowns like we do now, then simulate a mating between you and X other people and implement them resulting DNA. Be your own biological child.
I've seen secrets stored in special files, or personally I prefer something like https://www.vaultproject.io/, which may still use environment variables, but they can potentially be passed in in a more secure, controlled way.
Also - the glistening of jewellery.
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Ask HN: What's with the C++17 Special Math?
Looking through CPPreference I found the `special_math` targeted for C++17 [1]. Most of these functions look very specialized and I would expect there to be fairly non-generic optimized implementations.

What makes these functions generally useful enough for inclusion into the STL?

[1] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/special_math
The three mountain counties in Colorado with the lowest death rates in the US don't have major hospitals. Without hospitals, fewer deaths.
I work in the world of video by day, but do lots of still image work as a hobby.

Even in the world of photography, there is no Mac that edits/filters/transforms/renders 30-40-megapixel Raw images without very noticeable latency. For fluidity and efficiency in what I do, I'd gladly take 10x performance over what exists today on the Mac.
Well, NN also helps make it easier for new ISPs to compete. If there is good content (netflix) that is not owned or exclusive to other ISPs then it is much easier to launch your own ISP.
It's easier to get a job in software engineering than to build something like that.
Not really.

I guess my approach is different. I only use a library when I have to, meaning that it's of "high quality" and it will save lots of time.
Otherwise, I'd rather implement the feature myself, so I know the code and I can extend it later.

In that sense, Elm covers me completely. There are many small good utility libraries to use, but I only use 2-3 of them.
And most of them, you can read the code, quickly understand what it does and pick the code you want to use in your app.
Death isn't the problem; aging is. Death without aging seems like a good solution.
Right? Like, I'll see these old boomer wackos with a stall at county fairs next to XYZ County Repubs/Dems or something, and they all just yell and scream like olde timey street preachers. Usually, the ones around here have some placards with badly doctored images of babies and a bunch of red on it, like the anti-abortion protestors outside of PP. Like old man, there are kids walking around, take a chill pill. You get to 'talking' to them and most are just anti-semites or really just looney-toons (at least in my neck of the woods, ymmv). I just can't understand what went wrong with them that they want to pay the fair org. to go out and scream all weekend in the sun about a little boy's junk. Dude, it's been going on for like 3k years or something without like any hiccups really, it's cool, no one even thinks about it, go get worked up about climate change, or the local PTA, or something that actually matters.
But, as that article says, the lines with automatic control didn't have any trains passing red signals (except in a depot, presumably under manual control). The manual lines had hundreds.

London has at least some ATC on about half the lines, I don't think that's cautious.
> If people are against this en masse -- he won't touch it. My guess is he backs down or takes a neutral stance, just like Wheeler did on net neutrality, and like Obama did on encryption.

Wheeler did not take a neutral stance. He was always for net neutrality. Some people were confused on that point because after the courts tossed out the Open Internet Order of 2010, Wheeler's first proposed replacement was weaker. In particular, it would have allowed paid "fast lanes".

It was weaker not because he preferred weaker net neutrality, but rather because he wanted to try to save net neutrality using the same legal authority that the 2010 order used, if he could. That would be very likely to survive further judicial scrutiny, and also not to draw to much Congressional ire.

But from the start he said he was open to reclassifying ISPs as Title II common carriers in order to make a new order that was stronger than the 2010. The public comments were overwhelmingly in favor of that, and that's what he went with.

People also get confused about Wheeler's intentions because he was once head of the main cable trade association, and later head of the main cellular/wireless trade association. What is often overlooked is that at those times, those industries were young, small, and trying to compete against big established players (broadcast networks in the case of cable, the big telephone companies in the case of cellular/wireless). Fighting for cable and wireless was the pro-consumer, pro-competition side at the time.

In Wheeler's own words:

Wheeler> You have to think about what I was lobbying for. The cable industry at that point in time was fighting being put out of business by this agency at the request of the broadcasters. Broadcasters wanted to shut down the cable companies. They didn't want to give them access to programming because they didn’t want the content in the market, the competition in the market. And so I joined a crusade—we called it ‘plant a flower in the vast wasteland’—to have choice for Americans in what they see on television.

See this interview if you want to understand Wheeler:

https://arstechnica.com/business/2016/03/how-a-former-lobbyi...
That's actually exactly what the stated mitigation they've implemented is, if I've read it correctly. Though they're working on building it into their VM images in order to reduce the memory overhead of the filter.
IIRC you can `make "CFLAGS=-I/path/with spaces/"`
I believe parent is saying "Peak GDP".
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Buying stocks with your savings is not good at all :)
Sometimes you really have two NOOP choices:

1. Give them a quick answer and point them to the book but they'll never read it and continue to interrupt even if you told them to not interrupt for trivial matters. On and now you're so much of patronizing dork. Back to square one.

2. Don't give them the answer, and point them to the book. Now you're the smartass jerk that doesn't socialize. Plus they won't read the book and invent some crazy solution to get shit done and later when you have to fix the mess the WTF/min ratio goes through the roof. Back to square one.

Which leaves you with three possible actions: DealWithIt, RageQuit, or RageFix, only one of them being a long term fix but things don't happen in a vacuum and you're not always in a position to do so.
You're still twisting my words and making an irrational point. I said you're probably in a safe country and if so you don't need to freak out.

And it's legal in the US.
I realize you're trying to be snarky, but it's worth pointing out that the original definition of "First World" was the set of countries economically/politically aligned with the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World
Ty for your input. Getting a copy :)
Looking what you write, I think you misunderstand what NN does.

The monopolies you mentioned have very little to do with NN. Someone already gave example how Facebook replaced MySpace, similarly Google, replaced Yahoo, AltaVista etc, I suppose Amazon did not replace anything, but started e-commerce (and currently creating other markets, like cloud computing), but it is getting higher and higher competition.

Apple and Microsoft existed before Internet and are just using their old position to leverage their existence, but the fact they face competition.

> EDIT: another question :) If net-neutrality has absolutely nothing to do with the tech monopolies maintaining their power position then why do they all support it? [https://internetassociation.org/]

Simple, because it expands powers of existing monopolies making them relevant. Perfect example is Netflix. They providing service to stream movies. They pay also pay large amounts of money for Internet access and ability to send content to their users. On the other side users similarly are paying for Internet access to be able to receive the content.

You would think it's double paying (and it kind of is), but it's normal, why users should subsidize Netflix costs or why Netflix should pay for users' access (since they are not only using Netflix) they just pay for their access to the network.

But, regional ISPs (in this case Comcast) started having "problems" where packets from Netflix were dropped, because "Netflix was sending too much data to them", ignoring the fact that that data Netflix was sending was requested by ISP's users who were already paying ISP to do one thing and do it well (i.e. deliver data they requested).

Things were kind of bad for the users (and users couldn't also switch their provider because at most they only had just another option which was equally as bad), until Netflix reached deal with Comcast where they pay Comcast to deliver the content (something that Comcast users are already paying for).

Net neutrality is trying to make sure this kind of manipulation is not allowed.

The thing with Netflix already happened but could easily be translated to other companies. For example (I'm borrowing it from here [1], I think you should watch it it explains the core issue very well IMO) Microsoft could pay so Bing has always fast access at cost of Google. Don't you want as a user to not have any company dictate you what you can access or not? Similarly those Internet companies also don't want to pay extra on top of what they already are paying. That's their interest. The only companies who would benefit from lack of NN are handful companies that deliver Internet to end users (especially companies like Comcast, TimeWarner/Spectrum, AT&T, Verizon etc) and lack of NN would give them huge power to bully anyone else.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vuuZt7wak
Citing the second paragraph of the posted article:

> “These were deliberate attempts by external actors to bombard the FCC’s comment system with a high amount of traffic to our commercial cloud host. These actors were not attempting to file comments themselves; rather they made it difficult for legitimate commenters to access and file with the FCC.”
I read a couple this is one of them:
http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf
It's also an issue of visibility. Downvoted comments are seen less and don't get to contribute to the zeitgeist. That's sort of by design and I'm not trying to have that conversation, just saying that it's more than "aw, just internet points".
Hmm, something here seems off. I've been living in Germany for the last 5 years, I'm self employed with a wife and 2 kids, and I'm on the public plan. It seems great. It scales with your income so it should always be affordable. Why are you having to "pay double"?

The 2nd component here is that your premium is 99% of your total health care costs. And, very little arguing with the insurance company. Much nicer to deal with than back in the US where it's rarely 100% coverage and the insurance company is trying to screw you at any opportunity.

> It doesn't include even basic preventative care

My public insurance includes an every 2 years skin screening from the dermatologist, and dentist checkups / teeth cleanings pretty frequently. Other preventative care, I'm not sure of.

> I've also found the medical system in Germany to be atrocious when you actually go to see a doctor. If you end up in the emergency room, you can get good care.

I've been sick a few times. I've gone to a family doctor and an ENT specialist and both I thought were very good. Comparable to treatment I've received in the US. It's unfortunate your experience was so bad but I don't think that is the norm.

I have 2 children so we have quite a bit of experience with the German system and it seems absolutely wonderful from my perspective. One of my kids was premature and I have 0 complaints about how they handled that. She also developed a very serious medical condition a few years later. She was on chemotherapy and required multiple surgeries. I don't know how the health care for this would be in the US but the German health care system handled it great, in my opinion. We've never had to fight with the insurance company on anything except for a $7000 club foot brace which took us a few back and forth letters to get. Not so bad though.
>one could become quite proficient at reading (without any comprehension of what they are reading)

If you can't comprehend what you're reading, you're not reading. Learning the Korean alphabet is not learning Korean.
While I can see that the can-like current design of the Mac Pro was a honest mistake in predicting the PC market, I am baffled how long it took them to recognize the mistake and take no action. They must have noticed it quite recently, so they did not care for the mac pro for years.

The mac pro isn't important for Apple measured by the money it makes by its sales. It is important for keeping the mac line alive. It is the machine for all the people writing the software for iOS devices, and of course for all the mac hardware which does create the revenue for Apple. Also, it keeps the professionals on the mac platform. Even if Apple would sell the mac pro at a loss, it would be worth it for its role in the environment. It plays the same role for Apple, as all those photographers at the sports event for Canon and Nikon. There isn't much money to be made from them, but by their reputation, all the equipment is sold to the big public.

In the mid-2000 years, the first sign of macs becoming popular was that at conferences, 80% would have an Apple laptop. They were leading the wave. But today, their market share is still high, yet, one can read more and more blog posts on how to switch to Linux or build a Hackintosh. I guess this is, what got the message at least partially to the Apple management.

I am writing this on a 5k iMac, which I quite like (except: no video input, what were they thinking??). In a year or two I would be interested in upgrading to a mac pro, if its a reasonably versatile device. I don't need too much upgradability, but I would expect to be able to order it with a current high-end graphics card and proper internal storage. Otherwise, I might consider going back to Linux eventually.
Buying stocks with all your savings when you're close to retirement is probably bad.

Buying stocks with some of your savings when you're 27 is probably not too bad.
Yes, I do have children. I got the idea from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/opinion/sunday/take-your-...

Bringing babies to work definitely has issues, but also benefits.
Er, can you explain that last sentence?
I did mean educated person under 40, yeah. sorry.
>> Imagine if every bus, boat, and train in London was kitted out with sensors and counters, with the data made available to third-party service providers — this could help cities manage transport infrastructure far more effectively.

> And my reaction is, "Imagine if we had more buses and investment in public infrastructure to begin with."

Well in London all the bus and train data is made available to third-party service providers. That is how citymapper exists
That's a good point, it depends on your diet and goals and varies from individual to individual.

What's healthy for one person may not be healthy for another, based on body weight/lifestyle/activity level/etc.
Speaking about Urdu (among different languages, derived from Sanskrit):

It is one of the languages in which every language, word can be copied into and pronounced to a surprising accuracy. For example, this very post can be written using Urdu syntax and still be pronounced closely to as it would sound in English!

While Sanskrit (and to an extent Hindi) may have some unique properties, I find the syntax (script/alphabet) extremely daunting to understand (for a non Hindi/Sanskrit speaker).

But ultimately, research should continue I guess to see if there is any Sanskrit-derived benefits for the mankind.
the idea that we should always blame ourselves first has merit. but frankly some bugs, just p e r s i s ttt.

like this one, with fputcsv in PHP. https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43225
> The widget company owner starts laying off widget makers to increase profit he can get the same output. Is there no diminishing margin utility for buying more widgets?

In the simple example where widgets are the entire economy, this doesn't work, because profit is defined in terms of widgets, and because we can assume that there's no diminishing marginal utility for economic production as a whole. At the level of the entire economy, you never become richer by cutting production. (Because again, if the only good or service in the economy is a widget, then you have no way of expressing your profit or wage except in the number of widgets you have. If total production declines, the only way for you to increase your compensation is by obtaining a larger share of the overall pie.)

For the more complex example with widgets and sprockets, there's absolutely diminishing marginal utility; I dealt with this in the passage starting "you might wonder what happens if productivity gains mean we're making more widgets than we strictly need. We'd probably see layoffs". And in general we can assume that goods will suffer much more sharply diminishing marginal utility than services.

That, in turn, is what drives the shift in employment from more productive industries (which is another way of saying "industries which don't need as many people any more to fill societal demands") to less productive industries.

If it helps, consider the earlier shift from agriculture to manufacturing: Around 50-150 years ago, we saw an incredible increase in productivity, a very very small increase in per capita food production, a very large drop in food prices, a very large drop in the % of income the average person spent on food, and the utter gutting of agricultural employment. New technology gave us the power to make 40 times more food than we were previously making, or the same amount of food with 1/40th the people. And at the big picture level, that freed up labour ended up in manufacturing, which had not yet had the same productivity increase.

That's a good example of what Baumol's theory would predict. Does that make sense to you? Does your understanding of the theory suggest it would predict something else?

> Did we get voluntarily make education "less productive" by increasing the decreasing the student:teacher ratio? Did we get better educational quality for it?

Yes, we did lower productivity. And no, not really. But keep in mind, that when we say productivity here we're talking about labour productivity, so increasing employment will (basically) always lower productivity.
So, can you give me a scientific/academic source that says anything about "how scientific" Korean is?

> Hangul is the writing system that is uniquely different from a latin based system like Spanish.

How? They're just different alphabets. The only unique feature of Hangul is that all the letters making up a syllable are arranged in one square -- is that what you're referring to as making it uniquely different? If not, what?
based on Appple's past lawsuits with Nokia, Ericsson, etc, Apple for the most part ended up paying up after a brief licensing renegotiation dance.
Not OP, but I can't seem to find any statistic on schizophrenia diagnosis rate to support or refute your claim. I'd be curious to know if you had anything you could link.

I did find an abstract on early onset schizophrenia diagnosis increase, but this doesn't really mean too much (e.g. can mean earlier detection rate or an actual increase of schizophrenia, etc.). [1]

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0447....
Suppose you are taking a math exam. One about advanced calculus that is really hard and taxing. I'm talking about one of those that is five hours long and there are only three problems in total on the test, so you are expected to spend over an hour on each problem.

Would you prefer if a) the environment was quiet and no one was interrupting you. Or b) the environment was noisy and you were constantly interrupted by people talking about how they spent their weekend.

To many developers, productive work is like taking a math exam. Therefore we want the same kind of environment (a distraction free one) to do our best work.