skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that the parent is weighing:

Spend X hours working per week to get Y hours of family time

vs.

Spend X+n hours working per week (or just X if you can find ways to be more productive) to some much larger value of Y hours of family time over some estimated larger timeframe.

It's all a gamble and about risk, but if you think you might be able to retire early in say, 10 years, and get to spend a much larger amount of time with your family (and be presumably less stressed and in a better position to support them financially) that might be worth a bit of extra hustle or focus on productivity than spending 20 years working for some similar result.

I'm being really hand-wavey with numbers, but when people think of early retirement for these reasons, that's often the thinking behind it.

There's a fair question to be raised on the quality of that time spent, particularly when you look at your health when you are younger, and the impact of spending time with children when they are young, but there's a lot of factors that people consider when weighing these questions, and I don't think it is entirely fair to judge someone because they may weigh those questions differently than you did.
Sounds excellent except travel to San Francisco. Why would you start there instead of some better location like mountain view cupertino sunnyvale etc/
My hope is that the ambient animosity seeps through, via high turn-over, leading to increased personnel costs for the organization.

In general, hopefully this uncooperative behavior adds to the general misery distributed throughout the world, and all just because security goons need to feel like they're smarter than the people subject to their policies.

Consider this, oh reader, should you have the opportunity to alter password policies for a project your working on.
It's an article from a school whose faculty member leads JPEG. It namedrops VR, space agencies, 5G; vaguely alludes to some upcoming work, links to nowhere of interest -- it's university press release mixed with quasi-marketing undertones you'd find in a business magazine.

I think we should strive for better sources than this, so I provided some.
Although not an opus on the subject, you may enjoy this article: https://aeon.co/essays/take-your-time-the-seven-pillars-of-a...
For the most part in the US, over the counter sleeping pills are first-generation anti-histamines. Good ol Benadryl.
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That's a bit much, don't you think? This reminds me of that baseball coach who would refuse anybody from Colorado simply because marijuana is legal there.
Please don't tell other people what to do. As a Californian, the reaction he is describing is very plausible.
Great points and very similar to how I have evolved for productivity.

I like/have to create/maintain lists as well to offload, the lists/todos need to be lightweight as well so that it doesn't become a chore but an exploratory period where you get prepped. Sam's way of writing them on paper, starring important ones and transferring them also help with the thought process on them. I have lists/todos for ideas, immediate tasks and long term tasks. I make a onesheet document for everything I am working on and it helps as a jump off point to get started.

To help with efficiency I use RescueTime and pomodoro to get started or a check on when the balance of productivity is out of wack. Use tricks like leaving a compile issue or nearly completed item at night to wake up and start in on. Starting is the hardest part, fool yourself by telling yourself you will just work for 20 minutes or a few pomodoros at the start, those days end up being my most productive many times.

The ideas on working efficiently and when you tire switch to something else or take a break are good. Sometimes you have to crunch but as long as there are breaks and that isn't the norm it is good discipline and professional.

Engineers/programmers don't take into account the health aspect enough.
The points on health and sleep are also very important for the right mental motivation. Get up and move around every hour, have a sit/stand desk, eat an apple, eat well most of the time and be well rested. Use motivational tools like music and when stuck move around, do pushups, crouches etc to get the blood flowing. I have different music tracks for 'get it done' and 'ship it' times, like Mitch Murder or Blood Brothers [1]

Schedule in time for leisure and don't be mad at yourself if you need to chillax, games are great to get you thinking quickly. Allow some padding for times when you get in a rut, get out and do something fun with the family or friends.

Make sure you get done what you set out to get done every day and adjust as you learn more about your capacity/style if you aren't meeting that. Capacity is good lighter, it is better to get more done than you planned than getting lots done and feeling bad because you didn't get it all done.

Have a regular delivery and ship early and often.

[1] https://soundcloud.com/maddecent/sets/blood-bros-series
It's not a flippant remark - it's argument to extreme [1] (ie, paining those who question FB as only Trump-haters when many people have questioned FB long before CA/Trump entered the mainstream discussion).

It doesn't help FB that Trump is associated with them and that he's in hot water already.

[1] https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
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> Your product is not backend-heavy, such as: ...machine-learning models

Maybe the meanings of these words have morphed over time, but in what sense is a "machine-learning model" not a back-end concern? It sure as heck isn't front-end...

(E.g., the current wiki page for "front and back end" explicitly mentions "converting the symbolic phonetic representation into actual sounds" as an example of a back end concern, and that's certainly the type of task that some people use machine learning for.)

Honest question: does "back-end" now mean "the CRUD and API client portions of a web-based CRUD app?"

This might go toward a larger question that others are asking: what exactly is darklang and what does it do?
Well, think of the IS operator
Z IS X + Y. That exists fine and works well.
X and Y can't be a variable only Z really can be. It can be annoying but that's standard Prolog.
So for the sake of discussion let's say we have

apl(Expression, Result).

Where Expression can't be a variable. If it fails to evaluate or has an error it will return false. If APL evaluates without error it will true true or the Result.

Prolog can be fast with list if using difference lists. But can be slow for some vector calculations. Using CHR/CLF one can do some mathematical calculations fast, but it runs out of memory fast for large dataset.

I might be wrong, but I figure it will be a nice experiment. My idea is to leave all things Logical and one of off type of code to Prolog and things that happen in groups to APL.
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I doubt this is the business model, it's a form of dogfooding.
> The United States spent $20 billion for air conditioning during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

Do you think this is some kind of luxury? Have you got any idea how hot it gets in an operations room tent in Afghanistan? And some of those tents are hospitals.
Our goal is to get in-person feedback from the first user of our product, so it does have to be in SF. In the future, we'll obviously open Dark up to everyone, but sadly not with the cash incentive :)
Hardware acceleration for encoding is also pretty important. Entry-level game streamers need it (Twitch recently proved that this isn't a negligible market[1]). Playing back AV1 on a phone implies receiving it - which means that users need to store their videos to AV1 directly.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2018/04/07/ninjas-ne...
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One a la cart solution, but still to complicated for most users, and not yet ubiquitous enough is buying the season of a show as it comes out. I've seen this work with next day or same day availability for the one show I actually wanted to watch through Amazon and or Google Play.
So the fact that Galkovskiy, the engineer who perfected the Katyusha rocket launcher, decided to work on a weapon that played a major role in defeating Nazi Germany offends you?
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From my understanding, many Apple chips are custom, and I assume much of their firmware is too. What your asking is for Apple to support third party knock off chips in their firmware and drivers which were most likely reverse engineered to "get it close to functional". That's a bit silly.

Imagine getting upset that an Occulus firmware update didn't work with a knock off HMD that lacked features of the original...
Funny, I wrote a blog post last night about the same thing but with a different outcome[1]. Instead of thinking of work smarter not harder, break it up into two problems: work harder and work smarter, then tackle each separately.

[1] https://medium.com/@alanhamlett/tracking-build-times-in-xcod...
> Martin is still a world apart from Tolkien in my opinion

You mean Martin's books are not the same calibre as one by (JRR | Christopher) Tolkien?
>I have no idea if the random number generation is sufficient

Sure it is, to remain in the same XKCD realm, this works fine:

https://xkcd.com/221/

More seriously, since you have your "random" numbers in non-fixed position (due to different length of the "random" strings/words and also the number themselves can be 1, 2 or three characters long), even if the built-in algorithm is not "random" enough mathematically, I don't think that it will actually affect password discoverability.
I get the feeling a lot of people in the comments here didn't actually read the article.

If you're complaining that $3k isn't enough to live in SF, you missed the point. Dark isn't trying to pay you a $3k salary. They're not looking to hire someone to build a random app. They're looking for an employee of some other startup to camp out in their office for 3 months and use Dark to build the backend for that startup, and they will pay $3k/mo to do this. Presumably that money goes to the startup, not to the employee directly. The employee will get whatever compensation from their own startup they would have gotten without working out of the Dark offices.
It does not sound like they are offering a job. This actually sounds like a really great deal for the right person in the right spot.
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Besides not counting on the rank, do they also trigger some king of red flag?
When I signed up for a new bank account the bank rep had me set up online banking on their computer. When she asked me for my security questions and answers she was baffled when I told her the question selected didn't matter, and the answer was a seemingly random alphanumeric string. I told her that I don't know her, or her machine. For now, I'll be setting it as quick, easy for me to remember, string and I'll change it to a different one when I get home.
> I suggest completely backing out the code in question

This makes sense and we did that. It does not fix the fact that datasets exist where directories have incorrect sizes and files are orphaned because of the bad patch.

> and using a FreeBSD or an illumos based system like SmartOS. That's what I suggest.

While those are fine choices, they are not immune to bugs either. We had a space map corruption bug that we inherited from Illumos several years ago. We also inherited an issue in send/recv from illumos several years ago when hole_birth was introduced. FreeBSD’s TRIM implementation was far from perfect too and likely messed some things up given the long history of bug fixes that it required.

I do not mean to discourage people from using those systems, but it is silly to adopt them because a bug got past joint OpenZFS review and landed in the Linux port first. While they do a good job too, they are not infallible. The major OpenZFS platforms are roughly at parity in terms of their risk for bugs and regressions.

> metadata are not files so they have no business going into lost+found.

This makes no sense. How are orphaned files “metadata”? Why should they not be placed in a lost+found directory?
I am one. I didn't even reply to the many targeted requests I got from recruiters for FB positions.

I'd say at the time several years ago it had more to do with "I don't want to have to re-activate my closed FB just to join the company", never mind having to drink the koolaid.
I wonder how these people are getting access to Atlas?

Every time I follow links to Atlas, the experience always ends with the "Request to join" signup form.
> As it became evident that Facebook's core product might be to blame, engineers working on it reportedly found it increasingly difficult to stand by what it built.

What are they referring to here? That the code base has gotten unwieldy and has become hard to change?
For me, as an early stage startup, my devs are actually doing some customer service. I find it has helped our UI/UX immensly because they have to deal with all the problems directly. I actually think it is a great idea to let your developers spend at least a little bit of time each week (or day) doing customer service. It's amazing how much faster little bugs get fixed and processes get streamlined.
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Okay, so the comment is then that you believe Moore's law no longer holds because for the past two years transistor counts on CPUs have not increased. On that basis, I might agree. Not (as you were stating earlier) about the sizes of the transistors themselves, or about GPUs from 2011 to 2015, or about 512Gb flash chips. None of that applied to this conversation, hence the desire to repeat myself. Thank you for finally clearing that up. Now that we're finally on the same page, I might agree.

Are there no CPUs with higher transistor counts out there? Maybe ones you are not aware of yet?
Yes. I don't think anyone would contend that it's not bad for this to have landed in a stable release, but in fairness, that stable release was about 3 weeks old and ZoL is not yet 1.0. Mistakes like this are unfortunate but they do happen, and that's why many people wait several months before they incorporate new versions.

From the bug report, sounds like ZoL is integrating some new tests, learning how to retrieve orphaned files, and possibly strengthening its hashing mechanisms, so overall this will strengthen ZFS's robustness. Little consolation for those with damaged filesystems, but that's how the cookie crumbles sometimes.
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Exactly! We want lots of feedback and we think this is a mutually beneficial way of doing it.
I don't understand this obsession with productivity. Everywhere around me I see people working hard.

It's unimaginable how hard some people work. If this was not the case our entire edifice of civilization would fall apart in a day. From public services to businesses who continue to run efficiently and make profits because of the hard work of their employees.

Yet there is a whole mythology which sees a special need to glorify productivity and individual genius.

This not only creates a culture of self pressure but worse manufactures an alternative reality of 'slackers', the lazy and unproductive who 'need' to exist simply to justify this glorification. In many ways perpetuating false stereotypes and exaggerating fringe behavior.
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There's really only two things you need to do in order to be really good at basically anything:

1. Care a lot.

2. Work on continuously improving your skills.

That's pretty much it. Yes, there is such a thing as natural ability, but outside of the true outliers, natural ability is a pretty small factor compared to caring a lot and continuous improvement.

And, even if you're an outlier in terms of natural ability, caring a lot and continuously improving your skills is what makes you an outlier among outliers. Conversely, even if you're an outlier in terms of natural ability, someone who's just above average can be better than you by caring a lot and improving their skills.

There are obviously a few counterexamples. I'm sure there are hundreds of sprinters who care more and maybe even work harder than Usain Bolt. But if you're doing anything more complicated than running in a straight line, these factors start to outweigh natural ability really quickly.
Isn't HEIF the payload and HEIC the container? (also C seems to stand for container in HEIC...).

It's confusing how people seem to use HEIF to mean container. And if HEIF is actually the container, then what is the payload in Apple's case, and what exactly is HEIC?
If there are people that would behead other people out of resentment for their success, the last thing I want to do is appease them with basic income paid out of my taxes.

The kind of attitude that rationalizes violence with generalizations based on a single variable like wealth should be penalized, not rewarded with money.

Besides the principle of the matter, which is very important to me, I think acquiescing to predatory and bigoted attitudes, like those held by advocates of class warfare, will result in a more dangerous society in the future.

It is actually less risky in the long run to confront and push back against those types of attitudes wherever they arise, than to give into its demands, in my opinion.
Are files going to have .jpg extension?
That's right - we're not offering a job. Most likely you'll have an incorporated startup and we'll be paying the startup.
Denali has also mostly prohibited private cars including for people staying deep in the park. (Unlike the Zion canyon where you can still drive to the lodge.) The park service has introduced shuttle buses in a number of places. It seems to be their general trend to at least stop building additional parking to meet increases in demand.
We saw the same thing after Snowden, people were leaving the NSA in mass after the average person became aware of the situation.

Data collection is what enabled the Nazis to find Jews and homosexuals, the next mass percution can be more specific than race. Anti-vaxers, pizzagaters, people who don't watch anough TV.

As the world becomes more aware of the dangers of algorithms and AI, Facebook engineers are rethinking their career path.

It's clear to me that Zuckerberg was entirely too willing to abuse his power from the start, he doesn't seem to have good intentions at all.
The whole Hobbit business is severely out of place compared with the rest of the background. It's pastoral 18th century England in a Dark Ages setting.
> Engineers who design things to kill other people. What the actual fuck.

The popular rationalizations are "it will help save lives of armed services" or "prevent the big terrorist attack". Ther are dozens of reasons people make up to convince themselves and others that it's ok.

Judgement as to whether their reasons hold up to the light of day are left as an exercise to reader.
The US is funny. We once had privacy laws that protected your video rental history. And yet very little has been done about protecting privacy except for COPA.
This attitude slows down progress. Perfect is the enemy of good enough.

Instead of telling how this solution is not perfect (no solution is perfect) tell us how this solution is worse than our current situation. The fact is, it's not. It's actually better in a number of ways as other comments have pointed out.
I got cultural training when i worked at a call center in 2002 , but never got any such training since then as a software engineer.
There are a lot of reasons to dislike Facebook, but I don't think their (public) research on the effect of social media on their users is one.

You're exposed to psychological experiments on every large website you use, although typically the psychometrics are more limited to things like "did you click the button that gives us money?" instead of questions like "how does the emotional content of the news feed affect our users well being?"

Also the fact that they made this research public is, in my eyes, a sign of good faith (in this specific case), and an indication that at least some people in the company take the power they have over their users' health seriously.
There are a few reasons including weight, safety, cost, package size, etc. A flywheel that can hold appreciable energy requires high speed or high mass as well as a low drag / bearing friction environment. The passengers must be protected from catastrophic failure of the flywheel by some strong casing ( more weight ) and cant be 'turned off' in an emergency. In race cars where heavy braking and acceleration are the norm and cost is not a factor, light, strong, fast flywheels can do a good job provided they run on active bearings in a low pressure casing. In a heavy road car the additional weight required makes the engine less efficient in terms of mpg, and probably less safe during a crash ( or if similarly safe, much heavier due to casing requirements ). Combine this with the inability to externally charge the flywheel and there arent really any great reasons to use it over electric energy storage
I went to their homepage to find this blurb:

We’re creating a new programming language, tightly integrated with an editor, compiler and PaaS, to allow engineers to build distributed applications using high-level primitives. We abstract away individual machines and low-level distributed systems code to:

* Generate and run scalable infrastructure for you.
* Use APIs as easily as if they were functions.
* Remove the deployment step entirely.

Quite ambitious I must say
This sounds like a good fit for a friend of mine, but he'd need some kind of documentation to even consider showing up. Do you have anything about the platform that you're willing to share?
Right - so questioning "defense" is biting the hand that feeds me? Sorry, I don't follow.
The paper should be accepted in rough form, but publication should be held up pending approval of the data and code.

Or a paper should be published in a probationary form, and not certified (by the journal) until an independent lab replicates the result. A paper that isn't making adequate progress toward replication should be retracted by the publishing journal.
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So excited for JPEG 2000. It's the future!

So excited for JPEG XR. It's the future!

So excited for JPEG XS. It's
Hydroponics comes to mind, replace soil with water, provide nutrients artificially, pretty similar really.
Presumably because they want to learn how well their platform is working directly from you every day by being there in-person - like a three month in-person usability test.
> If nothing goes wrong, within a few years we'll be able to confirm or reject the axion theory of dark matter.

Well, we'll be able to reject the current axion theory of dark matter. I suspect we won't be able to reject all possible ones. (But I don't know for sure.)
It’s the imperative of capitalist production, really. The “Protestant Work Ethic” was coined long after the imperative of productivity had been noticed and written at length about (e.g., see Marx, Proudhon, Smith, et al.).
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I applaud your formulation of this, it sounds like a really great mutually beneficial setup. Very clever.