skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting concept, thanks for providing this link!

We could also apply this terminology to startups: precocial startups are profitable and self-sustaining soon after their launch. Superprecocial startups would be so right away.
The funny part is that Purism was originally going to be based on KDE, then they switched and said it would support both KDE and an in-house environment based on Gnome. Now they seem to be saying it will be based on the Gnome boondoggle.

Can't say this gives me much faith in them. Totally agree about the wastefulness of coding your own UI from scratch.
Have you read him? More, are you even trying to represent his position?

I don't think you have to fully understand or agree with him. In large, I don't. Your paragraph, though, is a gross deliberate misunderstanding of his view. :(
If you're applying for jobs where you'll be sitting a cubicle and doing the work assigned to you (no matter how much experience, creativity, or leadership that may take) trying to lead the interview by going over all the things you'll do is idiotic. Like another commenter said, if you do this in a SWE II-level interview at a Big 4/5, it's probably not going to end the way you want it to.

The article uses football coaches as an example for a reason. This sort of interview tactic works when a major component of your job is leadership and inspiration. If you're judged in whole or part on the success of other people, this probably works. If you're judged based on how many JIRA tickets you close you should probably not be trying to run your interview.
They try to be circumspect about it, like "Hey famous person, I haven't heard about you for a while. What have you been up to?" but it's still pretty obvious what it's about.
If those items are what you judge the business by how would you rate IBM? Firm handshakes, trustworthy rep (sort of) but they never show you the workers.
Fiat and Crypto Are Staggeringly Different: Part 2
Git cheat sheet and version control best practices
>y = x & (x-1)

Couldn't you also do: y = x & (~1) ? I'd think that would be slightly more efficient.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17042703
Some good points that article, but the “ABC” speech in Glengarry Glenn Ross is not a good compass to guide your life.
Decent, modern web browser and web apps that don't consume all of the device's RAM are the only things that I would need to make my Nokia N900 perfect again.
I see three upvoted, only one of which had to do with Google, so, I think what you saw was just a momentary coincidences not some kind of fundamental reflection of HN attitudes.
It's always surprised me that Google took so much longer than Amazon to offer a cloud computing solution. I think one of the reasons is that Amazon's strategy is to sell the infrastructure it builds to offer its own products- whether that's AWS for its technical infrastructure, or its ecommerce platform.

While Google is certainly a strong contender, I wouldn't underestimate that importance of a strong high-level strategy. And Amazon knows this. Commodification of cloud resources is a risk to AWS and thus we see an increase of 'serverless' infrastructure from AWS that tries to differentiate from competitors.
including habitat loss

It's not quite that simple—in many places increasing yields means using less land. In particular, leaving marginal land fallow.

But the factors are pretty complicated, in the US especially dominated by policy: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030691921...

On the other hand, how much land was exhausted and then left fallow? How much was taken over for other uses (such as urbanization)?

And if we hadn't had yield increases, would we be using more land now? Or just eat less meat?

Edit:

While worldwide agricultural land has increased, in the US it decreased from 63% to 51% of the total 1949-2007 according to this survey, which draws from USDA data:

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2012/march/data-feature...
I've been out of college for ten years this month and I can still remember those few students who could not get it through their head that class was not a one-on-one conversation between them and the instructor.
I realize that I'm very much not typical here, but I use a dedicated GPS in my car back from before I had a smartphone. I like Garmin maps a lot better than I like Google Maps; their interface is more functional and their routing sends me down fewer side streets.

For walking around, Google Maps works fairly well in a browser, and it will not take long for someone (possibly even me) to build a dedicated app. Worst case scenario, stick Google Maps inside Electron.

Again, not arguing that would be sufficient for everyone. Just that it would be sufficient for me, and that's good enough. I don't need to care about a general solution if I'm buying a device for myself.
The overworked and underpaid warehouse workers are demanding it too - plenty of them are parents or students or have to manage second jobs to make ends meet, despite the instability of Amazon's penchant for unscheduled arbitrary extra time, or "involuntary VTO."

Warehouse work wouldn't be quite so difficult if it weren't designed to come as close as legally possible to breaking people. 8 hour shifts with a overtime caps beyond the 60 hour limit, actual 30 minute breaks and regular task rotation to reduce repetitive strain injury and boredom, that sort of thing.

I'm guessing the concerns of the highly paid Amazonians don't get dismissed with "because business needs," though.
That doesn't sound plausible; what sort of service would YOLO be if a popular website using it resulted in an API ban?
"2018...2018"

Obviously you made a typo there. I was just poking fun and wondering what time frame you really had in mind.
More sandboxing![0]

$ firejail --appimage Firefox-*.AppImage

For details read Firejail's docs.[1, 2]

[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/994938745072832512

[1] https://firejail.wordpress.com/documentation-2/appimage-supp...

[2] https://firejail.wordpress.com/documentation-2/firefox-guide...
I think that working full-time from home is hard in a firm where the leadership is at the HQ. If everyone is remote you no longer miss out by working from home.
All the countries that have been to the moon, and more!
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Use an STM channel or some other lock and put your messages for the shared resource (the terminal ui) through that channel. There’s no way to automatically figure out what granularity the programmer expects from the output so make them specify. Haskell makes specifying that staggeringly easy compared to other languages.
Polymer 3.0 released at I/O, accelerates PWA development
Yes it will be paid back. By generations to come. While the corporations who invented/introduced/pushed the stuff and got governments to support them by adjusting laws to allow doing it keep flourishing...
Nothing wrong with curating sources, is there? Yes, in large he is sharing his learnings from studying old sources. Mostly religious. Not all Christian. But mostly.

I think he would be delighted if he got more people to go to the sources. I could, of course, be wrong.
A certificate system could work, but really all that's needed is traceability.

If I complain about a call, that should be trackable to the origination carrier and account, and if either one gets too many complaints, it gets thrown off the network (and other penalties).
Beautiful. Just a thing, the background music sounds too louder than the voice.
I'm interested in further defining "performance" here. The dictionary gives two distinct definitions. It could mean "capability to carry out or accomplish", which is great, and I'd argue what companies should be hiring for and what candidates should be demonstrating. You want the person who knows their stuff, is competent, and can carry out the job you're hiring for. "Performance" could also mean "presentation to an audience", which is, sadly, what more and more companies seem to expect/reward during the engineering interview process. We're all told you need to be in sales pitch mode to get through interviews for jobs that often have nothing to do with sales or persuasion. Companies on one hand, complain that there are so many incompetent candidates to filter out in the hiring funnel, yet their interview process gives talkers more of an edge over do-ers!

It's like wanting to hire people to sit down and compose music, but everything in your hiring process is selecting for showmanship and stage performing instead.
It also depends heavily on what kind of role you're applying for. If you're applying as a product manager, then sure, present your big audacious vision on how you're going to transform XYZ widget. Even if they don't actually do it, it's a good way to showcase your capabilities.

But if you're applying as a software engineer? What exactly are you going to present then? Nobody wants to work with a guy who's never seen the code base, but wants to rewrite the whole thing in Rust.
If I had to guess, the selling points are: promises + fetch syntax + tiny size.
yep, you hit the nail on the head here.

often, the real evidence is extremely clear, but there is enough obfuscation created by those with an agenda to make things look inconclusive.

yet another example is polygraph tests and similar more modern devices.

all of the independent evidence says they're trash. but "the jury is still out" because there are a slew of very low quality studies performed by people hired by the companies who make the devices.

anyhow, we've known that monsanto was lying about this for quite some time, and we have also known that they have corrupted the parts of the US government responsible for regulating their behavior for quite some time.

it isn't okay for pesticides to be in our food.
Having worked for both remote and "butts in seats" companies, allow me to refute your rebuttal

> If your culture is already remote, or shifting towards it, then it's a non issue.

What does this even mean? How is it a non issue? You are vastly underestimating the nuance required to get from A to B, mainly, from in-person to remote capable.

> This works just as well remotely. In fact I would argue it's even more efficient, one can take advantage of super quiet places in a private video chat.

This is opinion. It works for some people, but for others, part of communication is body language and being near someone. It's actually science. These "non-verbal" communication indicators are not as well communicated through a telepresence.

> In person meetings, stand ups, team sync meetings are 90% waste of time.

Sounds like some more opinion, as well as something that can greatly vary from company to company.

> Short meetings can be performed quickly in a video call.

HA! Have you seen the sorry state of affairs that is telepresence software?

> Again, the point is passing along information, whether it's done in person or online makes little difference. In fact if it's done online, I would argue it's more efficient because is a digital trail that one can trace back

Again, sounds like you are projecting your own personal opinions as some sort of fact. The digital trail point is a separate issue, and a valid one, the rest of the point is opinion.

> If your team members fail to collaborate remotely, they will fail to do so in person. Remote has nothing to do with it.

Opinion.

> Partners and clients don't care how "vibrant" your team is.They care about how good your product is. This point makes no sense

Oh, oh yes they do. You obviously have not been in a meeting where you have one of the big 4 Telco's in your building (I have), and you are giving them a tour, and they are impressed by your "amazing work culture" (your buildings and office are just as much as "marketing" as your sales pitch -- some people seem to miss this point), then you land that multi-million dollar contract, making it all worth it.

> This is hands on SV startup mentally.

Having never worked in SV myself, this seems like again, more opinion, and varies from place to place.

> The point I'm trying to get across is this: It all depends [ on the organization structure.]

You are very right -- it most certainly, almost always, depends.
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Bhagavadgita

Act now to establish Dharma.
Its mostly well accepted in plant breeding circles that the improvement in crop yields in North America in the last ~30-40 years can be 66% attributed to genetic progress (i.e higher yield, more disease/pest tolerance, better adaptation, etc.) and the remaining 33% can be attributed to agronomic factors (i.e earlier planting, better/more precise equipment, better soil/nutrient management, etc.)
DAMN RIGHT, Tina!
And it's one thing to say you want to build culture, but it's another thing to actually do it - and do it effectively.
Take a note from Gary Vee and talk to your people for 10 minutes every quarter and give a shit. It WORKS.
Brings to mind a great song by Nick Lowe:

https://genius.com/Nick-lowe-who-was-that-man-lyrics

Can't find a video on youtube...
Better serving Multicultural communities
"E.g. Smoke on the Water, Sunshine of your Love, and Fight for your Right (to Party) all sound similar because they use the Blues Scale."

Is there a good YouTube video introducing some of these concepts using popular songs?
Ask HN: Work from home (WFH) setup
I have seen stories like these - Productivity boost of working from home (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17045308) multiple times recently. However, my experience was quite contrary. I worked from home for almost 1.5 years and it was full of ups and downs, mostly downs. Multiple distractions (kids [3yr and 8yr], wife, guests, network disruptions, etc) along with home office setup issues (chair, workstation, monitor height, etc) were always nagging every week.

However, every case is unique and mine was very specific to me. So, wanted to ask those for whom WFH eventually worked out, what is your setup? Chair, desk, monitor, IP phone, headphone, "do not enter" boards, other hardware setup? Timings, schedule, kanban, scrum, GTD, meditation, long walks, other discipline rules? Any tips/tricks which boosted your productivity?
> Also would you mind expanding on how he uses science to give new meaning to the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of Western society?

The first lecture should give you a good idea, but if you're looking for discussion, I'd be willing to have it but we'd be here for hours. We'd have to get into philosophy and define terms like "science", "God", "society", etc. We'd then have to explore psychology and models of consciousness, like Jungian archetypes and Freud's subconscious. We could also cover biology and how some substances trigger spiritual experiences that have positive life-changing effects. All the while, we could relate these discussions to the stories of the Bible or chapters of the Tao Te Ching and why they are both at the very least profound and contagious.
Interesting that I couldn't find any golang content
The problem with using math to address this is that it very subtly ends up begging the question. Math has an answer to the trilemma: Math is based on axioms. The question of whether math corresponds to anything in the real world is a separate question from the mathematics itself. Godel's theorem is thus based on mathematical axioms, but the trilemma questions the axioms themselves. No structure built on the axioms can prove the axiomatic formulation is correct. Godel's incompleteness is an important part of math history about how that was finally proved so hard that modern mathematics now deeply accepts that non-uniqueness of axioms, but again, this is all happening at a level too high to help us with the trilemma.

So no, the trilemma can not be solved or even particularly refined by feeding it to mathematics. "From whence mathematics?", it asks.

If you are going to play philosophical games with the trilemma, a better approach is simply to feed it to itself. If the trilemma is true, then we can't be confident that we've properly read it, because it cuts away the foundation we are using to communicate. If any of us have successfully extracted even a portion of understanding about the trilemma from the reading of this text, we must be sharing a certain very basic amount of rationality to get that far, even if we can't nail down where that rationality came from exactly. You could then proceed to say that this basic shared rationality is de facto usable as a foundation. But that still doesn't answer the question of where it comes from.
'Symphony of the Seas', the largest and most ambitious cruise ship ever built
Writing for a Mass Audience as an Academic
I've permanently turned on Do Not Disturb and configured it to allow calls from people on my contact list. This won't work for everyone but it works really well for me. I no longer get unwanted calls. People I don't have in my contact list are forced to leave a message without my phone ever ringing.
Nonadaptive buildup of mutational load in humans over the past 40,000 years
Laws of Tech Economics: Commoditize Your Complement
Oooooh, good one.
It's hard to let go of your baby! LOL! And even I'm learning, and have heard other founders say, "I can't work IN my business for it to grow, I have to work ON my business". And it does suck a little that you can't do the "fun" work, but it's pretty awesome to see your baby growing and thriving.
I just finished the audible of this. The emotion in his voice for some of the more laden sections was tough. I confess I was almost in treats for the section of his daughter's health.

I have not reformulated my understanding of the rules. Definitely plan to.

Regardless, I second all you put here. Good luck on your decisions!
I think the correct approach is economic, not technical. Make a rule that, if you get a spoofed call, then your telco owes you $100, not subject to any arbitration clause or other contractual waiver. Give a way out to avoid actually killing the telcos: annual penalties are limited to a few percent of annual gross revenues.

The telcos will find a technical solution real fast.
Undervalued relative to effort, correctly valued relative to replaceability.
Symantec Discloses Internal Investigation
Intel Facing Eight New Spectre-Like Security Flaws
The Investor Stewardship Group’s Governance Principles
Whoever does own the number should be granting permission to that specific organization then.
Cyborg Tongues
Mining passwords from dozens of public #Trello boards
Member’s-eye View of Inbound’s Sinking Ship
I find the case of Slack super interesting here, they were a completely undifferentiated and uninteresting product with quite a few competitors until they started bulking up on capital and out marketing and out spending their competition. In this case, investment is entirely what made the company.

I still basically think Slack's business sucks long term because Microsoft and Google are basically just throwing Slack into their office suites for free, but their current successful is entirely built on just having more capital than competitors.
Not neccessarily anything wrong with him. It's just our tendency to flock to these figures to the answers of our problems, and perhaps they fix a couple people for a five year span, but a new generation washes in, and another guy will get his shine. Information doesn't fix anything. He's just cashing in.
In the Long Run, Fear of Short-Termism Is Mostly Bunk
...no. It's totally fine to have a decentralized network with a subset of the nodes doing more work depending on what their users want. TOR works like that, PopcornTime did that, etc. Hell, the original Skype network did that to. Gnutella was pretty asymmetric as well.

> rapidly diminishing number of desktop nodes

Do you have any data on that? Or are you counting laptops here as mobile for some reason?
After working for so many years, I only remember the basic ones.

Several of the examples in the article are the basic ones, though: test, set, clear or toggle a bit. You might not remember the trick for finding the least significant 1 bit, but it's not as if testing whether a number is odd or even is some sort of arcane knowledge. Anyone who has to resort to Google or Stack Overflow for something so simple is going to struggle in large parts of the programming industry.
Meanwhile, Vitamin D levels keep dropping:

http://www.newhope.com/research-and-insights/vitamin-d-level...
Didn't watch the Tedx talk, sadly the article doesn't mention what "productivity" is and how it was measured.
If you're on Linux >= 3.10, I believe Chrome should use the namespaces sandbox rather than the (privileged) setuid sandbox.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...
>Parents would be almost seen as negligent if their children weren't supervised within earshot.

One asshole calling CPS will put a little voice in the back of everyone's head telling them to be slightly more restrictive with their kids.

>art of me struggles to believe that kids don't want to play outside unsupervised – at least once they're outside.

Kid's don't want to play outside in the first place. They'd rather watch TV or whatever. If you make them play outside they'll stop whining and do it in fairly short order.

Combine the up front whining with the little voice and you see why "go play outside until mommy is done making dinner" is much less common.
You're going to need to be more specific. Linux does indeed have a feature called "capabilities", so it's not clear exactly which OS feature you are taking about.
Hi, yes its a concern for me and I don't feel comfortable scooting past the police. Still, I've never been stopped. As for hitting someone, when there is a crowd of people, you can go a lot slower than a bike. It's quite easy to scoot at walking speed. Like the article said, it is super easy to hop on and hop off a scooter, unlike a bike. So, when there are pedestrians around, I just hop off and walk for a bit.

I have not had anyone step out in front of me yet. People tend to notice you because you are high up. I use back roads and cycle paths so I guess the risk is less.

The model is ETWOW Booster S2 500W. The range is supposed to be 30km (top speed 30km/h) but I I weigh 87km and my top speed is more like 25km/h unless the wind is in my favor. I get 18km in summer and 6km in winter on a charge. I thought the battery was deteriorating but now that its warming up I get my long range back.

It doesn't completely die when running low but goes into eco mode which is annoying because you might was well walk it is so slow. It also keeps disabling cruise control too. I would say that they could improve the firmware but overall the scooter is excellent.
Unfortunately that is true, and it's really bad for accessibility too (using links as buttons, but not coding the keyboard events that are used on buttons, for example.
I went to pick up my son at University studying CS recently.

He had replaced Win 10 on his tower with Ubuntu and was writing a pretty complex program in C++. Doing some AI/ML primitives.

Thought to myself I am old yet went to the same University and would have been coding in C++ on Unix (Ultrix or OSF or Solaris) at that point in my life.

How in the world have we not moved on?

BTW, his code was so, so pretty. Mine would have been ugly. Kids are far better coders than we were 30 years ago. I was crazy proud.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Absolute power hates when it is challenged in any shape or form