skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the idea that we want to find the smartest people we can find, and hire them. Then tell them they need to drive in to an office every day and fill a seat, on the .01% chance that a client might drop in.

Yeah that makes way more sense than just saying, "hey a client is coming in on Thursday, everyone assume your positions! And for FSM's sake, look like you're collaborating!"
+1 the engineer and biologist in me can appreciate this
Russaia Does this, China does this. The US should not do this. Its not what the west is.
Govt Mandated backdoors are for non western countries.
High-Throughput Architecture of List Successive Cancellation Polar Codes Decoder
This comment seems like a great microcosm of remote work discussions on Hacker News. You didn't dismiss remote working in a thread about it, but you tried (maybe imperfectly) to suggest times when it would be a good idea to not work remotely. It is not being received well!

In response most commenters are criticizing your point by focusing on whether or not it is technically possible to achieve any of those things while working remotely, which is not your point. One person has even accused you of responding to data with anecdotes and opinion, and another has called your comment BS. Yikes!

Remote work kinda seems like a religious topic now. If you don't provide an airtight, empirical justification for why you're not in favor of remote work, you'll hear from people talking your ear off about how everything you suggested is absolutely possible in a remote setting. "But you can mentor someone remotely!", or "You can collaborate super effectively on a remote team if you just do ..." People are talking about "valid reasons" to be working in an office instead of working remotely, as though remote working needs to be the default consideration. There's a disconnect here.

To conclude this pretentious meta-analysis of mine: I've worked remotely for four or five years now. I like it, it's cool. I can pick up groceries on a Monday when no one is at the store! But companies shouldn't have to defend why they don't support remote work. Universal telecommuting does not need to be the next step in our evolution as a society, and that's okay.
Hardware languages such as Verilog work this way natively.
Sigh.

Where have I said any such thing ?
Exploiting the DRAM Microarchitecture to Increase Memory-Level Parallelism
> It bothers me when "goto" is assumed to be "a maligned language construct".

That's a statement about what people say about the feature, not about the feature itself. The subtlety here is that malign as an adjective refers to something evil or ill-intentioned, while as a verb it means something closer to slander or defame. It's frequently (mostly?) used in a context of skepticism regarding the claims in question, especially in the construction much-maligned.
Proven Ways Freelancers Can Maintain a Strong Client Pipeline
A lot of this information comes from studies affiliated with industry:

A 2011 analysis by Diels et al., reviewed 94 peer-reviewed studies pertaining to GMO safety to assess whether conflicts of interest correlated with outcomes that cast GMOs in a favorable light. They found that financial conflict of interest was not associated with study outcome (p = 0.631) while author affiliation to industry (i.e., a professional conflict of interest) was strongly associated with study outcome (p < 0.001).[129] Of the 94 studies that were analyzed, 52% did not declare funding. 10% of the studies were categorized as "undetermined" with regard to professional conflict of interest. Of the 43 studies with financial or professional conflicts of interest, 28 studies were compositional studies. According to Marc Brazeau, an association between professional conflict of interest and positive study outcomes can be skewed because companies typically contract with independent researchers to perform follow-up studies only after in-house research uncovers favorable results. In-house research that uncovers negative or unfavorable results for a novel GMO is generally not further pursued.[130]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food_cont...

This is one very good reason why the motivation of industry should be examined carefully. If their motivation is profit and they are allowed to optimise for that alone without any oversight or regulation AND on top of that they are the keepers and dispensers of information about their product, what chance does the general public have to make an accurate assessment of their product's safety?
5 Simple Steps to Install Android P Beta on Google Pixel 2/XL
I've been following Sacha Dunable from Dunable Guitars for a while and I've been really impressed with the kind of guitars he's been putting out recently.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg4uUiJlbct/?hl=en&taken-by=duna...
Reducing DRAM Refresh Overheads with Refresh-Access Parallelism
Actually, lisp varian can be also a:

(mapcar #'string-downcase '("Hello" "world!"))
How to setup a Mac for developing?
I was recently offer a Macbook at my work, so since I never had used a Mac before I decided to give it a go.
Are there any good posts regarding how to set up my development environment?
Sorry, the change has been made internally but publishing it would violate our internal legal policies.
Growing up in the 80s I had to deal with so much violence and abuse that I didn't get much play time. But I got my first writing published in an academic journal at 14. The violance, abuse and chaos around me caused me to hyper focus on reading and writing as an escape. I wasn't required to read 300 pages a day but the library was the only space I found free from violence as a child in the 80s.
The first ~150 hours of Handmade Hero are great if you are interested in learning some neat C tricks (like hot reloading, SIMD, etc) and/or low level gamedev basics

https://handmadehero.org/
I notice this report doesn't give the specifics. When they worked remotely, did they still have access to easy, painless, video conferencing? We have remote workers; we oftentimes broadcast them in a Bluejeans conference room on a TV near the people working on site, and it really changes the dynamic.

Similarly, I'd be interested in a survey after the fact to determine a person's social life outside of work. If people have an active one apart from work, I suspect 100% remote is more attractive. When a person's main sources of social contact are at work, I can see that taking a major hit; just water cooler chatter and shared lunches and things would be missed more if you don't have regular social activities.
I agree but I found a mixed strategy worked best. Monday, Friday in the office. Wednesday, Thursday out.

That way I can get a feel for the week on Monday and a retrospective on Friday. Plus Fridays is usually the "Culture Building" day (taking it easy, maybe having a beer in the afternoon, playing some board games). And Monday's are great to catch up with the team after the weekend, bring donuts or some snacks in the morning.

The middle of the week is when I can just work and be productive, as a developer.

Obviously this isn't a strict schedule. It's just definitely easier for me to pump out my own work at my pace, i.e. "Maker's Schedule". And there is absolutely value in being in the office with the team as you stated above.
I can see the appeal of this, my kids are too young to roam yet, though. I'd like a smaller form factor though, like a wrist band.
ECI-Cache: I/O Caching Scheme for Virtualized Platforms
Technology Fridays: Deep Dive into Google ML Kit
The mistake bezos makes is that his work is extremely rewarding, creative, fun.

This is maybe only the case for 0.5% of all employees in general. The other 99.5% need a good balance, because work isn't as rewarding, sometimes strenuous, boring, annoying.
Restricted delivery doesn’t do identity verification. I can say I’m John Doe and sign as John Doe and receive the package (I’ve received restricted delivery packages before and the carrier in multiple different states never asked for ID). I’ve also sent restricted delivery mail before and never had my identity checked as OP claimed.

Edit:
Per Stamps.com [0], the USPS “may” require ID on delivery, but again, in my experience, I’ve never been asked once.

[0] https://stamps.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/157/~/re...
Ask HN: Where did you find your “cult”? (As described in Zero to One by Thiel)
Just finished reading Zero To One by Peter Thiel and there's an interesting chapter where he talks about how the best kind of startups almost resembles a cult.

The idea is that a culture of total dedication that looks almost crazy from the outside is required to make a startup succeed. In exchange, "members" experience strong feelings of belonging.

I find this idea fascinating because in my 30 years of life I still haven't found a place where I "belong".

So HN: where did you find your place of belonging? Was it in a new city/country? University? A hackathon? A meetup of some kind?
Nature news article on the paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04992-7
Exploiting Application-Level Memory Error Tolerance
You can drive safely and still get in a traffic accident, and while you might not be at fault, you weren't supposed to be on the road on a vehicle that has the legal status of a toy, insured or not.
From people who shorted the stocks.
I think when I was younger, I wanted to believe in it. But, yes, now that I'm older and I reflect, I don't think I've ever been part of one that wasn't fake.

There are the owners/middle management/laborers. To trick the laborers into thinking that they are part of something is pretty brilliant though.
Childish Gambino – This Is America (Official Video) – REACTION
So, if you take any notice of anything on this web site, you will see that even after the page has loaded, it keeps on making loads of network connections to all sorts of servers. For ever. This is now a browser-hostile web site.
It's long ago been observed that support doesn't scale. Small companies have an edge over large companies and it is a real pity that even Stripe seems to fall to this rule, though two comments in this vein do not yet indicate that the line has already been crossed it is source for worry. Anybody that ever manages to crack 'support at scale' will run circles around the competition.
> To provide mentorship to junior staff.

good luck doing that/pair programming for whole day via skype. yes it can be done, in an ineffective and frustrating way. rest of the points can be also be discussed in similar fashion
Before I had kids of my own, I shared your view. After having kids, I can easily see how people become irrational about child safety. I fight it myself, constantly. I think a lot of it is due the sensational, salacious media coverage the bad stuff, makes it seem more prominent now than in the past.
>So there is more than enough time for evolution to occur, even on a drastically shortened earth timeline.

Curious to know how this is known as a fact?

Also, I realize that in the fossil record we see "jumps" from one species to another in a relatively short time but is that how the underlying changes in DNA actually occurs? If so, how? Everything I've learned suggests that DNA modifications are made under some stochastic process.
New Technique Allows Hijacking of Computers/Servers Remotely Over the Network
They were at Waterloo, my alma matter. CS was far more mathematical and EE had a much broader basis in physics. Comp Eng was the middle ground with overlap on both.
The annoyance of this for me could be a simple fix. If the number is not in my iPhone contacts, send them straight to voicemail.
Decoupling GPU Programming Models from Resource Management
The Supreme Yoga: A New Translation of the Yoga Vasistha by Swami Venkatesananda. The content is very dense. Even the author recommends reading one page per day. It helped me in bringing a very different perspective to life and reality. I highly recommend it amongst my circle.

p.s: The content has nothing to do with religion or yoga or mythology. Just go with the flow.
You are making the unwarranted assumption that Python isn't already used in the company.
Styling buttons in CSS (with accessibility in mind)
The impact on livable land is a good point, though we also should probably consider how many lives we're willing to sacrifice for said land.

If swapping out nuclear for photovoltaics saves 100 km^2 of land but costs one more life on average, are we willing to pay that? Probably. I imagine that most people wouldn't feel comfortable paying 1 million lives though.

Looking a the discussion here,

https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy,

it looks like nuclear saves such a large number of lives that the land cost has probably been worth it.

Flipping the question around, non-nuclear energy sources also have a land cost. It'd be interesting to compare the ecological and land habitability impacts of other energy sources as well.
From Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson, 1992):

“My question is, you are covered from head to toe in protective padding. So why don’t you wear a helmet?”

“The suit’s got a cervical airbag that blows up when you fall off the board, so you can bounce on your head. Besides, helmets feel weird. They say it doesn’t affect your hearing, but it does.”

“You use your hearing quite a bit in your line of work?”

“Definitely, yeah.”

Uncle Enzo is nodding. “That’s what I suspected. We felt the same way, the boys in my unit in Vietnam.”

[…]

“Our job was to go through the jungle making trouble for some slippery gentlemen carrying guns bigger than they were. Stealthy guys. And we depended on our hearing, too—just like you do. And you know what? We never wore helmets.”

“Same reason?”

“Exactly. Even though they didn’t cover the ears, really, they did something to your sense of hearing. I still think I owe my life to going bareheaded.”
Valve Is Paying Hackers to Discover Security Flaws in Steam
As far as I understand, it's a site criticizing HN, by summarizing in a satirical tone the discussion on some of the top stories.

The about page:

About this webshit
[...]
Hacker News is an echo chamber focusing on computer posturing and self-aggrandizement. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and sociopath incubator, Y Combinator.
In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's ineffectual curiosity".

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13759706
"If you want to avoid challenges in life and just get a job so you can retire 50 years later with nothing remarkable in between, that strategy works."
I find this to be hyperbolic. Compliance and presenting yourself as having more value than the person next you have are not deterministic in "avoiding challenges in life" and not accomplishing anything remarkable. I don't want to run a startup. I want to put my head down and get shit done. Does that mean I don't want challenges in life? No. Does that mean I won't accomplish anything remarkable. No. One should be aware that compliance and process has its place.

One could argue that the special ops schools (like BUDS) drills into you that you are but one of many and to be compliant (even thought BUDS itself is an audition) and that you are a commodity. Please tell me that Navy Seals avoid challenges and accomplish nothing remarkable.
When in the Process Should You User Test? A Case Study
I feel like a better, formal proof of this concept is Gödel Incompleteness, given this lemma, if true, would in turn invalidate itself.
Read the first link again. That splits out hydro and shows other renewables are (as I said) about to surpass nuclear.
I also get robocalls all the time, and hardly got any till about a year ago. What changed?
You will never be blindsided by #1. Because if the person finds it will be more complex than initial estimates they will tell you ASAP. If they don't, the problem is #4, not #1.

You -should- never be blindsided by #3. Because that's why daily standups exist. That's why tasking out a story. If the person is going down blind alleys, the -process- should be what brings that out, via daily standup or whatever. No amount of colocation will fix that, only explicit communication. You're not going to passively observe someone going down blind alleys.
An approach to better quality performant front end code
LearnCode.academy's Redux playlist is really good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w-oQ-i1XB8&list=PLoYCgNOIyG...
Yes that sounds like the 80s.
I would say many things are more structured nowadays. And maybe it's normal, since we are exposed to more information and a more "complex" world. This can definitely be an issue, yes. But your comment also reminded me from a talk I attended to a few years ago at a community center where they discussed how it seems like streets nowadays don't play the role of "public spaces" anymore. Now they are spaces for transit. This might hint at a bigger problem, but to me it explains this change of mentality. Today we see a kid on the street without supervision, and we often think "where are his parents?", instead of "he's just playing around". And it's kind of a vicious circle in social perception. If there are no kids around on the streets, I'm less likely to let my own kids wander outside in a "uncontrolled" environment.
Iran is sitting on enormous oil reserves, development of which could seriously depress the prices.
I would never, ever use a chainsaw without a full-face shield and kevlar chaps or trousers. No matter how skilled the operator, there is always a risk of kickback. With just a slight error in bar placement, the saw will violently launch itself towards the operator. A kickback can cause life-changing injuries in a fraction of a second. Chainsaw protective clothing is hot and heavy, but it's the only good option for protecting yourself against kickback.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHdgztQGmmQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBEUYs6I6vU?t=1m29s
Elon Musk on Instagram: "First Boring Company tunnel under LA almost done!"
There appear to be quite a few flags on the article pushing it down. The ratio of upvotes to age compared to the rest of the front page is a strong indicator of this.

Also: lots of HN'ers work at google. It would be a nice rule if people were told to abstain from using their flagging privileges when the company they work at is the subject of a thread.
We should teach abduction and Bayesian reasoning as part of a normal education. Epistemology overall is more of a collegiate/post-grad subject, but we have to provide some kind of foundation in epistemology. Otherwise we end up with a lot of kids who have tied their self-worth to knowing "science", but it's more of a slogan and catch-all phrase than something they can continue to build on. (Aside from the actual practice of whatever scientific field they end up in. Even then, we see in several fields epistemological problems rearing their heads -- and the leading practitioners clueless about what to do about it. Usually re-inventing the wheel in some ad-hoc fashion.)
https://socialcoder.org/Home/Index is a good place to start.
The free MariaDB is about to introduce system versioning: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/system-versioned-tables/
Flags are a factor, and function as downvotes on articles but are much heavier weighted than upvotes.
Do you have a source that’s not an offhand quote suggesting that carriers make any significant revenue from robo calls? Also, most robo calls are made through VoIP services. Aren’t they the one with the most financial incentive to keep robocalls going, and the ones that could most easily detect them? By the time the robocall gets to a carrier’s network, its already been mixed with tons of legitimate traffic from VoIP users.
Why Tech Company IPOs Can Be So Overvalued
You mean the Done bell only went off now?
I don't think there is any law requiring you to have a mailbox, if you don't want to receive mail?
I think the point was to watch videos exclusively, not just to run something in the background.
I've done interviews where I was asked to come prepared to present some code I'd written (either a homework problem or some open-source work). I found it a nice approach: they got to see how I'd explain code to a colleague and what aspects I focused on. I could take time to tailor my presentation to the company if there were things I thought they'd find more important.

The downsides are that it's harder on people who don't like to put on a performance and it's harder to come up with objective-seeming measures between candidates.
I would add Teuffel to that list, too: http://www.teuffel.com/
You may have missed the recent article that made the front page about buses. But the idea is, if you put them in dedicated center lanes, provide civilian walk paths over the street, and give them priority over other vehicle traffic, then people treat them more like subways. Several cities in Latin America do this, the one I'm familiar with and used was TransMilenio in Bogota.

Of course, at this point, you might as well use streetcars. But I think buses are still cheaper at that point.
Activist Jailed for Facebook Posts; FBI Tracks Him as “Black Identity Extremist”
Yes, the US, Liberia and Myanmar.
Ask HN: How do you create/gather a community like HN?
I also check his blog from time to time, the quality of his rants have declined imo. Also he tended to beat the same drum, a bit myopic.
An alternative possibility is that they actually do fit an existing category (some kind of moped) but fail to meet the safety standards of that category.
[Speaking about EU] You most probably won't get in any trouble in that case, a moderate fine is the most extreme case, you definitely will not be liable for anything.
Can we please get phone OEMs to enable a feature to only allow calls from people in our contact list? Baked in. No apps that scrape your phone book to do it. If you're not on my contact list, go to voicemail and I'll decide if you're legit. And have an option like DND where if you call in rapid succession then I'll pick up.
I'm sure those are contributing factors. However, in the 90s I had video consoles and satellite TV, but still spent a lot of time unsupervised playing football (soccer). TV and video games were for rainy, cold days.

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

My suspicion is that children just aren't allowed to be out alone as much today.

Parents would be almost seen as negligent if their children weren't supervised within earshot. Not in all cases of course, but my guess would be the parents have changed far quicker than children or the distractions available to them.
This is clearly a hoax - there are no UML diagrams there (not up to date with the code - to be clear about this).
LUT-Lock:LUT-Based Logic Obfuscation for FPGA-Bitstream and ASIC Protection
The evidence is very mixed. Wearing a helmet does significantly reduce the risk of head injury in a crash, but riders who wear helmets appear to be at significantly higher risk of crashing. This may simply be selection bias (frequent cyclists engaged in risky types of riding are more likely to wear helmets) or it may represent risk-compensation by cyclists or other road users.

http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1052.html
The Path of the Just
That's great for you, but "I was surrounded by so much violence that I published my first academic article as a teenager" definitely isn't the typical case.
[video] officer choking and slamming a black man outside Waffle House
I found it simply fascinating when I learned that Blue Wildebeests are born knowing how to stand within minutes of their birth, and within a day can outrun adult hyenas:

"Extremely precocial species are called "superprecocial". Examples are the Megapode birds, which have full flight feathers and which, in some species, can fly on the same day they hatch from their eggs. Another example is the Blue Wildebeest, whose calves can stand within an average of six minutes from birth and walk within thirty minutes; they can outrun a hyena within a day."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precocial