skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can find them out without Google Analytics. Careful study of your HTTP logs or tools like Piwik are also suitable.
As someone else above asked: how do you measure productivity?

Also I think it's an simplification to think that it's all about productivity. I guess at Intel as everywhere managers tend to become younger on average because senior management thinks it's the only way to face the future challenges of digitalisation or whatever.

Then you have the grumpy senior like myself who doesn't believe in the n-th iteration of some web framework or microservices or containers. So that guy becomes deadweight to dispose of.
This is a concept often poorly understood in basic cooling design. Even without sweat, if your AC vent is blowing directly on you the temperature it is at needs to be vastly different than that of air being using to more actively cool the entire room.

This is often a key difference between Car and Room AC systems.

There’s also a surprising gradient based on how consistent the temperature is top to bottom (and you get into trouble with this on reverse cycle AC systems)

And lastly it’s easy to ignore radiant heat from both walls/ceilings as well as even large monitors.

It all plays in together.
On the other hand pulling 50h+ on a shoestring budget is exactly how many startups grew into successes we know today. If that's problematic, one shouldn't work at a startup: it's part of risk-reward equation.

But some want the potential (low probability but out-sized) upside at no risk and strain.
That’s so incredibly evil that I love it :)
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Link to the plain text version:

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=613394086

The redirect goes to the main page if the "disagree" to tracking link is clicked.
Jessica Livingston and Paul Graham seem to have done okay with that route.
Maybe I did miss your point, I'm sorry. Also this is not a throwaway, I'm simply a long-time lurker.
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TL;DR filter feeders concentrate chemicals, and we have very sensitive equipment.

Clickbait kid science.
Never tried it under wine. Will have a go at that.
certain proteins and animal based nutrients are important during gestation and early-life, but, from my humble opinon, are only necessary in much smaller quantities, after we reach a certain level of maturity.

I have a plant and cheese based diet, eating meat once or twice every one or two weeks, and even then in small quantities. I practice cycling every day, at 40kmph average at about 50-100km per day. My staple food is oats with peanut butter, cane sugar (rapadura/panela) and cinnamon.

Last month a friend moved in with me, and has taken charge of the meals. Since then I've begun eating meat a lot more. Explosive strength is a little better, but I have noticed a considerable decline in the oxygen uptake in my muscles, to the tune of -40-50%. It also seems to be harder to get into the ketogenic burn cycle.

Admitedly, i'm also riding less than usual (30-40km/day), but this isn't the first time i've taken a break and i've never experienced muscle wasting like this before.
Python's YAML libraries come with a safe_load function that disables !! commands, so it can be used without loading arbitrary objects.
The Notch blog post you linked mentions Euclideon’s “Infinite Detail”. I’ve looked into that over the years (but don’t know anything about Atomontage), so will post my thoughts here.

My understanding of Euclideon (based on the snippets of information, interviews and videos they’ve released) is that the primary technology they created is an on disk spatial index and streaming system that allows only the data that is on screen to be streamed from disk, allowing them to have very large and complex datasets on disk while still rendering in real time. The “infinite detail” branding was referring to that the detail possible is only limited by disk space, not by rendering performance.

That sounds pretty cool to me and not a scam as many people think.

However, they’ve never been particularly convincing in the applicability to games or even that the quality gains are as high as they claim. They kept touting how easy it is for artists since they can 3d scan real objects and use that scan data almost directly (but many polygonal models start as scans too, so...), but I’ve never been impressed with the quality of their scans or demos. Their highest quality demos are nice (a lot nicer than their earlier demos which, to me, honestly looked like it was from the 90s) but they still don’t compare to modern games in my opinion. They also have not proven that it works well for animations or dynamic lighting and shadowing. At least, they’ve never demonstrated it.

They did use their tech for their Holoverse[0] games, but, again, the quality of the actual graphics wasn’t particularly impressive in my opinion (certainly the animations seemed stiff and boring) and from reviews I’ve seen on YouTube, VR headsets provide a better experience and superior quality.

So, my verdict is that they do have some novel and interesting tech, but they haven’t been able to get anywhere close to the quality claims that they’ve made and I certainly wouldn’t bet on them over more traditional modern graphics.

[0] https://www.holoverse.com.au
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Decentralized infrastructure with federated transactions describes many successful technologies such as email.

I think federation is just a design tool meant to solve a specific problem, much like decentralization, programming language choice, data structures, etc are more concrete software engineering ones.
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I will say it: Decentralization has definitely been overhyped by certain fringes - that doesn't mean throw the baby out with the bath water, though.

The cry to “decentralize all the things” does include moving things incrementally from single choke point to multiple choke points to multiple choke points working together with a byzantium consensus mechanism to a truly decentralized model without a single point of failure. Many projects are better suited to a hybrid model at this point in time by virtue of what is technologically feasible, as well. Example problem people still butt heads with in "decentralization": nothing at stake for PoS.

Lots of food for thought when tackling this - thanks for raising the important question in this hype cycle.
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This isn’t exactly wrong, but ignores the fact that the primary purpose of a fan in a darkroom isn’t to clear dust, but extract chemical fumes. You probably want fumes pumped directly outside, not back through the gaps in the door into the general building.
Hmm. When you hear about E. coli outbreaks in vegetables, it's traced back to fecal contamination on the worker's or processing equipment's working surfaces.

I looked to find any sources with high quality scientific evidence showing accumulation of toxic waste in timber roads in WA. I am an open minded scientist, if you post high quality work I'll read it and change my mind.
> The redirect goes to the main page if the "disagree" to tracking link is clicked.

Interesting, are you in the EU? I was never shown a dialog about tracking or an agree/disagree link (either with or without javascript disabled).
> back in the 2000s, I remember people bashing using tables for layout, and how everyone should switch to CSS.

> seems to be like we’re back to using tables, we just offload it to the style sheet.

which solves exactly the issue that people were "bashing" about.
He has to be political to get the position in the first place and then again if he wants to get renewed (assuming it's not limited) or if he wants to move to a higher position after the four year. The only way to make it minimally political is to have the term limited to one and have the person be ineligible for any political appointment or government job of any kind at the end of the term.
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Introducing the ReSharper performance series
In college I did a project where I added a speed of light delay to a game of Asteroids. I didn't implement a proper Lorentz transform per se, but the effect was still pretty cool. Just for fun I added some faster than light particles and FTL jumps and wormholes. Notable side effects:

FTL particles appear as if they teleported to a location then split in half and leave in two directions.

You can sometimes see an object leave a wormhole and then enter it.

When you FTL jump, you can see yourself from a few moments ago about to FTL jump.

If you fire your laser and then FTL jump in front of your laser, you're in for a bad day.
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Thank you for this perspective. I think it's very important to seek outside help.

I've recently started therapy (four sessions so far), and I really struggle with self-criticism and self-worth in that I question if I should take up the therapist's time when there are people out there with bigger problems than me. People lose their spouses to suicide and their kids in car accidents, and I make enough money to spend it on complaining about not being happy enough for 45 minutes a week.

I also question my therapist's motives, since they obviously want to sell this service and would probably put up with any of my nonsense for a quick buck, while shaking their head at how minor my issues are compared to their other clients. But it feels nice to be able to talk uninterrupted for a whole session, without a regular conversation's context switching back and forth, so there's that.
oh the joys of name overloading.
Wasn't sure what abbreviation you meant, went to google, was surprised...
I hope that the internet and a world-government will bring a cultural and legal baseline that guarantees peace and the Human Rights worldwide.

http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Unfortunately not even European countries respect the human rights with regard to poverty (economic, social and cultural rights) and freedom of expression (civil and political rights) and international law regarding warfare (e.g. Libya, Yugoslavia,...):

http://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/human-rights/
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Ask HN: Why are Linkedin allowed to cloak Google results with a login wall?
Google normally forbids showing one thing to the google bot and another to the users, that you should be able to click on the search result and see the page you found, but Linkedin forces you to login to see the result?

How can it be that LinkedIn are allowed to that?

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en
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Read on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner_(1997_video_game)...
> Leave anything on an unprotected port taking unsanitised input and it’s vulnerable no matter what it is written in

I don’t think you’re comparing apples with apples.

Even in a default configuration, the majority of services that show up on a network don’t give you instant code exec. Maybe tomcat servers with default passwords, and a few other things.

But (de)serialization isn’t securable at all. You can’t add auth, you can’t WAF it, you can’t fix the underlying vulnerabilities.

There is absolutely nothing which has that level of vulnerability and lack of security on a modern network.
Sorry but it’s true.
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> It finally clicked for me when someone described how we are seemingly capable of providing compassion/validation/understanding/kindness to and/or seeking them from others. However, we were really bad at giving ourselves those same things.

That makes perfect sense though. It is harder to forgive our own faults and failures because we generally care more about our own outcomes than we do about others'.
That grand statement is made possible by banishing needed Scheme features into numerous SRFI documents, and into implementations.
The law in the USA is vastly from Europe with regards to photography. Generally speaking, “When in public spaces where you are lawfully present you have the right to photograph anything that is in plain view.” (Source: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/photographers-what-do-...).
I recall some glorious LAN sessions in the various Delta Force games. Only shooters where to snipe you actually had to account for bullet drop because of the distances involved.
I'm not saying that filtration theory is false, I'm saying it seems less likely to me than the following alternative: The chemical composition of a sober persons brain causes us to have the usual experience, but taking a substance like psilocybin alters the chemical balance and therefore makes us have unusual experiences. It seems like I have to suppose more assumptions under filtration theory, and that those new assumptions are unfounded and that the consequences of accepting filtration theory leads to predictions that aren't true (vis a vis brain damage).

Which brings us to why I tried to make the point about brain damage. Since we are working with the idea that psychedelic experience is the default but that the brain is filtering out most of it, it seems to follow that strategically damaging the filter should allow psychedelic experiences to flow through. You're right, not all brain damage is the same, but enough people suffer similar brain damage that I believe we ought to have seen by now some subset of patients with certain types of trauma reliably report psychedelic experiences as part of their symptoms. If such a subset exists, then I stand corrected.
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The issue with VoxelQuest is that, while it was an astonishing piece of technology, it wasn't documented in any way a normal human can understand. I spent several hours trying to read it, and while I'm impressed with the results, the lack of design patterns and structured code (the code is separated in just about 10 files, and it is almost 50k lines long, if not more) makes it really difficult to work with.

I dabbled in voxels myself, even wrote a Minecraft clone and all that, but VoxelQuest was the first real voxel engine I saw working in a really nice way. It had proper lighting, shadows and even nice effects such as reflections. It is kind of a bummer that the dev quit the project, so much potential wasted :(
Ask HN: How do you feel about Slack developer communities?
I've noticed quite an increase in non-commercial project developer communities that use Slack as their primary medium of communication, particularly for help and developer-related inquiries.

My gut reaction to this is a negative one, where I feel like the siloing of developer releated questions and answers is against the nature of the web, and more importantly detremental to the community itself, as it prevents discovery of previous discussions in forums, Google Groups, Stackoverflow etc.

How do you feel about these?
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Maybe for a trader but emotional self-does have its place.
Logic defies my relationships, emotions justify them.
For computer cases, take in account dust. You can use dust filters on the intake, and create positive pressure in the case. So you'd need more air blowing in, and less blowing out in order for dust not to accumulate inside (with negative pressure, dust will start actively sneaking in through holes in the case).
I read an article on SlateStarCodex that talked about how a local decision could not take into account the obvious global decision, i.e. it expanded on Game Theory by detailing how the omniscient decision isn't possible from a first-person perspective.

P.S. If anyone can help me find it, I'd appreciate it. I last spent an hour trying to find it :P
Is this for real? I mean is this common? That's €240k, which is starting to near SF levels of pay. I've got a hard time believing this but will look into it more thoroughly. As a data scientist in Finland, I've been under the impression that the best places for a developer in terms of compensation in Europe are Switzerland, Norway and London (if one gets a good contracting gig there).
Sure. Had the Normans been the only outside group coming to the British islands after Rome left it would be fine to call them Norsemen, Germanics or even just continentals, but due to the long sequence of invasions it is very reasonable to use and expect the most specific terms. The word "poultry" certainly did not come on a boat before 1066, and only on a very specific subset of the boats that came that year.
>the 40-hour work week, minimum wage, and lack of child labor are artifacts of economic development

The economy hasn't stopped developing however. 80 hour work weeks at the factory have been replaced with 40 hour weeks with 20 hours of unpaid overtime. Child labour has been replaced with unpaid internships. Minimum wage often doesn't match increases in inflation and cost of living, not to mention regional changes in cost of living.

Also productivity has practically doubled in the UK since 1980, yet labour laws have largely stayed the same. It could be time to implement 32 hour weeks, or ban unpaid overtime, or raise the minimum wage. All of these require strong unions IMO.
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It was my understanding that a large reason why early voxel engines had great performance is because you only draw each pixel once (kinda like how deferred lighting only calculates lights for each pixel once) eliminating overdraw and therefore doing work that wasn’t ever going to be visible.

But now GPUs can crunch that data super fast (as you say) and memory bandwidth is often a bigger issue. So while voxels still get used in some places, they’re avoided in favour of more compressed data formats and rendering techniques.

At least, that’s what it sounded like to me, I’m no graphics expert.
I am, and I got that. Looks like they clearly want to punish visitors who don't want to be tracked, as they could have at least put some CSS on there. Still, Firefox reader mode for the win.
I agree with you on that hybrid would be a more sustainable solution.

I want to highlight a technical perspective. That’s the scalability issue of Blockchain. Fully decentralization cannot afford scalability, just as we cannot afford referendum on every polical proposal.

In fact, many technical solutions to scale the Blockchain are using the same principle of your idea of federation.
Certificate authorities seems to follow the same pattern.

I wonder if we might see a crytocurrency someday follow that same pattern: the chain is decentralized and public, but the miners are each replaced by authorities that a user can choose to accept (or not). The downside to this would be disagreements over who actually owns what. You'd only be able to make a transaction if both the buyer and seller agree on who owns the currency being exchanged.

At least then we wouldn't have the insanity of "whoever uses the most electricity is right".
so... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUKsi3ouUc4 ?
I'll get (admittedly justly) down-voted to transparency, but I won't find a better post on HN to stick that video to.
The IP they see is located in the EU. Here's what I'm getting: https://i.imgur.com/lyztBl4.png

I'm browsing with scripts and cookies disabled, if that matters, although I wouldn't expect this to make a difference.
I had to make a few simplifications to spell out the differences clearly and avoid making the text infinitely long. It's true that most current gradient descent algorithms are stochastic because they are computed in batch mode, and that sophisticated evolution strategies approximate the gradient. I still think the differences are significant, in that evolution updates less often and the direction of the update is much less (if at all) dependent on the feedback.

Now, your point about to what extent this is really about neural networks is a good one. Could a network learn F=ma, even if we could not interpret it? Maybe. With the right data, represented the right way.
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>> What was/is holding voxel back?

Modeling and animation. I'm not even sure what some of these videos are showing, but it doesn't seem like it can be real voxels on a regular grid. Regular grids are hard to create models with, and are essentially impossible to animate in useful ways. I didn't see mention of how the animation in these clips was being done but there were indications that the models started out as polygons.
> Satellite images suggested the area was an ocean desert, a place with very little life.
About federation in particular: Moxie wrote about why Signal is unfederated a little while back: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

It has some interesting insights into when federation works and when it doesn’t.

“Nothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol-based messenger, but I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all.”
It seems a pretty common thing to do in the US so I suppose it's legal. The cameras are also way out in the wilderness so I hope nobody will ever see them.
Astounding. How can they do that?
There are reason those systems are still widespread in use today, strong compatibility is one of them.
Reminds me of the sysadmin XKCD: https://xkcd.com/705/
How about the international phonetic alphabet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...
After letting it steep overnight, I came up with this variant which addresses most of the issues that have come up in this thread:

try:
result = ''
while (b = next(file_bytes_iterator)) != '\0':
result += b
# maybe parse more of the file here
except StopIteration:
throw ValueError("Unexpected end of file")
I suspect it’s better with most Christian religions, but when I left Mormonism, I felt a huge burden lifted.

It is difficult to be obedient to every last commandment in Mormonism. I would feel guilty for a multitude of small things, like forgetting to read religious texts one day, forgetting to visit my assigned home teaching family one month, simply thinking of a swear word, drinking soda with caffeine, and many other insignificant foibles. I also felt tormented by the fact that my conscience did not align with what I was told God thought was right, particularly regarding the treatment of LGBT people in Mormonism.

I became an agnostic secular humanist. My mind no longer considers my prior thought patterns healthy, and I practice mindfulness meditation to stop unnecessarily negative self-talk.

Now that I don’t have to be perfect, I can be good.
people are wringing their hands about the violent potential of BLM but none of those people seem put out by the extensive use of violence by police on a daily basis, because that seems like such a part of social infrastructure that many have become blind to it.

"The headlong stream is termed violent

But the river bed hemming it in is

Termed violent by no one."

-- Brecht
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I've read that predictions on the future made by pessimists end up closer to reality than by optimists. It might make sense to plan for the worst from a practical perspective, to limit unnecessary risks. But on the other hand, people with really low expectations are usually not super happy when something turns out better than expected, they just find something else to complain about.

Being optimistic, without setting expectations so high that you're constantly disappointed, seems to be a more pleasurable way to live your life. Also, the consequences of failure to meet whatever high standards self-critical people put on themselves are rarely as bad as you think before it happens.

I like your way of finding some balance between being pessimistic and optimistic.
IPA is such an alphabet.
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Thanks you, glad you liked it :-)
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