skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have evidence that open plan spaces are actually cheaper, even just in plain real estate terms? I’ve always read that they end up being less than a few percent cheaper per person after all is said and done. To boot, a lot of companies spend millions on stupid, opulent office features like fountains, coffee stations, roof decks, beer, etc. How do you explain that they are willing to spend so much more on that stuff instead of spending that budget on giving healthy workplace privacy?

I worked for a company once that already had a huge office in Columbus, Ohio, with private offices for everyone. They had no engineering presence in that office and no plans to increase headcount in that office. It was an HR office primarily, and the workers there needed privacy everyday to be on the phone about sensitive topics like legal issues or salary.

The CEO announced in a company meeting once that they would be totally remodeling that office to change it into open plan seating (we found out later it came at a cost of $14 million, purely to destroy good privacy and turn it into open plan seats, in a building the company already owned, with no need to accomodate more head count).

The CEO just said, “We are an innovation company and that makes each and every one of you an innovator — and innovators love open spaces.”

So I think you’re wrong. Companies don’t care about open plan offices for saving money (and they often lose money on it).

It’s all about bullshit optics.
I'm really enjoying this comment section conversation. I had to look up "Panspermia": the theory that life on Earth originated from microorganisms or chemical precursors of life present in outer space and able to initiate life on reaching a suitable environment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
That's an intersting point. Perhaps things would be more level if a conflict between an individual would be settled by selecting one RANDOM employee from that company (not the super ninja expert in the narrow field at hand), and have them battle it out in a lower court / arbitration.
Tesla is running out of cash at a time when competition
is heating up—Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler, and others plan
to release dozens of electric car models.

I wish competition would heat up.

All I want is an all-electric EV with a 200+ mile range. You know what my options are? [1] A Tesla Model S or X, a Bolt EV/Ampera-e which isn't sold in my country [2], or a Tesla Model 3 which is barely shipping at all.

I look forward to the day when more than one company sells an EV with a respectable range.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BEV_EPA_range_compar...
[2] https://fleetworld.co.uk/new-ampera-e-wont-make-uk-confirms-...
I would also add Rogan has a massive following and is a big influencer in many areas. His opinion could easily affect people thinking about or considering moving to a Mac product.

I know a lot of his followers on Twitter are super loyal to the brands he promotes.
time to get a new host then?
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> So? The JavaScript community could stand to slow down a bit.

It's not "a bit", and it's not just the Javascript community, unfortunately. Practically every software project pulls in heaps of unaudited third-party code.
But if they sell more cars can we still make these articles?
Mention it in what way? They mention it is a new 3rd gen keyboard. They aren't going to mention anything negative in a marketing page.
You're stretching the premise too far.

It's pretty clear the big auto makers will eventually be able to mass produce cheap EVs. There's nothing particularly special about them, and battery prices will continue to fall for some time yet.

A 2018 Toyota Camry in the US has a base price of $23,645.

Others: Toyota Carolla $18,700; Nissan Altima $23,260; Nissan Sentra $16,990; Honda Accord $23,570; Honda Civic $18,940; Ford Fusion $22,215; Chevy Cruze $16,975; Chevy Malibu $21,680; Chevy Impala $27,895; Hyundai Elantra $14,450; Hyundai Sonata $18,550.

If we can build all of those at such low prices, EVs will commonly get down there globally given 15-20 years.
because it's not portable, duh
It’s an automatic reaction in all humans. It triggers a fight vs flight reflex.
That’s isn’t a matter of smart vs dumb. That is a farcical process subverting the judiciary to abuse someone’s rights.

If the judge had integrity he would resign or be disbarred.
damn, I should do what you do for a living if five whole minutes costs that much.
Given that it's making calls to histats.com and statcounter.com, I wouldn't be surprised if this is someone trying to make a point. Let's hope so, at least :) I would be interested in a blog post detailing how many credentials they were able to obtain, how many people they managed to infect and how many packages they could potentially compromise.

If npm (and I'm guessing they will) have to invalidate all publish tokens for all users, that is going to be painful.

Edit: I should point out that this is just speculating - there are definitely still ways this could be abused, so don't assume you're safe.
Out of curiosity, when was the last time you used it, and who owned the environment? It can certainly be that with the wrong person in charge of it.

The problem is the expectation that it’s going to function like one trick consumer tech tools out of the box. To see the value, each company must make it their own. They should be creating the UX themselves, and a different one for every type of user according to their role.

People say the same thing about every piece of business software they’ve never invested time to truly understand.

Salesforce gives you the Model and the View, some basic Controls and the ability to customize all 3 with both clicks and code + APIs. Sales Cloud is an app built on it. Salesforce is a PaaS.
Does anyone know if Apple has any policy in place for those customers who recently purchased a Macbook Pro without these new upgraded specs? Can they be turned in for these newer models with an upgrade fee of some kind?
So, you have to sit there more or less quietly to not disturb others? In an nice cube farm, you can walk over to someone else cube and have a quiet discussion and not disturb the entire office.

If you're a relatively small office, I suppose no cubicles could work. Wait until you have offices in other parts of the country/world that you need to collaborate with remotely. Everyone is on a call for 25% of the day, and it's terrible. It's terrible to listen to 2/5 people next to you on a conference call, and it's terrible to listen to people that are in those environments on your conference call because they are trying to talk like they're in a library.
Gate count is interesting from a "how much would this const to make" perspective, but I think minimum clock cycle time is a more interesting metric, as that will show how fast you can run the thing. Maybe a two dimensional plot? It would be very interesting to have a worldwide "leaderboards" section with a dot on the plot for every entry, and a link to see how they did it.
I too am saddened by this information :(
This is not _eslint_. This is _eslint-scope_ which is not included by default with ESLint itself.
The only issue with that for me is that Caps Lock as Control is also a useful mapping.
> evolution explains the origin of all life on this planet.

Not true.

Cows are breed intelligently. They are intelligent design.

Culture has changed the human genes.

Humans have molded the environment/life on this planet.

It's "possible" life on Earth came from Mars or vice versa.

There seems there might be evidence parents can pass on traits to children outside of "evolution".

There are other theories outside of Darwins evolution theory, like "Jump theory", although unlikely.

To be honest, we seem to be re-defining evolution like we do what is AI.
I'm pretty sure I switched my parents into an imac, and three iphones so far, with a fourth on the way soon.

If I was on android/PC they would have bought those, for tech support reasons.

I've influenced some friends, too. Word of mouth is the most powerful form of marketing, and professional users talk about their machines a lot.

(Devs, video editors, writers, designers, photographers, etc)
That and dogs in the office. Jesus what’s wrong with people. (The fact you’re being downvoted is proof we are living in the end times.)
Indeed, why would we want to use packages from people who can't be bothered to use 2FA?
I think the level of complexity is so different between these two examples that we perceive them as conceptually separate, but it is still possible that in absolute terms the same laws are being applied.

It could be that as humans we do not have enough intellectual power to understand the second example in terms of these laws. But then it could be argued that this is exactly what makes these two examples fundamentally different, since all human knowledge is limited by our intellectual capabilities.
Love the game. What's a good solution to the increment gate? My answer worked but seemed way too complicated.
While it's nice to see Propublica use open source software, keep in mind dozens and dozens of other news organizations use the same tools.
Restoring 3D buildings from aerial LiDAR with help of AI
> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. ... If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is not cynical this just reflects how the world is.
I retract my statement about the lack of mirrors.
I disagree on this point. I've been using the new form factor with the large trackpads since initial launch in 2016 and the large trackpads are amazing, and I don't seem to have any issues with palm interaction. Anything smaller just feels downright primitive and old to me now.
PreQuilt – web app for quilters
> "Satanist dancing"

Wow, I've never been so embarrassed by someone dancing I've called the cops before. That's impressive.

Reading the article it feels like this is a combination of the 80's satanic panic mixed with a dose of evangelical convulsions and a dose of the Harlem Shake.
It's cute.
> I cringe if I have to type on the old pro keyboard with its soft keys.

The soft keys are quiet while the new keyboard is noticeably louder.
I disagree. Most projects pull in an order of magnitude fewer dependencies than your average JavaScript project, if not even fewer.
> a Tesla Model 3 which is barely shipping at all.

Sorry, but no. One can be had in just a couple months at this point, and that lead time will dwindle quickly now that they've really ramped production.
> There's a massive rift between "sun makes tree grow, preventing other trees from getting the light" and "I'm trying to sell my wares by expressing concepts of value, numbers, and desire".

Like a tree bearing bright red, juicy-looking fruits filled with sugar and vitamins?
This comment might not be useful.

Are you looking for popular science variety? I ask because the topics you mentioned are best looked at, read in bits, and worked on in order to be understood. I can't fathom learning any of these by listening alone. I might pick up the jargon but nothing more useful. I would rather pick a humanities topic to listen to to keep the mind active, fresh and compensate for the tech fatigue which will eventually happen to us.

Alternatively, or if you insist, you could download and watch some OCW/MOOC lectures on these topics which can be a nice middle ground.
Are there actually any job openings other than at universities for Prolog? I've used it during my PhD but never since (~ 6 years) I encountered an application in production.
Yes, I liked that book as well. Especially because it has a lot of references to actual studies and research done at a university.
I don’t necessarily agree that it’s what most people want. I think the reason that most people keep buying macs is because of MacOS. It is so nice to have a UNIX-based OS with great UI, so we keep buying the overpriced, out-of-date, defective laptops because we have no other choice. I’m convinced that a solid, secure, reliable and polished Unix-based OS for developers would quickly wipe out a large segment of Apple’s market share.
The difference between crypto and AI seem significant to me. In crypto's case, the investor is the user, it seems very recruitment driven. Reduce the friction to engaging with the market, increase the pool, the market cap goes up by default. That is kind of a weird thing to invest in but I digress.

AI on the other hand seems far more accreditive. Better AI makes certain things way better permanently (going from not knowing to knowing is a big step). So I could see how dumping money into it despite risking failure could still raise the boat of humanity, and represent accreditive gains for the investor. Crypto is almost the opposite of that.
Oh crap, this is the only thing I cared about. Ok so it's a no-go from day one.

I don't care if Apple has a 4 year warranty program for the keyboard. The fact is, I can't give up my main laptop for 2-5 days every 6 months to have them fix it for free.
I'd upgrade RAM if you anticipate using such resource heavy applications. The processors are pretty close in speed, I would anticipate RAM being more helpful.
It's hard to tell from the data. Sales should perhaps have been higher. The macbook pro hadn't been refreshed for a bit in late 2016.

Me and some other pro users were insta-buys for the new machines. But then they had few ports and no function keys. We're still on 2015 machines.

I'm holding out for the mac pro, but I would have bought 1-2 macbook pros if they had been suitable.
As of now, yes. The 2019 Nissan LEAF is projected to have meet your range requirement. I've had the 2013 and the 2015 models, they are good cars in their own right. If they made them slightly larger (but not an SUV), I'd be getting my 3rd one this year.
this is a really nice list.

I've just finished reading the excellent book recentley shared here⁰. Working through it made me realized that the start-up I joined is ignoring every advise in the book. The ycombinater youtube channel there is a great Sam Altman talk on starting-up¹ which drove the point home further (that I've bet on a losing horse).

As an engineer I constantly get bitten by joining awesome sounding new tech start-ups that despite awesome tech they don't survive the second year (they find a market fit and fail when scaling bc they ignore all the human aspects of what it means to be a company). And in my case it's never the tech that was at fault but lack of creating processes under which successful patterns can be repeated. Somehow it's always the dynamic of the people that dooms those projects. Every time I end up coming to the hard realization that there is no other option for me to quit the company after I've wasted a lot of time and nerves, and it's often more ugly than it should be.

⁰ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17456999

¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoqgAy3h4OM
Is there a better way than this? Or is this just how it has to be?
No no no, chemtrails are slug trails. duh.
You don't know many serious vim users. I remapped Caps Lock to control years ago (primarily for the tmux prefix ctrl+a), and escape is remapped to jj. So easy. Besides, my understanding was that Escape wasn't an option on Mac until a couple years ago.
i'm a developer and the keyboard is fine
It seems they also don't realize that people are watching a LIVE event, which is completely different than watching a movie.

I've worked places where we would watch live streams of rocket launches (back when launches were less routine than they are now).
Of course it’s “a Microsoft product” and that’s also the problem. This endless “surface as a possibly/maybe iPad killer” is pure click bait.

Regardless, anyone who likes windows as a product, for what it’s worth, will never like macOS/iOS, and the other way around.

What’s valid though is the untrustworthy-ness Microsoft earned. We can see it with windows 10 on a PC which, is sort of easier to control, why would you trust Microsoft with a tablet?

The problem in Microsoft product X, is typically the fact that IT IS made by Microsoft.
I'm with you but not because of price. It is still under $4K with a 1TB SSD, which is right in line with my other MPBs. I'd expect to spend about the same on the now inevitable Dell.
Great answer
You can return it within 14 days, no questions asked.
It's eye opening to consider 3-5 year ownership costs in light of what people buying a 3-5 year old used vehicle want.

The problem with cars is they undercut the used SUV market. Which increases depreciation on more profitable SUV's which effectively increases their price.
I once spent nine months in what seemed like a losing battle with AT&T for them to correctly account for two checks I wrote that they credited to my old phone number rather than my new phone number. I had to write a letter to my state's Public Service Commission before I could get the attention of AT&T's executive office and get their collections department off of my back.
Comfortable was referring to my current (2015) macbook pro keyboard. I wouldn't say I find the newer keyboards 'uncomfortable' so much as just lacking travel which I generally prefer.

Based on yours and other comments, perhaps I need to find an opportunity to use the newer keyboard a little more than I have to see if I get used to it.
Being intelligent is not exactly the same as being smart, and no matter how intelligent you may be, if you cannot control the activities of the effects that stick to your consciousness after the fact of what has happened to you in the past, you can't preserve your own true self for a long time, especially in this modern age.
I found/find fast.ai to be incredibly useful for its practicality, good results, and top-down approach, however, it is sometimes hard to reproduce the results as well as clearly distilling what it is you can actually learn from each lesson. Writing this post blew my socks off as to what was taught in the video, yet it took me quite some time to get it all. So I hope the posts help people with that aspect of the course.

At the moment, I'm learning fast.ai/PyTorch in parallel with Keras/Tensorflow, so at this point, I have no definitive answer to your question which one is preferable. It will probably depend and they will most likely have their own benefits (I know that the boring answer, but I need to get more experience to give you a better answer).

As an exercise I'm trying to write the fast.ai notebooks in Keras, to see how they stack up. Might need to do a post on that as well.

I hope to answer your question better in the future. Could you tell me more about what you want to achieve, I might be of more assistance?
This reminds me of Masaru Emoto's "The Secret Life Of Water" <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Emoto> where he exposed water to intensely positive and negative words and sounds and photographed the crystals of frozen water from each state. A beautiful book, but also seems to have been debunked as lacking any scientific evidence, as it was more an art project then a peer reviewed experiment. <http://www.beliefnet.com/news/science-religion/2006/03/sensi...
This is how things should run if the work culture was logic based but with rare exceptions it isn't.

As a borderline autistic person I have a very direct communication style and lost account of how many times I burned myself for failing to "beat around the bush".

You can't say "the project is doomed" even if it is true. You can't say it will be so over budget and take so long that it would be better to cut the losses now. Don't expect to go unpunished for saying "the king is nude".

According to my experience both parents are absolutely right, but the first is how most organizations work and the second is an ideal seldom found in the real world.
The gene is the unit of selection.
One way to differentiate "communication" is whether it is possible to avoid a behavior. The tree can't avoid shading the saplings.

Another aspect to look at (or possibly this is two, tangled up together) is whether the behavior directly induces changes in the target in a generic fashion, rather than via a reception channel that receives the information and transmutes it into an effect. Allelopathic chemical release that kills off competitors is not communication. Tightly interconnected symbiotic associations of bacteria "communicate" chemically, but it's so optimized down and the feedback loops are so tight that it's more like they're a single organism. (Are hormone releases inside your own body communication?) Jumping at someone and waving your arms is communication, but it's similarly borderline, because you're probably invoking an instinctual reaction to move away from sudden large movements.

Communication should also involve some sort of feedback loop. What does the tree "expect" the results of the sound of a creaking branch to be, either consciously, or in that anthropomorphizing way we discuss fitness and evolution? Without an answer to that, I think we can file it away as "not communication".

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All that said, many trees absolutely do communicate with chemical signals. Famously, they may release warning chemicals during herbivore activity, and surrounding trees (conspecifics, but IIRC this can cross species boundaries) will ramp up production of defense chemicals.

Other plants use chemical signaling to attract predators of the herbivores that are munching on them.

And I believe I recall some process by which trees advertise themselves to mycorrhizal fungi that they would like to establish partnerships with, but I could be mistaken.
Pristine – Vanilla JavaScript form validation library
I'm not sure those are the only two options. Pure capitalism and central control are more like two extremes on a continuum. There is a lot of work being done at the moment to get companies to accept a certain degree of social responsibility for the externalities relating to their activities - things like environmental impact, for instance. So there is an intermediate way forward.
One cool thing I saw once was a company that had a "quiet room" for its developers set aside in the middle of an open office. Si they could kinda get the best of both worlds.
Not everyone experiences motion sickness. It can be difficult for those of us who don't to properly empathize with those who do. For someone who doesn't experience motion sickness or only experiences it in extreme situations then the products appearance is a big negative.
What specific drawbacks, or groups of people for whom face-to-face is a problem, do you have in mind?

FWIW, I personally don't benefit from the "high bandwidth". I'm legally blind; I can't read facial expressions or body language, or even recognize specific faces. SO for me, face-to-face amounts to little more than audio communication with full frequency range and zero latency or drop-outs. All that to say that I can only understand face-to-face communication (edit: as it works for most people) second-hand, so I'm curious, not being argumentative.
There is something curious about posters on a techie site lauding the superiority of the hunter-gatherer life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518
A data breach will now cost your organization $3.86M, if you're lucky
Thanks! A possible solution [spoiler alert!] is inv(add(inv(input), inv(0)) where inv(0) is an inverter without any input.

By the way I suppose the subtraction component should be available in this task. This would make is simpler. I had trouble deciding if increment should be before or after subtraction.
That's an improvement from when I last checked. Though that's for the 310-mile model with premium interior, costing $49,000. That's the same price as a Lexus GS 350.
I'd be very happy with the 32GB at this point, but sadly my company just got me the previous new model with 16GB and I doubt I can convince anyone to reduce my refresh cycle to mere months.