skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> FB and Google are the only ones pushing the industry forward. The huge amount of data and computing power is what brings these researchers, its not all about money. In the long run the scientific advancements from these companies is a much higher positive than the negatives they have in the present.

> But can they get the huge volumes of data they have tagged out? The real time pipelines and internal tools? The community of people they will be working with?

It's highly problematic when a researcher pushes ethics aside in order to gain access to data and chase "long run ... scientific advancements."
Two U.S. Hyperloop Startups Line Up Financing from China
> We find that it REALLY helps us minimize meetings and email/Slack since we can quickly turn to the person we need

So, it's an all-day, unpredictable meeting?
If we measure this city's position then we'll know if there's life on the planet.
I actually didn't realize it was doable (not a heavy rust user - just an enthusiast). Kinda hidden away in docs under an example [0] and isn't in the book under hash maps [1]. Might be worth calling out somewhere explicitly? People getting started with rust probably aren't familiar with the trait-based operator overloading system yet.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.HashMap.htm...
[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/ch08-03-hash-m...
Sort of related to your username, those are unicorns. Most companies are dysfunctional or barely functional. Why those same companies have 99% of the time open spaces is not a mystery.

It's cheap.

It's not because XP, pair programming, quick feedback or any other ponies/unicorns, it's because you can cram more people in a smaller place.

Oh, and also control. Managers at least have the illusion of direct control or even better, they have a Stasi-like informant network in case someone "misbehaves".
tl;dr never.

Jokes aside. tl;dr the author finds Haskell better suited to expressing mathematical abstractions (no examples), however, they believe that the lack of libraries holds Haskell back. They end by talking about how RHaskell lets you integrate R and Haskell to get the best of both worlds.
Why?

Why is the basic assumption that a corporation whose goal is to connect people should be responsible for what those connected people share with each other?

I'll give you that a corporation with the goal of providing accurate information to people should have a higher standard of publishing information that is correct.

But if, say, Heinz, wanted to say that people in China can't drive or that the Holocaust is a fiction, why is it the company's responsibility to get that right? Their responsibility is baked beans and ketchup.

Like lmm, this article made me more sympathetic to Facebook. And that the NYT is sort of glossing over things. I'd like to hear their policy on "fake news" and all that.

I applaud Facebook for defending InfoWars in this instance even though they disagree with them. I applaud Facebook for defending Holocaust deniers even though they disagree with them. It is the absolute hardest thing in the world to defend the worst when they've done nothing wrong. We glorify people who say things like "I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it". But when it comes time to actually put that sentiment into action, we waffle. Only allowing speech we agree with is not allowing speech to be free. Freedom must include the freedom to be stupid or it is no freedom at all.
Cause slack does not interrupt while I am focused while your question does interrupt while I am focused. It takes effort and time to get back to focused state. Frequent random interrupts kill productivity.

So, while it is making you faster, it is killing focus and productivity of the person you are asking to. Which is fine as long as the other person does not have deadline or other need to produce more.
Apple Can't Handle the Heat: Severe Core I9 Throttling Found on New MacBook Pros
The Best Way to Learn Spanish: A Process That Works for You
GitHub:
https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project

Several other companies are working on it in various forms.
Disclaimer: I am working for one of those companies.
I hope you updated all that to D2D. I was always deeply offended you forced office to move with Universal but had the gall to link GDI in and keep using it for your own stuff :).
It should have sufficient power reserves to work with a normal 747-style runway. And starting/landing is done subsonically anyway, as one does not want wheels outside at those speeds.

I see no reason this should not work.
> It's basically impossible to have nice things

If by “nice things” you mean “maximally exploitative capitalist businesses”, sure.
The two things are not opposed to each other. The Fight for 15 movement has been successful in many places by explicitly invoking the true legacy of a “minimum wage,” socialized healthcare is more popular than ever under the banner of “Medicare for All.”

I agree that it’s important to push intellectually beyond a reform-minded liberalism that seeks to “take the edges off” of Capitalism. But that doesn’t exclude using the history of labor protections or organization as a jumping off point.
Netflix Makes a Statement in India with “Sacred Games”
> just wants to believe anything they agree with is true and miscategorizes these stories on their own.

I implore you, go sample "news" segments from major sources (CNN, MSNBC, Fox) on a topic you are intimately familiar with. You'll quickly realize these mouth-pieces are spreading FUD to acquire more eyeballs and ad dollars.

> The Economist, CNN, MSNBC, NPR at least are all clear about what's news and what's opinion.

MSNBC, and to a perhaps lesser extent CNN are hysterically bad.

I had the pleasure of catching a few hours of primetime "coverage" on MSNBC last month and the talking heads were shrieking about some Federal department spending $1,500 on ten pairs of "tactical pants" for security officers. Well, go price some "tactical pants" from 5.11[0], a well known, reasonable brand, and you'll quickly see it's a fairly reasonable sum. Hell, ten pairs of decent Carhartts will set you back a similar sum. Yet the opinion-as-news talking-heads spent 15+ minutes railing on it as obvious corruption and frivolity of the current administration.

This is what passes for news. They're a bad joke.

[0] - https://www.511tactical.com/mens-professional.html
Here's an example: https://github.com/qnzhou/PyMesh. In fact, building it is a dependency hell.
It takes supercomputers days to simulate milliseconds of interactions between a million atoms using classical mechanics (ie Newton's Laws, basically a ball and spring model so not even accounting for quantum effects except through very rough approximations in the spring constants). We don't even have an accurate model for water yet.
I hope whoever keeps submitting these stories finally gets their boss to notice and gets the cubicle walls that they want so much.

Full disclaimer: I have some and they are awesome.
> If you want to collaborate, well, come closer and wave your hand so that I noticed you and removed the headphones.

Sure would be nice if people would merely wave their hand in front of me. Nope, instead, everyone [0] does one (or both) of two things: come up behind me and tap my shoulder, or come up behind me and shout.

I don't blame them for wanting my attention, but the end result is the same: I physically jump, sometimes yelp, and it takes me many minutes to get back to the same level of productivity I was before the ambush.

Is "ambush" too strong a word? Nope. To my reptile brain, it's exactly what happened: so now it's time to fight or flee.

For me, open offices are evil. It's the place I go to get ambushed.

[0] Even coworkers who know how I will respond. They've said so, apologize, and still do it.
I thought it was more for surveillance, to make sure people look like they are busy. No goofing off when everyone can see your screen.
Be careful with firejail, it comes with its own security implications, and has bad a history of pretty nasty exploits: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/79mmzk/sandbox_your_...
As the SpaceX steamroller surges, European rocket industry vows to resist
> That’s a no-win situation when one side has made it their fundamental platform to oppose reason and truth.

That's a fairly extraordinary claim, and you know what they say about extraordinary claims.

Do you have any evidence of this? Care to share your most compelling piece?
I feel like I've seen 3 or 4 big interesting DARPA initiatives announced in the last week or so. Is something going on or is it just a coincidence?
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth prove they're still together amid breakup rumors
Heck, you could even go as far as saying that Facebook is ethically "challenged".
I've been working remote from home for 15 of the past 18 years.

Taking it a step further, the biggest problem with "my door is shut, I'm at work" is that I sometimes need to open my door. Perhaps for lunch or a snack. Or just to stretch my legs and think. Just because my family sees me wandering around the house doesn't mean I'm available.

I've found that it works best to have my wife & kids email me questions/info/thoughts even though we're in the same house. I can then respond when I'm available. Sometimes via email or sometimes by initiating a conversation.
Don't overthink it.

This isn't asking antagonistically, it's a legitimate ask, so I hope you'll understand my tone isn't one of aggression:

How am I over thinking it? The proposed idea is to require leaders sit with their constituents. Leaders are the ones choosing these horrible open office layouts. How do you make them do something that in many cases, as many folks are replying in this thread to the effect of-they do not want to do?

Do you appeal to the board of directors? What does that look like? When one says "this should be required", my immediate thought is, okay how do you implement it, and how do you actually enforce it?

And that's what I'm asking here. I don't think I'm overthinking it, but thinking exactly the question that will need to be answered if that suggestion is to take root anywhere. How do you require the leaders of your company to do something they might not want to do?
By choosing to work with facebook you're literally working for a company that has stoked mob killings and enabled genocide. Anyone working there needs to be called out.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/05/facebo...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/03/revealed-faceb...
The article discusses where you can get Citizenship for cash, the OP is addressing Residency for cash (which can lead to citizenship eventually) - those are two different lists.

One's desire to obtain Citizenship may have a very different set of motivations than one's desire to obtain Residency.
Fridays off is the best argument for giving Islam greater influence in the US. And the US can water down just about any religion, though the public might enjoy a beheading.
The sad part of building all this technology is they need a WAR to put it to use.
If your data project is bottlenecked by speed, and the current libraries which already leverage a low level language such as C/C++ like pandas/numpy in Python in R and dplyr in R don't suffice, then you probably should be switching tooling altogether (e.g. to "big data" tools like Spark. Which have a Python/R API anyways).
OpenFaaS on AWS Fargate
My downvoted to hell comment below is meant to point this out. I've been noticing large media companies, like NYT and even a New Yorker article I read this morning, subtly advocating in favor or limits on free speech, as though they (or people they agree with) should be arbiters of truth and virtue. The parent article even expands the idea of articles that should be banned into the realm of "conspiracy theories." To say that the article is simply reporting on the issue is false. There's a clear bias in the language of the article in favor of suppressing unpopular speech.
> there are plenty of cases where articles fail to disclose conflict of interest, put forth unfounded opinions and intentionally mislead the reader to draw an untruthful conclusion. That is fake news.

"Untruthful" is begging the question. For the rest of it, virtually all news articles fail to disclose the writer's personal biases, put forth unfounded opinions, and intentionally lead the reader to draw particular conclusions. Your proposed standard is hardly any better than "news I don't agree with" in practice.
a platform for a platform and the world goes offline
This is exactly what I'm saying. In the case of a quick question, in-person communication is more efficient for both sides. Doing the same thing async has a noticeably higher overhead.
"In this context it doesn't work as well, anyway, because senior leaders are in meetings so often that their desk is fairly meaningless."

So why do they still have huge window offices? They could lead by example and give up those.
The Bigs Are Starting to Accept the Unimaginable
Many reddit posts have outright stated that Red Shell was "spyware" with no indication that 1) they were misusing data 2) no data that is harmful was being collected.

> Consumers do not want to pay money for a product and then also have their data harvested to be used to make even more money off of them.

Agreed. And both the game devs and Red Shell as far as I can see aren't selling this data. The devs are spending money to use Red Shell to try to have better / more cost effective advertising campaigns.
This is how I find out I've still got *.dev pointing to localhost... somewhere
He actually doesn’t talk bad about legal immigrants, he acknowledges the need and their contributions to the economy. He does badmouth _illegal_ immigrants, true. But we are one of the easiest countries to get in legally, compared to Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Australia, etc.

Moreover, he’s the president of the American people, not the President Of The World. He and every president has a sacred responsibility to look after his/her citizens.
Can you explain to me why in other countries min-wage laws have been enacted as a racist policy to keep employment for a chosen people and suppression of the minorities?
Is AI Impacting the Automotive Industry?
Does the game show adverts in-game? Is the game free or do you pay for it? Sounds insane! I'd be upset enough about the ads nevermind the added salt of tracking!
Why the Taj Mahal is changing colour
> I've seen guys commit code requiring a new Go version the day it was released!

I will be that guy once Go 1.11 releases. The reason being, Golang finally added feature [1] we were asking for since Jan 2015, it allows us to replace about 3k LOC of platform specific, low level (syscall) and error-prone code with 10 lines.

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9661
is 0.1% of a trillion special or not? :)
My employer built out a new HQ last year.

It's all open, including the executive area. The only nod to privacy for the CEO is a corner desk flanked by board rooms on both sides and her admin towards the interior - it's open, albeit semi-protected. Same for the other C-levels.

VP and other non-executive management have the same desks as everybody else, intermixed with their teams.

We do have ample meeting spaces, from drop-in huddle rooms for 2-4 people to normal bookable conference rooms. And we spend a lot of time in them, especially management.

Would private offices work better for the company? I have no idea. But, the current environment doesn't strike me as any worse than the previous HQ, which had high-walled cubes but lacked ample meeting spaces.

Edit - and by "any worse", I mean there are flaws for sure. I'm not arguing open is great. Just no worse than the previous generation of cubes.
This, exactly.
The other person then has to either interrupt everything to help you (so now you’re both distracted for a while) or say no (while maintaining a mental task queue to remember to get back to you later, which is mentally taxing). Overall, it feels a bit selfish to interrupt someone to get your trouble solved when there are more subtle ways of doing it.
It says "half of nearby stars"

That's common. It's half!

They're also easier to find, sure. Maybe the other half are exactly like Sol but we can't tell yet.

But nothing can make 1 out of 2 stars near enough to make out into something uncommon, except our local cluster of stars itself being weird in some way. Which is possible.
They’ve been working on binary size, and it shows. I didn’t know it went so far already; last I checked it was much bigger. I’ll update that fact in my brain, thank you!

I’m not as convinced as you regarding such a language, for example, once host bindings lands, you’ll be able to call into every API with no overhead, and the bindgen stuff we’re doing will transparently just shrink overnight. But we’ll see! It’s exciting times.
What exactly are backwards-compatibility goals of Windows? Are they that different from backwards-compatibility goals of POSIX systems?

I read the above sentences as: 1) the legacy on $SYSTEMS_I_DONT_LIKE is bad 2) the legacy on $SYSTEM_I_LIKE is there for a reason.
>...gets the joy of learning how noise-cancelling headphones work (or, on the flip side: learn that their favorite brand of headphones aren't doing the job).

Or like me learn those chronic ear infections you suffered as a kid can be triggered as an adult by wearing in-ear headphones for a few hours. Open-back headphones like the AKG K7XX don't cause the issue for me, but then again if I crank them enough to drown out that one annoying coworker then everyone around me hears what I'm listening to and it can trigger my tinnitus. Damn. Maybe I need to apply for an office because I have a hearing-related disability. :-)
Funny, I’ve worked for decades in places with zero dress code, where they actually encourage jeans and sneakers, and have voluntarily worn business casual or nicer for 99% of that time. Nothing against the shorts-and-flipflops brigade, just personal preference. It’s nice to have a choice, and we techies should consider ourselves lucky to be in an industry that, with a few exceptions, shuns dress codes!
I've been in open plan offices that worked great and others that were terrible. But I take issue with this part of the article:

> Open plan offices have taken off because of a desire to increase interaction and collaboration among workers.

This is the reason invoked after the fact. The real motivation is a financial one. You have X sqft of office space, Y people you'd like to fit in. Open plan offices are seen as the most efficicent way to cram a lot of people into a smaller space. Then more loftly reasons are invoked so that the company doesn't look cheap.
Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet (Know Thy Complexities)
Overall, it feels a bit selfish to interrupt someone to get your trouble solved when there are more subtle ways of doing it.

I'm a bit confused by this. It is selfish, in the workplace to ask a colleague for help who sits an arm's length away?

Be it via Slack or shoulder tap, you're breaking their concentration regardless. Whatever task they were doing, is now being stopped because of the ask for help.

Maybe I'm looking at this from too high of a vantage point. Help me out here.
The game retailed at $60¹ but you may be able to find it for a little less if you keep an eye out for sales

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1. https://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/sid-meiers-civilization-vi...
Along the lines of this "detection bias," I've long wondered if there's another bias: the orbital angle of the exoplanets with respect to the plane of ours. If the detection is based on transit across the star of the system, what if we're looking at the axis of the planetary system, and not its equator? All systems similarly oriented toward our instruments would come up as a false negative, no?
(I'm not an astronomer, please correct my jargon).
I'm not big on pretending there aren't real differences with respect to the kinds of work done in this industry. Some engineering is harder than others and open offices simply don't fit all cases. Or even most, per the article.
Nice! Is this in a working state?
While that's certainly succinct, it goes against both the golden rule ("Treat others the way you would want them to treat you.") and the first amendment (roughly, "Anyone is allowed to voice any opinion or perspective, regardless of content."), both of which are about as succinct and held by many people.

(All three guidelines could certainly be challenged or have nuanced exceptions; this certainly isn't a straightforward issue.)
Cloudflare, Fastly, Mozilla and Apple Working on SNI Encryption for TLS 1.3
This is why electric trains are so nice: you can shut them off from the ground.
They’re answering questions, not asking them.
Right now there are no benefits though.
Because the browser sends the domainname you contact unencrypted via the TLS handshake due to SNI. So someone listing in to your communication will learn the hostname anyway.

I know people are working on encrypted SNI but that will take time.
If the data isn't at least somewhat identifiable, then how is it actionable?

This is why I roll my eyes back into my head every time some marketing suit says "well we anonymize the information" and it's just flat out ridiculous if you think about it, if the information was properly anonymized, then IT COULDN'T BE USED FOR AD TARGETING. Full. Stop.

So if the data collection is for ad targeting, then it's identifiable because it can't not be otherwise it would be useless for the thing it's collected for.
it is killing focus and productivity of the person you are asking to.

At the expense of mine by asking me a question, and asking me for help.

Seems rather one-sided, no? A colleague has asked for my help. Their concentration is already broken because there is a problem they need help solving, and probably their work progress is halted because they're unsure what to do about a given problem, and think I am someone who can help them.

I genuinely do not understand the objection to whipping around and offering to help that person solve a problem that prevents them from accomplishing a task, project, assignment or obligation.

I ask for help understanding the conceit here, that the person who turns around and helps their colleague is at fault of 'breaking someone's concentration' when they were asked to provide help to a coworker.
> Minimum wage laws, unemployment, etc, these are good things that should be preserved.

Well, they are clumsy patches on top of an inhumane system of exploitation, and we could probably do a lot better, but preserving them is better than retrograde progress.
We've asked you several times before to stop using this site for political or ideological battle. That's not what it's for! Such battle is repetitive and boring—a monotonous whacking over the head with the same arguments. So, we've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Where did you get that idea? The differentiation between OpenJDK and Oracle JDK happens of course in the truly important part of the library: font rendering.

https://technfun.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/last-difference-op...
CEOs and VPs (and even the layer of middle management below them at a big company) probably have a schedule that's almost 100% full of meetings, so the specifics of where their desk is normally don't even matter.
How schools are making use of VR in classrooms
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