skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crux of my argument isn't that it's ideal or even acceptable, but these staff provide services for the university and in the majority of cases, directly to the students - the university would struggle to fulfil the demands placed on it without 1) radical transformation of hundreds of services (and being a part of wider community, ensuring that community is still sustainable), 2) employing more people.

Which cohort foots the bill for the cost of the radical transformation projects? The severance packages, the business process mapping, the specification creation, the tender process, the development of hundreds of interlinking system integrations, training, maintenance, licensing costs etc...

Splitting wasteful salaries across thousands of students over a number of years and trying to improve piece by piece and not cause a local issue (whilst increasing people power temporarily in other areas where needed which aren't be focused on) is the only viable solution we have at the moment.

Believe me, I'd 100% love to hear solutions to this problem that take all the moving pieces into account to solve it, and it'd have been great not being saddled with £00,000s of student debt too!

But, us techies can sit on HN and bemoan the inefficiency of little pieces of people-powered work and how it should all be automated! efficient! etc... till we're blue in the face. But without building a university, healthcare system, multi-national conglomerate... from scratch, we can't just retrofit our napkin systems and processes without causing a shittonne of unthought impacts.
Somewhat similar situation, though living in Tokyo already for quite a while. It would be lovely if we could hang out once.
Gonna comment on your last statement here. The reason aircraft cruise so high is because 1) it's efficient. Flight paths are heavily optimized, and while you spend energy getting up there, you don't spend much getting down. Energy is a conserved quantity. 2) We want to fly above the weather. In the early days of flight, we actually did fly at low altitudes, and we lost a lot of aircraft in the process. Low altitude flying is dangerous, and not really an advantage. Generally, you want more altitude, not less, because the more altitude you have, the more energy you have. This let's you trade height for speed, keeps you away from weather patterns, and means that in the event of a failure, you have time to plan and execute.
The far more relevant collaboration problem is being together with other people in a room and sketch out ideas, etc. on a whiteboard, have interactive conversations, read body language, etc. There have been so many attempts to solve this over the years and there's never been close to a "killer app."

I do believe that remote work can work in many cases but it needs to be complemented with a decent dose of F2F to complement our only somewhat successful video conferencing systems, chat, shared documents and other tools that exist today. I suspect at the end of the day we'll just keep iterating on the various tools we have and they'll get better but still will lag everyone being in the same room.
Baremetrics itself has its numbers publicly viewable at: https://demo.baremetrics.com/
I'm very sorry, but it's hard not to laugh at this list ... and to try and be objective: these examples make my point even stronger.

None of the folks who may or may not have been the first to invent these things in Europe managed to exploit the economic potential of what they had invented.

It is a deeply sad commentary of how much of bright people's potential is utterly pissed down the drain every day in Europe.

Oh, also, you forgot to mention that the French invented the internet first (t'was called the minitel).

The minitel was a perfect example of a government-run tech. program: 10 years after it was launched, it was still operating at the original speed of 300 bps.

One of very many brilliant ideas left to rot on the altar of socialist-run centralized western europe societies.
How Osquery Will Change the Fragmented Security Market
> the existence of animus doesn’t automatically bless or justify any and every political ideology that markets itself as “anti-Xist”.

I'm confused. How does saying "LGBTQ people deserve respect just like everyone else" somehow bless or justify another political ideology?
Agreed, the better I get at software engineering (good top level design, keeping things simple, not over-engineering, not under-engineering, hopefully writing clean maintainable code), the less people seem interested in any of that. Just whether I have used hip new tech x.
Load-increment-store is slow. Load-decrement-branch-if-zero is slow. And you still need a tracing collector for cycles. So it's slow and still nondeterministic.
Sam Boyer's side of dep vs go modules story
Venezuela's Citgo Refineries at Risk of Seizure
That appears to be about 2000USD a week. A volume of two iPhones.

edit: O.K. Apparently, that's not VEF but VES, so it should be about 8K iPhones or a volume of about 8 Million USD.
Russ Cox's side of the story: https://twitter.com/_rsc/status/1022588240501661696

Interesting to see that both sides seemed to have been fighting for what they believed to be a better idea but neither recognized the points where they inadvertently escalated the divisions between them.
I personally know a couple of PhDs who worked at Bosch on self driving tech.
I'm pretty sure every Veyron/Chiron built is already sold before construction begins. They only make a tiny number of them and collectors snap them right up.
That the thing I do algorithmic stuff maybe once a year. The only time I have needed to implement a sort algorithm was for an interview.
Apple embraced it, and used Pascal to write the LISA OS and the Mac ToolBox (not the MacOS "kernel" which was written in assembler for speed and memory optimization). Until they switched to OpenStep and Objective-C.

PalmOS was also basically a simplified clone of MacOS; I don't know if it was itself written in Pascal, but it kept the same internal Pascal data structures IIRC.
The New Yorker is an establishment mouth piece. This article is such laughably obvious propaganda and that its embarrassing, considering how good the New Yorkers journalism is for non political issues.
I kinda like the whole random selection part of it, Good Luck!
It's not a UK thing, it's a company thing. For billable companies like legal and accounting, you are more likely to bill hours wherever you are. For most others, it is "up to you" if you want to do work outside of paid hours but if you don't, maybe you won't keep up, maybe the boss won't like you etc.
how do you prove a negative?, all you can say is that within the bounds of the technology and skills they have to hand, they where unable to detect any intrusion, that does not mean that there is a guarantee that there was none.

The risk that there was may be very low, but its still there.

The only secure system is an air-gaped one, and even then there are evolving threats that circumvent that protection.
So, it is interesting, but the big issue isn’t just the analysis, it is the presentation. If a company is doing analysis for its own sake, then I could see the process working well using StatsIQ (I have a license, BTW) but, in the end, my reports end up in PowerPoint with custom style sheets and templates.

Until my customers are ready to consume a web interface, and the tools produce a set of web-ready charts (maybe with something like plotly?) it doesn’t do me much good.

Another problem is that I work with plenty of analysts that are not going to get qualtrics licenses, or access to my surveys. I also have a team of people that codes surveys in qualtrics but doesn’t really do analysis. Right now, the licensing doesn’t favor me giving a bunch of users access to the survey tool, and doesn’t have fine grained enough control to manage them if I did.

Long story short, for me, analysis and publication are tightly coupled, without an end to end solution that changes my current workflow, having portable files and PowerPoint charts remains the most effective solution that still enables some specialization of skills in my team.
There is a node-js package to pack and unpack asar files. You can modify any asar archive by unpacking, copying/editing and re-packing. The signature would obviously change, but most electron apps really don't check for that (yet).
I like how it has a detachable steering wheel just like a real race car. I was wondering if the driver had to just press it onto the studs to install it.
Justice Dept. criticizes Harvard in affirmative action case
It’s a way for people to get off on passive-aggressively displaying their power and stating the “rules” while knowing they can’t be reprimanded for it since they stated so “kindly”.
Bullshit jobs are created just like the comments on this article demonstrate.

The proper response is "This is bullshit, let's fight it". Yet, it's not of personal importance, and really, how many fights can you fight, so somebody somewhere comes up with a way to circumvent the system. Others help refine the step for that - because you know it's bullshit, and circumventing bullshit feels satisfying.

From there, this will no doubt spread, and be further refined. The ultimate outcome is a content free form that allows everybody to take no personal risk, and simply trades the actual decision making for signing a form that you know will never harm you.

And voila, there will, at some point, be a specialization where you just see large volumes of people, and sign their slip. The insurance will press to make it lower skill and less expensive. Since no actual skill is needed, it won't stop at being delegated to nurses. Sooner or later, it's a minimum wage job. At this point, companies will start bringing it in-house - why would you want people taking half a day off for signing a bogus form? And after a while, there's huge demand for this - each company needs it - but really, they're not needed fulltime. And so there will be an agency that has these people travel to your office.

At this point, backpain form signer certainly is a new job. And the decisions at every step of the way were entirely rational.

I want to end this with a rousing call to fight bullshit where you see it, but realistically, it would be an all day job. So we'd get bullshit fighters. Who probably at some point just sign forms.
InVision deepens integrations with Atlassian
HPV vaccine isn't just preventing cancer. I have a rare and potentially fatal condition - HPV warts growing on my vocal cords. I need laser surgery on my vocal cords a few times a year to keep talking, and ultimately to keep breathing.

It's really rare, though... 1.6 adult cases per 100k, and about twice that many child cases (doctors generally believe it's passed during childbirth). Children die from it because it goes undiagnosed, with doctors treating it as bronchitis, when the only actual treatment is specialist surgery.

At any rate, I totally applaud the rise of HPV vaccine. No one should have to deal with this crap.
The 2008 financial crisis completely changed what majors students choose
Finance?
Paradise found: Utopia's remake is a welcome dose of TV justice
Excuse my ignorance (I'm trying to understand by googling). I know it's not the same technology but is it the same concept (public/private key) as for example the Estonian government uses for identity and accessing government services?
Put wheels on it and drive it 18mph we see then.
If we assume that the premise here is correct (there is some amount of exodus of technical talent from SV), isn't it still a good thing? My impression is that the result of having all the major tech companies located in one region is the development of a tech cultural bubble. The current tech industry has a hard time understanding and relating to the rest of the country/world. Wouldn't we all be better off if they spread out a bit such that they could better represent the entirety of the world?
What if that single person, the hero that bears the world of this project on his sole shoulders stumbles and falls, falls ill, or simply wants to go on holidays and sit in the desert without cell reception? Stop the world?

I know folks that sit on packed bags, ready to fly to Alaska and hike another 50 miles to fix failing cell infrastructure, but even they have a notion of “i’m on duty now and I’m off duty.” And on top, they get paid a shitload of money for being available just in case.
But it’s hot as fuck...

I grew up there. Every single person I’m blood related to lives there. I could never move back. If I ever leave SF, it’ll only be to go somewhere equally temperate.
Meh. Didn't John Stuart Mill describe the Indian empire as "indoor relief for the British middle classes"?
In case this story is interesting, then definitely watch "Atari: Game Over" documentary (available on Amazon Prime). It deals with the company, the people, and of course the dug.
This of course assumes that you would lose the $25k/year assistance once you begin working.
The Bay Area was utopian before tech. The tech is just a peripheral. It can be argued, though obviously not in this article, that tech ruined utopia. Should it leave, which it won't due to the high desirability of culture and universities, whatever should replace will only be more important to people's lives.
Depends on your state.

In places like CA, you'd probably be fine to offer services to a company that's completely unrelated to your nominal employer, as long as you don't use privileged information from your "main" job.

That being said, have a friendly chat with your own lawyer before doing this.
The site pops up a modal JS popup asking for your e-mail address after a bit of scrolling.

That's an instant tab close and blacklist site for me.

Why the hell are people doing that to their readers and themselves?
4Tb ought to be enough for anybody.
Develop That NodeJs App Inside a Docker Container
Really nice.

> But authorization does not require authentication, and neither does authentication require authorization.

Can you give an example on this?

* There are a handful of typos scattered through the text, about 5-10 errors

* As I was into learning mode, in the middle of the article I didn't initially notice that the server product you recommending was your own. I think a clarification there is in place

* Server-Side Distributed Applications, I don't have a solid conviction but I can't really see how multiple systems with multiple parallell accounts is a common, viable or even realistic situation...
Good question. A Bugatti Chiron MSRP is about 2.5MM, the lego version could be more expensive, if you add all the bricks, the steel frame, the (real) Chiron wheels (40k for the set, I estimate) and the 13,500 (!) hours of work it could get really expensive, really fast.
The question I often ask clients is, are they busy doing other people's work from their mobile emails?

Looking at the types of emails we send/recieve, a trend seems to emerge, some people ask a lot more question using email, and some emails require us to do a lot more answering.

Today's email habits are still rooted in the blackberry culture that created it - there was no structure and framework around email use.

I still believe mobile emails are more beneficial for the people asking the questions, and not so good for people who have to answer answering the questions, often on their own time to keep up.

How does poor planning on someone else's part require you to reply instantly, or within the same business day? Very little should be that critical if the organization is truly-proactive.

Processing several hundred emails a day used to be a norm on a few recent projects. A few trends emerged to manage sanity:

- Poor emailing habits exist. Triaging is incredibly important, on top of GTD. Those 2 minute email replies can really add up, scheduling replies is important.

- The more we try to get ahead and email in our off time, the more replies we recieve in a vicious cycle. The more we send emails. Our time will never scale to meet the available time of all the people we simultaneously communicate with.

- I try to use mobile email only to read emails and to write as little as possible.

- Where I do have to write mobile emails, especially after hours, I consider if I want to be at the top of the person's inbox or not, and that's probably best achieved by scheduling an email to go out at 7 or 8 AM instead of the night before.

- The email scheduling feature in Aquamail is invaluable. I wouldn't be able to switch back to iOS without a comparable email client. Boomerang is handy too for automatic follow ups that can be scheduled at the time of sending.

- Try to centralize communication as much as possible and check email 1-3 times a day. Email can be followed up on, it isn't always the case with Slack. Slack/Chats are extremely valuable for realtime input.

I'd love to hear any other tips or strategies folks are using to manage their email flow.
The whole article is just typical Cato Institute anti-regulation nonsense.
It follows that more human data increases the rate of discovery, ceteris paribus.

The medical profession would need to hold itself, or be held, to a higher standard than supplement marketers are, for the negative outcomes you describe to not materialize. We can't have a repeat of the surge in opioid prescriptions since the 1990s, where doctors have been compensated by pharmaceuticals for prescribing opioids.

Something a long the lines of Bartley Madden's proposal of requiring doctors to document the results of the use of this class of drugs (those proven safe but not proven effective) in an open access database could go a long way in producing useful information.
Have you looked into using Macaroons[1] at all for distributed systems? I used them for a client's multi-site intranet a while back, and it made some of the very complicated parts very simple. I'm just wondering why they never seem to have caught on.

[1] http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/05/21/my-first-macaroon/
someone saw a big number and thought it would make a great headline..
Oh no, lets not reward people who do not value their time, and choose to live further from work than others.
At the very least, webapps should abstract out registration and login processes into a middleware, instead of building their own. This will make it possible to trivially implement single-sign on and sharing auth infra across various tools - especially open-source.
You could probably configure the computer as a bluetooth microphone
Yeah and to top things off they don't appear to store transaction history longer than 90 days so If you need to reach back (like me having to prove I paid my rent) then it becomes a huge hassle, if even possible...
https://www.dw.com/en/how-climate-change-is-increasing-fores...

2-3 years of worst air quality ever? why would I want to live in a place like that? why would anyone? my argument is, forecasts related to climate science is that these issues are likely to get worse over time
> And if I choose to run my own code in my browser why not?? Who's computer is it, after all?

In your moralistic mind or in the courts? Because idealists are not immune to laws they don't like any more than the rest of us. This arm chair idealism is getting ridiculous.
The zeitgeist of local politics has been moving against them. With attacks on commuter buses, rallies, and blame for the housing crises assigned to them.
> Even though there is not much actual work to be done, people still tend to tie their self-worth and social status to employment.

What can replace this though. There is needs to be something that creates a social hierarchy. We can only operate in an hierarchy.
All I could think during reading - is this going to affect my Minecraft server parameters?
Elmo is bae
1143 BTC != 2000 USD

From [1]:

> They changed the color of the bank notes and increased their denomination. Then they said they would lop off three zeros. And when that didn’t seem enough, they announced they would cut off two more.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/world/americas/inflation-...
Hey man, great job! You got some great advice here from the HN crowd and I'd just like to add one more: blog.

Set up your own site and blog about your journey and the lessons you've picked up along the way. Learning is about working and reflection. Blogging is a good platform for that. The very act of writing the content itself is reinforcing your knowledge. Dive into the work, research, reflect, stay hungry and repeat. That's what it's all about. Apart from that, you'll be expanding your network as well. Having some amount of folks following your journey is not just a good way of inspiring oneself, but also gives you an opportunity to inspire others as well.

Anyways, keep it up! You're definitely going places.
Should the internet behind the great firewall be considered a part of the global network, considering how isolated it is? I don't really consider what happens in China to be indicative of global trends. There may be similarities, for sure, but the scale is very different.
I don't think requiring a doctor's note is necessarily bullshit. Special chairs are more expensive so it's a shallow cut to prevent everyone wanting one just because it's available. If they are more comfortable and the two people sitting next to you have one, wouldn't you want one too?
Now obviously there is potential for fraud and so there is some bs as the author notes. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater I can see a reason the company would have this process.
>In an ordinary bike accident -- e.g. swerving for something unexpected, and then falling -- you'll not hit your head on anything.

You can't say that with 100% certainty. There could be a curb there, and you might not catch yourself properly, and hit your head on it.

Sorry, but I'm not going to bet my life on your feelings of "how good people are". Putting on a helmet isn't some kind of huge burden; it's no different than wearing a seat belt in a car.

>Road rash is no fun either but you're not more likely to hit your head on a bicycle than you are when just walking around.

When you're walking around, your head isn't traveling 10-30 mph. The relative likelihood is irrelevant, what's important is velocity.
Do they also mix inventory geographically?
I’m sure the ad industry will find new ways, but the speed increase was pretty big for me after adding a Pi-Hole.
At least in a startup environment, the bus factor risk isn't even on the same order of magnitude as much more tangible stuff like the client walking away. Doubling your labor costs to mitigate a risk that doesn't make the top 3 is just bad business. Sometimes it's not even an option.

You make a deal with your #1s that they will get the fun projects, the paid vacations when the current crisis is over, the completely flexible hours and full autonomy. Anything they want within reason, as long as shit gets done.

It's not for everyone, but I can see where GP is coming from.
Thanks for mentioning this. Since my workflow and even setting up a new laptop, virtual machine, etc is all git based for me, using gists could be a great addition for me.
It's not even carcinogens. Cellular decay is a thing. As we age, our genetics start breaking down due to imperfect copying. Cancer is basically just bugs in DNA's software.
Okay, what's better, from a generalist standpoint? I have a decent but very high-level sketched-out understanding of refcounting, but I know nothing else about what's out there, and would be curious to find out.

Particularly what would work well on x86 and ARM.

An odd and probably completely wrongheaded idea just came to mind: add collectible objects to a lock-free queue in one thread, collect them in another. I wonder if you could do the mark-and-sweep stage across threads too...?
of which requires flash to view the embedded video, shame they can't embed like TechCrunch did.
500,000,000 Bolivars == 2012USD

https://ibb.co/cDcbCp
The original comment never stated that all driving tests everywhere in the US are all a joke. Believing that is ridiculous: the US is a big place and things vary dramatically from locality to locality.