skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My rule of thumb has always been an average of six hours a day, five days a week. You can generally get developers to write code sustainably for 30 hours a week as long as the number and length of working days are limited.

They can still be productive past that with tasks other than writing code, and you can push them past that temporarily to hit a deadline, but if you schedule in more than that on a regular basis, things will start to decline in all kinds of ways – morale, retention, quality, tech debt, documentation, etc.

Periodic meaningful time off is also essential – not just from a human perspective but also an operational point of view. It's better to discover single points of failure when you can plan for it rather than unexpectedly. There's an awful lot of organisations I've seen that don't realise what will happen when their lead dev quits / gets sick / gets hit by a bus. I've seen a few people say "vacation is chaos monkey for people" and it really is (anybody know the original source of that quote, by the way?).
I would like folding chairs that could be made in to standing "beds" through a folding mechanism.

Would not take up an inch of extra space and it would save my joints and back. The angle of airplane chairs is plenty. You could probably get in a 40 degre angle.
It sort of is though. You can have a really large N with rho = 1, just like you can have a really small N with rho=N. They're orthogonal variables, and they both impact the run time.
I'd rather fly somewhere interesting twice a year on a crappy flight than once every 5 years on a business class flight. If anything I'd much rather spend any extra money I might have on a better hotel than on a better flight.

And anyway even with the best possible credit card you have to be pretty rich to spend enough to earn enough points for a transatlantic business class flight for your family.
Ideally it would still stack-allocate where beneficial and only materialize the object once it escapes to the heap, at least that's what graalvm does
Why is DSL so bad in USA? Everywhere else people seem fine with it
> Isn't the title misleading

> Yes. Especially because...
And then there are two reasons and you failed to discern which it is. Either:

1) thing is not essential, you saved the cost

2) a workaround that is inconvenient or costly exists, compare costs

3) you just caused an opportunity cost

In other words, you're breaking the process. Unless you're a process engineer and track both causes and results diligently you should not do that. Ever.
See e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5366351/ , which cites several of the papers that put the last few nails in the coffin. It also inventories the somewhat depressing situation we're currently in.

Learning styles are an oversimplified theory that many serious psychologists had suspected to be bollocks for more than twenty years, if not more. However, it's simple enough that it was easy to adopt by large companies and resource- (and knowledge-)constrained HR departments, which is why it's still given a lot of attention in these circles.

In 2009, the APS conducted a fairly comprehensive (by psychology standards, at least...) of the existing literature ( http://steinhardtapps.es.its.nyu.edu/create/courses/2174/rea... ) and unsurprisingly found that all except one of the very few studies on the subject that actually had a proper methodology had negative findings. Its conclusion was that there was no adequate evidence base to justify incorporating learning styles assessments into general educational practice.

In short: it is not, and never was, a viable scientific theory, and no serious scientist is treating it as such anymore.
Oh my god, I did not know that Poe's law applied to corporate marketing now. I could not distinguish this from a parody song like Weird Al Yankovic's - "Mission Statement" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
I gotta try that. I wake up in the morning at 6 to get a few productive hours in. But when I get to work, I usually just end up wasting time on social media and HN. I don't regain productivity until after lunch.
Is there are opportunity for a non-tracked credit card? Would it even be possible? I don't mean anonymous, I just mean "We promise not to share your data period, not even anonymized" but we still have your name and address and phone number on your account.

But even if some company offered that all the retailers could still share their data with some aggregator which would effective work around your privacy oriented card not sharing data.

I'd love not to be tracked and would switch cards immediately if they offered the same services I get now and offered zero tracking. I suspect I'm in the minority but maybe with the right PR blitz you could get regular people to switch.

"Does your credit card spy on you? Do they sell all your purchase data to advertisers so they can target you with ads? Yes? Welcome to 'PrivacyCard'"

or something

Next YC batch?
How about: we have achieved the right work-life balance now with ~40 hours a week as a species, a balance that allows us to be most creative. We don't work to survive anymore (with the universal basic income on the horizon), we work to show off our creativity. Take artists as an example, they don't reduce their work load just because they can. I'm not even sure who spends more time at work: a startup engineer or a [successful] musician.

So no, we'll always need room for creativity and show-off, whatever it takes, be it 40, 80, or 30 hours per week on average throughout a year. And no, it's not going to converge to 0 because it would mean pretty much the end of the evolutionary path for our species.
>Salaried status at multinationals is the new citizenship

This is pushing the analogy too far and destroys credibility for the article.
Field Theory of Swords (2015)
TBH it was a quick search on Google and I don’t know the details. What I wanted to point out was the parent thought that:

> The EU unlike the US isn't a contiguous block.
Helmets! What a joke. How many people get injured on a freaking scooter because they didn't have a helmet on?
Crashing out of execution doesn't really seem like an actionable attack vector, unless that exception bubbles all the way to the application invocation.
> But even if some company offered that all the retailers could still share their data with some aggregator which would effective work around your privacy oriented card not sharing data.

If you buy in a brick and mortar store the retailer would not have your address, only your card number. And a privacy-focusd CC company would allow you to generate new numbers for each transaction so the retailers can't use that to merge datasets.
What you're describing sounds exactly like a motivated worker. The OP and my comment is about incurring a selection mechanism for unmotivated workers.
I wouldn't mind paying a larger monthly/yearly fee if this was a thing.
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Also, he had close relatives still living there.
> Not communism or anything close to that, though, we already know that crap has no chance of working.

Communism was never tried. The experiments never got over the socialism phase. I bet that we going to end up with communism down the line somewhere when we overcome resource scarcity. See Star Trek for example. Currently socialism did not work at all tough.
The only thing I learnt from this story is the NYTimes has no idea what's happening in Germany.
Indeed, in terms of digital effects. And obviously there was experimentation with analog processing earlier than that, John Lennon's use of ADT on his vocals with the Beatles comes to mind and of course other analog effects like reverb go back to the 1940's. But I gave an example going back to the 1930's in my other comment above. The Boswells were one the biggest recording act in the world in the early 1930's and they didn't need any of that stuff.

Of course musicians have been able to splice their parts together since multitrack came into wide usage, eg. the guitar solo in Stairway to Heaven. But I kind of feel like
use of digital correction is a bit overdone right now.

I appreciate I'm stepping into mostly subjective territory here though. It's like if somebody said to Hendrix, "hey Jimi, tune your guitar man". Or told Knopfler to stop playing dead notes, or Slash to stop missing notes altogether while not jumping off a drum riser. They could do those things but then to me it wouldn't feel like them.

I don't think I'm the only person who feels this way, but it's definitely personal & subjective.
Shouldn't all those shilling posts include disclaimer: 'Includes paid promotion'?
Sometimes you can see it on YouTube videos, but I haven't seen it anywhere on Instagram so far.

Also this situation reminds me about this 'marketing' strategy some companies do, that they are hiring salesmen on some easy-to-break contracts with sole purpose them selling product (most of the time it's some financial bs or insurances) to friends and family, then when their sales drop - fire them.
I'd very much like to know when the blackened buildings were photo'd. Something more precise than "before the 60s"

Also (2015)
From my uses of open source, the problems I have encountered are:
1)Marketing, people don't know what people don't know. Most people are not computer savvy they want solutions not just OSes. People should know how open source can solve their problems. Look at RedHat, Linux for backend servers etc. these are successes in my opinion.

2)Bugs, Most open source software have bugs but that is not the main issue. The main issue is when you have a bug who do you turn to windows is made by Microsoft. I don't know the developer of the open software I use. eg. Wordpress is open-source, Auttomatic is always patching and updating
No. The title says clearly that one voter voted against Musk.

Additionally, it's clear the vote went the other way, because otherwise the headline would have been very different.
The site says "soot". But I wonder if these are limestone or marble faced, and it's mainly from SOx pollution.
How did generics break backwards compatibility?
Actually, my main concern is the risk created by coupling one very and expensive project (the carriers) to the design of a particular model of new aircraft.

At least with CATOBAR there is the option of falling back to other designs.
I've found it's quite possible to work 40ish hours a week at high paying tech jobs if:

- I'm ok if others work longer hours. Some people's competitive advantage is working long hours, and when I was younger, same. At 5:30 just get up, say goodbye to your mates and leave, don't seek approval or apologize for leaving

- I focus on being productive, and am willing to spend a little time each Sunday evening planning out my week so I can hit the ground running. I'm focused and working immediately when I arrive, starting with a 25 minute pomodoro. Avoid burning your best brain reading interesting news.

- I'm very organized and comply with all project management practices. My tickets are pristine and up to date.

- I break up larger tickets into smaller ones. It's clear I'm continually getting shit done by closed tickets and commits (note:this does not mean bullshit commits intended to pad stats, just avoiding packing too much work into a single ticket or commit). Commit at least every 3 days.

- I'm hungry to continually improve my skills and spend 30 to 60 minutes in morning at work learning stuff 3-4 days a week. I don't ask, I just do it. Don't be shy about summarizing ways you have become more skilled relevant to job in performance reviews

- I take accountability for my code and am willing to help outside 9-5 if I'm blocking others, but take care to avoid this by writing well tested software and avoiding committing near EOD especially late on Fridays

- avoid people managing and meetings. A trap to avoid is only being left with 2 hours of coding time per day leaving the evenings as only time to focus

- care about your teammates and show curiosity in their expertise. Proactively take some time to help others in balance with individual work. Don't be shy about mentioning these activities in standups or performance reviews

Ultimately I'm very productive and this is recognized. Sure I could be a "superstar" by working weekends but I just don't make a big deal about the fact that I pretty much work 9-5:30 and get my work done.

A note on finding a match: feel out work life balance during interviews. Just sounding curious about the values and how people tend to work can help you filter out mismatches. There are definitely companies that are explicitly incompatible with 9-5:30.
A good example of "loopy belief propagation".
reminds of nvs https://github.com/jasongin/nvs
Definitely. JAL's business class is a cubicle with a full bed.
https://www.jal.co.jp/en/inter/service/business/seat/skysuit...
When a driverless car has an accident
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In Germany direct debit (pull) is common and the EU is currently rolling out instant wire transfers (push). Either way cuts out the third party as you're paying directly from your bank account and banks are far more regulated wrt. privacy.
I'm big and weigh more than average - and seat width has never been a problem.

My problem is the length of my thighs. I can't really put them straight, they act as natural recline blockers. That's the nasty part - it's not about being comfortable, I have paid for extra leg room. I just demand that the damn planes be large enough to sit without pain. I don't demand comfort.
How great this was is that this is still very, very funny despite me not knowing jack crap about baseball (as a non-american).

The last time TNG was up on HN someone recommended Angie Tribeca and I have to say, after a handful of episodes, it's the best replacement I've seen so far.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3597790/
Good, for them.
Quality of life is overhead VCs will not pay for.
But then, what would be the hiring criteria?

Literally anything apart from someone's ability to dance. Instead of needing someone who can sing, act, look good, and dance, you now only need someone who can sing, act, and look good. And AI will eventually replace all the other talents too I guess.

This is why some people worry about the effect of AI on jobs.
70+ hours a week is a lot. Any chance at all of carving out half a day even for sitting in a cafe and letting your mind wander?
You can still read any byte you want by decompressing the pointer and using it as normal.

And why would you want to read raw bytes from an object to hash it? What requires this in Java?
Your phone should randomise the Mac when searching for access points.
> am wondering if emacs might have advantages

Fresh mu/mu4e user here. The advantages over mutt/neomutt are that your e-mail now becomes the part of the same consistent UX of Emacs, and then every improvement to any of your workflows in Emacs is automatically inherited by your e-mail workflow. This depends on how much you like customizing Emacs and/or writing Emacs Lisp to solve your problems. Some practical examples include:

- org-mu4e & org-notmuch will let you link directly to your e-mail messages from your org-mode files; potentially useful if you're using org-capture to quickly add TODOs and notes.

- it's trivial to add any kind of template responses, template subresponses, etc.

- you can make Emacs automatically do things in response to particular e-mails, or you can compose/send e-mails directly from any elisp code

Emacs is a fully programmable environment with lots of existing software packages and the best interoperability story I've ever seen.
Best AI bot out there! Startups with no HR, need to have this!
Funnily enough, Google Pay (and Apple Pay even earlier) is doing exactly that [1]. The merchant is only seeing a token that will be connected to the actual card number in the credit card network.

Google is now closing the circle to get to know exactly what was bought - blowing all privacy advantages away.

1: https://support.google.com/pay/merchants/answer/6345242?hl=e...
OK. But why do we care how BlackRock voted? What makes them newsworthy, regarding Tesla or whatever? I could google it, but the article doesn't make it very clear.
This smells of false dichotomy. Does a suicide terrorist choose to die for his individual "good" (sic), or for his ideology = the "group good"?

In reality, an "individual" and his social context are inseparable. You and your environment are one, the separation is entirely linguistic, devised by that talking homunculus between your ears. "Individual" and "society" are just words that suppress some nuances of physical reality in favour of a more actionable world representation; a useful skill that evolved over time, not a fundamental property of the universe. Physically speaking, there's no such thing as a gene, animal or society: they're useful language abstractions, simplified models of the world that exist in your brain and that we learned to encode/decode across brains.

You don't even need suicide terrorists to illustrate this non-separation. Why do individuals (genes, animals, societies, whatever) die at all? Wouldn't you choose to live forever, instead of dying on the altar of "reproduction and evolution"? Who gives a shit about evolution, at their own level of survival?

And yet, as far as we know, all individuals go out of business, across all levels of complexity. Death is a strange "unselfish choice" they all make, if you accept this artificial separation. It's precisely your "a single member of the herd (maybe the oldest/weakest) to sacrifice itself and save the rest of the herd from taking additional casualties"!

It's the same principle in action. From the universal perspective, the "herd" is a net decrease in free energy, and something's gotta give for the show to go on. They must all obey the laws of thermodynamics. In order to increase entropy over ever larger spans of space and time, local pockets of orderliness have evolved that we call life (matter, culture, whatever). These pockets trade a local temporary decrease in entropy for a long-term global increase, cf Maxwell's demon. A global net acceleration, rather than an exception.
atop > htop

https://www.atoptool.nl/
I think you make a good point. I can't sing well either and I love to track multiple instruments in my home studio, and I couldn't do that nearly as well without modern technology.

I guess I'd rather listen back to my crappy vocals and think hard about what I didn't like about them though, and work on improving that rather than try to make it something it's not with pitch correction. But everyone has a different way of working that works for them I suppose, which is why I ended my original comment with "each to their own".
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CGI could do it for quite a while now, just not at a price competitive with actual dancers. I'd think of this more as CGI automation than dancer automation. For dancers, only the video production part of their market is threatened, the stage part remains unaffected.
Implicit in this is the idea that if country X invests a significantly larger amount in research than country Y, then X will have significantly more output than Y. I don't buy this. And the reason I don't is because my own country, a small one, gets so much of its input from the US, that a doubling of research spending probably wouldn't do much of a corresponding difference (not produce many more Feynmans, I'm afraid). Culture within the country (e.g. attitude towards disruptors) and how the institutions are set up matters a huge amount.
China to genetically screen its athletes to ensure the best compete in Olympics
Judging by the cars I'd say mid- to late-60s. I can see both Mk 1 and Mk 2 Ford Cortinas in several shots.
We know that RedHat is aiming to support Java 11 LTS for a minimum of 6 years and OpenJDK8 till the end of life of RedHat7.x

Source https://access.redhat.com/articles/3409141
For just listing without additional info, I'm good with just the file tree. With '-l' it can show bunch of stuff.

$ l (exa --tree --level 1)

https://i.imgur.com/RxppCIt.png

$ l2 (exa --tree --level 2)

https://i.imgur.com/Mba79iz.png
Oh I agree. I think it's possible to dislike or even hate all the over-processed and over-produced commercial music that's been coming out for the last 2-3 decades while at the same time accepting that there are others out there who might genuinely like that kind of music.

I definitely understand your point about Hendrix, Knopfler and Slash. There's something beautiful about virtuoso playing that still sounds "raw", you know what I mean? I grew up obsessed with shred guitar, and there was a lot of that in the 80s/90s. There are younger guitar players on youtube these days who are miles ahead in terms of technical proficiency and production/effects but some of that authenticity is lost.

I recently saw a video of Ritchie Blackmore talking about Satriani's playing and how it's almost too technically perfect and loses some of the soul. I tend to agree. I have great respect for both of them though.
Ambiguity of English language to logic in translation. `Congress voted to X` means that X is planned to be done. `I voted for X as President` does not mean that X is planning to be President.
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AI couldn't be used for critical task, in which mistakes are not allowed at all.
What's its real use cases ?
I have a theory that as corporations get bigger, they become more like dysfunctional communist governments.
No, “A voted to Y” where A is a voter (or a subset of all voters) means “A cast its vote in support of position Y”, and doesn't say anything about the outcome of the vote.

This is syntactically identical, though disambiguated by semantic context, from the same structure where A identifies the electorate rather than one or more voters that do not make up the whole of the electorate. In that case, “A votes to Y means that the electorate named held a vote in which Y was the winning alternative.”

As this was a Tesla shareholder vote, “Blackrock voted to...” is an example of the first usage, while “Tesla shareholders voted to...” would be an example of the second.
Why n/2? If the array is, for example, sorted in the reverse order, then there is no monotonous run at all, in which case I believe the algorithm considers each element from the array being a run in itself, giving n runs.
If they do, I hope they get caught and have to pay 4% of their global revenue under GDPR.
Meltdown & co. only become relevant once you can execute on a CPU. If an adversary can run software on your industrial robot, you are already compromised.
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I work for a company mainly based in The Netherlands that gets a ~$400 million USD/yr tax cut through WBSO. Search for "Innoation Box" here: http://ir.bookingholdings.com/node/23191/html

It's definitely a huge benefit, but as far as I know this doesn't subtract from government budgets for basic research in The Netherlands (but maybe I'm wrong).

It's basically a tax benefit the government uses as an incentive to get more knowledge workers into the country and to stimulate that sort of economic activity in general.
Most people complaining are probably those people who have to fly a lot for work. From a psychological perspective I imagine that a flight is a lot less enjoyable if what's waiting for you on the other side is a series of sales meetings compared to if it's that 2 week vacation you've been looking forward to all year.
Actually it works if you use a recent eclipse ejc for compiling the JSPs. i.e. tomcat 8+ will be ok with such feature use like default methods.
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