skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having the same settings/history/bookmarks/extensions shared between my main laptop, my cheapo 10" notebook I use when in on the beach or in a plane etc ..., and my phone.

Being able, in three clicks, to re-open on my computer a tab I closed on my phone a couple hours ago.

For me that's it.
Any specific books you would recommend?

Doing a quick search on Amazon I found:
Toyota Production System: An Integrated Approach to Just-In-Time
https://www.amazon.com/dp/143982097X/ref=sr_ob_1?ie=UTF8&qid...

Taiichi Ohnos Workplace Management: Special 100th Birthday Edition
https://www.amazon.com/Taiichi-Ohnos-Workplace-Management-Bi...

The Toyota Mindset: The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno
https://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Mindset-Commandments-Taiichi-O...

There seem to be handful directly from Taiichi Ohno (including a management book), and then many that refer to him and his process. Guidance would be appreciated!
The US dominates rankings made by the US. How surprising.
Thanks. Was in the middle of my (week-long) honeymoon then, and didn't browse HN. Apparently Google didn't send me an e-mail about it, and they don't advertise the shutdown within the Inbox UI itself (I'm actively using it for my primary mail both on desktop and mobile, and didn't notice a thing).
For me it's typically weighted less on the type system and more the fact that I don't need to wait for a compiler or use any fancy tools to get a quick idea realized.
FPGAs have been used in the industry for decades, basically every time you need high throughput and/or very low latencies and you don't have the volume to justify making an ASIC then FPGAs and CPLDs are the way to go.

The article is not really talking about that though, it's more about having FPGAs in mainstream desktop computers. This is still far from a reality, even if Intel seems to be pushing for it.
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Also, importantly, you'd then have younger kids getting out of school much earlier, which would require parents to pay for after-school care. And parents with younger kids are often younger and therefore generally making less money...
Yeah. It happened in the middle of my week-long break from HN, and the Internet in general.
My alternative is not free :-(
I use FastMail and pay for mine and my wife's accounts. It may not be for everybody, but it is one choice, and I'm a happy customer.

It is by far a "No bullshit" email service. They do one thing, and very well. It's simple, fast and reliable.
Interesting that Hypercritical is listed in "Best News Podcast" even though the last episode was in 2012.

It was a great podcast but slightly mis-categorized.
> Look. Every time an entire region has an issue on aws all the regions are fucked.

This is not true. I've watched some full region outages going on while our systems were chugging along just fine. I have also seen temporary network issues in one region(that caused our monitoring to go haywire) where others were completely unaffected.

What tends to happen is that AWS locates a bunch of services in us-east-1 (Route53 being one example). This may knock out the control plane for a bunch of services, which shouldn't be a thing.
I'm not precisely sure what you're referring to. Can you cite the precise problem discussed in the postmortem, and how, specifically, you think it could have been better designed?

And how could your perfect model, whatever that is, survive a similar catastrophic DC failure without availability zones?
It's being sunset: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17848500/google-inbox-shu...
>Well, in my experience, academics often write with LaTeX because that's what they know how to use

It's all they know how to use because it's the only thing that actually works to produce results they need with minimal pain.

And you might not need to program in LaTeX, but everyone has their custom macros.

Word really hasn't changed that much.
IEEE tracks a vast number of open standards and specifications (e.g., Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth). I guess the comment was pointing out that there is a degree of openness in EE.
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I worked for a similar company previously as well— a Toyota subsidiary.

While I largely agree with you, in North America I can't help but think that some of the principles are sometimes mis-applied.

Related to the principle of Kaizen, I was witness to continuous improvement being used as justification to continually demand more of employees to the point where practices like you've mentioned were actually discouraged. If your machine stopped for that long, management and maintenance would be flagged down automatically. 20 to 30 minutes of downtime in a day would have been flat-out unacceptable no matter the reason.

The cause being that if your workflow increased in efficiency and accuracy to the point where manufacturing goals were being matched and or beat, the goals would increase without investigation. after a few iterations of that, operators would find themselves always below the threshold of required output.

This was often used as justification to let employees go to fill the positions with temp staffers. Keep in mind this was over a decade ago and was local NA management's initiatives.

So I guess like anything it has to be applied properly to see the proclaimed benefits.
Anyone know why some non-Ask HN's show on the ask page.
How is their security? Maybe people like to forget, but security breaches are a thing, and when they occur you get the privilege of opening up your data to the entire world, not just to the NSA.

Google, for whatever else you want to say about them, have first-class security.
In regards to, "Why do I need satellite radio when I can just listen to a podcast, or preload a bunch of music on my phone?" you don't if you only listen to music or content accessibly on your preferred streaming service. Their strength is in their specific content, most notably Howard Stern to note one. If and when Apple Music/Spotify gets and/or can take away that big talent then yes Sirius will eventually be dead in the water. I use Sirius for things like CNN. I tried using CarPlay app for that and didn't work reliably enough compared to the simplicity of just knowing Sirius in car is always there and always work even if ones phone dies or any other random situations. Sirius has horrible customer support and they deserve what is coming to them, but still think they have a lot of gas left in in them as long as they continue to retain their headliners and come preloaded in new cars with free trials.
That's a bit unfair. Just because those 2 things are true doesn't mean that you are left guessing. You can estimate dilution per round reasonably well. You can guess the options (common stock) allocation per round and you will KNOW the preferred allocation per round.

That doesn't make it meaningless. You can still calculate what your expected return will be based on a given valuation at exit.

Here, I can even make it easy for you: $0.

Don't take a job at an early stage startup based on financial reward! But also, the question is valid. Don't take less equity than you "deserve". The employers have a huge information advantage here. Does YC provide guidance on how to allocate equity to early employees?
I think something important is being glossed over by this article: "...distributing the best school start times more evenly..." Can someone explain to me what makes a start time "best"?

There was a section describing parents whose elementary school kids would have to start earlier, and they didn't like that because the kids would have to go to bed earlier and it would be tough to rearrange their work schedules to accommodate. But won't this also be true when their kids are in high-school? If they can't cope now, how will they cope then?

I always though it was obvious that elementary school and high school start times should just be swapped because in my experience elementary aged kids always wake up far earlier on their own.
To this day I haven't understood why people use the desktop client.

Browser client is fantastic and has all the features of the desktop client (including desktop notifications, if they are your thing).
Your point is interesting, and it’s how I’ve designed a lot of APIs when I’m not sure how I’ll end up needing the class or function the most: slightly less ergonomic in the know use case, but across the board it has a higher “median” ergonomicity. A third alternative of course would be to add a method to the constructor, specifying this behavior (e.g. write_depth=1).

However, it appears that the “locals, globals, builtins” lookup was the design constraint this was intended for, and the core of Python seems to prefer new classes over compact functionality. For example look at OrderedDict not just being an “ordered=“ keyword only parameter (ordered) on dict.
I take issue with your conclusion that "if the workers are correctly concluding this their best option, then cheers to Mechanical Turk for improving their lives to some extent". A less generous interpretation is that Amazon has identified a cohort of people with limited employment options and found a way to effectively pay them less than minimum wage.

Is any job better than none to an unemployed person? Maybe — but we need money to live, and labor laws exist precisely to prevent employers from exploiting that.
Presumably they would find out about those costs relatively fast.

But I mean those costs have always been part of the reason freelancers are more expensive than employees (the other being the increased flexibility).

What seems to happen now is that, increasingly, free lancers are cheaper, which suggests that employees are paid above the price they could expect, if there weren't rules about minimum wage.
In Canada, you get a 20-25% surcharge on your fines called the "Victim Fine Surcharge". It goes directly into a fund that pays out to victims of crime.

Aside from that, the fines go to the jurisdiction that charged you, which can then be used for whatever the jurisdiction wants; road repairs, school improvements, landscaping, administration, etc. etc. So if you were charged with a provincial fine, the money would go to the province, if you were charged with a regional fine, the money would go to the region.

In a way, that's a "tax-refund" pool, isn't it? We don't need to spend as much tax money on these things because the fines partially fund them.
...

We don't really care what you say or do because we're going to collect the data anyway. But hey, at least we're honest!

And you don't see reason for alarm?

What exactly qualifies as reason for alarm for you out of curiosity?
My wife's family were dissidents in Czechoslovakia, and they've mentioned western shortwave broadcasts as being part of their political climate between 1968 and 1989. But that's a small sample size.

For sure, a shortwave broadcast isn't going to change the majority opinion the way 24/7 propaganda can. But it can influence a few intellectuals, who in turn influence others. It's impossible to do a randomized controlled trial to measure its effectiveness.
Can ProPuboica/MarkUp investigate how Apple never comes under the scanner of anti trust regulators either in the US or EU, while Google, Microsoft get fingered for far less. For instance, Android, which is open source, has been fined by the EU, while EU app developers have consistently complained against Apple's app store authorization and related policies onto deaf ears.
Thanks; it's very helpful to know the ins and outs from a practitioner. I am confused by a couple of them:

> if your provider get a subpoena or gets hacked, then a push request will make your device connect with the password, and boom - access granted

If the message is decrypted only on my device, then that wouldn't matter. I'm guessing endpoint decryption is not what you (or maybe the GP) are talking about, but I don't know what you mean.

> we don't let people store master passwords on their devices any more, because they get leaked due to hacked devices, so we require people to create app passwords. This would be in direct opposition to many of the other safety things that are done

What is an "app password"? If it's just a password stored in an app (and then what is a non-app password? one in a text file?), why wouldn't it be as vulnerable to device hacking?

.....

Also, a couple of genuine questions about what's possible:

> Impementing per-message-encryption would turn us into a dumb blob store. The whole point of FastMail is the value add - fast search, ability to deal with a lot of email quickly, etc.

Email messages arrive in the clear, unavoidably; new messages are always vulnerable. Why not do the processing then - spam filtering, build a search index of hash values, etc.? Then permanently (from the server's perspective) encrypt the old, stored messages, and give endpoint/user the only means of decryption.

> users lose their passwords all the fricking time

> we don't let people store master passwords on their devices any more, because they get leaked due to hacked devices

How do the end-to-end secure messaging applications, such as Signal, handle those issues, if anyone knows?
I don't think so: the Younger Dryas interlude was well more than 100,000 years after this even took place.
Wow that's a really great talk, thanks for sharing!
Slack replied to this: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/1044260602242363394

The team is focused on making the experience of working in email and Slack seamless. Unfortunately, we're not able to support the existing products. Apologies about any inconvenience this causes.
You don't have to use sms as your backup authentication mechanism. TOTP and 1 time use codes are both better options.
I just want to thank you for doing this work.

Real-world problems are so much messier and more frustrating than the clean abstractions many of us choose to work with. But this is really meaningful work that should have concrete social benefit. We should all hope to do good as you have.
We do not police people’s political views outside of Rust, and we have a number of people from all over the political spectrum doing work. Including people farther right than Republicans.

Politics discussion is off-topic, and so it’s geneally a non-issue. I don’t discuss my political beliefs, and neither does anyone else.
Does anyone have experience with cloud-hosted FPGAs (e.g. on AWS), and if so would you recommend this platform to get started with FPGA programming?
Imagine yourself tracing a set of paths that covered every street in a large metropolis, obeyed traffic orientation in every street, and were readable by others.

No further Requirements. As many or as few paths as you'd like, no worries about efficiency, sure you can go through the same streets many times if it helps. But needs to cover every street, obey orientation, and be readable by others.

Does not sound easy, does it?

Now, let's add a few more Requirements...
Thanks for the reasonable analysis.

Do you think that, if climate change research hadn't been actively suppressed by the petroleum industry, we would still be on our current usage trajectory, and Exxon still would have made their $20 bn profit this year?
You can self host and deliver to those addresses. Without troubles.
Yes, but fortunately not their popular search site.
I'm guilty of this, because words are so meaningless to me. I'd rather have single lettre or glyph than ~clear yet ambiguous words.
Do you have other suggestions for media for children? I've got a niece and nephew I'd love to be able to point in the right direction.
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The hard part AFAICT, is the modeling of the chip for timing analysis. Whereas all of the timing information is explicitly defined for programmers on CPUs, that timing information (and the models of how FPGAs are binned) is extremely proprietary for FPGA vendors, to the point of being treated as a trade secret. Since they use custom cell layouts, I've heard that they consider the timing information core to their IP. If another vendor got them, the could conceivably see what interesting points are optimized past a foundary's standard cells because of the tighter timing guarantees than they might should have.

Now, I'm personally of the opinion that their competitors have taken their chips into one of those nifty 3d xrays and know the exact layout of the cells anyway, but it's hard to push that idea.
Your point is valid but the person you replied to was specifically asking about Boston. I admittedly don’t know a lot about the public transit infrastructure in Boston but I have a hard time believing it’s less extensive than e.g. Seattle, where public high school students use the standard bus system, with the school district paying for special limited routes where the normal bus routes lack coverage.
I've been using the desktop client for keyboard shortcuts, how's the web app doing on that front?
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It's built into my new car's stereo system, and it's as quick and easy to use as an FM radio. Using my smartphone and various services takes more effort.
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> I've yet to see any evidence that Linus' "abuse" actually hurt anyone in any way.

I have a feeling this will get dragged down into hair-splitting over what "hurt anyone" means, but I've known or known of several people whose careers were negatively affected. Sage Sharp comes immediately to mind. Some of the people who have tried to get security or real-time-scheduling patches in, only to met with a wall of invective, also come to mind. Sure, they probably went on to do their work elsewhere or maintain it as private patches, and were content doing so, but I'd still say that denied them recognition they deserved and also represent missed opportunities for Linux itself. I've personally stayed away from working on the Linux kernel, despite having worked on kernels since before Linux existed and thus knowing both the technical and cultural issues involved, because I just didn't want to be around him or Al Viro or some of the others I'd have to work with to get patches in.

So I have a different perspective than you. How is that "revisionist"? Couldn't that label be applied to your "nothing bad ever happened" version just as easily?

> The idea that Linus had to change strikes me as odd

Whether he had to or not, he felt it was beneficial to do so. Maybe those who idolize him should consider that he might have been right this time too.
I'd love to see this Intersectionality analysis in court. "But your honor, I'm a female Korean immigrant, so you must give my argument more weight!"

I don't think the author would disagree with anything you have said.

Your comment would imply that because she is a "female Korean immigrant", she is arguing for the proposition that law schools should make special allowances for the more easily traumatized students. To the contrary, and what makes this an interesting piece, she is arguing that fairness requires that men and women be treated equally: "I am a cold-calling Socratic professor of criminal law who devotes about the same number of hours in class to sex offenses as to homicide. The subjects are comparable in their interest, difficulty, complexity, and relevance in the world in which we live. I treat them with the same level of seriousness and rigor."

She follows up by explaining why she doesn't believe in trigger warnings: "the idea that professors should take upon themselves to give some kind of a quasi-medical warning about trauma that students might experience because of the class is borderline irre- sponsible. In fact, some psychologists have claimed that trigger warnings may be counterproductive, because they may prime students to experience what is coming as more emotionally difficult than it would otherwise be, ratcheting up anxiety and pain."
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I see the example use case is exactly the same as the one given in the python documentation [1]. Any other practical use cases?

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/collections.html#collect...
The real question we should be asking instead is whether we should be backstopping these private properties with government funded insurance. Remove the backstop of government insurance and the market will quickly solve this problem.
> So encrypting amateur radio comms is illegal in the US? Is there a particular reason for this?

Encrypting amateur radio is illegal practically world-wide — every ITU member state bans it.
I also have extensive experience with chronic abuse. I would argue strongly that abusers do not love those they harm. Abuse is not an expression of love.

If you want to argue that abusers think they are loving those they harm, perhaps because they don't know any better, perhaps because they themselves received abuse disguised as "love" during their formative years, then I could agree with that. But love doesn't cause harm to people. Full stop. Not even "tough love".

In my experience it has actually been quite liberating to realize that AbuserX does not and did not love me. It's really confusing to be in this middle ground where I think they love me and yet they continue to deliberately harm me. This leads to a very twisted version of love that exposes one to more dysfunctional, abusive relationships that repeat the original cycle.

Break the cycle. Repeat after me. If somebody is abusing you, it's not love.
Meanwhile, rich parents work jobs with flexible hours and poor parents are hourly with potential catastrophic penalties for missing work. Theoretically, you're correct (from a parent preference perspective, at least). In practice, even the rich parents would balk at the dollar amount required to make it worth it.

That also completely ignores the fact that what you propose would deepen the existing structural inequalities for students, and presupposes that schools are and should remain stratified by income. I vehemently disagree with this unstated premise.
But in the context of the parent; that refusing to zone residential and commercial together makes for a requirement to drive; we shouldn't ignore that, by having uninsured drivers that won't be able to pay, the other 85% are paying for it.

tldr; Our zoning is horrible, and it's not just because owning a car is cheaper, it's more because the people with car insurance subsidize those without. Also, police and criminalizing the poor.
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Wow. It seems to save a lot of boilerplate code for ETL.
Hey HN, for some reason I decided last night I needed to launch and build a project. I wrote a log as I was doing it, took me a few hours I started going further down the rabbit hole till I just decided to up and launch it, you can read what I was doing as it was going along here, https://medium.com/@nadermx/did-i-ship-today-b6696ed04abe
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There's something you don't understand about Kentucky: The huge economic divide between Eastern Kentucky (Appalachia) and the rest of the state. Appalachia clings to being a coal based economy, and it's been failing them for decades now. According to the state Government, as of August 2018 the unemployment rate for Eastern Kentucky is much higher than the national average at 7.8%: https://kystats.ky.gov/kylmi/index/

Taking the state wide average masks how bad things are in Appalachia. Eastern Kentucky cannot catch up to the rest of the state until politicians stop lying to them and lay bare the sobering reality: Coal isn't coming back.