skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...the vast majority of summer Fridays were spent in deep work, strategic thinking, or learning a new skill. When the team was surveyed each Monday, no one ever reported taking the Friday fully off."

This made me chuckle. What do you expect employees to say in that situation?
The physicists’ library
> flood market with cheap devices

To some extent that already happens with safety regulations, & imports/sales of these products are illegal. That doesn’t mean that you should just give up.
Instead of firing/hiring to create consideration, why not just attach a $1k bonus to the non-compete? I'm sure after spending millions on an acquisition they could have a few thousand more set aside to give themselves a good first impression.
"lol" - San Franciscan
If you are a paying customer, they don't (source: am a subscriber, never seen this). If you don't pay for a subscription, they need to monetize you in some other way- like by showing you more valuable ads.

You can get a very cheap online-only subscription if you have Amazon Prime, strong recommend.
Sweet!

That is some nice code, many thanks for the link.
How is wage growth getting higher because of higher rates?
91% for millionaires, like the good ol' days.
Forgive a related question, but I have never understood why quantitively easing was used to get demand into the economy by buying back bonds. Surely the money will just get reinvested in stocks or other bonds and not stimulate demand? Buy back a rich persons Ferrari and they just go and buy a Bently instead.

Why not do the obvious, which is to give every adult some free money each month? Most people are not rich and so most of it gets spent very quickly on goods/service? I live in Australia and this happened back in 2008 to stave off a recession. I remember twice getting cash in the bank account without having to do anything! I am not an economist so forgive me if this is a banal question.
This combined with student loan debt is disaster in making

https://goodlyapp.com/clock
> A group health plan or a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall

Well, too bad those same folks have been working tirelessly to make sure there are fewer people who are covered by health insurance to take advantage of this thing.
There’s a YouTube talk from Uncle Bob where he foretells a future in which software kills some people and then regulations are put into place governing software development.

I think he was close in his vision. It will be Facebook and Google and millions of IOT devices that push us to that future.

Big companies won’t be hurt, but your startup better be able to afford the certs or too bad.

https://youtu.be/ecIWPzGEbFc
Part of the original notion of 'brands' was that they convey a promise to the buyer about the nature and quality of a product. It's a betrayal of the consumers' trust if the franchised version does not live up to the original brand's standards
I created a vhdx file on windows 2016 server, formatted it with ReFS and copied it to my PC. And I mount the vhdx as D:. It's such a silly way to do something.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QZSbK_SMkf0

I'd be inclined to agree. Granted, these people aren't fashion industry insiders...probably afficionados and possibly trying to break into fashion, but it certainly shows how fashion attracts the fake it til you make it persona. Whoever says whatever they say in the most confident and convincing way can be taken as an authority figure.
> Why not do the obvious, which is to give every adult some free money each month?

The federal reserve isn't equipped to do this; the federal government would need to do it (as it has before using the IRS to distribute stimulus checks). The federal reserve is equipped to buy up as many bonds as necessary to put a floor under assets.

EDIT: Could the federal reserve assume an aggressive policy posture and expand out of its swim lane in creative ways [1]? Sure, but it hasn't shown the initiative to do that.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-should-forget-about-it... (Federal Reserve should give everyone checking accounts, new study says)
There are a ton of problems here:

* From the documentation "No quotes needed for values ... Use dual quotes ... Use triple quotes"

* You haven't solved the problem of describing what the columns are. In fact, its worse because you are encouraging people to put units in the field

* Spaces matter! What if the data is literally " Word " vs "Word". This format makes them both the same.

* For some reason, the header row is removed. The only thing in a CSV that provides structure is gone. In the first "improved" example, I have no way of knowing what the columns meaning without them.

The only good improvement in this is the "#" convention as a comment. If we could get every CSV parser in future to agree (we already can't get them to agree now) to ignore lines that start with "#" then CSV's would be vastly improved.
Much like how they only put Coca Cola products in the Coca Cola vending machines and how they only put Pepsi products in the Pepsi vending machines (but still own both), the Starbucks people get their special snowflake beans and the people opposite in Costa get their special snowflake beans.

Out the back, when the big lorry pulls up, stock gets updated across the site. There is not a special lorry just for the Starbucks people (e.g. Americans) to get their special beans. It all comes together on one big lorry from the same distribution hub.

Why should the customer care?

If you only have a few minutes to wait for your train and you want to get a large coffee for your journey then you know that there is no point 'shopping around'. You are not going to get a more competitive coffee by checking out the half dozen options, you might as well just get what is easiest and least stressful.

On a deeper level the customer should care because they are being fleeced. None of that coffee is that good really, if you want a decent cup of coffee then you really need to be going to an independent place where the staff are more inclined to get to know your name (if you go there every day) and more likely to know how you like your drink. You get service with a smile instead of a minimum wage, 'can't be bovvered' shrug.
TPUv1 was never exposed externally as a thing you could rent in cloud, but with that exception, Google's been pretty consistently trying to offer the best available option to cloud customers.

(disclaimer: while I'm part-time at Google, this is my personal impression, not an official statement, etc., etc.)
I am very curious why food-related startups are mostly about delivery like deliveroo and uberEats. Is it because of the advertising efforts put in, or my lack of attention.

Would love to learn from someone who can shed some light on your set of question!
not sure about the OP's experience, but typically 'all your brain belong to us' forms are presented during the first day orientation, many days after the offer letter is received and accepted.
The single * way to specify keyword only arguments is a total
monstrosity.
TBH, at about 5, those clunky animatronics gave me nightmares.
I never understood how this was supposed to work.

Any space where abuse was allowed rather than moderated, the space just became dominated by the abusive and they would overtake the space.
> People can’t seem to figure out why inflation is so low with employment so high.

Probably because of the methodical changes that have happened to how employment is calculated post 2009 compared to before…
You're making the assumption that the dealerships/manufacturers' mechanics are more competent than independent mechanics. I don't believe that is necessarily the case.
They did just that. In 2009 the US government sent out "stimulus checks" to nearly every household.
Maybe I misunderstand something here, but the debt is of the US govt to the Fed. Rising interest that the Fed collects is the Fed's not the US govt's... That's like asking Citibank to allocate the interest it collected on me to my credit card balance...
US government is implementing pro-cyclical fiscal policy ­­­– throwing more money into already heated economy.

Of course Fed should attempt to suck at least some of that excess out of the system.
The problem is the fed is trying to prevent a speculative bubble from forming in the stock market. 20-30% per year YOY in the stock market is not the norm.
This comment is spot on. We never actually "solved" the consumer crisis of 2008. We only solved the acute corporate crisis (money market funds breaking the buck, under-capitalized/insolvent investment banks, bond liquidity leading to a markdown death spiral.)

The problem we didn't solve IMHO is the massive housing bubble. To be fair, solving the housing bubble involves lots of winners and losers, so the government would rather kick this can down the road. Obama was able to keep kicking this can for 8yrs.

While there were pops in many places, the steady state price has become whatever a two-earner household can afford with massive debt living paycheck-to-paycheck on a 4% mortgage. That isnt sustainable and causes numerous problems:

- Everyone not already in "the game" loses (youngsters)

- Moving is difficult due to transaction costs (poor job mobility)

- Selling will be impossible (underwater) once rates go up

- Disposable income for spending is reduced, causing people to borrow further.

On top of that, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to stay in an uncertain state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_takeover_of_Fannie_Mae...

On the other side of the fence, low rates are horrible for pension funds, pensioners relying on fixed incomes, etc. Pension funds and asset managers with return expectations struggle and reach for riskier assets yielding more. (Tech, to some extent has been a winner here as one result of this has been diversification of pension assets into VC.)
Could you elaborate on this? I'm not familiar with the changes made.
If Reddit is your standard, sure.
I'm increasingly starting to wonder if the autonomous cars will get the chance to "win" before being replaced by "flying cars". There's half a dozen companies at least that are aiming for first flight in the next 2-3 years, and Uber-like services in the 2025 timeframe. Some, like Lilium have demonstrated flying prototypes.

Companies like Lilium are claiming they'll be able to compete with and eventually beat Ubers current pricing, and fly you at speeds of 300km/h....

If that comes through, it will have a vastly more disruptive effect than autonomous cars. E.g. I live about 10 miles from the centre of London, and that's about a 1 hour commute. A one hour flight at 300km/h would make most of England viable to live and work in and still have commuting distances similar to what Londoners consider perfectly viable commuting time today...

It has the potential to change the dynamics of both the housing and labour market dramatically. And who knows what it will do to e.g. downtowns when most of the country suddenly is within 20-30 minutes or less of one of the half a dozen or so largest city centres.

To a European used to seeing American sprawl as an example of emphasising the car over public transport the prospect of something that can multiple acceptable travel distances by a large factor over the car is a bit scary...
That's also a great way to sum up the problem with many forms of public transportation in the US too. The light rail and buses near my home are reliably unreliable, sometimes they are right on schedule, sometimes they arrives 10-15 minutes after schedule, and sometimes they arrives somewhere in between.
Pothos can be grown in water or in dry soil. Cuttings can be taken from a mother plant and rooted in water and kept in water as a houseplant.
Are you placing any bets? What are you putting it up against, the Euro? That's a bet I would love to take.
Why women are excited about Dyson’s new $500 hairstyling tool
Syncthing, with regular encrypted backups via duplicity to S3 storage.
Or, perhaps, go under.
I'm equally excited about AvE tearing it apart and ripping Dyson a new one.
Seems to work with car registrations. When I was in Kansas City, a police officer was able to run my tag even though I'm from South Carolina. Kind of funny how the government just simply can't do anything that might help the common man, but when it concerns authoritarian tendencies, the motivation is endless.
> password protect a file

Completely depends on what encryption is being used... There are still applications/developers out there that think rolling their own (keybase) is a good idea (it's not).
You didn't say this, but to be clear for those who may have assumed it:

2 years median time of service != median employee quit after 2 years

2 years median time of service can be explained by lots of people quitting, or by lots of people being hired (and usually a mix of both).

I've noticed at Google that some positions (like recruiting coordinator) seem to churn quickly, while others (like software engineer) churn much more slowly. I haven't seen many engineers quit in less than two years (and certainly not in 1.1, which is the median in the data you linked to)
Because human activities are error-prone, evacuations cause an increase in fatalities; so any evacuation decision has to be balanced against the risks of sheltering locally.
Take the time to read through the posts here[0] and you'll see.

[0] https://www.alhambrapartners.com/category/markets/
Making annoying rainbows in JavaScript
Yeah, that's a weird one. Also interesting is that they are being outed by a regime which itself does some of the same things SA does (with regard to dissidents). Maybe it's because the US has taken some of the aid from Turkey and they want the same to happen to SA. But, really, who knows why they want to make this a big deal now.
The lack of inflation has been a "mystery" since even the stimulus time during the recession wasn't it?

Even optimistic / supporters of the stimulus / spending way back then were sure we'd see some inflation we could tie to that whole thing, and others predicted lots of inflation,
as far as I know they never did see much.

I think the lack of inflation has been a mystery for a long while now.
Ask HN: What are some old talks (10+ y) that are still relevant to watch today?
Does anyone know why the FED has to keep manipulating the supply of money?

Let's say we have a very responsible government which taxes well, reinvests well in productive work, private markets that operate smoothly, why does the FED have to step in periodically to raise/lower interest rates (outside of very bad circumstances).

Another way of asking this question is, "What is a neutral rate?" or "What is an economy in equilibrium?"
> There's nothing wrong with CSV as it is for basic data transfer.

I disagree. CSV is horribly underspecified and many parsers have conflicting ideas on how things should work. I've hit areas where, for example, an API was generating a CSV that another API could read, but NOT if it was opened and then re-saved by Excel first (just re-saving, not editing), because Excel was making some trivial change in the format that the consuming parser couldn't handle. Then there's issues with encoding, localisation, and escaping (see, eg, https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2017/04/07/csv-is-not-a-standa... although that's just scratching the surface).

That being said, this proposal seems worse in every way that existing CSVs, but I don't think the issue is "there's a well specified CSV standard with tons of parsers that won't change to support this new one", it's more that there is no standard, all the parsers are incompatible, and no meaningful improvements are possible. :(
This is amazing. I love to see developers put their skills to good use and make fun of our profession. This is a needed medicine in our worlds of 100x developer magicians and downtime == emergency crisis where you skip your children’s important life events. Props to whoever made this.
Nice job Pieter. By the way, isn't there a way people can email you?

I have tried to find an email of yours and couldn't find anything.

Yeah, I know about tweeting you, but I don't have an account, so...there you have it.
Oddly, megalith.co.uk, specified in both the OP page and on the github header, is now "for sale".

Edit: 8086tiny.freeforums.net is functional and has had a few recent posts.
Not everyone qualifies for SS because either they didn't pay in long or enough. There's thousands of people working well into their 70's and 80's in menial jobs because SS doesn't cover their living expenses. For example, I'm worried about my mom because her finances are dwindling.
I think Australia's 2008 cash handout was a good try. On the other hand, post-handout analysis suggests cash handout was not spent. It was saved instead.

Stimulating Savings: An Analysis of Cash Handouts in Australia and the United States. http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p269601/pdf/st...
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This is the problem about sites that want to show ads. I don't mind reasonable (not annoying) and responsible (I want to be sure ad links don't lead to frauds or viruses so I won't have to deal with any kinds of problems if I stop blocking ads on my mom's computer) but I absolutely do mind any kind of tracking. Why do ad-funded sites insist on tracking so much? I understand tracking adds value to advertisers but are ads really worthless without tracking?
So it's not really JavaScript??? lol
Link to the IOCCC source code:

http://ioccc.org/2013/cable3/cable3.c

There are some nice easter eggs in the source
A friend from Bahrain put Middle East politics this way: 'Look at the Palestinians. Every country's government decries how poorly they've been treated, but none of them lift a finger to do anything about it.'

In other words, money and business >> beliefs.
So frustrating to me that otherwise smart people keep buying into this narrative, including software developers and tech people who should know better.

Here's the actual status quo: after a decade of research into autonomous cars specifically (not to mention the decades of AI and systems research before that), we are barely at the point where a car can function safely with Level 2 autonomy, in good conditions.

These prognostications about eliminating traditional cars are assuming reliable Level 5 autonomy in all conditions. And unlike most software, you can't just get 99% of the way there and call it done. If you want to remove the steering wheel, it has to work ALL the time (or close enough to make no difference.) They say that 80% of the work is in the final 20% of the project? We haven't even finished the first 30% of the work yet.

Even more than that, nobody seems to be talking about the fact that to get this to work reliably, you basically need full general intelligence (unless you can manage to turn the road system into a closed system, like rail is). For example: following verbal or gestured instructions from a police officer or construction worker. We don't even have _theories_ on how to build intelligence like that, yet.

Will it happen eventually? Sure, probably, eventually. Will we get a lot of use out of Level 2 and Level 3 autonomy in the mean time? Already happening. Will we be taking robotic taxis in the next 20 years? No way, not with current approaches absent a breakthrough in general AI.
Do houses, health and education just eat up any surplus money that could cause inflation?
I see the same behavior (v52.8.0). Damn.

Also, from a German IPv4:

> The new European data protection law requires us to inform you of the following before you use our website:

> We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps and newsletters and across the Internet based on your interests. By clicking “I agree” below, you consent to the use by us and our third-party partners of cookies and data gathered from your use of our platforms. See our Privacy Policy and Third Party Partners to learn more about the use of data and your rights. You also agree to our Terms of Service.

But "Continue to site" doesn't work unless I check "I agree". So they're clearly not GDPR-compliant. In order to access their site, you must agree to be tracked. And you must also disable protection against tracking.

Maybe there will be complaints filed?
A broken clock is right twice. Though in this case, perhaps only once.
Sure, perhaps hackers can do less damage than they used to be able to do.

On the other hand, there appears to be a lot more damage for them to do, and a lot more data that's been lost/leaked recently. I'd call that "worse".
I originally bought an iPad just for music stuff, but a lot of the time I'm hooking it up to an external audio interface for better quality IO and midi. I think that iOS' support for USB Audio and USB Midi devices is also a large part of what helped it build an ecosystem of decent music making apps.

I agree that not having a headphone jack combined with the unacceptable latency of bluetooth makes it unusable for on-the-go music making.

As for pricing, I think that won't change on Android. Music making is a niche market, and these apps are not cheap to develop.
Kindle on my way to work, when I'm walking my dog or waiting somewhere. Also maybe 30 minutes or more before sleep.
Scientific Research into Pair Programming
Would this make it possible to build active noise cancelling using software?
One word, that I think/hope is becoming important to more people these days, "privacy" (not mentioned once in the article). Unless these things can be used without identification, I seriously hope they don't become the only, or even a common, transportation option.
Seems like an X reasons you should(|n't) Y
Or how is it that houses, health and education don’t count as inflation?
What was one thing that made you a faster/better developer?
> You don't like his service, use another.

Sure, all you have to do is get all your viewers to switch from Facebook/YouTube to something else. Which you have no real control over, hence the problem.
Personally, I appreciate the courtesy of them being up front. I'm happy to go elsewhere, and they save me the trouble of making sure my somewhat Rube Goldbergian-collection of privacy measures aren't acting up.

Win-win!
Someone's got to have a better comeback than a downvote. You know where there's "obviously immense value"? Oil fields. People literally kill to control them.

Nobody kills to take control of a library.

At best you could say people get into massive debt for education. But at the same time, education is clamouring for online courses, videos, conferencing, teachers, interaction, and textbooks are widely considered a problem - low priority, low quality, a racket, going back years since Richard Feynman's famous story about reviewing them at least.

Books, especially academic books, are increasingly given away for free online - when people will pay for entertainment.

How many people learn from a teacher, a course, or learn by doing, vs how many actually learn from books?

People don't treat books the way they treat things they value. There may be immense value in books, it's not "obvious".
Moonlight is white, just like how the sun is white. The moon = blue, sun = yellow connotations are mostly cultural.
Honestly, I bought my last car a decade ago.

Cars aren't that great for a lot of reasons (my stress level, my city's livability, the environment), and getting rid of the idea of car ownership was one of those huge life decisions that I made that I've never, ever regretted.

I don't use car sharing services - that whole industry is toxic for the drivers, I sometimes take public transportation, and every few years, I take a flight.

Everything else is done by bike. I'm happy, I'm healthy, and I'm looking forward to the rest of my life without owning another car.
I think you can agree that _worse_ doesn't necessarily imply _harder_. More critical systems are online, software is more complex, more actors are in the mix, etc. Feels like semantics, anyway.