skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was the right answer for you. It may not have been the right answer given a different set of requirements (including scale, service availability, ops complexity, etc)
Sabbatical is 1 year or more. 6 weeks is a vacation. You should also look up an article about bragging that was on HN few days ago.
> so who cares if you waste a GB or so

I wonder if that sounds arrogant to just me. As a user I DO CARE. Its frustrating to find applications shipping their own copy of libraries wasting precious disk space. When I was using a Mac, I had at least 4 applications shipping their own copy of Qt5.4 ... aaaarrgh

Back on the Linux desktop, package managers handle this beautifully. And for the cases where you need to skip the distro, Flatpak still lets you use system dependencies. Everyone wins.

And for whoever claims storage is cheap, please link me the magical place you're buying yours from. Thanks.
This is an issue on which I feel strongly enough to speak about on an account I've connected to my employer. (I am a Microsoftie, and not because I think you believe this, but to support your point) It's _certainly not_ part of our success. I'd even go so far as to say our success is in spite of it.

I've seen many engineers, including the single most competent dev I've ever worked with, migrate to other companies as their teams were moved out of personal offices or into larger open offices. I've also seen my own (and my teammate's) work and culture suffer, as we have to work later, fight distractions, and often politik internally to fight for the "best seat" (actually having one wall). This is, to me, an absurd situation to put professional adults in.

This process is only partially complete, and changes take a while to take effect, so it's to be seen what the tractable results are, but in the same way I called out our bad choice by the manner in which we dissolved SDETs, the push for open offices is a canonically bad choice.

(This is only my opinion, I in no way speak for the company etc etc)
Reverse Your Arrows (2016)
If this was the only article I read about this subject. I would agree with your comments, unfortunately this is another example of a one sided news article. I was so shocked by this story I looked into it further and it turns out that certain inmates and "donators" were using the book donation system to smuggle books who's pages were infused with drugs into the prisons. Not only that, this article makes it sound like the prisoners have no access to books at all, which is very misleading as all of the correction facilities have libraries and are going to increase funding to improving them in the wake of this new policy. I would agree that it seems absurd to force inmates to purchase an expensive e-reader and this also may be a form of censorship but I'm not sure I disagree with censorship in prisons. You lose many other rights when you are incarcerated and not being able to read everything you want seems very small on the list.
Stencila – an open-source office suite for reproducible research
Oh come on.

Do we even have mods here?

Why does every thread have to turn into this same fucking discussion, instead of the actual topic of the post.

Can’t we unhook these subthreads and just push them into some ‘discuss white man stuff’ bin where people who care can go and yell at each other?
Nothing in science is assumed with 100% certainty. I would argue that working from our best available theories (while always looking for ways to falsify them) is perfectly reasonable.
As other people have noted, there is a symbiotic relationship between Orrin Hatch and the supplements industry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/us/politics/21hatch.html
Many of the companies involved in supplements manufacture are based in Utah, and many of the MLM companies involved in supplement distribution are based in Utah, most of the employees would be Mormon and the companies would be Mormon owned just based on probability so there is a captive audience of two Senators and four House members ready to defend the Wild West of supplements in the USA, Senators being able to influence bills to a much greater extent, given that Utah would probably never elect a Democrat to office it's going to take something like a 60-40 Democratic majority in the US Senate for this to ever change.
Or more precise:

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-if-dark-matt...

There’s “just a little more” of the dark matter in our Solar system but way below the levels it could affect the measurements we can perform.
Because 'rah rah' we all love the military. It doesn't cost them anything and they get the PR of everyone boarding a plane hearing about how much they love the military.
Fastmail. Works great.
The funny thing is that years ago when MS was at the top of the world MS always pointed out that every dev had a private office and made it sound like that was the secret of their success.
Get polarized looks awesome nice work man!
I’m pretty much sure that if I were to do something that might be seen as illegal by the US government my country’s government (NATO and EU member) would do pretty much nothing and feed me to them, no questions asked.
Extended family does not seem to matter. The brother of one of the top leaders of the party (Yu Zhengsheng) has defected to the US long before Yu being elected into PBSC (Politburo Standing Committee), the board of directors for China inc.
Responder: A Familar Web Service Framework for Python (by Kenneth Reitz)
I know most people on HN are guys, but I've heard a lot of women talk about the peer pressure. In fact some women look down on those that have children via a C-section. It's despicable.
Ask HN: Whats your opinion about open office spaces
I work out of an open office space and often find myself distracted from the noise and people moving around. One strategy I use to focus on my work is listening to white noise using a headphone during work-which do not look like a sustainable solution. Am I the only person who finds the idea of open office space annoying and counterproductive.
Thanks, I really appreciate it (I'm still in the validation phase so any words of encouragement are helpful)

I write down all my little ideas (I use vym for that, a mind-mapping package), and I think I had this one on my list for a few months. I started to like the idea more and more because I'm always wondering if the systems I work on have been breached (despite scanning for rootkits and other best practices).

I tried to imagine myself as a blackhat intruder, and think about the things that would be cause for concern - and tipping off a honeypot is probably up there on the list. So this is essentially a honeypot that everyone from beginners to experts could potentially use.
This Hilarious Optical Illusion for Birds Could Save Your Life
Yes, SF is a perfect example where demand so wildly outstrips supply that the dominating driver of cost is space. Whether it is nice space or a total dump is only a small percentage of what dictates the over all price.

Look at it this way, say a small apartment has 12 Square feet of counter space in the kitchen laminate counters cost $25 per square foot and granite costs $50. the relative cost difference between luxury and cheapo now is almost nothing once amortized and compared to the total rent.
We maybe don't have the same scale to measure audio. What I find acceptable is “I hear the person just as well as if they were here”.

Hearing is a continuum. What the top 25% of hearing people consider OK quality is often what the lower 50% really struggles with, barely keeping up with the conversation.

Even in same-room audio conditions, most people ask for something to be repeated at least once in half the conversations I witness. Any further degradation rapidly increases this statistic. And I bet there are cases where people don't bother asking.
Despite recent some initial evidence to the contrary,[1] I'm still a fan of the idea that dark mater is actually concentrations of matter/energy outside of our universe.

If string theory is true, gravity does leak into the multiverse, and we survive the Great Filter, then someday we may be able to use gravity to communicate universes outside of our own.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gravity-doesnt-leak-larg...
“This Isn’t How We Saw This Going”: Civil’s Token Sale Is Treading Water
Is Firestore a more reliable version of Firebase's real-time database?
You’re right, not sure how I screwed up the math
What is the accusation here - that "black male culture" wouldn't be agreed to exist, or that nobody would be allowed to lament it?

There are certainly groups that lament "black male culture", with varying political views. On the left, you might find that criticism in views like intersectional black feminism against "misogynoir" - macho behaviour and chauvinism especially by black men.

On the the political right, criticism of "black male culture" hardly needs naming.
> The implication is that statically linked binaries make it easier to throw in dependencies because you neither need to worry about how to ship them nor bother with re-using the shared libraries on the system.

I don't buy this argument; it's every bit as easy to `pip install` something as it is to `go get` something.

> If there's a bug in Go's TLS implementation, you need to identify, recompile, and redistribute every Go application you use. Whereas if it were using the system's OpenSSL library everything would magically be fixed by a simple `apt-get upgrade` or `yum update`.

I think the fix is fairly trivial; package maintainers just need to introduce vuln scanning into their automation. As soon as a security issue pops up for one of their dependencies, their automation automatically compiles a new version and publishes it to the package registry so the end user can pull it down with their next `apt-get upgrade` or `yum update` or whathaveyou.
This is precisely my point. The US allows people to Carry on two giant bags, and everyone pushes the boundaries absurdly.

In other countries, the carry-on limit is strictly enforced. They have metal frames to test the size of your luggage, and if it doesn’t slip in, you ain’t taking it on the plane. And a “personal item” isn’t allowed to be a second bag the size of a carry-on suitcase.

If you have too much stuff, tough. Either take less crap or get checked luggage.
There are less silly ways to solve this though. Some prisons have whitelists of approved online vendors you can send books to prisoners from.
I think it's more likely that it's a bad thing. Babies are supposed to get seeded with microbes, which probably affects the immune system.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110651/
> we know how gravity works

haha
You might be right, but documentation says "self-contained".

How is it self-contained if it's not self-contained?
Leaving this for anyone who is trying to disable Pocket...

Go to `about:config`, search for `extensions.pocket.enabled` and switch to `false`.

Not as good as uninstalling, but at least disabling is possible.
There's an open Github issue where the author clarifies that his own code is BSD, and he puts the license of each file in its header.
Escapist leisure activity is for more than just privileged people, see, e.g., video games, sports and movies.

Google Glass did not fail because it lacked a diverse perspective. It failed because it was a garbage product, way too expensive, early, and with no compelling functionality. (I feel the same way about HoloLens at it's current stage. I have not tried Magic Leap.)

Also, the diverse take was: "who spoke to me convincingly about a world freed from the tyranny of browser tabs, where you could ‘leave’ web pages in physical spaces where you’d need them; recipes in the kitchen, research articles in the office". That seems to me to be a far more 'privileged' use case than escapist entertainment.
I don't understand it uses CUDA as a cornerstone? How is that open?
“not being a team player.”

That's often a very cynical euphemism for "not following orders without questioning".
They should be giving bug bounties instead!
The Monsanto Papers (ABC News Australia)
Effects of High Fat Diet may Last for Generations
I understand the strong reaction of many to drone strikes. That being said: drone strikes != "tyrannical rule".
This reminds me of a court case a decade ago when Blizzard sued the creator of a popular World of Warcraft botting program called MMOGlider on the grounds of copyright infringement. Blizzard won and was awarded $6m. Not a lawyer, but maybe there's some legal precedent?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7645059.stm
"Its freaking SAN JOSE who is going to eat at a restaurant with NO PARKING"

When I lived there, near alum rock, I cycled to restaurants. But it was a horrible place to ride and live so I moved to berkeley. There's some question of causality in your statement.
Maybe not neutrinos specifically, but muon detectors are now being used for archaeology.
In my area (socal) the gap between really nice housing and garbage is shockingly small.

Not a rental unit, but the gap between a crappy house (unmaintained 1950s with a staircase in the bathroom) and an ultra modern home with a pool next door was only 20% or so. I view this as a sign that the market is way off its mark.
It's different. If a business has the option to do something themselves and doing so would cost them less in the long run and give them more flexibility, then doing it themselves is a competitive advantage.

If having solar panels becomes consistently cheaper than buying electricity from the grid (per megawatt), then individuals and businesses will all switch to solar panels... Especially if the business uses a lot of electricity.

The main reason that PaaS solution are popular now is because of advertising and hype. It's a bubble.
Replace Houston with Redmond and this is almost exactly the story of my 2nd IT job - as a BPOS tech in the late 2000s. BPOS was basically Microsoft Online beta.

They had a group of 8 of us shadowing people on both sides of the aisle. It was like a shadow village - hidden village of the phone.
The article invites that kind of response by presenting arguments for the existence of dark matter as if they are undeniable. In reality the road to consensus was anything but smooth.

Science works best when you are skeptical of claims, test alternatives, and find evidence that contradict the alternative hypothesis. If you want to discuss controversial science you need to anticipate objections, show the work has been done to test the alternatives, and then leave the reader with the sense that your hypothesis is undeniable (because they can't think up any more objections.) This absurdly high burden is what makes science both hard and effective.

For dark matter a large number of the initial objections have been tested thoroughly, but since they weren't covered people unfamiliar with the subject (and I don't claim to be an expert) will naturally dredge up their own objections.
You enjoyed it because the author is a great writer. I felt the same way you did. It's impressive how the story telling was so engaging while the topic is so mundane. I could see this being made into a cult-classic movie a la Office Space.
Building an Image Generator for the Number 1 Track on Spotify
Having been on a team moved out of single offices, and being able to look at our ship schedule pre and post, I would agree with that it was, at least for us, the secret sauce. (or perhaps more accurately, the people we lost due to losing our offices were a component of that secret sauce)

I almost wish I had never had an office in hindsight, because when I was just crammed into open spaces out of uni I took it in stride, but once I had an office years back I refused to go back to open spaces, the QOL hit was just too significant.

It's really a constant wonder for me how the powers that be at various bigCo's have managed to sell this disaster. I have to think it's money, but every higher up I've probed seems to drink the koolaid on the surface ("collaberation! teamwork!")
VR is an experience like going to a movie theater to get lost in another world, which is why it has a future.
The "difference in utility" between those two units is actually not huge, that's why the prices are similar. Your two homes are comparable on location and size which are the largest components of utility.

The housing with low utility is in Bumfuck, IL where there haven't been any jobs for 40 years.
Convenience link to said issue: https://github.com/glguida/mh/issues/1
Custody is normal in most legal systems. She disappeared from public view, but do we know whether the state denied her external contact or whether it was her choice? It would be also interessting to know whether she had contact to a lawer.
If you want to see the actual memory latency you can make the next access depend on the results of the previous.

uint32_t checksum = 0;
uint32_t prevRes = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) {
unsigned offset = (rand32() ^ prevRes )& (TABLE_SIZE - 1);
prevRes = table_ints[offset];
checksum += prevRes ;
}
Python seems adecuate, big ecosystem in many domains, language gets out the way for quickly writing stuff.

Note: not a fan of python as a language.
Chandra X-ray Observatory has entered safe mode
How can I invest?
I'd be willing to wager $500, if anyone wants to take the other side.
This is true. Not having one makes regular life increasingly difficult. In many cases I am pretty sure it boils down to system designers actually not considering there could be customers without one. Software won't work without the ID number to connect data to.

In healthcare hospital staff typically works around this by using "Mr twelve" - 1212121212 - which is syntactically correct with the correct checksum, but not identifying an individual.
When I look around my office I often feel a strong resemblance with what I have seen in East Germany. Motivational posters, public commitments to five year plans, messages from upper management that clearly contradict reality.
Mehr Geld und mehr Freizeit
Congratulations on retirement!

The UI libraries in Racket are pretty interesting in that they use the native UI on whatever platform you happen to be running on. I haven’t seen a lot of larger GUI app examples, but I have to wonder if Racket isn’t a viable option for creating cross-platform apps that don’t have the same compromises as something like Electron.

There was a video language demoed at RacketCon a couple years ago that showed code and video elements working together within the DrRacket IDE. I keep wondering if there’s an opportunity for something akin to macOS / NeXT / GNUStep Interface Builder, but using a Racket DSL to define the UI layouts.

My other Racket daydream is, for data munging the R community has built some impressive DSLs as part of the “tidyverse.” If I had time, I’d certainly spend some time seeing if I couldn’t push further in Racket.
Just noticed a comment by Terry Davis about TempleOS after the article; RIP.
Mehr geld und freizeit
more money
https://www.digistore24.com/redir/38219/SimonV/
Having lived in a few of these “luxury” places, I have a theory.

They build the structure of these buildings very solid, but the fixtures purposefully cheap. Once styles change they can gut renovate them for very cheap and maintain their stylish image (and rents). I think a very well made but out of style apartment would be more expensive to make and lose rents more rapidly.
If anything hiding live bookmarks was a favor to RSS. Anyone who was introduced to RSS through live bookmarks would think RSS was a horrible idea. It was the worst RSS implementation I've ever tried or experienced.
Great interview.

On the ground insight into venture incentives and how they are misaligned with the needs of startups and founders.

"Grow real, grow slow, like Amazon."
I feel like a journalist with a master's degree in neuroscience probably knows quite a bit about performing actual investigation. Do we need to have pictures with every story?
we have mods, but the mods fully agree with that dude
Well, I use Python exclusively at work (machine learning job) and Python is just fine for short scripts using TensorFlow/Keras/PyTorch - but I don’t like Python for general development. I know people who love Python, good for them, but not my taste in a language.
I think it's the type of work. You can't do deep concentrated work in a bullpen.
>>General relativity being wrong would be waaaay weirder.

If I'm not wrong, Newton's laws can still be held to be true in some cases even inside GR?

Some where in the past, some one could come up with a new model which could show us new truths, and yet could contain GR to be true in some cases.

In GEB, Hofstadter show us part of the ways so see intelligence emerging from noise and garbage, is to understand when you design a system, you start with axioms, truths and rules that are true in a system, could be total garbage in another.

Models are what we use to understand things, That's not how things are.
A reason for unexplained connection timeouts on Kubernetes/Docker
"Copyright infringement" maybe should stick if they hacks include reproductions of Epic's code, but "breach of contract and tortious interference" is a load of horse shit. Game EULAs are not the law.
To add to this: a lot of stuff just can't be done over phone or internet unless you use postident or IDnow. For example your first interaction with any financial institution is either in person or involves you waving your id card in front of a webcam according to their instructions.
It’s definitely not communist but the Gongsun Wei Yang’s legalism. Each and every great empire in the history of China took his way of ruling.
We are at the point where the most gripping experience is contextual browsing. What if instead of just showing you the recipe it actually used ar to demonstrate how to do each action of the thing it was showing.
It seems absurd that this kind of thing is the first thing you can think of but companies that have billions of dollars invested in to them are unable to come up with any compelling idea of what they have all the money in the world to throw at a dartboard and still none of it even hits.
I mean, I'm not aware of any software security incidents involving the Apollo or Shuttle systems, so the system seems to work that far.
> Linky?

This is one of the easiest accessible ones:
https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/thomson-reuters-why-20...

> During a 62-mile stretch of its historic flight, the plane used about 25 kilowatts of electricity for a total energy cost of just over $3, according to its pilot, Klaus Ohlmann. In all, the e-Genius consumed just a fifth of the energy of a typical, fuel-powered two-seater airplane.

..

I can't share the rest I have unfortunately, as while the information itself is public (I believe the source is a study by Deloitte), the document I have also contains information that is not, and I don't have a publicly available reference for the source. I'll see if I can find one.

> But underestimate how much energy convenient VTOL takes.

I don't think so. E.g. Lilium uses VTOL, but the wings (holding the electric engines) starts tilting as quickly is possible to start taking advantage of ground-effect, as everyone is of course aware that VTOL is expensive. While the power they need for that short period of time is higher than ideal, it still ends up being a negligible portion of total power consumption other than for extremely short hops.
So you're saying a better understanding of nuclear reactions has not had practical implications? Just because the particle itself is 'useless' from a technological perspective doesn't imply the same is true for the accompanying theory...
>it turns out that certain inmates and "donators" were using the book donation system to smuggle books who's pages were infused with drugs into the prisons.

I looked into that after another poster replied. I'm almost certain the problem is being exaggerated based on the quotes from prison officials, and removing the ability to deliver books to all prisoners is probably overkill.

Thanks for answering my question though. This sounds like the paper thin justification someone is using to get rich that I was looking for.