skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any government that is susceptible to leverage outside of the POWER OF THE PEOPLE needs to go to jail/be impeached if they succumb to said leverage.

Their only duty, their only fiduciary, their only constituent is WE THE PEOPLE as a collective. It is not Johnson and Johnson.

That said, we live in an odd time. Supposedly we don’t negotiate with terrorists and let hostages die, but we are sending millions of weapons to a country who is known and proven to fund terror and extrajudicial assassinations.
The magic of 99pi is humanization.

If I found out people were living in an empty part of the mall in any other context, my response would be: “ehh weird.”

But 99pi presents the story and by the end they seem like heroes sticking it to the man.
yeah, every baby caring employee (nursery, kindergarten even) might accumulate risks over their career..
or a pylint extension
Mine: getting a good sleep and regular exercise has a greater impact on productivity than your choice of methodology.
Do drug dealers just let you do that?
When I read about something like that, I’d like to hear more than “traces of”. I’d like to see concentrations and levels of concentrations from which it is considered toxic. Products can even have traces of radioactive material while being harmless.
ANDF is definitely under-appreciated. If it had gained more traction, it might have gotten us to "write once, run everywhere" with adequate performance earlier than actually happened with Java. The basic ideas were fundamentally sound, and worked out to an impressive degree for that time. Unfortunately, few nowadays would be able to see that past some superficial details that seem dated to those blessed with hindsight.
If it affects cache behaviour, we should all care.
Everybody knew? Talc deposits often occur near asbestos deposits. There's a govt standard for 'cosmetic' talc that addresses asbestos content, that's been around since 1973.
If the sequenece is non-essential to the problem, it adds the accidental complexity of all sequence related bugs to the system.

See the out of the tar pit paper
https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/03/20/out-of-the-tar-pit/
The comparison is definitely for the wow-factor and not accuracy, but I dont know why they would do this if their readers are geeks.
The counterpoint is that if we were more eager to ditch theories as soon as they fail to explain absolutely everything in the universe, we'd have tossed Newton's laws in the early 1800s because they didn't accurately predict the orbit of Uranus.

(turned out they did, but nobody at the time knew to account for perturbations caused by the as-yet-undiscovered Neptune)

And depending on how far you want to take this, the neutrino probably would've been dismissed, too, before eventually being detected.
There are only a few vendors and if you get it wrong the school can end up with a $3000 bill for power over the usual charges. The actual programming and hardware is incredibly simple.
I've been thinking for long that the company / regulator / public cycle is way too elongated. Too much opportunities for lies and too much delay for public to detect, report and solve problems.
Productivity is not about who is working the most. You can't always be productive. Sometimes it's better to take some time off and think about things.

Moving fast is not always the most productive way to do things.

Workplace environment can have a huge negative impact on productivity. Noise and distraction can kill productivity.
One big screen. Proper full-sized good quality keyboard. Fairly chunky wireless mouse.

If you spend most of your time working at a desk, why are you hobbling yourself with inferior kit which exists to be portable, not productive?

Yes, I'm relatively old... Get off of my lawn!
Things are only sequential when you're programming in imperative style. Haskell, for example, supports plenty of algorithms that don't have a specific order in which things happen. Prolog, too. And Halide. Also, Oz. There are plenty around, and they are both useful and fascinating.
Are you serious? There is no code for us, so there is no tool! The article is as good as fake news.
Sure, you can check cryptomarketplot.com - but no open source sorry.

I work in small team because I like productivity.

Why no source control? Same for why not updating the operating system or tweaking the keyboard shortcuts on your editor. Extra things take extra brain power. Remove everything extra to concentrate on the core.

No planning is important to concentrate even more on important features: the right moment dictates what you should do right now.
I learned through face-to-face instruction with a teacher, some fifteen years ago. These days I consider the experience invaluable. There's something about having another person there legitimizing what you're doing, which is basically sitting down and daydreaming, that soothes the conscious mind and allows it to take the task seriously.

I don't know how much value an app can be in replacing a real person, but it's gotta be better than nothing.
TLDR: An historian urges biologists to don't discard Lamarck's theories of evolution because epigenetics or something. There's a bizarre framing of the debate between the "mainstream" neo-Darwinists and ???(non-scientists)?

This veers close to marrying MeToo and climate change denials.
I bet a lot of people already know this, but it was a surprise to me this year. The book Flow originated from happiness research. I'd always assumed it was a book about productivity, but it's actually a book about what activities make a person happiness.

That says something important about productivity. You'll only be happy with productivity meets up with a level of challenge that puts you in a flow state. Productively doing easy tasks is boring.
I'm always surprised to see another person beat this dead horse.

I've never worked in an environment was happy to see highly paid engineers sit idly in a meeting.

No one has ever said "Yes sure we have the time and money to spend to have you be bored instead of productive".

Obviously, YMMV - I simply want to express how I can in no way relate to the "bad guys" (management) in this scenario.
Christ people, this is a glaring place where an app is a complete joke. Don't be so stupid!
The samples are hilarious and thought-provoking. I’ll have to brush up my German to read this. Thanks for the recommendation!
> They wanted to make a product that would have been incredible value for costumers

It was nothing new or groundbreaking, it was just a checking account with an unusual high interest rate.

The government inurement don't like that because there are two usual cases of unusual high interest rate:

* plain scams

* overoptimistic bank managers that can't pay the interest rate when they are due.

Sometimes it's difficult to distinguish the cases.
Not only that, J&J appears to meet or exceed that standard, if the article is anything to go by.
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Great, let's outlaw marketing to patients. Then paid experts can deliver independently produced research directly to doctors.
Only for people who already have liver failure or who are attempting a suicide by overdose. Acetaminophen is completely safe at normal doses and the liver enzymes have no problem breaking it down at normal doses. It's only when you take the entire package that you run out of liver enzymes for it.
It probably made sense back then, but you’re right this does not need to be centralized anymore.
Capitalism wreaks the concepts of meditation.
Yes, because the so-called "regulators" are in the hands of the companies which they are supposed to supervise. It's a complete perversion.
How David Cohen Gave Up Control of Techstars
I am also fan of Insight timer. I had tried out a bit of headspace and calm earlier, found Insight to to work better for me.
This is a big reason why I'm for regulation when it comes to health, and environment. Somehow conservative Americans are believed that the 'invisible hand of the market' will solve all problems. But companies will always be in it to make money if they feel they can get away with cutting corners.

Would we rather err on cutting a few percent here and there from company profits due to overhead and inefficiency of regulation? Or err on harming people and the planet?
The previous authors of TrueCrypt were full out anonymous...
Good god, it's sunday. Can we lay off the 24/7 productivity mantra or propaganda for one day. Monday through saturday isn't enough?

A while ago I tried to count the number of overt "productivity" messaging I came across in a day and I stopped after 17 or so - probably because it wasn't a "productive" use of my time. Who knows how many subconscious or covert productivity messaging I was getting.
I’ve upvoted you because clearly you’ve expressed an unpopular opinion. ;-)
> “The irony is not lost on me,” says Rich Pierson, CEO and co-founder of Headspace, of the rivalry with Calm. But he’d rather focus on his Santa Monica, Calif.-based company’s authenticity, he says, which is drawn from co-founder Andy Puddicombe’s 10 years of studying meditation at Buddhist monasteries.

> “If you were going to see a psychologist, you’d probably want to know where they trained and qualified. It’s the same with meditation,” Mr. Pierson says. Calm’s founders previously worked in online gaming and advertising.
Agreed. This is a remarkably information-free article for such an outlet that prides itself and is held up for the quality of its journalism.
Absolutely agree...also didn't a similar thing happen with GM when they got rid of their internal financing division (GMAC)?
Have you tried meditation? It's hard. Try sitting for 15+ minutes, not moving, and concentrate on one thing (like your breath) without getting distracted. Maybe it's easy for you.

There are many distractions that can happen, not necessarily mind-wandering. There are other distractions like getting bored or falling a sleep, discomfort in the body (which includes itches, pain, needing to move, etc.), outside noises, forgetting to focus on your breath, etc. Your mind is constantly seeking new stimulus while you're trying to calm it down.

For me, it's hard to do that without getting distracted. Maybe the easiest part is remembering to focus on the breath after you get distracted. But that's also easier said than done.
Seems like they are trying to paddle upstream against the current. Instead of trying to change the brogrammer culture, just quit and go work for a woman dominated tech company, surely they exist ?
Complex Subtyping vs. Parametrization
The Hyper.link #4 – 50 links in 10 categories (new movies, music, gadgets, etc.)
Heh, tell that to all the people that hold the meetings. I think it may be a popular opinion __here__ on hn
I guess that LLVM is fairly cache aware so I think the performance probably isn't affected too greatly (I hope).
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> If they say no, it doesn't happen long enough for anybody to really come to any harm.

They just got 600k people to signup. Even if they convert 10% of those for brokerage accounts (and not checking) it's probably worth it.

This reminds me of Lance Armstrong and Trek Bicycles. Trek doesn't have to return any of its record profits for all of the years they sponsored a cheater. (for the record, I own several Trek bikes and they're fantastic)
Productivity is a poor metric for actually improving your quality of life, solving hard problems, or doing much of anything other than running in circles at speed.
I'm using b2 on both desktop and couple of servers. On desktop i use Cloudberry backup, but that has some irritating "features", such as not deleting remote files sometimes and getting out of sync and having to sync manually. I'm still using it because i'm cheap and don't wanna spend money on something else.
but b2, itself is great!
I argue that’s not a rewrite because it’s not a fundamental architecture change that requires a huge shift and lift (with the accompanying monolithic deployment critical section and associated risks). It’s just an application of the strangler pattern to do incremental component changes.
Not only that but you can still program todays thermostats with the optimizations/rules that you would in the central system anyway. Program it once, set it and forget it, and of course, give maintenance staff manual access as well.
Infosec traditionally neglected vulnerable users and it’s beginning to change
The concept of meditation is simple. But you might need guidance on how to get over roadblocks or need new insights that might help your meditation practice. These apps are helpful for that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18686720
Ever hear of a book? Traditionally, they are far better than an app, and in many ways better than a human teacher at your side. Meditation is one case where a book is probably the best guide. Speaking as a Transcendental Meditation practitioner for over 40 years, started in 5th grade back in '76. My Iowa church and school freaked and even tried to claim my meditating was a satanic influence on other kids... If it's not Satan it's Capitalism fucking with meditation. Why are people so tribal stupid?
I understand the numbers, but they are highly misleading, which is my point.

When you say it costs $X to do $Y, including in $X the cost of 20 other times you fail to do some other thing that isn't $Y is unexpected.

Likewise re: opportunity costs. The actual investment doesn't include the opportunity cost. I.e. only around half of that money had to be obtained.

The numbers are meaningful from the capital allocator perspective, which is not the conventional perspective.

The number that people picture when you say "the cost of bringing a drug to market" is ballpark 100-200M.
I manage a ML team and the article has several ‘borrowable’ ideas, the primary idea supporting model builders working on their local Linux device and simplifying the process of transferring locally built models to a scalable platform. If we were starting today to implement our in house system I might just use Ubber’s system as a checklist for features to implement.

Not too off topic: after mostly building and training models on remote compute (both at work and for my at home learning projects), I recently bought a fast laptop for home use that has a 1070 GPU and the experience of using a local device with a GPU makes me regret many years of SSHing to remote compute or using Jupyter remotely for machine learning development. I mention this as a lesson learned that may be helpful.
Do you have any chunky mouse suggestions? (wireless or not).

I'm struggling to find a larger size mouse that:

- doesn't have a million buttons (e.g. gaming)

- lasts more than a year
> Not saying I have an answer

The answer must involve making the risks outweigh the benefits, through both an increased probability of being caught and a higher level of punishment.
how do you test out changes and revert them easily? (basically how do you backup?

git makes this trivial, and doesn't get in the way of anything
This is something that interests me as well. If you have separate WASM binaries, right now they have to be on separate threads. For many languages, that may not matter, but it would be interesting to see if there was some way to split up a WASM binary on the same thread and apply caching to some of it.
This seems to be the bug that's tracking this in rust:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/49879
Strongly reminds me of Mrs Basil E Frankenweiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Mixed-Up_Files_of_Mrs...
+1.

A fun mental exercise is to classify sleep as brain training and then compare the results of sleep to a brain training game (or practically any other activity).
My best productivity hack so far is to stop reading books and blogs that mention word productivity. I’d rather take a walk or close my eyes for 10 minutes.
Uber's software doesn't exist in the public realm, and so there is nothing to learn from it. It is imaginary fluff. I have posted a list of the ones that do actually exist in another comment. And you should've at least got a 1080.
This definitely. A third for me is organizing my tasks into creative/intensive and boring/repetitive. Then I try to pick my tasks according to my energy levels.
YouTube, there are a bunch of channels with actual examples now.
Procrastination has benefits. I am not sure it's a net gain, but I will tell you it's paid off more then I would be comfortable admitting (over 20+ years).
The most surprising part for me is that they have AC at all. (at least some) Schools in MA don’t and I bet it gets hotter than Grand Rapids.
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No, more likely that figure is for a variety of pieces that comprise the WHOLE environmental control system. Across NINETEEN schools, not just one. Each of which might have dozens of different HVAC zones and potentially more than one HVAC plant.

Really, is reading comprehension that difficult?
> 1. Do they still make them? I know they still sell them, but given that they have been unchanged for 5 years...

There's no indication I can find otherwise.

> 2. I would say assembled rather than produced (if I buy components and assemble a PC at home is it produced in Italy?)

In that case, iPhones are not produced in China, since the parts thereof are manufactured in many different countries, including the US, and only assembled in China.

For what it's worth, photography from the plant shows there's a little more going on than is typical for building a desktop at home.

https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/474935247335743489/photo...
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Letting a horde of journalists rush to photograph the tomb at once seems like a terrible idea. That goes against the most basic precaution you could take to protect archeological artifacts. What kind of professional archeologist would let that happen?
What if it doesn't make sense for any parts? What if the supply web has fixed points which make it impossible to transfer it in small-enough chunks?

I doubt Apple haven't considered all of this.

Currently China owns this space because the country invested absolutely insane amounts of money to build supply chains and manufacturing, to staff all of the above with competent educated (and mostly docile) workers, and to build supporting infrastructure.

The US (and the UK) have done the opposite - crapped all over public education, allowed infrastructure to rot, and deliberately moved manufacturing offshore, because profit. And also - in the UK at least - because it helps keep the workers from opposing you.

You can't turn around an entire sector by bringing parts of the supply chain home unless there's some obvious benefit. "Patriotism" is certainly a benefit, but if it kills your margins it's a double-edged benefit at best.

This is where the US political system has failed. The US (and UK) haven't had a credible industrial strategy - or actually much of a credible economic and social strategy either - since the 60s.

"Leave it to the markets" turns out to be an exceedingly stupid idea over the medium and longer term. You get your profits and your frothy stock market, and you get a stand-out sector or two which keeps some of the educated middle class minority docile. But you lose your industrial autonomy and your security, the rest of your middle class shrinks to nothing+debt, and ultimately your competitors eat your lunch.

In the end game - still to come - they eat you.
It would have been nice to see some examples of what "those webs" entail and why they can't exist in the US.
They should task this chip with proofreading that article.
This blog is a story about my experiences when I made this.

A method of self-made C compiler which even a beginner can do
https://www.utam0k.jp/en/blog/2018/10/12/r9cc/
Productivity is largely dominated by decisions to keep using and deal with a tool which is mediocre for the job or to redesign the tool... and often the best decision is to keep using. I've found management of technical debt to be one of the hardest things. Most people either fall into the camp of continuously reinventing the wheel because it's kinda fun, often easy and satisfying, and they can convince themselves that the time invented will pay off, or they just use bad tools and curse the darkness rather than lighting the candle. Some snap back and forth between these two extremes. Having good judgement about this is a rare and valuable skill.
It really looks in good shape (and color)!

Regarding the meaning of objects found I want to share this humorous story in which future archaeologists find a motel room and they believe to have found a great tomb similar to that of Tutankhamun:

"Motel of the Mysteries"

http://sultanaeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Motel...
I've been using Headspace and the 10% Happier apps for about a year (I started with Headspace, canceled subscription, and tried 10% later). I think they're very helpful. They're especially helpful for beginners who want to try meditation.

I'm reading some comments here and see some people mention how easy it's to meditate. I'm wondering if they actually meditate or know what it is. Before I started meditating, I too had similar thoughts. But I had some misconceptions of meditation before I tried these apps. These apps helped me to start my meditation on the right path.

After a year, I don't think I need these apps anymore. The guided meditations are distracting themselves because the teacher jumps in at random points to remind you of things that you already know. I do like the teachings they do before an after meditations. Sometimes, they are helpful and insightful.

I think these apps are fine for beginners. Once you get used to meditating for 20+ minutes every day, you probably won't need them anymore.
Excellent article. I had no idea that Quincy was involved in this legislation being passed.

I would like to see more research into diet and lifestyle based approaches to dealing with "orphan" diseases. To my mind, that's a possible path out of this trap. You have to eat anyway. Food chemistry can have substantial impact on the body, especially if you have some anomaly where the body processes certain molecules differently.

I manage my condition with diet and lifestyle. I get attacked and dismissed as a deluded nutter suffering Munchausen for trying to talk about that online. But I don't know what the hell else to do.

The mods on HN have been really great about the situation. I've been thrown off of other forums or told that people violating forum rules to attack me are fine and I'm the problem and I just need to shut up. I try to not push it too much because I don't want to end up locked up in an insane asylum and dead because of it, like Semmelweis.* Though, in my case, dying would most likely be due to being denied the control over my diet and physical environment that makes it possible for me to be drug free and relatively healthy rather than being beaten by the guards and ending up with sepsis.

You probably can't make the kind of money from researching and promoting dietary and lifestyle approaches to such conditions that you can from orphan drugs. I don't personally know how to monetize it at all. When I had affiliate links on my health blog for a particular brand of salt I got attacked for that and told I could not be trusted, I was merely trying to get rich off the suffering of sick people. Having a form of the condition myself hasn't served to give me any credibility.

In the minds of most people, the real definition of CF is what my CF specialist once told me: "People like you don't get well." Since I'm getting well, clearly, I'm a liar who doesn't really have CF.

I don't know how to find a path forward. Maybe the answer is someday I say "Fuck this noise" and stop trying to share what I know and just focus on something that pays my damn bills. But, for now, that idea still rankles.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
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