skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a big take away is that what works for one person may not work for the other.

I have worked with both types and untyped languages and I really don't like untyped languages. But I have seen plenty of smart people who love untyped languages and do great work so I have concluded that people just are different and have different needs. And ideally the workplace should accommodate these differences.

Same for open space. Some love it, some hate it. So ideally people should have a choice.
Is it supposed to be a bad thing that Rust keeps adding compelling new features that makes people want to upgrade?
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That caffeine is bad for work that requires thought.
Intel still disables AVX instructions on their low-end Core architecture chips for market segmentation purposes. It is also entirely absent to begin with from their Atom and Celeron chips. AMD did not have AVX support until Ryzen, but they are still selling Piledriver based CPUs on their AM4 platform.

Firefox can't blindly use AVX without checking for its presence or it will crash on these types of systems.
Tim Cook loves the narrative that it's impossible to bring manufacturing culture back to the US. There was an article a while back about how lazy people were on the Mac Pro line. How is Tesla able to succeed? Something doesn't add up.
Probably somewhere between 60 and 200 million for the yearly lives lost. More than would mean the money is better spent on safety elsewhere such as better safety features on highways. Less than that, and spending on safety elsewhere becomes wasteful compared to spending on power infrastructure safety.

The "value of a statistical life" has less to do with making thing whole in terms of not caring about deaths than it has to do with efficiently allocating safety spending.

Then you have percentage of the yearly wildfires attributable to PG&E. So some percentage of let's say a couple billion in fire fighting per year, and maybe 10-50 billion in property lost.

Anyway, the point is that it isn't a slippery slope discussion, and it isn't impossible to come up with an approximate number.
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The system is designed for humans to behave like this. Big corporations allow blame to be diluted across an entire organization, meaning you face very little individual risk as an employee of the company. Furthermore, the employee's job and compensation depend on making the company money.

You do not make money by avoiding a catastrophe that could cost a company money. If you avoid a potential future lawsuit by removing the asbestos, how does that look on a company balance sheet? Looks like you spent money removing the asbestos, but there is no gain from avoiding the lawsuit.

So unless the employee feels the lawsuit is inevitable and imminent, why bother? It's just going to hurt the bottom line and provide no increase in revenue. Even worse, if the public catches on to you fixing the problem, then that could expose the problem existed in the first place.
So your productivity hacks boil down to doing all the things that most people complain make a developer difficult to work with.
I've always been disappointed by people that say they work without source control - because it always turns out they do something like this. Always. And this differs from source control in no meaningful fashion.

Once again, my hopes of finding out some interesting new way of working, that I couldn't even imagine: dashed!
That’s fascinating. I foolishly assumed all space would be accounted for, but of course bureaucracy. What kind of anomalies did you encounter?
It reads like the current system is probably using AX.25 wireless packet radio to communicate with the other schools. I suspect this type of use case with amateur radio is, at best, a grey area in terms of regulatory compliance. The replacement still shouldn't cost as much, but I'll bet it's more than just replacing the PC. It's also coming up with some kind of cross-school network, if one doesn't already exist. And compliance with the inevitable mountain of government requirements.
Productivity is the death of personal growth. Talking zero sum game here. More of one means less of the other.
The best programming advice I've gotten is from Tron: "fight for the users".
Life hack, don’t browse work related sites on hours you want to relax.

Maybe we need a site that’s HN minus this sort of thing.
This is not as unpopular as what reading about productivity and process from blogs or books by people who sell canned methodologies will make you think. Thinking retrospectively I think more than half of the projects I've worked in practiced agile in a way more akin to your views than to what you are complaining about "everyone does".

It's also not too different to what old books like Fowler's refactoring or the Working With Legacy Code book say, or what modern books like Philosophy of Software Design say.
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Certainly not a team productivity hack haha
It’s interesting and sad to contrast it with the India-Bangladesh enclaves, where there were great hardships due the lack of such international cooperation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India–Bangladesh_enclaves
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These things can be done in an organised and controlled fashion - one has to hope that those in charge did so. There's no particular reason to assume that "a horde" of journalists were allowed to rush in, though.

Fundamentally it's a judgement call for the archaeologists as to whether the tomb is in good enough condition and the photographers are trustworthy enough.
Isn't that kind of irrelevant though since asbestos is only a problem when it's airborne?

I mean the whole thing with baby powder is that it's practically designed to be aerosolized.
I believe that this:

> I just don't get the idea that "sequential" is somehow a bad thing?

and this:

> The whole concept of an algorithm/procedure to perform a computation is about performing a series of operations in a specific order.

are different manifestations of the one thing: you are thinking about programming in a sequential terms only. When you think about programming problem you are trying to solve it by a sequence of operations. You should try something like Haskell, something that force your mind to think differently, it would help you to teach your mind to see programming other way.

Such a "sequential thinking" is acceptable, but you probably not as good as you might be at thinking about programming problems. Functional programming helps to think about code one level higher, without distractions and compications caused by "linearization" of your thoughts to fit them into imperative paradigm. The main reason behind functional paradigm is an ability to prove statements about code, to be able to reason about code.

To throw out idea of sequence from reasoning of code is a futher abstraction from underlying machinery like transistors or machine instruction set. As any abstraction it gives you both benefits (you can think about more complex problems using the same amount of computational power of your brains) and downsides -- you become more restricted by paradigm itself, though I cannot explain what these restrictions are, because I can feel them sometimes, but do not know how to verbalize that feelings.

You can reason about code even if you think that any program is a sequence of operations, but you can do it better, if your idea of program is wider than a "series of operations in a specific order". Moreover some of that reasoning you can do by special program, like compiler or static analyzer.
My personal productivity programming isn't sure that's a good idea.

Your walk seems like suboptimal time allocation and a loss of potential productivity gains. Have you considered the productivity opportunity costs of your decision?

While you are on a walk, have you considered listening to an audio book? Perhaps a self-help audio book on having more productive walks? Why walk when you can walk and listen?

Or think of how many emails you could respond to in your 10 minute walk? Not only is your walk more productive, you will gain more muscle carrying around your smartphone and increase hand eye coordination by typing on a smartphone. A more productive you, is a healthier and happier you.

That is exhausting. People think that dystopia is a future waiting for us. I think it's here.
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Definitely.

I can’t understand why the hell anyone would want to use it anyway. The experience is terrible.
Tesla makes a super duper expensive car with arguable manufacturability and a lot of non standard parts. That works for a $100k a piece car, not $30k, let alone $10k.

You probably read comments that were Tesla be made by an established player, it would've been made for half the cost?

Tesla's success slash failure is thanks to that absence of the established manufacturing culture in light industries.

USA is still is a big manufacturing country, it's curse is that their industry manufacturers "invisible goods," and that its companies are low profile.

For examples, almost all "picoprobes" in the world are made by one small company in USA that you can't even google.

On the other hand, even a third tier smartphone maker in China has high media profile, and every highschooler will be able to name a few.
must be that it's running chrome as the engine lol
You're basically talking about income category rather than social class, at that point. Class is fundamentally about a kind of pecking order for judging appropriate company, a shorthand for determining if people will be able to relate to one another.
"brogrammer" friction affects men as much as women. The underlying cause is extroversion vs introversion rather then macho men vs sensitive women. Having to deal with narccists and psychopaths in the workplace sucks. Framing this as a man vs women issue is blatant example of sexism and stereotyping that ignores the real problem which has nothing to do with sex or gender.
I remember when my 7 year old got into it and the experience was amazingly similar ... then I found that the newly learnt swear words came from those videos. If it weren’t for the gratuitous language in the article too, I’d have loved to get him to read it!
As a manager, the job is to make your employees not happy but productive. Employee happiness is one of many ways you can get to consistent productivity, but it's not the end goal.

I've found too many managers believe as long as their employees are happy then they're doing a good job managing. It is totally possible to have happy unproductive employees, and sometimes the only way to help them improve is to make them unhappy. Set difficult expectations, alert them to their failings, and establish a transparent plan for improvement. If necessary, take away the damn ping pong table.

I want to employees to be happy insofar as it improves their output, retention likelihood, and company morale. If their happiness kills their and others productivity then difficult conversations must be had.
We saw how the 'invisible hand of the market' played out in the housing collapse of 2008. Even the clown known as Alan Greenspan admitted that his ideology was shaken.
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Even here on HN, people bring up Plan 9 all the time, forgetting that Inferno and Limbo were actually the end of the road and Plan 9 just a middle step.
> There is no downside here - the only downside you're finding is inside yourself, being projected outwards.

Well, there is one downside: it makes it harder to refer to the original meaning of the word, which could point to something valuable.
It's wonderful when browsing. Pages load in less than half a minute, unlike nearly the entire rest of the internet.

Hacker News doesn't need it, but they're nearly unique in having written a good website.
I cycled the Vennbahn cycle path this summer. Sometimes, the only way you can tell what country is on the side of the road is by the shape and colour of the postboxes.
Wow. Open source, free, compression & deduplication, web interface, no client software needed, actively developed... WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT THIS BEFORE?! I need to try it out!
Did you read the entire article? The FDA was guided by J&J to set the standard at 10x higher than their original proposal, and to reduce testing to an inexpensive test that only detects the least common type of asbestos. Basically, the article contends, the standard that "everybody knew" about is meaningless and was not much more than positive press for J&J.
Step through JavaScript snippet execution: SlowmoJS
https://github.com/carbonsam/perfectdadbot/blob/master/src/i...

Do you log every single message sent in the server to your analytics instance, including those that aren't sent to your bot?
> That's because those are all relational DBs that use SQL

I have dealt with all of those, including MySQL. Switching is never easy. Every technology choice, even ones that should be similar, like an RDBMS, have strengths and weaknesses.
Did you read the article? They explain that "traces of" was actually as high as 3% in some samples. The bulk of the article explains the tests performed over time including the results of concentration. Not sure what your complaint is, they even link to the original test result documents.
Havent tried Xavier yet, but I am using TX2 in my work (which is previous generation of this type of device) and CPU is very weak to allow any serious gaming.
> The comparison to a modern laptop is interesting...

Nah, my ~8 year old laptop was still trying to process all the js to render their site even after I finished reading the article and hit the back button -- that's probably the standard they're holding up here...

But, really, the only problems I ever have with this old lappy is the occasional bug that slips through the Fedora testing process and a battery that really should be replaced.
I believe secretaries are largely gone already. So...

I would add we'll see "peak travel" will occur within 25 years. Virtual reality will be so good and cheap that only the wealthy will be able to move their bodies from place to place.

2 car families will become 1 car families as autonomous on-demand local travel and work from home will eliminate the need for a second, or even a first car.
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I wish there were concrete examples of how machine learning is being used.
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I don't know, I really like the idea of wireguard but I had a pretty tough time setting it up (and had to give up after an hour)... more like I didn't have the time.

I think I wasn't doing something right, though, since I was getting very weird errors that I wasn't able to google. Also I think my issue was like more with the macOS client rather than the server.

I think Wireguard is still at the same level that git was about 10 years ago: powerful, elegant, but absolutely not user-friendly. But nobody is claiming that it is (same with git).

I suspect in the next couple of years, you'll see an explosion of really nice tools to make this setup even easier than it is now.

Until then, I'll keep fiddling and try to get wireguard running on my macOS client/ubuntu server setup.
Hmmm... Pay 20% - 30% of my earnings before tax or take a $50 flight to Penang every three months.
I guess that the asbestos rate in the talk follows some none normal distribution. Of all the million bottles, some might have vastly higher rates? I imagine the asbestos is unevenly distributed in the ore in the mine and thus in the resulting batches of talk.

That could be a hypothesis at least. But I agree on the proportion point. I would want to know how much asbestos there is in Kellog's Cornflakes or whatever.
Perhaps you're right, I sometimes forget that commercial UNIX's exist. The BSDs are mostly what I was thinking of.
Talking with GPUs works a lot like this using modern APIs. You fill a command buffer with stuff and then asynchronously get results back "later", using synchronization primitives and memory mapping. There are syscalls to kick off the command buffers but those can (and often are) be implemented in userspace by the driver.
To avoid doubt, this is a 'sponsor feature' from the Max Plank Gesellscaft rather than a peer-reviewed paper.

It's basically an advert / announcement for a Max Plank initiative concerning...

>‘geo-anthropology’, the science of human–Earth interaction. Geo-anthropology studies the various mechanisms, dynamics and pathways that have moved us into the Anthropocene.
This sounds more like an argument to not use a NoSQL database without a specific use case. That's an argument I completely agree with. I'm not sure it's a specific argument against Dynamo or AWS in general though.
Using private browsing mode tends to work.
I built the burglar alarm system for my school, 28 years ago while in 12th grade. All TTL circuitry. That portion of the building was remodeled, so it was torn out after a few years, but I’m guessing the replacement cost for a commercial system was over $10k.
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> There's no particular reason to assume that "a horde" of journalists were allowed to rush in, though.

Look at the video, it is ridiculous. People are walking on each other feet there.

> Fundamentally it's a judgement call for the archaeologists as to whether the tomb is in good enough condition and the photographers are trustworthy enough.

The flashes alone should be a concern. That's also not a good way to get a good photograph. They should know better.

You'd expect and perhaps understand this happening at a celebrity gathering. But it is not like the statues are going to bust a move soon here.
Wait, the iPhone is cheap? I had the first version ( well 3g actually) and never bothered since, because I thought it would only get more expensive
The guide you link to is ultimately a lengthy exposition of how to use various tools, including a full section on Veracrypt.
I mean, I know adults who use it on themselves regularly, It's not just a risk for people who care for children. They use it reduce moisture in various areas (genital and anal region, feet, between thighs, under boobs, etc.) A lot of women are taught to sprinkle it on their underwear ever day to "stay fresh."[1]

[1] https://www.thecut.com/2016/04/sad-truth-behind-the-baby-pow...
Tesla Model 3's start at $35k.
I'm surprised Pascal wasn't mentioned. Its syntax is very similar to Algol and Wirth was part of the Algol X development team. His (rejected) proposals were the genesis of Pascal.
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>>Handheld smartphones transition to spatial computing / augmented reality head mounted displays

Apple needs to upgrades eyeglasses like they did the watch.
Microsoft has proposed a model where they provide Linux security updates for 10 years, licensed separately from a device vendor that may go out of business. Let's see if Azure Sphere routers make it to market in 2019 - and at what price point. Maybe they can bundle the hardware in a single subscription service, or partner directly with cable companies.
California was given in the most recent annual report.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0000320193170...
>> into my apocalypse drive

I've often thought of what humanity would due given an apocalyptic scenario, and individually what I would do. I've never thought about creating an apocalypse drive, but am now considering making one! I'd be curious to see/ compare peoples full apocalypse drive.
Emacs is very flexible. Sometimes at the cost of being too verbose about the seemingly easy stuff. I've tried to explain the font changing topic a little bit.
I have seen this technique being used to implement syscalls for processes running on intel SGX [0]. In that cases, it makes even more sense because exiting SGX, making a syscall and then reentering SGX is a lot of overhead for a single syscall, while writing to shared memory is doable without exiting the SGX environment.

[0]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi16/osdi16...
and if rsync doesn't quite work for what you need/a target you want to use, rclone is always an option as well

https://rclone.org/
Ask HN: What are some examples of machine learning startups in defense sector?
Modern defense capabilities are highly dependent on use of computers to assess preparedness, cyber attacks, terrain analysis, operations management, etc. I am curious whether there are any startups that convinced the govt. to address these needs or it is the usual high level contractors (lockheed or such) competing for these services? What kind of military needs can be civilian* in nature, for example I know Amazon helps army with supply chain management for food supplies and other such things.

* - forgive me for the lame word placement here
Front end engineers are not selected for their skills in understanding algorithms and data structures. It's quite easy to speed up a web site if you understand how CPU works on a low level and how Javascript is compiled to machine code, but it requires a lot of knowledge.
The Freedom of the Press guide is geared towards media producers. Users who need to make heavy use of Adobe, Apple, Avid production tools. Telling them to 'just get started with Linux' is not a realistic, workable approach and in a real-world setting simply results in them either not using anything or using even worse solutions.
Various parts of an algorithm/procedure are related to each other in various ways. Sometimes those relationships describe a sequence. Other times they do not. For me, this is the essence of functional programming: a means to describe how the many small parts of an algorithm are related to each other in the whole (in a natural way).

If the computation truly is one that is most practically described as a sequence of steps, that is easy to do. In fact, in some sense this is what the infamous "Monad" concept is all about.
Nice one, thanks so much!
You overestimate the average ability of the office worker to know how the system works. Getting the temperature comfortable for a group of people is sometimes problematic and allowing one person to make others uncomfortable is not a happy thing. Plus, the central controls tends to keeps things even and extends the life of equipment. Cost is an issue and people changing temperature everywhere sends costs up.
And now you know why they delete it... At least one of the reasons.
> What are the [Executive's] Incentives

I think it's very important to keep your
frame. With passive investors who simply
are not privy to any of the decisions and
middle management who are often powerless,
our question should be how we make executives
responsible for the actions they oversee.
Especially when those actions are discovered
to be harmful years after they have left.

Perhaps one option is that all executive stock
options and compensation over a particular amount
should be held in trust, distributed only
incrementally, so that their "privatization
of profits" can be recovered in the case of
material damages done by the company while
it is under their direction & control.

The other thing we could do is give standing
to middle management so they can sue executives
from this trust if they can show executives were
negligent. Incentivize middle management to have
a financial stake in preventing unsafe behavior.