skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How do you stay active during the day?
I had been quite active during the holidays for around 3 weeks and since I came back to work (SW in an office) I noticed that I am sitting for around 8 to 9 hours a day whereas I was sitting for only 4-5 hours during the holidays. I feel this is affecting my mood, energy and sleep.

How do you folks stay active during the day at work and mitigate the risks of such sedentary lifestyle other than training/exercising regularly or going for walks during the day?
Evaluating the strength of the team and the market is something you can do with zero involvement from the company, and you probably shouldn't depend on them to tell you either even if they offered.

Getting a sense of founder dynamics can be harder, depending on stage, but it's easy if you're early enough. I interviewed at Dropbox when it was 20 people and it was obvious what roles Drew and Arash played, as an example. At a larger stage this is harder, but you have more public sources of information at that point.

Regarding Triplebyte's profits, you should be asking how fast they're growing.

Finally, we should all be Jeff Dean. :)
Huh it looks like European cars often use larger sockets (learn something new every day). Meanwhile I found the original review that stuck with me. By design the charger uses a center spring that's too strong and forces it out of the socket a little bit.

There are a variety of other critiques (e.g. came apart in the receptacle and "All of this could have been avoided if Anker would have angled the leading edge of the side electrical connections more.", "The catches on the side of the charger won't release like the traditional spring ones do.", lack of fuse) as well.
Politics failed, not democracy. Failed to offer an intelligent question, failed to present rational argument (never have I seen such disingenuous campaigning, by both sides, in UK politics as for the referendum), failed to present the result in the context of our constitution and system.

The referendum was called by Cameron to try and keep the party hardliners in their box. Nothing more than playing politics. The remain vote was supposed to be a foregone conclusion or he'd have not called that referendum at all. Cameron's reaction the morning after says it all.

In the words of Chris Patten, former Tory chairman:

"The whole sorry shambles began with a decision to call a referendum in order to try to manage the English nationalist right wing of the Conservative party."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jan/07/uk-must-have-s...
Living in the moment doesn’t mean you never work on improving yourself or the world, it means giving into that nagging feeling you describe and then later, giving in to the nagging feeling that you just want to stop for a while.
Roku tops 27M accounts
IF they decide?

You'd be pretty foolish to think anything BUT that would happen. At least not without a framework of understanding, testing and regulation that limited it.
Reminds me of when a snack company (I think it was Naturebox?) insisted in their advertising that they used sophisticated machine learning to match you with the perfect snack. Or how MIT graduates are using machine learning to disrupt the wine-a-month club industry.
GitHub PR extension allows you to manage pull requests directly from VSCode
The transmission, especially on an automatic, is the thing that often does them in. I just recently had one go on a 18 year old Chevy Imapla and decided to sell it rather than fixing it. The body and interior are in very good condition. The problem is that other stuff is starting to go. For example the AC has never been serviced and will be an issue in the near future, I live in Atlanta where that is needed. I've gone through two EGR valves, throttle position sensor etc.. The car, working perfectly can sell for up to $4500 with new tires, but it has old tires (-$400), plus the transmission rebuild/replace is going to be between $2100-$2500. The engine itself is in great shape with no problems and if I wanted to dump more money into it I could drive the car to 300 plus thousand miles, but it is starting to need to have things fixed more and more....

It helped that I was able to get a brand new loaded Volt for $9,000 off plus an additional $7500 tax rebate. which in the end means that I have the best of both worlds for $25,000 with a full warranty etc..
Not one trump release since he announced his candidacy. Hmmm.
Someone I know bought a rather specific piece of machinery for steel work. They ran into the problem that the item got stuck in customs, and sorting who was supposed to send which piece of paper to whom was a nightmare. Some of the paperwork being written in Chinese didn't help either.

Unfortunately I never asked how the whole thing ended. I know that, that customs not been an issue, the item was supposed to arrive to their address. At the end, it comes down to how much experience your seller has.
If revealing the democratic party's misdeeds hurt the democratic party and helped russia, then we agree that there is an element of complicity for the messenger.

Can we also likewise agree that the democratic party's misdeeds themselves hurt the democratic party and helped russia?

If so, why is it reasonable to connect "wikileaks getting their way" to a Russia/China NWO, but not reasonable to connect "the DNC getting their way" to a Russia/China NWO?
If interested, you can contribute to the process: https://www.pgdp.net/c/
I was wondering about PG as well. If I understand right, the whole project relies on volunteers to OCR and then manually correct the texts. I'm not entirely clear on how they're organized, though.

Edit: see sibling comment made at the same time. PG distributes pages to volunteers for proofreading.
Does gitlab have free integrated PR code review tools?
Linux Servers Appear Most Affected by IPMI Enabled JungleSec Ransomware Attacks
I think the author should produce some data showing this is a viable strategy before he gives people advice that could lose them hundreds of thousands of dollars. Other people have pointed out the statistical problems with this strategy so I won't restate them.

The author may sincerely believe in his own advice, but we should note that he did not, himself, get rich this way.

A dropout from elite UK universities, he founded a startup and exited for a small amount of money. Since then he has worked for Y Combinator, invested, and also founded a few companies.

Taggar has never, himself, been anything like a startup employee. And great for him; he seems extremely talented and maybe that route isn't for him. But his company (TripleByte) profits from directing talented people into these kinds of companies.
I think a more interesting question is what would Facebook do about the European countries where various aspects of Islam are already illegal.

France has banned the veil.

Switzerland banned the construction of minarets (not mosques) via popular referendum in 2009.

Austria bans mosques from receiving foreign funding.

It would appear that Facebook considers the majority of the populations of many important European countries to be engaged in hate speech, and presumably their governments too?

So I'm not sure we need to look to nascent independence movements to encounter difficulties with the consistency of Facebook's position although, it is an interesting thought experiment.
Sadly I dont listen to many...

I should listen to more - but I find that I read a lot, and when I am reading I cant listen to anything and retain it... so it limits my ability to listen to podcasts.

My mind wanders too much when I only listen to a podcast and am not really doing anything else so I get distracted. I find that I can listen to someone speak and retain what they are saying when I can see them speak - but just hearing them seems to go in one ear out the other. I hate it - but its just how I function.
Circle CI is a great choice for free builds of your private Github project.
Can Alexa and Facebook predict the end of your relationship?
The problem in my opinion is that in the past they would effectively shift performance down one SKU on each generation, and at the top you could get a 30% upgrade in performance for the same kind of money. Like the 980 Ti to 1080 Ti for example. Now you get marginally the same amount of performance for marginally the same amount of money.

It doesn't matter what they call it if the performance/money is what it is. I compare names because names meant a set price point going up to 10XX generation.

If you've got no use for RTX and tensor cores, those cards are very similar. RTX is available in one game only 3 months after launch, and what if I just dont want to be an early adopter? Tensor cores, yeah, if you're going to earn money or otherwise have your life improved by additional hardware in Turing, sure, it's a no-brainer. But I feel like it's not for many gamers.

Disclaimer: I'm not saying I am entitled to progress. I'm pointing out that it has slowed. I feel that this is similar to the lack of competition Intel was having. At least I'm thankful to Nvidia gods for making the higher performance card at all available, I guess...
That was the reason I moved to bitbucket, now i don’t see a reason to go back to github.
"but the one rainbow unicorn male boxer design didn't grab my attention like I thought it would."

Cant tell if serious or trolling ?!
I'm still firmly of the opinion that nobody wants a SPA apart from the developers of that app.

I'd bet any of us could find a ton of weird and unintuitive things your app does, as well as it probably being slow to load, hard to use and brittle, in that you'll regularly put out an update that inexplicably breaks something for a day or two.

Add on top that massive extra expense of doing a pure SPA compared to the ease and simplicity of developing a mixed server/front side app, I have no idea why anyone sane ever signs off on a SPA.

And that's before we even get onto the vastly better tooling and development environments that server-side languages have.
For anybody looking for a minimal cross-plateforme modern OpenGL hello world with a lot of comments: https://github.com/eliemichel/AugenLight

By modern I mean as in OpenGL 4.5 Core Profile, using future-oriented APIs (e.g. named buffers). Any feedback welcome!
The ban on curved cucumbers is a myth spread by the British tabloids.
They did not ban curved cucumbers, they simply provided rules for classification of fruits and vegetables so that buyers know what they are purchasing.
See: https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/straight-cucumbers/
Yes, I totally agree. I think there are a constellation of factors that influence the upgrade decisions of users, but I have found it surprising how much the software has been under-discussed following Apple's miss.

If someone was happy enough with their iPhone 5s, 6, or 6s running iOS 11 when the X was released (Fall 2017) then I suspect they didn't feel much more pressure to upgrade when they were running iOS 12 and the Xs was released (Fall 2018).
Honestly curious -- do you think there are outlets that meet that ideal? I used to think so but 2016 shook my faith in a lot of outlets I used to trust.
RIP The Herman Miller Aeron Chair, now available in True Black.
This summer will be my 3rd year driving our Tesla Model X from Boston to Hilton Head, SC. Superchargers are everywhere, it's an easy drive. We also drive from Boston 2+ hours into NH to go skiing all winter, also a breeze...
We are all able to be content. Meditation is the most straightforward way to learn how. It teaches you to live in the present moment, which teaches you that the present moment is enough - you can just be. Another approach is to learn to recognize when you are making thinking errors:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-mentally-strong...

Thinking errors get in the way of contentment.
LG’s groundbreaking roll-up TV is going on sale this year
Relying on fusion power solving our problems is a foolish. We need to solve our energy problems with the technology we have now, and if we end up with cheap clean electricity on top of it, well, we'll already have the infrastructure to take advantage of it.
Further, Apple chip design probably doesn't need to respond to market pressure the same way Qualcomm does.

If Snapdragons get too expensive, phone manufacturers will switch to Huawei / Samsung / MediaTek, but Apple can absorb a $5 or $10 increase in per chip cost for better performance and power efficiency since it is vertically integrated.
We can’t be very far from, “It is false and defamatory to suggest that the wizard of Oz is just a sad little man hiding behind a curtain.”
Maybe it's cause they charge $24 for a pair of underwear? I don't necessarily doubt their quality, but the most I'd be willing to pay is half that.
Audi and Disney want to spice up your Uber ride with VR
Hindsight is 20-20. When Apple released a forecast of 89 billion dollars with the bulk of the revenue from the new devices, it seemed more like wishful thinking, I should have shorted the stock. I wonder if the smart money didn't do that... they would have recognized this right away. It would have been the perfect moment to bet.
This [1] claims that the random text on those pages does not actually constitute Malbolge programs. However, that does not preclude that there is some additional layer of encryption over it, or something else... :)

[1]: https://esoteric.codes/blog/a-malbolge-mystery-c0d3-attorney
"All I ask is for a chance to prove that money won't make me happy."

(At least, that's the way I usually hear that expressed.)
There's maximum probably only like hundreds of thousands of people who would pay $96/yr for git repos for their personal projects. Millions a month but their other revenue streams are more expensive and still growing and can keep growing so it was heading towards a rounding error % even though it was 12% a couple years ago.
Azure Pipelines free offering is superior to Travis by every imaginable metric - UI latency, build latency, featureset, sane, carefully thought about YAML syntax, etc.
That is more like an example of Blub paradox in action: You can write in everything as if it were C, you can't write C as if it were everything else.

Except that it makes a point that is subtly different from the one pg originally raised in discussing Blub paradox: If you only care about shipping something, you aren't inclined to think about abstraction as a goal state, and that's what these other languages are doing: handling things with a goal of adding abstraction that for a C++ user is out of reach or requires considerable knowledge of the C++ standard. Users of Python or JS don't know what a pointer is, and that's intended by design, because for most applications it is an implementation detail and automating it away is desirable.

When most software was written in assembler, data structures more complex than an array were often avoided, because it was difficult to code and debug them. And if you were an assembly coder of that era, you might well say that you didn't see the point of structured programming, or that you could easily get the same effect in fewer bytes. And to some degree, you'd be right, because you would just design a smaller scope of application that makes those techniques viable.

Trying to write something resembling modern C++ style in x86 assembly, in contrast, would be as fruitless as a JS coder trying to use C++ like JS, since your abstractions wouldn't be there. You'd have to learn the thought process of a lower level coder and apply those strategies instead of the ones you are comfortable with.
> (...) other than training/exercising regularly or going for walks during the day?

May I ask why not these two? Those would be my first choices, so I think you may have something more specific in mind.
If you want some entertaining tear-downs and analysis, BigCliveDotCom on Youtube is great viewing.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom/videos
I have a Tesla and don't think that kind of hot swap is necessary with the supercharger network and ease of charging in my garage, what I would like to see is public pricing on them swapping my battery with a new one after 10 years.
Doctors believed babies felt no pain--never using anesthesia--until the mid '80s
How much money did Russian intelligence spend on such ads on social media? I googled "how much money did russia spend on facebook ads" but the numbers I see in that result are surprisingly small, so I'm wondering if you have a better source.
What laptop? My XPS refuses to charge in any way below 45W, but any cell phone charger I've seen can trickle charge my Macbook Pro (slowly, or with lid closed, or something)
Many laptops require higher voltage. My XPS 13 does require 20V, for example.
Comparing 12.5% revenues to a pay cut is not misleading at all.

Unless there is some reason to believe that making individual accounts free will somehow also reduce costs in a material way. Seems to me it will likely increase costs significantly as many more users will flock to create free private repos.

In fact, it's more like giving you a 12% percent pay cut and then asking you to commute further to work.
Harley-Davidson’s first all-electric motorcycle is coming August 2019
fun read
Sure, but that assumes the goal is just to accumulate money.

That's a fine goal if that's what you want, and if done well it can lead to financial freedom, but it's also entirely reasonable to remove fixed expenses in order to make it possible to change from a high paying and stressful job to a lower paying but more fulfilling job.
How Culture Influences Debugging
Case-sensitivity is, more or less, a default: you have different strings that have distinct encodings, so you treat them as different identifiers.

The alternative to case-sensitivity requires your compiler to know about case, and, more importantly, how to do case-folding. At that point, you can either choose to (a) restrict identifiers to a Some (probably ASCII) limited subset of characters, (b) only make some subset of acceptable characters (reliably) case-insensitive, (c) require every compiler to have tables for case-folding.

That's before we get into the locale-dependence of case-folding, which makes the letter "i" unreliable.

And you still have to distinguish Color and Colour.
> The problem in my opinion is that in the past they would effectively shift performance down one SKU on each generation, and at the top you could get a 30% upgrade in performance for the same kind of money. Like the 980 Ti to 1080 Ti for example. Now you get marginally the same amount of performance for marginally the same amount of money.

That's the exact problem with this generation. Before the top end (980 ti) became midrange (1070) for substantially less money. Now they just pushed the names up a bracket and kept (roughly) the same, and justified it by inventing a new "top end".
"People who own a Linux workstation at home and just want to play a few games" make up a disproportionately large amount of the developer-base for pretty much any software, though, including games. It doesn't matter if none of your users care about a particular feature, if a fair number of your own devs do.
You can harden this Quine even further (statistically) by adding lots of white space where ever it’s allowed
How would you evaluate Meson as a build system for C projects? I _think_ C and C++ build process is very similar, but I only work professionally with C, so maybe there are some quirks to C++ I am not aware of.

Basically, I wonder if you would recommend Meson as a build system for a mostly C project with maybe some C++ parts and some extra external tools ran on top.
How is that relevant? GP literally used the words "to me". To anyone who has become acquainted with Rust in the past few years, steveklabnik is a much more familiar name than Graydon, who hasn't been actively involved in Rust development in a long time.
12% of Github's income is 12% of Github's income.
I wouldn't pick an early stage co to join just based on the % of the company they offered. 0.5% in something worthless is still 0.
The CDC’s First Study of Dockless Electric Scooters Will Happen in Austin
>>GitHub is in the strange position of being both a successful enterprise product AND a social network.

That's interesting to think about. Who knows, maybe GitHub will become the next LinkedIn for developers? Or for everyone? LinkedIn is nearly unusable these days, in my opinion.
There is so many ways you can write good C++ code. It depends on the use case. I have code that is nice, modern and concise and I have code where I recently threw all of that out and even introduced custom containers and custom memory management to get an important 2x to 3x speedup.
depends on how the social network is monetized. There are no ads on Github. Unless github is selling user data to third parties, their monetization method is well known (paid enterprise features)
Specifically:

* Size A: inside diameter ~21.0mm (mainly American cars)

* Size B: inside diameter ~21.5mm (mainly European cars)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_lighter_receptacle
While I love Linux Mint and Antergos (for rolling), I'm a Windows-based C# dev, and WSL would be my choice as well. Other than increased hardware compatibility the big win is battery life when mobile. Not really a factor for me as I develop on a Ryzen 2700X, but Windows 10 with Edge (soon to be Chromium based) or macOS with Safari is as good as it gets for battery life. I doubt a primarily server OS like Linux will ever match Windows or macOS in this regard, though I certainly wouldn't mind seeing it happen.
Ask HN: How do you get what you need from the HR department?
I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard a manager complain, “The HR department included ‘must have college degree’ in the job req even though I don’t care” or “They asked for 5 years of experience in a technology that’s only been around for 3” or “I have no idea why they rejected this candidate without even contacting me.”

Still, in many cases you don’t have a choice. If you want to hire someone, you need to deal with HR, at least to a small degree – especially if you work in a big company.

So I’m writing a feature story for technology managers, collecting real-world advice from people who learned their lessons the hard way.

• Tell me about a frustration you had with the HR department (in regard to hiring). That is, tell me a personal story of HR-gone-wrong. Because we all love schadenfreude, and that gives me an emotional example with which to begin.
• Let’s say you have a new opening in your department. In what ways do you involve HR? (That could be anything from, “give them general guidelines and let them choose the best candidates for me to interview” to “I do the search myself, and use HR only for on-boarding.”) What makes you choose that path? How much choice do you have in the matter?
• What weaknesses have you discovered in your HR department’s ability to serve the needs of a tech-focused department?
• What have you done to cope with those weaknesses? Which of those efforts worked, and which failed?
• What do you wish you knew “n” years ago about dealing with your company’s HR department?
• So that I can give the reader some context: Let me know how to refer to you in the article (at least, “Kim, a software architect at a Midwest insurance company”), and give me some idea of your company size (because the processes appropriate for a 70-person company aren’t the same for one with 7,000 employees).
But that is a non-sensical argument unless you are saying that making all those accounts free will somehow reduce the overhead related to the personal accounts. Seems like it will in fact increase costs as more people sign up.
Your conclusion is correct, your numbers are not - the spending gap is much higher (which supports your point even better)

US spending is over 18%, almost double the cost in France.
Even the oh-so-expensive Switzerland spends ~12% of its GDP on healthcare.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184968/us-health-expendi...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-spending/u-s-healt...