skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the commenters here get it.

Efficiency is an outcome of optimization, and optimization is a form of specialization with respect to the environment/assumptions. With any kind of specialization there's a trade off. If the environment or set of assumption changes, one can be worse off than if one did not optimize at all.

Also, optimization at the wrong level of detail/abstraction can be costly. One example is in auto manufacturing.

U.S. car manufacturers have traditionally tended to spec tight tolerances at the component level, with the assumption that everything will fit when assembled. This can be very expensive to get right, and the assumption of perfect final fit is not always borne out.

Japanese auto manufacturers however, despite their reputation for perfectionism, have tended to be looser with component level tolerances, but paid more attention to assembly tolerances (functional build [1]). They understood what tolerances needed to be tight and those that mattered less in the final build. They embraced natural imperfections, and made sure the rest of the system accepted the lower part tolerances. It turns out this led to higher overall quality at lower cost. (Detroit has now embraced functional build)

(The Japanese approach is analogous to focusing on integration testing as opposed to exhaustive unit testing)

[1] Functional Build https://www.adandp.media/articles/building-better-vehicles-v...
"MenubarMorph reset" will fix the menu bar scaling factor.

Extensions are methods installed into classes by other packages.
The IPCC reports are authoritative.

Basically there are a number of pathways to reduce emissions sufficiently quickly (and then to suck out pollutants from the air) to limit climate change:

https://www.ipcc.ch/2018/10/08/summary-for-policymakers-of-i...

"The report finds that limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require “rapid and far-reaching” transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport, and cities. Global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would need to fall by about 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching ‘net zero’ around 2050. This means that any remaining emissions would need to be balanced by removing CO2 from the air."

It's going to be tough.

Some discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18181503

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18814813

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18389324

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221239
Has anyone tried the Tresanti standing desk which is sold at Costco? It seemed pretty sturdy and reasonably priced at $400 CAD ($300 USD)

EDIT: link - https://www.costco.ca/Tresanti-Adjustable-Desk.product.10042...
Seemed lackluster to me. Adding code in a literally defined data structure failed to complete anything.
with open() as f:
ll = [f.(no help from here on out)]
I know they 3D print some jet engine parts. Why could custom screws not be 3D printed?
I will try to respond when my work day is over.
In our state, we accrue 1 hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked. This comes out to approximately 8 sick days per year.

These are separate from PTO. At the very minimum, I would expect 10 PTO days in addition to 8 sick days. You might lose some goodwill if you max out your sick day use, but you are owed those days by law regardless.

Single digit vacation days would be insane. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
Look at the embedded Rust stuff like RTFM - they find clever ways to build safe abstractions over unsafe primitives. If you can get 95% memory safe device drivers, thats already a huge win.
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Hundreds of keyless cars are vulnerable to high-tech theft, new report says
Buzzfeed front page right now:

“It’s time for the ultimate Asian food showdown”
(3rd headline)

“Here’s one reason some vegan meals could still be harmful to the environment”

“This trailer for the movie on serial killer ted bundy has raised a lot of eyebrows”

“This guy had the best response after someone said his tinder profile was ‘lame’”
As a father of 5, I see these as the exceptions that prove the rule. Aside from these moments, there are few interruptions, so he gets to pick them or manages them, just as those of us at the office also know when an impromptu visit to the store or call with family will not disrupts our work or that of others on our team. We're not robots, after all, we need to be human/parents/children once in a while during our 8 hours service.
I can't think of any reason to control my desk over the internet or via Bluetooth. If I'm not at my desk I don't care how high it is, if I'm at the desk and want to change it a button is much more convenient than using my phone.
Shouldn't those who said the world would end with the killing of net neutrality be asked why the world has not ended, also why there has been no noticeable change? If you are reading this now, your action proves that all the claims of those who predicted disaster were nonsense and... dare I say, fear-mongering.
> Once you see a person executed you're no longer the same person.

If witnessing what your society does in your name causes you distress, it's worth some contemplation, don't you think?

For example, if society is doing things "for me" behind closed doors and all I see are sanitized benefits (e.g. cheap gasoline, less stinky sewage, garbage that just vanishes, easy pieces of meat, etc.) then I'm at risk of asking for more things with nasty side-effects and I'll never really be in touch with what I'm doing to other people or the planet.

IMO, violence (against people or animals or the environment) should always be witnessed and if it's done "for us", we should have to see and do our best to understand it.
ahh.. supporting 400 different providers is a full-time and fairly painful job. Anyways their space is pretty crowded as well.
Some people for some reason write javascript without semicolons, if they do that you cant safely concatenate javascript files together since the file2 may modify file1's last expression, putting a ; at the start guarantees to complete the last files expression if they havent already done so. A bunch of concatenators will do this automatically / by default
This is called mutual recursion. Interpretors rely on it heavily.
Yeah the thing I like about Jarvis is that they don't get wobbly near the limit of their extension like some of the other standup desks I've seen. I'm 6'5" and I have a thick anti-fatigue mat, so I have to raise it very high.

On top of that I also have a 42" TV on a monitor arm and an attached keyboard tray, and still no wobble.
Excited to hear that HA support is in the works. That's one of the main things keeping me away from dokku for a decent chunk of projects at the moment.
Yes it's very good, but still somewhat stratified. Checkout the 1ML project for something even more unified: https://people.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/1ml/
Chromebooks won't work in China, where the Great Firewall blocks most Western cloud services.
they is several thousand people with different motivations and desires. To expect them all to have a common motive would be a mistake.
> Lofi is light-weight and runs on less than 100MB of RAM.

Okay, I think I finally get how people developing for embedded systems must have felt when the first "embedded devices" started shipping with Ubuntu.
If you don't visit HN too frequently, try jumping several pages in. I don't have quantitative evidence to support this, but my experience is that useful content spends a while loitering around the 100-250 mark, while lower s/n posts zip past that range more quickly. The tradeoff is not being able to contribute to discussion it while it's still hot.
But if I have already heard of a business from their marketing, and I can't find them on the first 2 pages of Google, then that marketing spend was wasted. Yes, SEO can't be the entire marketing plan, but it is critically important.
Having worked in multiple startups as a very early employee, I have seen the story evolve and change over the years as the startup becomes successful. So I agree with you that this story is probably exaggerated, if not outright false.
The broader point is that investors should eat the same dog food as the founders and early employees, including when it comes to common shares and no liquidity preferences. The fairness point you asked about includes removing preferred shares, you're splitting it as though I was only talking narrowly about an issue of a 1x preference. I fundamentally disagree with start-up investors receiving preferred shares as a norm.

I think YC should take the lead in trying to strip liquidity preferences from the industry. They should become non-standard in most term sheets. Ideally they advocate up the chain further by leveraging their considerable influence to water down or eliminate liquidity preference whenever possible. YC has been a founder-friendly venture firm from the beginning, I believe one of the best pro-founder fights for them to pick is to work toward ending the standardization of liquidity preferences. It's currently backwards, liquidity preferences should be rare.
The counterargument is that some people abuse sick time. (I think there have even been studies that show a large excess of sick days on Monday.) And from a purely utilitarian perspective, why should an employer care if you're in bed with the flu or climbing a mountain somewhere?

That said, I'm not a fan of the combined system. In a lot of other ways, we expect employers to accommodate employees who may have issues of various kinds. Accommodating employees who get sick more often seems a reasonable extension of that. (And I say that as someone who, touch wood, has largely benefited from a combined system over the past decade or so.)
Yup. Throw in avoiding AirBnB + Uber and you're practically "off the grid."
I'd rather have them display an error message the next time I log in if I didn't have enough space. Otherwise I'm giving up a chunk of disk space that will be unused 99% of the time.

Considering that the Surface tablets don't have that much space to begin with, that's a bit of a sacrifice. I also wonder how they will handle this in Azure VMs running Windows, VMs running on developer laptops, etc.
(Throwaway since I know a lot of the Stripe folks.)

Agreed -- I'm disappointed to see this from pc. This piece reeks of the "Andy Grove Fallacy", as described by to Derek Lowe ([1] and [2]).

It's one thing to be a mastercard middleman -- it's completely different to create new fundamental knowledge about the world.

[1] "Andy Grove: Rich, Famous, Smart and Wrong" http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2007/11/06/and...

[2] "Silicon Valley Sunglasses" http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/04/02/sil...
This is a good read https://www.amazon.com/Buyout-America-Private-Destroying-Ame...
> Bloomberg

What happened with that story about the magic Chinese spying chip, found only on SuperMicro motherboards sold to Apple? Did they prove it true? Did they retract it?

There is a point about this, if I can't trust them with things I have an idea about, how can I trust them with things totally foreign to me?
A few points:

1. I share your sense of skepticism about these types of things. I generally thought people with anxiety just exaggerated until I started getting panic attacks and anxiety myself (due to DPDR).

2. The biggest difference between meditating and DPDR is the sense of anxiety. When you meditate to lose yourself you feel at peace (I assume). With DPDR, you feel panic.

3. When you look at loved ones during episodes, its discomforting feeling creeped out by them. It's not pleasant.

Now why is one pleasant and the other isn't despite having a similar mechanism? That's a great question. Perhaps the brain reacts differently when you do things on purpose v.s. when things happen to you against your will and out of your control. I imagine there are more differences as well. The brain is a complex organ.
By shipping the VM and the image.
But how does the level of that appreciation compare to your income? What level of wealth tax would you accept if it meant that you no longer have to pay income tax?

Obviously I don't expect an answer to that - just something to consider.
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Buzzfeed and Buzzfeed News are two different sites and operate separately, they just share the name, the OP was conflating the two. As you pointed out Buzzfeed is still largely garbage.
Then it might not be for you, and that's fine. We're all different. And you may manage it differently to make it not as negative for you.
It doesn't matter where the company raising an A started, it is usually incorporated in Delaware. If the company incorporated elsewhere, it will almost always reincorporate in Delaware prior to raising an institutional round.

This isn't true for certain international jurisdictions, but within the US, it is a near certainty.
Auto updates only work well when they don't break stuff, and don't cause random reboots.

Microsoft has a pretty bad track record with their updates breaking stuff and causing data loss. I don't trust them anymore.
They buried the lede: Buzzfeed is paying 10 weeks benefits and salary instead.

They'd probably save a lot more if they had paid for PTO and only PTO.
Every failed interview feels like this has already happened. Which is really not good for someone with a history of depression.
I have an uplift desk frame with 4 legs and using my own desktop made from my parents old dinner table. Perfectly stable.
Supporting 3 would handle a pretty large market.
Ah, ok. So did that radically affect how many people got it or just the demographic? I'm wondering who received the update before they pulled it vs who would have received it in a opt in environment.
If you know of any groups that would actually pay me to point out fallacious logic I would love to know about them.
That would be a rather insane 50x revenue multiple. Doesn't sound right
Buzzfeed is still very much like that.

Buzzfeed News is a separate org, and to be honest, the sharing of the brand probably does more harm to the new org than good even though its done some respectable reporting in the past.
Came here to point this out. Both I and my wife had immigrant parents, and they all integrated beautifully. None of them would have been caught dead so much as speeding. The idea of breaking into the country--obviously a very serious crime--would never have occurred to them.
I love clickhouse: it's simple yet flexible enough and free software.

I'm migrating a lot of data to clickhouse on clusters of servers.

One of the unexpected gains is how it uses far less disk space, which means the data can be put on a few NVME in RAID10, which provides speed benefits even for data that can't fit in memory.

I am now also considering ClickHouse for "cold storage": either by compressing the directories or leaving them as such on a smaller server.

Being able to standardize on one thing for both production and storage would be nice.
There's no need to buy an expensive moving desk, simply buy a tall desk and tall chair, then get off it when you'd like to stand.

If there's a wobbling problem push it against the wall, with Patrull corner protectors or similar.
When you're dealing with JS files it makes sense, but the example is an inline <script> tag. It might be an abundance of caution just in case you're dealing with CDN optimizers that slice and dice inline scripts. I've experienced that with Akamai a few times.
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Just read it. Never heard of fsharpforfunandprofit before. Never touched f# either. But damn, that's good.
There are a number of strategies, each of which has pros and cons.

1. Hard switch away from fossil fuels for base energy generation. The only option for this is nuclear. Pros: This could reduce our emissions by ~60%. Cons: Everyone hates nuclear.

2. Transition to a steady state economy. Drastically reduce our net consumption of energy and raw resources, by taxing energy, resource extraction, or waste, while keeping the same mix of energy generation. Pros: You can reduce emissions by... As much as you want, with this. Cons: Everyone is banking on unlimited exponential growth, and this would cause an economic collapse/depression.

3. Invest hundreds of millions of people, and trillions of dollars into carbon sequestration. Pros: If we do enough of this, we can drive emissions negative. Cons: You can't do this cheaply. So, you get all the cons of #2. Also, you have to stop using fossil fuels, because there's no point to digging up and burning coal, at the same time that you're growing, and burying trees.

4. Do next to nothing, and let our children deal with the fallout. Pros: It's easy, and we're already doing it. Cons: Your grandchildren will inherit an ecological disaster.

There's no winning move.
People not associated with the leadership of the project shouldn't be making decisions about what licensing models are acceptable or not in the first place.
What you are describing is getting high, not spiritual practice. Nothing wrong with getting high per se, but it can be extremely dangerous if you confuse those states with "Enlightenment".

The experience of transcending one's ego identity may feel similar to dissociation or depersonalization at times. But the end result of awakening is not a dissociative state. It's being fully present to all of your emotions, not numbness at all, but simply not attached to them in the sense that they don't automatically dictate your response. You still feel all the things that apply to your normal sense of self, but you're able to observe them and act from a different place.

There is a real risk to people getting lost on the spiritual path and ending up in places like nihilism or dissociation. Be careful.
1400 employees seems like a lot for what the article describes they do. I'd be curious what the breakdown is, are a lot of them customer service agents?
wow - to everyone debating crank vs motorized:

2 desks
Possibly but the amount lost was small and I had already gotten 98%+ of all my bonuses up to this point.
It's based on Evercookie https://github.com/samyk/evercookie
which is a little less... friendly.
3D printing is generally interesting for things that are made in small quantities. Making many thousands of the same screw by printing is horrifically inefficient, and slower and more expensive than whatever they did to make them.
Whatever happened to The Coral Cache? It seemed like such a great idea, but I have a 0% success rate with it. I suppose I've answered my own question, but did it ever work? Am I using it wrong?

And if it's simply that it can't fetch overwhelmed sites any better than we can, then could we help it by pinging it automatically for any link submitted to HN, enabling it to populate its cache before the hordes arrive?

http://www.coralcdn.org/
djbdns/qmail might qualify here.
Tbf I had no idea this thread was about black mirror from the title, as I wasn’t aware of the director, and I normally read comments before the article
Someone mentioned it on my repo a few months back. I think the space constraints would make it very challenging to make a drop-in replacement that fits in the original housing.

Of course, with a new housing, the sky is the limit :) But that wasn't the main design goal.
It's so cool to see your old classmates published! It's also sad to see the conclusions be so dire.

It always amazes me that in the triumvirate of Environment, Politics, and Economics, it is so easy to discuss optimization of Political Economy, and so difficult to discuss Environmental Politics or Environmental Economics. I've come to the conclusion that the mental models in Economics and Politics both abstract further from the true underlying processes and make it easier to reason (and attempt to optimize for) the political economy models. Sadly, the environment resists simplified mental models because scientists actually understand the complexity, while political scientists and economists have a hard time developing policies, pricing structures, and cost models that can really handle the nuance of the environment as it actually exists.
Some coworking spaces, especially away from the city center, can be had for the cost of a cheap utility, like $30/month. That's one reason. But these are also privately run and maybe offer a step or two above a public library in terms of services. So there's a spectrum of places to get with features to match.
It's like using a Google product.
>Wouldn't the volatility of cryptocurrency be a reason that companies wouldn't want this as a primary method?

Correct. There are so many cryptocurrencies out there, and scams are so widely perpetrated that it's absolutely insane to keep any significant amount of money in it.

In the case of MTGOX it's like the world's largest bank just blinked out of existence. A company could be insolvent overnight. At least most major governments have incentive to keep their shit together for fear of a societal collapse.
You still end up in the OS/2 situation - even if non-native apps didn't always run great, had much worse memory usage, didn't feel native, etc... they were still good enough that nearly nobody (comparatively) wrote native OS/2 apps. It's not impossible to imagine an alternate past where OS/2 had worse DOS/Windows compatibility and ended up more successful! (In actuality, I think it'd probably have done even worse — showing that the strategic options to replace the foundation of an entrenched ecosystem are "bad" vs. "worse".)

I'd like to see other paradigms explored, too, but it seems unfortunately hard to get there from here.
That's about $0.06 per word, which is quite low for copywriting, especially tech copywriting.

My base rate for that type of work was $0.25 per word at minimum.
A warning doesn't hurt anyone
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Just got 2 orders and was wondering if there was a mistake, and then someone opened an issue referencing HN, and here we are! :)

I've had my Bekant for a while now, I find it very sturdy, and I have a 27" monitor on an Ergotron LX arm and no issues with wobbling. Sure, there is movement when moving up and down... but I am also on hardwood, I can't imagine it would be great on carpet.
> This means that any remaining emissions would need to be balanced by removing CO2 from the air.

This is the most important sentence in that paragraph.

If we're going to sit on our hands, waiting until 2030 to halve our emissions, and 2050 to zero them (Nobody has a plan for doing either of those things, by the way), we're then going to have to perform planet-scale carbon sequestration.

No affordable planet-scale carbon sequestration technology currently exists, nor are we close to developing one.
> What is required by states or not is irrelevant if you signed a contract.

Employers cannot get out of legal requirements just by having employees sign contracts. Not all rights can be waived.

> If the contract says "I will give two weeks notice before I leave" and you sign on the dotted line, then you need to give two weeks notice before you leave or else suffer the penalties described in the contract.

Well, it would have to be a valid contract, and the penalties described in the contract would have to be legal (you can't put punitive damages in a contract). If, some time after you are hired, the employer asks you to sign a contract that says that you will give two weeks notice, and you sign on the dotted line, that's not actually a valid contract (because there's no consideration).

> You can't cite laws to get out of contractual obligations unless the contract demands you do something illegal.

In general you can breach any contract, there are many laws which give reasons why a contract would be void, or laws which prevent employers from entering into certain types of contracts, and reasons why a contract would not be enforced or possibly unenforceable.

So, yes, you can cite laws.