skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They want work that doesn't leave them working poor--they're not stupid, in other words! $10-$14/hr is almost EVERY JOB out there now except high-tech, lawyering, doctoring, and a few other things. When I looked around at what else I might do besides write code for a living, I was stunned at how little most people make. With inflation, Americans have actually fallen backwards in pay. Most blue collar people have 2-3 jobs and have to really hustle to make ends meet and they're still behind on the bills or lack insurance or make their car payment every other month. It's disgusting, and it's all due to how corporations have manipulated us and manipulated government while importing slave labor (e.g. non-citizens who fear any legal situation) on the low end. None of this was an accident, none of it.
>Since when was studying a 'nostalgic fantasy'?

Studying is not a nostalgic fantasy. Giving opinions on how public libraries should be run, without any relation to reality is. If you go through the library act I posted you will find that providing silent study places is NOT an object that Finnish public libraries should fulfil. It makes no sense to criticise public libraries for not providing what they shouldn't provide.People that want silent study places can go to academic libraries.

>retired people read the daily papers; people without the internet at home come to use the computers; children come after school until their parents finish work.

All things that would be less of, if the public library room were to be a silent tomb.

>It's important that there are public spaces like that. It's a lifeline for some people.

Exactly. The nostalgic fantasy I'm criticising carlospwk for is that public libraries are "noisy, too relaxed and not geared towards actual studying". Not really a position that fosters the needs of the diverse population of patrons.
My complaints about ML prettiness were unclear but to clarify it's usually criticism aimed at library authors who often come from very academic backgrounds with very poor sense (lack of exp?) of just how lazy professional developers are. Case in point, you don't care if it comes out as poop because you're getting shit done. Hell it seems like you don't even care if you have to wade in it for another 5 years.

Kudos, but what if i told you if the tooling authors could have ensured you never wrote poop but still got shit done?
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As the poster of the original comment, it's not blind trust of the government. Rather, it's a preference because I don't trust the ability of any single person, or private entity to handle this sort of thing. I get my stance is political, but I don't understand what isn't "hacker" about it. To me hacking means attacking a situation with the intent to solve it. In this situation, if the government is good, I am willing to see how they solve this issue.
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Most if not all brain illnesses may be due to high oxidative stress/neurotoxicity and brain inflammation. A weak/imbalanced gut microbiome may be incapable of dealing with that, which is why we may be seeing the "connection" between the two (brain illness = weak gut).
Not good enough.

My D750 can go from OFF -> ON -> Shutter press -> focus -> picture taken in cca 0.5s in normal light conditions. There are so many moments that I managed to capture only because of this speed, they would be gone in those 3s.

Not even going into "details" like having 5x mechanical zoom on it (24-120mm), I can snap distant scene in 1s in above scenario. And I do snap those scenes quite often.
Rust Lifetime Visualization Ideas
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I always find comparisons to Nineteen Eighty-Four to be a [small] part of the problem.

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, mass surveillance is allowed to exist because of the application of force (torture and murder). It's a dystopia founded in violence and oppression. We like to think things are like the book, because it paints us as victims.

However, the truth is that, at best, we're complicit. This reality is explored in the far more prescient Brave New World.

This surveillance is allowed not because people are afraid to protest, but because they don't care (or rather, they care more about other [meaningless] things).
> Do you think your scrum master is done after the stand up? Oh no, there's a lot more to do.

You know scrum master doesn't do development, they do project management work. Their entire job is to make sure the project is not impeded.
Once you have the Library of Congress card, it is your credential to login from any computer and use Hathi Trust with full downloads.
The problems we see is when people are overloaded because of bad planning on our side or customers asking for too tight deadlines and we wanting to be nice and help them achieve it (again our fault). Then people actually tend to feel pressured doing more for the company's sake. Which is sometimes ok in my opinion and also appreciated when there's an emergency, but we try for it not to become the rule.

Regarding owners/managers working less, I see it the same as you: leading by example. And generally I don't see a problem with that, as everyone is mostly working very responsibly (in our case). However, what we've noticed over the years is that it still needs some people with a global company vision and also visionary mindset to push the company to new frontiers and help people to look beyond what they're currently working on and to think outside the box.
I suspect this may only be true for jobs that have a lot of "busy work", which must be pretty common in a financial services company. There's no way I could get the same amount done in 4 days as in 5.
If I'm going to believe anything, I'd need a longitudinal study of about 5 years.

I find 5 years to be a good hallmark to see whether something had an actual strong impact in my own life (e.g. regarding reading self-help books such as Search Inside Yourself [1] or Steve Pavlina's blog post on how to rock at university [2] -- sorry for being slightly off-topic but these two things changed my life).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Yourself-Unexpected-Ach...

[2] https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/10-tips-for-colleg...
https://dosowisko.net/

Just a little business card-like thingie. It might become a blog some day. I'm particularly proud of its 404 page ;)
Tripwire is packaged up in Fedora. It's listed as GPLv2 licensed. So, yes.

RPM verification checks that all of the files installed through RPM have checksums that match the original RPM. It also checks that the RPM cryptographic signatures match.

So that should guarantee that files like the kernel, systemd, /bin/sh, /lib/libc.so.6, etc are not compromised.

A system can still be vulnerable to persistent attacks installed in unwatched files such as /root/.bash_profile, /etc/profile.d, extra files in /usr/systemd/system, etc. So you also have to check for extra files that you didn't install.

I don't have anything except Secure Boot to protect against UEFI attacks.
>I'm honestly shocked that people think that the police are overstepping the mark by requesting anonymised phone data from around the scene of a home invasion murder.

I think you're trying to tout that the ends justify the means by obfuscating the facts. There was no murder. The man died of a heart attack. While the home invasion was undoubtly the cause, to arrive at the conclusion that it was murder is disingenuous. Manslaughter, possibly, if you could prove that the heart attack wouldn't have occurred without the home invasion but that's extremely difficult.

>Over the last few years I've watched the privacy debate on HN evolve from completely legitimate criticism of mass surveillance programs with insufficient transparency and oversight, to criticising a detective getting a warrant from a judge, that is specifically written to request anonymised data!

Because the latter can directly lead to former. What happens to this data, when it's "no longer needed" because the police believe that they have a suspect? Do you honestly believe that it's deleted? This is in the United States, after all.

>While investigating a murder in his community!

Just because you repeat a lie, it doesn't mean it is the truth.

>...what's more police have a responsibility to find all assailants as well as test the veracity of witness reports and follow all reasonable lines of enquiry.

and

>Ultimately the detective has a responsibility to the wife who's husband is dead - and to society in general - to make sure people face justice when they offend, and they can't half arse it.

Negating the continual lie you're propogating, this line of justice-boner thinking is exactly how the "Investigation Center" (for lack of a better moniker at the moment) in Chicago[0] came to be. Whatever it takes to make sure that justice is served, yeah? After all, from the inference that I get from your statement, the police owe it to the community that justice is served and it's their responsibility to make sure that it happens, no matter what, yeah?

Furthermore, I don't think that you quite understand that anonymised data doesn't implicitly mean that an end-user is anonymous. The two principles are quite distinct and far-removed.

(Disclaimer: I lean heavily towards anti-authoritarianism.)

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-poli...
a host is a host from coast to coast,

and no-one will talk to a host that's close,

unless the host that isn't close

is busy, hung or dead.

(sing to the melody of the talking horse mr. ed)

i don't know how old this is, and it still fits to the internet, but it's definitely from a time when BBS were still around.
iirc the domain this guy is working in, is one where the GPU is going to be busy with rendering, so he may prefer to keep this on the cpu. But you are right that any time you turn to SIMD, you might be able to turn to the GPU and get a much biggger win.
Your attitude seems common, but I'm quite curious just how common it is.

Personally I totally happy with my current income and don't have any real interest in making more. I can pay my bills, buy anything that catches my eye, max out my 401k, travel to visit family. I don't turn down raises or bonuses, it is nice to have a little bit extra in case of emergencies. But an extra dollar doesn't mean much compared to the personal satisfaction of working on good projects.
That is an interesting idea. But like you said, it takes time for you to get good at your job and more importantly, it takes time for you to increase you earnings. I don't know how feasible it would be for a senior developer making $200K per year to start off as an electrician's apprentice at $50K per year. Especially when you have a mortgage and family to provide for.

The only way your idea would work if somehow work and income were divorced from each other. That seems rather utopian than practical. Maybe if you were wealthy enough, you could try out multiple careers. Or maybe wait til retirement though that also seems impractical.
Fasting for 14 days does sound crazy. I remember hearing of a diet that simulated fasting though. Anyone has experience with that?
Yep, I've had this problem too many times. This app seems to fix it for me: https://www.tunabellysoftware.com/balance_lock/
Windows phone could have been it.

Windows had a distinct identity, a better home screen and an inbuilt dark mode that worked amazingly well with AMOLEDS.
They also had great battery life and ran faster on low powered devices vs android of the time.

It died for good reason, but it certainly was a shame. I would love to see Windows take shot at it again, but I doubt they will.

At this point, Samsung or Xiaomi may be the ones best poised to take on the current duopoly.
Once I needed a copy of The Congressional Record from the 40's and Google had marked it non-public! I had to make several calls to Hathi to explain that the Record is public by law and then they had to contact Google to get the restriction lifted.

It's a lot of rigamarole for information that researchers need.
Yes, from your point of view you got "4 hours" of real, valuable and productive work in you in any given day.

But those nagging administrative tasks, status reports, talking to project management professionals in pro-forma meetings. THOSE are considered work and productivity for the people that set these up. There are job-roles for which meetings themselves are work-- while that might be a vision of hell for many of us, it is reality for layers of management and their minions.

My concern with this concept of 4-day workweeks is that it will precipitate even more tracking of productivity and even more meetings to gauge progress at the organizations that are trying to convince themselves to switch.

There's something to be said for having the slack to figure stuff out at work without being tracked constantly. A shorter work week is likely to increase "time scrutiny" for creative workers.
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Scouting as described in this article is exactly what we need to foster in today's false news world. I am doing all I can to drive this point home with my children.
I'm not sure why you're so against any sort of action here, but I am sure that that attitude is part of the reason we should be worried.

Why are you assuming I want to force solar and wind? What if I'm a huge proponent of nuclear power? What if I don't have a solution. What if I'm just trying to point out that we're in trouble.

"It's much more responsible to keep using the resources we have, become better at utilizing them keep developing new methods."

Can you explain this fully. What specifically are you planning we do? How will that correlate to the rise in global temperatures.

I know this is xkcd but I think it's pretty effective at conveying what we're up against:
https://xkcd.com/1732/
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Or just responding to domestic disputes all night.
I think that where having a team comes in handy. When I used to be a freelancer I had exactly that problem. Being a perfectionist. But when working with a team, doing shared product testing and code reviews and other kind of evaluations gives over time a very clear measurement of what "the standard of good enough" is. And I guess that's different for each company. We definitely strive for excellent quality, but certainly not by sacrificing people or team happiness.
This guy - or the article's author - hasn't heard of DSLs?
Thanks for that tip and for writing the software! I had to play that game of manually assembling PDF pages for an old magazine article lately.
The problem is not the ebook reader. The problem is trying to buy a commercial ebook from anywhere other than Amazon, and having to use someone's stupid DRM scheme. I tried once to not buy a Kindle book, and I just had to end up installing someone's other app just to decrypt the book so I could read it.

You can make all the ebook readers you want. Until we find an easier way to make non-Amazon ebooks easier to read, these aren't going to catch on.
Haha, why not? ;) At least someone more knowledgable than me could explain why this is so obviously a silly idea.
It's just hard for me to imagine a higher level of abstraction. That's why I invite whoever has imagination more rich than mine to suggest ideas.
This reminds me of Chomsky's critiques of universities' treatment of anti-war and anti Israeli scholarship. I recall him particularly defending Norman Finkelstein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein#Tenure_deni...
I don't trust industrial companies to seriously engage in technology. Too many times I've seen a big industrial company buy a startup, just to kill it for big-company reasons. Like, it competes with a cash cow and somebody inside doesn't like that. Or development costs more than another iron shim or whatever they make normally and it looks marginally worse on the books. Or they just don't know how to manage it. Or they don't adopt what they've bought because their processes are ponderous and ossified.

I thought the best bet was to compete with them externally, so they'd have to take notice and react either by buying your solution or hiring you or something. But instead, anecdotally, a big company had a private meeting with the owners of our innovative small company and made a deal to offer some of our products in their showroom. After that all our development projects dried up mysteriously (the next Friday everybody was let go).

So no, I'm not going to invest any (more) of my life's worktime on helping old industrial companies figure it out.
Dear Author, thanks for the write-up. Regarding "Market yourself"... You mention websites and so forth. Is most of your marketing online or most of it in networking events?

How do you deal with recruiters and LinkedIn recruiters - have you found a way around these?
I again agree with everything you've said, but to tie this all back to the article and the microbiome, while the body does have discrete, specialised organs, we have to recognise that they are leaky abstractions.

Microbiota could influence psychology and thus physiology, or it could directly affect physiology and thus psychology. The fact fecal transplants triggered schizophrenic behaviours in mice shows there's some direct connection here that needs explanation.
I'm mainly frustrated by the lack of advancement in the Macbook Pro line. I have a 2014-ish MacBook Pro and accidentally got water on the keyboard. It works fine with an external keyboard. Instead of paying 400 dollars to get the keyboard working again I chose to buy a refurbished Macbook Pro from 2017.

What was super frustrating was that the specs are almost the same after a three year gap. I still have 8GB or RAM and still have a 128GB SDD. The processor and has double the cores, but overall it's not the kind of improvement you'd expect from a three year difference.

Instead it's thinner and only has USB-C inputs. I would have never chosen to buy this machine on the merits alone.

I'm in the same boat with the iPhone by the way. I have an iPhone 6 and really see no reason to upgrade. It works well enough for me and I have no appetite to spend 500 or 1000 dollars on a phone that will do the same things for me.

And yes iTunes is a disgrace. I've switched to Spotify for podcasts and most music and it's far better.
Ask HN: What Compliances to Take Care of When Building a SaaS Product?
Hello ,

Looking at the resolutions passed in the last year, and reading many of HN threads, it seems that governments all across are going to start implementing such laws.

Some of the laws include GDPR by EU, Assistance and Access Bill by Australia etc.
Most laws being passed to stop the misuse of user data.

My questions are :

1. Is there a resource where we can access all such compliance's. Whatever info I have currently is based on HN/Reddit or some newsletters.

2. Assuming many such laws are going to come up, what steps should we take right now to avoid extreme situations (such as being forced to stop service in a specific country) because we are not able to comply with their policies/requirements.

P.S. - I work with a startup, so hiring lawyers is not an option right now.
I remember whale oil being an important source of fuel for some uses as well
For what it's worth, I believe the author is a woman.

Interestingly, and anecdotally, I've noticed that auto-immune diseases such as the author's Crohn's, and my wife's Fibromyalgia/vasculitis seem to affect women more frequently than men.

I can confirm firsthand that the author's major points are all things that have borne out since my wife's diagnosis. We've had good doctors and less-good ones; frustrating insurance dealings that seem to change year-to-year with no rhyme or reason; and supportive friends who may or may not actually understand.
Truck driving is a poor example/choice. You spend a lot of time sitting and a lot of time alone. Humans weren't made for that either. Outdoors, human contact, movement.
By your approach to methodology, it would be impossible to meaningfully investigate the question of whether the European discovery of the Americas changed the world in any way.
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It is possible to sell (or buy) reserved instances in a secondary market: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ri-marke...
> The fact fecal transplants triggered schizophrenic behaviours in mice

What are schizophrenic behviours in mice?
I'd argue finding the next permutation is actually very difficult if you don't know the standard algorithm.
you might be interested in mupdf or mupdf-based viewers, it supports pdf and epub (but not mobi) and it very lightweight
the point of the twitter thread is that it is not a well designed study.
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another Rust library "Faster" attempts to do that. Its cool, but the downside is simple code can't always translate optimally to intrinsics. Like if you ask for a "floor" operation for instance. With SSE2 you have no floor operation. So you either can do a floor one at a time, or use some clever combinations of other SSE2 intrinsics to do a floor, or, if you can accept certain constraints, you can use a faster option using less intrinsics. So your simple code needs to specify which you want, which ends up being kind of like intrinsics.

Also your simple code has to line everything up in arrays anyway so intrinsics don't add that much complexity. I do overload operators in SIMDeez so some of the time your code can look pretty simple.
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I call this the "attractor basin hypothesis" of problem solving- your mental state is in one attractor basin and you need to be in a different one; a break gives you another chance to enter the right one. If true, it may be possible to get the same benefit as taking a break and returning to the work by doing something that jolts you out of your current attractor basin. Maybe that just means asking the right question (c.f. oblique strategies).
I wonder how do you choose which news or story to deliver to users? From your recent link[1] it seems like the news is bit on the short side.

1. http://getthecrypt.com/recent/
This is not the first article about how people get the same amount of work done, even more, in four days instead of five. But another thing they have in common is that they never ask the question, what about three?

Or what about two? One? Surely at zero, productivity will not match the old standard of 40 hours a week. But it seems like the next logical question to me. If employees are just as productive at 32 hours as 40, at what point does productivity fall? Maybe 32 just happens to be that breaking point. Or it might turn out to be 25 or even 15. But let's at least ask the question.

I'm talking about averages, of course.
I'm going to duck out of this because I don't believe you are assuming good faith on my part
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Maybe I phrased that poorly: you can indeed write the loops yourself (without a speed penalty) as advertised, to do things which are hard/ugly/impossible in numpy. But very often you can do this without dropping all the way down to explicit pointer arithmetic, where you'd have to care about base-0/1 and off-by-one errors (again without penalty). This in-between zone is what I was trying to suggest is worth exploring. See for example https://julialang.org/blog/2016/02/iteration for a taste.

Someone more polyglot than I am will have to comment on C++ comparisons.
What part of Chrohn's doesn't fit the definition of chronic for you? Or what part of the article contributes to a shameful narrative?