skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All this advanced tracking/planning stuff from companies like Atlassian seem to me like some kind of weird, dystopian "C-Suite-Porn."

The going narrative seems to be this idea that companies have, throughout the history of business, been guided completely by the whims and emotional fancies of the leadership team and/or CEO. And now we're adding tools to surface more and more status tracking information up to the C Suite, which is going to directly lead to better decision-making that moves the company forward.

This seems like nonsense to me. Imo, leaders set the culture, network outside the company, and guide longer-term strategic vision, while directors wrangle the people and manage alignment with higher level goals, and team leads make the projects happen by empowering and supporting the IC's who do the actual day to day work.

I just don't understand the value proposition for a company as a whole to putting more data on the plate of higher-ups at any level above team leaders (1st level management, with all-IC direct-reports). We need analysis and summary tooling that doesn't add any overhead to team leaders and ICs, not more overhead on the people actually getting things done. We need better information on the desks of leadership, not more data points. We need more efficient communication tools, essentially "better nozzles," as opposed to higher flow rate in the company-information-firehose.

These products seem to play directly into the psyche of the typical narcissist CEO who wants to know everything that is going on at the company, right now, and micromanage everything directly. The incentives don't seem very well-aligned with things like "servant leadership" and "cross-functional knowledge," because, how do you make those into a Jira ticket that will be tracked towards your performance reviews? If it's cross-functional then which functional task-board does it belong to?
> I tried turning my smartphone into a "dumbphone" and using it less, but I honestly lacked the self-control to put the stupid thing down

Did you remove the browsers and app store as well? I got rid of everything except for phone/texting, Slack (for work), and non-bingy convenience apps like Maps/Yelp/etc. On Android, it can be done with the adb shell without rooting, even the 'uninstallable' apps like Google search and the Samsung browser. Not sure about Apple.

I tried this before without getting rid of the Play Store and found that I would just cheat and download FF Focus when I felt like binging and then deleting it again when I was done. Now if I think I need a new app, I actually have to go on my laptop, download the apk, and move it to my phone to install it. It's not foolproof but it's enough extra steps to where I don't act on it on impulse.

It's worked really well and I don't binge like I used to . I still have some compulsive phone-checking habits but it's way less time consuming than compulsive-random-article-reading/scrolling. And I also get to keep the nicer benefits like the good camera and the large screen for when I need a GPS.
Einstein came up with the idea that light would behave like particle. He published the paper in 1905 where he eloquently explained his thinking and gave three examples demonstrating it. One of the examples was the photoelectric effect. He won a Nobel price for that discovery.

>Energy, during the propagation of a ray of light, is not continuously distributed over steadily increasing spaces, but it consists of a finite number of energy quanta localised at points in space, moving without dividing and capable of being absorbed or generated only as entities.

Plank had explained black body radiation as it would originate from quantified oscillators 1900, but nobody except Einstein believed that light could propagate as energy quanta. Only after Compton effect was discovered in 1923, everybody saw that Einstein had been on the right track all along.

Being the only physicist who saw it for almost 20 years, even when everybody has read your explanation and takes you seriously is a sign of highly original mind.
*In 1987, a national survey of fertility doctors found that 2 percent had used their own sperm in patients.
If you report your card missing then it's no longer a valid number.
Easy iterating over large datasets with Enumerable
You can't get at the $ but you can get at the individual transaction data. They really should not have third party js on banking and medical sites, especially not for logged in users.
> Right, she is just like the people tortured at Abu Ghraib. Poor thing, how will she ever recover.

I think he meant that she's like the torturers at Abu Ghraib. She may be guilty, but so is the system around her.

During that scandal, some people argued that the American war on terror wasn't corrupt, there were just a few bad apples that took it too far.
I used Python to load the contents of the articles into a DB (potentially wrong extract of veeery old code - I have something like 20 different versions lying around therefore I'm not 100% sure that this did work well):

===

import xml.dom.pulldom as pulldom
from lxml import etree
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
sInputFileName = "/my/input/wiki_file.xml"
context = etree.iterparse(sInputFileName, events=('end',), tag='doc')

for event, elem in context:
iThisArticleCharLength = len(elem.text)
sPageURL = elem.get("url")[0:4000]
sPageTitle = elem.get("title")[0:4000]
SPageContents = elem.text

<do what you want with these vars...>

===
Examples? I read parts of the GDPR, especially those covering exceptions and everything I read seemed reasonable.
They’re expecting Russia’s GDP to more than quadruple over 10 years? Not likely.
A lot of web journalism is like this now... whoever published first gets all the link traffic, so its often a (literal) race to the bottom.
The Stripe founders are pilots (and maybe some of their execs as well?).
i agreed it was unnecessary, but i don't think it's a huge stretch. most of the stuff i have read from him has come across as someone who has made up their mind and that's that. it's like when you ask someone why something is and the answer you get back isn't thoughtful, insightful, revealing, etc. but instead beats around the bush such that it reads like the person either doesn't understand or its because that's simply the way they want to do it. which is fine. python is (was?) his language, but i don't have to enjoy the perspective and approach. he no doubt knows way more than i do, but i never learn anything from him.

see here for some examples: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/08/25/2115204/inter...

almost every answer is basically "i like to be pragmatic" but neither the design of python or his answers reflect that.

so now that python is so popular, we have people completely unaware of the existence of languages like lisp/scheme and ml dialects, which are much more powerful and can be just as clean as or cleaner than python, and a stunted language taking over every project.
Yes. All my teachers and my family. Life is not slavery.
> I said nothing about your intentions,

> You should be careful

You're doing some serious backflips there. As if he isn't being careful enough for your taste. That's just useless drivel.
I see your point now: this page, near the bottom https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-ipad/ipad-9-7 shows 5 iPads and says "Compare iPad models." This page, up top, https://www.apple.com/ipad/ shows 4 distinct groups, but lumps the two Pros together. Maybe we're both correct!
I think parents and other family members are the ones who most often effectively instill a love of learning in kids, followed by middle and high school teachers, followed by college professors/lecturers.

Information can be transmitted by almost anyone, but a deep love of something can only be instilled through a personal relationship of mutual respect and trust.
CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of the Absolute (1983) [pdf]
Perl and python are part of LSB.
Dockerfile is a script of sorts too you can audit that
If you do it from an early age kids wont expect that every party attendant should bring a gif. Of course culture is hard to change. Maybe asking for a drink something to drink/share to give the sharing feeling. I tried a no gifts party and it's hard and you don't want to make people feel uncomfortable.
Raspberry Pi used in “big business”
> So what happens in the hypothetical that the food sucks and the bill for $300 comes to you. Do you just not pay?

The one time this actually happened to me we walked out before we actually got any food. But yes, we didn't pay (obviously). If we'd paid ahead it would have been a real problem.

> Problem is that there are millions of potential customers all who may or may not be flakes.

Yes, I understand that, and I am not unsympathetic to the restaurant's need to mitigate this risk somehow. But fobbing 100% of the risk back onto the customer is not the right answer IMHO, and any restaurant that does this is not going to get my business. There are lots of other possibilities (50% up front, no-show fee, reputation tracking) that I would be happy to sign up for, but not that.
Ever tried vuex-module-decorators? Add that to the recipe and using vuex with Typescript becomes really easy and a pleasure to write.
>"Science would benefit tremendously if this was the approach."

This is just the original idea behind science as developed in the renaissance. The resistance to checking each others work is a recent phenomenon.

Edit to add a source:

> "the foundation of scientific societies compelled scientists to change the way in which experiments were presented so that not only members of the scientific community but also the inexperienced reader would be able to repeat them by following the same steps.

[...]

Robert Boyle also played an important role in the evolution of scientific writing (Gotti,1996, 2001; Hunter, 2007). Fulton (1932: 78) has highlighted the contribution of the scientist, describing Boyle’s undertaking “to establish science as an integral part of the intellectual life of ordinary men”. He encouraged scientists to write in a language that their contemporaries could understand, and he undoubtedly did more than anyone of his time to make scientific methodology part of the intellectual equipment of educated men.

[...]

According to Gotti, one of the features of experimental essays is brevity, but this brevity of form does not imply brevity in the exposition of the subject. On the contrary, experiments are usually reported in full, furnishing the reader with all the minutest details. The aim of such a report is, after all, to make it possible for the experiment to be repeated, making the precision of the description an important factor."
https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.2007.20.06
The comparison to Abu Ghraib is about the low level military officers there, and how they took the entirety of the blame for their bad actions when what they were doing was pretty clearly encouraged by a lot of the chain of command.

That said I don't agree with the comparison at all.
There are lots of snake-oil salesmen whose first response when being confronted with their bull-shit is to reach for the legal department. After all, there is plenty of money in selling snake-oil and if there is one thing that lawyers like it is rich customers.
> on my shit list

What would you tell a junior engineer who feels so overwhelmed with the tasks he is supposed to be focused on that he decides not to switch task to solving this other thing that may-or-may-not be a real problem?

Also, are the phrases “Extreme Ownership” and “Question Behind the Question” from a US Navy SEAL book by Willink and Babin? Would you generally recommend that book?
If you can't supply enough product to satisfy the demand at lower price levels, you keep the price high for the current demand.

Especially if you're in Tesla's position where they're seeking economies of scale and efficiency over time.

That is the path to becoming more than a niche player, in this case.
Retaliation Still a Problem Among Tech Firms: Survey
Of course it does. DNA plays a large role in a person's life including their health risks. You'd want to your doctor to be honest with you about what they're putting in your body, wouldn't you?
Elsevier could also buy a subscription instead of using it for free. It's not like they don't have the money.
GV supports group chats/MMS now, however, you can't mute or leave a group chat, at least not with the iOS client. (Given my family's penchant for starting a group MMS for the most minor of occurrences, I'm not sure the group chat support is a blessing or a curse.)
Slate Star Codex had a good post about this:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/11/ketamine-now-by-prescr...
Had one of those dumb phones for a decade. Definitely not interested in connecting to your demographic.
Nice. I had never heard of TVM before. Hopefully I can find a tutorial in their docs to get a quick feel for using it.

I have experimented with saving Keras models and loading and running in Racket Scheme - very different I know, but I am interested in deploying DL models.
Researchers Use Algorithm from Netflix Challenge to Speed Up Biological Imaging
Why iPad and not any other android based tablet? My goes, you get more useful apps on iPad? But android shouldn't be that far.... Anything else.
Armstrong's actions had implications way outside of his individual career.
HN has many of the same addicting qualities.

You never know what you'll get when you reload (after some time has passed) (Random reinforcement.) Also, if you comment, you get random reinforcement in the form of (hopefully nice) replies and upvote points.

Ranking stories on the front page based on voting also is intended to draw an audience with similar interests.
Could you expound? I feel the exact opposite, and I'm genuinely curious why you feel that way.
Clever New Landing Gear Allow Drones to Set Down Like Birds or Bats
We have plenty of regulation and government attention on the issue, and I somehow doubt Congressional pockets are being lined by the campaign contributions from Big Spam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Do_Not_Call_Registry
You realize you are basically defending open cuckoldry right?

What world do we live in now where some creepy doctor decides to inseminate all his patients, paternity is completely irrelevant, and any sperm is a good as any other.

The worst part is, you are not alone in this sentiment. Watch me get downvoted to oblivion.
I don't disagree with this, but the children have the right to know - for example, are there inheritable medical conditions which they may be at risk for? or if not medical, what about inheriting other traits? I think this paragraph summed up this concern well:
"Ballard struggled with what it meant, existentially, to have inherited the DNA of a man who would lie to his patients and abuse his position as a doctor. Whatever made him do it, was that inside her, too? She knew the thought wasn’t entirely rational, but she couldn’t shake the feeling that a dark impulse might be lurking deep within her."
Also the same is true for the opposite case where a framework would really speed things up but instead you have to wade through special snowflake implementation marshland leaving your own little trail of destruction for your localized tornado of changes.

Safety mitten insanity abounds.
I tried Vue 2 years ago and wrote a tiny wrapper around Select2 with Vue using jquery https://github.com/revskill10/vue-select2/blob/master/src/Se...
It just works.
I am guessing that the direction this is heading in is twilio somehow coming up with a solution that they can implement and sell to someone. Maybe the multi part blog post is part of the way to gather thoughts in order to learn more and incorporate ideas and reactions from people.
It's amazing how often I hear this kind of argument. "<Xyz> didn't work because it wasn't done correctly"

Why do we humans do that? Why doesn't failure cause introspection/examination rather than excuse making?

On a side note, it feels conspiratorial to explain failure as, "there's double agents on the inside sabotaging the effort"
Nothing if you refer to one of the other referenced graph [1]. In this graph it's a derivative of C and C++. IMHO, regarding JS, nobody can affirm from which languages it is a derivative unless Brendan Eich himself.

By the way, such a graph does not give much information about the influences that make a language evolves. It's like saying English is a fork of German and since the split neither of these languages have been influenced by others (e.g. Lambdas have been added to Java only because one of the mainteners had a new idea one morning while taking its shower)

[1] http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/Computer...
I don't get that many robocalls anymore after I signed up for https://www.donotcall.gov/ . I also make a point of reporting unwanted calls there too (I got two pretending to be from the IRS saying that I was about to be sued).

I know that people find it annoying to go through the process of reporting the call, but I consider it to be one of those things that fall under the "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" bucket.

It'd be nice if there were donotcall.gov apps for Android and iOS though.
Yea, the "didn't pay herself much money" thing also doesn't account for the fact that she used Theranos funds to live a pretty lavish lifestyle. Her mansion, for example, was paid for by the company rather then herself.
Making what harder on yourself?

What if yourcommandhere is shell syntax, like "for x in *.foo; do echo $foo; done"? That can't be executed directly as a process argument list.

If all you have is a wrapper for execv, then you have to construct a call to "sh", where that command is all in one argument following a "-c" argument.

You said that Rust doesn't have a library function for calling the shell but only process execution; I'm showing how you make one in such a situation.

A language and its library won't prevent applications from calling the shell, unless it's uselessly crippled.
This. I pay €35 for T-mobile unlimited. Cheap enough for me but not the average Indian citizen I'm sure.
Companies can only price what the market can bear.
>Dumbphones effectively no longer exist. Anything with LTE (aside from iDevices) seems to run a Linux kernel with a stripped down Android or FirefoxOS on top. They have simplified UIs if that's what you're looking for, but they also have security holes out the wazoo (you can frequently get a root adb shell via usb with a stock config), and will never see updates.

This has been a concern of mine, and why instead I've moved to simply turning off my wifi and cell service when not using them.

I installed "HereWeGO", a GPS app with great support for offline maps. Between that, podcasts, and music I can go quite long without using any data.

(Or as a middle ground I drop down to wifi with DND on, and check for incoming messages every once in a while)
Many startups that raised in 2015 did so at very high valuations and either never were able to raise again or took some time to meet the lofty expectations set by 2015 prices
Our society draws lots of important distinctions between adults and children.
Exercises for Bad Posture: Everything You Need to Improve Posture in Just
Sorry, I'm not sure that I get the reference.
You thinking GDPR is crazy doesn't make it objectively crazy.
If Stripe's HR department is reading this thread, I think they can pinpoint one crucial interview question that will determine culture fit in their organisation for future hiring - and that is "do you like talking about your accomplishments with the rest of your team?".

Seems to be a very polarising thing to be asked to do, judging by the replies on this particular comment.

EDIT: Curious about the downvotes? This is a real thing. I am sure they don't want to hire people that would hate to write shipped emails and publish them to the list if they actively hated writing them. It is simply not good culture fit, and I am sure they would want to identify that early on in the recruitment process.
This assumes Google is trustworthy. Their business being based on advertising and stealing as much data as possible off everyone, would you trust them to keep their word and work against their bottom line?
> But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

Sounds like some "brave" developers defined a "Ground" class (maybe they "struggled" over its name?) that they "consecrated" by marking it as final, so that other developers shall not extend it later to "add or detract" from its original purpose.
That was a very interesting read! Honestly, it seems like Hollywood is due for some very serious criminal and civil investigation. It seems to have a very ingrained culture of corruption and fraud (see also: Hollywood accounting).
I should try something like that. Honestly just having the device in eyesight triggers some kind of latent mental FOMO. Removing the option entirely has worked well for me so far.

I still keep an old iPhone for when I know I'll need an Uber or something, but the smartphone isn't a part of my daily life anymore.
I understand the serious issue of ensuring immunization. But you do realize how your comment might come off on the fascist side of liberty, right?
I would say yes.... for example if heart disease doesn't run in your 'family' but it does in the doctor's, it would be good to know.... same is true for other diseases
I just wish there was a better middle ground. iOS's DND is great in letting me whitelist contacts who can punch through, but that only applies to calls and texts, not signal :/
Don't read the news. It has nothing to do with what's going on. Actual history, big trends and really significant changes, usually show up in journal articles. The news is just a cycle of stories about people that people think are important. If you read the news from 1914, it tells you almost nothing about 1914, aside from what seemed interesting at the time, with a side-dish of nonsense.

If you hear about something contemporary that interests you (terrorism, brexit, war in yemen, etc) take the time to research it properly. Even wikipedia is much more information-dense than any but the best newspaper articles.
> Confluence lacking some robust text-only markup (like markdown or asciidoc or whatever)

The really irony here is that it used to have that! That was the only way I edited Confluence docs back in 2012 (and before) until they took the feature away. For a while you could dig into it, but pretty much any change you made not using the WYSIWYG editor broke the whole page.
Some of those are just "translations on top of" which keep the metaphorical constructs in place.
A lot though ... very interesting.

Thank you!
How about wanting to, I don't know, travel to and work in foreign countries one day?
I wouldn't trust any opt-out functionality from a company whose bottom line is based on harvesting as much data as possible off everyone.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/theodore_roosevelt_103499
The MP02 looks like it has a lot of software issues at the moment. Take a read of the threads at https://www.reddit.com/r/Punkt/.
One possible attack is to change the details of a transaction before the page post it. To the user it would appear as she's transferring money to Bob, but it'd go to Eve.
What about getting a gyrocopter?
And if you add Lambdas to Java you all of a sudden have something that looks a lot like JavaScript... Don't you think?