skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first introduction to an open office layout was when I was 26 working in the Bay Area. For me, it was awful. I was surrounded by people who weren't working on anything I was working on and had no connection to what I was doing. It felt like everyone was watching everything I did, and I could never get any work done. To top it off, part way through my time there, they brought in a customer support team and placed them right next to me. They then started to put a counter of the number of customers who were subscribed to our service and would start cheering when it hit arbitrary numbers; the CEO would come in from time to time, sometimes completely unannounced to us... The people were nice, and the product was decent, but the distractions were very hard to get any work done.

I eventually moved on and now have a cubical. I find myself able to be much more productive than ever before. Part of it is because I don't feel like someone is staring at my back and checking my monitor all the time. Another part is that it is vastly quieter than the previous work place despite having literally 100x what the last place had (from startup to Fortune 100 company). If I want to communicate or collaborate with others, I can hit them up at their cubes, and there can be little group discussions in the hallways between cubes without being major distractions to others. I don't get the insane ear fatigue I'd get with headphones in 6+ hours a day like before, too. Needless to say, based on my experiences, I personally prefer cubes to an OO layout.
The presumption here is that the task you are avoiding is - somehow - in your best interests (directly or indirectly, e.g. going to the gym directly makes you healthier while completing that report for your boss might not directly help you but it is certainly in your best interest to have a job and not be fired) or otherwise you wouldn't be doing it.

Not doing something that is good for yourself is doing something bad to yourself, i.e. self harm. If it were phrased as "someone throwing a fit at work and insulting everyone with the intention of getting themselves fired so that they would no longer have a means of income," I think we can both agree that going out of your way to not have a job (not just this job) is definitely self-harm. It's in the same vein.
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> In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message

Keep this in mind, especially if you live in a place where nothing good ever happens. Good post!
I believe this is the first time VVPATs are being deployed all over, in addition to EVMs. If this cannot be considered secure enough (even if you assume EVMs were hacked, VVPATs negate any effects of cheating).
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I don't take it regularly any more.

But effectively yes, I would run out, not order any for a few weeks / months then order some.
My problem with dieting was different, I eat normal food, I just eat a lot of it, even if I'm not hungry. I realized this was because the long-term gain of not eating is just too long-term, so I set up a points system where I reward myself with points any time I eat less than maintenance, and I lose points whenever I eat more. It's been working quite well so far!
The NFL is also their own provider of streams. GamePass works great, all games live. It’s just not available in the states for business reasons.
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> Why are people so incredibly stupid?

People are like 20-year-old ERP software. We try to use it to do Extreme Programming in a modern language to ship new product updates in less than a week, and when we can't do that we wonder why our ERP system is so stupid.

We're not stupid, we're just an incredibly complicated legacy system, so doing things we weren't designed for is painful.
From the title, I hoped that this was somebody from academia ranting about the high volume of low quality that their (early stage) colleagues are publishing.
That's what I mean. They may not have installations on all the MACs in the list, but they certainly know the whereabouts of the intersection of the two and would be able to provide the map I was referring to.
The OP contains one good recommendation regarding password (make that passphrase) length. The rest is rotten advice that should be rubbished. For superior guidance see for ex https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
Bill Clinton was a common person. While he didn't start his own political party, he radically changed the Democratic party into a more conservative form, and got himself elected President.
Thank u for this write up.

It made me smile, and hopefully this will last for more than the 5min it takes to reach the comments about worker conditions and low-cost exploitation.
> How dare humans have to work for their food?

The point is that there is a class of humans who do not work for their food - the heirs. The Saint Grottlesex aristocracy who expropriate surplus labor time from those of us who work and create wealth. Who are calling right now in the Wall Street Journal and Businessweek to increase unemployment and enlarge the industrial reserve army, no doubt then to bemoan the grain then handed to those workers left idle, like the optimates of two thousand years ago.

Chomsky's whole argument is against the parasitic elite who do not work expropriating from those of us who do.
But- recycling is by its nature an economic activity! The whole sales pitch is "If you recycle, less stuff will have to be manufactured, therefore our environment will be better off". But- if that statement isn't true, recycling doesn't actually help the environment. I can certainly see the argument that medical care probably shouldn't be a market driven activity. However, if recycling doesn't make economic sense there is no virtue to it!
Well, there are questions like:

-will the candidate follow the policies they claim to support?

-How will the candidate vote on issues not explicitly mentioned in pre-election material?

-How well can the candidate advocate for their positions?

-Does the candidate have enough political clout to make a difference?

So you have to consider things like character, experience and party membership in addition to the talking points.
For me it's not the noise; headphones take care of that. The problem is the visual distractions. People walking to and fro. If you know one of those people, then the chances of a distraction goes up even more. I guess a future way to mitigate it would be a high res VR HMD
Depends if you're talking maximum or average. Getting to the front page of HN could easily give you a burst of 1000 req/sec. I would agree there's very few CRUD apps that deal with 1000 req/sec on average.

On the other hands, there's various APIs and tracking type of services that probably do handle well in excess of that, being run by not-large companies none of us have ever heard of.
My mum has something that does this. She calls it a 'doorbell'. Doesn't even need the wire.
Anyone who's running 67 (in beta now) will lose the ability to upload screenshots for sharing.

Weird move from Firefox, especially as they start promoting Firefox Send. Screenshots as a whole is an essential feature to me that really helped set it apart from Chrome. The hosted screenshots aren't integral, but I'm disappointed that they're taking away functionality for stated reasons that aren't particularly interesting.
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Primaries are not elections. They are private intra party affairs.

Also, as far as I am aware, other than 1 district in Brooklyn whose votes were not counted in time in the Dem primary, there was hardly anything "corrupt" about either party's primary (and even that district went towards the winner anyways, and wouldn't have made a difference if every vote went in the opposite direction).

While not corrupt, or illegal, caucuses in US primaries are extremely undemocratic instruments, however, that is the exact opposite of what is considered the best method of voting in a democracy (secret ballot).
Integrating Flutter and Firebase
Some people love to literally crush ice in their mouth.

I cannot stand it. On top of just being an annoying sound, it makes me think about / feel pain, because it sounds like it really hurts.
I am yet to hear one concrete piece of useful advice on "how to make money."

The ONLY things I can say with certainty in life, as far as productive activities go is something like "workout, eat right, sleep enough, drink enough water." That's literally it.
Its probably only people with "good jobs" with opportunities like that who can afford to buy in major cities these days.
this movie is well made, and is available on Amazon Prime (in the US.)
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I read a study several years ago on a similar topic about attention and safety citing higher engagement/less distraction with manual transmissions. However, it also found that while manuals increased safety for younger drivers by forcing them to be fully engaged, it _decreased_ safety in older drivers due to the added complexity it introduced. So while the effect may be real, it is nuanced.
rather unsurprising that a psychologist describes procrastination as a mismanagement of 'emotion' rather than a dysfunction of the dopaminergic reward systems. as someone taking ADHD medication, i can tell you that procrastination is fundamentally just a failure of dopamine management.

For some unlike me perhaps it is true that there is a 'one little trick' to make your brain act rationally. I don't know, maybe it's possible via the brain's sheer neuroplasticity to evolve a dopaminergic flaw from a psychological failure or trauma.

But at the end of the day, procrastination is very much neurological, with a fairly clear pathway and a chemical which is objectively known to drive it.

More people absolutely need to know procrastination has nothing to do with self control, but psychological research like this will always appear to show the issue stemming from a psychological issue when this is known to be virtually always untrue. Treatment of ADHD with psychological approaches like CBT have a nearly non statistically significant effect, but ADHD medication has a 70%+ success rate.
There's plenty of raw materials in space via asteroid mining, particularly everything you need for satellites.
Lol, woah. Maybe HN broke the doc site. Here's an archive.org backup https://web.archive.org/web/20190323083630/http://publicatio...
Imagined or not, there is/was a notion that greeting people helps for loss-prevention purposes. (i.e. if you say hello and make eye contact with someone as they enter your establishment, they are less inclined to steal from you.)

If Walmart is removing those positions, they may have found it to be a misconception. [edit: it seems like Walmart is not removing greeters, just making it harder for disabled/elderly people to hold those positions and expanding their responsibilities.]
Capture your ballot with vote on the phone, then show it to dealer to receive bribe.
Was Bill Clinton appreciably more conservative than Jimmy Carter, the last Dem President before Clinton?
I think this is definitely valid and real, but there also is a danger of pretending you're in this situation when you're not.

For example, suppose you have some electronic item you want to repair but you're horrible at soldering, so you put it off because you don't want to face the negative feelings of failing at soldering again or the negative feelings of destroying that item you think you should have been able to repair. You could get past this by watching some videos on soldering, getting some better equipment, or practicing with a friend who's actually good at soldering. Once you don't suck at soldering, the negative feelings around fixing your electronic item are gone, and you can stop procrastinating. (And you can do it faster and better.)

On the other hand, maybe you need to write a complicated and annoying SQL query that is going to be tricky to get right, and you already know SQL, but you go off on a huge tangent reading SQL documentation looking for a function or trick that will make it easier when there really isn't one. Pretty soon you're just learning about esoteric SQL functions that don't have anything to do with your problem. But maybe one of them could if you read long enough, so you keep reading and reading.
The were fighting their Procrustean beds of modernity.
So say you're a procrastinator. Do you?

a)read the article so you don't have to do xyz

b)not read the article because learning how to stop procrastinating feels like self sabotage

c)start the article but don't finish it because you have ADD from surfing the internet as a means of procrastinating

d)something else.

edit: e)skim the article and write an HN comment about it.
Every koan post I’ve seen has had these in the comments.
My maid's family was bribed this way. They took the food and voted the way they wanted to anyway.

No one knows who you are once you're inside the voting booth :)
Don't Blab >>> This chapter/paragraph goes against everything I believe in, the entire opensource community is based on sharing. I am an aspiring farmer with a tech addiction and if it wasn't for people sharing their successes through YouTube and a lesser extent farmers that write books, this "City Boy" wouldn't have survived my first year on the farm. I also agree Internet sucks in the country, but it's still better than encyclopedias!!
Paraphrasing comments from Tim Cook regarding Apple News:

> "Apple News is now the world's most popular news app ... Our editors pick the best source..."

That's both amazing (the rise to prominence) and scary (the inherent centralized power).
> But for the most part very few companies ever did, because if you're an ad network and you realize you can get away with ignoring privacy settings on one browser, why on earth wouldn't you do the same for every other browser?

I see this as a reason to blame Microsoft.

While some point companies would have tried to abandon it anyway if it got popular, there would actually be some barriers to doing that if it was already established. It also would have been easier to add legal teeth after showing the system worked. The IE thing killed it in a fragile early state so we got nothing.
The tone of it ("recycling always sucked but now we're finally over it") is definitely different than what you'd read in a liberal paper, but the general facts of it are not much in dispute. I'm all about saving the environment, but recycling programs for years have been more about feeling green than being green.

Hopefully we don't all decide to keep going the way we have, except throw more in the dump, and instead focus more on the reduce/reuse/repair side of things and find ways to make the economics line up with the desired outcomes.
That's not an argument
Ask HN: How do I build email server like AWS Ses
Hey

how can I build real private email server with incoming spam filters for domain
There are so many pieces scattered around the web but no complite picture.

Thanks
> We are all, no doubt, born for a wise purpose.

I've heard and seen this time and time again and yet there's no advice on how to find that purpose. It's always easy to say, "do what you love" but how do you find what you love?
Yes, those use the CoreMedia rtsp streaming that I did a little bit of work on. Or at least they did when I was there.
I don't know where you've got that idea, but I'm pretty sure gropers go to jail.
Not sure about your first question, but the second involves your typical very difficult marketplace building.

You need merchants that use the service; you need customers that use the service. Paypal was the first to build those.
Because nobody else has a "buy now" button that is so simple to be plopped onto a static site and doesn't have a monthly fee. Stripe requires a back end and a fee. Shopify has a monthly fee. If you're doing low volume, that fee adds up.
I've used both Borg and Restic pretty heavily. I settled on Restic because it was much lighter on resources. A few of the servers I manage have small amounts of ram, but large amounts of data. Borg would often get oom-killed, but Restic wouldn't.

Restic also starts uploading changes as soon as it sees them, whereas borg has to scan the entire list of files before it starts uploading changes. Unfortunately for multi-tb datasets with millions of files, borg would take hours just to scan all of the files.

Pruning old archives also worked a lot better in Restic compared to Borg.

If you're happy with Restic, I'd keep sticking with it.
> Apple News is used to read 5 billion articles a month and is the number one news app...unbelievable! (paraphrasing)

Not really surprising at all, given that iOS pushes Apple News articles onto the lock screen/notification center. I find it annoying and turned it off, but I have noticed that many family members didn't know what it was exactly or how to get rid of it (though they wanted to).
How to Write a Perfect English Text If You Are Not a Native: 3 Practical Tips
It's good to see an audit paper trail is generated by these machines.

If EVMs are to be used, an auditable paper trail is necessary.

Hopefully the Election Commission will audit a representative sample of locations to prevent any irregularities.
The Value of Incompetence
Work was never called "fascism" which is about the establishment of an ethnic monoculture via aggressive authoritarian means.

Yes language does have this unfortunate (and best avoided) "advertising" function which which we associate terms and relabel for the sake of association. Making firing a person easier becomes a "right to work".

"Work" becomes "fascism".

How deeply propagandistic, "advertising", political, wrong, stupid and duplicitous.

Perhaps the free in "free market" is like this, in which case I'd be happy to remove it for "markets regulated qua markets".
Moreover, if anhedonic depression is involved, it can exacerbate that - serious anhedonia is a sensation that shares a lot with mindfulness meditation.
Reminds me of that dude who made a rather impressive amount of money posting classified ads on how to make money where the "secret methodology" being sold turned out to be a set of guidelines which simply instructed the buyer to follow suit.
Well yeah, they have Voter ID.
I find the evidence provided by this article is far too thin ans anecdotal to support the claim. If nothing else, it makes no distinction between plastic recycling and alumimnum recycling, for example.

If the Koch connection is true, I would infer the agenda is to spread FUD about recycling. I can’t imagine the motivation for that. Perhaps that Koch industries own Georgia-Pacific and Koch-Minerals, both of which profit from increased raw natural resource consumption.
Blaming Microsoft is not blaming the victims.
There is data. See my other comment...
No, I do know the meaning of owned and operated. What I stated is true as well, admob is O&O by Google. Facebook ads can appear on non O&O content the same as admob via their audience network. Both networks have options to advertise on just their O&O website or apps. Do you understand now?
Ummm how about this concept, from recent headlines China is refusing to accept it because it the recyclables are filthy. That tells me many people are not actually recycling they are just separating items. When you go return beer bottles to a deposit location, most refuse to take them if they are filthy... it is common sense!
> competition between companies to provide good working conditions and pay in a free labor market

Sure - but we could live in an alternative universe where Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, and all the other billionaires conspired to drive down their workers salaries. Where Eric Schmidt sent e-mails instructing they be deleted as they pointed to an illegal cabal crushing wage competition between companies.

Of course - this alternative universe to yours is the one we actually do live in.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/jobs-and-schmidts-gentleme...
Is something like this composable? For example, if they build a kind of lambda calculus for their 'hardware kernels' they can represent arbitrary calculations (by composing them)? Because having to create a different kernel for every calculation seems quite costly.
> Primaries are not elections.

Yes, they are.

> They are private intra party affairs.

That wouldn't stop them from being elections, but primaries are public affairs carried out by the State. (Caucuses are more like you describe, but even they often have state involvement.)

> caucuses in US primaries

Caucuses are not in primaries, they are an alternative to them.
Popularity and marketing is a factor to the extent that lesser known movies will not get enough reviews to count. Note that some movies gets ranked lower despite having a higher percentage. E.g Citizen Kane has 100% but is ranked several steps below Black Panther which has 97%. This is due to Panther having more reviews so the confidence is higher.
Do lots of varied things, gravitate towards the ones you enjoy the most.
HN traffic is not sustainable
Ask HN: Good Tool for Blog Drafting
What are the good tools you're using for blog drafting?

Which may help in grammar check, synonyms suggestions and provide basic utilities for blog writing.

Thanks in advance.
The spate of hardware refreshes last week makes this unlikely. Perhaps the Apple TV could be updated, but not the core hardware (phones/tablets/computers/watches).
The two practices are not mutually exclusive. Why not test against both?
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Funny that recycling in other countries like Germany actually works!
https://earth911.com/business-policy/recycling-in-germany/
Hey buddy!

Regarding your privacy concerns, the way in which it is designed makes messaging private. All communication is also end-to-end encrypted.

No metadata collected other than what development platform requires for basic analytics.

There is absolutely advertising.

The reviews are fake...?

Most messaging apps require a phone number.

The app works the same way as Whatsapp does. Both users needs each other saved in their address book and both users need the app installed.

It was designed to be very user-friendly and simple.

Hope this in someway alleviates your frustrations.

(^‿^)ﾉ
I disagree. While some of the statements in the article are factual, the conclusions are not supported by those facts.
It really is a much better product than Google's offering though. I don't know what Google was thinking about when the killed the Google News app.
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> I do not speak of merchants buying and selling on credit, or of those who buy on credit in order to turn the purchase to a profit.

Did you really just not read the article at all? He is clearly referring to things like consumer debt rather than investments.
Naive question, from me: Why isnt there a "streaming hub"

Where anyone can pub-sub model streaming through "allstreams.com" and users just publish to it, and subscribe from it based on the content they want.

Subs pay some amountto subscribe to topics of interest and pubs pay premium to be "featured in their category"

Imagine "reddit for streaming"

and each /s/substream can have uses subscribe and comment and thread-topic beneath the stream....

with meta, mega, mash streams available as an option...

Build your own stream channel watching library....

#tag them so you can have #gaming streams lumped.

#nfl, #nhl or #Raiders for all things Raiders, as an example...

#news or #conservativenews

etc... you get the idea...