skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea but I don't know if I agree with the proposed approach to reviews. Personally, at a minimum, I would like to see the following from every reviewer:

A structured summary- background, objectives, data sources, synthesis methods used, results, limitations, conclusions and the implications of important findings drawn by the article.

In more detail:

An introduction that presents the problem and the issues dealt with. An assessment of the methods which describes the research and the evaluation process; specifies the number of studies references and gives a brief evaluation of their validity. A description of conclusions/results and their quality based on identifiable and preconceived academic/professional metrics. A strong summary of conclusions, limitations of those conclusions and the outcomes of the procedure used for the research.

I would really love to see reviews of reviews as well as a reviewers rating system (individual reviewers should have their own ratings) but given the limited number of reviewers that maybe asking too much.
I have no idea how anyone gets work done in a WeWork. I've been to a few and the first thing I notice is how loud they are.
None if these are unsolveable. For example, RT gives a critics score in addition to a popular score, so this could do that to solve 1 and 3, and 2 is a non starter because there's always more damage to be done/prevented.

Scoring publishers just puts an extra layer of abstraction on the problem without actually handling any of the issues you brought up.

The fact is, this is a good idea. So good that it already exists in a number of places with carrying degrees of success.
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This is really neat. I really love the idea and the presentation.

I would not trust my backups to your service yet, just because of the "this is a prototype" language. My immediate thought is, "this seems great, I'll have to come back and check it out once it's more of a real business". But therein lies the rub, I think: what will drive me back to check it out later? There doesn't seem to be a mailing list to sign up for. Maybe you'll hit the front page of HN with a full launch later, and I'll see it that way, which would be great, but maybe not!

In any case, nice work!
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Why isn't Lyft going for foreign markets as aggressively as Uber?
It's mentioned in the article but, "The HP Way" is actually a decent read.

HP, later Agilent, now Keysight used to have an excellent museum at their headquarters which is currently in Santa Rosa CA that included at lot of the original equipment. Unfortunately most of it was lost to the recent fires.
Without government assistance it would be very foolish to not have children, for most people at least. So this cuts both ways. If anything it is more than fair. Rich people avoid most of the taxes anyways also in Germany.
Smoking long enough ensures that you will quit forever, you just won’t be alive to know it.
That set of subtle contradictions and paradoxes was extremely clever. I didn't know about the author, although the face in the photo rings a bell.
Thanks! We've merged these threads.
> What I was trying to communicate was that the Turing machine believed to represent the limits of what is physically possible

Another religious tenet with no observable basis.

Where did so many hackers get this misconception that computable and physically possible are proven to be the same? Many claim the Church-Turing thesis shows this. Have they never read it carefully?
Not OP, but I am lucky enough to have my own office with a door. Everyone in my group just leaves their door open if they are available to be interrupted. I communicate entirely by email and in person. If it's a quick thing that I only need a verbal response to, I'll usually walk over and see if the person is in their office (w/ door open) first. If not, or if I need something more substantial, I'll email.

On the flip side, most of the day my door is open, and I don't mind occasionally being interrupted to help someone else with whatever they need. If I have a conference call or I just want to really focus on something, I close my door and it's unlikely anyone will knock or otherwise disturb me unless the building is on fire.
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"I find it pretty easy to find reputable news sources,"

Were your "reputable news sources" promising you up, down, left, right, backwards and forwards that the Mueller report was going to end Trump and conclusively prove that his Presidency was the result of Russian collusion?

Maybe not for you as an individual. Mine were a great deal more mixed, for instance. But I suspect for a lot of people, the reason they find it easy to find "reputable news sources" is that they never hold their news sources to account for being wrong.

I use this example merely as the most temporally-handy example of when a lot of "reputable sources" got it very, very wrong. There are many.
If someone can “handle” an open office setting, they are the outlier.

Open office high distraction setting may allow shallow work but is seriously prohibitive to deep work.
> What you are really saying is "I hope there is a massive war so excess human capital stock is cleared and the relative valuation of each human is raised for a generation or two."

They referenced Japan in their post (which has a fairly steady but slowly declining population due to slowing birth rates) so to insinuate they were hoping for war to decrease the population is way off the mark.
> A very good reason to shut down any automatic update software, moreover on a commercial OS.

This is dangerous and irresponsible general advice. 99.9999…something percent of users will be better off getting updates on a schedule more recent than “never”. Following your advice would simply mean that millions of people get rooted because they postponed the updates for things which were known threats in the wild.

The very small percentage of high-value targets are the ones who can consider this because they also have defense budgets measured in the millions and can afford to do things like inspecting updates and aggressively monitoring for changes in network activity, etc.

What it does tell you is that there is a cost to using software from companies with lax security practice such as ASUS:

> Kamluk said ASUS continued to use one of the compromised certificates to sign its own files for at least a month after Kaspersky notified the company of the problem, though it has since stopped. But Kamluk said ASUS has still not invalidated the two compromised certificates, which means the attackers or anyone else with access to the un-expired certificate could still sign malicious files with it, and machines would view those files as legitimate ASUS files.

That's a good cue to suggest that if you're security conscious you want to pick vendors who share that value.
Honestly, unless software can read my mind to tell whether I intended the touch to be registered or not, I'd rather not have that.

No software solution is going to be 100% prefect and you'll end up with either degraded experiences (as an example, when you tap a link on iOS, there's a bit of latency - this is because it's waiting to see if it will be a double tap), or dangerous mistakes where it will still register touches that weren't intended.

As our phones contain more and more data and bear privileged access to a lot of systems (work, etc), an accidental touch can sometimes be disastrous. I have a friend for example that's a complete idiot with tech and never locks her phone despite holding it by the screen and pressing random stuff on it. Eventually she accidentally pressed the voice message button on WhatsApp and ended up sending a good 5 minutes of a very private conversation to a stranger.
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If your account is downgraded automatically, Github will extort you for access to your private repositories. You don't get the option to just set them to public and stay on the free tier, Github simply forces you to pay up to get them back or lose them permanently.

Found this out when my old student account lapsed after I left college. Luckily, they screwed up and unlocked my private repos when attempting to charge me (there was no credit card on my Github account and never was -- nice work, Github) and I was able to pull my private repos and move everything to Gitlab.

Zero regrets. Extortion is never acceptable, especially when it's policy.
Imagine this post going back into the 90s when people were suffering in cube farms, and find out that in the future people would harken back to those days.
When I got my tech job out of college in the 80's I was embarrassed because most of my friends in non-tech (especially finance) had offices with doors that closed. Sometimes nice wooden doors.

It took a lot of getting used to: constant chatter, loud talkers, ice chewers, mouth noises, farting, personal phone calls that were too personal... But I acclimated.

I continued to work in a 9'x9'x (x5' high) cube for 25+ years and the last company I worked for switched to an open floorplan for my last 3 years there.

IT WAS HELL. At least in my small cube I had some sense of privacy, but now everyone could see my screen, or see me having to deal with various biological discomforts, it just sucked. I'm glad I became a contractor 5 years ago because it is great to be out of that mess. Hopefully I'll never have to return.
> I think the real problem in the US media is political bias.

Absolutely not. As someone else notes to your comment, everyone is biased. I'm "biased" that people not dying is a good thing -- some would argue the universe would be better off without humanity. Bias is inevitable, and not the problem; the problem, as you state, is "letting that bias color their views." Or, rather, not so much "color" your views, but letting your personal bias override any other interpretation.

I personally believe Trump has done some very illegal things and it's just a question of finding a smoking gun. That doesn't mean he has done anything illegal regarding situation X (I don't know, let's say promoting Mar-A-Lago after he started running for office), and that's something I need to keep in mind when I read articles about him.
When I joined the Territorial Army here in the UK back in the 90s, some smart arse said to the instructor some thing like "but isn't the 5.56 and lighter round and doesn't hit as hard as the 7.62", to which he replied "that may be so son but if someone shoots you up the arse with it, it won't half make your eyes water".
Stability in the air (external ballistics).
How can the further Galaxy be 20 billion light years away?
I used to smoke until I was about 26 or so.

I really wanted to quit, but I couldnt "chose to quit" - so I went a different route that worked well for me, but with an odd cost:

I convinced myself that "smoking will make you nauseous" -- and then, when I attempted to smoke, I would feel sick to my stomach, and I would gag a lot.

This worked for me - and I was able to quit nearly cold turkey.

The cost, is that now, any time I smell cigarette smoke, I begin to gag and I cant control it. Further, now my gag reflex is so strong that brushing my teeth makes me gag heavily....
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It allows you to manually (re)load and arm the rifle very quietly; the normal charging action to chamber the first round in a magazine is quite loud and recognizable. Useful for stealth. And if you accidentally get a ton of dirty in the action when the bolt locks back i.e. when the magazine is empty, you can force the first cartridge on a new magazine to chamber through the dirt (the first shot will usually clear the dirt out of the critical areas).
Researchers measure quantum power increase in quantum boost engine for first
Link to paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.10964.pdf

Abstract: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10964
My last iPhone was a 4s, it's been a while since I switched to Android. I sometimes think about switching back, and one of the things that attracts me is my wife's SE, it's a really great phone in a fantastic, convenient form-factor.

I have gotten gradually larger phones since my 4s, but I've recently started to use my phone less, and do so less impulsively, and I feel like switching to a smaller, but very capable phone like the SE would suit me very well.
That's where providing the evidence comes in - you'll never convince your opponents but for skeptics and critical thinkers they can determine for themselves if the evidence supports the perspective.
I have seen many efforts at "grading" news.

I have not yet seen one that isn't just a news site that grades whether or not the news is in alignment with some ideology, with the occasional fig leaf tossed out for some particularly egregious error to try to appear even-handed.

The closest I've seen are some news grading sites that are fair for a couple of months, but because a pure ideology site.

As near as I've been able to tell, discarding all such sites (not just the ones that disagree with your ideology, but "all sites" is a superset of that) is the rational move.
May I suggest Kimsufi along with Hetzner for if you scale up? Its similar pricing and they have some NA locations (although less storage). I've had good experiences with them.
Yes. It can make sense for people who aren't in the office much--especially if the alternative is to lease more space that will be half-empty most of the time. Last time I had to move desks, I just gave up having a permanent desk and took everything home.

If you're tight on space, it's perfectly reasonable to shift people who aren't in the office most of the time to hoteling but if someone is going to be butt in seat most days, why not give them a permanent space?
Vulkan has a very verbose setup phase, but after that you only make some tiny calls here and there (Draw a frame, update some UBOs), so the CPU load isn't that high because you record most things at start-up.

Multi-threading is possible with SharedArrayBuffers [0] and N-API allows to take the memory address of it. NVK is only a thin layer above Vulkan and JavaScript <-> C++ interopability is pretty fast. You only notice some overhead when making thousands of calls, because the C++ code cannot be inlined. But again, this is not something common in Vulkan.

Also JavaScript doesn't have essential features like Compute shaders for years now. Vulkan has all of it. Even though WebGPU [1] is in development, I don't expect it to give access to the Vulkan RTX pipeline anytime soon.

[0] SharedArrayBuffer: https://v8docs.nodesource.com/node-4.8/d4/db8/classv8_1_1_sh...

[1] WebGPU: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb
Tumbling and fragmentation are both highly dependent on terminal velocity and the underlying stability of the round. For instance M855 will not fragment reliably unless it hits ~2700FPS, which out of a 14.5" barrel gives you under 100 meters.

In Mogadishu, M855 poked neat little holes, rather than tumbling or fragmenting, in Somali fighters with very little body fat.

M193, which is obsolete for military usage but still the most popular bulk round on the civilian market, almost never tumbles in gel tests as it is overstabilized by the 1:7 twist, 16" barrels predominant in civilian ARs.
So we shouldn’t employ disabled people? Why does everything have to have a negative spin? A business wants to profit, silly to think otherwise. I guess because of their greed we should be cynical of times when big business provide opportunity.
I loved my 5S & SE, but I switched to a 7 when my SE broke, and now have the X. It took a while to get used to the size, but now when I look at my buddy's SE the screen looks TINY. Like I don't remember it being that small.
4G coverage is actually pretty good these days.
The real estate transaction is broken. Tech companies want to fix it
Currently AI is based around optimizing something, but AGI has no specific thing to optimize around. Human intelligence has a lot of issues with for example mental heath because it’s not so easy to optimize for general intelligence.

Fiction glosses over that stuff and generally paints AI as some extremely rational extremely intelligent system. But, rationality may be more of a social construct than we assume with many or even most AGI turning to criminal or deviant behavior.
Interestingly, I use the same method to stick to my diet. I repeat to myself and others how gross fast food is and just say things like yuck, eww, etc when I think of eating it. It took a short time before I just naturally avoid it and have no desire or cravings anymore. And this is from someone that once consumed at least 1, most times 2, meals a day from fast food places.
Don't give too much notice. My contract had rachet in that ratchets up more months the longer you are at job. Instead of the 1 month notice that is normal in the Netherlands I had to give two. I was already burning out / unmotivated and that was reason to leave. Having to work on dead end projects instead of what you were working on for last 2 months was terrible.
imho he probably meant for experienced engineers we don't really care because knowing what's underneath is way more expert than learning another language/funny syntax which tries so hard using name mangling type system to hide it.
Exactly -- theres seems to be little appreciation in the the thread that it's a simple trade off. Private offices may generally be preferable but exactly at what price?

Would you people not prefer to see the difference in their wage packet? A company that chooses open offices can offer higher wages it doesn't mean they don't care about their employees productivity.
They should have excluded swamps, mountains and deserts to give a better picture.
> Young men starting in life should avoid running into debt. There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt. It is a slavish position to get in...

Well, that put student debt in perspective no ?
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Related: https://github.com/hamukazu/lets-get-arrested
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I’ve seen a product (forget the name) that does the opposite signalling. USB powered RGB light dongle on your desk/cube. Red means “don’t interrupt me unless the building is on fire”, orange was “don’t interrupt me” , green was “feel free to bug me with that question”

I’m sure they could be repurposed the way you suggest. But don’t most people in open spaces use slack or equivalent for that?
Holy crap, I didn't know you knew about INJECTION. We've come full circle! How'd you find out about it?
> Were your "reputable news sources" promising you

No? News shouldn't "promise you" anything. Maybe you're reading too many opinion pieces? 50-75% of the news I see shared online seems to be opinion pieces attempting to "synthesize" the current news of the day. If you focus on journalists (including following them directly), and just pure news you won't be promised anything.
The way I usually formulate these lines of thought is as follows:

I have the desire to play video games (a waste of time), but I wish that I did not have this desire. I want it, but I do not want to want it.

If we do not have strong enough character to regulate our short term desires, our long term goals suffer. This tradeoff is implicit in how we spend every second of our day. Ultimately, actions reveal preferences.

If your long-term goals are unclear, or if your working conditions/ social circle are not congruent to your long-term goals, you will remain anxious over failing to progress towards these goals.
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interesting, a kind of sphere with flat surfaces....
Life tells you what you should do in two ways: what you like to do and what you are good at. Of course liking something and being good at it often go hand in hand.

When you are good at something, it’s fun to keep doing it so you feel better than other people. When you like to do something, you often get good at it.
Yes, you are suddenly writing java with parentheses.

Don't get me wrong, Clojure is a great language in itself, but the lack of libs make you spent 90% of your time writing interop, you start to ask yourself if it's worth the trouble.
They don't allow any prototyping or experimenting on the amateur bands either. That is why this is using the unlicensed ISM bands.

I want to see it adapted for the lower frequency ISM bands. I just got into ham and SDR this last year and I'm looking forward to making a super long distance super low speed link to my buddies on the other coast as a backup comm channel in case the primaries go down.
Fair point. How about:

That ship already sailed when the concept of "locked phones" was introduced. A concept Apple already bought into with the first iPhone.
Now that Nokia (HMD) is shipping phones. Jolla should collaborate with them on a Sailfish device.
Since they're rich and childless, they should vote with their wallet and move to a country with less taxes.
Part of the problem here is the title: "U.S. workers hate 'open' office spaces". The CEO in the corner office lighting cigars off of $100 bills doesn't care what the workers hate - in fact, he probably sees this as a net positive, because it reminds the workers who they are and who he is. And in reality, it's _not_ important what U.S. workers "hate" and that they hate it isn't really the problem with open offices - the problem is that everybody working in them is working at half capacity because they're wasting at least half of their concentration trying to block out all of the (completely unnecessary) distractions they're surrounded by.
I don't think winning tickets at games of skill and timing is necessarily gambling, though I do agree that some of these games are pure gambling.

But I do think that we should discourage adults from 'winning' the prizes in kids' games.
Why wouldn't it be a halo around the lensing galaxy instead of four distinct points?
Imagine this at the scale of the universe: There are probably entire planets and civilizations being lost that no one will ever know about.

Consider the dinosaurs of our own planet; we would have never known about them if we didn’t chance upon their remains.
No, CL looks quite long in the tooth when compared on ergonomics and ecosystem. It may run faster but otoh the Clojure concurrency story is great. There's also good IDE support for more enterprisey tastes (Cursive) in addition to the phb-scaring Emacs/vi, and ClojureScript is a huge selling point in many fields. The JVM has a lot of technical plus sides aside from the library interop - a lot of tooling such as Newrelic and Maven can be directly leveraged.
> My guess is people with stress/gastro issues don't get the adequate serotonin for "normality".

If your gut has issues with absorbing fructose, then the free fructose seems to connect with tryptophan, which hinders the tryptophan from being absorbed.
They are not suggesting a drug. 5-HTP is used by ravers to combat after effects of MDMA (Extasy), as MDMA depletes serotonin by releasing large amounts of it.
I would assume most people are expensing noise cancelling headphones or writing them off. It's not an item the employee would be expected to cover, so its still cheaper for the company to do this than build outs.
Our Fake History podcast has an excellent series on PT Barnum. He was something of a genius promoter (and self-promoter). Today he's best remember for his circus act, but that was just one of a long line of productions he put on.

In Barnum's parlance, a "humbug" was a practical joke played on his audience. A less charitable interpretation is that of some of Barnum's humbugs are downright fraudulent. It's a fun story.

Episode 1 of 3 is here: https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-2/episode-32-who...
True. Still it's enough data to show that C++ is a wild success and is used more than just in a few niches.

Has it supplanted C? Definitely not. But in some areas it did (e.g. game development).