skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it isn't; there have been studies done on open office floorplans, and they come to the same, obvious conclusion: they're bad on any metric you care to measure them on, except the one the article points out: if you ignore the productivity loss and all the other costs, they're cheaper. From the Wikipedia article on open floor plans,

> A systematic survey of research upon the effects of open-plan offices found frequent negative effects in some traditional workplaces: high levels of noise, stress, conflict, high blood pressure and a high staff turnover.

> Open-plan offices have been found to elevate the risk of employees needing to take time off for sickness.

The article's citations will allow you to delve into the studies, if you wish.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_plan
This is giving me an error:

> rustup component add miri --toolchain=nightly
info: downloading component 'miri'
info: installing component 'miri'
info: rolling back changes
error: component manifest for 'miri' is corrupt

If Miri as in interpreter, are there any plans to bring a REPL to Rust? It's one thing I sorely miss.
Very fair point.

From an operational perspective, if there was an incident in the second between 23:59:60 and midnight, it would of course be covered - irrespective of what's in any system, written on any doc, displayed in the app, etc.

We don't worry too much about leap seconds - particularly as very few people are even likely to realise it was a factor, and the national Motor Insurance Database (MID) does not support them.

The MID doesn't even allow us to specify timezones, so every year we sell around 20-30 one-hour car insurance policies which appear to run for 1 second - displaying the same start and end time on police computers etc. (Due to the clocks going back from BST to GMT.)

From a legal perspective, the time written on the policy doc is inclusive - we can't just decide that we want it to be exclusive because it suits our purposes.
I don't know how much weight such warnings will hold, given how well we know people ignore cookie warnings and the rest...
This is quintessence of a typical discussion on the Internet. Context matters and it's expensive to gather appropriate context. Usually it's not as simple to explain as in this case.

"I don't have to read further because I know for a fact that <this bit> is bullshit". It's a fair heuristic. It's just that it is so difficult to have a deeper meaningful discussion without some trust established first (so that you know you're not wasting your time).
From Finland? Why bother when you have such a high quality of living.
I think what he wants is that the software defers asking for a time zone until the item relates to two users who have different timezone.

And that if the event arrives without having touched users in different timezones, then the software should infer that the event's timezone is the local timezone of all users at that point in time and space.
I think the browser shouldn't be a platform at all, frankly, and WASI is one possible way we can finally stop trying to shoehorn it into being one. If everything runs a WASI runtime, which is designed to run applications from the ground up, there really isn't any need for the browser to run applications anymore, is there?
> get a green card before they get old

parent age and green card -- how do these two things relate to each other?
Maemo
>And, if the best minds are employed in large corporations to work out how to persuade people to click on online advertisements instead of cracking hard-core science problems, not much can be expected to change in the years to come.

This makes me so incredibly depressed.
To be clear, Backpage didn't get shut down for merely hosting prostitution ads. They got shut down for actively editing ads featuring minors to remove references to their age, money laundering, purposefully not reporting missing and exploited children, and few other things that showed they were not just a neutral party displaying ads.
It sounds like you're arguing in favor of redistribution, and UBI would work as part of that. Some sort of increase in progressive taxation (to fund it) would be the other part.
None. Would love to know why but it's honestly all a black box to me.
Ask HN: Why isn't there a “SuggestHN” category?
HN would be a good place for threads of suggestions for improving various commonly used products. Like Twitter for instance.
IBM iSeries (AS/400) Architecture [pdf] [slides]
The keyboard on the Surface Book is very good, and is still good even after constant use.
It has always been, and always will be, about convenience first.

Pre-Spotify and pre-bandcamp, getting music you could play on multiple devices was hard. Piracy was the only reliable way you could have the same songs on your walkman, your mp3 player, your phone, and your computer.

Bandcamp is nice, in that it offers DRM-free music in high quality, but Spotify offers raw, unadulterated convenience.

And Convenience is King.
They also give away free premium memberships to a degree that will shock even Audible, probably because a known user is worth so much more.
JSONB > EAV
Must have been a recent development then, when I tried to link Paypal to Transferwise back in January it didn't work, I called customer-care and got them to manually add it then they again sent the verification amount which they couldn't withdraw and once more blocked my account.

Same issue trying to add it as backend to Stripe, Shopify etc.
Airlines with Electric Engines Are Coming
There are so many issues with this video, I don't even know where to begin. I like this one line:
"The US Department of Agriculture burns food every week in order to keep the prices of that food high, even though there's people who are starving and people who need homes."
... OK, let's ignore the fact that the world produces far more food than it needs and people still starve. Obviously the problem is with the USDA, if only they didn't do that everything would be fine /s. Every line in here reads like it's pandering to a specific viewpoint in an attempt to legitimize the UBI message. "I think people shouldn't starve, therefore this person must be right".

To me, "the" colossal big problem with UBI (if there is only one) is the probable hyperinflation and crash that happens as a result of redistributing many trillions of dollars without the creation of commensurate economic value. Guaranteed employment (where at least some economic value is getting created) is a less risky approach to accomplishing the same goal.
The Keybase warning is particularly scary. I don’t think it’s fair to compare it against a cookie warning.
>What you're describing isn't a community at all, it's a bunch of strangers who happen to have something in common.

If your sense of "community" is so warped that you honestly believe this then I feel sorry for you. A community absolutely does not need to be geographically close in order to qualify as a community. Here's one of the definitions of community:

"a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals."

There are countless support groups, academic groups, professional and hobbyist networks, and other virtual communication platforms and meeting places that host communities of people that have never met in person.
That's a gross misunderstanding of the electorate. The Republicans didn't have the national majority vote this presidential election, but in Congress that's irrelevant. Have you been to Utah, or any of the other heartland states? They have overwhelming majority support.

One of the worst problems in the country right now is that things have become so geographically polarized. Many people live so deep in their (red|blue) bubble that they don't even know anyone who votes for the other side.
Whether an IBM hater or UNIX lover, I still recommend you check out the AS/400 or IBM i architecture. It was a very, forward-looking design from very, long ago. I found some slides to make it more accessible to busy or lazy folks. :)

It was also resilient to attack in first form as a capability-based, computer system. This book has many examples with AS/400 predecessor being “System/38” if yall want to check those out:

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/index.html
> Business logic is pure and stateless.

Why? From where did you invent this completely arbitrary constraint?

> You shouldn't be putting business logic in your HTTP handlers.

Why not? How else could this work? The user has to interface with the business logic somehow.

There’s nothing at all wrong with a HTTP handler that takes in a request, delegates to a few different business logic things, and then sends a response.

Not only are you moving the goalposts with your argument, you’re also coming up with things that are completely false.

There’s nothing about OOP that inherently makes extending some code to send an email easy. Likewise, there’s nothing about FP that inherently makes the same task hard.
To the contrary, when I think "monoid" I think good old nonnegative integers and addition, or positive integers and multiplication, or any of a half-dozen really easy-to-understand examples.

Tensors... what the heck are those? Like matrices, but _more_ complicated, you say? Thanks, but I'll stick with my basic monoids over here. :-)

The confusion between monoids and monads is perhaps unfortunate (even if the similarity is quite intentional, because technically monads are a particular kind of monoid), but easily sorted out and not much worse than having to distinguish between the nuts in your pantry and the Nutella.
can there be an ADR for a company that is not listed on the stock exchange?
From what I've read, they do things in line with what I advocate, such as making healthcare available to all, not free money for existing.
Ahhh... ok, I have heard that can be an issue from my wife's side of the family. I've also heard that the education is much more rigid and doesn't really encourage independent or creative thinking. More memorization.
You mean there are people being "human trafficked" in their countries of origin? Can you provide an example?
" Open office's suck energy through distraction."

that's how I feel. Since working in a cube farm I am totally shot when I come home. The noise, lack of daylight and visual distractions suck all energy out of me. There is no escape from the stress while I am at work.
I think it'd be disingenuous to call either party's support a "minority" when they collectively represent 55% of voters as of 2014. https://www.people-press.org/interactives/party-id-trend/
7% is in line with historical growth rate (below it, actually)

Cost inflation is assumed to be 3%, which is why the withdrawal rate is 4% (4% + 3% = 7%)

Anyway a 4% withdrawal rate is fine for 30 years (the duration of the trinity study) but a lower withdrawal rate (say, 3.25%) is needed for longer timespans like the 65-ish years of life expected of someone just graduating college, see this: https://earlyretirementnow.com/2016/12/07/the-ultimate-guide...
Average compensation for software engineers in NYC is $150k+ a year. Add in benefits and payroll taxes, etc. and you're looking at $180k+

Office space leases for around $75/year in NYC. A cramped open floor plan requires 80 square feet per person. A spacious 2 window private office is 150 square feet.

A company only saves about $5000 a year, even in the expensive NYC market. If an open floor plan results in an engineer being distracted for even 2 minutes an hour, it costs more in lost productivity than it saves in rent.
Show HN: Simple gdb debugging of CPython extensions
The (David H.) Koch Institute For Integrative Cancer Reasearch at MIT (https://ki.mit.edu) was partly funded by a $100m grant from him, and does not appear to have a conservative agenda.
Ah that is great to know. I believe the Chinese asat test was around 500 or so miles and it caused a real mess of debris.
I find the open office preferable to a cubicle farm. Most cubicle setups don't offer much in the way of privacy, especially with regard to noise and conversation, but they are dreary and soul-draining to look upon. Obviously a private office for teams or individuals is ideal, but if it's between open office and cubicles, I'll pick the open office every time.
The circumstance isn't exclusive to just people wanting to move to a new city. Rent control increases moving friction, which could be due to changing life events such as having kids, being an empty nester, or wanting to move to a more convenient neighborhood in the city.
Use threema. It has this problem (and the phone number one) solved.
I'd be curious where you are. In Ireland the legal system seems pretty accepting of dangerous drivers.
I would love to see an analysis of the artists I listen to on spotify. Last.fm tracks all the songs I listen to so someone would just need to scrape that, find info on each song/artist, and make some nice charts. I'd love to see which artists I listen to that are very small/unknown and send them a thank you.
Yeah, but on Craigslist you can't lead capture and convert to contacts and opportunities with cross-object reporting /s
For that very reason, for start/end policy times, we store them aligned to the second - no fractional seconds allowed. There'd be no legal basis for that anyway.

Obviously for actual timestamps - e.g. created at/updated at times - we do store a point-in-time with fractional seconds.
Same as you do now when you work in one state and live in another: pay taxes in one. Get credit for those taxes in the others. Net effect: you pay the highest of the tax rates.

This is a solved problem.
Reversing WannaCry – Finding the Killswitch and Unpacking the Malware in Ghidra
I feel that I have more difficulty remembering things when I'm a little sleep deprived. Have you tried increasing your sleep time by one hour?
You don't need an E. This is why we have autocorrection in macOS :p
Vulcanize CEO Rick Dudley: Ethereum’s Roadmap Isn’t Ambitious Enough
2:45 : "we faked lower employment through ... unsustainable business practices"

What sustainability is can be up for debate. But i've never seen of a version that would put more people back in jobs than automation will take away.

3:55 : 'We will get the government to print more money, to give it to workers'.

Either this is some very small thinking for 'Big Think' or you they are skipping over a lot of assumptions that should be stated explicitly.

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One 'Universal Basic Asset' idea i like is giving every person a yearly carbon credit that companies have to buy, instead of gifting it to the largest polluters.
Building a 'homebrew' video game console
That sounds much nicer than any edition of Perelman's books I've ever laid my hands on in Russian.Those were great books, though!
What if you don't get UBI in jail? Incentive to keep out of trouble.
Only someone who has never lived elsewhere would say that.
I've been looking for someone with your exact skillset - applying NLP to financial regulations. I'm an investment attorney turned developer working on software that uses NLP to automate compliance for SEC-registered investment advisers.
If we empower some individuals and companies to control and govern communications, we might be okay if we picked the right ones. The problem is, they have to continue to be the right ones, basically forever. That... won't happen. People retire and get replaced; people get corrupted by power; people see what they could do with power and put themselves in place to be the one to replace someone who's going to retire.

There is nobody - no person and no organization - who it's safe to trust with that kind of power.
Apparently not when it comes to money and opportunity!
Watch MIT's modular mini cheetah robot land a backflip
I saw a similar article about workplace conversations that suggested a similar track.

The gist was to make a request for help instead of a demand, while also being frank about what is happening and that there is a need for change.

I can appreciate the idea of presenting it in a collaborative way. Instead of "I am telling you to do this because you made a mistake and I know better" you can present it as "I can understand the issue, and we can work as a team to come up with a solution that works for everyone."
Yeah, I wonder how much of the disdain for open offices is more of a company culture issue rather a problem with open offices.

What causes people to whisper in libraries but talk loudly and disturb others in an open office plan?

Perhaps some segmentation of open office plans would also be interesting -- a "loud" zone, a semi-quiet zone and a silent zone. I don't know how workable this would be for teams unless you had hot-desking, which is something else people seem to hate, but still. Engineers who need to work on a difficult problem for a while can use the silent zone, while groups who need lots of communication and the perennial extroverts are free to use the louder spaces.
Your last sentence breaks the site guideline against insinuations of astroturfing (and spying or shilling and all the rest of it). Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here?
If anyone wants further explanation, there is plenty at the links here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19496892.

Also, please don't use the tired trope of "whataboutism" on HN. It contains no information, and is a form of name-calling that breaks the site guidelines as well. More on that: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Your comment would be fine without that last sentence.
I never understood Tile and the rest. The only thing I want a locator on is my phone.

I felt the same way until my wife lost her car key and the dealer wanted $1,200 to replace it.

(It turns out it's not the electronics that are expensive, it's the crazy engraving they use these days.)
One thing I do like about working in a hot desk environment is that its easy for people to move around regularly. Its nice to mix groups of people, work close with those your current project is with and even mix up your day.

One problem with offices is that it gets territorial. People get their office then its really difficult to move. Some offices have a better view or more/less sun. Do you take turns or goes to most experienced or senior person on the team? It becomes political and ripe for stupid games.
:) That's a good one, Devaney was more my era!
> Then again, in lots of jurisdictions today, a landlord can be held liable for the tenant committing a crime.

Whoa, is that true? Can you give a citation for that? That seems insane to me.
Santiago itself is not much to write home about, but there are some beautiful wine regions within driving distance from Santiago to the south and to the north. Also a day trip to the east into the Cajón del Maipo is worth it, especially if you like hiking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caj%C3%B3n_del_Maipo (also, inside tip, best empanadas in Chile are at the Pika del Flaco in Melocoton)

As for mountains they are literally in every region.
Before you hit Patagonia there is lots to see in the Los Lagos region, be sure check out the Valdivian rainforest, it's amazing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdivian_temperate_rain_fores...

Not to mention that just west of Santiago you find Valparaiso which is definitely worth another day or two of your time if you like urban environments.

If you do spend a day or two in Santiago, it's fun to go to the Bio Bio market or la Vega indoor food market. (watch your bag and your pockets)
How are you defining "outperform?" Because this sounds like a challenge.
What? The media thrives off of "the US is crap", especially international media. There is no lack of negativity about the US.
Even fewer comprehend the difficulties and sacrifice it would entail.
Note: this article is of the United States.
I can’t answer “if we should”...only as I explained above that under the law what you describe isn’t enough on its own to create liability for the service provide, the legal threshold is whether the seller knew the buyer would use the good/service in commission of a crime.

So for example the power company who sold power to run backpage, could they be liable? Probably not.

But a tech company who allegedly custom built a database to facilitate backpages human trafficking/prostitution activities...maybe
Or, if you care that much, you can not have any of that and just not enable any extensions. Easy peasy
Is this a serious question?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_mortgage_interest_deducti...

"Economists have demonstrated that high-cost high-income areas receive most of the tax benefit. For example, San Francisco, California receives $26,385 per home while El Paso, Texas receives $2,153 per home, a 1,225% difference.[28] The five highest income metros receive 87% of tax inflows, with over half going into California alone.[29]"
I just try to be good at relearning.

I also try to stop attacking myself for not being smarter/faster.
That's a rule that...

a) was introduced in 1725, and carried into the EU at the time of EU formation.

b) was repealed in 2008

c) while it's true france has lobbied to re-introduce the law since then, they have failed so far.
Spotify is literally where I discovered Kings of Convenience https://open.spotify.com/artist/41AbNVba2ccpmcc9QtOJE7?si=4v...
Elasticsearch for the curious, or what I learned processing Reddit data
I wanna take the chance asking this question while having so many physicists present in this sub: is the 'first principle thinking' approach to problem-solving somewhat helpful outside academia? Is it a thing in the first place? Seems super interesting as a non-physicist, however it's hard to judge from the outside. Thanks for some insights.
They tend to say "Well, you know I have to occasionally participate in super-secret phone calls," which we all know is an excuse.
It's much more primitive than you think. Dose distributions are simulated based on a CT/MRI that was acquired before treatment (treatment often lasts weeks). Only minor corrections are made when anatomy changes during the course of treatment, even though the patient is often losing tons of weight due to chemo, etc. There are quite a few tools that help with patient positioning, like vac-lok bags or literally molding a mask and drilling it down on the treatment couch (an example is shown here: https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/new-radiothera...).

Motion during treatment can be tracked with cameras or IR sensors or subcutaneous probes but that doesn't tell you about internal organs moving. The topic of deformable registration, where you find a non-rigid mapping between initial imaging conditions and the current ones, is still a topic of active research. Adaptive planning, where you actively change the treatment plan every N sessions based on the most up to date information, is also actively researched / implemented in some good research centers.

For treatment planning you just use a standard Cartesian grid, or a "beam's eye view" coordinate system that's aligned with the radiation beam axis as it rotates around the patient.
Except it does, docker hub builds it with that Dockerfile.
Yet, you're living in the US.

So I assume the positives outweigh the negatives?
It seems you either like open or not.

My company had an open plan warehouse in it's building before we went full remote. We had "break-out" rooms where we could work privately in an office. Some days people would work in them, I personally claimed one for myself to work permanently. Everyone else seemed to enjoy the open plan, I however, could not.
To be fair I've heard it varies a lot depending on the season in Mumbai. I was in Mumbai in December and it was honestly fine, at least in my opinion.