skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of the software written isn't too complicated and doesn't require Deep Work

There's a self-fulfilling prophecy for you. We assume a priori that developing software doesn't require much thought, so we'll skimp on environmental factors that contribute to actual thought and see what programming we can get out of it. And lo and behold, if you ignore the usability problems, security problems, out-of-control memory problems and the necessity of an army of testers to make up for the fact that nobody actually understands the code, the resulting software kind-of sort-of meets the requirements so we were right, software CAN be reliably produced with zero concentration in an all-interruptions, all-the-time environment!
A site for YouTube videos that have never been watched before: http://www.petittube.com/
> pretty much nothing at all

Except for instant access to what is probably the biggest collection of music in the world. I don’t mean to be snarky but, have you ever used Spotify? It’s a godsend.
One of the reasons that I like zsh,

$ printf "Look, I have something inside" > /tmp/careful.txt
$ cat /tmp/careful.txt
Look, I have something inside%
$ printf "\nNow I have one more thing" >> /tmp/careful.txt
$ cat /tmp/careful.txt
Look, I have something inside
Now I have one more thing%
$

Zsh will add the line break and mark its absence with a % with reverse video).

I follow the "terminator-not-separator" rule religiously in my own source code, but my impression is that this is somewhat a Unix-ism.
Lawyers and Para-legals of HN, what's your opinion on this; watermark all photos you upload to FB with a disclaimer saying something like:

"By leaving this picture accessible, Facebook agrees that I retain full copyrights, and Facebook can not use this picture for advertising purposes, all clauses of Facebooks EULA in contrary being void"

Would something like this work and be accepted in a court of law ?
I agreed with your comment, until I followed the github link and found that all issues had been removed.
You're right that the hamfisted approach rarely works as intended. I'm basically saying, there's no approach that will work to everyone's satisfaction; that's why we will not end up confronting climate change, only adapting to its consequences. We're good at the latter, not so good at the former. I hope I'm wrong of course.

If I were in the mood to argue with you I would ask (about the 1975 legislation) Did it raise fuel efficiency standards, ¿sí o no? I don't have an undue amount of national pride and I don't work in the automotive sector, so I don't have a strong opinion about America even having an auto industry. The only reason I would want a domestic auto industry would be to save resources currently wasted on trans-oceanic shipping and to have more lucrative blue-collar jobs on US soil for people. Give them good jobs and they are less likely to turn delinquent in various ways including at the ballot box.

But the harsh fact is, to mitigate the present crisis, the entire auto industry would need to go away, forever, and not just in the US, but worldwide. I think the scope of the change to our daily way of life, that would be necessary to achieve a low carbon footprint, is hard for most people to imagine. The closest thing would be maybe homelessness. Which doesn't quite capture it, but is in the ballpark. Or maybe a return to quasi-feudalism, where you're a serf working some lord's land with hand tools to produce food. Jim Kunstler favors this vision. It's plausible enough as sci-fi although I think he might be being a bit sentimental. At any rate they're both situations people don't want to imagine. So, we simply don't imagine it.
High altitudes can actually get a lot more sun if you are above the clouds. But BC isn’t really high altitude like Tibet is, they just have lots of mountains. Edit: read parent wrong, never mind about altitude.
If you care about an artist, buy things from them. Records, tee shirts, posters, concert tickets, etc. Streaming revenue is essentially a rounding error.
Heh. 1000 meetings later, we still need more meetings for reducing repetitive tasks. I feel like this world is no longer real.
the same author keeps posting the same content over and over again. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=DVassallo,

I have seen this many times ... enough!
I'm not sure the screwdriver analogy works here.

The tool isn't the screwdriver alone, it's the screwdriver and the screw, which allow for easier fastening than, say, advanced woodworking joinery. A powered screwdriver also allows non-trained people to get closer to the productivity of a trained professional.

What are some examples of that annoyance in modern software?
What’s a good resource for learning emacs for someone who’s been using vim for more than 20 years?
Most of the time that happens because the internal tools/databases built or maintained by IT are unusable or just don't do the necessary reporting. Most companies don't have in-house dev teams that are capable of building usable business-relevant tools.
Would some of these tools fall under the DCMA by virtue of "circumventing access-control measures" [1]? If so some of the hate being directed at Microsoft might be better directed at US lawmakers.

[1] http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/circumventing-copyright-cont...
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Before recorded music, there was sheet music. It was a big business with "superstar" composers like Scott Joplin. It was common for a middle class house to have a piano in the parlor.

And as I understand it, even before the recording era, there were predatory middlemen exploiting the sheet music composers.
I am not a female, but I am a bootcamp grad with no college degree working as a sw engineer. At almost every place I've worked at so far I've had co-workers go through my GitHub and then make comments about how I shouldn't be working there.

I have no idea why people are doing this to Dr. Bouman, if it's gender related or not. Just stating my experiences.

Just so I'm fair, my GitHub does suck.
A company offering free classes on how to better use their services... oh no... terrible... the horror...
I never felt a buzz through my laptops when I lived in the US, but I feel it fairly often in Netherlands.

What is really strange is that occasionally I could feel the buzz while gently moving my fingertips across my girlfriend's shoulder while in bed. It was not an imagined sensation - it was exactly like with the laptop. We were on a waterbed, but I don't think that could have anything to do with it. The laptop mystery is solved, but this one is still a curious mystery.
I know a lot of people living off the grid who get their electricity via small-scale hydro.
I can only agree.

Good companies here are based on work/private life. There will always be some others, but you won't be judged by doing "only" your hours, but the value you bring to the company in that time.
Did he really make this claim? I didn't listen the podcast.

If true, this sounds completely unrealistic especially with the way Tesla is approaching self-driving cars. It's possible that Musk will showcase something within year, but I'm certain will not be a full self-driving car in any meaningful sense.

If there is betting market with well defined bet terms, I could bet some money on it.
The simplest explanation of why this is a tragically bad idea for them can be explained by a single product: “condoms”.

If they automatically identify photos where someone happens to have left out a condom somewhere in the frame, and then use their likeness to advertise that brand of condoms (at the brand’s request), they will destroy any remaining trust in their platform among teens and inspire hostile legislation after the progeny of a public figure have their face used in such an ad without their opt-in consent.

This is one of the worst ideas they could possibly have come up with. It’s insane to think what kind of filter bubble they’re working within that permit this to proceed to the patent stage.
Its already starting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19627885
lol! Not at all surprised, if you can think of it, there is most probably an emacs plugin for it.
The keyword should be "tedious", not just repetitive. I wouldn't want a machine to automate my getting up and stretching or making and drinking a coffee, those are activities that are arguably needed to keep oneself sane while working.
Before reading this article I didn't think we'd ever see something viable out of Neuralink (https://www.neuralink.com/) but now I'm not so sure.
In 2017, hip hop surpassed rock to become the most popular genre, according to Nielsen, and crucially that was reflected in streaming rather than album sales:

> According to the report, R&B and hip-hop are now responsible for 25.1% of all music consumption in the U.S., while rock claims 23%.

> Looking at the rest of the numbers listed that dissect how people are consuming these styles of music, it’s clear that streaming is to thank for the swap in ranking. Rock is far and away the winner when it comes to album sales—the genre claims 40% of all album sales in the country—but the total number of records actually purchased dwindles every year, so while that percentage may remain steady or even climb, it’s not representative of how Americans are truly consuming music. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2017/07/17/hip-hop...

[2] http://www.insideradio.com/free/in-a-streaming-world-it-s-r-...
Often on Bandcamp and GOG.

* https://bandcamp.com

* https://gog.com

Some other stores that you can find DRM-free FLAC in:

* https://www.7digital.com

* https://us.7digital.com

* https://www.hdtracks.com

* https://murfie.com

* https://www.junodownload.com

* https://store.tidal.com

* https://www.prestomusic.com

* https://www.prostudiomasters.com

* https://www.jamendo.com
Perhaps I misinterpreted your comment then. But all the same, my work is not simply applying material design to websites. We're creating our own branding and "art", but still we have to distill that down into something that can actually be implemented by a developer. Early on we do all kinds of crazy stuff but we always have to be thinking about how we'll bring it back down to Earth and how it will be used and experienced.
Yep, it can be used pretty much anywhere, it's just Intel will never disclose all the intricacies how instructions are broken into uOps.

But, regarding Godson, Zhaoxin, Hygon, Kaixian and 10 more other...

I can only give another poke to Chinese government bodies behind the "Chinese x86" program for continuing wasting state money for two decades straight, trying to make Chinese x86 clones.

There is a following sentiment that is widely spread in industry bodies that "Chinese chips can't run Windows, thus they are not as good as American ones." That's a complete nonsense to anybody moderately technically literate, but this premise lets those guys keep soliciting government money.
I wonder what kind of programs get to follow you for so many decades.
> I'm saying that unless you're doing something complex involving the neutral and ground no technical reason the neutral and the hot contacts on any given device are not interchangeable because the electrons are going both directions anyway.

They are not interchangable for safety, electric shock, or EMC purposes, because the AC voltage range at neutral and hot contacts are very different. This is when the voltage is measured relative to the nearby environment.

Roughly speaking, the neutral AC voltage may oscillate around +/-2V (that's all), relative to the surrounding environment.[] If it's more than that you probably have a fault.

Whereas the hot AC voltage will oscillate around the full range you'd expect (~110V RMS or ~230V RMS depending on country).

This makes them very different, with regard to human safety, other safety (such as sparking against an earthed pipe, causing fire, contact with water), and current flow to the environment via capacitive coupling.

[] - Neutral is bonded to ground somewhere, but not at the mains outlet. The reason it's not zero and a small voltage appears, is because all the devices plugged in closer than the neutral-to-earth bond contribute a small "pull" to the neutral voltage, competing with the bonded voltage.
That's pretty much it. There is also a widespread belief that software development is "IT" which means that an initiative to implement cloud systems gets led by people who have experience with desktop deployments or firewall setup. There is a lot of politics around budgets so the IT department won't let go of that power.
Anecdata, but my tiny ARM server at home has eight cores on one SOC and costs $80. I believe my phone also has eight cores.
So, now without amp, too: https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-falcon-heavy-fairing-recove...
He promised coast to coast in 2016
Maybe America has more serious covered-up crimes to reveal than Russia? Maybe America is killing more innocent people, daily (one bomb dropped every twenty minutes for the last 20 years, mostly on innocent people)?

Maybe you simply haven't read what Wikileaks has published about Russia.
I think you're interpreting the original question too broadly. Based on the follow-up, the question was meant to mean "what repetitive tasks do you do at work that can be automated through software?"
You are just making things extreme without giving your fellow software engineers some confidence that they won't screw up. Plenty of variables are string constants, or numbers coerced into strings or some such. A good type system will always help though.
The scientist painter who turns deadly viruses into beautiful works of art
I've started to use spacemacs and like it (I'm also a long time vim user)
Ordos was never a ghost city, one of its newly built far out districts, Kangbashi, was. Chinese cities are more like counties that contain multiple municipalities.
It seems a highly counterintuitive thing to say but I have anacdotelly noticed the same when running XP bare metal vs inside a VM running in Linux on the same hardware. Around that era I have hard others notice the same on their PCs as well - and that’s where the origins of this meme comes from. I didn’t spend any time investigating why Windows might perform differently since running the BM was just to save dual booting rather than any performance related reasons however I think it was primarily around file system operations where the difference was noticeable (this was before SSDs were ubiquitous).

Microsoft have invested considerable effort on improving the NT subsystem in subsequent releases of Windows so I would be surprised if that meme was still true. Plus SSDs likely even the playing field too.
I don't know. A non-directional/non-polarized plug would just omit the features that engage the key-ways on the side enabling you to plug it in whichever way you want. If you want to make it directional/polarized just engage the key-ways so the user can only plug it in one way.

In North America we have these[1] for things that don't have a metal case and on cheaper devices both blades are often the same size allowing you to plug it into an outlet whichever way you want.

[1]https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/5/1/0/d/c/51154c1cce395f903d...
You won't find much hydrogen infrastructure in rural BC. Also that range is for flat land, driving in mountainous terrain can take those numbers down dramatically.

That said, there's really only so many main highways in BC, and most of them have pretty decent charging infrastructure (in the Southern and Central bits anyway). The main exception is the route North of Whistler to Kamloops - charge stations in Lillooet would be a nice addition.
The Future of Unions Is White-Collar
Found a mirror by putting the paper title on Google, for those who aren't IEEE subscribers: https://home.deib.polimi.it/sami/architetture/godson.pdf
> When someone says HTML & CSS is terrible I ask them to design something better that lets you represent user interfaces that can adapt across multiple screen sizes, and allow complex layouts that Flexbox and CSS Grid makes possible.

Uh huh. And how many years did it take to actually get Flexbox and CSS Grid? I mean...They're both still "Candidate Recommendations" in 2019. That's not even the penultimate level of recommendation. You definitely can't use Grid if you want broad compatibility; it was only first implemented in 2017. "People should update their software to the latest versions! And they should switch browsers to use one that supports my nonstandard features!" Oh, yes? Well they don't. And let's not even talk about Grid Level 2 which is implemented nowhere. We've gone through generations of faking markup with javascript because the dogma behind CSS has always been a terrible mess. "No tables for layout!" Ok, what else are you supposed to use to arrange things in grids? "Uhhh....give us a couple decades to get back to you on that."

When people say that CSS is terrible, they mean the actual standard parts, and they mean for the past 22 years.
Everything has a place. I might it find it odd if the technical library where I work started carrying the National Enquirer. Yet, that publication is perfectly appropriate where people expect entertainment magazines.

YouTube was intended as a place for people to share their videos. Logan Paul and others who create and share videos are using YouTube for its intended purpose and it's perverse for YouTube to try and figure out how to stop them from doing what their service was built to enable.

I think there should be a place for high quality curated content and a place for people to share their videos regardless of content.

YouTube is, of course, free to make whatever curation decisions they like just like I'm free to complain about them. This would be like if hacker news claimed to be a place for tech news but also banned all submissions from authors or views they didn't like, even if that content was high quality tech news.
TokuDB still active - last bugfix was on 29.Nov.2018:

https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.6/release-notes...

List of which TokuDB version is integrated in which MariaDB version:

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/meta/tokudb-versions/
Concorde engine, with afterburner – yours for £748000
Latitude, not altitude.
You also need to make sure you're doing the right "deep work". Sometimes, the problem was already solved by someone else, and there Slack can mean the difference between discovering that in a few minutes vs. a few days.
But a fake entry in the database would result in a negative match. Thus the researcher would (at least at first) eliminate you as a possible candidate.

Of course, uploading fake DNA with your real name would have other implications — your relatives that upload their own DNA and look for matches might suspect infidelity on the part of your parents... and relatives of the "fake DNA" might think the same of their father/grandfather/etc.
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I used it to remove old tweets, but nothing else. The presets aren't very flexible. The oldest tweets I could delete was anything more than 3 months old. I would have preferred a longer timeframe like older than 2 or 5 years.

I didn't try it for Facebook. It has three general settings (public, friends, and just me). I've already tuned Facebook as best as I want. It wasn't clear what FB would overshare or under-share with Jumbo's settings.
There are so many simple rules that would improve their recommended content. Examples:

1. Lower rank for clickbait titles

2. Lower rank for listicle / compilation / clip videos

3. Delist listicle / compilation videos with stolen content (most of them)

4. Lower rank for clickbait thumbnails

5. Lower rank for YT drama videos

6. Increased rank for 100% original videos
Why would you expect a company to do something for free and with no benefit to them?
I try to script everything that I have to do on a regular basis, or that I have to do repeatedly and have to look up how to perform each time. For me, this is a random assortment that I can remember off the top of my head:

* creating a json for meeting notes from a template based on the type of meeting (1on1, mentorship, some project, etc), that includes action items and other relevant metadata from the last meeting of that type with that person/group
* creating a todoist item for a particular project
* killing any running processes that match a particular string
* various git hooks for linting or mirroring changes between GitHub and bitbucket
* scraping the AKC website to see if there are any new puppy litters listed for the particular kind of dog I’m looking for, and emailing the results to myself and my girlfriend
* loading a particular subset of deidentified prod data into my local db for dev work
* adding/enabling openssh to a docker container to be able to use a remote ssh interpreter

But in general, something I heard a while ago in reference to finding niche work when contracting as a dev in an industry that you might be unfamiliar with is “find what people are using excel for, and automate it”.
You forgot "breathing" and "peeing". Maybe a startup could solve these repetitive time wasters
YouTube's (and Google's) management has been very openly left-leaning, so it's not a stretch to imagine that "quality" as defined by their editors will also be left-leaning or at least not right-leaning... so, yeah.
I'm not sure about resources, but there's a mode called evil mode that has vim bindings. That would be a good thing to google.
According to the article, Schönhage and Strassen introduced the use of fast Fourier transform to integer multiplication in 1971, giving n × log n × log(log n). "The technique has been the basis for every fast multiplication algorithm since."

"Over the past decade, mathematicians have found successively faster multiplication algorithms, each of which has inched closer to n × log n, without quite reaching it. Then last month, Harvey and van der Hoeven got there."
I wonder if DNA will actually become less usable in convictions as a result of these sorts of developments. With it being easier to identify an individual based on DNA at a crime scene, eventually someone is going to be accused and turn out to have an ironclad alibi proving they couldn't have done the crime, even though their DNA was present.
Taking VC money is a lot like a record deal. You're giving up some amount of control in exchange for resources and validation now. Record deals and VC deals are not for everyone. I think the way to determine that is to decide what your personal goals are and ask your teammates the same thing. I think you also need to be very realistic about your market and idea, if you have a multi-billion dollar idea you're going to need backers... if you are already paying the bills and can dominate a smaller market without more funding that might be ideal for you? This all comes back to what you want, once you know what you want all the other decisions get much easier. Good luck! :)
That just pushes the problem one level down on the stack, no? Or who sends back the work of the 6-pager Czar? IMO they need to refresh the process, and refresh it frequently. I don't see them doing that though.

Similar things have happened with the well-intentioned "bar-raiser" process as well IMO. I had bar-raisers in interview loops for my team who seemed more intent in blocking potential competitors to their niche than in hiring the best people, which was the whole point of said "bar-raising."
IANAL, but for that to work you'd need, at a minimum, someone authorized to bind Facebook contractually (e.g, a corporate officer) to have read the watermark and left the picture accessible, and even that's less clear than if the acceptance was by action rather than inaction.
I'm not sure I agree 100% with all of it, but that last paragraph I'm 100% with!

"Local government officials should follow Google’s example: look to public libraries to help create equitable paths to prosperity and ongoing education."
So the commenter is on HN, but has literally zero (0) things that could be automated through software in their life? I just don't believe it's true.

Sorry if some of my guesses were not in line with the question directly.