skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I created a jsbench of the JavaScript tests: https://jsbench.me/80jule61z5/1
Can you explain what you mean? I'm very curious about this. What do you mean by inaction?
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Buying a book before reading it is almost always a bad decision, even if it has rave reviews. And even if you love the book, owning it serves no practical purpose unless you constantly re-read it.

The only good thing is that they serve as visual reminders of the books that you've read; otherwise it's easy to forget the titles and authors.
> No, I think he'll be like the ones who don't. He'll take on some expensive hobby and claim it is for the greater good.

So less Bill Gates and more Larry Ellison?

I once watched a Youtube video about OpenSolaris where and ex-Sun Engineer stated the only times Larry Ellison has donated to charity were to 1) settle a lawsuit, and 2) fund research into the extension of his own life.
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> And if something (e.g. fracking) is important for you, you can study the literature (starting with books, including university handbooks -- not internet posts, not articles, and not mere scientific papers of random research on the matter)

Could you link some university handbooks you have found about fracking? And what makes university textbooks more authoritative than a scientific paper? The university handbook could very well have been written by a single author with a particular agenda - that's not removing bias at all.
the density increases not the mass.
the concentration of mass is increased density.
it is further evidence of melting.
SpaceX was launching Falcon 9's 8 years after they were founded.. 2030 should be achievable.
It's probably possible to do fast enough if the site is nearly empty (just with a window.location.href script tag). But it would definitely trigger a full page rerender.
>They make it impossible to have impromptu discussions that have any sensitive aspect to them.

The only place I ever worked with an open floor plan, I worked as a security analyst/engineer. Behind me were contracted programmers from various outsourcing firms who could see my screens and hear my conversations when discussing sensitive security issues.

So much time was wasted trying to find an empty conference room for an impromptu discussion about an active security incident.
I don't use Chrome. I use Firefox and NoScript with a whitelist.
What happens if you ignore a patent troll?
I'm not saying you're able to do this at your current workplace, but if I was stuck in this type of situation, I would heavily advocate for the ability to work from home at least 1-2 days a week.

Having worked in an open office like environment before, it was the only way I was able to get a lot of stuff done.

These types of open offices are a deathknell for productivity and great for people who use work as their only social outlet.
Pocket is a deal, search providers are a deal. All to put some money in Mozillas pocket to allow continued development of Firefox. They can't rely on donations and Google funding alone.
Checklists are the foundation of a proper quality system even in software development. I manage a team of programmers that develops a regulated product in healthcare (Class 2 Medical Device) - we use checklists extensively throughout the development cycle, in release planning, release kick-off, feature kick-off, in design reviews, in risk/hazard meetings, to track in-house and external validation, and post-release activities.

I'm surprised how little checklists are used in software development. In our application, checklists track even simple things. Suppose you're adding some new feature we have a checklist that tracks related activities such as:

- Does it need a toolbar button?

- Does it need a keyboard/mouse input biding?

- If so did you add a keyboard binding to the default configuration list?

- If so did you add the binding information to the user help file.

- Should it be exposed in Mobile Native App?

- Should it be exposed in Mobile HTML App?

- Should it be exposed in HTML App?

- Was the button label localized?

- Was the identifier added to the toolbar mask list?

- Does it need to be added to the context menu list?

- Does the behaviour need to work with Reset?

- Does the behaviour needs to work in a collaborative session?

- Does the button need a feature flag?

etc.

It's a quick list that we can get through during feature kick-off before unpacking commercial requirements and starting a sprint and during final validation to make sure al the i's are dotted and t's crossed.
In my twenties, I kept medical appointments in my head for me and both kids a year out. I never saw any point in jumping through hoops to put it in a calendar. It struck me as a pointless time waster to write things down that I was going to remember without writing it down -- and then have to also keep track of the calendar, check the calendar regularly, etc.

My messy stacks of papers made me look disorganized, but I could find anything important within ten minutes. In contrast, we routinely tore the house apart for an hour looking for something of my husband's.

He liked to organize and file and alphabetize. But the things he failed to organize often ended up in a heap on the floor. He did all that because he couldn't keep track of it mentally.

If your life works without checklists, don't worry about it. But if you find you start overlooking important details as you get older/busier/in a new and unfamiliar situation, you might revisit the idea.

Just don't rain on someone else's parade. Check lists work well for many situations and are especially valuable when lives are on the line for some reason (or similarly critical situations where mistakes often happen for various reasons).
Regardless I think it might really arise naturally then to some extent - regardless of "outside" perception. Like say when referring to counterproductive medical practices "Like doctors wearing neckties as germ reservoirs - not antivaxxers trying to avoid autism." Of course that deniability would be part of its appeal.
Maybe so. When was the last time you forgot to do something that was "common-sense"? Forgot to pick up your coat after work? Left your wallet on your desk? Now imagine each of those mistakes was fatal for a patient.
This is phenomenally off-topic, but since it's so easy to rebut: border counties in the US have lower crime than the rest of the country.
As the other commentator has stated, the vast majority revenue for PBS is by member contributions, donations of broadcast rights, and distribution fees. In 2018, members gave $197,552,000 while public grants and contributions were $105,336,000. A quick look at their revenues suggests that public grants and contributions only make up ~16% of revenues for PBS. Without asking for $60/year for Passport (which you also get if you're a member) they wouldn't be able to do most of what they do.

https://bento.cdn.pbs.org/hostedbento-prod/filer_public/PBS_...
> AMP uses megabytes of JS for that purpose

What? Where are you pulling these numbers? Also, what do you mean by hot cache? I'm starting to suspect that you don't even understand that the AMP page (the JavaScript for sure, and often the entire HTML and above-the-fold images as well) is already on the user's device, while your page is not.
> Example with checklist : Nurse: Dr, you missed step #4. Dr: I have done this list every day for the past 15 years, I know I ddid not forget anything, don't question me

You're not wrong, but if the hospital policy is to follow checklists, then the doctor overriding it would have to answer some questions afterwards if something were to go wrong.

Presumably a review would occur, and the fact that the checklist was ignored could be used as 'evidence' against the doctor.
> mythical racist muslim no-go zones in Europe

Are you disagreeing with Merkel[1]?

[1] - https://www.apnews.com/438bb0ac98d04459ab2e392f3c4fc5ef
Hmm... there should be digital photo frames, and a stapler with LEDs inside. When you “check in” to your station, your phone activated, your family photos go on the photo frames, and the stapler lights up in your preferred color.
its called isostatic rebound
Oh I don't argue they have good legal standing. I'm arguing they're morally bankrupt scumbags.
I can _code_ while surrounded by interruptions and distractions (I can put on headphones and face the least busy part of the office so I'm not _too_ distracted most of the time), but I can't _learn_ without some semblance of focus. I suspect that the open-office cheerleaders are mostly people who do the sort of work that you or I might be able to do on autopilot and never try to tackle any sort of real challenge.
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The vast, vast majority of them are ethnic Chinese.

The thing to realise is that this is really a divide and conquer game by the West.

The West has always recognised that Taiwan is a part of China. Not least of course when the recognised government of China was the ROC government.

Now the West recognises the PRC as the government of China, but this means that trying to stroke an 'independentist' sentiment in Taiwan becomes a tactic to weaken them.
They just have to access the data via Google. Who can cross-link it with all the other data they have. No real privacy gain here.
This is almost certainly the case. Consider the "simple" act of taking a shower and how internalized it is for most people.
One downside is that it basically renders the back button useless. I ran the examples you provided (which were great fun!) and when I tried to get back to hackernews I realized each step in the animation had been added to my browser history
Atul Gawande wrote a fantastic book[0] on the topic.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right-...
Edit: I completely misread the comment, but can't delete it anymore a minute later because someone already commented. So oops.
Highly dependent on the city but just from what I've seen recently around Los Angeles, private rooms in a multiroom unit are around 1k with cheaper units likely being a short term sublease arrangement.
Influence hiring to get the engineer spy in. Also CIA docs have been published that said they had a system where people would purposefully tie down a company by being inefficient and causing beaucratic messeshttps://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...
I find HN conversations more interesting when we don't filter by worldview.
It's ok, they'll just contract out with a third party (i.e. Vigilant Solutions) and while following the law to a T will be violating the spirit of the law.
Of course it is not possible, starting with the question of where to lay your head at night without payment. The only thing I come up with is U. S. National Forest or Bureau of Land Management land. Any other options I come up with are quasi-legal at best.
I have had the same experience in other countries too, not just the U.S

Medical profession really comes across as arrogant and know-it-all, at least in my experience
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Running any study with real humans is very expensive. We can measure simple things empirically (eg reaction time), but trying to measure something such has “cognitive load” is probably impossible, and what is a usability metric? Do those already exist for PL or so they need to be invented somehow?

We (PL researchers) think about this a lot, but so far no one has come up with any good answers on how to empirically measure PL usability for an entire PL (vs chipping off small features to evaluate). At best, we can run qualitative studies with little in the way of rigor.
People here have been complaining that AMP is a power-grab from the very start. So I do not see this as a strange reaction.
It's not hard to record all patient-doctor interactions. But it is almost certainly illegal in most jurisdictions, supposedly for patient privacy reasons.

That this also helps making doctor mistreatment claims hard to prove is hopefully an unintentional side effect. But you have to wonder...
How is it that this technology is so unevenly distributed?
I understand that if a single cell tower is overloaded, then its clients will have issues talking to that single cell tower.

My point is that a city with a thousand traffic lights will be covered by hundreds if not thousands of cells, so the issue of traffic lights competing for bandwidth for a single source is non existent.

And this problem doesn't change for 2G, 3G, 4G, or even 5G. Perhaps 5G can scale better but if you had a single 5G tower covering an entire city, it too would run out of capacity.
> “Once you’ve done something that feels like you’re born to do it, it’s hard to find anything that’s that good of a fit,” Twigg says today. “Anything else that feels that way.”

If she has a mental health issue, she should seek care. But if you take the above quote at face value (and likely out of context), then I would give her this advice to start building her life:

"Flipping Burgers in not beneath your dignity" - Charles J. Sykes

An entire generation has been romanticized that if you "do what you love" you'll end up a billionaire. The complete opposite is true. It requires doing thing you dislike, discipline, financial management, and focus on the correct things.
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Hm, I would definitely miss second and third monitors and docking station for my laptop..
Benefits Of Open Office Not Extended To CEO - https://local.theonion.com/benefits-of-open-office-not-exten...
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The problem with dumping extremism into your profession is that it doesn’t work the way sports do. In career, you can’t measure yourself, and it doesn’t even matter because pedigree and politics beat hard work and skill every time.
At this point Zuckerburg has pissed off much of America. Doesn't have to be an insider; there are plenty of outsiders that would love to see him gone and can bankroll a few media hatchet jobs.

It probably also doesn't help that Facebook has turned most media outlets into digital sharecroppers fighting for reshares, and they know it. Big Tech in general is not popular within the media, because they've essentially destroyed the media's business model and took most of it for themselves.
It is telling that you chose only right leaning outlets in your example. Even left leaning outlets like New York Times has admitted that liberals sometimes peddle fake news : https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/business/economy/income-t...
What I think you and a lot of fellow commenters are missing is the history of higher education in the US. In many countries in Europe, universities were established by the state and the state promotes its values through admission criteria. The imperial Chinese civil service exam system started in 650, and so they have also been working with the idea of outside examination for educational advancement for a long time (longer than Europe).

In the US, a solid majority of colleges -- including the Ivies -- were established first as religious institutions. Harvard and Yale were established to educate clergy (first) and also civil servants maybe. All these colleges in the Midwest that collectively provide a substantial portion of college education: established by religious groups, often along ethnic lines. Bible colleges were the first colleges in America.

At their founding, these colleges were not interested in just educating the 'smartest'. They were founded to pass on values within certain communities. Protestant colleges and Catholic colleges were not interchangeable. Lutheran colleges and Presbyterian colleges were not interchangeable. Swedish Lutheran and Norwegian Lutheran colleges are not quite interchangeable! While many of these colleges have left religion in their pasts, others have not. I taught for two years at a Lutheran college and interviewed at a Catholic college for a tenure-track position, and have spent time at two R1 land-grant institutions. All these institutions have explicitly different goals. Using the SAT/ACT and GPA to admit students to a Lutheran institution that still has a service every day and starts events with prayer just doesn't work for anyone, while the land-grant institution has a particular focus on economic and academic development for the geographic region.
It's great that they are explicitly recommending that researchers post with a Share-Alike licence: CC-BY-NC-SA

http://indiarxiv.in/policy/

(This would be like Wikipedia, CC BY-SA, except with no commercial use allowed.)

The arXiv has sadly only recommendee posters use the minimal license: unlimited distribution, but no modifications allowed. In contrast, a Share-Alike licence allows researchers to build on each other's documents (e.g., review articles) rather than just ideas.
Back in the 19th century, when Ignaz Semmelweis suggested that washing hands was a good idea, he met a lot of resistance. From wikiepedia, "Some doctors, for instance, were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands, feeling that their social status as gentlemen was inconsistent with the idea that their hands could be unclean".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
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paper calendars on the fridge was a big part of our home organization pre-computers. :)
I don't think you're quite right about this.

Take your hypothetical person from a half millennium ago - yeah, they'd be amazed by how comfortable the house is, and all that... but they'd also likely be appalled by the level of maintenance required to maintain that, both in terms of the actual structure and the amount of work necessary to fund the ongoing use of things like air conditioning and electric lights. With that taken into account, we spend a good deal more of our lives providing ourselves with shelter.

Also, as part of that, there's the fact that the home of five hundred years ago was likely built with the most durable materials that were feasible for the time and budget. Today, even the most expensive homes are made of materials that explicitly will not stand the test of time. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that our culture values things that are more fragile and fleeting - a home with a beautiful bay window is a thrown rock away from being essentially uninhabitable until that window is replaced, at great expense. We delight in our ability to impact the world around us, and very rarely build things to last longer than they need to.
RPA does eliminate workers. Modern RPA isn’t just “write a screen scraper and never think about it again” — you use BAs and line workers to (cheaply) build out a bunch of RPA integrations, see which ones are the most popular / valuable through usage data from your RPA platform, then implement those via less brittle methods as part of your existing roadmaps. The important part is that the front-end that users access stays the same — you’re basically just swapping an API call to an RPA platform with a direct API call to a backing webservice.

This allows for rapid development of functional integrations delivering real business capabilities — without the overhead of an SDLC. It helps wrangle shadow IT tools into a manageable system and generates lots of structural data on how the actual users of the system interact with it to guide investment in feature development. The RPA scripts with little / no value will naturally fall into disrepair, while the valuable ones will be maintained / improved.

I promise you, it’s way cheaper this way. Software teams stop getting inundated with one-off feature requests that take a ton of work to coordinate, scope, evaluate and test — even if they never get built. Business users get to eliminate time-consuming manual processes. Also keep in mind the first jobs to get replaced by RPA are the ones that have already been shipped offshore... An RPA team for a large enterprise is usually only 2 or 3 engineers and an army of BAs and PMs — but they’re replacing a bunch of individual projects that no longer need to be staffed.
> which is derived from the Latin term for "new star"

No, "nova" just means "new." Nova Scotia translates to New Scotland.
> People seem to have an intrinsic need for faith.

I don't seem to have any, and I don't think I'm alone.

> Now that organized religion is playing a less prominent role in their lifes (at least in Western countries), that hole seems to get filled with esoterics and conspiracy theories.

You need only look at the history of antisemitism to see that conspiracy theories can and do flourish among very religious people.
> Google already can do this by preloading a cached page from its own domain.

That's what AMP already did. This spec is better because it ensures publishers retain control over their own content, and doesn't confuse users by showing "www.google.com" in the URL bar for content that didn't originate from Google.
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What truly turned me off of Windows 10 was something small but very symbolic. On past versions of windows, if you want a shortcut to, say, Notepad on the desktop, you open the start menu, begin typing the name, and when it pops up in the list you click and drag it onto the desktop. You can also right click it and hit "send to desktop (create shortcut)."

Windows 10 can't do either of those things. If you try to click and drag a Start menu search result it does nothing. Right clicking only gives you the option to add it to the start menu or task bar. So, if you want a desktop shortcut, you have to add it to the start menu, drag it off the start menu onto the desktop, and then delete it off the start menu.
We use MS Teams to chat with people at the next desk. Especially since some uses headphones and you would have to scream.

How much space does a indoor wall take in comparation to the space between the desk there are anyway in open offices.

You have to put cabinets on the floor since shelves can't hang on walls.

Whiteboards are on feet in the "hallway".

I have never been in an open office and though "Jeez look at all the space they save by not having walls" if you would compare to 6 or 4 person offices.
M&A guy here - I concur. People would be amazed to know that there is a non-zero number of situations where companies get acquired for non-financial reasons.
The devtools are just better (tm).
I know that posting suicide hotline numbers seems like the right thing to do, but it's generally not helpful. People who call these numbers run the real risk of being detained against their will for extended periods of time while running up large hospital bills, when they just needed someone to talk to. Then there's the lack of statistical evidence that suicide hotline numbers actually prevent suicides in the long run.
Shameless plug since it's relevant:

We built a Slack bot [0] that shames (in good humor) people in the office who leave unlocked laptops unattended. We had a similar system at Twitter where we would tweet a certain codeword on unlocked laptops and it was very effective in stopping that behavior.

[0] https://sniped.app/
I doubt you’re an outlier. I think that open offices have a place, but are over-used especially in the Bay Area tech scene, so the opponents are particularly vocal. I’ve worked at a few open offices for fairly small companies and almost without exception I loved the dynamic.
I assume ways to get you to shovel your data to FB via IG.
I think that product is still cached by Google. Cloudflare is just providing the cryptography for Web Packaging so that the browser will show the url from the original page instead of the Google cache.
can anyone comment about applying this "checklist process" to software development? has anyone used it to help with debugging, testing, merging, etc.?
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