skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The sales pressure was relentless," she recalls. "The totality was horrible."

This sounds very dystopic.

> These include tools to analyse e-mails, conversations, computer usage, and employee movements around the office. Some firms are also monitoring heart rates and sleep patterns to see how these affect performance.

This can actually end being good. Once you get the data and add to it any study that proves how stress, bad office environments, etc. affect negatively employees health. Companies should be liable for an unimaginable amount of money. People waste a lot of their lives in jobs that are pernicious for their health but usually, it is difficult to prove.

Otherwise, there is a grim future for humanity when management tries to become psychologists while doing some un-regulated human experimentation in the hopes of getting a promotion. Like lobotomies, gay therapy, etc. humans are really good at coming with the most ridiculous and hurtful ideas to improve how others live or do their jobs.
This is a hooded crow hammering / trying to kill what probably thinks is a prey. Seems more frustrated than happy. The easiest crow to identify in Europe, being gray and black.
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If you ignore that comment, which I think was meant kindly but was not necessary, you are left with some good points to respond to.

I think those points are correct, but if not how about responding to me instead with any clear rebuttal?
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Calorie counting can work, though I have a hard time keeping up with that long term. I tend to fall days behind and then just give up. It's yet another thing that I then "have" to do.

I started doing a diet similar to keto, but tried to keep things as simple as possible. ~25g of protein at every meal, < 100g of carbs per day. No carbs at dinner. Meal prepping can help big time with this. It also saved me a ton of money.

The fitness coach who helped me start my weight loss journey insisted that I stop thinking and calling it a diet. A diet implies something temporary, and what you're after is a lifestyle change. The mental aspect of "lifestyle change" has helped me a lot for whatever reason.

So far I'm 2 months in and down over 20 pounds, with very minute amounts of exercise. Weightlifting is great for building muscle, but isn't the end-all-be-all of exercise. Start as simple as possible. I go for a 30-45 min walk with my dog after I get home from work. And that's about it.

Best of luck on your journey, I've done a lot of different things professionally but being successful with changing my eating habits and lifestyle (even if it's been relatively short) has been one of the greatest things I've ever felt. It turned me from obese and cranky into slightly overweight and waking up with a smile.
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No evidence to support Whole30. In fact, it excludes beans and legumes which are an excellent source of protein and fiber.
I think it already is!

See this page on "digital archaeology" describing research that studies developers and software through their "digital remains": http://digitalarchaeology.info/

It is ran by a professor at the University of Tennessee: http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~audris/
We've been in a bull market for the past decade. I wouldn't trust any record, good or bad, that's only been tested in one half of a cycle.
and oh ... what was I thinking ... oh gosh, why is there an interface of an interface's interface, and .... oh boy, that's an embarrassing comment:

// absolve previously implemented anti-pattern by recursive reversion of the abstraction inversion

... ok, yeah that was an awkward time in my life now that I remembering it, this is exactly why I stopped listening to Enya while writing code.
Well, you’re not maintaining the runtime environment ... if you’d like the minimum bytes for everything then consider writing your next app in assembler :)

The purpose with multi language programming is articulating your solution the the least amount of code .
> there are still horse drawn carriage drivers

Only as a quaint novelty.
> If the premise is that inefficient markets and long time horizons inhibit investments that provide a net-return

Haven't you answered your own question? Or perhaps I'm not understanding your statement.

Inefficient markets and long term horizons _do_ inhibit investments by private sector entities which are more focused on short term plans. This _is_ why it requires taxpayer funding.
Anybody interested in the history of NT should read Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

It focuses on Dave Cutler, the father of NT
I heard the market for buying is different than many other places because of the social pressure to own - when a man marries for example they often need to have a house, or else it could put the marriage in jeopardy, in effect increasing the value of the property beyond the value of a place to live; extended families are willing to pile on to help a young person afford that house, so owners know they can overcharge for their properties. But idk how true that is/how much it explains the crazy divide between rent and sale prices.
One of my favorite airplane-related videos is one from the old days during 747 development, where they bent the wing until it broke. Turns out it is extremely strong.

Note: I did a search for that old video and came up with a more recent 777 video instead. Still interesting to see how far they have to bend it before it will break. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRf395ioJRY
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If the bug were truly mathematical, he would notice the curvature of S^1 and S^2 without walking around (since curvature is defined at each point), but that is obviously very pedantic of me and shows why I wouldn't write an article nearly as interesting as this one.
A statement like that, without linking to any of said conversations on SBIR grants, provides very little value to the discussion. If you could link to said threads that would be lovely.
If terraform gets the job done and seems easier, then that is a good reason to use it. Especially as it seems that there are more boilerplate examples for terraform out there.

But no lock-in is not a reason at all. There is effectively no amount of terraform config that will plug and play into a different cloud.

It seems that it was pitched that way. But if you write anything in terraform for AWS you will have to fully rewrite it for GCP or DO. But at least you will be used to the syntax and conventions.
You still want to even out the swings. Supply won't necessarily keep up in any given time or area.

You aren't necessarily going to be able to supply enough housing in the most popular spot were construction is hard and land expensive. Instead you want create equivalent areas fast enough. But without rent control all the affluent people quickly ends up in the same space, which is hard to make an equivalent of with affordable housing.
I don't think anybody is arguing that the US healthcare system is in a good way. It's preposterously overpriced. But people are peddling nonsense like "just extend Medicare to everyone" as if 90% of the excessive costs have anything to do with that.

We need to solve the actual problems, which is going to eliminate a lot of wasteful healthcare-related jobs, which makes it hard to do. But we still need to do that instead of proposing things that sound like they wouldn't do that but in practice would either do it anyway because it's not "Medicare for all" but "Medicare for all plus seven other things" and it's the seven other things doing all the work, or wouldn't do that and correspondingly wouldn't actually work.
It is amazing to what length those 'activists' go in order to make sure Amazon's product does work better. Do they know that this stuff will be largely used for surveillance, military uses and other nasty stuff (like exposing adult performers on social media)?

If people plan on spending time on activism, there is plenty of real issues with Amazon.
I have / had a plan to work on a MOOP (massive open online psychology) where Alexa / iPhone would listen you your conversations and coach / guide you through life.

To do this is technically possible but the trust problem is huge - basically it involves medical / legal levels of confidentiality baked into our legal and social systems.

It was obvious that in the workplace was the early traction for this (and hey guess what I waited too long) but the good parts and the bad parts of this all hinge on one simple question - is the technology and the legal and support frameworks around the technology aimed utterly in the best interests of the individual in all cases.

Only then do we get the trust levels - only then is the foundation strong.

And we in the West "know" that a dictatorship cannot put in place those systems - and yet we think we can put them in place in our workplaces.

There is I think a vast beneficial life coaching framework that technology can bring to we humans.

But it must come with a medical "patient interests first and only" approach - and the companies that benefit from that (and they will benefit from empowered optimised engaged happy workers) can only benefit by being the kind of companies that one can completely trust - which almost certainly means total rewrite of the rules of how companies work - the laughable dictatorships of today must give way to open communes of equals.

And the catch 22 at the heart of this is only the kind of well adjusted people for whom AI coaching will have least effect are those that will build those companies first
I wonder how fast it would disintegrate in a case of asymmetric stabilizer runoff.
You're competing against shops who make it their bread and butter to do tons of SBIR. So if you don't plan ahead and have the right connections/know-how, you're at a significant disadvantage there.
> What infrastructure do you have in mind?

All kinds. From your mentioned international work contracts and payments over structuring the work/code so that in can easier be distributed worldwide,using standardized hardware and software configurations so that adminstration/updating can be done automatically etc.
IIRC, the NT kernel used a lot of C++ from the beginning.
I think the key to your plan was to live in your houseboat somewhere where it wasn't technically allowed. In Western US cities, slips in docks where living in your boat is explicitly allowed aren't cheap and often having multi-year waiting lists.
I concur that managing one's caloriee input is the only way to ensure you don't eat too much. Let's define too much as being eating above a certain calorie target. For some reason, I've never been able to really stick with calorie counting.

One thing I'm trying lately is intentionally eating a certain balance of nutrients (45% carbs, 30% protein, 25% fat). It seems to be a bit easier to do on a daily basis than purely counting calories, but it does require more upfront research on my part. Basically I am more mindful of the balance of foods, and it steers me away from blended foods with unknown proportions, and adjusting portion sizes to stay within my calorie targets is kind of an afterthought. I'm only a few weeks into it, so ask me in three or six months how it's really going :)
I'm tempted to write a "what every programmer should know about compiler writing" article. In particular, that they're not alone in the universe. The price that you have to pay for the incredible combo "performance + portability" is undefined behavior.
Why do people assume that if they don't care about some sorts of portability and exotic platforms, nobody else does?
My son (11) is inclined to play Fortnite over essentially all other activities that occur indoors. Outdoors is still a world filled with unstructured fun, but indoors if he's left to his own inclinations then he's playing Fortnite (and to lesser degree Scrap Mechanic). We've decided to limit his gaming to alternate weeks and then limit on-weeks to 2 hours per day, except weekends which are unlimited. I have no idea if this is a good approach. As a parent who doesn't game and cares about balance, this is quite a hard problem.
Interesting that, according to the article, Airbnb doesn't do 2FA:

Airbnb could help by adding some type of robust multi-factor authentication, such as Security Keys — which would defeat these Airbnb phishing pages. According to twofactorauth.org, Airbnb currently does not support any type of multi-factor authentication that users can enable.
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Möbius. Not Mobiüs.
Check processing went from a building of 700 people to almost none, in one place that I know of. This was driven by the move to imaging checks electronically which I believe is called electronic presentment.
"Listen closely to the birds’ calls. Crows give a cawing sound. But ravens produce a lower croaking sound."

Also, the raven is the only one that repeats "Nevermore!'
Makes me feel like making sure they see me scratching my ass.
Delta is reducing how much seats recline to protect personal space
Calling it now, Uber has several large loans coming due in 2021 and 2022. I suspect we will see the bankruptcy proceedings around that time.

They may survive, not strapped with the debt, perhaps they’ll be profitable. Aka they will just have debt restructuring. Regardless, that’s when I suspect the bankruptcy will occur.
> Note: I've applied for SIBR funding in the past. Huge waste of time. Similar to an RFP, by the time a SIBR request is written, the preferred vendor has already been chosen.

This is misinformation. SBIR funding is the #1 source of early-stage funding for certain industries. Any startup developing a life-saving medicine or medical device is using SBIR for things like clinical trials. "The preferred vendor has already been chosen" is utter nonsense; it's like saying the government has already decided which drug is going to work.

To be effective at applying for SBIR grants you do need a good program officer. They will let you know whether it's worth spending the time to apply.
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I don't think there is one, other than personal preference. It's really useful for going the other way though: <some format e.g. html> -> org.
> Why would this want to live outside of emacs?

It allows us to throw different use-case-optimized GUIs at a sync'ed folder of org-mode files. A clear example are the mobile apps, but there are others.

I've been using org-mode for a year, trying to replace a 5 year-old Evernote knowledge base/todo list, which itself inherited from a 12 year-old InfoSelect knowledge base.

For task management, org-mode on spacemacs complemented with beorg on mobile is proving to be the best system I've ever used.

As for the knowledge base features, however, I'm still far from being able to reproduce the speed and precision of recall that I had on InfoSelect, or even Evernote with a solid tag hierarchy. I also use Dynalist to have an outliner on mobile.

On mobile, the KB situations is even worse, since beorg is optimized for the task management use-case and does not provide proper search.

I would also love to be able to browse connections in my knowledge base, TheBrain-style, but that will always be clunky to unusable on a pure-text UI.

It would be awesome if I could get rid of Evernote and Dynalist and just point different apps at the same org file repository.

This is one reason having alternate parsers for the org markup is important.
This is a harsh truth everywhere. News are being killed, as the reality, information and the data associated with it, all have been broken, categorized and used to manipulate people so that they can not conceive another reality and views. Many people is just looking through the lenses that paints better their own egocentric conception of the world or just the cases they need to rationalize what is happening on this confusing times.
News regulation has been labeled as "useless" or "censorship" too soon. The problem is the same with other industries that have some mind-shaping power, people should have some freedom to "control" the industry and the way the information flows through their processes and from/to the society in general. This is not a trivial problem and the fact that people is vulnerable to be manipulated and their biases harnessed in some non-obvious way makes it more difficult. Also we have the problem that we haven't been educated into metacognition, structured and critical thinking. Education systems should prepared people for information overload and into processes to derive the truth even when they face an adverse and hostile environment.
Maybe the professionals, but not the concept. I feel like appliances have gotten more numerous and crappier, but spare parts and repair videos/instructions are easier to find than ever. Often the failure modes are so common for a single model over enough time (e.g. whenever X is the symptom for Y, it's typically an issue with Z).
In the first game the OpenAI courier was repeatedly getting sniped, so it seems that's now normal.
> That holds for every mainstream X

I thought that was exactly the point klibertp was making. The paragraph starts like this:

> Because there is very, very little unique features to each language. Unless you go to the fringes, you're bound to see the same concepts applied again and again and again
Doesn't this argue against a large amount of immigration by the unskilled, into those countries which are already at high levels of youth unemployment?
Yeah, exactly. Every time I try doing these things with regex there winds up being some edge case where something that should have been picked up isn't or vice versa. Then there are ambiguous cases of references in comments and non-code files for which IDEA provides a very straightforward UI experience to include or exclude by various categories or on a case-by-case basis.

Even in the best case scenario where regex works, you've still spent unnecessary mental overhead writing regex, a tool that is so difficult to use properly that it is the textbook example of being a 'solution' that causes more problems than it solves. Why subject oneself to such unnecessary hassle?
Wow, heartless people purposefully spreading disease!
> Her tests on software created by brand-name tech firms such as Amazon uncovered much higher error rates in classifying the gender of darker-skinned women than for lighter-skinned men.

The presumption is that this is racism, but is there any support that it’s not caused by physiological differences?

Women have softer bone structure, on average, and having darker skin literally impacts how light reflects off of it. It’s possible that the change in bone structure and contrast for shadowed parts of the face makes it harder to identify those faces — that’s certainly the case for rounder, darker objects in general.

As far as this article has shown, the researcher is simply so woke she no longer understands biology and physics — and is race baiting instead of acknowledging genuine variation between humans.

Frankly, this seems like a hyper partisan kicking up a fuss over imagined racism than any documented genuine racism.

If the researcher lacks evidence that this is racism rather than a result of physiological differences, this is nothing but race baiting slander — and Amazon is completely correct to contest that nonsense.
Appreciate this comment (not being facetious), but I do feel not wanting to be blasted with this stuff is something I can change!

Maybe it's not anger/pitchforks. I'm not exactly trying to live in a self-created bubble, but too often it feels like there are nefarious forces (and implicit biases) at work trying to force a reaction out of me to in-turn use that for market research. (Even more tinfoil-hatty, but sometimes I think this is how many "modern" memes work too). It's just not what I come to HN for.
Please, stop spreading your propaganda in this site. We get you are pro-left. However, that doesn't mean that you're right all the time.
We went with this exact approach in my previous job, using OpenAPI to do everything the blog post mentions, including code generation, diffs for API consumers (published to Slack, for instance), and more. I believe this has a very good shot at success, but it's not complete yet. For instance we had to do a lot of in house work to make code generation work.
I wonder if that's also true for human drivers. I certainly have a harder time detecting pedestrians wearing darker clothing, at least in some circumstances.
The site could possibly could still be stuck in OP's cache
The language I want to write would have built-in support for the flow of control within a single function to flow seamlessly across multiple processes/machines. I don't mean fancy RPC. That still requires the programmer to break up the parts that run in different places into separate functions and callbacks, define the arguments that get passed between them, etc. I mean the compiler knows about the notion of a "place" and which data exists in each place. When it hits an "on (place)" construct it can figure out what needs to be passed, handling it for you between one line and the next. Fuller explanation here:

http://obdurodon.silvrback.com/distributed-functions

This doesn't completely free the programmer from worrying about distributed-programming concerns such as node failure and broken connections. Nothing will. However, the fact that the flow of control and data looks like that of a local sequential program would make such code easier to write, test, and formally verify. I see a lot of bugs in the distributed systems I work on that occur because the low-level mechanisms are so intrusive that programmers can't (or just don't) test or verify the higher-level behaviors.
No, Kuhn represented the "pro-humanities" view. The hard line was from Karl Popper: if it's not falsifiable, it's not science. If you can clearly demonstrate a violation of F = m*a, it's gone.

Popper's standards exclude sociology, psychology, theology, economics, and most of the "soft" sciences. This annoyed many people who claim to be doing science. Kuhn was willing to consider them science, but had to redefine science to make that work.

Falsifiable theories allow reliable predictions. So they lead to engineering, and stuff that works. Although Popper's position is currently unpopular, he wasn't wrong.
The reason you often see images like this in third world countries, but not in first world countries, is that third world countries dump a lot of their trash in waterways/the ocean compared to first world countries. Maybe you already know this, but I think a lot of people see images like this as evidence of the first world fucking over the third world when it's really a local problem.
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