skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found open offices to be an incredibly alienating experience, felt about as personal as a a cubicle since everyone is pretty much using headphones and "deep working" and you can't really make much noise since you're disturbing an entire org if you are.

My favorite experience was working on a team where the open office was essentially a large office for about 6 people only. That felt great since there was a more communal vibe and I had sufficient personal space. We had a couch, a table with a chessboard and some people brought snacks over.
Not surprising in hindsight. See lqet's and kylia's comments elsewhere on this thread for first-hand accounts.[a]

In my view, Steve Jobs had the right idea when he helped design Pixar's headquarters: plenty of private and semi-private working areas interconnected by multiple larger, more central, common areas through which everyone would have to travel throughout the day, increasing the odds of spontaneous interaction and collaboration with colleagues from different areas:

https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-designing-pixar-o...

https://bcj.com/projects/pixar-animation-studios-emeryville

Think of it as "privacy when you need it, sprinkled with spontaneous interaction throughout the day, when you take breaks from private work."

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[a] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19683405 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19683419
> getting people to think critically and just checking out.

How do you check out? By going to a reputable news source, like NYT, WaPo or The Guardian?
Is there a myth comedians are contrarians? I don't think so. Rebellious at times, perhaps, but not contrarians since most of the audience that goes to see them already agree with them and the audience seems pretty aware of that to me.

Also you're really creating a weird situation for yourself if your idea of contrarian is that there can be no overlap with the wealthy or powerful.
Mathematica borrows a lot of good ideas from many languages and paradigms. But programming languages are a spectrum: whatever you consider "good", there is usually something "better" slightly above it, you just might now know about it yet (the Blub Paradox).

Moving from Clojure to Mathematica/Wolfram is a huge downgrade as far as data structures are concerned. And associations are a particularly big failure.
I remember digging up these to run on simh

https://jerz.setonhill.edu/intfic/colossal-cave-adventure-so...

Do you have older ones?
Well, that is essentially Verge's modus operandi: strong opinions over original reporting. Even much of the original reporting they do is heavy on the "hot take" style.
>Yeah, but I can't decide if the Russian collusion angle was pushed more by the right or the left.

For me there's no "right" and "left" as much, as an ok-with-Trump and "not-ok-with-Trump".

The right Republican establishment also didn't like Trump -- coming from outside the party, with no social grace (which I don't care for, I don't care about optics or what a politician is like as a person, only for their politics), and with some bizarro ideas of his own that break the traditional two-party consensus (e.g. on "more war", or on "limits to globalization" -- which, as a left-inclined person [1], I quite liked. I remember when some parts of the left were against globalization too -- e.g. in Seattle 1999 WTO protests. How time flies...).

>I mean, there IS a ton of evidence that Russian propaganda interference was real, and that it had an impact on the election.

I'd say a ton of noise more than evidence (and not for impact, just for propaganda). At worst they have some "social media" factories, which are par for the course today. In my country both major parties have their own, and publish BS against one another, pose as the other etc. The US surely has it's own (e.g. judging from things like this: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/feds-probe-fake-messages-to-f... ).

I also remember (from actually reading world news) that they have all kinds of sponsored ties, with government and opposition parties around the world, with NGOs, with think tanks, etc, which pretend to be "neutral" but are mostly fronts for national interest promotional work. Thousands of those, all over the world. Plus all the mainstream media eating off their official stories. I doubt Russia has 1/10th the budget or reach for those, which is probably why they have to content themselves with twitter posts and fake blogs.

[1] non US one, so not the modern vegan liberal that passes for one there.
Thanks. That's what I meant. I corrected the post. I need to brush up on my conspiracy theory terminology.
>> There are also different opinions on the term vegetarian. In Sweden, it commonly includes milk and egg, and if you order a vegetarian pizza you get cheese from cow milk.

In My Big Fat Greek Wedding there's a scene were the mother-in-law learns the groom is vegetarian and (after exclaiming embarrassingly loudly) she says she'll cook him lamb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFemw_6a-Tg

The way I understand this is that it says that Greeks think that lamb is vegetarian as in "not really meat". I always found that a little weird, because in Greece lamb is absolutely "meat". Traditionally, you're only supposed to eat it on Easter sunday, or on religious feasts (the "panygiria") so it's really something special, unlike pulses, legumes and fish (which would be eaten much more commonly traditionally). I can imagine a Greek yiayia saying "You're vegetarian? That's OK, I'll cook you chicken!", or adding feta to the salad, etc. But- lamb? I don't quite see that.

Maybe it's a Greek US diaspora thing, but I'm guessing that was translated for the American audience whom the authors considered might be confused by "I'll cook you chicken", because they actually don't consider chicken to be "meat".
A similar situation happened at my company: it's not just egos. You have a legacy product that is still bringing in a majority of the revenue, and then you have the new thing that will _eventually_ be the key rev driver. It's not easy to convince employees that they should just shut up and accept their bonuses to be dependent on converting a loss leader to "the future of the company".
We also need to factor in the cost of replacing all the satellites every 5 years or so, as they only last this long in the super low orbit that they will be in. So it's ~10 billion every 5 years, not just once up front.

So 10.000.000.000 / 5 / 12 = 166.666.666 bucks per month

Say an average subscriber pays 20 bucks.

166.669.666 / 20 = 8.333.333

You'd need about eight million subscribers paying an average of 20 bucks a month to keep the business sustainable.
> FB thirst traps

What is this referring to?
The latter one you describe is basically what I had in grad school and it worked really well.

The former is what I have in industry and if I forget my noise cancelling headphones I might as well go home.
It's worth noting here, too, that the vast majority of commercial CAs do not make a lot of money from their public SSL business. The public SSL business is viewed as a loss leader that provides a public profile and security assurance for the company, but most of them make far more money from their private PKI engagements (providing all of the certificates for a company's Active Directory infrastructure, e.g.). As such, Let's Encrypt enhances people's desire for certificates, but doesn't at all compete in the private-CA space where most CAs make bank.
What should you do with your life?
>It's the founder and CEO of a company that holds the private data of >2B users telling us exactly how he feels about his users' expectations of privacy.

No. It's a (literal) teenager thinking aloud, making comments in jest to a friend about his student project becoming viral and getting hundreds of users, to his own amazement. He seems to be noting how little people seem to care for their privacy.

And that's about it. There's much to say against Facebook these days, but it's a preposterous thing to say these comments accurately reflect the current views of their leadership at a completely different scale.

What are you on the record saying when you were 19 ?
The only excellent, productive teams I’ve ever worked with wrote software as a team. Not pair programming or mobbing, but a group discussing the plan and codebase constantly in person or over chat, reviewing eachother’s PRs, occasionally meeting to hash out a sticky architecture point.

Yes, they then went to their desks, alone, and coded it all up. And yes, they all had the skills to actually put ideas into code. But to say the real work only gets done in isolation ignores the majority of the amazing collaborative work that makes great software.
Everything is one of the few tools I wish there was a Linux equivalent of. Any suggestions?

It needs to be able to index filenames locally as well as on network shares, and ideally show results as you type.
Yes, I know that. However, they don't need to be exhaustive. They are very effective at uncovering any bugs using a statistical approach at even very reasonable levels of iteration. And nothing precludes you from running them 24/7 in the cloud.

I wouldn't say using a "unit test" is ever really a viable option for me. Property-based tests subsume unit tests.
My very next response when I mentioned Google Soli:

"""
Sure. That was almost 2 decades ago. We've given it some more thought.
https://atap.google.com/soli/

"""

I'm asking for a good gesture UI, or at least a good start that can evolve as we learn. I'm not asking for a specific implementation.
You're completely exaggerating. Please educate yourself by reading the full conversation leading up to the "harmful" tag before spamming that link again: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/29
As Taiwanese, from what I observed, given the level of populism that's going on in the country, the chance of him being elected next year is highly probable. This is a very very very serious threat to Taiwan's effort to counter China's invasive actions.

Also even though Mazu is super big in Taiwan, Taiwanese are generally seeing this only as a political declaration. (Religion in Taiwan is more of a spiritual guidance than an actual superior being that dictates people lives.)
Alan García: Peru former president kills himself
Seoul AM Radio Listening Guide – Radio wars between Seoul and Pyongyang
This comparison mentions that in gettext, using the source string as a message identifier "makes it impossible to introduce multiple messages with the same source string which should be translated differently."

It's rather disingenuous to say this without mentioning that in gettext, the actual identifier is a combination of the source string and the string context, which is blank by default. But the context can and should be provided in cases where disambiguation is required.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Contex...
Mass is not density.

"They point out that the Antarctic ice sheet is gaining in mass due to the melting/compaction of snow from the past 10,000 years"

- i just copy pasta this from other posters comment for dialectic,
this statement ^ indicates there is a change in density not mass.

If you watch a snow bank melt you will see an increased density,
as individual snow flakes [crystals] melt and lose air pockets making contiguous ice mass.

that means density increases.

Its still melting, Everybody!
Yeah the electricity output isn't the point but the fact the power generated is the raw signal. I wonder mostly about the accuracy and precision of such a sensor. Even its "not snow" triggers could be scientifically useful. Imagine if say it was sensitive enough it could identify particulates and tell where heavy metal pollutants land on the tarp.
Why not try one of the emulators ?
I agree that open-plan offices drive the opposite behavior than they are touted to. They make it impossible to have impromptu discussions that have any sensitive aspect to them. I have a lot of those conversations.

I work from home or a coffee shop down the street from my office as a result and almost never even see my coworkers faces.

But the main driver of open-plan offices is usually density / cost. I suspect many of the cost savings of the most recent wave of office design are coming from employees who no longer come into the office because the conditions aren’t conducive to working.
"Side company" as in one you run yourself? Maybe, if it's relevant to your field, and you actually worked on/released a product. If it's just hobby projects, I don't see that being as relevant.
This makes me think of Charlie Munger's insistence on checklists: https://www.amazon.com/Poor-Charlies-Almanack-Charles-Expand...
India will soon overtake China to become the most populous country in the world
The cubicle lobby is the single most powerful force on HN.
Why it’s important that employers let staff personalise their workspaces
If you are "negotiating a business relationship" you aren't necessarily haggling on price, but service. This is why I mentioned "the same product"
Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Chrome has done this before, e.g. with QUIC.
This isn’t from the article. You’re just spoiling for a flame war.
IQ and the old SAT are highly correlated, and is why Mensa uses the SAT for admissions purposes
Side company meaning company being created, on the side, to eventually be f/t job.
You truly are an outlier. I immediately started assuming that you might be in a more right-brain role, but realized my mistake when I saw your comment about coding. You're clearly better than I am at focusing...
I was under the impression that the biggest contributor is actually just the rising temperature of the water, because water expands as it heats.
This is why I'm keeping an eye on this project. https://makerlisp.com/
Most people who read that phrase see "delicate" = fragile. Sensibilities are not like a lace collar.
Sorry this is such a late reply. The best publications I've found on this topic came from St. Jude Medical Research (The private medical device manufacturer not to be confused with the Hospital Chain) and it related to their line of neuro-stimulation devices back when they were still in development. I'm having trouble finding it right now or I would link some specific papers. The jist of it is that you need to use a psuedo-random modulation or the nervous system will eventually learn to ignore the external signals. Is applied at pretty much all levels of the nervous system from pain receptors to the brain but not at the same rate of developing immunity.

The Army Human Factors group has published a lot of material specific to various types of electrical/magnetic cranial stimulation. You can find some excellent stuff on DTIC.
That is the most ridiculous looking patent I've ever seen. What developer hasn't created what the patent is describing.
The problem with "objective" journalism is that truth and falsehood are not as important as what the objective of the story is. If a propagandist can use the truth to achieve their objectives that is better than lies because people can detect lies easier. Objective journalism is based on the false premise that reporting facts differentiates you from agenda driven propaganda when it is really just the most effective form of agenda driven propaganda.
Yeah, they market it as "even the CEO doesn't have his own office!"
Oh, cool, he works from home or is travelling the whole time and doesn't need one.

Maybe i'm just being a baby, but a work desk doesn't feel complete without at least a picture of my dog at it, haha.
We use checklists (to varying degrees of efficacy and adherence) at work. Obvious case: test procedures (for larger test cases and suites, not unit tests and automated tests). We also use them for things like peer reviews or releasing products to customers (to ensure we've asked the right questions, are releasing the correct product, have done all the things necessary to release the product, etc.).
> Who wants Mark out? Too many critical articles from many angles recently, somebody on FB's board must be eager to get rid of him.

I believe Zuckerberg is still Facebook's controlling shareholder, so no one's getting rid of him until he wants himself out (or does something so egregious that the government removes him a la Hans Reiser or Musk with his SEC shenanigans).
Power grab from whom? Bing serves AMP too.

https://blogs.bing.com/Webmaster-Blog/September-2018/Introdu...
I live about 4 miles south of Bethany Beach on the Atlantic. I was inside, but the light lit up my house so much I thought either my house was on fire or a car was about to crash into my home.
Show HN: CAA – Lightweight distributed session management [Go / TLA+]
I did a web scraping project of all major news publications in the US and the NYT was by far the most difficult to parse because their article structures are extremely arbitrary and inconsistent.
This is how fast food franchises work and is why you get a consistent experience from them all. All the processes are documented and checklists abound.
Surely you didn't mean too but the correct tense of "get" on you're sentence would be "gets"
The English NHS was dealing with about one million patients every 36 hours. https://www.england.nhs.uk/ They were doing over 8 million surgeries per year when the checklist was introduced.

For 2016/2017 the summary of "never events" is here: https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/2347/Never_Events_1_Apr...

There were 189 wrong site surgeries, and 114 retained foreign object post surgery.

That's not good enough, but it's not terrible.

The month by month data is here: https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/never-events-data/

I have a comment about the regulatory framework (in England) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19683366
I have, and those are fun, but there's something really satisfying with playing with old hardware like that.
I love this guide! A friend showed it to me and I still quote lines from it often. I like the bit about "our own recliners", I tell my friend that someday him and I will have our own recliners. Another line I vaguely remember is when he's made a backpack for a bug out of a leaf. I think he puts a skittle and a battery in there and then says "that should last him". The writing style is great.
KMT's regular party goers and the leadership are not quite the same, as Hong Xiuzhu found out. KMT has a sizeable, but mute hardliner wing who have no joke ambitions of taking on CPC again
Totally. At my last $dayjob, we had a group chat for the room, where we would type stuff instead of saying it out loud. This way, conversation only flowed between people who were willing to participate at the moment.

(It didn't work perfectly. Typing is silent, but laughing at what you just read isn't.)
No sorry, the bigger company the more nasty they get. I used to work for Oracle and IBM and it blew my mind how grownups with children would play childish games and jump at each other throats at every occasion.

I also work for less known company with revenue of $100MM and was the same stuff. My manager used to tell me: If you have family [to go home to after being at the office for 12 hours] don't work here.
Tangental question - how did you get your testosterone tested? I'm curious to do the same thing. Do you just book a meeting with your PCP? Ask them for it? Is it more practical to do a number of different blood tests at once?

Sorry if this is an obvious question
I do archaeology in-between software jobs. The pay is terrible, but there's an attraction to working outside on something meaningful that's hard to ignore. At the same time, washing clothes in rivers and being sick in the field sucks.
How educated do software engineers need to be?
Three-quarters would make spreading fake news a crime
Chiming in to say I also disagree with the opinion and to make the same request to downvotes==disagree button.

I would like to ask another question though, how does the community feel about people who talk to themselves when they're focused?

I find myself doing that at home a lot when working and I really do perform focused tasks significantly better.

"Aha, this is a bit stupid"

"So, if I move this here it'll be more orthogonal"

"Ah jeez, why did I choose that type!"

I feel like doing this in any kind of open setting is really not ideal but it takes conscious effort to avoid doing it.
The salaried FTP and freelance role of 'journalist' is almost invariably defined by creating material about specific agendas for corporate media mastheads.
The implementations of 3DSecure I've seen were so terrible that I'm not surprised there is a drop in conversion rates. I would consider the user interface and the massive breakage as actively user-hostile. The redirects, terrible UI with blurry crappy bank logos, ugly dialog, and then I have to copy the code from my phone. And incidentally, SMS is a particularly bad method of authentication.
There's been a huge proliferation of cameras in the last 10 years and more recently as dashcams have come into increasing prevalence as camera costs come down more and more.
>I'm a little disturbed that you trust the national inquirer more than, say, the Associated Press or Reuters.

A frivolous way to say I don't care if a story about an alien found or an actor having an illegitimate child are wrong, but I do care about major stories with global implications being distorted in subtle ways, or presented based on the values and interests of this or that country (or political elite in the country).

>It's also interesting that you lump collusion in with WMDs even though we don't have the full story on at least one of those topics. I feel like you've drawn a conclusion on it, but if not for the media, where are you informing your world view on the matter?

30+ years of following world affairs (and not just from mainstream sources), the actual 20th/21st century history of my own country (not a country imposing upon others, but one with actual involvement of others in it, including some dictatorships for us to enjoy), tons of readings on world politics, and 20th and 21st century political and diplomatic plays and ploys, asking "who benefits", judging relative power in the world stage, and so on.
Link to the televised debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYMpObbt2rs
While I disagree that this is the primary reason for Google pushing AMP (if it were, carousels would be page size and speed limited, possibly taking into consideration CDN availability, not (Google-)AMP-exclusive), it is definitely a facet of the argument that's been underappreciated.
One important detail is that not all pilots are going to be fighter pilots (which usually means less expensive trainings).

C17s, KC-135s, A10s, C-130s make up a significant part of the USAF fleet, not to mention the smaller transport/utility craft
Delicate is synonymous with "fragile". Delicate lace collars are fine when in appropriate context, but that context is fairly narrow (when you know it will be protected enough to survive).

As for people, I don't think our culture values fragility in an individual. Conversely, we definitely do value resilience. I'm not sure of a case where you could refer to a physical or mental aspect of someone as delicate or fragile (when it's relative to the norm where it's not) and it comes out positive.
The data shows "some college" confers the same benefit as "none," unless i suppose one gets admitted to a top college (as Bill Gates did).
I thought this was well understood, and even expected by the models, since a warming planet brings more precipitation in the air which then falls as snow on the poles.

So the Antarctic is actually gaining mass on the higher ground, and the Arctic during the winter months also.

The contrast is that during the warmer summer months, the Arctic is losing a lot more than it gains over the year, so the global balance is negative - which adds to sea level rises.

The other odd thing I never considered, but was (I think here?) mentioned, is that as the mass of the Arctic decreases, it also presses down less on the mantle, and so lifts higher out of the ocean, also displacing more sea.

I'm pretty sure there's a good explanation of this by Potholer54 on Youtube.