skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more like if you've been sleeping properly and then you are sleep deprived for a whole night you'll probably see a 50% drop in your code quality. Once you've rested and fully recovered from that, you may have code quality which is 100% greater than your sleep-deprived state.

Although realistically I imagine it might take more than one night with good sleep for you to recover fully from that. And then you know, there's going to be variation between each individual, quality metrics may be up for debate, etc.
To be honest I don't like this confidentiality notes and from what I've read (not a lawyer) they don't have any practical effect either.
Genuine Merck MMR vaccine comes in packs of ten, priced at ~$21 USD (for CDC, standard MSRP is 75, still not really expensive), takes about ten seconds to administer. It's an amount of money that any number of people in anyone's life (unless you have no friends, family, neighbours, or colleagues at all) in the U.S. could lose by accident on a given day.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vfc/awardees/vaccine-m...
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> No, but it's a really fucking good way to make money.

How do you figure? It would be a huge win for consumers, but all it would accomplish is making Apple compete more. There's still more blue ocean to grab, no need to bloody the waters just yet.
Agreed, I'm not a game developer at all but I've spent quite a bit of time on that site just because it's so darn interesting!
See also: Propaganda.

Lots of great facts in the article, whether or not you agree with the tone.
> Sadly, Newson actually cut off the ends so now that it's going to be only in the Central Valley.

Is this actually the case though? While so many outlets jumped on the news to say the project was cancelled, looking into it further it looks like design work will continue outside of the central valley, just not construction. There is too much partisan interference being run by the Trump administration at the federal level, construction will hopefully continue with the next administration in 2020.

https://sf.streetsblog.org/2019/02/13/editorial-california-h...

> Of course I think it's a political stunt on his part where he probably figures if we build the Central Valley bit it'll be politically nuts not to complete the ends where all the population state lives later.

From my understanding that was the plan from the start. Start in the central valley where the construction can bring the most stimulus, land acquisition and design would be more open, and force the route to be kept to.
Why is Facebook anticipating a five billion dollar fine if they didn't break any laws?
I thought that was demonstrated on animals last year, and the team had started looking for human volunteers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16577627
What I gather from the article, if "a few million" means $3 million, is that we've been paying 60 people $50,000 apiece for a few weeks of meetings each summer. Without knowing the value of the output of those meetings - only that they've lost the funding - "that's a lot of money" is a reasonable default position whether there are even worse ways to spend it or not.
Thanks, good luck with this project :) I'm looking forward to a mature Elm-like web framework in Rust in the future.
Why is that? Have you used it for significant projects? I've found the hierarchy of CSS classes and where they're defined (e.g. global or component) become hard to to manage and refactor when you want to reshuffle components around...

I feel postcss-based styling is simply more predictable and easier to refactor. And the abstraction, which can be clunky at first, becomes a sort of intuitive DSL which let's you develop faster...
Neither do any of the regulators...
Samsung is a big and diverse company, not really comparable to a more focused company like Apple. In addition to smartphones and components, they’re the largest manufacturer of TVs and a big manufacturer of appliances. If you look at the larger Samsung group, and not just Samsung Electronics, it includes one of the largest shipbuilders in the world, construction, life insurance, and more.
For the Berlin Brandenburg Airport story, have a look here:

https://onemileatatime.com/berlin-brandenburg-airport/

Everybody expected it to open in 2012, people even got plane tickets for flights departing from there, but then it never opened. With all the cost accumulated since then, it would have been cheaper (and faster) to just tear it down and rebuild from scratch.
I agree with your disagreement.

But there are cases where it has paid off to be a lowly startup employee. For example google itself.
They don't even have to be doing it deliberately; as you say, the lack of incentives to fix such issues will cause a gradual evolution in that direction.
“Our results also show that sleep-deprived developers make more fixes to syntactic mistakes in the source code.”

That statement, in isolation, could be taken completely out of context.

Of course no sane person would conclude that a sleep deprived developer can fix more bugs. However there are many executive-level staff that are definitely not sane.
Tim Pool raised an interesting point on the Joe Rogan interview with Jack Dorsey: as Twitter becomes more powerful and important in shaping political discourse in the United States, banning someone from Twitter could be argued to be a restriction of political speech: https://youtu.be/DZCBRHOg3PQ

Personally, I think the mute and block options are all adults on twitter need if they encounter speech they don't like or makes them uncomfortable.
How much? £2k/day?
“Yes. We do have a unit test. An intern wrote it last summer.”
The difference, I feel, is that Amazon's solutions are not even open-core. They're straight up closed-source, which I think is objectively worse.
Does anyone know how this image was produced? Is it a filter of some kind applied over a real world image? Maybe could be done on a video?

This would be great for a Lovecraftian horror movie like Birdbox, when you want to give a glimpse of what indecipherable monster the characters are looking at just before they go crazy and kill themselves.
I don't know whether the Jasons are necessary. I would wager they're a better use of money than half of the stuff the pentagon does spend money on.
That's true. In fact in the video, the man's lower legs are obscured by the chair and this poses little problem for the system. However, I would say that if this was all that were required, they would have used a blank square.

Instead, they provide cues that mess with the system's sense of scale, by having almost like a window into another, smaller scene, with vague, human-like images that the network presumably recognises as faces.

A group of tiny faces on the top of a single set of legs very much does not look like a human.
I wholly agree with your statement. I would add that, sadly, its like this with most things Google: 1) vague descriptions of the problem, 2) impossible to get support or talk to anyone, 3) severe consequences (because of the ubiquity of Google’s platforms i.e. search, Gmail, Android, Chrome). Anyone who’s had a safe browsing problem, an App Store issue, or, heaven forbid, an AdSense issue will attest.

As far as it relates to email, this is why platforms like Sendgrid got so popular, they manage the relationship with Google and others for you.
The last time a company screwed with e-mail at scale was Earthlink.

Remember for a couple of years, every time you'd send a message to someone at Earthlink, you'd get an automated rely demanding that you verify yourself before the message would go through?

Now I can't remember the last time I saw an @earthlink.* e-mail address.

Google has apparently learned from that and put the "error" in the 550 messages, where they can't be seen by the end user, and lead to non-helpful resolutions for sysadmins.

The result is that the blame for missing messages goes to the sender, not to the recipient's email service.

If Gmail at least notified the sender that there was a problem, then a pattern of responsibility could be established. But this is just another dark pattern.
> With a bit of mining, you could probably identify other likely BS papers by looking at what they cite. Has that been done before?

Yep. http://www.citnetexplorer.nl/
Disagree. The money is very important to creating and maintaining the position they sit in.
I think its some stupid side-effect of mobile environments, where for touch interaction, stuff needs to be big and hence low density of information.

New version of gmail is so much worse for me on PC - lower density, much slower to work with on Firefox (I ain't switching to Chrome due to this, no thank you).

Something akin to Microsoft putting that idiotic (sorry but I can't be polite with this specific topic) mobile-like interface into Windows 10 for desktops. Unifying what shouldn't be unified.
There's a difference between collaborative and open source. A collection of interview questions can be qualified as collaborative, not open source.
I've been thinking that bio-engineered primates would replace agricultural workers and other low-skill labor jobs for some time.

Bio-mechanical brains might prove to be useful automation engines. Would you utilize a self-driving car that's powered by a bio-mechanical brain?

Seems quicker and easier to bring a primate brain to human-level intellect than to bring a machine.
In my case, it was about day seven or eight of no water, no food, just profound vomiting until there was nothing left to vomit - anything I did drink came straight back out.

As to it being brain rather than eyes - I had a seizure once I was in hospital (I’m not epileptic or anything of the sort), and I was unable to assemble any thoughts much beyond unbelievable thirst - although my eyes were also affected - blurred and double vision.

My K levels were about 1.5 - imminent death zone. Heart kept stopping and starting. Thank Cthulhu for Hartmann’s solution.
Anti-surveillance dogma is costing lives
There is video of the SL bomber who attacked the church. The ringleader of the attacks was an extremist known to SL intelligence.

In SV you pat yourselves on the back at your virtue when you block your employers from supplying surveillance technology, or undermine and refuse to work on projects that do.

What if you were as proactive as spreading security technology as you are at spreading your supposed values? What if SL already had face-recognition surveillance cameras and a system that linked targets to intelligence about threats and notified in real time of their movements?

Is it not conceivable that these attackers and their extremist links could not have been so spotted on their way that morning? And stopped?

When you talk about surveillance as an enabler of evil, are you quite sure you have your values straight? Or could it be you who has things backwards and, with your certainty of your virtue, costing lives by delaying and denying the spread of useful security technology?

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/04/25/sri-lankan-islamist-group-claims-bombing-mastermind-expelled-for-preaching-hate/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa-udwGUkp8
Wasn’t ~40% of the proof of Kepler conjecture was discovered by a tool like Sledgehammer?
Makes me think of loper os: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=4
>> The software used a malware technique used by the NSA to restart crashed services.
> Your click bait headline is bad and you should feel bad.

Haters gonna hate
> Everyone bullshits at some point, but there seems to me to be a particular desire to show design decisions as being based in some empirical facts. In some ways this is admirable, and forces designers to justify their design decisions. Analytics have certainly been one cause of this.

As a designer I've always felt that the larger and more important chunk of design work is purely intuitive. Analytics implies time-dependence which is counterproductive to design when included upfront.

The only time quantifiable metrics are used is when a design is married to user experience in the context of a user interface (in the end product). At that point, patterns and practices dictate the baseline from which feedback takes place. This is commonly referred to as a design system and is done on a larger horizontal scale across interfaces (web, mobile, print, and so on).

Company branding, medium | message, target audience, color schemes/themes and other aspects of functional design are comprised more of intuition than raw analytics, in my opinion. Apple provides a great example of design choices that focus on the human aspect first. [0]

Added to that, the fact that market share is happily split amongst vastly different UI approaches is testament to the non-linear nature of design.

While designers are plenty, good design is not. Science based models as cited in the article are there to bring up the rear in a standardized manner but don't provide avenues to true "novelty" that defines great design. Just my two cents.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Hey electroly,

Gideon from Stripe Product Ops here. Can you tell me more about your integration if it's not too much trouble? You can email me at gideon+hn@stripe.com any time
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Absolutely not an expert on this, but doesn't your daughter get the immune antibodies from her mother in the first few months? Either passed during pregnancy or by breastfeeding.
to put it in quantitative context, you put her life at risk every time you put her in a car. Measles killed roughly 500/kids a year before vaccinations. Car accidents kill about .5/1000 kids.

The probability of your child getting measles and dying is below most other risks that you take for granted each day.
> can't afford the phones they're making.

Really? I was under the impression that Chinese consumers almost exclusively purchased Chinese-brand phones. How many sales do Samsung and Apple make in these countries? I thought that was the (forced?) appeal of the lock-in to Chinese apps.
Define 'people'. We're already there IMO. The kids today don't have any particular understanding of what the internet is and how it works. They view it through walled gardens via the app store.
Thanks. Stupid question but consider the following:

entity = Entity.fetch(id)
if (!entity) doSomething()

Entity.fetch returns null if it doesn't find anything. How would this work without null?
Personally I see this as just more Google incompetence. Gmail has just become bad. If you want to get all your mail you have to use something else.

It's like we're going back to the days when each e-mail service only trusted messages from its own users, and if you wanted messages to go to another network, you had to use an e-mail gateway.

Can I get my ...!killer!jolnet bang path back?
If you contract out your design work you need to then hire people as smart or smarter then the contractors to oversee that work.
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Xbox has been seriously competing since the 360, almost 15 years ago. PS3 at launch was such a disaster, that the 360's failure rate couldn't stop it.
The problem with this is the savings are usually negligible compared to spendings of higher management.

I think it utterly destroys the image of the company if it cannot act "humane".

It's fine to keep costs under control ..but..if you are then organizing super expensive meetings across the world it just looks bad.
What I mean "based" is "I look at their code, and take only what I need".
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This isn't a very surprising result: there's a whole body of research showing sleep deprivation reduces cognitive abilities.

So why do programmers still sleep less than they need to?
Often it's because they're working long hours, and to get time for the rest of their life they cut back on sleep.

If that's you—it doesn't have to be that way. You can set boundaries at work (https://codewithoutrules.com/2019/04/03/setting-boundaries-a...), you can say no to your boss (https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/08/16/how-to-say-no/)... and you'll be doing your employer a favor because your output will go up.
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Another personality trait could be if you enjoy exploring depth vs breadth. In a startup you can wear many hats. In a large organisation you are more likely to focus one to two things but you get chance to go deep into those topics.
I can add my own anecdote here. I've also been to Shanghai (my company has a major office here). The pollution was absolutely terrible, being outside for longer than 30 minutes gave me a slight cough and made my heart noticeably beat faster. We never saw a clear sky the whole time (two weeks) we were there. When you meet long term residents you note that they all have bad skin and are much shorter than average heights in Western Countries (I'm guessing due to pollution and diet). Local Chinese residents also seem to be constantly spitting or smoking (!!!) as they walk around the streets.

I stayed in a 5* hotel (Westin Bund) and some of my Chinese co-workers warned me to not drink any water from the top in my hotel! (Because they couldn't be sure of its cleanliness!). I was also warned to not shower for too long because I mind end up getting a rash!

Getting around the city involves using the terrible cab system. None of the cabs had AC and just opened their windows, letting in huge amounts of polluted and exhaust-fume filled air, along with the cab driver usually smoking! Also (and this is somewhat expected) the cab drivers never could speak English and so we just had to show them a map/address to get where we wanted.

Central Shanghai is massively congested and overpopulated and I would never in a million years consider having a family there. In fact, our office there has lost numerous people over the years due to health fears for their children. They have ended up moving to perceived cleaner cities like Singapore and Taipei.

So for sure, Shanghai IS big and has stuff to do, but so do plenty of cities. Shanghai has major, major negatives in terms of quality of life and especially if you don't speak Chinese (because almost no one there speaks English). To even consider living there I'd have to be paid 10X and even then I'd probably only stay a year or too. I found being there oppressive and depressing.
Does this explain why Google went from the tasteful white-on-black status bar of Android 8 to the enormous blue balloon PlaySkool buttons on Android 9?
Commend on the attempt, foward thinking now wasm is getting more traction. but I can imagine that view syntax turning into an insane > circa the old days of callbacks in nodejs
I updated my phone recently and google authenticated directly from my phone number.
LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core (2019)
It's there, it wasn't my call to put it in.
This Jobs story sounds like some myth-building BS that shouldn't ever be applied in the real world.
We haven't draw any line at all, it's simply where it's been pushed so far.
AGPL is what they used before. It does nothing vs. Amazon because they don't care if they have to share changes - they can host it anyway
Yeah, and so we can conclude that sleeping is, after all, useful.
Probably for the same reason some people don't see the downsides of C++ or Java... you tend not to see the downsides, if you're good at it.

I just feel that nesting (which Sass encourages) leads to complexity and fragility.
I always giggle when I see those.

Especially the part about how "if you are not the intended recipient, you are ordered to destroy all copies of this message."

It's my computer. You sent the bad message. You're in no position to "order" me to do anything.

I suspect they're mandated by self-important Lower Middle Manager of the Year Award nominees, not actual legal departments. The sort of people who never do anything but push papers around, yet put a bunch of meaningless initials after their name in e-mail signatures because they went to a conference.
> If the American people knew the truth about these military incursions, they would be utterly outraged

The many, many, many times things have leaked with absolutely no major public reaction would show that to be false.
I'm not quite sure what they're trying to do there, but the link isn't real. It goes to cvspharmacy dot com, but the actual site is cvs dot com.

Incidentally, CVS Pharmacy isn't a shady internet thing, they're a longstanding US brick'n'mortar chain. I think this is supposed to be a joke, just a rather obtuse one.
Global Crossing still owes my company money for work I did for them!
> There is video of the SL bomber who attacked the church. The ringleader of the attacks was an extremist known to SL intelligence.

You said it yourself. For such cases, law enforcement could easily get warrants from judges. Most judges rubber-stamp most warrants anyway. You'll also find that in the vast majority of recent terrorist attacks, the people doing them were not only "known to intelligence agencies", but had previously been arrested, etc.

The issue many here have is with mass surveillance, which by definition means surveillance of innocents. Not only does this produce a very high "noise to signal" ratio (one of the reasons why the NSA is giving up on the phone records surveillance program now), making it more difficult for them to catch the actual bad guys, but it also sets up a system in which those having that power can easily abuse it.
As long as all event callbacks are delegated into the update function and unified in an Msg enum, the code will have the same pattern regardless of how big the project is.
Disclaimer: I work for an Accenture subsidiary.

First, just in point of fact, I have personally been part of lots of successful deliveries.

Both Facebook and Google spent $1 billion with Accenture last year.

Like all large IT consultancies, they're defined by normal distribution - they have high and low performers, pockets of competence and incompetence, big wins and big misses.
Why would they use JS for this kind of task is what make me curious. I'd guess there are better alternatives.
There are also two other things at play. Media hype over small scientific announcements that need more study[0], and misrepresentation of scientific findings by researchers or their sponsoring party (e.g. a university's PR department).

[0]: https://xkcd.com/882/
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I feel like as they leave more and more up to the algorithms, we suffer. I've been having this ever increasing in frequency issue where Gmail Search just doesn't working. Not that it doesn't return search results but rather that it returns what I know to be incorrect results.

I have an email with some account information that I access a couple times a year at most but will consistently need at least once a year. Just infrequently enough that I can't remember the exact contents.

I know exactly what the subject line of the email is and it's a suggested search query in Gmail but about 2 years ago Gmail just stopped being able to find it. I can navigate to the email via label or star just fine but I can no longer search for it.

Is it because it's an 8 year old email? idk what the reasoning is but Gmail as deemed it irrelevant and stopped returning it as a search result. This isn't a platform issue either, it happens in App, or browser on multiple devices.
Hire me. I consult in exactly this field. I will charge an exorbitant rate (you know, to show I'm qualified) and come tell your leadership that they're wrong.

This is a service I'm very happy to offer!
Hi @rurp,

Gideon on the Stripe Product Ops team. I'd love to hear which features aren't important to your business and which features would be. If it's not too much trouble, could you email me at gideon+hn@stripe.com so I can get some more feedback from you?
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