skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just want to plug a client that I worked for that solves this problem: Healthy Workers.

Healthy Workers is a Amsterdam-based startup that measures thing such as: air quality, CO2 and consented employee data (e.g. their sleep and focus) and makes an analysis what parts of the building have an unconductive work environment and how this can be improved.

Conference rooms with bad air are the first problem they look at.

They are hiring for a head of sales and a product designer: https://healthyworkers.recruitee.com/
I agree, but think it's even worse. The various exchanges are immature, fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants tech companies sitting on mounds of other people's cash. That makes them tempting targets.

Worse, they are trying to protect that cash from everyone on the internet. If you want to steal actual cash from a bank, you need to walk into it and threaten a teller, and you're probably going to jail. If someone hacks into BofA and drains a bunch of accounts, the losses will be covered by the bank or the FDIC.

If a bunch of people put cash in one place, then trust an immature company with no insurance to keep it safe, this will happen again and again. It's like a data breach, except easier money.
Honest question: do you really think we'd be better off using assembly for run-of-the-mill business logic applications, if there was a workforce that was well trained on it?
Julian Assange is a journalist? Not sure I agree with that labeling.
I was a contractor at GM, and I had automated about 20% of the design Engineering work.(automation of 6 figure Engineering jobs)

I had working software until the company updated to Windows 10.

In the process of making it work again, me and thousands of others were let go.

My boss knew what I was working on, but couldn't/was afraid to stick their neck out.

The world isn't fair, but now I'm doing similar development at a competitor.
Is a medical doctor who lives in a country making half what a janitor makes in another country more, or less valuable?
The calls to reign in Mark Zuckerberg have never been louder
This is a feature of the US administration's approach to negotiation, driven by various motivations. China is not without leverage, and the US will blink first.
Yes, I know what the Meiji shrine is.

Like I say above, why do a few idiots waving flags at Meiji mean that _the entire country_ needs to be "taken down" like the OP says?

I stress that this is "Japan"- the whole of Japan. Not the idiots waving flags at Meiji. Are all Japanese nationalist assholes?
I think it could be done. My thought is that it needs to be well integrated with cloud tools where you can organize and run your data processing jobs for it to be really compelling. The transition between crummy dev work and turning it into something serious with jupyter isn't really easy at this point.
Or reimbursement for mileage. Businesses can take this as a tax write-off (i.e. no payroll taxes) from the IRS [0]. My father used to get reimbursed for mileage from his work at the IRS rate, which accounts for things such as reduced car value, gasoline and maintenance costs, but is actually quite generous. The reimbursement rate was high enough that he actually made money from it, since it exceeded the costs of gas, increased maintenance and depreciation. That said, if you drive a ferrari which depreciates quickly and guzzles lots of gas, the calculus is going to be different.

[0] https://www.ifebp.org/news/regulatoryupdates/Pages/2019-irs-...
After twenty years of observation, I’m convinced that much of Seattle’s traffic problems are self-inflicted. California’s problems are often just too damned many cars. Seattle’s problems are often poor lane discipline and an inability to merge at a speed that matches the flow of traffic.
Bird is selling its electric scooters to consumers
Where was this last weekend when I was doing some simple CSS animation for a personal project?
You are describing every player who was a member of a group as having similar characteristics, based on your experiences with (presumably) the subset of those players you've encountered.

I'm not weighing in on whether you're right or wrong, here, just remarking that you seemed to be demonstrating similar behaviors to those you were complaining about.

It's possible to stereotype or overgeneralize about cultures and people in ways that are not negative.

I'm also not (intentionally) suggesting that your observations of behavior are accurate or inaccurate, or that the relevant people weren't engaging in the same behavior, just that the grouping of a complaint about people overgeneralizing with defining of the people doing the grouping as members of a very large group was quite striking, to me.
Tagging on the kids part. It's not just the kids being sick, it's all the other things that only happen traditional work hours. My daughter had field day last week starting at 10am. Parent-teacher meetings during school hours. Holiday or end of the year parties. Those things add up and it's easy to forget if you don't have kids yourself.

Thankfully I work from home and my boss (who has kids) doesn't mind my schedule as long as I get my work done.
To figure back in High School I did a business project for selling "Dehydrated Water". I guess I was about 20 years too early...
I'm in the same boat. 17 years here. Masters plus 15 years of experience. Getting paid >$500k per year yet I'm dependent on my employer to stay here legally. I'm still a temporary worker. I cannot take a sabbatical or take up side gigs (consultant). If Canada weren't so cold, I'd already be there.
> “Trade deficit” is what his voter base “understands” and it sounds scary so it would make sense to peddle this to them even though it has nothing to do with real issues.

I assume you implicitly are saying that they also don't understand the harm a trade war also does to the American economy? Regardless....out of curiosity, how did you come to know the details of what Trump's base thinks at such a detailed level?

edit: Also out of curiosity, why would someone downvote this? Does it not seem like a perfectly fair question (if you set your politics aside and think about it logically, something that used to be the overwhelming norm on HN)?
> Trump said on Wednesday that China is mistaken if it hopes to negotiate trade later with a Democratic presidential administration.

What is that supposed to mean? That there won’t be another administration in the future is how it sounds.
I wonder how these findings can be reconciled with the research on the importance of breakfast for school children. There are obvious differences between the two issues, but nevertheless when I think about how to apply these insights, they seem to conflict, and I'm not sure how to resolve those conflicts.

Edit: The biggest difference is age, but conventional wisdom says adults, too, should eat a good breakfast before an important exam. Should you skip breakfast before your LSAT?
Have you lived outside the US?

Even in Europe it seems standard of living is less (for professionals)
Hug of death, I believe. I've been fasting this year and it has worked in terms of weight loss, down nearly 20lbs since December. As far as brain effects...I'm not sure if it's related to the diet or just because it's summer and I'd rather be outside, but I've become somewhat apathetic to work.
Google made a game that explains it well https://xss-game.appspot.com
When I watched the show last week and that censored bit showed up, I thought it was actually a gag and not for real.

The animated Jonathan Coulton bits on that show are my favorite part of the show, they're quite well done and funny. The show, however, is overly politicized. When compared to the Good Wife, it is much less about fighting interesting legal cases now than it is about US politics.
I'm a Jr. Engineer and I really appreciate working in a positive learning environment with a bunch of experienced, helpful Senior Devs.
They don’t care about fairness, they care about profit (or rather, they care about how much their share value would drop if they sacrificed a given source of profit.) If the American stock market would punish an American [public] corporation for reneging on being a lapdog to China, then said American corporation is basically constitutionally incapable of leaving China (if it’s structured in the usual way with a board whose positions are controlled by shareholder election.) And right now, it seems that China is the only market that traders see as large enough to make them short the stock when you do anything to mess with it.

Private corporations, public corporations that are still founder-controlled, and “public-benefit” corporations might be immune to this effect, but your average traded C-Corp or S-Corp won’t be.
I have one too and I can get over 1 000ppm by myself in quite big room while my room also has automatic air recuperation.

I can't imagine how it is in any "van dweller" or "tiny house" place.

If you drive motorcycle, you can get 10 000ppm in your helmet, that is close to being out of mind.
OP posted an article on why an American company chose to accommodate said authoritarian communist regime, against the principles of our domestic media culture. What motivates a company to do such a thing, if not capitalism?
Fasting is a periodic religious observance for me. The main effect I have noticed is increased irritability, but then I've never done cognitive tests while fasting.
Why not hate everyone equally, game and players? It takes players to have a game.
"Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"
- Winston Churchil

https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form...
It's great post.
In cognitive psychology, I've worked with a method known as "masked priming" [0], which is relatively well-known in the field to influence reaction times. Reaction time is a complex measure as it includes both "processing speed" as well as physical reaction times. The "prime" is considered subliminal, as one would not necessarily notice it being presented (although the mask definitely is noticeable). Interestingly, at short enough time scales, e.g. 16 ms duration times, the effect of the priming reverse, and it makes reaction times increase[1].

[0] http://www.u.arizona.edu/~kforster/priming/
[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2FBF03196307
It's a great post.
Sorry, my kid was born here. This is her home. This is all she has ever known for the last 10 years. I'm being 'forced' to be here because of her.
Wow this explains a lot. I think this is a huge subconscious source of anxiety for me.
Ruling by fear, anger and hunger. Check out North Korea.
The simple answer is that children's physical and hormonal makeup is different to that of adults. I've always seen it recommended that children should not fast.
Another thing I use that's quite handy is the wireless thermostat from Insteon. It's really more of a remote control/temperature sensor, but it integrates nicely. You can see the temperature from both units, and select which one is the master (the one it's trying to get to the set temperature).

I have pets which don't do well above a certain temperature so I keep my wireless unit by them.
This is so sad temporarily for Hemanth but permanently for the US.

Hemanth is already a hero and he's done more than what most would only dream of doing. He has a bright future expect that bright future won't be in the US.

In the long term its more of a loss for the US if you consider the fact that he already "earned" the US $23 billion
I think the blogposts are being generated by a collection of cellular automata that are being created by a learning algorithm with access to that dataset. In other words, Stephen Wolfram.
Yeah, they look like these ones released back on 2012: http://www.evan-roth.com/work/solitaire-exe/
100% safe is never the metric. Nothing is 100% safe. Every form of energy generation has risks that have to balance the good the energy source brings. Nuclear is nearly unique in that it can produce carbon-free energy (unlike fossil and biomass), continuously for 2 years on end between reloads (unlike wind/solar/coal), and it can be deployed in a wide variety of geographic locations (unlike hydro and geothermal).

The risk is that there are occasionally nuclear accidents: Three mile island and fermi 1 meltdowns, both of which killed zero people. Chernobyl, which killed ~50 from ARS and up to 4,000 early deaths over the next several decades (on top of a few million cancers that would have happened anyway in the population). Fukushima, which killed up to one person. Can anyone name any fatal natural gas explosions? Any hydro dam failures that killed 100,000? How many people per year does coal kill by operating normally (~200,000). We as a society accept certain risks from our energy infrastructure because of all the good we get from it.

Here is a plot of how many thousands of days of life are lost by various things [1]. Note that nuclear is almost ridiculously low. This chart doesn't include the impact of climate change on human lives. Nuclear fission is a climate superpower, and we cannot be justified in neglecting this natural resource because we're afraid of something going boom.

TLDR: A factor of 100x improvement in nuclear safety goes from tiny risk to supertiny. Current plants are already safer than almost everything else we know. Some studies have more people dying from installing solar on their roofs than getting killed by radiation from nuclear fission plants.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/ClgbpA4.png
That might be from the caffeine withdrawals. I'm trying it wihtout caffeine at all this year, and it's been great.
This strikes me as odd also for Uber. I mean I get that they are a large high-tech company, but I don't get how they are developing huge js frameworks and similar. They are a taxi company. Don't they basically just need a reasonably simple web app, a mobile app and some infrastructure that runs on a (relatively) small AWS bill? Why is Uber and Lyft trying to reinvent the web? Is it to attract talent, because good talent really wants to develop cutting edge stuff? That's an argument I can understand. But how can Uber have 2000 developers who make 1000 microservices?
How could you not be anxious as a Chinese politician?

In Western democracies, if you lose political power at worst you get indicted (and usually pardoned). Half of the country still likes you.

In China, you face serious prison time, your family's assets are seized, you're expelled from politics, and media runs a solid month of anti-you propaganda.

Harsh consequences for what many times is a roll of the dice.
Yeah, it feels like getting a "second wind" when exercising.

Getting there can be brutal though as my mind and body feel weak and it's hard for me to do any highly cognitive tasks. But after my body accepts it I feel "in the zone" and I don't want to eat and disrupt the feeling.

I've never gone longer than 18hrs though.
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But those two pieces of code are parsed exactly the same way in most languages--the only difference is the newline between `else` and `if`
What are the odds this will teach the American left that censorship is not a good thing and lead them to stop demanding Google, Twitter, and Facebook ban every user who wants to reduce immigration? 1%? 0%?
I don't get why you are acting so surprised. In Capitalism the only point is to make money, that's all there is.

If siding with human rights helps make money they will side with human rights, if genocide helps make even more money they will side with genocide.

As long as Capitalism is the main economic system this will always be only about the profits.
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>Highly recommend the book "The Complete Guide to Fasting" by Dr. Jason Fung.

Such books and doctors, promoting this or that diet, heavily cherry-pick from research papers, they don't reflect the scientific consensus on the matter.
Why not both? Other companies are working on thorium reactors, as well as molten salt reactors running on uranium. Terrestrial Energy in particular is pretty far along, partly due to friendly regulators in Canada.
Does it have a way to integrate into iPhone mail?
Crackdown on Chinese investment in US sparks shift into venture capital
By tolerating China's censorship, The West too starts censoring.
The same happened to South Park where the network ended up censoring a depiction of Muhammad - well, in the one episode, in an earlier one it was still up. And thankfully they didn't quit, they ran with it because it points out the hypocrisy, double standards, and weird morals that the US networks have.
In the US I seem to be able to find people saying virtually anything. Certain privately owned and operated platforms have kicked off certain voices (as is their right if you believe in property rights), but they've just moved to other platforms that are easy to find.

Assange is being charged with a crime, not speech. He deserves a fair trial of course, but what got him in trouble is not merely speaking.

I can't think of much I could say in the US that would actually get me in legal trouble except for directly threatening or inciting violence against someone.
Not all are. In the county I live in, they are still using sodium lamps. The one exception I'm aware of is a pilot program at a commuter parking lot, where they use LED lamps.
This is true. In my experience you are literally learning how to grow "new selves".
Oh, so it was adblock that was the problem. I was confused, since I knew NYT works in incognito mode.

Can you really blame them for blocking Adblock users? They're a business, if you're both not logged in (ie, not a subscriber) and blocking ads, you're preventing them from capturing any revenue. How do you suggest the New York Times stays in business?
This is cool a cool project. RSS needs all the support it can get. I understand this is just a demo but some things confused me.

What are the positive and negative tags for, how do they get applied?

In what order do the search results get returned? It didn't seem obvious when I added my own feed and then searched.

Is there no way to search for a particular feed or author?
How about the reverse? You move to France, have a kid that's a French citizen and when the child is 18, you are kicked out but they are allowed to stay.
I completely agree that this sets a bad precedent. I don't think CBS is in the right here. But as long as these companies have financial interests in abandoning values that we've come to rely on in the US, this is going to keep happening.
I think this was in a time when the news division would be profitable and would this be allowed autonomy.
I really hope projects like this can take off. Honest, good-working people who don't want to profit in abundance selling others' personal data. Good luck!
Welcome to the culture war.
I imagine that might be in response to the malware advertising that was going on for fortnite a while back, and how quite a large proportion of the players are kids. As a highly visible brand and a highly vulnerable audience, it makes sense for them to focus efforts there and put in special rules.
“Truth is what the party tells you.”

Welcome to US politics. It’s very sad that a lot of people buy into this.
No comments, because nobody wants to register with Verizon for this report.

Meaning we should definitely be reading this report.
Dart was originally meant to be a superior alternative to JavaScript. They originally wanted native Dart support in the browser (dartium) just like there is native JavaScript support.

Kotlin was/is meant to be a superior alternative to Java.

Java != JavaScript

Flutter I'd say is more like a successor to Flash. Dart is now relegated primarily to being Flutter's ActionScript.
The biggest industrial users - those on half hourly metering - also get discounts to move usage offpeak, and there's some tariff options that turn off or restrict those highest users during peaks. Partly so the grid don't have to keep waking up Dinorwig. :)
Bleh, someone has to say it. It's all because of culture, could be the culture of the game in those versions, not necessarily the culture of the country. I remember I used to play this golf MMO called Albatross / Pangya that was all tea and cookies until the company bought the brazilian provider of the game. Suddenly we were flooded with cheats, in-game currency begging in the chats. The admins made it clear that such behavior was forbidden but eventually ended up banning all south american IPs IIRC. Bad move because I lived in Chile back then, and I wasn't gonna set up a VPN just to play that game.
Why is this weird? You can buy water in glass bottles, plastic bottles and paper containers around the world. Why not in a can with a cool logo/slogan?
Clearly this is all the same thing, with the same consequences.
> So reader/writer locks tend to rely on the additional concurrency, and on readers not blocking other readers.

> software has a constant tendency to get slower, absent deliberate and careful efforts to hold the line, as developers add features and complexity. And if slower processes don’t immediately impact performance (because they only hold read locks), they’re more likely to go unnoticed. Thus, it’s not unlikely that over time read lock durations will creep upwards, mostly without effect, until one happens to coincide with an attempt to grab a write lock.

For me, the takeaway here is to maintain discipline in software regarding locking behavior. It's almost always a bad idea to hold a lock (rw or not) for an extended period of time.

Notably, this is how the Linux kernel developers responded to the case linked in the discussion of mmap_sem - the operation quadratic in number of threads was thrown out to avoid holding the rwsem for extended periods of time.

Also, re "and the lock is held by readers for a significant length of time": I would imagine that Rusty Russell would consider a few microseconds a "significant length of time" and wonder if you were insane if your software held a lock for 60 seconds.
Well, it's less cold with every passing year
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Why should big states get the same number of senators as small states? Equality in all things leads to inequality through structural imbalances.
CBS is an American based company; given its blatant human rights violations, perhaps they should not station employees in their home country?
They are not selling water. They are selling an image and an aspiration: tap water is for boring, conventional, cheap people. 'Liquid Death' is for progressive bros to drink at the bar while their buddies drink up. 'Skate or die + Organic'. (Obviously this is ridiculous, rationally, but this is how consumers (including us) act).

Bars would much rather sell you branded water than give you free tap water, just as restaurants do.
How do you screen for this? How do you identify an Al-Queda member?

And what is the standard? If a potential employee is affiliated with the Socialist Worker's Party or the Right to Life Party, are they disqualified? How about Democratic party?

Unless the job is a germance policy making position or includes tasks that anathema and where good conscience would impair their ability to perform work, it's none of your business.
Thought it said "Making Money Out of the Sohn Investing Gurus". I guess both makes sense.
Isn’t the point of “disruption” so popular in startup culture to leverage the agility of smaller enterprises (and even a pitch used to rise capital) the tool to fight old paradigms? My point being that it isn’t “capitalism” fault, but that the markets are lagging behind the demand and it will fix itself eventually (again, see Stripe efforts in this matter for example).
I blame Roger Clemens for this.
The problem is that his communication is what's most visible and it's misrepresenting his administration's good work. It would be good for the country to at least be unified on some issues. Yet this gets presented in a way where we again can't even agree on the problem.