skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happens in Marietta which is a sizeable city but not Atlanta. It's outside of Atlanta like how Irvine is outside of LA.

My family lives in Acworth an hour a way and there are chickens wandering people's yards. GA is a bit different in that regard.
It would depend on what happens when the material is removed from the high-pressure environment.

As the article points out, diamonds naturally form in a high-pressure environment but are stable at standard atmosphere and temperature.
Facebook is apparently planning to launch its digital currency in early 2020
In my circle of friends the tradesmen are doing much better financially than the college educated. Even though my friends who chose the trades are from poorer backgrounds. I myself am a high school drop out who is able to single handedly support a family and own my own home. (The great thing about compliers is they don't care how educated you are) As far as I can tell meritocracy is working. It would seem to me having the state try and make things "more fair" will very likely result in the opposite.
I believe your response is emblematic of the budgetary responses from the democratically controlled HOR: To hell with what the people want and need, "If Trump wants it, it must be bad".
Are binaries / programmatic access available?

I've been writing a knowledge repository and was debating using IPFS to distribute encrypted files. However Peergos is interesting for the same reason. To toy around with the alpha I'd like to experiment with integrating the sharing model with my project.
>I'm pretty sure if you were, and the crime was caught on camera, your position on facial-recognition software would change.

yes, but likely in the wrong direction because I'd be angry and personally insecure. Decisions of liberty, privacy and law shouldn't be based on personal experiences or trauma.

I find this line of argument weird. Do you really think a personal decision about long term social issues is better than an impersonal one?
It will be centralized. Under Facebooks control. And even if some kind of realy hinest and pro-users TOS would be possible, I don't trust that my password is safe in Facebook imagine my money. This is another thing for "dumb people".
If we set up a production facility and start trying to sell the insulin we produce, without going through the full regulatory process, we're in violation of the law. If we set up a production facility and give it away for free, and then ask for "donations" from the same group we give it away for free to, is that legal?

Jail may also be an overstatement. We are working with lawyers to get a clearer picture of the legal risk involved, for example maybe the biggest risk is that they just come shut us down.
Reading the guide [1] I can see that it recommends, for adult men, 7-10
servings of fruits and veg, 7-8 of grain products, 3-4 dairy and 3 of meat
_and alternatives_, which means vegetable sources of protein, particularly
beans and legumes, including peanutbutter. For adult women it's 7-8 servings,
6-7, 3-4 and 2, respectively.

That's a predominantly carb-based diet, especially counting the "alternatives"
to meat and the vegetables that include potatoes and sweet potatoes (the
"other vegetables" category in the guide.

You can see this also on the food guide's website [2] (and its wikipedia page)
where an image summarises the recommendations: a full plate; half is fruit and
veg (including sweet/ potatos); a quarter is carbs (black and white rice,
noodles, bread, red quinoa); and another is meat and alternatives, which
again, include beans, chickpeas, lentils, almonds, peanuts, tofu, walnuts and
some grains I can't quite identify.

So I don't know where you guys saw the low-carb diet. I particularly don't see any suggestion that grains are "for livestock".

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[1] http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/alt_formats/fnihb-dgspni/pdf/pu...

[2] https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/
all jobs including outsourced ones should be pegged. It should be something like you're allowed to earn 200x the average worker including bonuses, including outsourced employees, contractors, freelancers both foreign and domestic.

Maybe also have a bonus structure that's add/subtract 10% to that # for jobs created/lost, so if you added 1% (USA based) increase in jobs you can get a 10% bonus, so if you earned 10 million, you can get 11 million. If your company had to lay off 1% (USA based) of workforce, then you have to take 10% less as a penalty. The idea is to encourage a healthy economy locally in America, while keeping wages up across the board.

Then there are only 2 ways for the CEO to rise above current pay: 1. raise wages. 2. hire more people. Both of which stimulate the economy.
This put my thoughts on OKRs into words better than I ever could. At my last two companies, I've been beating the drum that the closer to an individual level you get the less useful OKRs are. The backward process of, "we know what we are going to do, how to we make it fit the OKR formula" drives me insane.

Personally, I actually like OKRs at the organization or large sub org level. I think they are great at getting everyone moving in the same direction and letting everyone know what matters. My problem is that as you drill down into an organization you need to switch from the "Why are we doing this?" and "What are we measuring?" questions and instead as "Exactly how are we going to do this?" which doesn't really fit into the ORK structure. Personally, I find that once you get down to a group of about five people or less, creating a list of tasks is far more affective than OKRs.
Those "four or five commands" do like seven seemingly unrelated things each.
I'll hazard a guess as to what happened.

The dev is terrified to release anything less than perfection and is insanely good at adding more content and can always justify to themselves procrastinating on release by working on more content.

What? I'm not projecting. You're projecting. Shut up.
Can you articulate why it’s not a good idea? There’s a few workers coops that pay equal salaries without occurrences of mass death.

To me at least the vast majority of pay structure in traditional companies seems to be hierarchical rather than actually being structured around ‘merit’. And for many businesses I’d wager it’s really hard to actually determine individual merit over the lifetime of a business. As such a flat pay structure might be better. Particularly if there is a profit sharing scheme?
> Objective – Increase Customer Retention

> Key Result #1 – Lifetime Customer value increase from $N to $N+5

> Key Result #2 – Decrease Customer Churn Rate by 10%

I'm a developer on a team. How am I supposed to know why customers are churning? I'm three levels removed from talking to customers when they cancel. I don't have a deep relationship to know how to add value to them.

Someone needs to do the research, analysis, and leg work of finding potential areas to exploit. And then someone needs to have at least some amount of vision or inspiration about how to solve that problem. Or do whatever trendy new "design sprint feedback loop" brainstorming session someone is tweeting about. This is the kind of stuff I hear designers and "product people" talking about wanting to do.

If you want to do that work and then loop in the engineering team to talk about feasibility and planning that seems fine, but the last time I worked in an environment with OKR no one seemed to have any brilliant ideas about how to, you know, actually achieve the Key Results.

(Until these questions can be satisfactorily answered to developers, OKRs are going to be perceived as a buzzword, flavor of the month process air-dropped in because someone saw a blog post about it)
This article didn't really say that much, aside from that the game still isn't out and still doesn't have tangible details about a release.

I really do hope to play it one day, but I'm starting to think that the game is on a death march and will end up unsatisfactory no matter what. I am eagerly waiting to be proven wrong.
Metric-obsessed management systems often miss on quality.
> These are all subject to network effects.

Can you describe in more detail the issue? Would love to hear critical thoughts on this project, as I'm interested, but wary.
Burger King’s Dystopian Student-Debt Sweepstakes
Newspaper and HN are two very different things. Newspaper articles are supposed to be accurate and curated. Editors have control over them. That is not the case with HN.

Comparison between comments on HN and comments on (online) newspaper articles would be more apt. In this case, HN would lead by very large margin, as far as quality of comments are concerned.
Indeed. Added my setup just now, comments (and votes) would make this much more interesting.

Also please fix scrolling in the submission form on mobile (iOS) with the -webkit-overflow-scrolling CSS property.
Brilliant as you are Rayiner, I can't help noticing a certain Panglossian trend in your exegeses.
EU minister names cat 'Brexit': "He meows loudly to be let out but won’t go"
> The real question is how much of the accounts are delinquent

Wouldn't how many people are carrying a balance each month (and thus paying interest, implying they very likely can't afford to pay off the balance each month even if they wanted to) be a better measure? The average worker in the US barely nets $6,500 in three months, they're definitely not charging and paying that much off every month.
Oof. My mobile client cut off the best part. It was supposed to be `sleep 45m && xeyes`.
It's solely focused on data analysis (none of this "dashboard" stuff), but I've found Kst[0] to be the lowest-friction way of going from plaintext time-series data to fancy, zoomable, draggable plots in whatever layout you want. It handles realtime data very handily as well, happily scaling with as much backlog as I could throw at it.

Bokeh is a nice kit as far as it goes, but I hit scaling problems quite early with it - as I understood it, it was supposed to send incremental updates to the client, but in fact it resent everything every time - and therefore fell over after half an hour when the time to update exceeded the update rate. Maybe I was holding it wrong.

[0] https://kst-plot.kde.org/
The federal government funded the highway system.

There are 350 million Americans. Do you know who pays most of the taxes to the federal government? It’s not the people in the mid-West.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state
I went through the same thing. Took me ~20 years to find success. Biggest factor (hindsight is 20/20) was deciding to only consider businesses that had both competition and a business model.
> it's technically open

Yes, but in a practical sense it ties your operation to GitHub.
Oh thanks!

Especially since the article says room temperature. I know a lot of people on HN are interested in superconductors but don't necessarily use K frequently if ever.
My username is associated with my real life identity and would be trivial for people to look me up.

I am already "doxxed" and it doesn't bother me.
I agree with this but have to add, not everyone CAN jump ship, because we don't have single-payer or universal healthcare, some people HAVE to keep working their shitty job no matter what or risk losing healthcare, so in that essence they're slaves.

Ideas of gbi, employee-pegged ceo pay, and universal healthcare all benefit worker mobility which will also keep corporations in check even more and 'temper' capitalism, it's not socialism --it's tempered capitalism instead of runaway crony capitalism that we'd like to see implemented.
Yeah I saw that. Did the last administration purposely not pursue because they knew time would pass and he would get a pass based on statue of limitations?

What's crazy is he is trying to say he did not lie... wtf! Accountability for ones actions is difficult for those in power.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/6/clapper-deni...
Bit and '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box
This is a great resource.

Programming has always been a second-class citizen on Twitch and has quite the fabled history. It started with people uniting under specific games when nothing other than gaming was allowed. A "Game Programming" category was eventually added as a special exception. Then Twitch launched Creative as the first non-gaming category. There was initial hype, Game Programming slowly died as a result and Programming was eventually made a sub-community of Creative (i.e. not visible in the directory). Then IRL launched, proceeding to lobotomize Creative and therefore what was left of Programming. When IRL got out of hand, Twitch broke it down in multiple categories and for a glorious 14ish days, there was a full-blown Programming category visible in the directory. It was too good to be true though and the recently launched and anemic Science & Technology (as part of the IRL break-up) needed to be saved from the embarrassment it was so they deleted Programming and told people to stream there instead. We are back to people thinking there is no programming content on Twitch.

Sad because it's a solid category with a lot of good content that no one can find. Never understood Twitch's stubbornness in not exploring it as decent vertical to develop.

Another resource worth checking out even if the formatting is a little jarring is https://github.com/bnb/awesome-developer-streams. There is a lot of overlap but it lists what people do on their channels.
I had the same problem. I also want simple binary metrics and batch related updates like are batch jobs running on time or over due. I really want to avoid writing my own dashboard but seems the only way.
JavaScript Party 77: It’s Just JavaScript ️
Great job missing the point entirely.

No single person will triple the value of a company. Not even the CEO. The CEO may make a major decision, but it's still the people at the very bottom doing the grunt work that implement it, and they should see some of the fruit of their labor.
This is interesting. I wonder how much of a depressing effect throwing away the backlog every time will have on contributions from people on the team who have good ideas but are not super vocal, e.g. "what's the point of saying my ideas when they'll just be thrown out next time we do planning?"
Would you still need as heavy a lunar interceptor as the S-IVB? The Wikipedia page for it indicates that the S-IVB's engine was burned twice, once for the final push to achieve LEO and one for translunar injection. It was done this way so that the S-IB and S-V could share a common interface to the command & lunar modues for LEO flight tests. The Falcon Heavy goes straight to LEO; presumably you'd build a custom launch vehicle for TLI and landing and not need the portion of the S-IVB's propellant used to get to LEO.
You can't make that comparison because the Supreme Court is not dedicated to the agenda of the US Government, in fact, it's not even meaningful to say the US Government has any sort of long term agenda because what the USG wants to do tends to change every time a new President or Congress gets elected.

The EU is different because it has a long term overriding Federalist agenda independent of EU elections, which can't actually change anything.

As for the budgets, maybe you're running behind the times.

Let's take the UK's budget contribution to the EU in 2017, it's about £13 billion. That's a lot of money, the UK is one of the biggest budget contributors.

Just one single fine of one single company, the 2018 fine against Google, clocks in at $5 billion! Earlier in that year the EU fined Qualcomm $1 billion. In 2017 Google was fined $2.7 billion.

The fines against US tech firms alone are in the same range as the entire contribution of one of Europe's biggest economies. There is an absolutely vast conflict of interest there, on a scale never seen before.
That’s a huge problem with the whole idea of providing value to the business. Some people can show real metrics but a lot of us are several layers away from anything quantifiable so either you have nothing to show or you have to make up some bullshit metric as I often see in resumes.
Couldn't the policy's intent simply be to shift the economy ever so slightly away from consumption and toward production?

It certainly could be, but I think how credible that is depends on the goods affected. If they are essentials and there is competition from elsewhere, the barriers make China less competitive, and US customers will presumably go for the best deal to minimise their losses. If they are non-essentials, the barriers also make them less attractive, and again China loses out. But if they are essentials and China is the only game in town, import tariffs look a lot like a tax on the US market.
I'm talking about actin structures. I believe the icon i linked to is intended to depict an actin structure. If it's intended to depict a single molecule of actin, it's even worse!
Athena – Automated build health management system
I like that quote of Crichton's too, but since it has nothing to do with the actual Murray Gell-Mann or his life—only his name, which Crichton made use of in a particularly arbitrary way—I think we should treat it as off topic in this thread.
Really? Because it's used in so many fields there should be something interesting there one would think. Of the top of my head:

Defense, agriculture, home automation, industrial automation, finance, automotive, oil&gas, space resarch, robotics. The list goes on!

I think the proprietary toolchain stuff is also changing, but slowly.
Yes, I know, but Elon is also a marketing guy, and this is one of his tricks.

Not saying it's a bad thing! I'm excited for Starlink and I think it will do good for the world.
Sperm counts are on the decline – could plastics be to blame?
This has a kind of weird, not necessarily bad effect. Since the main way this changes the CEOs life is their relationship to capital.

With income "caps," you no longer own a private jet, but you still fly on one.

The company hires your chauffeur, owns your vacation home, owns your private jet, hires your personal assistant, hires your other, more personal assistant, pays for your chef and maid, etc.

CEOs still live a life of luxury, but they are unable to acquire massive capital. If software engineers are labor aristocrats, CEOs become labor space emperors.

It definitely is more of an "east-coast" style of wealth, the kind of thing that shocked the "Traitorus Eight" when they were working with east coast finance to found Fairchild (if I'm remembering my history correctly.) But high marginal tax rates on the super rich were in effect at that time and they didn't understand the alternative either.
Google recent 1.67B USD fine is a drop in the ocean compare to their income
The Math Behind Oculus Medium's VR Move Tool
If so, I have a wall to sell you.

Ha ha, only a rube would believe in a grift like a wall, the smart set are over here with the guy running the Wall scam to finance his real 'insider' project, the 'Space Force' which is totally legitimate and not at all a procurement bonanza. Sure there's a treaty about the non-militarization of space but let's ignore that and pretend it's already obsolete, while we also pretend that the air force hasn't been handling our Sekrit Space Stuff just fine for decades.
Drug may deliver ‘ecstasy’ of social interactions to autistic people
The problem, in my understanding, is that the drone ship currently passes the video data to shore via a link to a satellite in geostationary orbit. Because the drone ship's dish has to be aimed within a very tight arc in order to communicate with the satellite, the vibrations from the first stage's landing burn causes the connection to be lost.

Because there'll be a ton of Starlink satellites up there once the constellation has been completed (and they'll be much closer than geostationary), the acceptable arc for the dish to be aimed should become wider, and it will likely become possible for SpaceX to use the Starlink network instead and maintain a good connection the whole time.
Maybe I misunderstand you - but I think the objection is that paid services typically do a great job at hosting files. Normal casual people, do not. Eg, if I run a RaspPi from my closet it seems far more likely that my server will fail, than if I had used Google/etc.

And IPFS does not work (or at least, has no guarantee) in the event of a file has no hosts. So the only way you could host it yourself safely would be to use something like P2P and distribute the files. Either at large scale (like FileCoin proposes), or by having something like RaspPi's in 2 family members closets so you have redundancy in your hosting - should your house burn down.
TownChat
Whataboutism is usually framed around disagreement—I was agreeing with the parent.
Yeah, this wasn't at all what I thought it would be about, which is the difficulty (impossibility?) of measuring developer impact against key results.

When you're a salesperson, you don't have to agonize over how to illustrate that you've "Decreased Customer Churn Rate by 10%". When you're an assembly line worker, you don't have to find a way to figure out how you contributed to "produce 15% more widgets". You either accomplish these things or you don't - they are literally descriptions of your performance in your job. Either way, nobody cares how you did (or didn't) do it.

When you're a developer, how are you supposed to show that you've helped "increase customer value from $N to $N+5"? Because "shipped the new version of the message queuing system" is not in anyone's list of key results.

OKRs feel like "organized SMART goals", and so I have the same criticism of them as I do of SMART goals: they're just another way of conceptualizing goals around things that are already easily and directly measured. No one has made any progress in quantifying the contributions of roles that don't have direct percentage impacts on dollars earned or dollars saved.
Or they invent a lot of bullshit metrics because in reality a lot of work is very hard to quantify.
And if they're rich enough to be able to retire young while buying everything they want, even better.
> How am I supposed to know why customers are churning? I'm three levels removed from talking to customers when they cancel. I don't have a deep relationship to know how to add value to them.

Most design decisions you make as a developer affect the value users get from your product, and therefore the churn rate. Sure you can get more useful data by talking to customers, and you should seek it out. But even lacking that, it's up to you to put yourself in the place of a user and make the most practical decisions available for their benefit that your powers of intuition allow. You don't get to say, I don't have the best possible data for that choice therefore it's not my problem. It's still your problem.
That’s is a really nice quote and basically the reason why I don’t feel too bad about Trumps fake news claims. Anyone competent in any subject area reads wildly inaccurate articles all the time.
> Do you really want to trust this step to a rocket that has to be assembled and fueled in space?

Yes. Isn’t that the next logical step to developing space—the ability to build structures in orbit?

That aside I wouldn’t object to building a Saturn V either.
> I'm a developer on a team. How am I supposed to know why customers are churning? I'm three levels removed from talking to customers when they cancel. I don't have a deep relationship to know how to add value to them.

I hope no one is expecting every individual developer to know the numbers on churn, but I do think it's important that someone on the eng team would know that number. In my experience, some combination of the product manager and the tech lead for the team should have some insight into how the changes the engineers are making affects the customer.