skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jesus, you're describing a hellscape, as far as I'm concerned. A noisy place where people can interrupt me whenever, where no work ends up documented because you can just "look at this," and people are motivated by the beer and parties, not by actually working on something worthwhile. I mean, yes, especially in the eCommerce world the "worthwhile" is rare to come by, but you're not going to disguise that by trying to replace your employees social life. Finally, my experience tells me that if "only Naimh can owrk on FooBarAdapter," then Naimh left the company three years ago and moved into the Ural mountains to live off the land.

And good grief, if my choice is between a cubicle farm and an open office, cubicle farm every day. Thankfully, my choice is no longer that limited. Oh, and working with people who document their work and read team message board, turning your "only Naimh can work on" into some forgotten memory of past nightmares.
> Better to fund robots at 1/10 of the level of a manned mission, and get to explore the entire solar system instead.

The unfortunate reality is, once people settle for this, the 1/10 will get cut to 1/1000 because "all you do is send robots to dead rocks". Funding science isn't sexy these days.

> If people are dead set on humanity having a 'backup plan', then the Moon is right next door and we can even set it up with wifi.

For some x-risks Moon may be just a bit too close. I understand that the x-risk avoidance argument is a niche one, though. IMO we should absolutely do the Moon - and then Mars or Venus (or both).
I think you're confusing the conclusions from the original paper with the conclusions from this paper. This paper is a reproduction of the original study, and for the most part, it is not able to reproduce the findings.
I'm not sure that this is news. No one who saw the deal expected it to pan out. While the town could certainly use the manufacturing, shouldn't the money and training breaks come after commitments are reached? The US could use more manufacturing of any kind to help fill the gap for low skilled workers, as I'm sure most US workers would be capable of being trained up, but this doesn't seem like the right to be of deal. Remember all the hubbub about picking winners and losers with Solyndra? Doesn't that seem like a small deal now when we consider the only reason US solar manufacturing lost out was maybe dumping by Chinese companies with finding directly from the Chinese government? I really hope that the new discovery of rare earth minerals Japan find pans out to break the stranglehold China currently possesses on it.
What Type of Backup Are You Using?
The new Microsoft is all about making deals that can grow marketshare. As an ex-Microsoftie during the Ballmer-Era, it’s great to see a company as large as MS reinvent itself under Nadella.
Chernobyl: The True Cost of Technical Debt
The same reason no one offers to pay extra at the grocery store.
Love the concept for the site, and love the interactive charts
Either way, a human should always review the case before pulling something long-lived offline. Random users should only be able to flag things for review, nothing more.
> but are happy to let people overhear what you think.

In my experience, most engineers in offices spend their days with headphones on because they’re trying to drown out the office noises. They’re not going to overhear anything. Also, again, in my own experience, even if you don’t and are listening to what’s going on around you, you still can only overhear what’s said by those relatively close to you. That is, the probability of overhearing something useful has been, for me, incredibly low to the point that it hasn’t been worth it.

> rather than grabbing her for a “Can you look at this?”

When I’ve worked remotely, we’ve often sent each other messages asking to explain some code or hopped on a quick screenshare to go over it. Bonus: due to the asynchronous nature of text chat, I don’t accidentally interrupt the other person. Also, the more that is done in text chat, the more of a record of it you have when you inevitably forget. Its much better to be able to do a quick search in your chat logs than to re-interrupt the person to explain the thing again.

> But whole-team remote work? No thanks!

I’d rather have everyone remote, because it means you can optimise the company around it. If only some people are remote, or people are remote only some of the time, then companies tend to treat them as second-class citizens and optimise for in-person.
Apple didn't invent Objective-C, it just-so-happened to be the language of choice at Next, which carried on into OSX and iOS. The fact that Swift is now Apple's language of choice doesn't make analysis of Objective-C "sort of pointless", any more than e.g. Facebook creating Hack would make anything involving PHP "sort of pointless".
They do it through various methods.. original common ones were random events, sleeping bags, slight screen rotations every so often, changing the ways you could interface programmatically with the game, changing colors slightly, etc.
Dockerfile says

FROM ubuntu:18.04

It'd be interesting to see what the space savings to Alpine would be.
Speaking from Finnish perspective here. The thing is that the boomer generation did not save their pensions. We have a system where future generations pay.

It worked ok back when population grew. Now it doesnt. Basically they voted that their kids will pay for their pensions and then didnt have enough kids. So now we are quite screwed.
Fluree Raises $4.7M for Blockchain Database
The footer of the results list says “Breach data provided by Have I Been Pwned” and it looks like Have I Been Pwned has an API here https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v2.

I personally don’t see a benefit to Firefox Monitor, aside from a new channel of exposure and branding for Firefox, if they are providing the same data Have I Been Pwned is.
Remote work is the solution to specific problems. For me, that problem is commuting. Office buildings are not where people live. I can't have a house right next door to the office for an amount that the company is willing to pay me.

Since the company is cheap, hires the bare minimum of people to do a specific job, those people either have to come from a large local area, or support remote work.
Most households have two cars, so I don't understand what you find funny about that.
> How about, "less tourism, whether upper or middle class"?

That won't work on the long run. Watch the video, it is addressed.
Regarding pair programming, some of my best work was done “remote pair programming” with voice chat and screen sharing.
Money is fungible and fiat while vouchers are vendor-locked and not fiat, that's why they can't be evaluated the same.

I won't try to argue whether they should be removed in their entirety, that's not even an option I had even considered until now.
In my experience it has elements of both, but stuff like managing lifetimes means that (IMO) it's more trouble than it's worth when you're creating a web backend. Any more established garbage collected language is absolutely fine. Unless it needs to, say, run in a very resource constrained environment, in which case it's a pretty interesting possibility.
It's interesting to note how we can have consensus on 2,000 individual cases being called a true crisis, but we still cannot agree ~76,000 monthly border crossing[1] is a true crisis.

Perhaps it's because Ebola is deadly and it's easy to remain ignorant of the humanitarian crisis plaguing many of those 76,000 monthly refugee/asylum seekers... both before and after crossing. Perhaps it's because we all fear catching Ebola from an airport or shopping mall, but none of us fear catching "run-for-your-life-itus", or have to wonder how we'll feed, clothe, and shelter ourselves in a brand new country where we don't speak the dominant language or understand the culture, but we know it's safer than where we came from?

Or perhaps it's simply because it's not a political punching bag issue? ... that's probably the real truth neither "side" wants to admit.

Ebola isn't going to run rampant through the US - we have a great medical system that wouldn't be trying to treat patients in a field in the middle of a war zone. We should lend all the support we can to DRC to help prevent the spread of this terrible virus - not out of fear of it spreading to our home nation, but out of compassion to the people of the DRC.

At the same time, we should really step back from our trenches and objectively examine our own domestic problems - not through the lenses of political ideology, but through the lens of a decent human being.

(ya, this is a throwaway... advocating we stop being political about our own domestic crisis is sure to attract a lot of negativity, unfortunately).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/us/border-crossing-increa...
I assume I'm going to have to work with remote people now. In essence, the people in an office might as well be remote. There's almost always someone working from home. And when everyone is in physically in the office, many people don't like being disturbed, so you gotta hit them up on Slack and wait for people to respond.
People are entirely capable of articulating what phrasing is racist dog whistle; when I read, say Ta-Nahesi Coates he is able to elaborate his point even to an audience with a very different context. It happens all the time. I'm asking for someone to actually explicitly explain to me the classist dog whistle in the article so that I can learn something.
Now I’m darned curious.
That link shows only a 25% improvement in single-core performance in four generations. That's an embarrassment, Intel.

Throwing more cores at a problem has never been difficult. The whole point of the article is that you can buy a manycore workstation for peanuts. If manycores solves your workload, you're going to have a good time. If, like most power users, you need more single-thread performance, CPU performance has been stagnant.
I wouldn't be so sure of that. For AWS it is risky to not support popular platforms, because it gives their customers a reason to move elsewhere. AWS is not the only cloud provider around (and certainly not the cheapest). There is a reason they developed an alternative to MongoDB instead of just saying "sorry, we don't support MongoDB because of license". They couldn't buy a license from them because that would set a bad example (they are not really fond of these alternative licenses) and they probably didn't want to maintain MongoDB codebase (before relicensing), so this was the only solution left.
Show HN via comment:

You can now deploy an Actix web app in production in just a few minutes.

https://render.com/docs/deploy-actix-todo

A Rust user testimonial: https://twitter.com/sebasporto/status/1136032748894736384
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10141
Change all your passwords with randomly generated passwords.

https://password.generator.app/
Stayed in the hospital in April for about a week for a colon resection - without a doubt worst sleep is in a hospital. It was an amazing environment too and I only had 11:00pm and 4:00am checks. I think it's the nature of the environment.
How does the password matter though? Won’t it usually be some hashes anyway and if you are breached you should just change your password anyway.
Valery Legasov – the hero that saved Europe from the Chernobyl disaster
I think this is my 2nd HN post in 5 years. I just want to shout out to Actix-Web team especially Nikolay. I was a Rust noob and still a Rust noob, asking stupid questions on Actix gitter, but the community helped me and give me suggestions a lot.

Thank you! I am a really satisfied user of Rust and Actix Web! I hope I can retire my programming career just using Rust lol.
A common thread I'm seeing in the discussion here is confusing the claims from the original paper with conclusions made by this paper. This is a replication study, and it starts by stating what the original paper found. What the original paper found is not what this paper finds. For the most part, this is a replication failure, for a myriad of reasons, including several kinds of misclassification.

From this paper:

The reanalysis failed to validate most of the claims of [18]. As Table 6(d-f) shows, the multiple steps
of data cleaning and improved statistical modeling have invalidated the significance of 7 out of 11
languages. Even when the associations are statistically significant, their practical significance is
small.

The reference [18] is https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2635868.2635922, which is the original paper that this paper is a replication study of.
Reaction (automatic IT incident remediation tool) v1.1 is released
Jim Allison, the Carousing Texan Who Just Won a Nobel Prize
Isn't the most popular Lisp editor, emacs, AST aware? I'm a filthy vim using pleb but I'm under the impression that emacs is aware of s-expression encoded ASTs and has all sorts of 'chords' for manipulating the AST.
The title somewhat buries the lede: actix-web has had its 1.0 release today. See also the thread at https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/bwy99w/actixweb_10_re...
That is because men were valued more. Women and female infested things were considered lesser. Being like a girl was insult, manning up was compliment.

Besides, it is not just about career and money. This forum is full of men who don't work solely for money. Who work for challenge, to feel like they can do something special, to compete, to be with collegues, because the job fits their personality well etc.
> That’s a lot of money to leave on the table. Are those in-person brainstorming sessions really worth $15,000 per year, per person?

Depends on your revenue/employee, but if you're at or targeting something over $300k/employee than $15k would only need a 5% over remote
You pay.

The idea is that your future pension is paid by yourself gradually over your productive years. Generally speaking of course - some have no work ever, some do and pay more, some die before they get some of it, and so on.

Complex calculations though, since we can't know the situation 40 years ahead, perhaps not even 5 years ahead.
> I suspect that people are rushing to do a 5 day vacation or 3 day weekend because that is there only option.

I would suspect that too, it is still an inferior form of travel and approach to experiencing an area.
To those of you worried about a global outbreak: USAMRIID is closing in on a highly effective (near 100%) treatment for Ebola. So far it is 100% successful in macaques, which is a good animal model for the disease in humans. The project lead spoke to my research group - his talk about Ebola, and some of the cultural and geographic challenges in fighting it, was fascinating.
Agreed. Kill all trade with China. I'll eat the price increases if it means we can stop trying to compete with the regime subsidizing NK.
Thanks. So it sounds like, yes, there are clearly identifiable, negative behavioral changes in the animal.
So much memories! Thank you!

also old!
> Ebola isn't going to run rampant through the US

This insular, isolationist attitude is precisely what is currently eroding the United States' soft power in the world today.
New England’s Electric Power Grid Is Undergoing a Transformation
Well it seems to me most of the students from India assumed it is kinda shortcut to US permanent residency. And it is no longer happening. The trouble is all grandstanding of students and Indian government of shunning US and instead preferring Europe or Australia is not really working. I recently read an amusing news that Indian government asking european, australian governments to allow more indian students and less restrictive policy on movement. While European telling back that India does have good educational institutes so why do they want to come there in first place. Normally it would be exactly other way round where foreign governments wanted more international students.

At this point of time it is fair to say it is stronger wish of Indian students to migrate to first world. Whereas first world nations are no longer excited to have more students from outside just because they can pay fees but in return most of them want to settle there. This assumption of first world education will include permanent immigration is no longer valid.

More importantly it also exposes hypocrisy of large majority of students who write idealistic crap in admission essays, benefit from huge privilege in grossly unequal society in India and then try to comfortably settle down in egalitarian first world. It is likely protectionist move by US government but these student whining that 'world is not fair' and that they have legitimate rights to visa and GC reeks of something similar to 'White privilege'.
Making education an elite thing is not sustainable.
Part of the whole issue here revolves around shared hosting in my opinion. Host hardware is so oversold that one customer utilizing 100% CPU is so impactful to a handful of other customers that it's not allowed at all. I have seen providers that has terminated services for less than 100% CPU usage, a constant 90% is enough on some of them. But due to the profit margins and shared hosting, providers are able to charge incredibly low prices per instance and be able to oversell their hardware sometimes as much as 10 to 20 times. That's as many as four hundred customers on a box that should maybe have 20 if it weren't oversold it all. In this case it really is an instance of you get what you pay for. The service we provide is no oversold hardware and all dedicated plans. Some people are initially very turned off by the pricing but the ability to allow customers to mine if they wanted to and not affect a single other customer on the platform giving each customer the same experience regardless of any other one images resource utilization, leaves too much happier customers even if smaller profit margins for us. At the end of the day customer experience and support provided are two of the most important factors in running a hosting provider. While I disagree with aspects of digital oceans business model as a shared hosting provider, I do think that the response to this was more than appropriate and better than would be expected of a lot of shared hosting providers, provided they actually implement any of the things talked about in the response.
Our Future at Water-Whitehall (Message by the CEO of Ooneepod.com)
Note that the USDA organic label isn't exactly foolproof either - "organic" compounds are chosen by committee:

> This week, in a process that is largely invisible to consumers but that has become a semi-annual ritual of controversy within the world of organic politics, a committee called the National Organic Standards Board is selecting those synthetic substances that organic farmers and processors may use.

> ...For while many would prefer to exclude the use of any synthetic chemicals, there are some substances - including herbicides, fungicides, emulsifiers and other additives - that some organic farmers say they cannot do without.

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/28/sure-...
No need to take the population into account because I used the per capita productivity.

And do you have figures for the doubling of the retirement duration ? As I showed above, it only increased by 50% in England and I'd be surprised is the American raise was higher since life expectancy is lower there (in part due to a less efficient health system).
Knocking it out of the park, Mozilla, keep it up.

Getting more people on Firefox would do the tech world so much good, diversifying who controls what in the web.
How Will AR Advance Local Commerce?
Unfortunately DNA doesn't last that long. We'd need samples from something like ~200 million years ago, but DNA only survives about 1 million year even under the best conditions.

EDIT: Unless you were talking about comparing DNA from living species. The closest living relative to birds is crocodilians, but they're pretty distant from one another and might not be useful for the kind of analysis you suggested.
>What about the rest of us?

Well right or wrong anyone in the first world is probabbly doesn't need to worry about ebola generally.

Still I get your point about just mentioning one country.
The article seems fine. The title could be interpreted harshly but it's just a title, it's optimized for clicks. I agree that there's a lot of trust funded journalism coming out of places like Vox and the Atlantic but I don't think this is one of those articles.

I couldn't find any dog whistles and I'm usually pretty good at seeing the author's agenda before clicking the "other articles" link.

Edit: Even after checking the other stuff she wrote I don't see anything substantial to complain about
Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster
How do you reconcile that belief with examples of humans who don't have these motivations?
Related to web frameworks, what is the current status on ORM in the Rust ecosystem?
such is life.
that is the reality of making games without an engine.
>Compensation should be based on output performance and the difficulties and complexity of the work being done.

The price of something (compensation) will trend towards however much the opportunity cost is (the second best option). If it doesn't, then (assuming no giant moat) another business will spend less on compensation, be able to sell their product/service for less, and end up with your customers.
I have an old Dell Xeon workstation, it is not loud at all.
On a vastly more practical note, check out JDM_WAAAT's site https://www.serverbuilds.net/ . They're more piecemeal parts list, but he has a very reasoned approach to select parts that deliver value/performance at their price point, and are available at the selected price in sufficient quantities.
This is basically a frontend for haveibeenpwned. Creating it costed Mozilla money. Why did they do this instead of linking directly to the original page?
1password already is integrated with Have I Been Pwned, which sounds like the same dataset that this is using. I believe it's exposed via Watchtower in the app. (https://1password.com/haveibeenpwned/)
It's certainly a less mature ecosystem, but once you get over the hump of understanding lifetimes, there's nothing preventing you from using lots of owned values and clone in a way that makes it really easy to ignore annoying lifetime problems. And, the benefit being if you ever need to get more performance out of a hot part of your code, you can always optimize to get that zero copy goodness.
After 9 coding jobs and a year or three in labor and service work at each end, I much prefer fixed schedules.

On-site is best, tho I think taking away time flexibility could actually be a boon and help make remote work tolerable.

Working for minimum wage now as a green waiter with people juggling 2-3 jobs and/or kids and a marriage in the Bay Area, more than any office colleague, I observe that fixed schedules work. The gig people I interact with are far more stressed than my colleagues.

Apparently tangental perhaps, I think this case helps isolate factors of logistics well when contrasting the more common cases; and I think it’s a wise way to go, and am building a life to support that type of engagements. Thanks for sharing.
first post ever where i disagree with all points. I work in a team, of 10, 9 are remote, and the manager is partially remote. We spend however a lot of time in gotomeetings and pair programming sessions and meet each other, 4 or 5 times per year. It works great. Near enough to work as a team and enjoy to work with the colleagues, far enough to don't have any interpersonal conflicts. It's just awesome. Said that, we are always able to drive to our headquarter if we feel that's necessary.