skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have done, both in the EU and the US. It worked out fine.

People may be scared of management, but hopefully they're reasonable. They're people, too. Most have some kind of understanding that sacrificing short-term productivity is counterproductive, both in that tired people make more mistakes and worse decisions, but also fed up people leave (super expensive and inconvenient).

Of course, your colleagues matter here. If they fail to set similar boundaries and expectations, one person isn't going to fix a dysfunctional environment. That's why it's important to work with professionals, and not people who devalue themselves and others regularly.
same ... I'll also add that for a time, I became hyper-aware of literally any noise that happened anywhere in my house at night. Lol, I can't tell you how many times I jumped out of bed to fend off an imagined intruder, or to run into the baby's room to make sure she was still breathing :P
I run like hell in the nude.
That was the morning we found out Trump was elected.
Ok, can't. This doesn't change the rest of what I said, though: Have the freelance artist spend some time fixing up the tileset as a whole!
>Whether this is enough to fund the web is debatable.

Come on man. Are you saying the web wouldn't exist if ads had just happened to be 50% as profitable?
There is a much bigger point here, though, about idle time.

Idle time is not just about healing the psyche. It also does that. But you run into problems from not having idle time much sooner than burnout, typically.

What is at stake is that the greedy algorithm for optimization does NOT work for complex systems. “I will make every individual person efficient, everyone is always working on something, look how good of a boss I am”—and you WILL fail to meet deadlines. And you will blame that failure on other people, or on the business constraints, because “well I did everything that I could to make the system efficient, the expectations that were put on me were unrealistic!”

The greedy algorithm is really obvious. Why would every part of the system doing less allow the system as a whole to do more? But it is also really wrong for any system that is large and complex enough to have the right sort of nonlinearities. If you’re managing a call center and everything is very linear—everyone has the same task day-in, day-out, the output of the team is directly changed by the output of every individual on that team—great, you can use the greedy algorithm. But if different people are working on different interrelated tasks then forget about it.

Because if you manage an interdependent system without creating idle time, soon you have every task falling into the proverbial “three priorities: Hot, Red Hot, and DO IT NOW.” You have that because you have chosen to create a system where there are large latencies in response to incoming tasks, so that those tasks are piling up.

I discoursed more on the abstract theory behind this in an answer on the Project Management Stack Exchange:

https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/26651/why-do-all-the-...
Spivak doesn't use early high school maths, of course ;)

mentioning the fact that there is such a thing as an "evolute" is a good point, though - could I convinve you to file an issue on the tracker so I don't forget about that? (HN threads disappear all too quickly!)
That's not specific to Germany. Middle managers are politicians inside a company. Their ultimate goal is almost always to accumulate power.
Hong Kong has 390,000 migrant domestic workers (maids, nannies) who basically own no property and are paid next to nothing. I imagine they have an outsized impact on the Gini coefficient in a way that doesn't translate to natives.
Energy gels with honey exist. It goes into your blood very quickly and tend to create a peak of sugar after which you don't feel very well. So better to have this type of quick sugar towards the end of the race.
> Git is distributed but all the things around it that we really need aren't

Can anyone recommend an issue tracker that is distributed with the repo?
Read a newspaper?
With my car the fob has to be within 2 feet to unlock the door.
At first I thought this was due to using low power transmitters, now I see it as an unintended security feature.
No one blamed mainland here but I have a very strong suspicion that you have stake in this fight given that your entire 5 months comment history here is about China related topics.
> If the context of the discussion was about developers instead of artists, how would HackerNews feel about someone lamenting the fact that they can't get any "affordable" developers to work on their projects?

That's an interesting way to look at this article. It seems that many solo entrepreneurs have a hard time evaluating the skills of those outside their own domain.

It feels arrogant to criticize someone profitably running their own company for 25 years, but I wonder if he would be better served by hiring a design/UX firm for a day or two to get some guidance on achieving a consistent look while still spending less money.
JV spends astonishingly little on art because his games don't make very much. His audience is small (I am part of it) and his audience values that particular kind of game way more than it does art--and the marginal return from making it look a little better to appeal to a little wider of a crowd is historically negative. He cited as much, and he's talked about his numbers in concrete terms before.

Every game you listed, every one, has spends at least one FTE or FTE equivalent, either in sweat equity or in cold hard cash, on their art. (And at least in the case of Steamworld, more than one!) JV's games literally don't make enough money to pay that person. What the heck do you expect him to do?

You're only mentioning the successes, what about all the Steam failures? Your post ignores that, unlike most of those relatively-very-expensive indie games that come out, go "plunk", and their developers go back to a real job, JV has successfully kept doing this for twenty-five years. He's had stinkers and still survived. The machine keeps cranking because of a relentless focus on cost control and making the game that somebody like me wants, even if it means that somebody like you adjusts your pince-nez and waxes on about his "mediocrity".
740 can be subprime if you have a short credit history.

Source: me.
As you say, the fascinating part about these accidents is that the risk was informed.

There's a tendency to simply say "If we had more procedures, and they were followed, then this wouldn't have happened." But that seems like a dodge. More often than not (in my experience), more procedure is simply seen as overly-burdensome and actively subverted by users (in the service of laziness, performance, compensation, or deadlines). As you say, willfully making bad decisions for bad reasons.

Sometimes you have the benefit of almost absolute control over people, e.g. SUBSAFE [1] (or Navy or Air Force maintenance QA programs). But most organizations don't have that kind of training budget.

Consequently, the most effective procedure is the safest one that people will actually follow. So strike that balance.

[1] If you can get a hold of high-level documentation, an excellent example of error mitigation in practice -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUBSAFE
Poverty in Indonesia has been decreasing with less than 10% falling below the international poverty line (which is the minimum amount needed to get food and shelter)[1]. Using them as a poster child of impoverishment seems to draw more on stereotype rather than fact. And again, the baseline needs to be compared against pre-industrial circumstances: do you really think that the average Indonesian wants to turn back th clock to pre-industrial Indonesia? That would be disastrous, the islands likely could not even support its current population levels without industrialization.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Indonesia
I couldn't resist laughing out, just as I think if this guy Justin Schuh had been presenting this in-person at any non-adtech gathering, he would have been laughed out of the room.
> So your complaint is that Nordic countries try to make give everyone a good standard of living rather than creating poverty so a few more millionaires can become billionaires?

That's putting words into my mouth. I'm not complaining, merely observing. You're free to want more socialism, nobody is stopping you. I'm not saying one system is better than the other, they all have their own merits.

USA attracts top talent with top salaries, these are the people who are prepared to work hard and expect to be compensated well for that. They understand it's a sacrifice and they're willing to make it. Working willingly hard for a high compensation is not what I'd describe as exploitation.

Such a person in a Nordic country is working hard yet not compensated well for it. I don't see that as a better outcome for them and neither do they - that's why they emigrate to the USA. It's hardly relevant for building their own lives that there's some poor people living elsewhere in the USA.
Yup, that looks lovely.
Yes. It ceases to be open-source and ends up becoming software as a service.
> if you don’t feel like working, don’t!
Man, I got bills to pay, gotta save up for retirement, save up for a house, my car is on it's last wheel. I can't just not work
Are healthcare and education demponstrably multiple times better than in the 1950s?

Are lifespans multiples of what they were in the 1950s? Are college graduates multiple times more intelligent than they were in the 1950s? Is housing multiple times better than what it was in the 1950s?

Or are all these gatekeeping functions capturing rents?
Here Maps is free to end users (there is a cell phone app with traffic, and offline support).

It has (had?) 80% market share in car navigation systems, and makes money by charging car manufacturers for its product:

https://venturebeat.com/2015/08/03/why-3-car-giants-just-bou...

Apple maps is similar: you pay for the phone, and map updates are free. Android could be the same (if google charged for the OS).
I think you may not be grasping how tiny the margins here are. Where's the money come from to do it?
Any change that affects society is going to be political. Why is this a surprise? How could it be different?
Yep. I've been a grocery store manager, an interior contractor, a whole slew of other jobs, ... and a software engineer. Software engineer is by far the easiest job I've worked.
There is a whole tradition of these apps.
Perhaps you have heard of "Write or Die" or the countless variations?

https://v2.writeordie.com

https://writingstreak.io

http://writtenkitten.co

And, yes, the most dangerous writing app.

The idea is that it is easier to edit once done, so it is important to get everything out quickly and then go back and edit.

Edit: Someone should come up with an Atom plugin that does the same.
Why should he expend effort getting better at something he doesn't really care that much about when he can spend his time getting better at things he does? People like you always seem to miss the thing about time being a scarce resource.
GDP per labour hour.
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I think there's a strange value to slow and strong efforts.
> Without disrespect to the effort of founder(s) and employees, the company created negative economic value.

Haha that sounds rather brutal when you say it that way :(
There was a good BBC doc that featured this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
>The only way to revert it is to change the incentives.
Or people could change their decisions.
National guard are state resources whenever the feds aren't using them.
Actually, he completely owned his mediocrity, and he cited cost and risk, as well as his own comfort with said mediocrity as reasons for continuing with it.

Then he talked about great stories.

Definitely not mediocre.

So, the take away is story can sell to fans of story and game play.

That is not wrong. It has, does, and I suspect, will continue to.
Honestly its horses for courses.

If you want to run your workload in the most secure manner using BSD jails then go for it, but you will soon find that anyone with expertise to maintain it is hard to find. Almost all DevOps/SRE/Systems Engineers want to run their workloads (containers) in Docker.

The same goes for LXD.

Lets get one thing right - none of these systems are a Virtual Machine with their own hardware and kernel. All 3 systems share the hosts kernel, albeit BSD has separation of workloads as a consideration within the kernel itself. The Linux kernel has cgroups as a building block, which to me almost makes it an afterthought.

I would never run a container with hostile code on the same Docker host as my mission critical workload. Hell, not even the same network (physical/vpc/overlay). However, I would give it more consideration if the same workloads were on a BSD machine with Jail separation. This was the premise of what I was employed to build in my previous job - https://github.com/tredly/tredly . A better separation of host and jail workload can be achieved though BSD jails as separation of concerns has been taken into consideration within the kernel, instead of building on top of the kernel.

This article is 2 years old. Linux cgroups and BSD jails have come leaps and bounds since. Docker may have been the "flavour of the month" back then, but it continues to be the DevOps/SRE/Systems Engineer's tool of choice. Its not a silver bullet by any means, and has many shortcoming when used on its own. This why systems continue to be build on top of systems (tar -> apt -> docker -> k8s -> ?)

Of course all of the above assumes someone in my position as a DevOps engineer consuming resources upon either on-prem infrastructure or within the cloud. Workloads from an IaaS perspective are a completely different kettle of fish.
Concrete is awesome. No roots, flat and a predictable response (non) on hitting it. Just do not strike with your heels first and train slowly and methodically(not just running, this is true for walking as well).
I'm on 4 with 5 on the way. Here's how I think about in terms of effort. Basically, after 2 it's logarithmic. I can do lots of things in batches that shave off time. So, brushing teeth happens for all 4 kids at the same time and the set up cost would be the same with 1. With more kids, you end up setting rules for how they play together, rather than micromanaging entertainment for one. Once one kid can read, the older can read to the younger. This puts the older one on a good task and entertains the younger one.

It's not the life for everyone, but I really enjoy it.

In terms of effort, the per capita cost goes down after each kid IMHO.

1 kid = 1

2 kid = 2.5

3 kid = 3

4 kid = 3.25
The test site, which is located north of the White Sands National Monument (New Mexico), is open twice a year (the first Saturday of April and the first Saturday of October) to the public [0]. It's also located very close to the Very Large Array (VLA), featured in quite a few movies, which is also open to the public [1].

[0] https://www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/historyculture/trinity-site.h...

[1] https://public.nrao.edu/visit/very-large-array/
Yes, they do, and their TPC-H scores cannot be beaten. CentOS seems a reasonable choice, and likely drives down the TCO.
Great question. So I think this still is in the spirit of open source, because you can bypass scarf completely by just installing the package from source if you want to. For my own packages that are hosted on Scarf, I'm totally happy if someone chooses to do that, because then they're more likely to contribute code back to my projects, which is great. Scarf just gives devs a way to makes the path of least resistance for users a path that results in either usage analytics, money, or both. I hope that makes open source a more sustainable endeavor for the developers.
From a NASA website[0]: Saturn’s rings are incredibly thin. The main rings are generally only about 30 feet (10 meters) thick, though parts of the main and other rings can be more than a mile, or several kilometers, thick.

[0] https://hubblesite.org/quick-facts/all-quick-facts
>Standard of living rose by some measures on moving to the cities

Some?

>the dependence on an employer was much greater than the old dependence on your lord.

I'm not sure that's actually true.
It's pretty common on reddit.
Replace all 404 errors with 404 Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvwwzV6ruGc
To me this is more than a philosophical point, more than an engineering issue for AI, it's a current item of human life. The real world (and I am including Nature in the term) is our model for health and sanity. As computer-mediated reality becomes more and more the norm, we risk disconnection from our own embodiment.

How much time do you spend in front of a screen? How much of your existence is mediated already? I just tried VR goggles the other day, and thank God they give you headaches because people are going to try to live in there if it's ever physically possible. (Reminds me of the guy I knew who lived IRL on my friend's couch and played Second Life all day. He had a great second life but no first life.)

One other thing about being embodied: you die.
How to smear your enemies and silence critics, Chinese Communist Party style
Why does direct democracy confer legitimacy? Does the Supreme Court not have legitimate authority? I don't see a correlation.
Sorry to hear that. > 80% of all dates I've been on have been a pleasant and exciting experience, even when it didn't lead to anything more.
> A reasonable measure of what it takes to stay current and relevant in this industry is twenty hours of dedicated reinvestment per week.

That's insane - do we have statistics on people who do that?
>And how do you suggest a service such as Maps or Youtube stay free?

Maps isn't fully free; they charge exorbitantly for the API. The freemium model works for e.g. Dropbox and Vimeo without needing to show ads.
Thanks for the feedback. I made the choice to make Scarf a single-page-app site, so yeah nothing really works without JS. Good to know this is a desire, will keep that in mind for future work :)
Interesting, I'm glad to be wrong on that one. I guess that means my previous employer just had some unenforceable policies (not too surprising).
As far as I don't like the "Angry Lisp Drunk Haskell" version of TS e.g. loads of `<` and '>' mixed with functional concepts from half of the Haskell, which makes understanding code harder than necessary.

Typescript is one of the rare good things in javascript. You have to understands JS, because there is always gun pointed at your foot, waiting to blow you away.
Still TS makes this gun, a little bit harder to trigger. You cannot just write Java in it and cross your fingers.

Typescript gives you pretty good docs most of the time for free. Only problem is when author of code used `any` type or `Angry Lisp` version of it. Interfaces, enums and field access and typedefs are godsend.

In defense of TypeScript, your example looks like casting `void*` in C. Well typed `JSON.parse` would be pretty complicated and require runtime-machinery.

Only thing I dislike about TS is lack of proper `optional` types. I know the '.?' operator is coming, but still.
I saw something similar in the NHK video documentary about Japan's Ultra Trail Mount Fuji race (100 mi.). At just after 3:00 in the video[0] you can see two Mexican entrants of the Rarámuri people. However, one of them is wearing Nike shoes and another wears the traditional sandals. The results I thought were a bit embarrassing for Nike, no matter the exact cause (22 minutes; 29 minutes for the sandals result).

I was however really intrigued by the maize-based powder supplement drink they seem to enjoy. (Pinore, 15:00 in the video)

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PsKvPTM8po
So, is this a solution where patients who get this implanted won’t have a heartbeat?
This is nature's gift to human kind that the winners of yesterday become the losers of tomorrow, and on it goes, always changing, always in balance.
I like the "wishcycle" term - have never heard that before. Where I life in Southern California we have "single stream recycling" -- you throw all of your recyclables into one bin. I used to have a roommate who I had to continually remind "leftover burritos and hair extensions are not recyclable". Her attitude was "I just throw everything in there... they'll pick out what they don't want." Some days I really wonder how effective such a recycling system is at recycling vs. how much it only serves to make us feel good about ourselves.
They don't get into it, but the AIM host infrastructure was based on the event-based non-blocking libraries written by Lippke. The host complex was a distributed hash table (routed on relevant data, e.g. Screen name, ICQ number), with the extra step that you can migrate the in-memory state from one host to another while still taking incoming work. Quite a powerful infrastructure to build highly-available services. Only oddity is that you needed to have the clients (AIM clients and internal datacenter callers) have the ability to detach from one end point and re-attach to another end point when the bucket containing doing work for that client migrated to new hardware.

In the layer you were writing code, it was routed by the thing you hashed on, so it was sort of SDN like in its ability to separate the application state from the physical hardware. Amazingly good server technology. AOL had all kinds of cool tech - dynamically assigned (/24) subnets, IP Tunnels from the client, giant compression/caching farms that essentially cached all the static assets on the internet, etc. etc. In the 90s that is; those machines Eric was deploying onto were less powerful than your smart phone.
Some of the bot detection products use fingerprinting to try to establish whether someone is a real browser or not
Many people got the story of that race from the book "Born to run". Could you tell your story of that race ?
Then move to Wyoming.

States are entities of political significance, regardless of how many people happen to live in them. This is a union of states, and states get a say. If you don't believe that consider advocating for the replacement of states with population based administrative districts.
Unrelated to the OP's Credit Card discussion, but relavent to your comment on throw-away culture...I recently discovered the "Worn Wear tour" from Patagonia (https://www.patagonia.com/worn-wear.html). They have an instagram account with some really beautiful photos of heavily abused/loved garments that have been repaired rather than thrown away (https://www.instagram.com/wornwear/).

Worth looking at as a reminder that your clothes (and other things) tell stories about you. Getting rid of something because it's worn or damaged also gets rid of that story.
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I've never understood how people think pair programming is a good thing. Unless you're working with a junior and training them, it's ridiculous to have two people sharing a single keyboard and trying to code together.
Solving climate change is a collective action problem. Action taken with other people is the entire game.
with respect to = regarding
But they do reduce cache misses and unneeded cache evictions dramatically, and that allows CPUs to use external memory less. This reduces the power consumption.
Safari just downloaded a text file for me when I clicked the link. Nothing else happened.
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They were created by the ascribe of a few powerful individuals (not in some conspiratorial way, I just mean the actions of a few company heads / marketing gurus etc), not by the individual actions of some billions of users. They will have to be dismantled the same way.