skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cute. This article is itself an example of no adult in the room - the author skips over the real causes workplaces are full of mediocrity and goes for the politically correct never-offend-anybody stance of 'nobody knows eeeeverything, right?'

Workplaces are full of people who are not good at their job, only think about their bottom line and will resist anyone threatening their safety by trying to 'help' as the author suggests.

I'm looking forward to a blog post on how to navigate office politics, because that is the most important skillset of working at any large corporation, as soon as you have a mediocre skillset that isn't obviously mediocre to the manager caste.
The problem is not to enumerate or find the set of numbers that are sums of cubes.

The conjecture is: every integer that is not of the form 9k+4 or 9k+5 can be expressed as the sum of 3 cubes (and, in infinitely many ways).
I could argue it's their responsibility because one of Apple's focuses as a company is health/health care.

As a Pebble watch user who moved to an Apple Watch (after Pebble got bought out by Fitbit in 2017), I was amazed they didn't have any sleep tracking functionality. It's not a make or break feature, but as someone with a history of sleeping issue's, I really valued Pebble's tracking feature. If Apple is going to continue pushing Apple devices as the place to go for tracking and managing your health information, they will be seen as responsible for adding features users want.
Hey there, I’m Dragos, the other co-founder of GitDuck.

> Looks from the github repos like this is MacOS only right now, is that right?

You guessed right, only MacOS (for now) because that's what we use ourselves

> I’m guessing mostly based on https://github.com/gitduckhq/aperture-node.

We started using this package in our first implementation but we got rid of it as it was not really suiting our needs. We’re using FFmpeg now.

> If you’re running in VS Code though I think you might be able to use web APIs to do this easily, e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Capt...
> Have you tried that?

We thought about that but afaik VSCode doesn’t expose those APIs to the extensions :disappointed:

> Either way, any ETA on Linux support? :D

Yeah, we’re working on it, we should come up with a version for Linux and Windows in around 2-3 weeks!

Thanks for your comment!
If the police stop them, they've clearly failed at the "hide" part of the game
How has Slack completely changed the way you communicate? You can chat, share files and do a lite screen share in a single app? Integrations? I guess, I don't see it and I've used Slack for years, before that HipChat, and I used IRC for a very long time too.
Clicked hoping for Douglas Adams, got Numberwang
It's not. It's better than vanilla Notepad.
But they didn't propose tenure voting.

"With respect to CII’s concerns about tenure voting rights, the SEC noted that the LTSE had not yet proposed those rights and that, as a registered exchange, it would be required to file with the SEC any changes to its rules as a proposed rule change, allowing for public notice and comment."
COBOL is a loose abstraction over assembly. Don't laugh, it's fast, and it'll outlive you.
Examining the u-net architecture for image segmentation
The way most software I've seen resolve this is to have a defaults config file and a user config file. defaults is defined by the application maintainers and the user config overrides any settings in the defaults.

So you can do updates to the defaults but if users wanted to specify specific customisations those would be preserved. Also users can browser the defaults config and copy/paste chunks of that config into the user config file.

Those files are often named differently and/or located in different parts of the file system hierarchy; but the concept is the same.
I very much agree with this, especially the point on hubris. What I'm really looking for is advice on dealing on people in more senior positions that don't get this.

Being mostly self-taught, I often feel like I don't have any ammunition "against" the more academic folks, and it makes it difficult to maintain an open/curious mindset. What do I need to prove to stop the constant attempts to gaslight me? I strive to be a team player, but the amount of condescension is maddening sometimes.
The million dollar question: Which DRM?

The fact that Apple is using third-party DRM in a web app is news. Apple TV / iTunes videos never had a web app, and presumably DRM was a big factor.
Yes. 0³+0³+0³. Or x³+(-x)³+0³.
i love bc, just to verify :

bc 1.07.1
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.

(-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3

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Ha, I totally remember that confusion— my first laptop was the first gen white MacBook, with a Core Duo processor. But not a Core 2, or a Core 2 Duo, just a Core Duo. The other ones came along later.
Thanks, that was very sloppy of me!
This doesn't look like what a Linux or BSD user would call a window manager. It looks more like a way to configure the MS-Windows window manager (that is, the graphical shell) to behave a bit more like i3 or xmonad in how it arranges windows on the screen. There's no real way to pry off MS-Windows and run anything else on top of the NT kernel, is there?
I'm sure Adam Neumann and his cronies on the WeWork board would have loved to be able to list on the LTSE. Would make it much harder for non-colluding market participants to call them out on their self dealing!
Sounds a bit like your average college residence hall.
It’s a simple requirement, I don’t care about the number. In fact it is the only feature I want out of such systems.
This. Debugging k8s issues can be tricky, but you do get the above-mentioned benefits and in my opinion can make small teams very productive. It's also a great skill to have.
The disdain that (mostly) tech company CEOs have for the people to whom they sold ownership to is utterly baffling.

>LTSE’s founder said that he discovered in his conversations with entrepreneurs that many were reluctant to go public.

Then don't. You need money? Well then, I guess the people who have it get to make some decisions and hold you accountable.

The idea that you can't build a long-term company on the public markets is hogwash.
Yes, all their reasons for not joining a customer slack seem reasonable, but none of them seem related to the 25-year theme. They are all about problems in the here and now, you don't need a quarter-century-long stare to see them.
I agree with you about the CEO and business model.

That said, I mean: >All of these spaces seem to have in common that they're absolutely hostile to introverts who need at least some privacy and quiet.

That's kind of a strange complaint, because why would such a person seek out a co-living arrangement? Wouldn't renting a studio or efficiency apartment be more consistent with his/her personality and desires as far as living arrangement? (And cheaper than a trendy co-living place to boot?)
>I'll change my passwords to `1234567`.

Sure, and since the new security policy makes it compulsory to change it after three months, your next one will be '1234568'.
Origin made a ton of great games. "We make worlds" was their motto and I feel they lived up to that lofty ambition.

One game I remember fondly that would appeal to this crowd was called Omega. There was some light but well-done chrome that you were an employee of some gigantic defense contractor writing AI for drone tanks. You'd design the chassis of your tank with parts that you unlocked by playing the game. Then you'd write the AI for your tank using a simple BASIC-like language. The game shipped with a hefty programming reference book.

Finally once you'd designed your tank you'd put it into an arena to test against other tanks. Early matches were 1:1 but you could build tanks that operated as a team (there were ways for the tanks to send messages to each other).

The game was a blast. My best tanks were stupid simple (back into a corner and rapidly scan the quarter of the arena where the enemy might appear). I feel like the game taught me a lot and was really fun to play. The only downside was all the loading times, swapping disks on my C64. But that was how games were back then

https://www.mobygames.com/game/omega_
I agree, but you might see how this error or preference creeps in psychologically
I have to agree, if I can't test the product why would I even go to IKEA? I'd rather purchase online. At least online I can find reviews for it's hide and seek performance!

What's next? They start banning us for testing out the furnitures viability for The Floor is Lava?

/s
Feds Demand Apple and Google Hand over Names of 10k Users of a Gun Scope App
Silicon Valley High Tech Tourism: Selfies and Swag
But why? I think it would be hard to argue that the mouse isn't significantly more efficient for, e.g. resize operations than the keyboard. And you have one right there on your desk, don't you? Don't you find it to be a waste that it can't make effective use of all your input devices even in situations where they could provide advantages?
The problem isn't that the wording is confusing, it's that p(x|H0) isn't a very useful thing to compute.

Everybody wants to compute p(H|x), the probility of a scientific hypothesis given the data. People want to do this so badly that they can't help interpreting the p-value that way.

You can actually compute p(H|x) if you use Bayesian stats.
What makes you think that? Like almost all sites on the Internet, I don't see DNSSEC set up for Netlify (or this content domain) at all.
Build full stack web apps with MEVN Stack [Part 1/2]
As far as my credit card company knows, the name of my kindergarten teacher is Danny DeVito and I met my wife in the upper atmosphere of Venus.
Corals produce polyps that are mobile early in life and wash all over. They won't have any trouble moving if temperatures change. In fact it's already been observed to happen.

https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110121/full/news.2011.33.ht...

Corals are not going to die out in 30 years, 50 years, probably not before humans die out. Corals have been around for a long time and are highly adaptable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_Coral_Reef

For fun you can look at temps and C02 levels during Devonian period. No glaciers, much warmer than today. Very high C02 because carbon we are burning today had not been sequestered yet. Yet a coral reef was formed, a big one.
Headline two days later: "It was actually a 3001 person game of hide and seek! They found Janet in the Sektion."
The organizers are talking about tenure voting, "not proposing" means they have not formally filed with the SEC for permission.
I really disagree! The shift from film to digital allowed photographers to remove the price per photo aspect of photography from the equation, but only recently has the dynamic range, resolution, etc of digital matched properly developed film. Now, digital actually surpasses it. People are generally able to practice photography without going broke, which is an amazing development.

The Revenant would have been impossible to shoot even 10 years ago, the demands on the sensor or film would have been too great. This means the story couldn't be told at all! So the technology actually enables people to take photos that would have been otherwise impossible.

I'm also suspicious that the second shift is "done". I suspect the technology will always be pushed further at the high end of the camera technology market which will trickle down. Similarly, I suspect the software innovations used by Google / Apple will trickle down into the software of dedicated cameras, which will further widen the quality gap between the formats.

Quality isn't all about reproduction, it is also about creative possibilities. Right now, none of the smartphones can take a photo of a moving subject in low light. They depend on averaging frames which leads to subject blur. This isn't a minor detail, it's the difference between a photo and no photo.
How often are you spinning up new servers? In one to two hours, I can configure a production ready Debian server from base install with firewall rules, correct network interfaces, cron jobs, all dependencies and tooling, monitoring, Postgres, and my application server (either C epoll passed or Spring Boot) sitting behind an nginx proxy. I would consider myself neither a Sysadmin nor particularly fast at configuring Linux.

One to two hours per project multiplied by potentially one or two QA/UAT environments, and this is a tiny blip in the total time spent developing a solution. I think it would take me a few years before I paid back the debt of learning docker/kubernetes for it to actually start saving me time as a freelancer (or if multitenancy suddenly becomes out of the question).
Interesting. The recent 1903 update has a significant flaw where any disconnection from an RDP session (I work remote) completely resets all window positions. I was saved by this wonderful tool:

https://github.com/adamsmith/WindowsLayoutSnapshot

Wonder if this tool would perform the same general function.

BTW: For any MS folks listening, please fix this bug, it's dreadful! :(
D3 is an overrated mess, and people pretend to like it basically so they can brag about using functional concepts. Also svg is terrible.
I feel like they would have been better off officially sanctioning the event and making a big PR stunt out of it.
The day has come for India to try for a historic Moon landing
But Epstein didn't make his money by investing in MIT. He made is money being a pimp. You think he'd stop pimping if universities stopped taking his donations?
Are you using the the Dell P4317Q by any chance? That's my monitor at home and it's the best purchase I've ever made tech wise. Are you aware that the monitor comes with an app to manage multiple windows and sections of the screen from Dell themselves called Dell Display Manager - https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/qna44541/what-...
This.

Really, this is what a lot of these co-living places are, they just don't want to use that four letter word: "Dorm".
Slack is less than ideal from a customer support perspective due to its extremely limited channel organization tools. I loathe having a blob of 15 customer channels that I'm contractually obligated to be in, but for the most part only have activity once a month or so, if ever.

Stuffing those in a folder a la Discord would be a boon, but the only option that comes close is using a separate organization, which would cost more.
What do you think the chances are that HR 1044/S 386 will pass this year?
Then how am I supposed to know if those things will fit my things inside them?

It would be like buying a mattress without lying on it first.
I read it as the customer wasn't happy with something, and having learned that 'the boss' was on holiday, decided to parachute in their own management to oversee things.
I tried convincing people of this ten years ago. Others have been trying for something like half a century.

I am very happy to see it in Nature.
The prevailing narrative on this topic is "greedy investors only care about short-term profits". The spin is that visionary CEOs try to build long-term growth and innovation, but they're continuously stymied by Wall Street vultures.

However the empirical evidence tells a very different story. Corporate managers have a demonstrated tendency towards wasteful ego-stroking empire building when not properly monitored. This is a classic principal-agent problem, where incentives drift away from shareholder interests.

Regular quarterly targets are an important part of management discipline. The longer CEOs have before being expected to deliver results, the longer they have to empire-build without being held accountable. Similarly investors bias towards bottom-line profits and cash flow. Those metrics are much harder to fake or spin, compared to intangible stories about brand value, market dominance or skunkworks projects.

When management does demonstrate credibility, Wall Street's usually more than happy to let them focus on long-term initiatives. Just look at Amazon, which is a darling of the investment community, trusted to steer nearly a trillion dollars in shareholder capital. Bezos has continuously poured huge resources into long-term speculative initiatives at the expense of quarterly earnings. And he's loved by shareholders for it, because he has a history of competence and putting company interests above personal ones.

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c1cb/684257b67940b9cf0d5aaa...
Traveling the World Free
I've noticed search is totally broken in the mobile browser, but works pretty well on the desktop & phone apps.

I bet few Facebookers don't have the app installed.
I might consider living in an apartment building that traded some private space for shared common space, but the architecture of such would need to be actually usable, not the same "amenities" which are ever present in luxury apartments and mostly unused, impersonal affairs. I think the key there would be replacing the hallway of doors with shared kitchen and lounge spaces or something along those lines.

I'm not interested in living in a cubbyhole inside a co-working space.
> Google absolutely want developers that are capable of over-engineering.

Why, so, when they get on the job, they need to be told not to over-engineer?
What about a Goto within a switch statement that's within another switch statement in a function that's 3000 lines long?
tory cuts have been deep for a decade now
>price pain isn't actually enough to drive improvements in efficiency

You have something reversed here.

Hardware companies that make consumer devices are pumping barrels of money in improving CPU power usage to enable longer battery life on mobile devices.

Google, on the other hand, promotes insanely power-hungry neural nets as the future of computing, because that's the kind of future that gives them the deciding edge in the market.
COBOL is jq for column-oriented data.

SQL is COBOL for relational data.

COBOL is a loose abstraction over 1950s assembly languages. You know, the ones with built-in support for decimal arithmetic and no support for recursion.
I've always been drawn to weird, haunting, empty urban spaces. I also feel an affinity for vast spaces with huge, elaborate skylights like you find in malls. Throw in some nostalgia and I'm enjoying this YouTube channel.
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Out of curiosity "This was not expected to occur that early on in the solar system, and it means we need to change some of the ways we think about that time." Why did the rock have to come from a volcano within our solar system. With the age of the rock, couldn't it have came from out of our solar system?
Setting aside the organizational issues here…

I'm in about 15 different Slack, with 15 different credentials. Authentication is a miserable problem, yet Slack chooses to make it worse.
I didn't even know that there was a Wget2…what's the development progress on this? Can (or should) I be using it instead of Wget?
I felt that it was laid out fairly well in this essay. They described their 25 year rule, and described a lesson they learned in the first 18 months of their company from a few attempts really wasn't working for them. Because they learned this lesson early on they refused a client's request because they were confident in the lesson learned not providing the right kind of value for their organization or their clients. Their rule biases learning from early things that don't work so that they can focus the most energy on things that are working.
The working world judges more on what you cause to get done than what you do.
Very low given how difficult it is to make major changes in US immigration law at any time and particularly during a presidential season.
Why would you accept an email from someone unless they were paying someone to monitor emails on a full time basis?

Maybe it's just the way the companies I've worked at have used slack, but it's never been expected to be any more "real time" than email.
I'm a big fan of the co-living movement, and that's why it's exciting to see it mainstreamed by corporations. I hope they're successful and we see more options for people to live with one another. I live in a group house and don't mind seeing this lifestyle normalized. I certainly lose nothing when more options are available to others.
Well, yeah, pretty much.

In number theory you study properties/patterns of the numbers. This is an example of such a property.

These properties often seem like they don’t have any applications, and often they don’t, but not always. For example, cryptography is basically all based on number theory.
It would surprise me if Linus even knew about Solaris when he worked on the first release of Linux.

Solaris’ first release was in June 1992, with first use of the name in marketing materials in September 1991 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)#His...)

Linus’ famous message was from the same time (September 17, 1991)

Calling Linux an open source version of Minix is more appropriate, but it still wouldn’t be a good example of this.

Minix isn’t dead. It moved to a BSD license, and is deployed in millions of hundreds of millions of Intel CPUs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Hardwa...)
Interesting. Would something like that have had an effect on the velocity of the spacecraft?
Until you can charge and go in 5 minutes gas will still be appealing to many. Currently it looks like a step backwards. Like stopping to rest and feed the horses.

Maybe if we had a universal battery and simple swap out solution. Something like a car wash where you drive onto a track and a machine swaps out the battery?
Controlling Your Internet Profile
Ikea is the perfect place to play hide and seek. The stores are deliberately designed to be labyrinthine after all.
I never truly understand issues people have with these things. I tune my notifications as to avoid true interruptions and filter most false positives by quick looking.

I see people at my office (and different companies!) saying they quit Slack/Whatever because they were getting bombarded by notifications... They had the option to notify on all messages. ¬¬

Even then, come on, I cannot believe experience hasn’t taught most of you how to handle quick interruptions. I usually just quick look at the notification to see if it’s really urgent. Otherwise it may be 7-10 minutes until I actually check the application, in case I’m doing some heavy thinking/coding session.

There are true interruptions like constant notifications, people physically talking to you about other things, and stuff, that while you cannot really tune them all out, you should be able to handle better with 2-3 years of experience. I read a lot of people on these forums with many more years not being able to cope with that.

I will die still unable to believe it was the norm, and not the exception :(
It's nice to know that Glasgow has eliminated crime to the point that this was the most useful thing the police could possibly be doing.