skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plenty of jobs are like this these days. A few of my peeps do work W2 full time, but most time they spent at home; they show up at the office only for official meetings, and other than overall goals they manage their own work, including taking as many PTO as they want to (unlimited, but they are benchmarked based on their work results, not amount of hours they clocked in so you probably going to take full time vacation only once they will be fired).

The only thing from your list that we could argue about is "do whatever task you want to", but that doesn't apply to drivers neither - their task is very strict in fact - they supposed to take riders from A to B, period. No form of deviation is allowed. So actually this alone locked them into a full/part time employee, because they do not have a freedom to do any job they want to, similar to how as a contractor you can chose what you do next.
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I think it’s underway. The keywords are “pubnix” and “phlog.”
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I agree. It's got it's warts, but it's still the best out there. I think a lot of people get their feelings hurt there though, especially younger coders and coders with thin skins and big egos. It's a service, no one is forcing them to use it. They should just RTFM.
I made a JS snippet to parse/execute moves formatted like this:

function parseMoves(str) {
const toks = str.split(',')
const moves = []
for (const tok of toks) {
const [dir, num] = tok.trim().split(' ')
moves.push(...new Array(num - moves.length).fill(dir))
}
return moves
}

function toCharCode(key) {
switch (key) {
case 'down':
return 40
case 'up':
return 38
case 'right':
return 39
case 'left':
return 37
}
}

async function doMoves(str) {
const moves = parseMoves(str)
for (const move of moves) {
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 100))
myRPG.parseKeyPress({
keyCode: toCharCode(move)
})
}
}

doMoves('left 26, up 27, right 30, up 32, right 33, up 35, left 38, down 41, left 42, down 45, right 50, up 53, right 54, up 58, right 59, up 60, right 61, up 66, right 67, up 69, right 71, up 73, right 78, down 81, right 82, down 83, right 84, down 85, right 87, down 88, right 90, down 93, right 94, down 95, right 99, up 100, right 103, down 109, left 112, down 113, left 114, down 115, left 116, down 119, left 123, down 127, left 130, down 131, right 132, down 135, left 136, down 137, left 142, up 145, left 148, up 151, left 161, up 169, right 172, up 177, left 178, up 179, right 182, up 191, right 200, down 203, right 205, down 207, right 211, down 215, right 222, down 227, left 228, down 229, right 233, down 234, right 235, down 240')
One every two weeks (about) don't seem "rare" to me.
It so weird that there is no incentive to fix many usability shortcomings like this one and too tiny UI elements on mobile etc. - all of that despite multiple complaints over years..
That doesn't work because ticket checks are far too rate to develop a statistical model for any one user.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1905155. Anyone who looks at either JS or Lua today or even within the last ten years is not being realistic about what was possible in 1995.

Anyway, "Make It Look Like Java" and the time crunch overrode any thought of using some unsafe/unportable/freely-evolving language implementation.

In other news, HTML is bad, CSS too.
I would settle for more clear definitions of “mine” and “theirs.” Bonus points if the definition doesn’t change based on the action I’m performing.
The computer, gyroscopes and accelerometers are all required for the seat to adapt properly to different situations. Maybe even a connection to the plane's telemetry data, too.

Are you sure you couldn't fit a mic in there with the air pressure gauge? A radio with the computer? Because I'm not.
There is a great, time-tested, full-featured tree text format. It's called Org.

The problem is that the only editor that has a full support for it is Emacs (org mode).

If I wanted to make a difference in this area, I would dedicate my time to writing a very good HTML renderer / JS control for it, then a good VIM mode, then maybe a good VScode mode.

It's not easy because the spec is large, and every part of it is useful.
The thermodynamics matter only as much as they are a tautology (which means: not at all), or as an upper bound.

Thermodynamics predict that you'd be better off drinking gasoline (12kcal/gr > fat's 9kcal/gr), and just as well eating wood chips (a carbohydrage) -- even though you get zero energy from either.

"But we're not using calorimeter data, we're using atwater factors"; Well, those actually DO vary from person to person, IIRC as much as 50%; and other things also matter (e.g., adding activated carbon to your food will result in less energy extracted in general; using Ally would result in less energy extracted from fat).

And that's just for the "calories in" part; metabolic rate can also vary as much as 80% along time and between people, depending on muscle volume, or other random, less understood factors - so without a proper measurement chamber you don't know the "calories out" either.

The food labels and general activity tables serve as a good general approximation that describes probably 80% of the public quite well. But invoking thermodynamics (except as an upper bound for calories in) is not justified by our current understanding of metabolism.
Irony alert: I suspect if you asked those behind a thing titled "American Conservative" if they liked federalism, they would say yes. But the gist of this article seems to be that they don't like local control of regulation.
This is exactly why duolingo owl has so much power over me. Can't lose my 235 day streak and can't drop out of to a lower league after working so hard to get to that league.
Amazing how that turns out. Like when Sulley had to ditch that flight into the Hudson, and just so happened to be an instructor of water landings. What are the odds?
anybody known of a book that collected all of those?

a mix of his own and historical texts would be great
Well... inertia; some software relying on actually having an Intel, or being specifically optimized for them and them only; more offerings of Intel-CPU-based servers; more server designer experience with Intel rather than AMD; legal and perhaps sometimes not so legal lobbying by Intel; high-level-personal and company-collaborative relations of Intel with governments, academic institutes and large companies.

I think that mostly covers it.
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I think the most motivational thing a boss can do for me is to reliably provide criticism that shows they think I can improve, and that I can use to improve.

The most demotivational thing a boss can do for me is to provide criticism that indicates contradictory demands, or that they don't know what they want, or that they are unwilling to accept my limitations.

Compliments are not bad, but kind of superfluous - if I've succeeded at something, genuine recognition means being given something more challenging. And if I've failed at something, nice words are just twisting the knife if they are an attempt to obscure the fact someone has given up on me.
In the initial sale, <100 people bought BAT, and perhaps 186K people own it now (ignoring Uphold members) per https://etherscan.io/token/0x0d8775f648430679a709e98d2b0cb62..., but we have ~7M users. Check your math.
That makes sense. It could help there depending on what validation requirements are.

High-assurance systems is my thing btw. There's a few ways we approach this issue. One is a certifying compiler (eg CompCert C) that's verified and tested to basically never screw up. CompCert got SIL qualification recently with Solid Sands partnering to validate them, too.

Another I like is equivalence testing across multiple binaries from multiple compilers with a large, automatically-generated test suit and fuzzers. Such test generators are already great for bug hunting. You just rerun them through the same app compiled with other compilers. Helps catch app and compiler bugs. If you have CompCert, I have another trick: re-compile with CompCert, re-test each case that failed, and any that suddenly pass were likely compiler bugs. The multiple compilers approach should catch them, though.

Now, I should point out that what reproducible builds is addressing are often changes in hashes that aren't changes in functionality. Just stuff like timestamps or symbols. You should be able to show the regulators that the only thing that changed was that kind of stuff. Maybe we need tools that automate that, too, showing diffs annotated by what does or doesn't affect execution.

Anyway, what exactly do they require of you for source-to-object correspondence? And is this U.S. F.D.A. or a non-U.S. regulator?
Ok, let me put it like this. Gravity seems to have a magic (I don't understand it) way to increase the pressure of stuff by decreasing the volume in which interactions are likely to occur. Fair? Increasing pressure decreases local entropy, since pressures tend to diffuse, not the other way around. To get pressures, we expect outside forces to create them. Pressures don't just statistically happen -- at least, not very strongly. So, gravity seems to create these pressures, and it isn't clear to me how this doesn't violate the second law.

I hope I'm not expressing myself too foolishly, but I really don't understand it. After much effort, I feel like I have a good understanding of entropy, though. Which is what makes gravity so weird to me.
Ask HN: What are best practices for literate programming?
I am going to translate a complex algorithm I wrote, and want to document it using literate programming. What are best practices to do that? What works well in your experience?

Also, how to find the best arrangement for code and logic? How to document all the small details without the prose becoming boring or irrelevant?
Thanks for your review.

> gamification of the Global Challenge.

I have personally experienced how powerful gamification ux can be. Especially if used for a positive outcome.
Loader's Number
3x power usage decrease coming to Firefox for Mac OS
> def tail(job_id, info):

> logs = os.path.join(cfg("builds.sr.ht::worker", "buildlogs"), str(job_id))

Depending on where your job_id comes from, you may want to ensure "logs" variable still ends up pointing a subdirectory of buildlogs. You could use a combination of os.path.abspath() and various methods for checking the common prefix.

Maybe this is only a simplified snippet, but concatenating values with external parameters without checking ng the end result can lead to unpleasant surprises in production code.
I didn't remember that but it must have been what stuck it in my head!
> duolingo owl has so much power over me.

I use duolingo as well - and one of the saddest days was when I lost a 100+ day streak. It's funny how a meaningless number can have so much power.
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"When the plane pancaked onto the runway, more than 10,000 pounds of kerosene came out all at once from the ruptured right wing and turned to mist."

I wonder why they didn't "dump the fuel" just before the crash to have avoided the fire. I thought this was standard operating procedure to dump fuel before crash landings.

I had read about the crash awhile ago and as I recall many people that died died of smoke inhalation from the fire and not the impact itself.
They rely for most of their revenue on that Google search deal.

Safe Browsing in "update" mode, with an IP hiding proxy as Brave uses, is ok.
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Intel and the server OEMs definitely have this information but they're not going to share it. Considering the costs of terabytes of RAM and software like HANA or Oracle, there's room in the market for some pretty expensive CPUs.
Not trolling, just logically ill-founded socialists. They don't want users to pay but they aren't volunteering to cover the bill.
Enterprise Software Startups Should Use Pilots as Their North Star Metric
Hasn't much of the work been incorporated into the Alien movies?
Elizabeth Warren Is Electable
> There aren’t currently any mainstream programming languages that feature reference capabilities.

Does Rust not have something similar built into the borrow checker?
Those are all islamic fundamentalists though.

More precisely, we are talking about the people targeted or captured during the 'war on terror'.

The pertinent category here is "whoever is considered an 'enemy' in 'war'" - they will get their rights trampled.
To get the best of both worlds: You could use normal merges while working on a branch, and then when it's done do one rebase (which also removes merge commits) before merging back into master.
Thanks for your review.

> I work out dramatically more with a little bit of social accountability.

I have experienced the same myself, and suspect that it is true for most people.
Charting the Authoritarian Drift in US Politics: Democracy’s War of Ideas
> Why shouldn't we dismiss your comment as some weak Wuddaboutism?

Because that implies they are equally bad when that's very unlikely. It is giving undue weight to the less bad which makes the more bad side look better than it is.
But that would ruin the joke - surely in Magritte

"| ceci n'est pas une pipe"
"I'm going to steal from the system (including all it's black users) until it stops being racist" is a bad way to fight racism, yes.
> BTW Paxos also has a leader - this is what makes these protocols efficient. They need only the linear number of messages instead of the quadratic "everybody talks to everybody" design.

Okay, but again, this means that the leader is the bottleneck. In that case, I'd want the leader to be on beefier hardware than the other machines, and to not serve up any read requests, so all of its resources are devoted to leading. In order to accommodate this, you'd want to elect leaders from a pool of leaders which have the beefier hardware. And at that point, since you're only talking to the leaders when you write, rather than talk through to the leaders through the extra latency of the followers, just write to the leaders directly. And then at that point this looks suspiciously like the leaders are a sharded database and the followers are caches. Am I missing something?
I agree that when I search for a question online I very often find a SO question with my exact problem. But it seems like almost EVERY SINGLE TIME, the question has been locked for being unconstructive, off-topic, (wrongly) a duplicate, whatever. Despite having hundreds of upvotes and tens of thousands of views.

So this page is at the top of the google search results for the query and it can never be updated with new info or given a better answer. I don't know anything about how the SO community works, but I suspect they resent the site's status as a kind of reference to be accessed through search engine results, and would rather all it's users to be active members of the community.

I also think (and have seen) that the community dislikes questions that are answered in documentation or elsewhere on the internet. I often see comments on questions I arrive at through google saying 'just google it, here's the first google result it answers your question'. The source given is always inferior, and the SO question, with a much clearer and more concise format, has become the first google result. This seems like a good thing to me, but look, the question's locked. What exactly is the problem with SO being a more comprehensive knowledge store?
One critique I have is that it seems like it's binary whether you complete a task on any given day which doesn't work well if you only partially complete something.

For example, lets say I set a goal to walk for 1 hour per day. But then I only walk for 30 minutes, how would the app handle that situation?
Holy mother of entitlement. Taking something without paying for it because you think it should be free isn't activism, it's, well, theft.
When you rebase a lot you might have to do the same merge operation multiple times, unless you change the settings like is shown in the article. The trick here saves the merge resolution locally so you can automatically merge again if you have to. I don't think this gets pushed so anyone else (or you but in a different repo) on that branch would also need to repeat the merge operation though.

If you save the merge commit, the merge itself is in the history so there's nothing to repeat.
I'm not sure abput appetite-inducing drugs, but depending on the type of chemo you're on you may get high doses of anti-nausea meds. I did. I still didn't want to eat, but I wasn't vomiting all the time.

I did 4 rounds of chemo, one round is a week (5 days) on, 2 weeks off. During the third round the nausea was so bad that I ate a piece of toast and drank some water. That week.

They try to get you to eat anything and everything so you have some strength. It's also a factor to flush the chemo drugs out of your body. Food and fluids help that too.
Is R commonly used in forensics?
> Since the Internet has the attention span of a gnat, I can find no plausible justification to not delete one's contributions automatically.

People often say things that have useful information in them?
Good point and here is some nueance from a book I read right now regarding parenting and their main point is to neither punish or rate performance (good nor bad). What you should aim for albeit hard, is to relate to the childrens feelings instead. This translates well into adults. Rather than saying, "this report was super good, well done!" say "What a great feeling I get when I read the report" or "Feels good with the report being complete?"

Thought experiment:
You say that reaching below 0 is punishing and getting more than 0 shows that your question is good. You get feedback that you've done great work writing the question. How would it look like when the site relates to your feeling when writing and contributing to the site? Would it work even if you remove score all together?

Giving rewards result in people seeking awards. Which may seem like a wise thing but aiming for self confidence is way better. Which is obvious but may be good to point out anyhow.
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You're stating the obvious.
+10 for "outdated".

The Accepted Answer from 2009 is stuck to the top and you have to scroll while simultaneously scanning comments and weighing the Submit Date and Up votes.
You're reading too much (and filling in the blanks with your assumptions and imagination) from a honest and objective comment from a fellow regarding his personal experience. I'm glad he shared his experience with us, but your post only adds noise to an otherwise interesting discussion.
I debated having an orange (semi-done) state. But I felt that the ux was getting a bit too complex. So I left it out.

Unfortunately at the moment it is binary (done or not-done).
111 people died on that flight according to Wikipedia, more amazingly, 185 survived.
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The average American commute takes 26.9 minutes: https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/650061560/stuck-in-traffic-yo...

9800 per capita should be completely unsurprising to any American. If all you did was drive to work, it'd be a mere 40 miles per workday (5 days a week, 50 weeks).

Non-Americans might be surprised about it. But let me be clear: driving is the backbone of American society. Always has been. The classic video game Oregon Trail is about Americans making one long commute across the entire country, so they could find better jobs. Which honestly explains a lot about Californians: our ancestors traveled the whole of the United States to get here, what's a short 2 hour commute to work on the 405 every day?

Our country is HUGE, almost all of it is habitable, and we have a sprawling road system. We have the option to work where it's most profitable, and live where it's most comfortable. And boy do we take advantage of that.

Good or bad, that's the U.S., so I hope people aren't too surprised when they learn that we've been burning a lot of gasoline in our cars. And also perhaps why we have such a pro-oil/coal culture.
Thanks for the clarification! I see now an English version has been posted with quite a lively discussion :)
Yes, Bahasa can be learned very, very quickly, it uses the Latin alphabet, words are written how they are spoken and vice-versa, verbs are never conjugated nor do they have tenses and the grammar is simple (e.g. plurals are created by simply doubling the words, like rumah, house, becomes rumah-rumah, houses, which in written form is abbreviated to rumah²).

My father used to joke you can learn Bahasa in three weeks, English in three months, and German in three years.

I've no clue about the Terengganu dialect, though.

It's my third language, and I've never needed it professionally, so I whatever I've said may not be 100% accurate...

Source: Am half Malay, lived there for nine years, around the KL area.
I really didn't expect to get this many passionate opinions on the matter.

It took me some time to... build up the courage to read through all of your answers, and you have been of tremendous help. I've learned quite a lot. Thank you very much! I deeply appreciate it!

I'll steer clear of self-hosted ELK, for now, mostly because being the only backend, I can't really take the risk of holding the whole team back while getting it up and running or maintaining it.

I'll look into Splunk, Sumo Logic, Sentry & a few others, while keeping in mind the more general guidelines that were laid down here.

Also, thank you for the terminology! It's much easier to find the proper resources know that I know what to look for!

Edit: I'll also take some time to answer to the different comments; but it really felt rude of me to be procrastinating while you all had taken the time to properly answer
Are fireproof, hurricane-proof geodesic domes the post-climate change future?
Particularly notable coming from The New York Times, as it insists....
Is there a reason you can't just achieve deterministic builds using docker containers as your build environment (which have the appropriate sysroot, compilers, dependencies, etc. inside)?
Where in the world is it legal OTC? "Smartshop" implies the netherlands, but AFAIK it is not legal there.
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It is very rare to perform collision avoidance manoeuvres with active satellites. The vast majority of ESA avoidance manoeuvres are the result of dead satellites or fragments from previous collisions. [ ... ]

As the number of satellites in orbit increases, due to 'mega constellations' such as #Starlink comprising hundreds or even thousands of satellites, today's 'manual' collision avoidance process will become impossible...
I wish SO had the courage of its convictions and stopped all locked pages from being seen by search engines. That way unhelpful links wouldn't waste people's time when searching for answers.
I've had a similar experience but with low carb. I eat two meals, one extremely low carb, and one "normal" meal for lunch and dinner and do the 16/8 plan. Have dropped 42lbs in 4 months. I have much better mental clarity and more energy, and cut way back on caffeine as a result. I could never do a vegan diet because it goes against my personal research as to what humans should be eating, but I think that IF can be used for any reasonable diet (caloric restriction) plan.