skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, so I just decided to do some digging because I hadn't heard about this and I wanted to educate myself.

Literally the only thing I can find that paints that transcript in remotely the light you're implying is an absolutely garbage Fox News article referencing a Slate article. That Fox article is 18 sentences long, and is mostly a bunch of op-ed ranting sprinkled with some absolutely mutilated quotes.

Ironically, the content of the Slate article paints a picture of the NYT dealing with its readership complaining that they're not tough enough on the administration, and their vigilance and ongoing struggle with remaining as neutral as possible.
This sounds like a condemnation of startup culture. I've seen some great startups thrive with open offices.
We do have a lot of different wheels to be honest.
Remus here, the founder of 123Metrics.

I'm a strong believer in the fact that personal data shouldn't be a currency, that is why I've created an easy and clear analytics solution with which you can measure your website efficiency and performance using non-intrusive metrics.

I'm looking forward to all the constructive feedback :)
It doesn't even have to be as extreme as abuse. For example, non-parents and parents alike should feel free to be critical of parents who allow their kids to misbehave in a restaurant.
I always had some uncanny notion of this, and would keep my plans to myself. For some things, it's the way to go (like quitting your job and traveling). Probably b/c you don't need the external input; it only adds noise.

Yet I wouldn't be so quick to discourage sharing and doing what it takes to stay motivated. External motivation is great, I wish I had more of it!

I reckon there is greater glory in stating what you will do and following through ftw... and yummy humble pie for you if you give up or fail.
I always used to joke:

"Sure, there is a very high murder rate, pollution, noise, crowds, high taxes, drug use, mugging, random assault (Baltimore), but look at all the restaurants!"
You could always say F it and get a job in the industry.

It's 1000 times better especially when your research is clearly not on the cutting edge and you end up comtemplating life choices because what you're doing are basically useless to the world, and you're only doing it because some funds decided to throw money on it.

At least that's how it is for people whose primary research method is coding, such an easy exit. The powerpoint making variety have it harder though.
No different than say, a telecom or bank’s “fraud department”.

It’s not there to protect the customer, it’s there to protect the company.
With an app like Scriptable, you can indeed! This one lets you write JavaScript code, and they added the feature to pass in parameters with iOS 13.1!

https://scriptable.app
You can use a small black hole for mass transmutation of lighter elements (like all that surplus hydrogen just sitting idly in your local gas giants or star) into much more useful heavier elements (metals, carbon, oxygen, etc.):

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/464790d2497de

The extreme temperatures and pressures in the accretion disk are basically used to fuse the lighter elements together into heavier ones, which are then pulled out by machinery in close orbit.
pdfs literally include their actual size in metadata in the document itself. Most printers will complain at least a little bit if you try to print it on the wrong size paper.

This paper is :

215.9 × 279.4 mm (Letter, portrait)
>Governments need to act, which involves imagining the world as it doesn't exist and spreading that imaginary world in order to create a consensus. This is very similar to lying and the boundaries aren't obvious.

I think that's a very stretched analogy.

Governments lie in much more obvious, and less noble, ways than "imagining a future world and spreading it"...
10 seats. 20 employees. First come first serve. Saw that actually happen. (well they wanted to get rid of people though)
So true it happens to me many times. When I tell about the new idea or half done projects I feel less motivated to complete it.

So right now my lips are sealed on the current project that I am working and it's coming in good shape as of now
I was hoping that I can finally change night shift intensity based on time of day. Unfortunately night shift isn’t configurable by Shortcut yet.
If any of you think you're not working class, I would suggest a thought experiment:

Could you stop working permanently today, continue to thrive & not experience a change in lifestyle?

if the answer is 'no', you're still working class.

'class consciousness' includes these three categories:

- Working
- Managing
- Ruling

The managing class is there between the ruling & working classes, doing it's job to tell you what to think & tell the ruling class how you're responding to leadership.
>From media reports you would believe that they are mainly some barbarians that may have or may have not access to electricity, never mind net access.

Isn't that what all reports after 9/11 would have you believe of al-qaeda and the taliban? Complete with videos of masked men "training" in deserts by jumping over logs and climbing ropes? And Reports that Bin Laden is hiding in mountains?

Meanwhile Bin Laden was living in a large compound in Pakistan all but protected by the Pakistani military and I believe 8 of the 9/11 hijackers had degrees in engineering and a couple PhDs among them.
I hit this wall in my own Deep Learning-based automation business; I am now forced to rely on transfer learning most of the time, my Tesla/Titan RTX-based in-house "server" is no longer capable of training latest greatest models in reasonable time, cloud is out of question due to costs and (automated) parameter tuning with distributed training takes ages. I can still ask a lot for customized solutions, though I see the writing on the wall that it might not last too long (2-4 years) and I'd have to switch business as there will be only a handful of companies able to train anything that is better than current SOTA.
Which also includes thinks like xml, css, csv, abacus, abnf, apacheconf, hcl, apt, bibtex, and git.
Ah, it's book 7 of The Expanse series. They are worth reading and the show is worth watching.
If you’re going to choose a company based on whether they offer cubicles you’re going to be very disappointed.
Stacks of unassigned, multi-level scaffolding to fit more people in the room?
What Whales and Dolphins Left Behind for Life in the Ocean
Bill Gates is a smart programmer and skilled monopolist. He's not a god of prognostication or economics.
Do you have a list of issues with various masking techniques, and / or sample input actions? For example, something wanting a North American telephone number in the format (999) 999-9999 often has issues if the user tries to enter parentheses or dashes. A proper solution is to allow the user to enter punctuation, and accept it if it is expected there, and to remember it for backspace purposes (so a backspace will either stop at, or skip over a "-" depending on if the user entered it).

It would be a fun programming exercise to take a long list of inputs and write some javascript that properly handles every one of them (or to point out where there are mutually exclusive requirements).
>Why could the government not operate without lying, except for extreme situations like war?

Because the government consists of people and people have hidden motives, private interests, and ideologies...
The whole point of Make School is to skip the absurdity of a 4-year institution, rerouting that 4 years might be more affordable, but that's like getting a Toyota instead of a Tesla, no? Even a Berkeley PhD doesn't guarantee you a good paying job, whereas Make School only takes a cut when you get decently paid.
Face masks to decoy t-shirts: The rise of anti-surveillance fashion
I have an idea, break furniture apart into their fundamental pieces, such as chair legs or the top of a desk, and allow the employees to construct their workspace lego style
Unpopular opinion, but I actually think open offices make me more productive. When I'm in a private office, the temptation to watch YouTube, or otherwise read/do unrelated work stuff is much higher.

However, I do like having a private office to eat lunch.
Ah yes, social engineering for the modern age. I'm not sure which path is worse, your suggestion or the status quo.
> you guys who listen to music all the time, i don't get it, i can't do that

Basically, it's just background noise to drown out other people. I don't listen to the music I really like when I'm working, I listen to quiet stuff that won't distract me; rather than what I most enjoy and on which I would want to focus.
I am not sure how practical this sort of standardized testing is. I am in the high performance range on most aptitude and general knowledge tests, but I did horribly on the SAT. This didn't slow me down from graduating college and becoming a senior software developer. Likewise, I have seen people who scored supremely high on the SAT that simply cannot perform in the real world.
I just recently discovered I have a super power: easily zoom out from a lot of chatter in a crowded small room.

The secret is that I am a non-native English speaker working in the US. I can understand and speak very well... when I am focused on it. If I am not consciously making an effort to understand the chat in the room, it is almost like white noise.
I remember seeing this in Texas a few years ago too. SAT scores fell statewide, which made for anti-Texas fodder, but what was lost was the fact that record numbers of black & hispanic students took it for the first time.

https://www.texastribune.org/2012/09/24/texas-sat-scores-dro...
Cubes are worse than open office IMHO. You get roughly the same noise and distraction but it's also harder to actually talk to or collaborate with your neighbors.
> She then published the exploit publicly and they sued her

So you're saying that a bunch of volunteer open source developers collectively sued a security researcher? That sounds like it would have made for an epic Hacker News story. Do you have any documentation that this happened?
This is a problem in general but especially in programming where people like to rename things that already exist. However, it's not exclusive to programming - when I hack my way through something ME or EE I ask the experts around me and they can usually tell me the proper name or point me to existing or very similar solutions.
So you're saying it's kind of like how HP overpaid for Autonomy? :) Valuations are tricky at the best of times never mind in tech. It's easy to have an opinion. It's a lot harder to prove it in court.
Unfortunately, noise reduction is not a very important part of it.

The problem is a genuine need for actual privacy and isolation in order to engage states of flow required for depth of technical knowledge work.

There’s no way to avoid it: all knowledge workers even in dense urban areas need to be afforded a reasonable private office with a door that shuts, and it should be viewed as a basic tool necessity like a keyboard or monitor. Just part of the cost of doing business.
I agree with what you “mean to mean”, but surely by that definition a human being carrying a cellphone into a designated “Arrival” zone rules out that as being automation too?
It's obscene that this burden falls on these folks because someone else falsely used this kid's name. The police report should be filed against the collection agency and the credit bureau, for fraud.[0] We may not have debtor's prisons anymore, but we certainly have guilty-by-default for finance.

> it shows how most of the world works.

It certainly does, but not in the way you meant. :/

[0]I'm aware this is not legally possible; I mean "should" in a moral sense.
That's spacious by the standards of open offices.

I have seen (interviewed at) a company, not a startup, that had two feet deep work surfaces, basically enough to put up a monitor, and chairs about three feet apart. Not really even space to open a notebook on the surface without bothering your neighbor.
Nice to see we now _want_ cubicles.
Annual health insurance costs hit record high above $20k
It is already becoming much more accepted than it was a few years ago, but remote work comes with its own set of problems and nuances.

Companies tend to worry about accountability a lot more, mixing work life and off work life is hard, especially if you have a family with kids, having to define your own structure is hard etc.
Also, it's worth considering that the negative perspectives on more vocational focused institutions are propagating classism in the US.

In many countries in Europe, it's common to go to a vocational school for undergrad then a research university for grad school. The system is built for mobility.

In the US, you're tracked at age 18 (largely based on what you accomplished at age 16), locked into that system, and more or less judged for life. It's not particularly surprising that so many Americans detest well-educated coastal elites.
Side question, does not displaying the credit card number and CVV provide any real security value? An overwhelming majority of sites that accept credit cards don't do that and I can't say I have ever been worried about that fact. At least the expiration year is displayed to the user so it is possible to notice if something is entered incorrectly And considering the expiration year masking issue only impacts people who use autofill, likely a small minority of users, I wonder if not displaying the credit card number leads to an even higher number of lost sales.
Hey, it's a neat project. Of course it could use improvements and a few disclaimers, but hey. Good on you for making it.

Added a request for Racket support!
What's in a Mixtape?
> And I make it a habit of giving them as much useless, inaccurate information as possible.

How do you do this? (Specifically, with the companies you mentioned.)
I'm sorry, but I don't understand the point you're trying to make. It seems like you're saying you don't like a 4-year program. If that's the case, why even go with Make School? There are boot-camps that are 1 year. Heck, you could just use MIT OpenCourseware and teach yourself everything in 6 months and get a job hypothetically speaking.

In any case, you can get an associates much faster than 2 years if desired - you can do it in 1 year if you take courses during the winter and summer semesters. Then if you transfer to a school that's willing to accept your extra credits you can get a bachelors in the same amount of time as Make School.
Not everything an article mentions is relevant to bring up. The question is always what sort of discussion it leads to. If it leads to ragey indignation, ideological battle, snark, personal attacks, and other baddies, then following the HN guidelines means having the discipline not to go there. The alternative is to let yourself be trolled by arbitrary provocations and then to troll HN in turn by bringing them into the threads here. I don't mean "troll" in its original sense of intentionally manipulating discussion, but in the sense that those are the effects we end up with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I appreciate your anecdote and that lines up with my experience. But a 10% increase is what I had in mind when I said I couldn't increase their scores much.

It doesn't seem to me to support the idea that the SAT tests mostly your (a) and (b). The average SAT at MIT is 1530 with the average at my local state school University of Indiana at 1250. Prep classes for the average UI student increasing their score 10% to 1370 wouldn't even get them to the 25th percentile MIT student.

It seems to me the SAT does capture something beyond simple ability to take a test.
You have a point tbh. There are simply way more jobs for people to do simple web programming and making UIs that are essentially just DB interfaces for people who can't write SQL statements. It's boring, but it can still be hugely profitable for small/medium sized business who do everything with Excel or by hand currently. These businesses often have a huge need for relatively simple automation tasks. And they simply don't need someone who can write that in C++21 with intrinsics for absolute maximum performance - because even a badly written php script on a normal desktop PC chews through the few thousand database entries they have in 150 ms. But of course a human would need days for that, if not weeks.

Do you get payed significantly more if you're in some sort of super high performance or embedded field and you constantly need to re-invent the wheel to squeeze out every bit of latency you can, plus you can spend an hour on every line of code to make sure it absolutely never fails, ever? Or if you're working as what is almost more of a mathematician on ground breaking ML algorithms? Sure. But there are also way less jobs like that. Also if everyone had the education for those jobs, it'd probably not be a healthy industry anymore.
When is FeathersJS too lightweight?
U.S. Census Finds 22.1M ‘Not a U.S. Citizen’ in Survey
It's interesting because Trump has had to play a 24/7 PR and election campaign game to maintain his approval rating. He still holds the same rallies while in office that he did while campaigning.

While Obama was in office, he just didn't have to create a controversy despite the media attacking him on everything from his choice of mustard to the color of his suit.
The raytracing is, but you don't see the result of the raytracing, you see the output of a neural network inventing detail based on higher definition training data. It's like seeing some blurry dots through a microscope, then drawing a sketch of detailed cells, based on your memory of pictures you've seen. The microscope is an optical system, but the sketch is the result of memory and style transfer, not simulation of optics. Hypothetically, you could have no understanding of the behaviour of light in producing the detailed sketch.
Funny, I had the exact opposite reaction. Part of me wishes we divulged less about our tactics.
I think offices are a dead end.

With 4G, Slack, Zoom, and Google Docs we're able to work from anywhere. No need to commute anymore. And no need to constrain your team to the city you have an office in.

The only thing is that remote should not be an afterthought but you should organize for it https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/ just like you invest time to run an office.
I missed 1 question when i took the SAT 6-7ish years ago, resulting in the second highest possible score. It made me a US Presidential Scholars Medal Program Candidate. Take what I say for what it’s worth, which probably isn’t a lot, but I’d like to share my experience and why I believe I scored well.

I never took any prep course. I always was of the mindset that the only value they provided was forced practice. I never bought that they taught secrets of test taking.

Instead I bought 2 books, and 2 books only. One was the official SAT Guide which was $20ish. Secondly I bought a Kaplan book which just had 12 tests in it for $20. Both of these books were also available in the reference section of the public library.

I worked through about a test a week the 4ish months prior to the SAT, and read articles online about the SAT if I came across them. I felt very in the know regarding the test and just flew through it when taking it.

I used that score to tutor others for pay, and my friends for free. I found out that just walking people through the test was about confidence, which really jumped people’s score up. Naturally most people I came across were between a 1500 and an 1800 out of 2400. For people below that, they tended to need remedial education to improve their scores. Between 1800 and 2150 usually was a result of understanding patterns in the test and what to look for. Those were learned through some rigor in prep using the two aforementioned books. Finally, for students who wanted to score above a 2150 to a 2400, the differences in those that did and didn’t were not educational content based, but rather big picture problem solving strategy in how to logic through problems and knowing what to look for.

The SAT, IMO, is a relatively good predictor of someone’s educational attainment the first time they try one prior to any prep. I scored exactly what I predicted and after $40 of self-study, which could’ve been done for free, I scored what I knew I could.
Very interesting study. It can rather pave the way for research in structural adaptation in the current deep learning research rather than only on architecture search and few shot learning.

If one thinks of this as engineering problem in deep learning, it may also be considered that this repurposed brain region is reinforcement learning in action along with self-organization in brain. Really cool.
Thank you. I searched better online, the total mass is estimated at 52.7 billion kg, so the mass of the moonlet should be around 606,000 metric tons.
To understand today’s global data economy, look to the Middle Ages
Unpopular, yes, but you're not wrong because you're talking about only yourself.

I think the point many people are trying to make is that open offices decrease productivity for most people.
I mean, if you need people starving and rioting in the street to obtain your policy goals, maybe that’s a good point to stop and rethink?
We're gonna get those pods they have in Tokyo hotels, next. Screen right above you, integrated keyboard/mouse on your legs, your hands just rest on that as you lie down. Get slotted into a rack and work... It's the future!™
Question: how do you get your last played podcast in Shortcuts?
From a adoption perspective, how much is adopting HTTP/2 or /3 different from adopting a new IP "version" i.e. IPv6?
Remote work with compulsory video surveillance and screen snapshot uploads?
I have all that at my current job except for "up to date ...", we're in a mature/declining market so it doesn't feel as exciting.
Doing all of those things is not necessarily unproductive. You would be better off spending some time why you want do do those things and whether it’s a real problem.
Usually "x hours ago". But isn't there a reply below each comment anyway?
The "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" theory has been written about ad nauseam, but isn't substantiated. The U.S. government can get the information faster by using the warrant power enumerated in the Constitution.
next step is gonna be something shift-like. you are required to attend your tuesday and thursday standup meeting in person, and required to attend one or two other meetings/things per week in person, but you're not expected every day and you don't have a designated space.

its the worst of both worlds, you "mostly work from home" but still have to do almost the same amount of commuting and live in the same cost-of-living area.
Why is it that this thread is full of people saying constraining the supply of something (financing) that is critical to the actual supply of a product will have no effect on the price?

The banks can raise the interest rate on financing. That has a huge effect on something like this where large investments and equipment and labor projects are required to get oil extraction underway, especially with commodity pricing fluctuations and the impending threats to fundamental demand from EVs and alternative energy.
I do use background noise like rainy mood when I want to so I get that.

But songs with words or that go too fast for my liking, can't do it.
Jerusalem has had actually high levels of development, despite high density of folks living there. I think everything from trains to some crazy cable car ideas (I assume the later won't happen) are in the cards. Is this level of development allowed on Mauna Kea? It seems MUCH higher impact than a telescope. Look at some photos just for the residential density in Jerusalem.
Do you own noise cancelling headphones? Mine are worth their weight in gold to me (Sony W-something 1000x Mk2).
I use TB3 and I'm quite happy with this. Also has a drive bay that'll fit 12TB drives I have.

https://magstor.com/collections/magstor-thunderbolt-3-tape-d...