skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - sometimes, you are 'thinking slow'. A pause between two snippets is invaluable in pre-forming the logic in your head anyway, which rules out 99% of the supposed 'efficiency' of a l33t-script-kiddie.

This is precisely why I never learned to type faster. The time between my thinking and typing is spent auditing my thinking.

> - pair programming is literally 2x slower in terms of man-hours, and actually even worse if we consider that talking to someone is much slower than thinking to oneself. And yet... it produces great code and makes your programmers better.

Ehhh. A lot of programming is creative and imposing my creativity onto someone else (or having someone's styles/preferences imposed upon me) usually doesn't help much. Any time I've pair-programmed (~6 years of professional programming) my productivity dives down to 1/3 while my quality sometimes increases marginally. It's a low ROI in my experience which is why I'll never advocate for it. But I'll play ball if the org I'm working for embraces it. There are social/team-building/ other nontechnical benefits to consider as well (although I'd argue that tasks built specifically for these purposes would be more efficient).
Citation needed. I don't see why they wouldn't have made the slide switches physically disable the mics, otherwise what would be the point of using a physical slider switch? The whole point of the feature is privacy.

Edit: I hate people making claims with zero evidence, so here's some evidence for you: I just took apart my Google Home Mini. The mics are digital PDM mics, connected to a shared line (in stereo config), that goes to what is almost certainly an AND gate (tiny IC, can't quite find the part number, pinout matches a SN74LV1T00), with the other input connected directly to the mute switch (via some resistors), and the output to the SoC (via a resistor divider, probably because the SoC input is likely 1.8V logic). When the mute switch is engaged, the output of the AND gate, which is normally a TDM train (average half of 3.3V), goes to 0V. This is the output that goes to the SoC. So when the mute switch is engaged, the audio input from the mics is electrically cut off from the SoC.
> And just because I attend social functions and smile and laugh with friends for a few hours doesn't mean I'm "somewhat extroverted".

You sound pretty introverted, but it doesn't explain all behaviors, which is my intent. To do so, you have to also explain why sometimes I am introverted by your description, even for years at a time, and then at other times I am extroverted, with similar time scales.

> If the behavior is occasional, that's not introversion or "barely introverted".

I mean to say it's between occasional (extroversion), and constant (introversion). This means there's a certain probability of it happening, so you're right, it could be rarely, occasional, sometimes, most of the time, almost all of the time, and all of the time.

So I don't disagree with you, you can make a clear demarcation, but then the words are much more useless. And if you're close to either side then you might as well call yourself an introvert or an extrovert.
It is strange how people always associate domestic work with women, or something women are not compensated for.

I know I do a lot of domestic work that my wife barely knows needs to be done, or assumes it's trivial, or assumes "you are intelligent/strong/used to/a XY warm body, so it's easy for you". And it mostly consists of things that cannot be outsourced (perhaps a butler or secretary would help, but these are more expensive than a maid).

Honestly I don't know who the hell falls for this kind of narrative.
Baldfacebook.
> DRM punishes paying customers and does nothing to stop piracy.

That's not necessarily true. I agree with the DVD example, but for example, I've almost never had any issues with Netflix's DRM. I can even pre-load videos on phone/tablet, and for the most part it works as expected. Same thing with Steam, it's fairly transparent to the user.

Yes there are bad DRMs out there, but there can be a balance when done right where it doesn't hurt the customer and provides more value than pirating (like Steam).
Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar. We don't want that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would suggest highlighting the experimental nature of the repo, especially if someone reaches it without going through HN. I've read the catchy "All built on the bleeding edge. Built on the edge, for the edge." but IMO it doesn't really sound like a warning that this may not be suitable for serious production use.
How do they generally cash out? Sell to other investors? IPO?
/mu:sul/
Once I checked Agoda to get an idea of the room prices in the area I was visiting, but decided to get the room directly from reception assuming that the price would be the one I saw on Agoda minus their commision. I was wrong, the price was about 15% more expensive at reception and it didn't include breakfast. I pointed to them that I could get the room cheaper from Agoda and they told me to get it from Agoda then. I sat in the lobby and booked the room online.
Rephrased the post as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21308812, hopefully we should be good now.
Why else would most companies have open reqs if they don’t see a need for man power soon unless you are one of the four or five big tech companies that are trying to accumulate smart people (tm)?
People outside the United States have to suffer through all that for access to a subset of the full Netflix library. And Netflix is one of the better companies in that regard. Most of them simply tell me the content is "not available in my country". And when people ask them why, they have the gall to blame "piracy".
>First -> if this is your worst failure mode (ie, worse than pilot error, mechanical fatigue and failure, engine failures, fueling issues, crazy passengers etc) then you have a plane and overall safety system that is incredible.

Or would be, if it didn't violate design constraints that demand no single point of failure can have the capability to result in loss of the aircraft. I.e. components with failure profiles of catastrophic severity MUST have redundancy. You test the least likely events to ensure you have sufficient fault tolerance for that very reason.

>Second -> this wild set of events again does not crash the plane - though it would put the pilots in a bad spot similar to the existing MCAS issues.

Actually, one of the three test pilots did in fact lose the plane in the simulator. Hence the reclassification of the flight computer as a component with a catastrophic failure potential.

Look, I'm about the last person you're going to get to buy into the awesome safety of an aircraft that can't even pass a textbook test case for computing in adverse environments. If the bloody thing was so safe and high quality, it wouldn't have been able to suffer that induced failure in the first place. It would have been designed out. The fact Boeing was caught off guard by that failure means they weren't looking very hard, and were banking that no one else would either. Which is generally a really bad assumption to make, because Murphy finds a way. Every time.
How much of a hard drive would they need to do speech-to-text and upload that periodically in with other legitimate traffic?

The PR angle isn't that reassuring to me either, they've already absorbed some pretty bad PR hits on these devices and they're still going strong.
No, they question it because there's no evidence that there's intelligent life elsewhere. Not only do we only have one known example of sapience in the universe, but only one example of sapience on a planet with over a million species of animals. As much as I admire crows, dolphins, and greater apes for their intelligence, they don't even come close to the intellectual capability of humans.

The fact that there are habitable planets out there gives us hope that we will find extraterrestrial life, perhaps intelligent, but to assert that there must be life out there is speculation. To say that those who question whether there's extraterrestrial intelligence is pure arrogance.
Jordan Walke and Miso Hevery are outliers working at companies that pay a lot. An average company is not going to be attracting talented engineers with strong fundamentals. They are going to be attracting engineers with average aptitude and average fundamentals.

An average company, paying average wages, solving average problems is better off getting an average developer specialized in the area they need.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21307651.
> it's not really about delivering stuff from kitchen to the table

Well that explains a lot.
Scientists 'may have crossed ethical line' in growing human brains
1. Does Amazon get away with paying warehouse workers less than others?

2. Are you presuming no one else will pay them a living wage either so they MUST work at Amazon?

3. Are Amazon warehouse workers prevented from getting living wage jobs elsewhere?
> if you're too conservative to use modern technology, this doesn't seem like the right field to work in.

That's just flamebait.

I like vim and Emacs. There are good reasons to use either of them (or e.g. their bindings in "superior" tools).

Still, the quoted "must use vim/Emacs!" is just stupid. The point is that the work needs to get done.
there is nothing in this article to suggest blue led light has this kind of effect on humans.
I just switched to Monoid and I like it so far. But it is quite a change. Compared to my previous font (Fira code) it is really different.

This is a really hard feeling to explain, I wouldn't say that Monoid is easier or faster to read, but it distract me less. I feel like I am more focused on what I read while still being able to scan a file to find what I want.
You’re probably right, but I know plenty of people who are happy to use putlocker etc who aren’t technically competent at all (and yeah, they sure get malware...)
I'm not aware of anyone using Mathbox in Observable, although it certainly seems promising!

On the other hand, I have seen quite a lot of neat Ganja.js notebooks float by, for plotting explorations of algebraic spaces in notebooks: https://observablehq.com/search?query=ganja
Emotional labor is about managing _your_ emotions, not others. Managing another's emotions may end up demanding physical, mental, or emotional labor of your own- a massage, thinking about what gift someone might like, or containing your irritation at someone not understanding what you are teaching.

The concept-crept, popular-feminist definition of emotional labor is more about the target of your labor. The labor is emotional because the product you create is an emotional one. Knowing the roles men and women typically choose, it makes sense that feminism has latched onto emotional labor in this respect.

I don't think those uses are necessarily innacurate as I think they classify a real phenomenon, but it is unfortunate the popular feminist definition of emotional labor collides with the original creator's definition.
The study is worth reading. The light exposure was for 12 hours/day, they showed steadily increasing mortality with increasing photon flux density of blue, and they showed that white light exposure with blue filtered out (at the same intensities) did not have the same effect.
Yes gradually typed languages are usually looser/more flexible about static typing.

> A caller can change sync function to async, breaking the functionality downstream.

I think you mean callee?

Are you taking about using a returned result? Because most languages permit ignoring return values.

If you want to check out promise use, check out https://tsetse.info/must-use-promises
> The difference is GKV being the default, and opting out of that kind of hard.

It's not hard at all, just go self-employed and you have the option.

> And the step is intentionally hard to reverse.

Yes, so that people towards the end of their lives don't profit from a system they never paid into. You're stuck with expensive private insurance for the rest of your life. In the US however, you would qualify for Medicaid.

> At that point people have to actively shoot them self in the foot, and I've little pity for those.

It's actually not that uncommon for people to fall into the trap of working self-employed for most of their lives, then retiring poor because they never paid into the pension system and their private insurance costs them over 500€/month.
The Lisp Keyboards
That's what I did as well, tried react-native-macos but that didn't work. I also have an Electron version using react-native-web, which works great.

Now, with Apple Catalyst, things got really interesting. Try it on your project and let me know how it goes, specially the performance. I haven't tried react-native-windows yet but that's on my radar. I don't think we have a high quality alternative for Linux.
Presence of a threatening humanoid robot improves human performance
> A project like this is no place for that kind of rage.

I can assure you absolutely no rage was intended, or expressed, in my first message. Was the comment needlessly snarky? Yes. Was it anything beyond that? Absolutely not, and I would appreciate if this didn't get further blown out of proportion. I already apologized for the form of the comment.
> If I had a budget of a few million dollars

But 1k a month would make this happen?

If 1k UBI is causing this tragedy of the commons then you owe it to yourself to fix this, earn more, move to LCOL area and start curing diseases
Just so you know, your anti-intellectual attitude is a HUGE red flag. It signals that you will be hard to work with and have some serious ego problems. Piece of advice, learn to learn, learn to back up your statements with actual evidence and theory, and you'll become a far far stronger developer.
1 Corinthians 15:14 (and context): "if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith"
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1...

Yes, there are recognizably Christian subgroups that disavow all historical claims (and reinterpret Paul accordingly), but mainstream Christianity has always affirmed the bodily resurrection of Jesus and that (per Paul) this is essential to Christianity ... long before Aquinas.

N. T. Wright's "The Resurrection of the Son of God" is a very good read on this.
we've been waiting for this for... 20 years? Apple's "news" thing might get the closest, perhaps, but I still have to subscribe to that.

3 different people suggested this story to me (originally from Detroit area, and have had family in Russia for a spell). I'm not subscribing to the whole site for this one story. If I could have paid, say, 15-30c to get it, I would have done so.
They also did not test increasing photon flux density of white/filtered light. They only bothered controlling for PFD after introducing filtered light.

Sounds like experimental protocol was invented … on the fly.
Ask HN: Raised a Seed, Now What?
I'm in the final steps of raising a seed round (lawyers are working on final docs) and I now have to stand up the company. I have some ideas for what's next, but it would be nice to get advice from the community. What do people here recommend as things to get done in the next few weeks? What should I worry about that is often ignored at this stage?

Some things on my list:

- Find a space (need lab space, any recommendations welcome)

- Get HR up (Thinking Gusto or Rippling, maybe Trinet, but would love some first hand thoughts)

Any advice highly appreciated!
When the system is a competition for even the most basic human needs people will judge and define others by anything that puts them a rung up on those others. People are very fast to put people into "deserve" and "doesn't deserve" piles here. I've met loads of lying, cheating, philandering, racist etc people who would "never" hire someone who had been in legal trouble despite their own poor, often technically criminal behaviors. It makes them feel "better than" and positions them for a better chance at a life in the pay to play society.
To be fair, emacs is a gui program with real mouse support and images and menus and buttons. But it doesn’t really do popups and most people hide the menu bar and toolbar.

The main difference is really between an IDE massively focused on one language and a general purpose editor which is inevitably less integrated.

But I basically agree in that I think it basically doesn’t matter. Especially as far more time is spent reading code or thinking about it (or inserting it) than on editing operations. The only things which I think are really useful to have are jump-to-definition (and return) and fast easy to access search.
> Most records other than the truly egregious should be sealed.

This is a big one. 99% of the time employees should not be able to know someones criminal history unless it is critical for the job and that data should be proxyed via police.

For example if you want to work at a school then they can check with the police that you do not have any history making it unsafe for you to work with children but the coffee shop has no access to this data.
I think the point is to not pay them until the get their service fixed.
>...that's what science is, to distill fact from fantasy...

There is no science being done on vampires, werewolves, dragons and all sorts of other fantasies. Aliens are more fantasy than these.

>...the Wright brothers...

Birds, bugs, even leaves were flying all around them. It was not fantasy in the least. Flying was purely a technical problem.

Aliens do not exist. Spending real money in the pursuit of pretend and non-existent things is pure waste.
Speaking of TeamViewer, do you know a good open source alternative that I can self host (I mean self host the relay server for NAT traversal). That is as easy to use? Works on windows, mac and linux? It should also be installable in a few slick with no network configuration required.
raw wasm: making a maze race, part 1
I expect in this context, expressiveness means something like "the ability to describe the relevant stuff in the code with minimal noise", which might map to having good abstraction.

I find that pythons OOP + functional aspects, combined with a good understanding of the language hits a sweet spot here. One that simply can't be reached in c/cpp/go/java/haskell, and which is much easier to reach than in js/rust/other langs where I think it is possible.
The last years have given us two estimates of previously unknown factors in the Drake equation, that's why everybody is excited.

Yes, life could be very improbable to appear, but there is a counterargument to this hypothesis: on our planet, life appeared almost immediately once the crust solidified and oceans appeared.

If there had been a 3 billion years period, there may have been an argument that maybe we got very lucky it appeared at all, but we have fossils that are just 100 mil years younger than the apparition of oceans. And we keep finding older ones.

If life was a really rare occurrence that would mean we would have been lucky twice: that it appeared at all and that it appeared that early.

> Does this lower or increase that such a filter would be behind us or before us?

When so many things are unknown, it makes little sense to talk about probabilities. It removes a possibility for a filter behind us.

I still have doubts that evolution necessary leads to intelligent life. When I started getting interested into evolution, my main surprise was that there is no "optimal" unicellular life-form. Why isn't the earth covered by a green pellicule of photosynthesis-able cells that would be a Kardashev I organism without ever reaching intelligence?

I still don't understand why it did not happen. Evolution favored competition to optimality and the reasons are unclear. I would not be surprised that evolution in other ecosystems would result in one organism "winning" over all the others.

My personal opinion is that we will find a lot of life on other planets, but many will be unicellular and many will show an evolutionary process that is stuck in a dead-end.

I expect intelligent life to be rare, and that the "great filter" is that we will find things much more worthy of our time and energy than colonizing the universe or doing mega-engineering projects. Maybe we'll colonize a few star, build a Dyson star or two, but then we will discover that everyone prefers to spend time in another dimension, or in infinite pocket-universes. Maybe the real party is inside the black holes or the neutron stars and all the advanced civilizations are waiting for us to figure it out.

The idea that an intelligent species would colonize the universe assumes that it does not manage to handle its demography or views its growth as a good thing. I doubt that this is a rational conclusion once you reached the state of full automation.
>It’s pronounced the same as the English words “mussel” or “muscle”.
musl is small like one but powerful like the other.

https://www.musl-libc.org/faq.html

The logo is a mussel :)
Who cares? The tribulations of the creator are not the concern of the end user.

If i can expect a macbook to work properly running macos, but can't expect a laptop running Linux to work properly, that's all I need to know. I'm not going to be all "I guess it doesn't matter that my laptop doesn't sleep, they have hundreds of models to account for!" and just deal with it.
Wondering aloud if there are any studies that figure out how much these workers should be earning proportional to the productivity increases in the last 40 years?

What is the “cut” workers can expect from their output charted through the last century - this number must exist
MRIs are crazy pieces of technology. I didn't know much about them until I had an MRI myself and went down the rabbit hole reading on the theory of their operation. You're magnetizing hydrogen, then pounding it out of alignment, and then listening for the faint radio signature of atoms moaning as they realign.
Serverless Database – SQLite
It’s culture, but not the modern stuff (harshness of penalties, reducing recidivism, etc.). By 1800, almost all of Western Europe had a homicide rate under 2 per 100k. At that time they had no welfare states, and punishments were harsh. France, the Netherlands, and England all punished many property crimes with death at that time.
I’m trying hard to understand this, but am having trouble.

If someone wouldn’t mind drawing an example of this freehand, with a two-syllable English word, I’d appreciate it.
It will free up a lot of workers to do other things

Right now if you want to employ them you have to compete with McD burger-flipping, now they will be available for your next enterprise
Child Pornography
If child pornography is illegal than why do I see porn websites that say teen sex. What the hell I don't even like seeing that online teens and children absolutely don't belong in the porn industry
impeccable artwork
Lately, I found that booking directly with the companies was often the same price or cheaper that all site I could try. It might be different in US (I book flights from Europe, because, well, I live there). Lufthansa often has the best price directly on their site.

Same thing for hotels, you can get a better price if you book directly with the hotel, but of course you don't get all the booking.com (or similar site) niceties like free cancellation.
In the OP case, the evidence is not a problem, right? There's nothing specially about "legally actionable", you just need to convince a judge or jury that it happened, as with any other fact. In this case, with the JS code cited.
> FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation, aka the Downtown Gang. Very good a breaking up used car rings. Kind of confused on anything more complicated. Fun to jerk with. Not fun when they jerk back.

-- Stratfor Glossary of Useful, Baffling and Strange Intelligence Terms

https://wikileaks.org/IMG/pdf/The_Stratfor_Glossary_of_Usefu...
The prison system is unethical and poorly implemented, and i also don't care if someone earns more than me unless it's millions more. So I'm very strongly leaning 'b'.