skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was an intrusive ad banner, with a deceptive close button that redirected users to a sales page. That should have never been allowed to happen, if they value their reputation.

On the other hand, they quickly responded by removing the ad and apologizing publicly.

https://twitter.com/MariekeRakt/status/1200077958700044290?s...

It was the right move.
The idea that the only source of stress comes from work or that you shouldn’t separate mindfulness from the rest of Buddhist teachings seems wrong to me. Buddhism takes generally useful philosophy and adds a bunch of supernatural bs to it that isn’t need get the benefits.

IMHO Daoist philosophy got it right and is the secret to removing stress and anxiety from almost everything. Daoist teachings have been adopted into traditional cognitive behavior therapy now called “dialectic behavioral therapy”

I learned this when I was in my 20s in college during huge bouts of depression and social anxiety and haven’t been depressed in 20 years.

My son who was recently suffering from social anxiety disorder was practically cured by it.

Strip down these mindfulness systems their simplest, and discard all the supernatural mumbo jumbo, incense burning, and ritual chanting. It’s easier to digest and remember.

If you just try to imagine that the past and future don’t really exist, that categories and divisions of reality are wholly created models of it by our mind, and that we can relinquish and let go and let negative thoughts or events wash over
us like water, you can get a long way to ignoring most of the stress inducing phenomena in your life unless they are really salient.

At least that’s what’s worked form me. Should some starstuff on the pale blue dot really get worked up by wholly changeable and artificial deadlines? You can view them as important and plan for them yes, but don’t let your cortisol levels flare when things don’t go according to plans. Plans are changeable, life and health is more important.
The article addresses this. Ships are restricted to docking where there are ports, which are expensive and potentially fragile infrastructure (e.g. after a big storm), and can only be situated at the water's edge; while airships can pick up put down essentially anywhere.
Fake news didnt start in 2016.

I had an entire semester on media manipulation for my sociology degree in 1995. Propaganda has played a major part in democracy since the invention of the printing press. Its good that there is an increased awareness of the need for critical thinking, but to say that we are currently living through a "fake news crisis" is wrong
More reliable? Didn’t leafs of the same time period of the Tesla models being discussed here have horrible battery degradation issues? Hyundai and Kia electrics are too new to the market to know if there will be serious issues
That's true. But they have a chance of some service, vs. no service at all - so the degradation is more gradual. Meanwhile, if there's a reserve supply of drivers who don't usually bother, at least some of them will join up, because even with a set rate, a demand spike means there's much less delay between orders.
I had my hopes up, but this is about Team Culture (not Culture)
> This year I really want to try to use this to learn Rust. Are there any good practices or crates to handle file input like most of the problems give?

Last year I asked the same, and I found this answer on SO:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31046763/does-rust-have-...

See the answer which mentions the "text_io" crete.
Why to Migrate from Visual Studio App Center?
an employer happily offering 3 or 4 day workweeks is viewed as a huge perk by some employees (especially some of those with young children) vs other employers that will never consider it
Is Net Zero Emissions an Impossible Goal?
A back-of-the-envelope calculation tells me that the efficiency of a powered airship is about the same as modern airplanes. Switching truck freight to airships would use an order of magnitude more fuel.
Is Kafka a good choice for a Real-Time MQ?
> "all content I think my future self would appreciate me consuming."

I think The Syllabus [2] is kinda like this for a certain type of content (mostly academic). It aims to find stuff that doesn't get attention in the regular surveillance capitalistic hellscape that is the internet. It's run by Evgeny Morozov, someone who's thinking I admire.

Currently, my online reading is mainly based on hn (and multiple sources that often get posted here [0]), The Browser [1], The Syllabus [2] and people I follow on Mastodon and Twitter. Basically in absence of how to find content for my future self, I look for content that is being recommended by people I admire.

[0]: laphamsquarterly.org, slatestarcodex.com, ribbonfarm.com, etc.

[1]: thebrowser.com

[2]: the-syllabus.com
There's a lot of PHP positivity in the comments. I just want to inject some sobering pessimism in here, as someone who has spent the last 6 months using PHP for the $dayjob, and used to do commercial PHP work back in the PHP5 days.

PHP ....

... Doesn't ship with a production ready webserver. Yes, Python and Ruby also don't, but they have easy tools you can reach for (gunicorn, Puma) if you need to run them in a modern deployment stack where a whole nginx isn't really necessary.

... Doesn't have basic collection types in the core language. It's 2019 and PHP still thinks it's logical for the standard language to throw all Map, Set, List semantics into a single PHP array type. You can install the "phpds" native extension (and polyfill it from Composer) to get some passably usable implementations. But coming from Golang / Rust (or hell, even ES2015) I find them frustratingly limited.

... Doesn't have any sort of threading / async support. Even in a modest-scale webapp, this is going to hurt you when you want to do things like deploy PHP as a job queue handler. Or fan out even a trivial number of HTTP-client API calls from a PHP controller in a microservice-y world. The latter can be sort-of achieved with naive hacks like the cURL client concurrency support (Symfony HTTP-client supports it: https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/http_client.html#...) but that's a hack at best.

... Doesn't ship with a debugger out of the box. Even with great tooling like phpstorm IDE, you have to actually rub braincells together to be able to get xdebug installed / configured and ready to use.

... Has a somewhat decent package manager (Composer). But it doesn't ship with the language. Also, it's kinda crappy. It's painfully slow to do a composer install/update on anything larger than a toy project. It has all sorts of weird non-determinism issues (the composer.lock file flails around wildly between runs, changing case of metadata fields, etc).

... Has semi-decent static analysis tools (Psalm, phpstan), but they're pretty garbage compared to a proper compiler, or the quality of static analysis tools in other dynamic languages like Ruby / Javascript.

I could keep going. Profiling, code formatter, library ecosystem quality, and so on.

Where am I going with this? Honestly, I wish PHP would just die. It has some pros, but overall it's a terrible language that has no hope of modernizing enough to be relevant in 2019 and beyond. There's plenty of other excellent languages that do a better job in any category that PHP attempts to be good at. The effort being spent to maintain PHP as a language/runtime could be better spent on other languages that have made better choices in language design.

The developers who have become proficient in PHP, should continue to use their employable skills to maintain existing PHP codebases, but take a bit of time on the side to get proficient with another popular language if not already. And for the love of god, stop starting greenfields projects in PHP! Let it fade away peacefully.
From what I have heard KiCad has significantly worse parts/footprint management than proprietary EDAs like Altium combined with Altium Vault.
Exactly. In fact you'll now need two calls per operation, one to submit it and one to fetch the results.

You might make submission lazy and ond only actually submit all queued operations on the poll call, but it is not much better.
> I like books which are sort of lessons within a biography format.

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert) also fits this description.
Hmm, I'm not sure that's universally true or even true for a majority. Though I might just be in a bubble.

I care deeply about what a job would be asking me to build and I will absolutely leave money on the table if the product is immoral (for example gambling, ad tech, software for ICE, most arms manufacturers, most energy companies).

Work is unfortunately about 33% of your time on earth and it matters what you do with it, some people are mercenary and only care about money and that's their lookout but your statement reads as a consensus when I don't think it is. If it was no one would work for charities or public schools or public healthcare bodies.

In answer to the OP as long as the work isn't actively harmful then it's about quality of Life (and yes, money). No silly 40 hour plus weeks, etc.
The author explicitly acknowledged that the deplorable majority can pull the lever once every four years, “At most, working-class voters can cast their ballots for an “un­acceptable” candidate, but they can exercise no influence on policy formation or agency personnel, much less on governance areas that have been transferred to technocratic bodies”

But once in office their guy maintains the status quo even though populist rhetoric got him into office.

So far this theory appears to be true. Historical data corroborates. What is less certain imho is that grassroots activism has ceased to be ineffective. Nobody expects the pitchforks and guillotines until they show up on their doorstep.
That has to be the CCP’s long-term goal: they want to stay in power, and they need to build a rich citizenry so people don’t get uppity and decide revolution is better than the status quo.

But while Singapore feels more or less like the west, China most definitely does not, and the gap grows wider year after year.
Though, in retrospect, that smoking room may not have been the best idea.
I don't want to. I want a laptop with a physical £ key. Like my Macbook and my Thinkpads have.
Up until two years ago I was still able to find a NBC or CBS article from May 2003 saying how more than 80% of the US public was approving of said military intervention and how that was making the whole thing ok (or at least that was the implicit message).

I used to link to that article whenever this subject of fake news (or propaganda as it was called at the beginning of the 20th century) came into discussion on reddit or here, on HN. A couple of times I also linked to the Athenians' pre-Sicilian Expedition [1] propaganda campaign led by a certain Alcibiades, a war which had disastrous consequences on Athens itself. So it seems that we have been in an "information apocalypse" for at least ~2400 years now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Expedition
I think lower-purity Helium is not as scarce, and that's what you would use for party balloons, etc. No reason why it couldn't be used for Zeppelins too.
Yes, working on distributed database. So far it's quite useful -- it is possible to quickly check correctness of changes that you intend to make in few crucial places in code. It took about a week of learning/experimenting to write a useful spec. Also resulting state machine is not that much different from what you can expect in networking code working with epoll().
nobody really knows how AI works is one of those myths told by the media

It's not a myth. No one really understands how neural networks work. We don't know why a particular model works well. Or why any model works well. For example no one can answer why NNs generalize so well even when they have enough learning capacity to memorize all training examples. We can guess, but we don't know for sure. Most of the proofs you see in papers are there as fillers, so that papers seem more convincing. We rarely can prove anything mathematically about NNs that has any practical value or leads to any breakthroughs in understanding.

If we did really understand how NNs work, then we wouldn't need to do expensive hyperparameter searches - we would have a way to determine the optimal ones given a particular architecture and training data. And we wouldn't need to do expensive architecture searches, yet the best of the latest convnets have been found through NAS (e.g. EfficientNet), and there's very little math involved in the process - it's pretty much just random search.

Funny you mentioned the batchnorm paper - we still don't know why batchnorm is so effective - the paper gave an explanation (covariate shift reduction) which later was shown to be wrong (batchnorm does not reduce it), then several other explanations were suggested (smoother loss surface, easier gradient flow, etc), but we still don't know for sure. Pretty much every good idea in NN field is a result of lots of experimentation, good intuition developed in the process, looking at how a brain does it, and practical constraints. And yes, sometimes we're looking at the equations, and thinking hard, and sometimes we see a better way to do stuff. But usually it starts with empirical tests, and if successful, some math is used in the attempt to explain things. Not the other way around.

NNs are currently at a similar point as where physics was before Newton and before calculus.
Indeed, Iron Maiden wrote a song about the British Airship R101, called "Empire of the clouds"
There's an aversion to "Reddit-like" humor on HN. Especially if a post is a joke without any actual follow-up discussion.
“Good news shitheads, I found someone who is raising the bar”
How do I know which home automation project I should invest my time into? I'm aware of at least 3 FOSS ones.
For me it was the ideal way to wade into the rust waters last year, and quickly find out it (rust) was not my cup of tea, at least not at the time. This year I will try to follow along in zig, and see where that takes me.
Any possible solution I can think of to this problem of trustworthiness relies on some notion of a trusted arbiter.

As an example: We could replace e-mail with an identity-verified communications platform. If we do that, you’re sacrificing your privacy AND placing your trust in whatever government or company manages that system.

Likewise video. A government could realistically just release statements through their own websites (e.g. Gov.uk or whitehouse.gov) and make everyone take their news from there.

In either case you have to place your trust in someone to tell you what’s true, and if you do that, the platform becomes a propaganda machine about 15 minutes after launching and we’re basically a communist state.

Basically the solution to these problems is even worse than the already terrible status quo.

This is real, and it’s here now, and Joe Public has no idea why everyone doesn’t love Trump/Bernie/Boris/Jeremy as much as he does.

This doesn’t end at all well.

I’m going home to hug my kids.
It is interesting that on the front page, they show a SMT pick and place machine. It only has a small tangible connection to auto routing. It would have been much better if there is a short video showing the routing in action.
Huh? the Soviet Union did not exist in 1901.
Unsoundness in Pin
> ... any technological solution to the information apocalypse

Here we go again. Propagating the unbroken (and unvalidated) belief that non-technological problems must have a technological "solution".
Quit.

You've made the mistake of believing that you are "part of" the startup. You are just "employed by" the startup - you are not in charge and you can't rely on them for anything. The other side to this equation is you can just quit very easily and get a job somewhere else - you have no responsibility to them other than being professional and seeing out your notice.

Get a job in a bar for a few months, then go back to programming. You're obviously talented - you'll easily get another job.
Wouldn't be surprised if spare parts logistics turn out to be a pain for Tesla.
Yeah, we could extract some Helium from the sun. The heat wouldn't be an issue, we'd go at night.
Chrome has an app mode. From memory, the steps are roughly

1. Press the three dots to the right of the url.
2. Click more tools on the drop down menu.
3. Finally "create shortcut".

This should let you open that website in a mode where it hijacks relatively few keyboard shortcuts, so that `C-N`, `C-W`, etc, work.
I don't think it gets all of them though.
> chose not to go through the extra steps of qualifying a connector/mount for a flash daughtercard

are there such connectors suitable for automotive environments ? you don't want your flash to fall off while driving
Like I said, I can't really follow this stuff, but maybe the ultimate would be the Busy Beaver function? Is there such a thing as a proof of how many functions can be between something computable and Busy Beaver, given some sort of constraints?
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> Of course, you still have to work out what you'll do with people who haven't filled out the form - like the newborn baby mentioned at the start of this thread.

It could be opt-in or opt-out for everyone else. You don't have to solve the problem perfectly to make it better than it is today.
All of that is very well and I am glad those people find that approach enticing, but I would hate it myself. I participate for the pure joy of solving a puzzle and learning more idiomatic ways of doing that with my language of choice. If that takes me 1 minute, 1 hour, 1 day or 1 week, that's totally fine with me.
Came here to recommend the same thing, and I think it's an even better solution, as it makes the light appear to come from further away and the diffusion prevents bright spots.
I'm a college professor who teaches the courses in the border between math and computing. Lots of good suggestions here about subjects. I have a methodology suggestion. Try to do active learning as much as you can. (You can look at the MAA's recent book for a good state of the art summary.)
Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion
A skilled graphic designer working for a major international brand, even after several years with the company, will on average earn equivalent of 20k US dollars per year for 60 hour work weeks and limited health benefits, if that individual is from a neighboring company. Compare that to nearly triple the salary for a fresh grad with no experience if the individual is a native or westerner.

The ethnic bias is real and extreme, and they take advantage of the employee’s home country disadvantage when setting terms.
> In response to a pricing surge I expected more drivers to be incentivized to get out of bed at 11PM and make more money

That's true. But they also may be incentivized by demand surge in itself - when the demand overwhelms supply, they can earn maximum effective hourly rate, which is not the case when the demand is roughly matching the supply.

Adding surge pricing on top of that means wealthy people get prioritized, which is a separate effect and one that can be considered a) unfair, and b) disrupting to the regular city life, especially if the attendees of a mass event that caused the demand spike are wealthier on average than the regular citizens.
An alien comet from another star is soaring through our solar system
I own an Samsung smart TV and will so in the future but I wonder if this is only true if you activate the "smart hub" or if this is this true if you just connect the device to your network.

I personally use a Chromecast for my smart TV needs, which of course Google knows everything about. But the chromecast can't see anything else I do, no broadcast TV or if I use the DLNA function.

I wonder when right holders demand those information to sue people who watch "illegal" content on their TVs.
My daughter asked me the other day what a file was. She is 9 y.o. now. I tried to explain the best way I could making reference to a living cell, but she didn't know what a cell was either. After some time she finally got the concept and felt genuinely thrilled about it. I thought: what a good starting point for explanations about anything related to computing.
Just a nitpick that this is the approach that benefits mostly the founders, not yourself.

You are likely going to invest a lot of time and put yourself under an emotional strain for a very unlikely possibility that a) they will agree with you b) will consider this enough of an issue to invest time in resolving. If you and the founders had good enough relationships to warrant such an investment on your side, you would not be in this situation in the first place.
Exactly -- Nordic countries are among the safest, most honest places, but by culture instead of by control. I was wondering if long enough control would turn into a culture, and the dictatorian control could be eventually abolished.
But it would sound really sexy to be able to say that "I've build that using Assembly" :)
The author of the article could sum it up by stating that the hypothesis is: Maybe Hawking radiation is deterministic, and not random, and that the quantum perturbations are not random, but guided by the structured deposition of all accumulations of infall upon the event horizon.

So, if time stops at the event horizon (as the ivory tower claims to know as certain fact and absolute truth), then the infall of all energy and matter represents a recording of all eventful interactions. If these recordings are persistent (deposited into the non-temporal event horizon as holograms), then perhaps all Hawking emissions are capable of representing a high-fidelity replay of that holographic history in reverse, via a carrier signal that is very faint on a channel that we have yet to tune into. In other words, what if black hole archaeology is possible, via the interpretation of non-random Hawking radiation.

But pop-science "journalists" are remedial school children, and they only know how to craft idiotic click bait.

Shame, really.
First-of-their-kind tests are aimed at setting new standards for airplane seats
A few questions:

* How is your sleep?

* Are you able to rest properly?

* Do you feel exhausted every evening after work?

* Are you arguing more with your SO/family/friends than you used to?

* Do you have enough motivation to plan things that aren't work-related, like trips, dinner parties, going out with friends?

The big problem with burnout is that your ability to recover and rest is severely hampered. If you are anything like me that lack of rest will make you have a very negative outlook on, well, everything.

If you are able to I'd take a long vacation, long enough that you are able to get some distance and perspective on the situation. Then I'd see if leaving the company is the right descision or what would be necessary to salvage the situation.

I've personally gone through burnout the past year, to the point where I was on sick leave for a few weeks. Those weeks were enough to give me some perspective. Quitting that job and taking a few additional months off was the only was to get through it, though truth be told I'm still suffering from some symptoms of burnout, like a lack of motivation.
A lawyer’s job is not to actually find out the truth, like a scientist. A lawyer’s conclusion will not be tested by a harsh reality with which you can experiment. A lawyer’s job is entirely to convince other people of things. If people are convinced, the job is done; there are no further repercussions if the truth turns out to differ.

Therefore, your lawyer friend likely has never thought about what logic is, or what a scientist does, and how physical reality with experiments is a harsh and unforgiving master, and therefore believes that everything is what he does – i.e. rhetoric.