skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just stop please. If you are a IT leader and reading this, do us technical workers a favor and just stop. Please get a life outside of work to satisfy your slave leader/world conquerer appetite instead.

As a developer, I am really getting tired of all these nanny/big-brother style theory of how to make IT workers work harder and faster. It is bad enough always being student for life and having uphill battle trying to raise a family and having some social life.

All these items like agile, scrums, standups, support tickets, SLAs, retros, post mortems, overnight support, 24/7 slack channels, etc. are only targeted towards IT workers and are being embraced by companies in name of being more nimble and ship out faster.

Meanwhile finance, accounting, legal, traders etc don’t bother with any of these, make more money (in Canada) on average and have cushy team lunches and bonuses. Hell, these non IT folks end up becoming managers and directors often on basis of seniority while not even understanding how to work properly with basic Windows functions.

All these things combined have led to a dangerous culture where a 15 year experienced developer is often being grilled by a pointy head scrum master or product owner who doesn’t even have half that amount of experience and is being artificially emboldened by top management while being obsessed with work related and productivity metrics.

I don’t mind if IT workers are subjected to some of these changes at a Company but to bring out all these changes and apply them towards us is just inhumane.

Sorry for the rant but I really didn’t get into IT to be treated like a dispensible factory worker or to be case study for management on how to extract more juice out of me.
You don't. See http://wcook.blogspot.com/2012/07/proposal-for-simplified-mo... by William Cook. However, objects help to tame mutable state.
As someone currently being stuck in a kind of scientific writer's block, this was a nice read.
I always wonder about troll mythology and Neanderthals...
Nice. Any interesting use cases for the genome one?
I'm going to break out my roller blades and watch Hackers this weekend.
Why a data scientist is not a data engineer (O'Reilly)
What about hash collision?
You could write an obfuscator to keep appending useless code or comments to the payload to continually generate commit hashes until you get a collision with the same original hash.
A lot of work of course, and the hash is so f-ing huge it might take a few thousand compute-years, but you know, hackers find a way.
If nothing else, use the full 40-char hash to ensure that your attacker has to find the same atom twice across 10 moons.
Fuck all these lukewarm rationalitazions.

Wanna meet a girl? Spend a year and a half improving your tinder stats, and if you’re not a hot muscly guy, go fuck yourself.
> I feel like I have more control over my privacy and over my devices using web apps

Interesting. I feel the exact opposite -- I have more control over native apps. It's harder to firewall off web apps and control if/when they get updated, for instance.
My experience with Android One phones from Xiaomi is that they have no bloat when they are released (probably because they have to have no bloat for them to be certified by Google) but then they keep sneaking bloat with every little update they make.
I think JS should be higher on the priority list, considering the demand to effort ratio (I'm thinking it's probably easier to implement for JS than Java). I would guess that it would also be easier to host it and load JS on the fly to debug online. Just my 2c, will try the Java one anyway to test it out.
To be honest I didn’t see the word “oil” initially, but other comments already addressed this: Walmart does have to deal with large quantities of oil and related commodities. In addition to their grocery business, they also run a large logistics operation, and the price of the goods and groceries in their stores at the end of the day doesn’t exclude the cost of their transportation to those stores.
Did he help attaching the fender in the end?

The last time I helped someone I got paid for it which made all the difference. I'm happy to sort out your computer problems if you pay me at least my dayjob equivalent for my time. I did an excellent job as well and no bad feelings whatsoever.
I've been obsessed with the Bloomberg terminal ever since I discovered my latent love for finance a few years back. I actually got to check one out, but didn't really get to play with it as much as I liked. One day I'll be able to afford the $14k/yr.
What are you writing about? One of the takeaways for me is that it is good to talk to [someone|anyone] about being stuck. The conversation could lead towards a local minimum, or a local maximum, or even a global maximum.
Interesting, that wasn't clear to me before. Thank you.
Integrated bridges are being installed all across USN ships, including Mt. Whitney with MSC right now. They're filled with a hodgepodge of HMIs that are all linked to a control system filled with gyros, ECDIS, RADAR, propulsion, etc. etc. System integration is complex and the design work is done by contracted companies. You don't have the first party vendor doing the integration work. It's a recipe for disaster.
Why java better? I remember java 1.2 with j2ee at that time was sun microsystem alive. I agree with you. You have a better free communities but the language not.
Apple's "improvement" in that area this year has largely had no effect or even negative ones in certain cases.
"the lack of a good lenses system"

This is very much a subjective interpretation and I don't mean to be picking at nits, however most smartphones have tremendous lens systems. They just happen to have a short focal length (e.g. 1.54mm, 4.25mm and 6mm on the iPhone 11). Depth of field is primarily a function of focal length, and the smaller the focal length the larger the depth of field. Which is why portrait photographers often use zoom lenses.

In the real world though 99% of the time what people are aiming for is simply sharp photos where the subject is in focus. That small focal length makes that much, much more likely, yielding a dramatically higher percentage of "keeper" photos. Shallow depth of field photos are a gimmick in most cases.
Doesn't this point to some renormalization strategy being necessary? Or at least some correction to how renormalization is being applied if its leading to subspace infinities. Not sure how mathematicians view renormalization when you are trying to ask questions about indefinitely far distances into the future but it seems like there needs to be some necessary coarseness which suppresses the infinities, not sure why those terms wouldn't naturally arise.
They can claim it, but all the objective evidence says they're wrong.
Yes, done now.
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No, it’s probably just a result of local variation. Some buildings or low-density neighbourhoods are super friendly, some buildings or low-density neighbourhoods are unfriendly. There’s a lot of reasons going on, it’s dependent on individuals.

In super-friendly neighbourhoods I’ve found it’s often one person who’s doing all the work to keep everyone connected.
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This may sound shocking, but I did not get the job ;)
This gets close but misses the obvious reason for any recent spike:

“ It’s easy to speculate about the reasons for this increase: a financial crisis that awakened Americans to the widening gaps between rich and poor; an opioid epidemic caused by corporate greed; entrenched racism and sexism; bitterly divided partisan politics; and, of course, technological change”

It’s not “partisan politics,” we feel alienated because we are witnessing the attempted dismantling of modern democracy by a transnational network of would-be fascists. We feel alienated because a man who admitted on tape to being a serial rapist was subsequently elect4d president. We feel alienated because the police are murdering innocent civilizations with shocking regularity, as are Private individuals with guns. Non of this is “partisan”... the government and its allies around the world are openly hostile to the interests of the public. That is, well, alienating,
The first thing I thought when I saw those photos was — large format Kodachrome. Those clearly have the color pallet of Kodachrome and many of those old WWII era propaganda color photos were shot on 4x5.
I think a big part of why there is so much antagonism in Twitter threads, Facebook politics and the like, is due to the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle.

Even if people weren't actually more angry online, and even if communications in text didn't come across as more antagonistic, the BAP tends to amplify the negative in any large group.

Closely related is the way that it only takes a Tiny Number Of Assholes to ruin things for a large group. That happens in verbal discourse, face to face social groups, and community organisations too.

The effects on targetted individuals can be devastatingly traumatic, and sometimes take years to recover from, especially when they interact with other difficult things happening in people's lives. It's hardly surprising, if some people's lives are turned upside down completely, that for a larger circle of people in the vicinity there's an instinct towards unhappiness and anger in general, just from proximity, without necessarily having a clear, fixed target.

If we can ever figure out how to create a Bullshit and Asshole Damage dampening field, that would be great.
it s not a specific idea, the concepts of individualism and self-sufficiency are orthogonal . in developed societies, markets have replaced the social dependency on each other because people want to be more individualistic. i don't think people are unhappy being individualists
This was previously linked (e.g. [0]), but it didn’t get any attention, so I reposted it with a ‘more interesting’ title.

Hope that’s acceptable, because I’m interested in learning more about this network architecture. Is a vpn mesh — if embedded in the client — a possible backbone of a truly server-less and decentraized/distributed social network?

[0] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21839345
> Offering a more traditional debugging experience with the ability to rewind time to the last time a value is set would also make it valuable.

Visual Studio has this.

It’s called time-travel debugging, and it makes your code run really slow :)
Uh, did you read the comment you replied to?

> we killed the project a year later.
Nope, at least not at the moment: BugJail is closed source.
I am in the US but drive a Japanese Domestic Market truck, so the steering wheel is on the right side and I shift left handed. Someone who learns to shift right handed will pick up shifting left handed within 1 hour. The brain flips it all remarkably easily. The harder muscle memory to break is the turn signal and windshield wipers being swapped.

I actually think what I am doing (a right-hand drive vehicle in a drive-on-the-right country) is the easiest, because parallel parking is so much easier when you are driving on the same side as the street curb. And being able to get in and out of my vehicle from the sidewalk is nice.
Blogs are not a consistently reliable source, particularly for notability claims. It depends on the subject and on the blog. I'm not making this up; I spent a year doing AfD patrol, and this was probably the most frequently debated point in AfD arguments.

Obviously, they can't always be WP:RS, because then literally everything would be "notable", since anyone can stand up a blog about anything. You can't even logically assemble the argument you're trying to make.
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In addition to the security aspect, it would be really great if you have the option to lock down or cache the Docker images used for actions. It was weird for me when I pulled in an action from the marketplace for a workflow, and now about 80% of my total build time is building of that action for each and every build I run (e.g. the Dockerfile is compiled for that action EVERY time I run my build). I should have the option to at least cache that built image for me after the first time I run a workflow.
Wealth Of Nations is a weird book to read. Where I grew up, people worshipped it and generally considered it to be the second greatest book of all time, after the Bible. I ended up reading both in my thirties, and two things occurred to me:

1) It's very obvious that none of the adults I knew as a child had read more than a few isolated quotes from Wealth of Nations or the Bible. None of them had even the slightest idea what sort of content either of those books contained, or what they were like in tone or in substance. 99% of what I grew up hearing about both books was completely made up.

2) Wealth of Nations presents a very chipper and optimistic sense of entrepreneurship that 99% of people in the world of business today would consider naive at best. If Adam Smith had written that book today, he would be laughing stock.
There is simply no way that the US government will let Boeing fail as a company. Even if this thing blows up, I think it will still be funded, especially given their commercial airline troubles.
Culture is culture. The 737 Max issues relate to the 787 battery issues relate to this. Is the company run by safety-first oriented aeronautical engineers or not.
Cheers for the input, that's really interesting. I'm not much of a javascript bod but if I get some time I'll install npm and then have a go =]
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Data-Files#d...

Seems so, lists at least Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Sanskrit, Urdu, Nepali, Marathi, Sinhala and Punjabi!
I don't know but I would generally avoid doing tricks like that. Just quote the user input accordingly.
I have been using https://www.officetime.net/ for years. They have also Windows and iphone versions.
It's not the software that holds back phone cameras. It's the literal size and shape of the sensors and lens.

You can already shoot RAW on a phone, but putting Photoshop on the phone won't solve the lack of depth of field inherent to the lens and sensor setup.
That was quite interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21841921
I think we have succeeded at software IC's beyond our wildest dreams at the time: standard, third party components with mostly understood behaviors, documents, and catalogs to obtain them.

Almost everything except C has web loadable modules and online docs (analogous to IC data sheets in retrospect!) at this point, whether it's Perl's CPAN (going back to 1995) or Gems or MVN or whatever through obvious L-Pad disasters and now containers and various Hubs.

edit. What we didn't dream of when the Byte Smalltalk issue came out (should NOT have tossed mine :-) was the implications of networked module repos. Add one or two lines of code and the system goes out and gets a standard module and wires it in for you. This was not on the menu for people shopping for 74xx at Radio Shack and Digikey.
I have seen it commented the idea that churches are some great source of immense, direct charity. If one is in need, they should simply call upon "the church" for assistance. A bowl of soup, a blanket, and some petty cash right in hand.

Is that real? Even today instead of 150 years ago? What's the regional variation on that?
Almost anything can be used well for artistic effect.

Here are some shots from the Nikkor 500mm:

http://www.indeed.co.jp/blog/scrap2/lens/reflexnikkor_500mm_...
I don't like him, but I admire his ability to get some people so frothing at the mouth angry.

He's perfected a strategy that is a perfect counter to modern media's tactic of scrutiny and demonetization of any and all personality traits.
Pretty interesting stuff, mainly addressing nonlocality (as does "amplituhedron theory"). In both theoretical frameworks relativity and quantum mechanics are unified, with spacetime and QM as emergent properties.

Additional reading.

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Amplitudehedron [Nima Arkani-Hamed et al.]:

A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-geometry-...

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Causality [Lee Smolin et al.]:

The Causal Theory of Views: A Conversation with Lee Smolin:

https://www.edge.org/conversation/lee_smolin-the-causal-theo...

Causality (physics):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality_(physics))

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Smolin has obviously been thinking about this for a long time; e.g. note discussions of causality peppered throughout this 1997 discussion"

A Possible Solution to the Problem of Time in Quantum Cosmology:

https://www.edge.org/discourse/kauffman_smolin.html)
Do you know what it says if Im actually in Crimea?
Is there any real US experience left with creating manned capsules for space? I would guess there are no Apollo engineers available, and Shuttle engineers for the same had a very different configuration. For general space experience, also the ability to maintain controlled processes for existing space vehicles is not a fully overlapping skill set with developing new space vehicles. In a way, every company is starting from new using historical data.
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Okay, I don't want/mean to be impolite, but all of the 15 commits I see after forking isn't really significant; Is this really a Show-HNable item?

I see you updated jQuery[0], added your screenshot[1] & edited the Readme each with trivial small edits[2]... and out of the 15 commits 11 commits is related to the screenshot and Readme.

I can't see any new code written, I can't help but suspect that this repo & account was made to get karma...

If you would like some project ideas, I would urge you to modify the styles of the current HNCard plugins to match the HN asthetics; like non-styled buttons/links with the beige background colors and less margin.

[0] https://github.com/mudulo/hncard/commit/808060e869efc8205184... and https://github.com/mudulo/hncard/commit/808060e869efc8205184...

[1] https://github.com/mudulo/hncard/commit/cdfc024ba6aef1cb7562... and https://github.com/mudulo/hncard/commit/a42aaca31de97d894950...

[2] https://github.com/mudulo/hncard/commit/eae608db902b6501dc66..., https://github.com/mudulo/hncard/commit/dc756ffebdfe2d08ffaf..., https://github.com/mudulo/hncard/commit/3d78b1c3a02bf1499016..., https://github.com/mudulo/hncard/commit/1b96751bcadc8393e319..., https://github.com/mudulo/hncard/commit/6293499bb0d0bb87c889..., https://github.com/mudulo/hncard/commit/205450c6998233fad28b..., https://github.com/mudulo/hncard/commit/0c7b4d67df6b8ca19266..., https://github.com/mudulo/hncard/commit/596eef59eba83f1a0aad..., https://github.com/mudulo/hncard/commit/91e80d40f1a74c3479af...
> If you wouldn't mind going into a little more detail about what you're doing I'd really appreciate it!

What do you want to know ?
This doesn't seem like a failing of the free market. The free market has already created products that solved this problem, and they are some of the most popular products in history, but people are moving off of them, e.g.:

- People are moving from Microsoft Office to Google Docs

- Designers are moving from Sketch/Photoshop/Illustrator to Figma

- People are moving from Evernote/Text Files/Whatever to Notion

- People are moving from HTML files to Webflow

- People have already moved from native mail clients to Gmail

There's a problem here, but it isn't that the free market hasn't solved this problem, it's that people are choosing other features (mainly collaboration) as more important than data ownership.

Note that this is a transition mainly driven by tech people, none of these products have gone mainstream yet (excluding Gmail of course), and the products that offer data ownership are still far more popular overall. But if the mainstream follows tech peoples lead, that won't be for long.
Hi Clay,

I'm not specifically advocating for For and Against (at least not compared to Approval), but I think it has interesting properties that can be used effectively for explaining vote splitting and Duverger's Law to those who don't quite grasp it. (I also think the fact that it could theoretically be phased in gradually is very interesting, particularly to those that worry about politicians who were elected with plurality being reluctant to endorse a different method)

To the best I can test it, though, (I've been working on a graphically based voting simulator), For and Against comes up with remarkably good results compared to Approval, sometimes better, sometimes worse. Let me know if you want to see the graphical voting simulator, I'd be interested in your ideas about the assumptions made (there are lots of ways to tune it). I guess the way I'd put it is "yes it still has vote splitting, but that vote splitting doesn't result in Duverger's Law")

Interestingly, For and Against is less expressive than Approval if there are five or more candidates, but more expressive if there are only 3. (e.g. you can say "Nader>Gore>Bush", rather than just "Nader=Gore>Bush" or "Nader>Gore=Bush")

But again, I think the main value of For and Against is using it to explain how vote splitting results in a duopoly, ultimately opening people's minds to Approval or for that matter STAR (which I see you are the inventor of?).

If you weight it toward "against" (e.g. count the against votes as -1 but the for votes as only 0.1), it has the exact opposite effect as plurality, in the sense that parties would want to have many candidates running, to dilute the against votes directed at their candidates. If you count them equally, though, the vote splitting effects effectively cancel each other out. The tunability of the method, as well as the way its strategy sort of directly derives out of Plurality strategy, has a lot of pedagogical value to me. Approval addresses vote splitting and Duverger's Law, but I personally find it harder to clearly explain how it actually accomplishes that.
Much of the data is already accessible from almost any client that can run the BBDL (Bloomberg Data License API, or whatever the name du jour is) Many software vendors embed BBDL pulls using the API. For example, SunGard Front Arena and PolyPaths both pull rates/prices/SMFs/curves seamlessly from BBDL regardless of whether you are running on the terminal or not. This has been the case for over a decade at least.

As for the individual software being available on different machines, they have a solution for some of that (Bloomberg BVAL Pricing Service, or the name du jour).

Ultimately, they want a vertically integrated UX where the models and screens have a very intuitive correlate on their proprietary keyboard (oh, and DRM.) It is a choice, you cant fault them for choosing that route.

There are plenty of competitors who have come along (and died) trying to offer something else. Everyone is free to choose those.

It is a bit like Apple and iOS. I once went to Android for 2yrs, and then came back to iOS because I saw the value of things just working well together.
I was just thinking this may be like the first date advice to watch how your date treats the waitstaff. Are they gracious or petty to people they don’t need something from?
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