skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...Everyone is different, some people feel switching from keyboard to mouse is a huge productivity drain and invest a lot in avoiding that transition

And they are likely wrong. People believe a lot of things about themselves that don't hold up to scrutiny. For example, people think they can multitask, etc and studies show that the aren't nearly as productive doing that as they think they are. People think that open offices help collaboration, but that is not what the research shows. As the article says:

>...As my colleague Jessica Stillman pointed out last week, a new study from Harvard showed that when employees move from a traditional office to an open plan office, it doesn't cause them to interact more socially or more frequently.

>Instead, the opposite happens. They start using email and messaging with much greater frequency than before. In other words, even if collaboration were a great idea (it's a questionable notion), open plan offices are the worst possible way to make it happen.

>Previous studies of open plan offices have shown that they make people less productive, but most of those studies gave lip service to the notion that open plan offices would increase collaboration, thereby offsetting the damage.

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/its-official-open-plan-of...
We've always been trained to think critically about media (I even had classes on it in high school - one called "critical thinking"!). Seems like now it's just "hate journalists" not "think critically". If something doesn't fit your world view, just ad hominem it.

I'm hoping I'm just imagining it though (confirmation bias!), and it's really always been like this.
I agree with you completely. I am referring mainly to the context in which you have practically no influence on your work environment. In such a case, hard effort becomes wasted effort.
It's a little late for that.
For those who don't know, he is an esteemed computer scientist who created the Lucid dataflow language with Ed Ashcroft. Much praised by Alan Kay among others.
> Zadig works by adding its own certificate root to the Trusted Publisher system store and self-signing the installation package

Is this different than the local CA cert list? Sorry I don’t use Windows.
SEC Commissioner proposes fundraising safe harbor for decentralized networks
"The electrification of the Hummer is not a signal of climate progress. It is a declaration that it’s still OK to be an asshole."

As said by whom? Metropolitan coastal journalists?

Spends half the article critiquing SUV culture and people.

Try having a large family where you consistently get meters of snow every winter and your municipality never got the benefits of modern urban planning.

It bothers me that it appears despite making progress in a decades old climate narrative, nothing is ever enough so long as it doesn't fit one's own narrative of one's own world.

The news is actually positive! Critiquing is fine but don't attack a culture you don't fully understand or have empathy for.

I've lived in nothing but metropolitan dense cities and am pro-environment but also have empathy because I have friends and family who don't live like me and sacrifice without the niceties I'm able to afford with my lifestyle.

Kudos on the progress to Hummer TBH.
Did they give you a cost? That's fucking shitty they would encourage you to do something that just earns them money. I fucking hate private insurance (and I worked in it for ~3 years)
Somehow the Europeans manage to bike families around town, including in snow, without a suburban just fine (as do I).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3427493/Crown-Pri...
It's nothing like the reputation of a small village.
Reputation in a village is relatively peer to peer. The system here is technocratic and top down. It is by its natural purely totalitarian.
Yes, provided from android studio, but via adb there is only jdb available
This describes not a testing regimen, but the entire development lifecycle. https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
The practical issue is there isn't a good way to determine who “needs” these vehicles and who doesn't. If we as a society want to curtail excessive use of these life-averse machines, there has to be some hurdle to separate out those who “need” from those who merely “want” one. Restrict private ownership and urban operation of them without a CDL or a contractor's license, for example. People who need to use them for that one trip per year to haul new furniture from Ikea can still rent them as needed.
They obviously mean the same thing in this context.
Major Tom to Ground Control . . . . Major Tom to Ground Control. . . .
vice is one of those news sources that is pretty much guaranteed to bring down the quality of discuss on HN.
I work at an all typescript shop and I really recommend checking out https://github.com/xojs/eslint-config-xo-typescript#readme as this is a full time open source developer that has to field all kinds of PR's from strangers. So it saves them time if the linter flags things they're trying to avoid.
> In Twitter’s case, one of the limitations in place was to reject anyone who tried to upload a long list of sequential phone numbers—a sign that this person was almost certainly not uploading an address book in an attempt to find friends.

> The workaround is almost comically simple: someone could just upload a long list of randomized phone numbers instead. And that’s how the security researcher whose work tipped Twitter off to this problem was able to match up ... for 17 million unsuspecting Twitter users, including high-profile officials and politicians around the world.

The biggest tech companies in the world, ladies and gentlemen.
China’s Lavish Scientific Funds Fall into Prosecutors’ Spotlight
Craig Venter has a vested interest in selling genomic cancer detection.
If one defines gorgeousness as ease of grok, then gorgeousness directly contributes to the wellbeing of users through maximizing the technology's ability to quickly and effectively adapt to their needs as they arise. Agreed that it's a secondary concern to fulfilling the featureset.
Right - I'd expect this in Japan where space really is a premium and the collective work attitude is much different but... why here in the States?!?
I run this site, where we track public companies revenues, and Q3 2019 shows -8% drop in revenue for semiconductors segment, but it can be because Q3 2018 had +15% Y/Y: https://finintelligence.com/app/segment/2873229239
but what did the president say in his recent address? he said the opposite. he said that because it's popular with his base. the republican party is now his party, and the old core ideals will be washed away.

like I said, they'll call it something else. repeal obamacare and make something new that will basically be medicare for all in some shape or form. it will be a handout to the big insurance, drug, and healthcare companies, I'm sure.
This is definitely worth thinking about, and in particular to put it into today's political context, Nigerian-Americans have the most PhDs per capita of any immigrant or native-born group -- and yet Nigeria was just put under travel restrictions.

Having friends & colleagues from both American Black and African and Black Caribbean backgrounds has given me a tiny glimpse into some of the difference in background and treatment. A Caribbean friend who came here for her PhD in mathematics mentioned to me that she was shocked at how she was treated here in the US -- in her home country, she was universally respected as an educator and a professional, while in the US she was... respected in the classroom, but not on the street. A different friend whose family has been in the US longer than mine, on the other hand, talked about being discouraged from a career in the National Park Service: his grandfather in particular had stories of the violence inflicted on black people in the woods, and felt it would be a very unsafe career. There's a really complex interaction of history, current economics, and personal choice, mediated by our schools. Just looking at the numbers, the US education system is not doing well by black students in particular and many children overall. Rural white kids are also not being served well. No one is getting good math education. And as long as we continue to divide against each other in a fight for artificially limited resources, we won't do better as a nation.
One tip: Make sure that tickets (both bugs and support requests) make sense.

Meaning: Make sure that you're either running, or involved with, ticket triage. No ticket should go to an engineer without a basic review. (Edit: 2-3 minutes a ticket)

What are things that you should look for, before assigning a ticket to an engineer?

- Is the title and description coherent? Written in decent English (or whatever language your office uses.)

- Did whoever submit the ticket do an appropriate amount of troubleshooting for their role? (Or are they just trying to pass work off on your engineers?) Specifically, if this is a support escalation, did the submitter follow any troubleshooting steps that you've already documented?

- If this is a bug, do the steps to reproduce make sense?

- Do your processes require things like logs, screenshots, videos, ect? Are they present? (Edit: QE and support need to be trained on what kind of information to collect before passing a ticket to your team. Being a "team player" means holding other groups accountable for providing your engineers what they need to do their jobs.)

- Is this a duplicate of a well-known issue?

- Is the bug steered to your team appropriately, or should a different team take the first attempt?

- [Edit] Are there multiple bugs / support requests in a single ticket? (I have a firm one-bug-per-ticket, or one-escalation-per-ticket rule. It just gets too confusing otherwise.)

The above shouldn't take long. Specifically, during triage, you aren't trying to understand the bug or escalation. You're just making sure that whoever wrote the ticket put in enough knowledge that you're comfortable handing it off to your team.

When a ticket doesn't make sense, just send it back to whoever wrote it. You might need to meet with other managers to make sure that everyone understands what you need, and expect, prior to assigning work to your team.

The point is that you should be the filter blocking other teams from sending crap to your engineers. You can also involve your team members in triage, as long as your team members understand the difference between triage and actively working on a bug.

What happens when you don't triage well? Bugs pile up on your team and don't get solved. Some engineers will be good at asking for clarification for bad bugs, other engineers will just let them sit.

In this case, when tickets aren't being resolved, the solution is to re-triage and send back poorly-defined tickets.
Recently had an MRI as well. I was given an iPad with lots of documents to sign. Most of it was what you'd expect. Just poorly scrawl your name & initials where indicated.

The one that really jumped out to me was the Power of Attorney. Yes, the provider wanted me to grant them an indefinite Power of Attorney as part of being a patient. I asked if I had to complete this and was told I could skip it. I was really glad to see that about 1/2 the people in the waiting room had the same question.
>Wouldn’t you agree it’s much more practical and inviting if you could just turn around a talk?

No. Even when I visit my less fortunate comrades in the cube farms, I constantly feel guilty for opening my mouth because I know that there are 10 other people in earshot who probably don't have any interest at all in the discussion we're having.

>And a text conversation and face to face one are very different and could lead it to different places.

I agree, which is why I think it's important to make it easy to have face to face conversations by making sure that there's space to do so without disturbing my coworkers.
It was a documentation/error response bug in their API, so it was hard to reproduce trivially. I gave them some source that reproduced it (https://github.com/samcgardner/neg-lb-initialiser), which really seems like it ought to be sufficient - it reliably reproduces wrong behaviour.
Have you driven around Idaho, Nebraska or Montana?
One of the books that I read last year, I can’t remember which [1], said that the greatest contributor to wealth over the long run is education. My unfounded assumption that explains the reasoning of why you did not experience American families reacting the same way that yours did is: the American belief in rugged individualism. I think that most Americans would say that “hard work” is the biggest contributor to wealth [2]. Being an immigrant, I guess that your family, and probably society they are from, adhered to the former belief, and that is why they took your education so seriously?

[1] Could have come from: Can American Capitalism Survive?, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, maybe Enlightenment Now.

[2] It could very well be luck: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068
>and it stands to reason that there is no way a group of people can ever hope to come close to the market's capability of communicating information about desires from people to producers.

So you're saying the market is separate from the components that make it up? The Market is by definition a group of people engaging in the act of producing and consuming services.

If your comment is to be taken at face value, you've just stated that the Market can't exist, because a group of people can't do that, which is to put it mildly ludicrous.

Furthermore, the market is not only well within the realm of doing by a group of people, it can in fact be regulated by the same people who through their collective activity create that thing we call the Market.

It's an outcome. Not a cause. People are the cause, and are therefore the ultimate shapers of the resulting market. A market that implicitly and enforcibly disincludes a thing is no less real and tangible a system than the unregulated idealized market boogeyman everyone assumes will just work.

It just amazes me that economic die-hards dismiss the freedom of market participants to organize and reshape the market through the utilization of organized government policy, yet accept the freedom for private individuals to do the same thing through laissez-faire and non-interference in their business affairs.

A movement in a more socialistic direction is a Market phenomena. Much as many may wish it weren't so.
Precisely.

Language designers seem to underestimate the cognitive overhead of syntax duplication.

StateStream.map { $0.subState }.compactMap(\.subObject).flatMap { $0.objectProperty }

Being correct is super frustrating.
Clients may know but the thing is that the language we are using at our startups affect our conversions for example. A good copy may convert way more users!
"Searching for Sugar Man" is a fantastic film. I first watched it on a flight, w no idea what it was about -- which made it all the more impactful. Highly recommend same to anyone who wants to see a great film about music, just skip any trailers or reviews and just watch it.
Yes, it is, but the domain req. can change, requiring to handling an nullable result
> There's one more character and the conventions for whitespace are different.

Never underestimate peoples (often irrational) hatred for sigils, or even things that remind them of sigils.
This absolutely. The chip people always make custom protocols for /everything/.
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Thank you for the input I will practice!
I provided specific examples of events that actually transpired. Stop lying.
In our defence, our customers are a compete joke in terms of the price they are prepared to pay for quality sfotware.

See MCAS programmers at $9/h.
Healthcare is "not that bad" if you have some cash, because then you can afford to go abroad, e.g. India for your care. Other than that, it is terrible.
Nokia 225. Three weeks on one charge.
I guess you are referring to the book from Ryan Holiday: "Ego is the Enemy". Definitely a good read, highly recommend for the start.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1591847818/
yes, I believe that's why they used the word "Backdoor".
> Being heavier and higher does nothing for mobility in snow.

Except for reducing the likelihood of getting high-centered.
I have a mid-size AWD crossover. It handles snow, ice and excessive rain far better than my old 4WD utility pickup that shares a drive train and chassis with most GM SUV behemoths.
I get excellent 8-10 hr lifetime on a Lenovo X1 Carbon and a Dell Inspiron 7590 with Ubuntu.
Sorry for thinking and sharing my experience.

Just go back to being socially anxious then!

Nevermind other explanation models or opportunities.

I've updated my comment to attempt to clarify the meaning better, in case that was miscommunicated.
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Depends on the content but if it’s something remotely popular, and was released on BluRay, the answer is yes.
The most popular torrent at the moment apparently 1.92GB BluRay rip of Joker (2019), with 8k seeders.

There’re 2 higher-quality versions found on the Internets, 6GB and 16GB. Both have 4k video encoded in 10-bit h265, have 5.1 / 7.1 audio, the former one has 1k seeders, the latter 100. These numbers are very approximate, I haven’t downloaded nor watched that movie. But usually, even 100 seeders is enough to saturate my 120 mbit/sec download link.

YMMV.
Over the years I've observed they excel at certain topics (China coverage, High Society) but so many end up being myopic op-ed pieces. Can't win them all.
I bought the URL BadSubscriptions.com because I came across the story of subscriptions/services that are hard to unsubscribe from over and over again. I haven't built anything that works yet, but what features/suggestions would you all have for a service that unsubscribes for you. How valuable is that to you?

I'm mocking up workflows with various API's right now but nothing is concrete so I'd love and welcome any and all suggestions.
callAsFunction() isn't really intended to be used in a type like Dice there. It's a bad example.

It's for Swift for TensorFlow's integration with Python, in which a bridged Python object can be called as a function. Functions are, of course, objects in Python, so that makes sense, but it would be a pain to have to call fn.call(bar) instead of fn(bar) when fn is a reference to a python object that is a function in its runtime.

It's also used in TensorFlow models, in which callAsFunction() is usually implemented as passing the model's input through all the defined layers in it.

This makes it easy to treat models as if they were functions, which they mathematically are, unlike Dice.

Example:

struct MLP: Layer {
var layer1 = Dense<Float>(inputSize: 2, outputSize: 10, activation: relu)
var layer2 = Dense<Float>(inputSize: 10, outputSize: 1, activation: relu)

@differentiable
func callAsFunction(_ input: Tensor<Float>) -> Tensor<Float> {
let h0 = layer1(input).withDerivative { print("∂L/∂layer1 =", $0) }
return layer2(h0)
}
}

(from: https://www.tensorflow.org/swift/tutorials/custom_differenti... )
> Your conspiracy is also missing any motivation Apple might have for gathering private data. They don't run an ad network

It's called "surveillance capitalism". Please look it up on Google.

You don't need an "ad network" to monetise user data. (Oh, and Apple does have an ad network, though it is in "hiatus" now - it was "shut down" right when the marketing about Apple's media campaign on increased user privacy picked up, while at the same time they started rolling out forced ios updates that had features to collect even more of your user data (all "anonymously" ofcourse - and there have been enough recent article debunking how anonymous data can still be de-anonymised).

Let's not forget that as a public multi-national company, that is bound to the American philosophy of capitalism, Apple is duty-bound to make more money for it's shareholders in any way possible. (I've even heard that shareholders can otherwise sue them to in American courts). So everyone of us would be a FOOL to believe that Apple will not monetise our personal data, one way or the other, now or in the future.
>Restrict private ownership and urban operation of them without a CDL or a contractor's license, for example. People who need to use them for that one trip per year to haul new furniture from Ikea can still rent them as needed.

That is a great idea, in cities there shouldn't be a need to have these types of vehicles.

I remember when I visited Germany back in 2005, it was strange not seeing a single truck anywhere! If you went to the country you would see trucks on farms and for people to personally use on their property.

In the 21 days I was there we drove around from city to city in a rental car, and I think other than freight vehicles, I saw probably 4 truck type vehicles.

Probably also due to the fact that Gasoline was the same price per liter as it was per gallon in the USA.
I think bad productivity office plans don't get selected out by market forces because almost everyone is doing it. And the small number of companies not doing it are still competing with a much larger number of companies in a situation where luck is a big part of the outcome. So the effect gets drowned out, I'm thinking.
How exactly are they going to listen in? Are they on the other end of the line?
Those states contain 1.4% of the US population.

It does nothing to explain the rising SUV/Truck trend of anywhere where it snows once every 5 years.
Should I check my back or carry it on?
Something else to think critically -
1. Open space has a greater chance to skew your peer evaluations. Social aspects ends up being the numero uno factor. With cubicles you know others thru their work. This is not entirely black and white, but I strongly believe there's some truth to it.
2. Deep thinking is difficult if not impossible in open spaces.

I was fortunate enough to start my career in cubicle in a research lab. That was fantastic! I had a dip when I was introduced to open space. Got lucky again with another company that had cubicles. For the last 5 years, it has been open space mayhem.
Buying people off isn’t a result of capitalism, it’s always going to be a problem because of fundamental human incentives. Any system will fail if it’s administrators are corrupt and simply abandon the system. You’re basically blaming capitalism for the government failing to uphold capitalism, it’s absurd.
Progressive disclosure does absolutely nothing for your students looking up example code only to be greeted by alien syntax that does the same thing.

Pretend you know nothing about a language, why would you assume .map { $0.thing } and .map(\.thing) are even remotely similar?
> I love writing Swift for myself, but I write it in a pretty boring way. When I have to work with people who get creative and clever, it's awful.

I could (and do) say the same thing about Perl.
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Ask HN: How to load balance Tinder dates?
I have re-entered the dating world recently and now have found surprising amount of interest from women, which is nice but also overwhelming and not something I am used to. In a situation now where I really quite like 2 or 3 people who I feel some chemistry with, for different reasons. Is it reasonable to keep dating until I am sure? Or better to just follow my gut and stick with one person?
Ask HN: Setting expectations with your manager? With your direct reports?
I recently had a 1:1 with my manager where he asked me what I needed from him and it was a difficult question. I asked for a thumbs up or thumbs down every 2 weeks, and he replied “sure, and in case I forget, the absence of a thumbs down means a thumbs up”. I thought this was nice but would never have come to this conclusion had we not discussed it. One example of his expectation for me was to “become a technical owner” and now that it’s explicit I know I need to contribute more there.

What are some of your expectations? Feel free to include other roles such as “Technical Lead” or “Project Lead” or “skip manager”.
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