skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast majority of people I know who can do four 10s love it, and find the 10 hour days aren't really much different then the 8s. I'd love it if I could do four 10s, but in a company that does 24/7 healthcare, that's not an option for support staff like IT, not even at my level.
"Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is backing a parliamentary proposal to shift to a four-day week."
-- with all the Russian meddling in the U.S.A., maybe they can get this pushed through!

Jokes aside, I would love this. Right now in tech asking for this sort of thing feels like a 'career limiting move', and definitely in a hiring situation could label you as 'not a hard worker' despite your emphasis on efficiency and productive hours.
Ask HN: Anyone use Wix for enterprise level website?
I have a Fortune 100 client that has a few very simple websites within their portfolio. They're currently part of the same pipeline, etc as their enterprise level APIs. It's pretty heavy handed for what should be a simple blog for the company.

I'd love to lighten it up, be able to deploy quicker, etc but don't want to open the client up to any vulnerabilities. Looking for others opinion on if using something like Wix is a terrible idea for this use case. Small website but it's for a very large client with brand reputation to uphold.
It's not about the content of any single post; the point of astroturfing is to make that indistinguishable. It's about patterns of behavior, some of which are publicly visible and some not. When someone is using HN to advance the interests of a particular corporation, that's not good-faith community membership, and it breaks the organizing principle of this site—intellectual curiosity—egregiously.

Re your accounts, I'm not sure what has felt capricious and arbitrary to you, but from my perspective it's simply a matter of following the site guidelines and using HN in the intended spirit. We discussed that at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22173082 (but also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22359424). If there's some aspect of moderation that still isn't transparent to you (or anyone!) I'm happy to do my best to explain, and even happier to correct any mistakes. But it would be better to send those to hn@ycombinator.com.
> Reaped the benefits? Greece's GDP dropped 30% since 2008

Most of it was due to the fact that Greece had forged their nation accounting to falsify their actual state and hide sovereign debt, and once they faced bankruptcy they had no alternative than to come clean and straighten their accounting.

Another important fact that is oddly left out by proponents of the "austerity is a conspiracy" rhetoric is the fact that EU's national accounting reform kicked into effect in 2014, and included anti-accounting engineering measures which were highly abused to artificially inflate GDP and mask sovereign debt.

> it and was forced into austerity by the Troika

This conspiracy theory is absurd, as it weirdly imits the fact that member-states that underwent bailout processes had already exhausted their own access to sovereign debt markets resulted from their own financial and economic colapse, and the ECB/EU/IMF trio were quite literally the last people in the whole world willing to lend emergency funds that helped them soften the blow of the problem these countries' governments created to themselves over the years.
Not dynamically loaded libraries after 13.3.1, however.
I watched these lectures the summer before starting university as Linear Algebra was one of the mandatory courses for the first semester.

These are by far the best lectures on Math/CS I've ever seen. Helped me A LOT.
> Both of these have defined answers written into the C standard itself.

I think the point wasn't that they're unknowable, but that the tooling doesn't give you any help in knowing - much less enforcing - the answers. Really basic things are left up to convention, which especially when it comes to third-party code, forces you to be distrustful of what you're working with and maybe even have your code do extra work (eager cloning for example), just in case an interface behaves in a way you hope it doesn't.
Coral reefs predicted to decline 70-90% by 2040
Mental health is so much harder to measure. I have a feeling that social media is boiling the frog already. Like health crises of the past, we won't realize what we've done until it's too late. Except with mental health it'll be much easier to blame the victims instead of the institutions that caused the problem.
This is neat!

I did a similar thing to manage my Japanese vocabulary. I encoded it in TOML and compiled it to Anki decks. [1]

There is a lot of room for utilities like this. Managing decks in the Anki interface and persisting them as zipped sqlite is a headache.

[1] http://github.com/echelon/nihongo (It's a bit of a mess, sorry.)
the standard we need is IRC. just with encryption, ability to store messages, and notifications. we should stop reinventing things that work
there's no real reason to try and hit 0 offset anyways. if you get it stable, it usually implies you could just increase the multiplier and offset by some n>0 for greater overall performance.
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For what it is worth, I have read at least a few works of science fiction where "access to information as basic human right" question was either discussed o at least brought up.
Data breach hits agency overseeing White House communications
Chinese coronavirus expert says some “recovered” patients may remain infectious
In the article they are discussing the 32h week though
This is very nice. I recently tried creating a bunch of Anki flash cards for theorems in real analysis, but found it too tedious. Is there any support (current or planned) for converting latex fragments?
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and still on average > 80 hours every 2 weeks.
We don't have to be surprised about some of these events, since they have been predicted in the scriptures, for now, for a long time (ice melting, storms, quakes, waves of the sea heaving themselves beyond their bounds, fires/smoke, all things in commotion, and other significant catastrophic events--not just the usual levels of them).
I greatly appreciate the science and am glad for progress in our efforts. But I think we are not competent to solve planet-wide issues when we have largely rejected the instructions given by the earth's Creator (like, honesty, the Golden Rule, etc, etc): we have a hard time trusting each other even when we say we agree. I'm glad we can share our own thoughts. We need His help both to address important issues globally, and in our personal lives.

And importantly, we can be OK. Related, more detailed thoughts at http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854581820.html , a simple site w/ no javascript or sales).
I was thinking about the same thing yesterday. I noticed I had a bunch of unconscious processes when writing things that are meant to be read publicly, so I started writing down the reasons. Eventually, I wrote this sentence.

"It seems that because many people are raised with the imperative to 'stand up for themselves,' it turns into a need to become argumentive when faced with an opposing viewpoint."

The "briars" that pg mentions happened to me when I reread this sentence. I was essentially assuming too many things about the general population, and also trying to contrast this assumption that people are raised to be argumentive with my own mindset where I try very hard not to argue about anything.

Every time I write something like this, I picture the first thing an HN commenter would say in response. "Well, what about X?" or "You assert X, but here's evidence that disproves this," or especially "What are the alternatives?" Reading lots of HN comments helps with this. The issue is trying not to seem overly assertive like pg suggests: putting in quantifiers like "maybe" or "perhaps" to give room for error instead of coming off universally saying "X is Y." When I imagine the fictional HN commenter's response, if the statement itself still seems fine, that response is usually the first thing I add to end of the comment prefixed by "On the other hand".

I feel like for me this is because I can't take criticism too well so I try to imagine all the reasonable criticisms people might come up with first and then criticize myself with them preemptively. Or, writing about personal experiences - facts, of which my personal telling is unique - instead of writing about how thing X or Y ought to be in the world. Especially with personal experiences I believe they can be useful without having to use them as evidence of a larger argument, which opens me up to the risk of being flat-out wrong.
Teaching systems of linear equations and using Gauss factorization to solve the equations is quite mundane in HS.
Just saying x86 was a red flag because that encompasses such a huge swath of architectures and timeframes. No mention of AMD.
This is a bad comparison for 2 reasons:

1. [Opinion] As someone who uses DDG for 95%+ of my queries, the sacrifice is orders of magnitude less than using the local DSL provider in your example.

2. [Fact] Switching ISPs has a much higher cost. Switching back to Google for a few minutes if DDG isn't getting the job done is three keystrokes: " !g".
They are not comparable at all.
Great article. Anyone from Google to comment?
Google is indexing WhatsApp group chat links, making private groups discoverable
I purpose the argument that our similarity function is ill equipped to differentiate those intersections in a meaningful way. I think this matters because it calls into question if our differential treatment is really, or is solely, based off of the results of the similarity function.

For example, while we can attempt to justify our reaction to weed by the harms it does, in light of the harms alcohol does and the treatment it gets, one wouldn't be wrong to wonder if our treatment of weed was tied to some other factor that we aren't willing to admit.
I’m born and raised in NYC and took subways and trains to work everyday for over a decade in NYC.

I mostly agree with you...but...I found the past several years of subway outages worse and started driving/ridesharing more and more. I’ve had times where subways constantly get rerouted, suddenly go express, skip stops, run on different lines, etc. it became so maddening.
In Spain it's somewhat common to do 9 hours Monday to Thursday and only working 4 hours on Friday. Unfortunately I only worked for a company that did this only for one year, but it is the one thing I miss of this company.

Personally, I'm reluctant to the 4x10, but doing 4x9 and 1x4 was simply awesome, plus you could get a 3 day weekend by just spending half day of vacation.
You're so clueless I hope you're a troll !

The US military runs a very profitable protection racket, Trump made it just more obvious than the previous presidents.

Do you really think the US military has bases in 90% of the world just because they are good boys and want to promote democracy, really ?
Dead tree, donut, asteroid: why cloud migrations get stuck
This is literally tone policing, though. Knock it off.
same here on 1950x, I built from source, when toggled avx2 it shows "using type-1" I dont know what it is:

https://pastebin.com/tPuYzYC0
Germany and Switzerland, at least. I can't speak for other countries, but at least where I'm at, most folks are on an 80% contract (four days a week) and enjoying it.
(Too late to edit, so replying to myself instead.)

I'm going to backpedal a bit on my point about manual scrolling being the same thing as automatically scrolling directly there via anchor.

The scrollbar can be at various positions, and if an anchor takes you there automatically, it jumps to position N, never passing through 0 .. N-1. Whereas if you manually scroll, you pass through all of 0 .. N. So whatever resources are above the target position would not necessarily be loaded with an anchor but probably would with manually scrolling. So the externally observable wire behavior (DNS, IP addresses you connect to, etc.) may still be different.

So if you manually scroll, the adversary can infer that there's something significant about scrollbar position N. It might just be that there's where you lost interest, or it could be that that's what you found interesting, but it's not giving away as direct a clue as jumping straight to position N.
The idea with Keybase (can't speak for signal) is that your client doesn't need to trust the server. You only need to trust that your client isn't compromised, which is easier to verify.
If this interests you I built an entire SRS app around this idea: https://mochi.cards/
The problem is that real-world code (including games) often includes at least some AVX instructions, so the AVX number is often more representative of "real" performance. The way AMD does it where it's a smooth transition based on current/thermals is definitely better than Intel's "whoops, AVX instruction, pump the brakes!".

But yes, if you can get higher clocks at least some of the time then you might as well.

The other other downside is that flipping between power states can cause problems/crashes too. It shouldn't but it can.
Why are you so worked up about this?
Counter-point, from the article:

> Natalie Nagele, co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, has heard from other leaders who say it didn't work for them. She says it fails when employees aren't motivated and where managers don't trust employees.

Also it would be good to keep in mind the Hawthorne Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect#History
> One of the biggest selling points of Racket was that it was continuously being worked on

I was under the impression that SBCL has monthly releases and runs on a bunch of current platforms. It also has a AOT native code compiler for 20 years, which Racket is just switching to. http://www.sbcl.org/sbcl20/

My Linux/ARM64 board runs a current commercial Common Lisp, which is also available natively on a bunch of current platforms incl. iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, AIX, Solaris. x86, x64, ARM32, ARM64, SPARC, POWER, ... It has a portable native code AOT compiler since 30+ years.
I’d highly recommend not doing this, you’re giving ammunition should you ever find yourself in a situation where someone would like to fire you but doesn’t have a solid cause. As painful as it is if you’re unable to do your job because of IT policies escalate it up the management chain.
Some bots serve a purpose.

Maybe such bots should be able to register as bots, have a visual distinct appearance to all of their tweets, be automatically ignored in many contexts (like activity metrics, retweet counts, like counts), allow the user to filter all bots, etc
Levenshtein distance is a measure, not a fuzzy word matching algorithm.

Did you brute force your searches to match anything within a levenshtein distance of X?
Yes. This was my favorite quote. With slightly more context:

You know what's amazing? Heinrich is old, he's 84 or so. He called this in the 70s, he said this would be possible. It's only possible now because these brand new lasers are capable of doing it. That, in my mind, is awesome.
Yeah, I agree that even assuming someone is making the right decision, it doesn't necessarily make you feel good about the fact that it's theirs to make.
This is cool, but I can't help but think that running a VM on an iPad or iPhone would be horrendously slow.
I changed my life so my work is 6 blocks from home. I will never go back. No realistic amount of money will ever be worth a commute. I consider commuting a form of incarceration.
Ask HN: How to promote yourself on job websites for jobs outside your area?
If you live in one place but want to apply to companies that are far away, how do you best promote yourself so you are given equal priority as their local market?

The advice I've heard before is that on LinkedIn, you have to change your current location to the location you're interested in moving to. But I find this suggestion to be janky, as it's just a still-flawed workaround to a limited interface as you have to do this for every single city that you seek work. And if you are targeting multiple cities, then what? you change location to NYC for one week NYC, and change location to Boston another week?

I'm actually surprised at this oversight, given how large LinkedIn is. In Angel List you there's an actual separate field for entering multiple locations you're willing to work at. But I can't think of another way for websites that have don't have this option to choose multiple locations.
Sorry to get away from some really nice physics and suggestion of some really good news for some of relevant reality:

The cooling towers? The photographs in the news commonly show huge clouds of water vapor escaping from the tops of the towers with a picture caption about "nuclear" power or some such.

So, the suggestion is that nuke plants generate huge clouds of dangerous radioactive byproducts.

Such news content is easy: (1) Suggest that the cooling towers are the nuclear reactors and (2) don't mention that what is coming out is just water vapor, from water recently in some river or lake. Now the news people have their audience by their eyeballs for ad revenue and/or politics as in

https://www.peakprosperity.com/2019-year-in-review-part-1/#c...

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by an endless series of hobgoblins,
most of them imaginary.”

~ H.L. Mencken
More Air Force jargon, every now and then something on the plane had to be malletized.
congrats it sounds like vaping really helped you
What's the nature of the side hustle if you don't mind me asking?
Yup. Being on a train is only a location not an activity. Like any other location it can be made more or less comfortable, I've been on a train where the heating failed; and one that was so crowded you could hardly breathe (last train home for the night so nobody was willing to miss out) but I've also been comfortably asleep in bed; eaten a decent (not award winning, but certainly reasonable even for a restaurant that wasn't hurtling though the countryside at a hundred miles per hour) meal; and watched some good movies on Netflix.
My bad! I tested it my system and it worked, but I'm sure I have the jars in the classpath already because I had already installed Clojure through a packet manager.

So! Clojure 1.8 still works without dependencies for trying the jar [1]. Otherwise, I'd skip to installing 1.10 through the system installer.

1: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/clojure/clojure/1.8.0/
"The only disadvantages" you say, when I've already given you a few. There are fewer options in the mornings—and one of those fewer options is "getting classes over with" (to bring this back on topic), with people suggesting pushing classes back even later.
You can if you build the clojure jar yourself. Just follow the ant part of the clojure README to generate your own jar. Then you have a super portable clojure jar again. https://github.com/clojure/clojure/
What happens when AI takes over this job?

I recall recently some animated thing was on a top of a Cam site and the girls were up in arms upset that people were watching a cartoon over them.

Would it fall on the creator of the cartoon? What is the creator of the cartoon is literally an advanced A.I.? Would it then fall on the creators of the AI?
Who stands to profit from what amounts to a global mandate for austerity? We've got a handful of budding "green" industries, and they've barely gotten off of the ground. They certainly haven't had billions of dollars to splash around for the last 40 years.

When ExxonMobil's internal scientists discovered the potential impact of their industry, though, they covered that shit right up -- and they've got the billions to maintain their posture and pay off as many sympathetic/flexible academics as they can find.

You say all the incentives are there, but where's the actual money coming from?
This makes it seem like you're banning him for supporting his company with a valid argument, and not for creating multiple accounts.

The former would constitute a moderator bias against Google (examples of moderation going the opposite way don't change anything about this particular instance), while the latter would be actual abuse. Although seems like creating multiple accounts doesn't lead to an automatic ban in every single instance, meaning latter is unlikely to be the case here.

Astroturfing would imply that he has a business motive while trying to conceal it as a grassroots comment. Purely from the content of his comment it doesn't seem like that's the case.
I realize this doesn't give you JSON, but if the goal is to retrieve information with little-to-no parsing, /etc/os-release defines everything in environment variable format. You can just source it and then use the environment variables directly for distro info.
RC Schumacher Cat-XLS decal application
'More bosses give 4 day workweek a try'. How weak is that? What does 'more' mean anyway? .001 more? 40% more. Of course there is no answer to that. What about 'more bosses think wearing blue shirts in the office is fine' (Everyone would laugh at that right on the surface right and say 'how many exactly percentage wise'?

Unclear why people seem to think there needs to be some kind of 'one size fits all' approach. If a job is such that 32 hours works fine. If it's not fine. And the media saying things like 'a move toward' and 'more companies are' when clearly there is no significant push in this area appears to be just some kind of evergreen story to sell advertising. Media does this frequently. Keys are statements not backed up by anything but anecdotes such as 'and questions are being raised' and so on. That one 'questions are being asked' is literally a nightly occurrence on network news broadcasts (says me using the same technique but it is happening).

Guess what? Some people don't mind working 5 days. Some people like working 7 days. Some people would rather sit and not work at all. Everyone is different.
Mandatory or "mandatory"?
1.
MOV AL, BYTE PTR [RDI]

MOV EBX, EAX // partial register stall

2.
MOVZX EAX, BYTE PTR [RDI]

AND EAX, 0xFFFFFF00

MOV EBX, EAX // no partial register

These don't do the same thing
Not sure what GP meant but in NYC I find NJ Transit, Metro North, LIRR style to be much more relaxing and reliable. Subway is just a different beast
I was in Vietnam and saw the effect of climate change. People (millions) are moving from the Mekong Delta to Ho Chi Minh City. The Delta is being invaded by saltwater. Agriculture is heavily impacted. The city is crowded and polluted.

My view is climate change is real. Of course, I'm never heard on the internet. Bots are everywhere. :)
Sounds a bit like what you'd get with an IRC BNC, plus the encryption.
No doubt, both lenders and borrowers must share blame.

This is a sovereign nation though, it should be expected to operate with sound fiscal policies and banks shouldn't base lending on political programs. Lest we let banks regulate policy through their willingness to lend money. That's the situation we did get in the end though, with austerity through blackmail. Greeks are now furious at the German government for protecting their financial institutions from collapse. While it might be more apt to be furious at those whom voted for policies not fiscally sound.

So what is the way forward? Certainly not what the IMF suggested at the time, as they as much have admitted to. But is Varoufakis pointlessly relegislating that decision or is he trying to sell a book?
This. I've had great luck with Corsair (who used to source from Seasonic) and after some of my experiences with less quality sources (Thermaltake....eww) I'll never go back.

Spending days trying to chase down an intermittent reboot just to find that your 750W PSU is actually shitting the bed around ~350W is a terribly unsatisfying journey.
>electromigration and processor degradation on Haswell-E

So what you are really saying is Intel made another defective product.
Why do you think the W3C is relevant?