skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any large organisation will tend to run into exactly the same issues that the socialist centrally planned economies did. Centrally planning an economy simply can’t work and the inefficiency gets worse with scale. They have the politburo (the executive team), and apparatchiks (middle management). Large organisations are just a smaller version of a centrally planned economy.

Market forces have very limited opportunity to influence the micro-level internal resource allocation decisions of a large organisation. There’s some things you can to do mitigate this within an organisation, but having efficiency decrease with organisational complexity and scale is inevitable. There’s only two reasons I can see that this doesn’t devolve into soviet style catastrophe. Firstly, some of the lost efficiency is offset by the economies of scale. Secondly, if an organisation becomes too inefficient, their market position can (usually) be usurped by competition. Shareholders can also fire insufficiently competent management, but usually not before the damage is done, and they can’t exactly guarantee the replacements will be any better.
Ask HN: Do you ever truly use your revision history?
Source control gives you a full history of every change that's ever been made to your codebase since its beginning. At my current company they place a huge value on that history, so much so that they haven't transitioned from SVN to git solely because of the logistical challenge of migrating 30 years of commits.

Obviously the write-only paradigm is useful when reconciling changes with others and when reverting recent, broken changes or recovering accidentally-deleted work. But to me, it seems like there's diminishing value the further back you go. I can't imagine getting much value from trawling through two-year-old commits, much less twenty-year-old commits.

So I ask: at your company and in your experience, do you get value from source-control-arachaeology? And if so, what does that look like in your case?
> That was exactly the reason, if you don't do rationing in extreme events, people start to mass panic buy everything

Which is what pricing is for. If people start hoarding then the price goes up and makes hoarding much more expensive. Not only that, it gives the people with a stockpile a financial incentive to put it on eBay and thereby make it available for distribution to other people. Unless they're prohibited from doing so, in which case they carry on hoarding.
We've been in a "state of emergency" for multiple Presidents...
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Maybe deemphasize free coffee at work, or at least limit it to mornings. Caffeine dependency can be a vicious cycle that interferes with sleep and that sleep deprived people use as a crutch.

(I'm caffeine dependent because it helps with respiratory problems. But it's pretty well established this contributes to sleep issues and is a hallmark of a workaholic culture that respects people for pulling all nighters and the like.)

Give an adequately long lunch.

I used to nap in my car sometimes at my corporate job. But you can't do that if there's no time available in your schedule.

Do your best to not impose sudden and unnecessary shift changes for bullshit reasons.

My corporate job would have everyone come in early the Wednesday before Thanksgiving -- a major US holiday -- so they could close down early. I worked the evening shift normally from 3pm to 11pm and had to be in at like 6am to noon that day. I didn't have enough seniority to blow it off by scheduling it as time off.

They could have found some other way to handle that. I absolutely hated having a gun to my head in that way. It was awful.

I feel like giving benefits designed to dictate sleep hygiene is a bit draconian, but you can certainly work on staying the hell out of their way if good sleep habits is a thing they value.

Young, healthy people often don't care and don't really need to. But if there's a baby at home, if they are older or have health issues, they will appreciate you getting your boot off their neck and staying out of their way in this regard.
The singular “healthy microbiome” does not exist
That's different from what parent is saying.

Parent is saying that the vast majority of viral infections do not lead to permanent DNA changes (especially hereditary ones through the germline). However, over the course of history that tiny minority of cases has accumulated to form a sizable chunk of the human genome.

The quoted sentence from the article implies on the other hand that every viral infection leads to permanent DNA changes.

I haven't done enough research to have a personal opinion one way or the other, but you're not addressing the point of the comment you're replying to (unless you meant your comment to be more of a tangential commentary? That despite the error in the quoted part of the article the overall point of the article still holds?).
I'm not too familiar with the practice, but Zero-based Budgeting (ZBB) seems like it can solve this problem. It basically requires constant justification of the budget (as if you were making a budget from scratch) rather than looking at relative changes year-over-year.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based_budgeting for more.
How does it compare with the C version?
Bingo. It's chromium, but with added crypto-"currency" nonsense. No thanks.
Such a shame that this conversation is always so one sided because the 'other' side is not vocal or portrayed clearly in the media.

There is a controlled middle ground where the alternative to end to end encryption isn't a full surveillance state but gives safety and protection to society at the expense of trusting the other side with some of our information.

The majority?? of people want govts/intelligence to monitor, detect and pre-emptively manage:
Terrorism plots
Paedophiles
Large scale criminals - drugs, human trafficking etc.
Kidnapping
Lost person location
Rescue coordination

If that cannot be done without viewing content (and I'm not sure that statement is true) then personally I'm ok to trade some of my theoretical privacy for the security.
Let's face it, how likely is it that the other side would be interested in my cat video content?
But also don't be fooled that encrypted content means your privacy is secure.
Just knowing when and to whom messages are sent is a powerful tool already and not something easily protected.
App providers already use this in surveillance capitalism used by the likes of Facebook, Google etc.
Look at Amazon.com. Same deal. Nobody wants to be the person that redesigns the UI and sees sales drop off by 0.001%. I think they're afraid to touch what made them #1, even if it's objectively terrible.
Information wants to be free. Including encryption keys.
Alternative to regulations: Give workers the control of Boeing. Do you think the engineers wanted to build this piece of shit? Do you think they would outsource their own jobs to India?

Two classes exist in capitalist society: Owners and Workers. Whats good for workers is bad for owners, and vice-versa. Get rid of the owners as a class, and you will solve problems like this altogether.
Yeah, I agree. I had copied it verbatim from the article.
You also need to pay Americans more to compensate for health insurance, insane holiday policy, poor worker protections, huge student debts that can’t be bankrupted out of, and so on.
Are there any companies in the us that offer significant equity? Last I saw early employee offers are still <2% equity.
Another alternative is to go all cash.
Snot tape. Stays put, feels icky, peels off clean.
The fact that nobody is able to prove it's a bad idea doesn't necessarily mean it's a good one. There might still be other downsides that haven't been considered, some of which could be solveable with more development work and some not.

At this point the cautious skeptic will be thinking "hmm, maybe there's something to this", not necessarily full on rejoicing.

That said, I agree it does seem promising. If you ever find yourself in need of cheap cloud storage it wouldn't hurt to look into Sia as a possible option.
I started professionally as a c++ programmer, and have worked in a few different languages, on a few different platforms since. This job is my first devops position and I wasn't actually looking for devops roles when it was offered to me. I was interviewing for a back end engineering position and the head of the devops/SRE group saw some things in my profile that he was looking for and reached out. Fwiw I'm almost through the "after 50" part and getting close to the "after 60" part and I haven't had a problem finding things to do. The key is to stay engaged and learning all the time.
That's interesting; my personal experience is the opposite: for most things in TAOCP, it is written more clearly than its source material, especially as it gets to the more advanced topics within each section (often only published in papers, not yet in books). For example, Section 7.1.4 on Binary Decision Diagrams, aka BDDs and ZDDs (pages 202–280 of Volume 4A, draft online: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~wagner/knuth/fasc1b.pdf) is not something I've seen explained to that level of clarity and detail anywhere else. Plus there are a lot of Knuth's original ideas in the books; his innovation is not restricted to summarizing and teaching.
Controlling one part of the value chain to force behaviour in a different part of the value chain.
You're literally just agreeing with me, but in a condescending tone. My point is that not literally every Chinese person is "conspiring" to "fake" a "veneer" because they're "scared", because people != government. It's GP who needs to learn the difference.
First thing I asked myself was "What framework is Hydrogen?" and I briefly guessed it was the next trendy GUI toolkit.
I'm picturing someone using it as a utility for gardening, maybe cutting vines or chopping stems. Maybe a kid took it out to play in the garden. Then it was left there and forgotten as the grass and weeds grew over it over and over, until it was buried for someone to find.
I think people also need to accept the fact we're never going to engineer a solution to human stupidity. If our society doesn't raise people to be good users, no amount of hardening will stop systems from being compromised.
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I hate to tell you this, but it's not Emacs that's slow and clunky, it's Spacemacs. I dumped Spacemacs and spent a couple days building a new config with everything I used from Spacemacs and it is a good 10x faster.

It shouldn't be surprising, seeing as Spacemacs development ground to a complete halt (no new releases) something like two years ago.

Spacemacs is a neat demo of what is possible with Emacs but it adds a TON of complexity and bloat. I found it much harder to troubleshoot and it didn't keep up with the rest of the ecosystem, and it's the rest of the ecosystem (and Emacs Lisp) that make Emacs so special.
Argh. Was just upgrading a Debian machine and was wishing (again) for parallel downloads. apt-fast is a severely limited hack (I couldn't figure out what it actually supports). I assumed any significant apt update would include performance/DL improvement. No?
> You influence these and pass them on to your children (as men) and grandchildren (as women, as girls are born with all egg cells they'll ever have)

While I've heard this before, I never gave it much thought until just now. Is it fair to say that a child gets no DNA from her mother? Or in other words, each child is a mix of the DNA of their father and that of their maternal grandparents?
Quarantined Wuhan kids find brilliant way to get out of schoolwork
You can distribute a .zip file which includes the statically linked build of FFmepeg: https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ . Then just call it locally. There's no need to install it system-wide.
I've been using budget Victorinox for about 15 years, and they're still going strong. If you sharpen them regularly, use a steel, and don't do anything too crazy with them... Most modern knives will do an excellent job in the kitchen. The key is finding the ones that feel good in your hand, I think.
Will be nice to include GPUs in v2 once there is more stable support for the operators
Making the South Korean/Chinese covid19 containment QR code system as an app?
The Chinese and South Korean protocols for covid19 containment appear to contain a system for "checking in" any public place using a QR code. That QR code logs everyone who is in that place at any particular time, and then if any one of those persons gets infected everyone who was there at the same time gets notified.

Here's the reddit thread where I am taking this information from and the relevant quote:

https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/febv3t/what_its_like_in_china_0306/

"Public areas would take your name and phone number before allowing you to enter, in the event someone there later was determined positive, they could contact you and find you quickly. This moved digitally in QR code based systems, were you would scan various locations, buses, taxis, subways, etc. and be able to be contacted and located quickly."

This seems to be part of the containment infrastructure that China has deployed and it's working. South Korea appears to have a similar system, texting people who have been near someone who was infected. But I'm not sure about its exact operation, it might triangulate people's positions somehow. No idea.

Basically it's coronavirus Foursquare.

Since the US (and other governments) are not acting speedily on this, and it appears to be one the main ways to contain the outbreak, how realistic would it be for someone to build one and share it? I can imagine people would be willing to pay for it, and the QR code system could simply be made by volunteers and businesses who would stick it to the walls. I'd think people would flock to those businesses because they would feel safer.

As far as infections go, People could also self-report for the covid19 infection when they had it confirmed. Unfortunately, this is in no way a substitute for a proper government system, but I am pondering on how realistic this could be and how it could be made.
Was this ML attribution model output explainable / deterministic? I've seen some really complicated marketing attribution models in the past and hear it was something of a never-ending battle to understand and arrive at the "right" model.
> Learning how to sharpen knives, and having all the equipment to do it, will almost certainly never pay off, except in intangible enjoyment.

I guess it depends on what you mean by "pay off". In my experience, a sharp kitchen knife means I can cut faster and more safely.

As to cost, I use a $30 diamond stone[1]. Mine is more than 20 years old and it still works great. I love diamond because I can use it dry, so it really cuts down on sharpening time.

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1. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00004WFTW
Async await! Haven't you heard?!
The argument for it being anticompetative is straightforward: apple is leveraging it's position in the mobile Phone space to push it's way into social login "markets", or equivalently hurt others in that space.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22516450 I've posted here about the Chinese/South Korean system of a "foursquare" type system for coronavirus seems to be helping contain the spread. How realistic would it be for HN to build something like this? It appears like it would make a big difference.

Here's the reddit thread where I sourced it from and relevant information (poster has been verified as being in China)

https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/febv3t/what_its_...

Public areas would take your name and phone number before allowing you to enter, in the event someone there later was determined positive, they could contact you and find you quickly. This moved digitally in QR code based systems, were you would scan various locations, buses, taxis, subways, etc. and be able to be contacted and located quickly.
This is the sort of thing you use to try and illustrate the need for additional privacy protections in a discussion. The sheer volume of names, and the effort required to interact with each, is obviously too overwhelming to reasonably expect a person to undertake. Surely, even if you're on the fence because you're in the camp that thinks we should be able to decide for ourselves whether or not to monetize our data, you can support legislation that gives people with a real need for digital privacy a way out. Off the top of my head I can imagine these services being used to assist in stalking an ex, going after a child I lost custody over, get the new phone number of someone I'm harassing, etc. Surely even laymen could at least understand situations like these and be persuaded that /some/ amount of digital privacy should be protected, maybe from there they could be made more open minded towards the more abstract but no less important forms of digital privacy.
Why we need worst-case thinking to prevent pandemics
Thanks! We'll rolling out slowly (kinda Superhuman onboarding style back in their old days) so definitely hope to get in touch with you soon :)

Also re: narrowing down what's causing the drop, that's definitely on the roadmap. We know teams have playbooks of things to check when they know something looks wrong, so we should be able to productize & automate this
Just for an alternate perspective, there's a therapist I'd completely trust to be my guide. I certainly wouldn't expect a Disney experience.
There are 1000s of porn apps on non-privacy oriented platforms that I'd prefer to be able to run on a privacy prioritized platform.

Examples include CG porn creation apps including Virt-A-Mate, TK17, Honey Select, etc... There are also real time 3D VR porn apps and even AR porn apps

Apple's platform currently limits freedom of expression. Sure you can watch any movie you want or read any website but the future will clearly include interactivity with real time VR, AR, 3D, etc...

Imagine if Apple invented the holodeck but their app store disallowed sex!??!? It's ridiculous that such a "progressive" company has just a poor position on sex positive apps. I get they don't want to sell them in their store which is why they arguably need to over alternatives.
to make this more effective, add keyboard shortcuts
Does it matter at all that this is the original title of the article? How about quoting it if we don't like it?
> So it's a mild psychedelic at best and not a psychedelic at worst (excuse my English, non-native, not an intended value judgement).

"at most" and "at least" would work and be more neutral.
Even the cheapest knives from the grocery store will take on an impressive edge if sharpened well.
I've certainly gotten some mileage out of `git bisect` over the years.
Right but the point is that

> it seems understandable that Apple wouldn't want Facebook locking everyone into Facebook's extremely intrusive IdP.

Doesn't make something not anticompetative. If apples offering is truly better, they should offer it and it will be naturally adopted.
That didn’t answer the question. What can a porn app do that a website can’t do?

Adding a website to the home screen has been prominent in Safari since 2007. Go to the share sheet and scroll up.

How many websites have a prominent pointer on iOS devices showing you how to do it.

But the App Store is not known to be a place of discoverability.

On top of that, how many mainstream platforms and physical stores allow porn to be prominent? The most popular video site - Youtube - doesn’t allow porn.
They should be rules against stuff like that. Our current head of Health and Human Services is a former pharmaceutical lobbyist...there are more examples...
Wanted to chime in. We currently OEM a product to Purell (GOJO) on exactly this concept. Albeit additional hardware is required, we have been extremely successful locating staff and monitoring of dispensers with BLE.

Our goal has been to prevent the spread of infection in hospitals by monitoring hand hygiene compliance.

‘https://www.gojo.com/en/Newsroom/Press-Releases/2019/GOJO-Ex...
False. You're making it all up.

I use a 2013 MacBook Pro to develop a cross platform app and have purchased multiple used phones to test and develop with for a lot less than $500. And if you're not making it all up, you're highly incompetent.
for sure- a couple seconds saved per sample will amount to many hours of saved time even for a small dataset.

I created an issue to track interest in keyboard shortcuts, but I've heard this feedback from the friends I had beta-test so I think it's gotta be next on the agenda :)

https://github.com/UniversalDataTool/universal-data-tool/iss...
The UK is the only tier 1 partner on the F-35 program. They have more access to source code than Israel or any other nation outside the USA.
Because the opposite hypothesis, that 'winning tickets' can emerge from 'bad tickets' using stochastic gradient descent, implies that randomness doesn't push you back into the null space of the generalization curvature, which you can empirically observe that it almost always will, except for the same eigenvectors which tend to reinforce where there is strong alignment already, iteration after iteration. If you train a lot of small problems you can watch this happen just by looking at the angles between each update. Maybe that's the wrong explanation; I don't know. The practitioner take-away is that some initializations are just lucky/unlucky and you learn this quickly if you start a lot of small problems from scratch. Try stochastic BFGS and the frustration forces some inquiry. The paper is very experimental, which is great, but the conjecture itself is pointing roughly at some feature of SGD (i.e. "SGD seeks out and trains a subset of well-initialized weights.") without offering much direct explanation, for which I'm offering a hand-wavy viewpoint that also comes more from experience/frustration trying to optimize in ill-conditioned local curvatures. There may be a combinatorial way to look at 'lottery tickets', and that may be more productive than looking at it as eigenbasis pursuit, but it seems to me that it certainly might have something to do with that. Either way, the terms are irrelevant, and if it is true now, it was true before it got a name.
so do people who proudly crow that they didn't watch GoT get rewarded with little gold stars or something?
I too would much prefer to read a paper book, but after going through a major move between metro areas I realized how many of these physical books just spent most of their time sitting there, unused.
It likely involved us blocking a 3rd party script that the hotel embedded against its 1st party interests. If you click on the lion-icon in right end of address bar and lower shields you should be able to match Chrome's behavior, if such a 3rd party script block caused the symptom.
Ok, can’t they make another rule against flying empty planes? This seems fair, right?