skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This essay asks the question, why are larger organizations so bad at performing feats of brilliance most of the time?

The author sees two obstacles. One is what he calls "the boredom threshold:" The creative individuals who could perform those feats quickly get bored with the mind-numbing minutia of bureaucratic processes at larger organizations and leave.

The second obstacle is "the illusion of certainty:" Conventional operational improvements, cost-cutting efforts, legal reorganizations, etc. can easily be 'proven' to work in advance, but more interesting lines of inquiry come with career-threatening unknowability. Many bureaucrats and businesspeople, the OP argues, are attracted to the illusion of certainty.

Quoting from the OP: "If you engage engineers, you don’t know what you are going to get. You may be unlucky and get nothing. Or their solution may be so outlandish that it is hard to compare with other competing solutions. On average, though, what you get will be more valuable than the gains produced by some tedious restructuring enshrined in a fat PowerPoint deck. But in business, let alone in government, it is only in crises that people find a budget for probabilistic interventions of this kind."

The essay concludes that "one reason why the world is in a mess is because, for a long time, the ratio between 'explore' and 'exploit' has been badly out of whack. Entities like procurement have been allowed to claim full credit for money-grabbing cost-savings without commensurate responsibility for delayed or hidden costs."
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"We played Monopoly, and had good success"

Unlikely. What a tedious game
Most broadband "landlines" are not a real BT landline but instead one simulated by your broadband router (it's SIP on the other end). With SIP, once either you hang up or the other side hangs up the session is terminated and there is no way to recover it.
No idea what this is doing on HN.

In addition to being off-topic, it's heavily biased, highlighting the (reprehensible) civilian casualties caused by the Nationalists, while remaining silent on the similar number of (also reprehensible) civilian deaths caused by the Republicans.

It also describes the Nationalists as Fascists (which is true), while describing the anarchist and communist backed Republicans as "left-leaning" (which is biased understatement).
as an introvert I am one to just " want to go home and do their own thing.", I have rarely kept in touch with former co-workers, sometimes I regret that but I was not born with a drive to be social.

One draw back of that is my professional network is limited as well, in times of economic decline a robust professional network is often the key between employment and not
I have a green-egg[1] style ceramic grill that works really well for pizza. Wood-fired, and can get up to a pretty good temperature. I use a pizza stone in it.

1: The exact brand is a Kamado ceramic grill.
Breaking deaf stereotypes and normalizing sign language through gaming
I mean there are medical textbooks that recommended injecting disinfectant for treating viruses, and there are no shortage of doctors who do it already in their practices. And if people are already doing it anyway, and as far as anyone can tell not immediately dying, then why shouldn't it be tested?
Yeah, we should be able to discuss topics like this without pearl clutching and the only way to really do that is with actual facts supported by evidence.

I appreciate you providing that information, really.
"No one will ever need more than 640K of RAM." - Definitely NOT Bill Gates.
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Something I really do not understand about the linux community is why it seems to simply be incapable of coordinating and focusing efforts. How many distros are there of many more engineers all working in a totally defused manner to never even get close to a threshold level necessary to become an even slightly competitive offering to Win or MacOS.

There seems to be a lesson to be learned about humanity in that dynamic; it is a reflection of the whole of society where the ruling class' real power is the ability to focus its interests and get others to advance their interests for them, while the masses of the population are not only unable to organize effectively, but it takes very little effort to sew the seeds of fragmentation and diffusion.
ive yet to delve into factorio (afraid itll have the same effect as civ tbh) but minecraft is very mind numbing early to mid game with all the farms esp with mob spawner/villager procurement to create their farms and resource grind. building and exploration in mc alongside amount of mods and great servers do make you forget about how insanely grindy it is for a bit
Microsoft Word now flags two spaces after a period as an error
It really wasn't a knock at your motives and it wasn't personal. I just feel like if you are going to make statements and even go so far as to label them as fact, it is your job to back it up.
BLAS library for Nvidia GPUs using SYCL
I guess in comparison to how far other storied engines such as UE4 have come, Source 2 does feel like its much less of a step forward.

One thing I really like is the level editor tools, with Hammer for source 2 they've re-implemented BSP geometry tools with geometry tools that use static meshes.

A good/modern geometry level editor workflow is sorely lacking on the other available engines.
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Leading with Your Head and Your Heart
>I am not addressing any of these points, because they do not address the point I have made,

Fine, i'll afford you the same favor and ignore everything you said, too. One sided judgements isn't discourse.

Just to let you know, though, I was quite obviously replying to the first sentence you wrote in parent.

>Look, I have no horse in this race, but this is clearly a personal attack in the reply above. Regardless..

Let me ask you a simple question.

If you were driving with someone, and they slowly drove through a red-light and said "You only have to slow down on the reds." would you question that persons' understanding of traffic laws?

I don't care who finds value in what philosopher, but when the only thing you can tell me about Nietzsche is that the word has an S in it[0], then I question your objective knowledge on that topic. If someone dismisses a philosophical point of view without the objective knowledge of what that philosophy entails, then I do not believe, personally, that their opinion is worth value with regards to philosophy.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa0bCzwSNA0

p.s. since you edited in a bunch of stuff about personal attacks after your initial post, let me mention : that word cloud you posted is devoid of who it was towards. Go re-read; the attacks are on 1) the idea 2) the motivation towards the idea -- not the person. That's exactly the difference between a personal attack and someone who is trying to disagree with that persons' idea.
So, 1 make money, 2 save it, 3 congrats you have lots of money. Thought-provoking.
Yeah, it's very common in the UK, although one of the great tragedies of the spread of veganism is that tasty vegetarian cheese dishes are becoming harder to come by in restaurants.

One thing I seem to observe in the US is macaroni cheese being used as a side-dish, and I think in many cases in the UK that would be replaced with cauliflower cheese, which seems like a complete waste of a good cheese sauce to me, but each to their own.
+1 for meet.jitsu
But I think there can also be too much negativity around "the company is not a family". At this point, with 3 major crashes in the past 20 years, I feel like only bad companies say the company is a family.

Good companies say, and act like, the company is a team. People can work hard together, they can be friends, but they are clear that the reason for the team is to accomplish a goal, and if the structure of the team needs to be changed to accomplish that goal, people will be cut. This team mentality can provide true clarity of purpose, and can eliminate any sense of bitterness if things don't work out. When people are cut from a high caliber sports team they may be immensely disappointed, but if treated fairly they understand it.

The family mentality almost always results in bitterness, because what kind of family kicks out their members when things get slightly tough?
So you take it upon yourself to tell those heathens what they should think?
Ha! I did mean the opposite. I made an edit.
WHO is the _world health organization_ dude. We're in the midst of a pandemic. You're using a moralistic argument to respond to the form while ignoring the substance.

In the meantime, Trump advocates injecting disinfectant, what argument have you got for him?
Same here, AMD Ryzen PC. Not liquid cooled, but it is a mini-itx cube which is neat.

I have a mid 2012 MB air that I still love. Screen isn't nearly as nice, but I use it over the MBP because the keyboard isn't like typing on cement and I can actually use it on my lap without feeling like its actively trying to burn my balls off. In all fairness though, I have a XPS 9560 and 9360 and both overheat and throttle like crazy and require throttle stop. Lone cowboy admin for a small company so I've got a pile of laptops.
Which ironic, because his actual works are almost entirely lost.
Tabletopia is another online service for this. They seem to have quite an extensive library.
I think, loosely, an existential quantifier is "trivial" if you can immediately discharge it. I don't know that there's a very formal approach to this, but there's definitely a way to dream up completely trivial existential quantifiers.

The only obvious one that comes to mind is an existential quantifying over a singular domain. If Unit is the type containing the single value (), then `exists (x: Unit) . P x` is trivially P ().

Even a tiny extension of this (e.g. exists (x: Boolean) . P x) is enough to make this no longer trivial as it at least indicates a search process and can be used to encode arbitrary expansion as long as you can nest existentials.

So that's the other way I could imagine it being trivial: if existentials aren't allowed to index very powerful statements, if the Ps above cannot themselves include quantified statements.
Very nice. Is there any automated validation that submissions are truly "PWA", work offline, etc?
That ~90% figure is wildly misleading.

It's based on 282 deaths among the 320 ventilated patients who either died or were discharged.

But 831 patients were still on ventilators!

It's a snapshot taken too soon.

Estimates of mortality on vents very widely still, partly because of real underlying variation in practices or population, partly because the data is really messy.

This email series from Mass General is a good orientation (discusses this study, links to discussions of previous studies):
https://mailchi.mp/db30d9d2cb24/tz4idnzryr-4406129?e=acf498e...

Any vent strategy being debated on Twitter (early! late! APRV!) is also being discussed by working pulmonary critical care docs. Judging those discussions or the variations in practice as an outsider is hard. But relative silence on Twitter doesn't equal mindless orthodoxy.
We don't listen to those people. Seriously. Of Windows, MacOS and Linux, nobody other than a fanboy would say any of them get everything right.
KDE is still pushing ahead with Wayland. I just fixed my screen tearing on x11 Kubuntu yesterday though, it was just one command to enable Optimus synchronization. (I know, that's a config tweak). I haven't tried Kde Wayland.
Porting Doom (1993) to WebAssembly
To be fair, I mentioned that because that's one of the biggest dealbreaker features today in many distributions (I think.)

I think there are few specific pain points in linux that always get brought up. Other than that, desktop linux is truly great.

- Suspend/Hibernate on lid/close open. (Never had trouble with this on my hardware.)

- Detecting, handling, plug/unplug external monitors. (everyone seems to come up with their own way to handle this)

- Discrete graphics switching/drivers.

- Package management. (Too many different standards, and non-truly rolling release)

My biggest beef with most distros is that every time a project reaches maturity, the rug gets pulled from under it and a brand new X (heh) is the next goal.

I've experienced this twice. Ubuntu 10.10 was peak Ubuntu for me. And Lubuntu 18.04LTS was peak Lubuntu. Both times, everything changed for the next release.

There are reasons to start from scratch, and I'm not qualified enough to comment on the decisions made by these projects, but they killed the distro for me at those two times.
After watching an attempt to make Scrabble work [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaXo_i3ktwM ], I was thinking what games could work via a webcam if all players have the game.

Thinking of games I've played recently, Dominion would work. Ticket to Ride wouldn't. On the Underground would, 1960 Making of a President wouldn't.

Normal Settlers wouldn't, but the junior version of Settlers would

The key thing is not drawing secret information from a shared pool. Dominion works as it's secret information from a non-secrete deck, which can be known by all players -- you just have to ensure to remove the right cards from play. If player A takes a Duchy, player B removes one Duchy from his set from play.

With Ticket To Ride there's no way to ensure that you don't get the same tickets on each side - secret information from a common limited source.

Normal Settlers would struggle with the soldier cards -- you can draw a soldier, but it could be roadbuilding or year of plenty. Junior settler has the same with coco cards, but those are played immediately so that works.

Obvioulsy open games, like Chess, Go, Backgammon, work. Games like Battleships and Guess Who, where there is secret information but no shared ppol would work too (ok you could both be guessing the same character in guess who, but that would be OK)
After living a year or so with Windows, two monitors and a KVM switch for one of those monitors. It ain't there yet. It does detect it but it'll just throw your stuff all over the place.

MacOS has been incredibly solid on that note.
> How has the web been tainted with ads?

* https://www.superhighway98.com/seo
* http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
* https://voxeu.org/article/advertising-major-source-human-dis...
* https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/new-study-the-advertising...
* https://danielmiessler.com/blog/google-amp-not-good-thing/

* https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider...

The worlds largest advertising company is well known for abusing its position to push technological features and standards that benefit it-even if nobody else does-suppress and hinder competitors and aggressively and continuously trying to erode the open web.
Next up, Facebook is notorious for similarly attempting to subvert and erode the open web, whilst simultaneously invading your privacy and using you as psychological lab-rats.
Brettspielwelt is huge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrettspielWelt

I can recommend it, although it's been years s8nce I've played there.
It's never been perfect, but Xubuntu has been my secondary OS of choice for more than ten years now. It's Linux without the nonsense.
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Just put a as.data.frame( ) around it. That's what I do with readxl::read_excel :-)
This is a test to figure out how many of you do understand what is happening inside this file.

To be fair: this is a very low level (core) JS logic.
Looking at this file as well will help:

https://github.com/neomjs/neo/blob/dev/src/Neo.mjs

Thoughts & feedback appreciated!
Yes, I've been down this rabbit hole before :)

I'm not just looking for static includes, but dynamic, real-time, editable includes built in to a framework that uses a single syntax to describe a full web app. I'm tired of using full programming languages for describing app data — and how it can be edited — when so much of what a web app can do has already been implemented a billion times.

PHP is great for that, but, in my opinion, is 500% more powerful in areas that don't count (low-level language constructs that make it Turing complete, but not ideal for building real-time, editable web apps) and 10% as powerful as it should be in areas that do count (i.e. performing higher level tasks automatically, like structuring data, syncing data between pages, moving data around, rendering data to the page easily, etc.).
Sometimes it's not about the game, it's about the people you're playing with and the conversation you have over the game.
So you want to make it on the fediverse?
I can second that sentiment in Canada as well - I'm not even aware of what the good paying jobs would even be - there's none with FAANG fame, and every job has a hard wall with a laundry list of 5+ years of experience with a dozen web technologies that you can only climb over with the appropriate connections.
Me neither. I _do_ test my JavaScript knowledge everytime I look at a .js file, lol
Mortality rates drop sharply in parts of India, bucking coronavirus trend
Show HN: Dictionary Functions – Functions to look up dictionary on Google Sheets
Hi all,

Dictionary Functions is still under development so there are many known issues. This add-on is only available on Google Sheets web version.

Install add-on:

1) Open a Google Sheets document (https://sheets.google.com)

2) Go to Add-ons > Get add-ons > search "Dictionary Functions" and install it

3) click "Allow" on Permission dialog

Supported functions:

* =dict(term, languageCode, {{ field1, field2, ... }})

* =def(term, anguageCode)

* =ipa(term, languageCode)

* =gender(term, languageCode)

* =plural(term, languageCode)

* =female(term, languageCode)

* =male(term, languageCode)

* =romaji(term)

* =romanization(term)

* =pinyin(term)

* =simplified(term)

If you use =dict(), here are the fields you can retrieve: definitions, ipa, gender, masculine, feminine, pinyin, plural, romaji, romanization, simplified, source, sourceLink.

Supported languages:

- Spanish (es)

- German (de)

- French (fr)

- Italian (it)

- Russian (ru)

- Japanese (ja)

- Korean (ko)

- Chinese (zh)
My first instinct reading this comment was that you were being old and cranky. Get off my internet, young'ns!

Well, after clicking through to the article... I'm sorry for doubting you. This text almost could have been mistaken for an emoji copypasta.
The more you hear about Facebook the more your realize there just are no rules there. Story after story about how much info they share, or don't share that they said they'd share with partners (all bad in some ways). Their VPN targeting teens... and so on.

It just never ends with things that at face value should make a company pause, but Facebook goes all in.
Except it has consistently been reducing everywhere- its just that some continents started much higher and will take longer to get down to ~2 or below.
https://tabletopia.com/ is not included in blog article, but is worth to try. Their library is huge and games there are very fun to play. Recommended.
Step 1: Move to SV.

I'm sorry, I'm Australian and studied and worked in Australia. I spent 4 years in SV, and now founded a startup in Europe.

Even after the Covid issue has played out, I'm convinced SV will still be where a passionate technologist can optimize their impact and lifetime earnings. There's just nothing that can compare to being surrounded by so many smart people who share your interests.

I've heard stories about the dotcom crash, and how it was awesome because everyone who had no business being there left. You just had the geeks that wanted to build stuff for the sake of building stuff, and it turns out there was still plenty of money floating around after things got going again.

Europe has laws which makes hiring people risky and expensive. And even if you do become a top earner, expect to pay 50% in taxes (+ 25% VAT). It's hard to fathom individual engineers would be able to save enough to have the sort of financial freedom to bankroll a company while still in their 20's.

But don't worry, there are government grants for you! Just be prepared to spend 1/3rd of your time dealing with paperwork and hourly reporting of what you did on a day by day basis, all for 50k here, 40k there. I feel these grants are designed to be demoralizing and the startup equivalent of unemployment benefits. And then you realize that almost all R&D in Europe, from startups to multinationals, is subsidized by EU funding schemes and mountains of paperwork.

Don't underestimate how good SV has it with the "I like you and your idea, here's $1m and come back next year and tell me if it worked".

</rant>
The pandemic is bringing us closer to our robot takeout future
Really cool read. I didn't know companies have these type of programs

> 8. Always Keep in Mind What You Want to Excel At
This was very touching. I haven't thought about my work in this way. I have a general idea of what I'd like to do and improve on but it doesn't always translate to my day to day.
But the lender dismissed the borrower (in the story) as "you're trying to use logic", which is at least as big a confusion (and inability reflect on the root of the disconnect).
> No idea what this is doing on HN.

Most likely because people found it interesting. Not everyone finds the same things interesting.

> which is biased understatement

Funny thing regarding biases in political leaning is that it's all based around context. The US, being very right-leaning, would describe one person as left-leaning while in many European countries that same person would be center or even slightly right. So it all depends. It's useful to outline where you're coming from before laying out your perspective, as it's also biased (just like mine).
Interesting. McDonalds defines quality by consistency. Health care defines quality by the credentials of the providers. Maybe healthcare could learn a lot from quickserve?
Why Herd Immunity Won't Save Us from the Covid-19 Pandemic
Interesting example. Mainframes were one of the first to deploy lots of capacity to your data center floor you hadn't yet paid for. Upgrades were often just a phone call and a remote (often, zero down time) re-config.
> The "No" is a gesture. If US was serious about the "No' where won't even be a Nixon visit or Resolution of any kind.

But the question isn't just the recognition of Taiwan/ROC, in isolation by itself. It also includes the recognition of the PRC, the existence of which is a fact on the ground that's difficult to ignore.

Sure the US could have continued to plug its ears and ignore the PRC, but that was untenable and becoming increasingly so. It's pretty clear that the US's preferred option would have been formal recognition of both Taiwan and the PRC, but it doesn't always get what it wants, so it has had to contort its official position and practice deliberate ambiguity, instead.
I disagree on this one, for sure. That definition of “engine” is too narrow.

There’s a tendency these days for people to think of “game engine” in terms of the big, general-purpose engines like Unity, Unreal, and Godot. However, by analogy, a car still has an engine even if that engine was purpose-built for the specific car and is never reused in other cars.

It would be really weird to have to come up with a different name for the game engine for The Witness — what would you even call that, if not an “engine”? So, “engine” is going to refer to custom, never-reused engines in games until we get a better word for it.