skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parts of the story may be apocryphal, but one of the most famous case studies of office design contributing to collaboration is the Pixar office. In the late 1990s (and to this day) the modal layout for larger companies was dividing teams into dedicated buildings by function withn a broader campus or office park.

Per the story, Jobs had the notion of designing an office that encouraged interactions between teams with broad open areas, communal social resources and bathroom placement in central atriums to encourage unplanned interactions between teams.

'Brad Bird, director of The Incredible and Ratatouille, said of the space, “The atrium initially might seem like a waste of space…But Steve realized that when people run into each other, when they make eye contact, things happen.” ' [1]

[1] https://officesnapshots.com/2012/07/16/pixar-headquarters-an...
Wow that's pretty insane. I can't select any text on any of those examples, I can't open anything in a new tab, and I can't save any images.
Yes, exactly my point.

You don't want to just have free and fair elections, you want to also convey the clear and unfakeable impression that your elections are free and fair.

There's a lot of signalling involved.
> Section 215 of the 2001 Patriot Act mandates records providers turn over “tangible things” “relevant” to an ongoing investigation–which McConnell’s amendment would extend to web-browsing and search-history records

This is the strong issue I have with passing regulations when people are afraid and weak because of a short and near term disruption.

The ability to think logically and clearly is impacted during such times and paranoia kick in.

The 2001 Patriot Act is now 20 years old.

It was meant to be temporary but children were born when it was passed and are past the age of drinking for how long it has carried over.

The SARS-COV2 is leading us down the same road of employing invasive tracking and surveillance in the viel of "good for people"!

Osama is dead a long time. His legacy lives on! He won. We lost.

It does not have to be that way.

Don't just wait for it to expire - repeal it!

> “Under the McConnell amendment, Barr gets to look through the web browsing history of any American—including journalists, politicians, and political rivals—without a warrant, just by saying it is relevant to an investigation,” said Wyden, who has been trying to ban warrantless surveillance on such records.

Unacceptable!

Vote and rally against this.

Please. I am surprised every-time I have to make an argument for individual freedom - it's one thing that can be lost so easily never to be ever gained again.
I experienced the same problem with a very old Skype account. There's no way to reset my password because it says my Microsoft account doesn't exist. My guess is they botched the account migrations from Skype to MSFT in a way that means we cannot prevent account takeovers not access the Skype account. I received an email saying my account was being taken over and given no way to disavow or prevent it. I'm very frustrated with MSFT security. I'm not even sure how one can report such a big.
> Torque control is more complex than just simply running 3ph AC motor off DC.

Fair enough, I got a bit too greedy with my wants.

Right now, I'm interested in running 3ph AC motor (or brushless DC motors) off DC using STM32 but having a hard time finding good open designs with affordable (DIY) feedback systems.
PlantUML and Mermaid have really been very useful to me!

It feels like I'm missing something with this tool if one's already aware of Mermaid (and PlantUML)
Amazing effort. Hats off to Anand Kumar.
Solo (Paper) Role Playing Games
> Then we have to pick a reproduction rate, which I have no idea how to pick, so I'll say that it increases by 1.5x every day (so on day one you have x cases, then on day 2 you have x + 1.5x, then on day 3 you have x + 1.5x + (1.5)^2x, etc

> I know I've pulled these numbers out of my nether region and so they are likely very wrong. But with some back-of-the-envelope math, I think we can have some sick people in February without a lot of deaths.

Yeah, in two ways: That's not how the growth rate math works, but if we went by your math instead of the number, that's about 4-5x faster than what we were seeing in March.

A growth rate of 1.5 means if we had X cases on day 1, we'd have X(1.5^1) on day 2, and X(1.5^2) on day 3. This virus's growth rate at the beginning of the pandemic stage was around 1.4 (or to use your math, 0.4? I'm not sure what you meant by "(1.5)^2x", is that a typo of "(1.5^2)x" or did you mean 1.5^(2x)"? The second one is straight wrong).
Language barrier and awful call quality also come into play. It's sometimes next to impossible to understand them and that's even assuming a strong language grasp. Much of the best food comes from the old dude/woman who's been cooking all their life, but not necessarily the easiest to communicate with.
To anyone in the biz, those live streams should reinforce the fact that Hutchins is little more than script kiddie.

He does have a lot of young, inexperienced followers however, who can't tell the difference and are willing to take him at his word.

Hutchins is a media creation. The hype around him and especially his portrayal as a hero is absolute fiction.
Pen and paper gives you both a safety margin (or transparency margin). And it allows you to signal in a hard to fake way that your elections are free and fair and hard to temper with.

(Fair as far as the voting system goes. Eg first-past-the-post on paper will still be a less fair voting system than Germany's weird proportional hybrid or my favourite, range voting. Or this fascinating gem: https://rangevoting.org/PropRep.html)
Our weird behavior during the pandemic is messing with AI models
Requiring accreditation has always seemed like a well intentioned policy that mostly locks in inequality, so I guess I'm opposed to the government's ruling whichever way you slice it here.
Masses of water moving around are really powerful. They toss around and break human bodies. As a mediocre surfer, I imagine it would be quite difficult to deploy an emergency air system while being tossed around by a wave, and that a permanent breathing tube would need a pretty hefty retention system to keep it from getting knocked off or damaged.
Thanks for the thoughtful response dang. Perhaps a blend is useful - it's good to have quick takes on articles, but the current voting structure incentivises quick takes over thoughtful responses.

In many cases, writing a quick comment to get position in the discussion and then editing or self-replying might be the only way to get engagement from other thoughtful commenters. And a response that takes more than a few hours (or in some cases, minutes) to compose is likely to have very little engagement at all.

There is a comment feed, but it's heavily biased towards more recent comments and doesn't have enough context to be useful in many cases. Perhaps the "exalt / flare" system that you suggest could help to flag up more interesting comments in a slower stream.

At the moment, unless you check your own comments or look out for your karma and investigate any changes, you're likely to miss out even on replies to your own comments, let alone interesting comments on older articles.
The Oculus Quest has proven to be incredibly successful. Magic Leap has had more than enough time to develop something comparable. Instead billions of dollars have been poured in only to result in fancy tech demos. Waymo is 100% at the same stage right now, and if nothing happens, they will definitely be the Magic Leap of autonomous driving.
It's not as regressive if you charge sales tax on housing.

In point of fact, the US mortgage interest deduction is highly regressive. It favors those who can afford a down payment on a house over those who can't, who by definition will be poorer.

If the sales tax applied to buying a house, it would be quite progressive. It could even only apply to the cost of the house less some amount (say, $100k) which would make it even more progressive.
Gemini allows clients to function without TLS, but it limits their access/functionality.

I'd be very interested in seeing an attempt at a minimal, portable standalone implementation of TLS suitable for Gemini's needs.
Beware of these futuristic background checks
No but they will pay them less.
I remember reading this article about SAP a few months ago, and it just blew my mind: https://retool.com/blog/erp-for-engineers/

Here was an entire market segment I'd never heard of, and just the market leader is worth $163B. And on top of that, the technology is so totally alien to anything I'd ever heard of before. It's like an alternate-history kind of thing. Like if we discovered a continent somewhere in the Pacific that had never been in contact with our civilization and had steam-powered airships or some crap.

And I'm sure this is just one of many such industries, even just within the umbrella of software.
Sounds like AHKv2 is doing the grave mistake of "cleaning up" by breaking all the scripts and work that people have put towards using the tool.
That might be just the entry point for me, since I'm having a hard time at landing my 1st job as junior. I feel like I'll have a good time and lots of fun anyways. Any advice on how to approach clients? (I can do (full-stack) web development and solve problems/ optimize solutions with algorithms and meta-heuristics.)
Best thing about autohotkey is the minimal boiler plate required and no walled garden approach to welcoming non professional programmers.

Its free, light weight, and has an excellent user manual.
>I was referring to the immediate threat of deaths resulting from present or nearly-present economic circumstances.

Are the hospitals not treating people in immediate threat of dying? Is California not housing the homeless in hotels? Is there not an extensive support network?

I don't think this virus and "short term" work together.

> My point was simply that we have more than enough resources

Who is "we" in this case? Because the State of California is in massive debt as far as I can tell, and they're still drowning in problems.
> Because humans are pattern matchers

Agree, but then you would think that engineers (when it comes to working with other engineers) are a little more rational than the average folks and can go beyond superficial observations.
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> I find it hard to believe that wealth transfer from metro to rural is larger than wealth transfer in the opposite direction.

Why do you find this hard to believe? I'm curious to learn what wealth transfer from rural to urban metros you're considering, since I'm not aware of many (any?). Rural communities have struggled and are increasingly subsidized by metro areas in the US:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/six-charts-illustrate-di...
But if you think of them as the waves, any kind of close and stable wave superposition can be called "a particle". At some point, we might just drop the "particle world" and go with the "quantum systems".
As long as it is only running locally and doesn't send any data anywhere it wont be privacy invading.
Would it be tax fraud if you’re still in California? You record your address when you file with the state, I don’t think the state cares where you get your mail.

I guess the employer could have some contractual terms requiring your address to be at some location. I’ve never seen that though.
Well, the easiest to cut and paste more than the strongest.
I'd like to see a clone of the QNX kernel, which is very tiny, implemented in Rust. It has no drivers or file systems in kernel space; those are all user processes. But it offers a POSIX-like API. Unlike L4, you don't have to run another OS on top of it to do anything.

This would be good for embedded applications on Raspberry Pi sized machines, where the Arduino environment is too weak and Linux is too much.
OpenAI plays hide-and-seek and breaks the game
ICLR 2020: Yann LeCun and Energy-Based Models
> Anything sent over the air cannot be assumed to be anonymous or private. The bits are being transmitted through a shared medium.

The point of the law here is exactly to prevent things which are technically possible, but socially frowned upon. A law against something that isn't possible doesn't do anything. (Should this be illegal? Maybe not! But your point seems very silly.)

If you're using your voice to communicate with your girlfriend in your own apartment, can you be upset if somebody's got their ear pressed up against your door, listening in? I mean, you knew that was technically possible to do. Why would you expect privacy?
What does it mean to suffer from a shortage of labor? As an economist, it's hard to understand that phrase. I usually take it to mean that an employer doesn't want to pay the prevailing wage, or dislikes the trend of wage increases. Given that understanding, there most intense "shortage" is where labor is most expensive. That means in the city, and for highly skilled workers.

As for your teeth, I suggest an early morning appointment. Aerosolized virus can live in the air for quite some time, which is what you get when you use a high speed drill in someone's mouth. It's unclear what viral load you'd get from being the next patient in the chair, but I wouldn't want to be the guinea pig.
It's unclear that restaurants are free to opt out. Grubhub "growth hacked" by listing restaurants that didn’t agree to be listed. It becomes a real problem when customers aren't aware, and complain about delivery problems and seek refunds from the restaurant, who didn't agree to do delivery with Grubhub.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/29/21113876/grubhub-seamless....
There are so many more interesting Australian native food plants that make more sense to concentrate on growing than native grasses. Not the most productive use of time and land.
Much as Elisp is written in C, the JVM and CLR are each written in C++ and assembly, hosted on an OS written in C and assembly, and I've seen all of these crash.
If you can't land a job as a junior programmer, you don't want to go around to businesses and end up responsible for promises you can't keep.
Maybe I'm very cynical, but I think almost anybody would cheat if it was made easy enough and they were given the chance. At the end of the day, people are there to come out with a degree and a good grade, not feel good they didn't take the same opportunity available to others. It'd be trivially easy to entrap students.

Say, for example, if the professor put the answer up on Blackboard, seemingly by accident, which came in the form of an incorrect answer to a real exam question. They could then give everyone who gives the wrong answer an XF. I'd wager that would be most people, barring the few smartest who noticed the error. Could you really blame people for wanting to get it right and not handicap themselves relative to the other students?

Given that, the university then has a responsibility to make it as hard as possible to cheat. Fail grades for cheating work because they create an incentive to avoid cheating. Except in this circumstance the incentive effect could not work because the student had no idea they'd be able to be caught.
Hmm, perhaps. Thanks for explaining!

Though if you actually want to support America, I'd suggest you buy from the foreigner that's most likely to hoard and never spend your USD: that would mean America would get to consume some goods and services in return for ink and paper (or these days, 0s and 1s.)

The Fed targets inflation. A dollar hoarded might as well be burned. So they'll just replace it with a fresh new dollar.

(And if the foreigners eventually spend the dollar and it comes back to the economy you know and love, that's not much different than if you had spend the dollar directly in America in the first place. America just got an interest free loan of some goods and services while the dollar was abroad.

If enough dollars flow back to impact inflation, the Fed will shrink their balance sheet to accommodate. Ie they'll sell government bonds from their inventory to soak up excess dollars.)

The situation is slightly different, if you eg want to support your very local economy, eg your brother-in-law's company, or your city, your county or your state. Because the Fed target inflation in the whole country, not in one specific location.
كوبون خصم اكسايت وخصومات لا تنتهى لجميع العملاء
امتلك احدث انواع الاجهزة الالكترونية والمنزلية والكهربائية والرياضية فى اسرع وقت ممكن من اكسايت وعبر كوبون خصم اكسايت الذى يصل الخصم به احيانا الى 35% واكثر و غيره من الخصومات
Well, we'd have to have lots of politically uncomfortable conversations about what manhood is and what our economy is providing at the lower end, too. One reason for so many unwed mothers is that "having a kid" is certainly part of 'manhood' as defined today, but "being married without a good job" is not. So guys wait to get a good job (spoiler alert: not in the cards) before marrying, and if not married, there's less incentive to be exclusive & involved.

This is one big reason marriage rates are lower among poorer Americans. It's not bad that a guy wants a good job before he gets married -- it's bad that he's never gonna get one and his kid is going fatherless while he pursues that pipe dream.
Most people have an intuition about particles, they don’t have an intuition for quantum systems.

I wanted to highlight for a general reader that anyons are not particle in the sense of common intuition.

Protons, which the article brings as an example of collective phenomenona, roughly follow a lot of “particle intuition.”
I like to tell people they are mispronouncing Fox News..... "It's pronounced faux news."
You're right. According to the old Linux Threads FAQ (https://web.fe.up.pt/~jmcruz/etc/threads/linuxthreads-faq2.h...), that seems to be about the right timeframe.

Oh well, shows what my memory's worth.
Deno gives all packages the same permissions of the main app. So if your app can make network requests, so can every dependency you use. It’s not a great situation. I’ve brought this up to them and their response is that per-package permissions would be too difficult to implement.
A few feet of foam atop the water is all it would take to smother you because you can't breathe it nor get above it.
No bs guide to web components
There's another assumption going on too, which may explain another component of the shock. People educated in the USA and UK tend to assume that both education and work are based on meritocracy. So when a minority from another country points out this isn't the case, and perhaps even not the case anywhere by offering examples, it can be shocking to people who have spent their entire educational and career trajectory in 'the system' which presupposes meritocracy.
There's an argument that it's good to avoid premature optimization - build your thing with something easy like rails or elixir and then if you run into performance issues rewrite those bits in something faster.
ok this is what i got

def splitArray(self, nums: List[int], m: int) -> int:
@lru_cache(maxsize=None)
def minSum(pos,count):
currentSum = 0
minSoFar = float("inf")
for i in range(pos,len(nums)):
currentSum+=nums[i]
if count !=1:
next = minSum(i+1,count-1)
maxSplit = max(currentSum,next)
minSoFar = min(minSoFar,maxSplit)
return currentSum if count ==1 else minSoFar

return minSum(0,m)

I think putting that @lru_cache annotation is what makes this a Dynamic programming problem. If thats the case, i think its resonable interview question.
BearSSL is pretty tiny, though I haven't looked at it beyond a glance at the homepage after a friend linked it. Is it what you had in mind?

https://bearssl.org/
Looks like they were super experienced body surfers wearing swim fins - the guys that would usually be doing the rescuing.

It sounds like the bigger problem was that they got lost in the sea foam - couldn't see where they were going.

You're absolutely right about the suffocation risk due to foam/bubbles though.
This. The US has an abnormally high social mobility, even compared to the EU. You have a better chance of moving to the top 1% here than anywhere else. I'm a Tier 1 FAANG engineer and worked very hard to get here, coming from a middle income family. By first studying hard and building projects to get into a Tier 1 university.

Tier 1 top-talent engineers are just worth multiples more than lower talent people and deserve to reap from their hard work and expertise. It's unfair to me and other FAANGs to say we don't deserve our lifestyle and are silver spoon.
That doesn’t matter. The point is to maintain the valuation until your lock up period expires. Once you can actually sell the stock you don’t need the puts.
For some web app, that's a feature
That makes a lot of things easier.

It's easy to make fun of America, but they still have one of the broadest labour markets; and also one of the highest paying for software people.
The NY Times doesn't have a stellar track record either:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_controver...

Although I would much rather them than Fox if forced to choose. (As it is, I follow neither).
At this point wouldn't you be better off just getting a landline?
After all, Java is compiled to byte code and powers plenty of high traffic servers efficiently.

How well has Java done on the client in the last two decades?

Many AAA games use ActionScript, Python, Lua, etc for their UIs and scripting for mods.

What's the actual performance sensitive parts written in?
It wasn’t until I got a job in consulting and started traveling to what are often dismissed as the “fly-over states” that I got to see billion-dollar B2B businesses that were basically unheard of outside of their market. The B2B e-commerce market alone is over a trillion dollars.

There’s a lot of opportunities for ERP developers and other tech roles that don’t exist in SV.
Some big wave surfers do. Apparently it's pretty disconcerting, as you need to let go of the air you're holding before taking a big breath on the device, which may or may not work...
I thought so too. Are they running Gtk on mvwm?
Most FAANG have a high cost of living band and a regular band. The high cost of living band pays 15-30% extra for living in the Bay Area/NYC. Everywhere else pays the same whether it's Boston, Detroit, or the middle of the desert.
How well did PhoneGap work out?
Gracious. That's quite a lot to manage.
Have you been to Denver? Changing altitude has a greater than 1% change in O2 available. You feel it initially but quickly adapt and don’t tell them they are cognitively impaired. :)
Property tax already does this, right? China has a sales tax on housing but no property tax, which seems to exacerbate wealth inequality there as people can speculate on property without penalty for not putting it to use.
What a lot of these businesses need is very simple stuff. Plenty of small businesses would have use for what would consider “toy” programs.

A friend of mine built a text message to email system for this rural delivery guy for the purpose of letting his office assistant manage invoices, but also allowing him to fulfill orders on the go without talking on the phone as his customers can just text him. Charges him $500 a month for that.

That kind of thing is trivial to do, but can still have a lot of value. Remember, the small businesses don’t automate anything. Excel is frequently beyond them.
I’ve been saying this for years. There are THOUSANDS of small businesses out there who are mostly being ignored.

Many, many, many companies still see shared excel spreadsheets on a windows shared drive as a technical innovation.