skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some constructive feedback:

- The language randomly seems to switch to something else ("porta")

- Even if you're faintly familiar with the problem (like me), it's hard to gauge the actual goal of the game. For example I didn't recall if a door being empty is good or not.

- The coloring seems not very helpful. Red for the chosen door? Red is usually associated with something bad. And the colors for opened and still closed doors are not easily associated with their state. A simple bitmap or even a text would say much more than those colors.

- The statistics give a lot of numbers that aren't meaningful, and don't show the meaningful ones. In particular the absolute counts of how often was switched are hardly of importance. It's about the ratio of correct decisions - in particular that number should be split into switching and not switching decisions.
I had read a comment(that I completely agree with) from someone here on HN (sorry I forgot the username), that the current WFH is working because EVERYONE is working from home.

The moment half of the work force starts working from the office again, the dynamics are going to change. Those offtopic, face to face chitchats you have with your colleagues or boss hugely help your career growth.
The WFH people are going to miss out on that.

One positive that this crisis has created though, is all businesses and institutions will take remote work seriously, and take the steps required to make it possible, especially as another wave of COVID19 is expected.
> a war over faked evidence

With a proof that Bush Jr. was officially informed that the justifications for the war are false some few days before invasion.
(Probably someone from intelligence covering their ass, so the war wouldn't be blamed on them once bogus weapons of mass destruction were nowhere to be found).
This UK study is yet another piece of evidence that shows we are under-counting, not over-counting, Covid-19 deaths.
There is one or two on the local high street, but my experience was the same - I tried ordering some chicken hearts, nope, they don't get them, can't order them, guy had no idea how you'd go about getting any. Ok fine - can I buy some rabbit? Or pheasant? They can bring some frozen one in for me - great, not really interested. Ok, how about like chicken carcass and beef bones to make stock out of? Nope, they don't sell those.
Linux containers in a few lines of code
More like, "and then you find yourself paying money to the establishment you were trying to overthrow" in this case. It's a big stretch to say that bitcoin has "won" (or is winning) in any big way against the big banks ATM.
Fascinating that your experience has been the opposite of mine. Did you do native app development before trying react-native?

My unconventional take is the real gains from react-native come from converting existing native projects, while leaving as much native code intact as possible.
If poor people are currently living in expensive, cramped housing because they’re forced like many others to all commute every day to the same few spots on the Earth we call big cities and we replace that with a system where much more land becomes easy to use to for housing because we’re not going to worship for 8 hours every day at the work temple, I think it’s quite possible that the poor and middle class are both substantially helped.

If your concern is that both are helped but the poor are helped slightly less and conclude from that that means we shouldn’t do it, well, that’s one approach I suppose.
How old was the account ? a few years ago they (tried to) move all the accounts to be Microsoft accounts with better security and policies
They also create a thousand webcomponent wrappers to display this.
I just came to say the same thing!
In my experience the primary way knowledge workers get into trouble is over-reporting progress on a task, then half-assing it at the end or making excuses.

This might be due to procrastination, personal issues, distraction, other job pressures, lack of direction / guidance on the task or many other reasons, some of them good.

The problem is succumbing to the temptation to report progress when there really hasn't been any.
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On the contrary, I feel pretty comfortable after reading the whole article. It's well written and examples provided by the author are really illuminating. Anyway, there's no universally applicable advice for everyone. I think we just need some patience and effort to find the right path for ourselves. Try not to make the hard work easy. :)
On my MS Surface Pro 6 i5 everything works fast, in Firefox and Chrome. Firefox feels maybe a tiny bit snappier but there's almost no difference. Maybe the issue only exists on Macbooks?
In addition to this, mark them clearly as out-of-stock - fade out the preview image and prepend [out of stock] to the item description.
What about CoinJoin? https://github.com/nopara73/ZeroLink/
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Is it a lisp without car cdr and cadaaaadmycateatsmiceadaddddr?

Just in case -

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This reminds me of something I read while helping a business major friend with a case study a while back. One of the readings she had as background mentioned that companies like SAP that sell ERP are almost selling the process/workflow more than the actual software.

Part of me wonders if these things are more of a "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" thing than anything else. Are people buying the workflow because it's what they really need, or are they buying it because everyone else uses it?
Novid: Privacy-preserving contact tracing app that you can use now
Maybe I phrased that incorrectly indeed. It's not so much that I want to find a 'better way to implement a message bus', but more 'if I want to re-implement the message bus I already have, how can I use the features of a Lisp-like languate to improve the implementation'.

For the logic in my iOS game I started out with a straighforward imperative system based on objects and explicit state, which quickly devolved in a big mess of if-then-else-but-only-if spaghetti code that was impossible to maintain. I refactored that to a reactive system based on what I call an 'event graph' where each node performs some kind of filtering or processing. For example nodes like 'filter on event type', 'take first 4 events', 'complete when event X received', etc. Game logic is implemented by branching off (subscribing) to nodes, synchronizing stuff by means of attaching a temporary subgraph that waits for a 'completion event' etc. Like I said it's quite similar to ReactiveX but simpler.

The basic concepts behind this are sound, but my feeling is that I need way too much code in to implement something like this in Lua, compared to what I would expect in something like Lisp, which seems more naturally suited for this kind of task. I just find it hard to get started trying to map the solution I already have to a Lisp language, because most of the 'introduction to Lisp'-like resources are so focused on artificial examples that are mostly interesting from a computation-theoretic point of view.
Like what else? I feel like simplifying is the imperative.
I know, why don’t the waiters just edit the website, the cooks integrate a payment api, the cleaners implement a back of house system, etc....

Crazy.
It’s a bit clunky, but Graphviz and its DOT language[1] might do the trick.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphviz
ITIL and anything related to providing support and services, is diametrically opposed to the idea of blocking out and being unhelpful to other peoples' progress. Support and being supportive, even assisting with organizing workflows, is work too.
sounds a lot like what wasm is trying to achieve (minus the web rendering part)
Musicians write music. Developers write and maintain software.

Imagine there's no Version, it's easy if you try...

Really, no concept of version: you buy a piece of software as it is, take it or leave it! Either it works enough for you or it doesn't. No bugfix in the next release because there is NO next release. The musician, ehm... developer, has switched to the new shiny thing.
You modified yoour environment slightly and you need a tiny change on the software to adapt? Too bad it does not exist!

Really, the point I'm trying to make is that comparing software developers to musicians doesn't hold a lot of water. Both professions include creativity, but a song shipped is as immutable as a piece of hardware. Adaptabillity is what makes software as worth as it is!
What's your point? JPMC isn't trading bitcoin, they are offering banking services to crypto exchanges. As long as the latter can demonstrate they are operating with appropriate regulations and risk management, it's just like providing banking services to any other company.
This is a coarse mis-characterization of both sides of that "debate" if we can even call it that. Are anti-vaxxers mostly worried about proven risks, like narcolepsy in this case, or is a much larger part of their movement concerned with making paranoid claims like that the MMR vaccine causes autism? Are the experts guilty of denying the narcolepsy-Pandermix link, or are they spending more time trying to refute bogus statements because they'd like to see herd immunity maintained for certain diseases?
Hey everyone, Memgraph CTO here. This is a massive milestone for us that took almost 3 years to reach and I would like to thank everyone who helped us get here! If you have any questions or feedback, I’ll be around all day to answer :D
I was like this then at the last few seconds I fucked it up :D
It does suck to be WeWork, but perhaps not for co-working spaces.

Reasoning:

Acceptance of remote working, or at least not coming to the office, is boosted. But not everyone can work comfortably at home: Distractions, discipline. So a local co-working place nearby becomes attractive.

There's no WeWork where I live but there is a local library and (before lockdowns) it's packed throughout the day with people studying or on their laptops.

Upside: Free. Downside: No possibility for calls or video.

I'm pretty confident that ultra-local co-location working facilities could take advantage of demand for people that don't want to work at home but also don't want a commute.

It could be as simple as a house in a neighbourhood with solid internet, a few extra tables, the kitchen's already there, and a few bedrooms converted to private areas for video conference. Perhaps a good franchise model. I'd be on-board as a user.

Ten other people in a 2000sqft house would fund it pretty easily: Zoning and an SLA on the internet connection seem to be the only hurdles.

Edit: Thinking about it, I have friends that do this already informally by renting a cheap apartment.
"SAP" isn't a product either, it's a company name. When certain people talk about SAP they actually mean R3 or ECC. R3 is dead and the sun is setting on ECC which is being replaced by S4/HANA (which some people will still call SAP). SAP has a lot of products and it's main products have a lot of modules so two people using "SAP" may not even recognise each others versions.

It would not surprise me if KP were using ECC for their finances or some other area the parent comment is not familiar with.
LOGO is the Language Of God, and we are His turtles.

L: Language
O: Of
G: God
O: Only God knows what the last "O" stands for.
> Also, I'd trust these guys not to mishandle .org

I don't trust them at all with this scope.
The Archive Team dose not archive 4chan.org - not even in a shadow archive.

I think that 4chan.org is an value for social sciences of the future.
4chan.org has a influence to our culture (see the "operations" they done [1]) and it is just silly not to archive it because it is a ">right shithole<" that has ">no value for future generations<" (sadly i deleted my part of the "discussion").

I reported this issue to Jason Scott.
While our discussion he got an email reading "relese it you faggot" what let him tweet "Guess who just inspired me to delay releasing the 4 Chan archives another few years" and "Yeah, I think that honestly I'm a little sick of people trying to turn the man child horseshit of that community into some sort of translated normal humanity" and "You know who thinks 4chan is a vital part of anything -
not people" [2]

- i was blocked shortly after that.

I am really disappointed that this was handled so poorly

I don't think this is a good behavior.
I don't think it is okay that individuals in the Internet Archive have this much power to cripple the ability of the future to understand what happened and how.

And it is a really bad idea to give these people, that let this happen, this much power.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan#Controversies

[2] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/970402041792143360
> So how can CB find out if you're using it on poker?

The poker site can generate independent addresses A1, A2, A3, ... to receive deposits. But then they also need to handle withdrawals. A withdrawal transaction might for example consume the amount in A1 plus part of the amount on A2, sending the leftover change to another new address. Now A1 and A2 have been observed to be under the control of the same entity.

All addresses of the poker site can be linked together like this, by tracing the "taint" from a single known address. The poker site can try to split their addresses into subsets that are isolated from each other (selerate "wallets"), but then a blockchain analyst can simply keep doing deposits/withdrawals to find them all.
We've just had a bad experience with GitLab annual renewal, to the point where we didn't know if they'd cancelled our account or not.

The billing accounts system seems to be completely disconnected from user accounts. A notification banner was spammed to users in the GitLab.com user interface, saying that our account was going to be cancelled becuase we didn't have auto-renew. The users who got the banner didn't have permission to act on it in the billing system. The billing system said that we _were_ on track to renew, which disagreed with the banner. Eventually it transpired that the end-of-year "truing up" meant that our account was on hold, but we weren't notified of this.

And when we _did_ pay the bill we get a banner saying "you've been downgraded to the free plan" when the gitlab.com interface says we hadn't.

It really undermined confidence in how well these systems are connected.

On the flip side, the fact that everything is open meant that you can see customer support reps raising internal bugs about this stuff. The principle of open-everything makes it more pallatable, but it doesn't make up for lost confidence.
Less mouse arm pain. And you can listen to podcasts, or something, in the 50 minutes.
Same thing with stock market, I couldn’t understand that people swapping stock amongst themselves. No money going into productive use
I am sorry to hear this.

It sounds as if you are like one of my sons.

I miss the "buzz" of human interaction that TV in the background never gives, but I can usually get that from Starbucks.

I'm an introvert, and I've been doing independent consulting over the phone for clients for, gosh, 7-or-so years now, and I love talking to my clients, but I don't want to be in the office with them.

One of my sons is about to go bat-shit crazy. The other loves his ability to get tasks in the morning and focus.

I guess we are all wired different.

I was in the process of putting together a "Remote First" business plan, for my next venture, where -- there simply was no home office.

But reading comments like yours really brings home how bad an idea that might be, because I'd be losing out on incredible talent by doing so.

BTW: My current main client has an office (mostly shut down), but I've made it a point to take out a different engineer for lunch (of something similar, depending on the lockdown harshness), 3 times a week (we're small, so I tend to take out everybody for lunch, including my boss) about every six weeks. That's not enough ... but it's the little things that make you feel connected, right? We had a young (28 y.o.?) superstar that was about to lose his shorts release week about two weeks ago and simply bringing to my place with pizze and Netflix and Nintendo (we got shitfaced and he beat my ass at Super Mario Cart), it was good. He felt better, I felt better, nobody got laid, and we both woke up refreshed...

I think you have a solid point that people need people. But, my question is: Can this be done virtually?

I'm a USian, but I lived in Japan for over 10 years, and my mother always wanted to see me, but I never understood why, when I could read her voice better over the phone than in person. She wanted to see me because she could read my body language better in person than over the phone (which I did not like, actually), but is there a way via which you can feel connected without being in the same room? My girlfriend (I live in Texas) is in Taiwan and we have pretty engaging conversations every day and she comes to see me (or vice versa) about 10 times/year. Would that kind of work satisfy you, or do you literally need to see people every day? (As an introvert, I guess I don't know how extraverts work).

Anyway - A bit more disclosure than I usually do - but I am sincerely interested in your perspective.
List the phone number on Craigslist for a free tv in several large cities. (I’ve done this as pranks to friends, they’ll get several hundred texts and phone calls)
If he's currently using a message bus in Lua, it's likely everything is happening in a single-threaded interpreter.
I don't think Microsoft is worried about Visual Studio being single platform, if the platform is Windows.
I do read about these things, but I can also spend my time with lots of other stimulating/important stuff. Priorities, maybe?
Reality will forcibly catch up with them when they try to buy a new harddrive.
no! no money exchanges was going through the website. it was my business account however
Imagine if you're the CEO of the company and you own 100000 shares of it. Then your net-worth between 100$/share and 120$/share will differ by $2 million. Quite a difference, isn't? And I think most board members hold certain amount of company's stock, and usually most people want their net-worth to grow as much as possible, so they try to do certain things to increase the stock price.

That's one of negative things about stocks in general in my opinion, because people quite often have short-term (lasting a quarter or two) outlook.
Code runs and possibly lets you run something (for example in case of an OS or interpreter). I don't see a problem there.
Wow, I didn't expect so much!

GitLab, here is my proposal: remove 80~90% of this. Keep the essential. Prove that you are a really innovative company. Stop following analytics. Engage with your users.

Prove that you can control entropy and recover your agility rather than going the bureaucratic enterprise software way, just waiting for a more hungry and foolish player to cut the grass under your feet.
I don't know much about Janet (all I've done is complain that create-fiber did not work the way the docs say it did), but I'm pretty sure it uses its own bytecode interpreter.
fault confessed is half redressed
...and yet they are choke full of spyware.

In the context of a proprietary phone, secure boot and all of that is the new tivoization.
Yeah, HTTPS is the response to the problem. The problem is that the internet is nowhere near as "safe" as it was a few decades ago. (Or at least, the unsafe-ness is now better known.)

It's a bit like complaining that you can no longer take your origami collection outside without an umbrella. Well, the umbrella isn't the problem, the rain is. The umbrella is a solution. But of course being under an umbrella isn't the same as being outside on a sunny day. So sure, lament the change in the weather; lament the inconvenience of carrying an umbrella around all the time; but don't blame the umbrella for the rain.
You buy a portion of the business. Why wouldn't you want to do that if you have some cash and see a nice deal? It's a beautiful system.
Questions on how brain training works from RaiseYourIQ
To me it seems that the most important reason is that most medias are not interested in informing and/or educating the public, but in attracting readers so they are going to see the advertisements that generate their revenues. You will not see a media proclaim: the tracking our website does, is a greater danger to your privacy than the tracking apps.
If your two servers communicate over the public internet rather than a private network, all you've done is made your users believe they are behind a secure connection when they really aren't.

For example, if your "old" server is a colocated physical server and your proxy server is a fancy cloud VM.
> For most Mechanical Engineering classes, if you haven't learned the material, cramming during the exam isn't going to help you. Or, if you can figure out how to do it during the exam just by using the textbook, you're going to be fine in the real world.

I had a similar experience in my better CS classes. Some professors clearly realized that, if you hadn't been paying attention and learned how not to screw up, you wouldn't be able to figure it out, even given pretty wide ranging access to information. So they'd hand us a take-home exam, due in a day or two, and we'd be allowed to use all relevant documentation.

I always liked these, as they seemed the most similar to what would happen in industry, unlike some other professors who expected you to have memorized obscure library functions and be able to write perfect code on paper under time pressure.
Which SAP product did you compete with?
> In my view you just need to deal with this reality and learn how to be productive in it.

IMO, senior developers who are “productive in it” are getting by on pattern matching.

Just like I can drive to my local mall without even thinking about it.

They haven’t actually learned how to be productive working this way.
Scientists highlight potential pitfalls in AI medical imaging enhancement
Annoying if you turn countries off in the graph, then change the slider for days they all turn back on again.
This is way more fun to play to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3zvVGJrTP8&feature=youtu.be
There isn't that much difference when it comes down to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_police
The one true VR fitness game to rule them all. Not Supernatural
Debatable, but even if this is true, and?
30 min(for a noob like me) to fix:
Pfsense + HAproxy + certbot enabled
you can serve old websites all day long
"My engineer friend uses it for supply chain management, a beer store hq clerk helped implement it, construction accountant has used it, etc."

Is SAP something that can be somehow scaled down? if this is used for a beer store, it has to be really large store, if that's what is written in the cited article is true:

"A basic installation of SAP has 20,000 database tables, 3,000 of which are configuration tables. In those tables, there are ~8,000 configuration decisions you need before even getting started. And that’s why SAP Configuration Specialist is an actual job title!"
SAP's ugly green, old style-UI screens are wonderfully optimised for data-entry. You can be ultra-fast. It's like VIM. It's like driving at 300 mph.

Its all the new fangled dumbed-down, web-ui's that is sheer crap and leaves your head scratching.

Well..the old UI's were coded by old-school, C programmers who started their career in the 70s and 80s. They even wrote a multi-process Erlang style kernel to back the application programming. Performance came naturally from their gut.

Nowadays, we get Electron and congratulate ourselves.
I had to shorten the title, because it did not fit.