skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One question that wasn’t addressed in the response: if the CEO did not realize that implementing the feature would be bad for users, then why did the company announce the feature as an email footnote at 5PM Friday before a holiday weekend, which is when bad news typically drops?
The current patch set is implemented as a prctl that you can turn on and off at will.
Yes, remote work has always been a thing. The claim is that COVID will accelerate the trend toward a global and remote workforce.

Companies have been forced into large-scale WFH experiments. If the experiments show that productivity is totally fine without open office plans and in-person collaboration over lunch break, then they will inevitably ask why they shouldn't save a ton of money by hiring a greater proportion of engineers outside of the Bay Area.
Understanding what will bottleneck your success
I'd say the unit cost of running a proper streaming-rental service is about the same as burning a copy of a DVD (20 cents per movie). There's way more to it than just bandwidth.

Sure you could still pirate (just like you could copy DVDs) but if the path of least resistance (factoring in quality, legal and moral costs) is to just rent it legitimately then that's what people would do. Video stores could have just copied DVDs and the studios were very afraid of DVD-Rs when they came out, but that didn't pan out because it's obviously illegal and immoral.

There was a company in California in the early days that had actual people putting actual DVDs into actual DVD players that would stream on demand across the internet, but they folded when they got a legal threat. It might be legally OK - I don't think it's ever been tested in court.
I generally recommend going for the highest-spec board that suits your requirements. The STM32L4+, STM32L5, and STM32H7 are all amazing microcontrollers.
Legalising rental e-scooter trials
https://web.archive.org/web/20200525173210/https://pastebin....

Pastebin's locked behind Cloudflare and it won't work if you use Tor Browser (which you should, for everything) so I fetched the link from archive.org. A bit redundant thanks to twillin but the habit of linking to locked-off sites should be broken.
Johnson and Cummings have revealed flawed view of what strong leadership is
If you actually build this on a PCB with typical ceramic or electrolytic capacitors and a MOSFET or mechanical switch, an insignificant amount of energy will be radiated. Most of the energy does go into heating the capacitors through their internal series resistance.

Radiation could be the sound produced by the rushing water?
Yes, people don't realize how inadequate ESP32 is for commercial use. There are literally no commercial products that use ESP32 (or its older brother ESP8266) besides some chinese cheap toys on Amazon.

There are packages out there that use ESP32 as a "augmentation" chip to do OTA with a main processor being STM32 or NXP. There are also major security flaws and silicon revisions made by ESP32 that makes the whole thing reek of inadequacy beyond anything a hobbyist would do.

ESP32 -> Hobby use only. Don't spin up $500k of tooling and HVM batch relying on a weak CPU that will give you some chance of a complete recall or losing your customer base that took many years to build.

Hobbyists on Youtube and EE Stackoverflow are oblivious to the professional world. Let me know if you would like sources, I don't have time to dig into it but esp32.net is a good place.
https://www.failory.com/interview/cuddli

Interview from someone who had a problem with the way dating apps monetize, created a competing dating app with all features free, and then shut down because he couldn't monetize.
My problem with "everyone remote" is the following scenario.

Suppose I'm sitting at my desk, and I need Bob's approval to check in some piece of code. In the current (office) scenario, I send Bob the request. If I see him lounging back in his chair, playing some game on his phone, I can walk over to him and gently prod him to approve my request. He can't deny his game-playing, so he has no option but to act right away.

In the remote world, I have no idea what's keeping Bob busy and why he's not approving my request. He could be playing games or out for a walk with his dog... or he could be fighting a (metaphorical) fire.

What we need is some sort of a "presence" signal. Unfortunately, we can't have one without some privacy issues.
There are significant advantages to onboard ADCs, including sampling rate and synchronization.
And why was the CEO on HN arguing for the feature, implying people complaining were the ones with the problem?

I don't buy it, and I'll be steering clear.
The proprietary firmware is in another git repository [1], there are no blobs in the mainline kernel to my knowledge. Further, distributions ship this firmware as a separate package, so it's not bundled with the kernel. This approach appears to be fairly similar to what OpenBSD does [2]. This doesn't seem too different from how the Linux community treats other licence-incompatible software such as OpenZFS.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...

[2] http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/
Speaking as someone who has been responsible for "turning the lights back on" to fix problems with "fully-automated", "lights-out" factory lines, much of this paper still rings true forty years on - if nothing else as a check against our engineering hubris. It remains tremendously difficult to quash entirely the long tail of things that can go wrong in a factory.

That said, many contentions raised here really have been resolved substantially with increased computing efficiency and ubiquitous connectivity. The touted expert human operator's ability to see and understand processes from a high-level, informed by years of observing (and hearing, and "feeling") machine behavior has truly been eclipsed by an advanced machine's capacity to collect increasingly granular snapshots of its complete operating state - the temperatures, vibrations, positions, and other sensations of its various organs and elements - every few milliseconds, hold on to that data indefinitely, and correlate and interpret that data in ever-expanding radii of causation.

The best human operators (of any technology) not only respond to problems, they anticipate and prevent or plan around them. Massive data, advanced physics-based simulations, and "digital twinning" capabilities of manufacturing equipment afford pre-emptive testing of virtually infinite scenarios.

Not only can you simulate throwing a wrench in the works - you can simulate the effect of the wrench entering the works at every possible angle!

It's not infallible, and will for a long time still require a human-in-the-loop at some level, but as the author rightly put it themselves near the end of the paper:

"It would be rash to claim it as an irony that the aim of aiding human limited capacity has pushed computing to the limit of its capacity, as technology has a way of catching up with such remarks."
You can search for data years back, but you don’t have to. E.g. code troubleshooting tips are only relevant for a couple months, since the code keeps changing. The other nice thing is that you can share the findings via link of a thread or single comment with your team, and they don’t have to leave Slack to be able to see them, which is definitely a smooth experience - if they are already on Slack at that moment. In terms of search experience, it probably depends on use case, but I dont think Slack’s search is apparently worse than its alternatives like Outlook, Confluence, Jira etc. - if at all.
From the article:

> But Green and Moffat inferred that the Copenhagen physicists had not “windowed” the two sets of noise data.

If that is true, that would be a rookie mistake.
Your comment makes it seem like "smart business people" should ignore Government bans on things even if the things are harmful as long as there is "demand" for them.

So is it OK to export to banned drugs in the UK if there is demand for them, or if demand arises?
>Upon reflection, it is so extractive that it seems slightly misleading to even levy it in discussion as trade.

Yes, it's actually armed robbery being revised for history books.

35% of UK GDP and as much as 50% of US GDP was pumping opium into a China that was actively trying to criminalize the drug.
I don't think they really understood what working from an office was really all about.

So right.

Working from a big corporate campus: gee, this team member is in another floor, I better talk to him via IM and email.

Working from small startup open office: gee, this team member is opposite myself from this small common table, better talk to him via IM, we don't want to bother every single person in the open-plan office.
I have a brain tumor that gives me seizures, meaning I'm unable to drive anymore. But sure, you're right- maybe if I wish real hard and pull myself up by my bootstraps, that will solve the problem.

It really blows my mind that you're not able to even consider the idea that your situation isn't universal. Good grief.
> you can't have a guest room you use as an office most of the time

You can if you are smart about it, because you can deduct part of a room. Deduct the area for your desk, office chair, but don't deduct the guest bed, etc.
They didn’t miss anything, they just weren’t able to get away with it.
Completely agree - it demonstrates quite succinctly how seriously they take privacy. Doubly do when the CEO was on HN the other day arguing with those complaining about it!
Beijing: Will unilaterally impose national laws in Hong Kong 'without delay'
> That makes it impractical in non emacs heavy environments (aka. the wider industry).

Depends. It's very practical if you're an independent contractor. I run my contracting from Emacs, including tracking tasks, time, generating invoices and processing documents. The main extra integration I have is LaTeX, which I use to generate nice PDFs to send to customers.

Before, as a salaried employee, I still used it for task management and time tracking - regular software used for that purpose (e.g. Jira) is nowhere near ergonomic enough to make detailed TODO lists, and store notes and code samples along with them. Not to mention, it's not the kind of stuff you'd want to spam on public time/task tracker systems. So Org Mode works really great as a private, more detailed tracking/noting system. Bonus points if you develop with Emacs too, as then you can achieve nice synergy (e.g. evaluating code snippets straight from the notes).

> org mode is a basically similar to other wiki dialects with similar syntax, limitations, tooling, etc. Other than the (emacs) tooling, I don't see a strong reason for preferring it.

That's only partly true. Org's markup language is pretty similar to Markdown. But it's the tooling - the Org Mode - that makes it unique, and mostly unusable outside of Emacs. Within Org language, like TODO markers, priorities, drawers, header options, code block parameters, etc. serve as hooks for the tooling, and this is what lets you turn an .org document from a glorified Markdown into a fully-featured outliner/task tracker/time tracker/spreadsheet/literate programming environment.
DRM would be a thing even if piracy weren't, and despite piracy, DRM needn't be a thing. I buy music because music is sold without DRM, despite music being easier to pirate that movies (being a fraction of the size means it can be downloaded many times faster.)

Why would DRM be a thing even if piracy weren't? Because the companies that employ it are control freaks who, among other things, would like to sell people the same product numerous times.

> I do pay for (nearly) a dozen different streaming services.

This truly is a 'You' problem. Getting upset with other people because you choose to do that is senseless. It's doubly senseless to be upset about this since dozens of streaming services would be a thing even if piracy weren't. Dozens of streaming services are a thing because these companies are control freaks that want to reinvent Netflix rather than license their content to Netflix. They want complete control over how their media is promoted and distributed, they don't like delegating any of that control to another company. Bittorrent really has jackshit to do with dozens of streaming services existing. If anybody is to blame, it's the clueless pliant consumers that reward media companies for creating netflix clones.
I am afraid I won't be able to help you much there. Every place I saw trying to come up with a grand top-down scheme to organize documentation failed.

Too much structure, and people will wait until they have all of the details needed to start contributing, or they will not contribute unless it's "their job". Too much flexibility and they don't know where to start.

I found that it was always better to let documentation and knowledge sharing follow the same principles as code: let it come bottom-up, see what patterns emerge and only worry about structure when the current practices hit a bottleneck. But then again I never worked on any project that I had hundreds of people directly depending on the documentation, so it might not work as a strategy for larger-scale organizations.
LPC4370 goes up to 80MSPS!
Positive reinforcement when someone does the right thing is a great way to keep them doing the right thing. For many people, if someone isn't treated any differently when they change their behavior for the better, what value is there in changing behavior to something harder and less self-serving?
Sure, but it speaks directly to why the difference between them is really about mindset and not technologies. For example: If email newsletters were just published as an RSS feed there’d be a lot less need to spend big bucks on deliverability providers. And: If people had a clearly visible button “Mark All As Read” in their email client (with confirmation) there’d be a less uncertainty about using it when underwater.
Security Is Everybody's Job – Part 3 – What Is DevOps?
> This eliminates a big chunk of fixed costs... as most are shifted to the employees

On the other hand, employees suddenly gain a lot of free time, especially those on enormous commutes. But even for small-ish commutes and 1 day/wk in the physical office the numbers are significant - at 30min one way travel, 4 days HO give you 4 h of extra time - or 10% of their workweek. Fully remote with 1h one way travel? 10 hours or over a whole work day's equivalent of time.

On top of that employees gain other positive results like saving hard money on their car / public transport ticket and, especially for introverts or people with back issues, a large uptick in life quality as they don't have to stand in overcrowded subway cars or stuck in stop-n-go traffic jams.

The fair solution would be for employers to pay a fair share of rent and decent regulations-conforming equipment (chairs!) for those working from home - and giving a raise to those who physically have to come to the office, e.g. to deal with paperwork.
I read their answers in the discussion here and it felt a lot like:

I'm sorry that you...

That might have been another bad day at work but whatever it was it really doesn't inspire confidence
The classic "gonna sneak this in here...hope you don't notice" time slot.
I remember using

A:\> DIR.EXE

instead of having to type

A:\> DIR *.EXE

IIRC, it worked for any extension, not just .EXE.
That's only partially true though - for example, I don't believe there are any 802.11ac (or ax) WiFi adapters that don't require binary blobs. Purism punts on that, and just ships an old 802.11n adapter.
The funny thing about the streaming wars is that the music services somehow figured it out. I can pay for Google Play / Spotify / Apple Music and get literally all the music, for a single fee, from the same place. No content appearing/disappearing, no regional BS, no outrageous fees, it just works. Music piracy has basically died over the last few years cause of this -- I can't remember the last time I wanted to listen to something that I had to pirate.

What's so different about TV/movies?
> And when was the last time you saw a URL spelled out with the protocol part visible to the end user?

In my URL bar right now. It requires a browser that respects one's intelligence.
Damn, I was suspecting something like that was the case from reading the WP pages I linked to and some of the ones they reference! Handing my SO an article about the intricate sub-language of Russian invective would have been a PERFECT piece of flirtation. (Yes we are nerds.)
> This setup is not trully highly available. The whole cluster depends on the Synology as data storage. You could improve this further by replacing the centralized NAS with a distributed solution. But besides that the cluster is very solid and scalable

I understand that my local harddrive with excel spreadsheets detailing my entire business along side critical software is not the best place to store the lifeblood of my company, but throwing in the complexity of k8s in there and STILL not addressing the problem seems to be completely besides the point.

Digital Ocean managed k8s starts at $30 a month. Use that if you really want to pile on more stress running a company.
I love the concepts and workflow that org-mode, as well at surrounding extensions, promote. What I rue, however, is how tightly it is married to Emacs. vim extensions for it aren't up to the same level yet, and the mobile apps for org-mode are quite lacking, after trying them.

It just seems like it has so much promise, and people have done a lot of interesting things with it, but it's clouded behind this learning curve and toolchain.
Yeah, unfortunately, while Emacs on Windows works, it kind of feels like a fish pulled out of the water. What I do when I work on Windows machines is build and launch Emacs under WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), and use an X Server on the Windows side (VcXsrv) to get a GUI window.
> it appears that the goo was a ritually important anointing fluid used for a range of purposes, all relating to the burial of the deceased and their transformation into Osiris.

It's worth noting that the color black signifies manifestation in Hermetic thought. The "first stuff" upon which everything is made. Think of statues of the Black Virgin (Mary, and before that Isis).

Blackness signifies how we should be if we want to be alchemically changed into a higher state. Open palms, receptive, like a mirror reflecting divinity.

Super interesting topic imo.
Customers don’t have latent needs, they have latent solutions
Colombia is not invading the United States to force it to legalise recreational drug imports, so no, it is not suppressing the US. There is no parallel in this case with what happened between China and the UK.
Free NPS for Intercom
Re: your deleted comment

19 years ago I built a several TB data warehouse that searched and returned data in a matter of seconds. 10 years ago I built a system that linked several TB of data together and returned data in a matter of milliseconds. Today I work for a company that sifts through hundreds of TB of data, PB of indexes, and GB of associated data that returns in a matter of milliseconds.

What I’m saying is if that data warehouse is not a core business operation there is no reason to throw any more resources at it than is necessary. Dystopian nightmares can be enabled by simply adding new indexes or adding more compute nodes.
Ask HN: Methods to form new habits or break existing ones?
Looking for papers, books, articles on developing automaticity and breaking existing automatic behaviors.
A similar situation is going on in the US.

Right now the most popular rapper (measured by streams)is Tekashi 6ix9ine, a controversial artist who raised concerns recently over being cheated out of the #1 Billboard Hot 100 spot.

It broke the record for most youtube views in a day (43.5 million) and also fastest to reach 100 million (71 Hours).

It also hasn't received ONE radio spin, for comparison every song above it has at least 20 million.

It also has been banned from every major Spotify playlist.

After questioning the credibility of the Hot 100 ranking methodologies multiple top artists have come to Billboards defense (Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, etc.) even causing billboard itself to release a statement.

It's resulting in a Streisand effect of people wanting to see what's this song/artist that the institutions are trying so hard to suppress from the public.
It always rubs me the wrong way when US media criticizes other countries as if the same things don't happen in the US. Why was Phil Donahue fired?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/phil-donahue-chris-matthews-m...

What about Peter Arnett?

https://www.foxnews.com/story/nbc-severs-ties-with-journalis...

But I guess the Americans have 'private' media where 'market forces' prevent criticism of US government policy.
Does anyone have a sense of how much the idealization of circuit design limits people's imagination when designing real circuits? Are there fruitful possibilities that could be explored but aren't because the abstraction doesn't contain them?
Uncertainty Driven Testing (defending TDD a little bit)
There's only one country in the world where copyright is enforced against end-users.
I work for a Fortune 100 company with thousands of IT people. I literally have no idea who I would talk to about this. Maybe there is a slack channel for that ;-)
Thanks! A grouping feature will definitely be useful, I have been thinking about a good way to add it to pgtyped.

Will grouping fields by tables they belong to good enough? Or is there some different grouping logic you have in mind?
Yes, those are very nice onboard peripherals.
"simplified version of CPanel" is something neat that I haven't seen before

in addition, sometimes people don't know things that you know, and you would do well to keep that in mind: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Why not just make it opt-in?

Lots of people would have done it right away and others would do it as they started to want new opportunities and/or got laid off.

Candidates who didn’t opt in probably wouldn’t be open to being contacted out of the blue anyway in a public manner.

They burned a lot of goodwill for nothing.
I've wondered if one of the problems with quitting an addictive substance is a loss of memory. Memory is often tied to setting, and being under the influence is part of setting. Remove the setting and the memories associated with it won't surface as often. (There is a common memory hack used to remember facts which is to envision a room or place you know well and "place" objects in it that correspond to what you want to remember. When you want to recall the facts you visit your memory room and the objects you've placed in it trigger recall.) So it seems like removing the "setting" of an addictive substance might also reduce the memories associated with it. In essence you would lose a part of your life, a piece of the person you were. That could be a net good thing for some people, but a net bad thing for others. If I remember correctly science has also shown that people who drink alcohol are more forgiving of others, which implies that people who quit drinking become meaner. There has been some theorizing that some addictive substances can (at least temporarily until physical side effects become detrimental) improve the creative output of artists.

This is all just conjecture on my part, but it does seem possible that there are ramifications to quitting addiction that medical science has not considered yet and which may have an important influence on peoples ability to quit.
This is a really great explanation. I believe that libdill [1] [2] [3] works this way but this gave me a much more thorough understanding.

[1] http://libdill.org/
[2] Call to setjmp: https://github.com/sustrik/libdill/blob/de7a917bc39756f61237...
[3] Call to longjmp: https://github.com/sustrik/libdill/blob/de7a917bc39756f61237...