skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You are not using your personal user account and a work account during the day still, ARE YOU?

I'm trying hard with this. I have 3 different PCs + Laptop at Home right now cuz of that

Personal (Actually) PC

School 1 PC, School 2 (Lap)

Work PC

all this shit sits in 2 different rooms
Why worry about spelling when you can argue about whether two-spaces after a period is better than one?
Religion is a great thing, for some people. (I am one of those.)

Whatever you need to bring you peace. Life is hard, and complicated. These things help.
Not the GP, but it's a book, 'Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In'
by Roger Fisher , William L. Ury, et al.

I read it ~30 years ago, the only thing I remember is that you always want to understand your "Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement" (BATNA), e.g. knowing that you can walk away from a car dealer's deal, if you don't like the terms.
Do you consider software engineering to be a "serious actual business", or are you going to gatekeep it to match whatever your notion of one is until they can only use software that is Windows-only?
Because you actually get to live there?
Supine Computing
Has that been prosecuted as neglect? I was left alone from and earlier age.
Because I Was Bullied
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/should-not-vacc.html

It varies by vaccine, but allergies, health conditions, and age are all factors.

Some people also practice religions that forbid them.
"White is unambiguously the correct answer."

Hmm, isn't sun wavelength actually closer to very very bright green?
Is this US only? I got "This address is invalid". I live in the UK at the moment.

Would be good to know a bit more about this tool. I'd love to get FTTP!
One example, babies too young to receive vaccines or pregnant mothers.
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1) If ~10% of the population has already had it, and 30-40% have some pre-existing immunity in the form of useful, relevant corona antibodies, then 40-50% of the population doesn't need a vaccine at this point (until immunity wears off, whenever that is). I know that likely isn't the reasoning going into many people's decision making, but we shouldn't be surprised based solely off of the numbers.

2) Then there's studies like this one from 2012 about original SARS vaccine development (with almost a decade of research after the initial outbreak) that shows 4 completely different approaches to vaccination all made subsequent exposure to the virus worse.

Immunization with SARS Coronavirus Vaccines Leads to Pulmonary Immunopathology on Challenge with the SARS Virus

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335060/

We should be skeptical of a vaccine for any disease where one of the major complication risks is basically a form of autoimmune disease.

We don't want to encourage a strong autoimmune response when a major existing risk is an overly aggressive immune response.

This is a reason that steroids seem to be emerging as a beneficial treatment: they actually suppress immune system response.

I'm not suggesting an effective vaccine won't ever be developed, but we shouldn't judge people in what may be a valid concern. Even if they have different than the relevant reasons for that concern.
I think that's more applicable to remote work generally.

Lockdown is a different and and new scenario, more akin to Groundhog Day. Work can be a relief.
Can you give a use case for this, or how one could have anticipated the Ideanomics surge you mention? Searching something like 'electric vehicle' will show many recent patents by Tesla, Apple, Honda, et al. Is the idea that you would search for such a term and try to find some outlier company, assume their recent patents would reflect an entry into the market, and buy accordingly?
But ze Arbeitplätze! (Jobs). German government is extremely entrenched with the automobile industry. Only slaps on the wrist, but it's probably profitable to risk breaking the law.

Maybe these executives should be prosecuted hard for their decisions.
I would recommend the same. I usually only put things like Slack or documentations in the off screens - it's pretty 'read only'. I also use ultrawide screens occasionally in my hometown's house. I found the problem with 3 displays is I cannot put one application span across displays or there would be a 'bar' in the center of the application. I have to put them far left or right instead of placing them in more comfort zones.

With that being said, I ended up with 3 monitors in my apartment because I bought them incrementally across 3 years(though they're the same model). And also I play video games from time to time, for most of the games, it's better to have 3 monitors instead of an ultrawide one.
Patching the GOT doesn't work for internal function calls, though.
There’s a certain form of thinking I’ve become more aligned with, which is that not everything we do needs to be optimised. Additionally, trying to optimise everything may reduce the overall success compared to the naive “just do it” approach.

I assume this is something that is person valued, and the easiest way to ensure it happened was to just do it. The optimisation proposed also has a hidden risk of never doing it at all, or other things getting in the way.
I know this will be ironic as I'm posting...but I'm trying to post less on HN/FB/Reddit. I find myself spending time replying, checking karma or upvotes etc...I get emotionally attached if people like it, or dislike it. I can spend 5 minutes reading an article and multiples of that following up...It becomes a diminishing point of return.

If I do post on Reddit I'll disable inbox replies and just check once a day or something for any replies.

Edit:
Also since HN doesn't have a 'disable inbox' type (that I know of?), 75% of the time I'm not logged in. I'll log in if I really have a comment and then log back out.
You're right, cheers.
This so much.

Every time you have to use another configuration language you have to learn all the quirks (ex: "" == undef in puppet), Give up all your powerful tools (like a debugger) and learn new abstractions. It's extremely counterproductive and it usually would have been better to have simple data structure that you generate from a program written in a traditional language (which the team can artificially restrict to avoid recursion if they want.)

Also IMO there's no such thing as a "declarative language." These are just languages where almost everything has a side affect of mutating a data structure that you don't have an easy way of inspecting or debugging.
Steganography, hiding secrets in Images Research
The Economist is definitely not liberal. It's intended to be nonpolitical but its conscious opinions lean conservative. Disagreeing with Trump or talking about Trump in a negative manner does not make one liberal, no matter what US political pundit will tell you.
Not everyone is optimizing for making money. I left a Silicon Valley FAANG for another country more than five years ago, even though I was making ~3x there compared to what I made in the new place. Even with the higher living costs, that's still a lot more money.

I regret nothing. I'm so much happier here than I ever was in the Bay Area, and I doing this early in my life allowed me to have a lot of fun and stories to tell. Why would I "waste" my precious 20s and early 30s being miserable and retire at 35? Who even wants to retire? I wouldn't even know what to do with that money? Buy a house and sit in the garden the whole day? :) Not the life I wanted.

This whole "make a lot of $$$ and be miserable in your 20s to optimize for the future" is such a common thing I see in SV and HN as part of the narratives that these VCs are pushing. I think you have it all backwards. You can make money any time. You can never back to your 20s and 30s where you don't have health problems, are full of energy, and have an easy time making friends.
I don't understand. The authors for your link are "Adrian R Martineau, Nita G Forouhi". The authors for the PDF of this thread are "Lorenz Borsche / Dr. Bernd Glauner".Were you trying to say others in the field are doing similar work?

My point above was that posting a PDF online is not good enough in scientific circles. The charts themselves have a number of issues which I'd ask the authors, I don't know if they've properly adjusted for the risk factors and I'm not sure I agree with their choice of denominators.
Excellent- please flesh out and send to the NYT OpEd page.
If you're throwing around anecdotes, then my most recent workplaces allocated Macbooks, and Apple peripherals, to every non-technical person in the office (~2/3rds of the workforce). I know plenty of individuals who, upon starting a software engineering role, were immediately shipped Macbooks to use for work.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that this is proof that "Apple's main clientele is business", but it certainly wouldn't surprise me. And it's not true that offices don't allocate Apples to workers.
Until the last few weeks, most places in the U.S. were insisting that they were going back to in-person learning, at least partially. On top of that, whatever market opportunity exists now will likely (hopefully!) not exist for more than a year. I thought about trying to do something helpful here, but was concluding that if I did, it would have to be a charity project. I also don't think it's that easy of a problem to solve ...
Amusing: This Web site uses Cloudflare:

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Outline tends to attempt to cut out the first portion summary text.

It could be a formatting issue with bitly. Tinyurl may work better in some instances.

Ultimately it does the job tasked, to get you the text locked inside the paywall.
This is completely understandable. You may not like it, but you absolutely cannot fault average people for feeling this way.

The president has been hammering Warp Speed to make a vaccine solely for the purpose of an October surprise for months. Everyone, even his core voter base, knows this and knows he wouldn’t hesitate to throw anyone under the bus with it. That voter base was fine with it when it was nameless immigrant children suffering at the border, on vague unfounded ideas that it would bolster American jobs. But they are not going to put their own bodies or their children’s on the line for Trump impulsiveness.

The vaccine may well be safe and may well be developed on a late 2020 timetable with sufficient rigor in FDA approval - does not matter one bit because Trump’s politicization has already deeply undermined it.

You simply cannot restore confidence without straight up removing Trump, so I would look to this to take time after the election.
I believe I'm working on average longer hours, but I'm able to more flexibly use my own time whilst doing so. I'll work as I'm watching a Twitch stream, for example, and I feel far more relaxed doing this than trying to focus 100% on work and only work. I can pick when I work, so when I'm feeling completely mindless and distracted at 2pm I can just zone out and do my own thing, but then make it up later.

For me, the hours might be longer (even not counting the breaks in the day), but the time when working is more relaxed. I prefer this balance.
The Crackpot Index (1998)
It's easy to answer that question by just, you know, reading what they're actually saying, instead of making insinuations based on the dumbest possible thought someone could have about the article.
> What would you describe as dynamic typechecking then? Would Scheme be a language that would fall under your definition, since it has much less dynamic dispatch?

I’m not sure about Scheme because I’m not very familiar, but one possibility is simply that “dynamic type checking” is meaningless. In other words, one could argue that anything that blows up at runtime is “runtime type checked” but that doesn’t seem meaningful. The only meaningful definition of “runtime type checking” that I can think of is explicit comparisons between a type annotation and a value’s runtime type information, for example, given this Python:

def foo(a: str) -> bool:
return a.startswith(“foo”)

I would argue that this would be “type-checked at runtime” if the interpreter implicitly added this snippet at the start of the function:

if not isinstance(a, str):
raise TypeError(“‘a’ is not a str”)

There are other possible notions, including a program which type checks each of its functions as their definitions are evaluated by the interpreter—I would call this “just-in-time type checking” and consider it a type of runtime type checking.

But these are different IMO than just blowing up at the last possible moment because there is no reasonable way to continue the program.

> I mean, inserting it earlier would require static knowledge of types, no?

First of all, even if it did require knowledge of static types, it could still be checked at runtime and thus runtime type checked. Secondly, many types aren’t known statically—consider types that are programmatically generated, such as are common when using SQLAlchemy, boto, etc. The interpreter could still type check these at runtime via either the JIT type-checking method described above or the flat-footed insertion of an isinstance() check at the start of the function (but I would argue that the later the type checking happens the less useful and meaningful it becomes).

> Haven't used it since I took a linalg class in undergrad, but my understanding was that Julia does similar dynamic dispatch, but it's using a JIT, and does type propagation. As a result, once operand types are known, the compiler is free to monomorphize and inline.

This sounds like the JIT type checking method that I described above, which is a concrete example of a meaningful runtime type checking example (as opposed to the notion that Python/JS does type checking at runtime which is either meaningless or incorrect IMO).
Touche. Me too work with 3 27" monitors mounted with arms, while in my company I work with single 24" monitor... It's painful.
Cold War-era missile silo is the ultimate fixer-upper
Hopefully, you're learning that new tool to achieve some worthwhile goal?

For example, I recently had to learn a desktop programming toolkit in Python, which I found very tedious and uninteresting. But knowing that I was doing it to help a team of engineers design a new kind of lightweight electric vehicle really drove me to put my heart in it.

Even when your project isn't aiming for such impacts, just putting (good) food on the table of your family can be a motivation I guess.
Antergos has been discontinued afaik. Might as well recommend Manjaro in addition to Arch instead.

Surprised at no mention of Pop!_OS. Many people I know have recently switched to it from Windows, apparently because it is recommended for those wanting good Steam support.
I think you might be confusing the language and the type system. Not saying anything about the runtime characteristics of the language (which is obviously Turing Complete), but the type system itself, which is TC. If the type system allows you to encode a TM, then it is undecidable, regardless of whether it terminates due to an incomplete type checker. Since the Idris type system allows you to encode a TM, then the type system is undecidable due to the Halting problem.
Does the technician change battery before your eyes? Didn't happen when I went to AASP and anything can happen in that room they do their work.

Maybe we know a technician we trust, who can repair iPhone before our eyes, but alas independent repair shops doesn't get Apple love[1].

[1]https://www.macrumors.com/2020/02/06/apple-independent-repai...
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Hey HN, I'm excited to share my quarantine side project.
www.postanote.app

I've always loved sending and receiving mail from people I care about. That unexpected surprise of finding something personal in a sea of bills and marketing junk was always a highlight. However, the time required for putting together a card kept me from doing it as often to as I'd like. I had to go buy a postcard (1-2$), go home and write it, then go to the post-office, buy a stamp($0.35), and mail it. I wanted to build a simple site to make this process easier and reduce it down to the only element that matters: The message.

I wanted to avoid sign-ups and all that bs. I just want to make it feel like an express checkout lane. I also wanted the price to be competitive, so I set it at 2 bucks flat.

I used the JAMStack. Front-end is made in Svelte (Can't recommend enough) and hosted on Netlify. The backend is on Firebase Functions, and I use firestore as the database. Payment processing is done using Stripe.

Hope you like it. If you do, please support it on Product Hunt. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/post-a-note-app
Because it's what the state epidemiologists of the Nordic countries are saying, and why they recommend against mask usage. I'm all for masks btw. All I said was that inefficient masks could be counterproductive due to that reason but apparently even that innocent suggestion is heresy here.
> you can simply let me know your consulting rates and that is almost like a small investor paying you money to build a feature for your product that's probably useful for other customers as well.

This defense against attempts at subordination is sensible and professional, but I think it is far from common thinking, in my opinion, among the non-entrepreneurial types that go into Engineering or CS. It is understanding gained for them only after decades of painful experience - if at all.
lol, apple fans chuckle. Typing this from my work macbook.
> Touch-less technology is the future

What makes you think that's the case? What's the reasoning to start to use touch-less technologies, and why would they be the future? IMHO the lack of physical feedback makes it a non-starter though that's just my personal preference.

Edit: I forgot to add that it looks like a great product, and the landing page is quite good! I just don't see what are the arguments in favor of touch-less techs.
I'm pretty sure that Chrome does have a distinction between loaded and unloaded tabs (suspended tabs, maybe?), but it definitely manages tabs in a different way from Firefox and Safari. Both Chrome and Firefox can trivially handle 100 suspended tabs on any machine; both would struggle with that many active tabs if the machine didn't have enough RAM to fit them all.

This metric really only has to do with the amount of memory that a machine has, in my experience.
> And now imagine someone saying whose really good at it (and anyone who truly understands basis for the 2nd law of thermodynamics is such an outlier) oh, anybody can be as good as me - your just not trying hard enough.

I'd agree with them!

Seriously. I can't get good at all of those -- there isn't enough time in my life -- but I could get good at any one of those given time and effort. I'm really bad at art. Would I be Van Gogh? No. But I could get up to the same level as a professional illustrator in a few years. Anyone* can. Could I learn to sing? Sure, again, given a few years of hard training. I wouldn't be the next Susan Boyle, but I could definitely go from zero to where I could perform in a local performance or sing as well as a professional backup singer or chorist.

Going back to quantum field theory, I'm not claiming anyone can make the next breakthrough in physics, but anyone* can learn quantum field theory at the level of a e.g. a typical grad student in the field.

And a perfect weld just ain't that hard. Anyone can learn to do that. I've seen welding artwork which is hard (people building up metal to make beautiful artwork completely additively, for example), but you could be a professional welder if you set your mind to it.

* Standard exclusions apply. No, a blind quadriplegic with cerebral palsy might not be able to train to run a marathon, or by "everyone," I mean everyone from, say, the 20th percentile up.
When I was at Facebook the majority of employees used Mac Book Pros for work (I was an exception because I worked on VR stuff which was Windows only). It seems like the majority of Silicon Valley big tech and unicorn startups have a large (if not majority) population of employees using Apple products for development. I understand that many employees prefer or need Linux or Windows, however.
And for many years after the release of the iPod it was "lame" compared to other products on the market. It was really the introduction of the iPod Nano that was the first product that improved on the competition. But Apple markets well and was able to get the market share (and really it was only the click wheel ones that were really popular).
My understanding is that the spectrum follows the black body radiation curve with a temperature of approximately 6000K. Peak color is green. White is closer to the truth IMO because it is a combination of multiple colors, but still misses the mark because how does "white" contain UV, radio waves, infrared of very different magnitudes?
$ 600 unemployment benefits have not made people work less in America
Your car engine doesn’t store information about everywhere you go and what your interests are.

Your car engine probably doesn’t experience data leaks, social engineering, or 0 day bugs.

The argument is Google and Facebook don’t 100% know their data usage and risks and I’d agree that’s true.

Complex software systems are impossible to 100% guarantee expected behavior. This is why bug bounties and the security industry exists.

The safest way to protect information is to not store it, the second safest is strong encryption.
My training in the US Army included learning to splice fiber optic cable by hand, including polishing the end of the fiber itself! That was in 1993.
Margin of error. In financial matters, this can be savings or a relative lack of leverage. In planning, this can be extra time for unforeseen circumstances. In construction of buildings or software, it is that little over-engineering that saves you when people do unexpected things with what you built.

The general principle is never to go all out and gain the maximum efficiency, for then you lose the slack you will need when something unexpected inevitably happens. Even the best can so easily lose themselves in competitions where their desire to win drives them to take unwise risks and forego a reasonable margin of error. This is not so much a force multiplier that people don't know about, but more one that they disregard because it never seems important until you need it.
> The vast majority of Apple's customers are Apple fans, people who merely wish to think different, nothing more, nothing less.

That is one of the most absurd takes I have ever seen by an Apple hater. Even haters usually acknowledge that Macs are used extensively in software development, scientific research, film editing, design work, and education. And Apple is the fourth largest PC maker in the world, so they’re also used just about everywhere else at least a little bit.
M-Motivation
The sun is not a monochromatic source. It's an incoherent, broadband source. The power spectrum distribution of those wavelengths pretty-closely follows the black body radiation curve. If you had a monochromatic source at that peak it would look green.
I find it ironic that many are refuting the article based on semantics, or trying to explain what it "really means" to be an expert in tech.

The topic of regulating tech is as much about financial management as about algorithms. One needs to understand the costs and revenue streams in detail to devise intelligent regulation. I tend to believe swaths of the tech industry are built on obfuscation of finances and that is where we are losing the expertise in a regulatory context.

Look back on past tech booms and note that engineering work was highly financial in nature (rooted in cost benefit analysis). In the software industry it seems like engineering has hardly anything to do with managing costs. Just ship it, they say, and let the "business people" handle the pesky money part.