skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you took a different lesson away from that than I did - I was fully expecting you to say "and little wonder, seeing as how the company had set up an adversarial relationship with the British employees from the get go" rather than "I suppose they had a reason not to trust people"
Sad. I have a 9yr old Intel ssd that still benchmarks like new.
15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook (2019)
I can’t tell if you’re being snarky or genuine. I rarely read “the guardian” but if you’re going to claim “reams of scientific data” exist, I’m going expect a link to something, or a quote from the book, or anything to back up this claim. Whether it a a tweet or a random book review.
I think CRDTs could compose nicely with a system that features a central authority or stronger semantics. For example, you could imagine a sequence of vector clocks, each a superset of the last, stored in a separate data structure (and maybe hosted in a central location) that serves as the "main branch". The CRDT part would work as before, but any attempt to "commit" a vector clock that's concurrent with the top of "main" would be rejected. As in your example, every commit would be vetted by a human, and you'd get the best of both worlds.

(But I think this would be unnecessary for most instances of real-time collaboration, since people tend to own and edit small portions of a document instead of jumping around and making drastic revisions all over the place. In fact, it should be very rare for two changes to actually be concurrent, unless an offline version of a document is being merged in. I would agree that "100 people editing the same document offline and merging periodically" is a less than ideal use of CRDTs, but I think they could offer many benefits even in this scenario, especially if paired with a central ledger as described above.)
It was true since ever actually, not only Ada83, Modula-2, but also since NEWP, PL/I, PL/S among other possible ones.
Actually the Crucial MX500 SSD series had extra capacitors for power loss. Unfortunately they removed it for M.2.
I'm doing precisely that and never have a problem. Weird.
Show HN: DeepTranslit – Transliteration for Indic Languages written in English
Work has negative utility. This is why people demand compensation for doing it.

What matters is the result. The less work you have spent to achieve the result, the better.

Some employers monitor and time the work of their engineers. Of course reasonably experienced and self-motivated engineers find such monitoring useless and offending. When employers try to improve productivity of less motivated workers by monitoring, it does not work all that well either, doubly so in the case of engineers. It could maybe improve manual labor outcomes, but you can't screenshot manual labor.

I suppose the employers have other reasons than productivity tracking.

Some employers sell the time of their engineers, and bill clients by the hour. Then screenshots are there to prove that the engineer has been actually working, and the client is not billed arbitrarily, in a case of a dispute. Of course the incentives here are skewed from the start.

Some employers use screenshots as a CYA policy to "prove" that their employees are not doing something inappropriate at the workplace, or at least something to show as an illustration of "making a reasonable effort" to prevent it. They would usually monitor and restrict network traffic, etc. IDK if it's actuslly helpful anywhere but when working on highly classified stuff.

OTOH I treat the computers my employers supply me with as explicitly not-mine devices. I tend to do anything private on a separate device (my own phone, my own PC), because I signed agreements stating that the employer is entitled to see every bit of information on the work machine, and there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in this regard. For that reason, I'm fine with my employers making screenshots of my work machines any time. (Using such screenshots to measure my short-term performance would still be silly, of course.)
> Choosing different wording and expressions for emotions will not change how you feel or how you act.

Actually, having more nuanced vocabulary about negative feeling helps a lot in thinking about what you feel, why and dealing with emotions.

If you use anger for large group of feelings (like fear, threat, uncertainty, pressure, stress) you cant look for proper solutions nor properly communicate to others what your issue is. The result is random blowups and aggression. If you can say that "this feels like threat", then you can analyze why it feels like threat and act more rationally.
Ruby is expressive and makes for great short demos but becomes a nightmare to maintain in larger codebases with dynamic typing & implicit imports.
Ok, we've edited the title to remove whyness.

(The submitted title was "Why Mathematicians Still Can’t Solve the Collatz Conjecture", which is the HTML doc title of the article, which is normally a fine choice.)
10 took a year to reach 25%. It's too early to say anything about the uptake of 11 let alone 12 which doesn't exist. 80% uptake for a new version in 2 years would represent a stunning success. In that happy scenario your billing change still hits 2 years before most app customers have any chance to benefit from alternative stores ensuring that everyone pretty much has to switch over or die.

Pragmatically if I was google I would SAY I am making it easier for users to do business with someone else while making it as daunting as possible to actually do so in order to pressure vendors to at best offer both their wares for sale on both stores if they want to actually have customers.

Your play store policy can then forbid say offering your goods for sale at a lower price elsewhere or advertising the existence of an alternative version in app on the play store version.

As long as you keep it available on the play store most users will check their first and you can keep the revenue in house without strictly forbidding competition.
There are still 5 surviving Ada vendors, only Ada Core supports a FOSS compiler, for most commercial deployments the compilers lie in typical enterprise seat prices with "talk to our sales team".
Speaking of which there are some croocked locksmiths out there who pretend they cant lockpick the lock, try a few different methods to fail and add to labor and eventually drill through the core, damage the lock, charge you more than 500 and additional few hundred to replace the lock. It happened to my friend’s mom. Sometimes it’s experience but sometimes it’s just overcharging. If it’s higher than market price it may overcharging or better quality
A regressive tax is one which everyone pays the same regardless of income. Sales tax is a regressive tax. Property tax is a regressive tax.

A flat percentage income tax is progressive. The more one earns, the more they pay. If the flat tax is 15%, someone who earns a million pays $150,000, and someone who earns $30,000 pays $4,500. The richer someone is, the more they would pay.

A flat percentage income tax on all income from all sources is progressive, fair, and simple.
An alien virus would have to be very lucky indeed to have the necessary machinery to dock to our cell's and inject itself into the cells replication mechanism. Viruses are often not even able to bridge the gap between relatively closely related species. A alien virus being able to infect Earth life seems vastly less likely than a virus that infects sea sponges being able to infect humans and nobody really worries about that.
This is a good strategy for all but a handful of proven and/or trivial programs. In the last week I've:

- Upgraded directly from Mojave 10.14.6 to 10.15.7 (went smoothly)

- Considered migrating from Visual Studio 2017 (15.9) to 2019 (16.7), but have not yet done so.

- Refused to upgrade the proprietary firmware on my wifi AP's. The manufacturer has provided no changelog and does not provide a download link for the current firmware to enable a downgrade if it goes south.

I'm a software developer.
No, it isn't. Also, maintaining mod updates to newer minecraft versions is a huge hassle. I know a friend who stopped updating his mods in 2018 and now everyone is begging him to release a new update. First, because minecraft uses a different obfuscation pattern for each update requiring a recompile. Second, because the codebase is still changing significantly.
This website is mostly wrong. It tells you 3.4% CFR for COVID-19 against 0.1% IFR of the common flu. Apples vs oranges. Flu mortality rates are mostly the same worldwide, this year's flu season was not much different to others. Higher in areas with no proper healthcare for seniors, lower in most other countries.

Flattening the curve means keeping R low, whilst raising the overall mortality, because the time of the wave is artificially enlarged. You keep the virus alife, esp. by closing the schools. The area under the wave is much larger with the flattening the curve strategy, even after several months it's not over yet. A normal wave is over after max 2 months. Politicians rely on people who cannot do the simplest math.
> exploiting their search monopoly to promote chrome at zero cost

And gmail, and YouTube, and gsuite, and google meet, and blogger, and in the past bundled in other installers as a drive-by installation (Flash for instance), and ... the list probably goes on.

Clearly monopolistic abuse.
Doesn't work in Caste based society like in India https://archive.is/VWFSC
I guess 'Chicago to Beijing over the north pole' can hardly be considered as standard for 'flying' ...
up and running for me (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Be aware that hires can see a log and reviews of previous hires. Which makes it hard to get new professional hires when the grades are too bad, I almost have a perfect score since I pay above average, but even the single disgruntled hire have been mentioned (I cancelled the work since no results was shown).
To be even more pedantic, you actually want to do

while read -d '' fname
do
echo "fname: $fname"
done <<<"$(find . -type f -print0)"

Because if you wanted to export a variable from the loop body, it wouldn't work in your example -- the loop is running in a subshell when you pipe output into it. <<<"$(...)" is not exactly the same thing (it doesn't stream input) but it does allow you to get around this problem. For folks who suggested glob expansion -- that's okay for simple file listings, but find lets you do more complicated ones that can be quite useful. Not to mention that the suggested

for fname in *; ...

Is not actually doing the same thing -- find lists files recursively.
It can also be that employees are willing to have a lower salary because they are feeling they contribute to something meaningful.
Human Inequality Study Hints Revolution Is in Store for U.S.
C++ has it though, https://github.com/microsoft/GSL/blob/master/include/gsl/spa...
Let me repeat: what you just said sounds good and logical, but is in fact unsupported by actual science. Another completely opposed theory that sounds just as good and logical is that you can call a thing whatever you want it is still the same thing.
I don't think any of the Wayland developers worked on X before RedHat became an essential sponsor to X.org which is, in essence, finished software.

What's the function of the X.org maintainers now? Mainly merging drivers. It's been like this for over a decade, heck back in the old days several bold moves were made for network transparent 3D acceleration with X.org including working patches but it was never realized.

With everybody else going their own way, it might be time to revisit and reinvigorate these efforts.
yeah another reason some people love outsourcing
If you have ever done any work or reading on immunology then you wouldn't think it to be far fetched to claim that immunology IS in fact ecology.
I interpreted your question differently than the current answers so just to elaborate: it's just a random image and this seed has no special meaning. Discovering it just means they've found the world where the image was taken, which has been a Minecraft "legend" since the start. The world itself has no significance and is just like any other world.

Every world you start is based on its own seed, which is not hidden. The achievement here is that they reverse engineered the seed for that world based on an image.
Why is Machine Learning not being used more?
Can the downvoter(s) clarify their position? I'm familiar with the subject, and this is informed opinion, not prejudice. If somebody disagrees, it's interesting to see their opinion and information.
I don't think it's false. It highly depends on what you're searching for. There are cases where DDG isn't good enough and I don't think the user is responsible for it in any way. Two examples off the top of my head:

* If you're searching something not in english. I'm french and DDG is my default search engine, but I have to switch to other search engines a lot when searching in french.

* When searching very technical things, like a very specific and rare error message. Good luck finding anything relevant with DDG.

As much as I'd like to use DDG for 100% of my research, I just can't.
Thank you for all the hard work, it is super nice to see code at this level of quality and at this level of comments.

Interesting question: did you find any bugs just by reading?
Security September: Still Early Days for ABAC
>You shouldn’t: you paid for the experience that allowed him to open it in 1 minute.

On the flip side, this was used at one of the first jobs I worked as a teenager selling scummy informational CDs. It isn't that you're paying 6 payments of $29.99 for some CDs, you're paying for John Doe's expert, secret knowledge. We were instructed to use this rebuttal if a customer balked at the price for some CDs.
I think the truth is that being fast is the result of doing things smarter and being lean means doing less. Intuitively it seems like doing less ought to lead to fewer defects not better performance.
Your logic is faulty.

Using your reasoning, sales and property taxes are also progressive, because wealthy people purchase significantly more goods and properties, which are frequently more expensive than a middle class person would buy. Thus, the rich end up paying more taxes.
>antenna design

you are confusing genetic programming and genetic algorithm
Archive link, since the site seems to be down: https://web.archive.org/web/20200929031319/https://monsterhu...
Designing an accessible color palette with magic numbers
Not really. It is perfectly compatible that (1) the UK has an extradition treaty with the US that requires that the US respects human rights for extraditions to actually happen, (2) the US does not respect human rights of prisoners, (3) therefore the UK never actually extradites anyone until 2 changes.
$10 a month for yet another streak-focused app I’ll drop in two weeks... sorry, pass. I can see why the trial is 7 days though.
It does not apply to English. Maybe they are less horrible then Japanies ones, but they are not good either.
Roborock brand (Xiaomi) uses visual + lidar + bumpers. Supposedly it can avoid pet poop.
> brute-force trial and error

That's just another nice way to describe evolution. It's just a storm of probabilistic biochemistry. I think if you read about how fast and crowded biochemical interactions in the cell are [1], you will quickly appreciate that's it's basically just quadrillions of hypersonic processes doing what you describe as "brute-force trial and error".

For example, that's how a good number of drugs work that attempt to bind to some protein, like Aspirin. They don't go and find it. The drug molecules enter the cell space and just bang around at incredible speeds until they finally just jam into the protein they need to. Brownian motion and similar effects and not some taxi service to the target protein. It's basically just probability which is where concentration comes from. Increasing the probably of the drug molecule hitting the target.

That's also why I really dislike the personification of things. SARS-CoV-2 didn't consciously do anything. I know most people know, but the language constantly insinuates just that.

[1] http://www.righto.com/2011/07/cells-are-very-fast-and-crowde...
I think these are two different languages for two different jobs.

I can see javascript slowly expanding from the front-end into the back-end, mostly thanks to projects like TypeScript that appeal to the back-end crowds, but also because of the whole serverless hype which IMO is justified.

Now there still is a strong "cultural divide" between the software and the data-science communities. And when you see how strong the innertia for python's projects is.. Well I guess we won't see this changing anytime soon.
Recovering after a root-partition resize gone wrong
Hasn't the defense also established Assange's mental health issues? Isn't some of the evidence that has been suppressed related to that?
Changing habits is hard and therefore requires time. Not sure a 7 days trial is enough to see the results therefore the value of the application. I would prefer not to invest time using a new application if I do not have enough time to assess the benefits from the time I invested in.

Feels like 7 days is enough to get the idea of the application, its philosophy, add the first few things I want to accomplish. Not more.

Trial should end when one small goal has been accomplished so that the user could realise he/she has accomplished a goal she wouldn't have without the application, plus in less time/easier than expected.
It could easily cause a kind of AI winter just when there actually is progress in the field.

The EU should have insisted on believable deliverables. At the time I was highly critical about the claim, it being 11 years ago doesn't really matter to me, it was obvious that you could not extrapolate from the state of the art+a relatively limited amount of time to such a game changing deliverable (essentially: general AI).

I sincerely hope that you will be able to come up with enough results worth applying somewhere in real-life projects and products that in the end it will all be worth it. Best of luck to you.
My objection isn't to repackaging emacs with new defaults, but promoting forks and such on the emacs site. That's not what GNU does with other forks historically either.

What'd be the point of it all? There are perhaps dozens to hundreds of personal takes on emacs on Github and around the web. emacs will remain as it is, it isn't for some people and that's OK.
There are a lot of potholes in the roads. The guy who wrote this should get a shovel and go and fill in some potholes and so finally make a contribution to humanity.
really really nice!
I doubt workers in call centers are stressed because there isn't enough surveillance of their work.
I never suggested academia was immune from criticism. I pointed out that 'core-questions was responding to something _other_ than the topic at hand.

I find the way you've responded to this, suggesting the field may not actually exist, and posing leading questions about hypothetical conclusions, quite strange. You need not take my word for it that this is a field of study. People think about it. Then they write about it. And then they critique each other. You can easily find their work for yourself. What else is required for something to be a field?

Don't you think it would be more productive to respond to actual precepts of the field and actual conclusions people have come to? What claims are quackery? What precepts are absurd?
That is not what I consider to be one page.

It is a useful resource without a doubt, but far from the beloved cheat sheets that could fit one a3 or a4 page.
don't get your hope too high it's just the intersection between the two, advanced typescript types are lost.
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I always ask the opposite. Why mod when you can make your own game? For me, the latter is much more fun.
Ask HN: How do raise concern over remote employees commitment/working hours
We work in a remote setting with a lot of trust and freedom. Usually that doenst get exploited, but there is one guy I'm not sure about.
How can I raise concern on the time he puts in without destroying our relationship?
If you believe in the rule of law you would want the potential war crimes investigated long before you would imprison the journalist that exposed them.
They are very well compensated for what they do. The work is less strenuous and mentally taxing than being a line cook.

They are usually the highest paid employees in a store, unless it's a Walmart where the general store manager can make just over six figures.

It's not a terrible gig, with only a 2-year program after your bachelor's.
Hard to completely disprove but doesn't seem terribly likely. Name-brand NAS (Synology) with stock up-to-date firmware and nothing weird running on it, RAID-1, WD Red (pre-SMR) drives, happy SMART output.

Maybe the most sketchy thing is that I have an ancient SSD stuck in there as cache. I could try removing it, though its smart output also looks good.

Next sketchiest is that it's using btrfs, but other people tell me this is trustworthy. /shruggie

The error is rare enough that I'll never really know it has gone away permanently or what fixed it if it has, because I'm never going to go for say a year without changing more than one variable. For example, I'm not going to stop doing macOS or Synology updates for that long.
Isn't x.com owned by paypal?
> But Tesla is supposed to be releasing self-driving on city streets soon.

Soon as it was in 2016 [1], 2018 [2] in Feb 2019 [3], Mar 2020 [4], or July 2020 [5]?

They have been hyping this up for years, why should I still believe those claims that it will soon be here™? Not only that but they have already advertised and sold "full self-driving" for people that can't use it yet, no beta, no alpha, just doesn't exist and is a paid feature. How far is this from fraud?

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/19/watch-a-fully-self-driving...

[2] https://cleantechnica.com/2018/11/03/hiding-between-two-anno...

[3] https://electrek.co/2019/02/28/automatic-driving-city-stop-s...

[4] https://electrek.co/2020/03/04/tesla-self-driving-features-m...

[5] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53349313
wow, that compiles nicely. That is very cross platform, can we make business apps with it?
What is a streak-focused application?
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Include a copy of The NeverEnding Story by Michael Ende
You fight like a cow!
There's a Paul Graham essay [1] where he talks about how job security was a much bigger thing in the mid-20th century.

It makes more economic sense to train your workers if people tend to stay with one company for a long time.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/re.html
Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
I'd add John Steinbeck grapes of wrath, and mice and men
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