skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, when I could only afford water, I learned how to say something to the effect of "That's okay, I already ate, I'll just have some water," or if at a bar "No thank you, I'm a designated driver, just some water," to make it seem like it wasn't because I was broke. Probably didn't always work, but no one said anything about it.
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Eric Trump.
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Is it more unethical than a president, whose words and actions and directives directly impact the livelihood and wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people, being hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, possibly to foreign entities? Not only has he directly lied about his businesses and foreign business deals, he is in massive debt, with much of it not paid at all. That creates huge conflicts of interest. Is it ethical to have a sitting president wondering how he’ll pay off, potentially foreign lenders, during the middle of his term?
It always surprises me when people are totally unreasonable. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised though.
Rather than asking a hypothetical, it probably would have been better to test it. Create an open floor plan with say 100 engineers. Survey job satisfaction before and N months after. At that point decide how people can be the most productive.

People believe a lot of things about themselves that don't hold up to scrutiny. For example, people think they can multitask, etc and studies show that the aren't nearly as productive doing that as they think they are. People think that open offices help collaboration, but that is not what the research shows.

>Previous studies of open plan offices have shown that they make people less productive, but most of those studies gave lip service to the notion that open plan offices would increase collaboration, thereby offsetting the damage.

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/its-official-open-plan-of...

>..A study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology of more than 40,000 workers in 300 US office buildings: "...Enclosed private offices clearly outperformed open-plan layouts in most aspects of IEQ (Indoor Environmental Quality), particularly in acoustics, privacy and the proxemics issues. Benefits of enhanced 'ease of interaction' were smaller than the penalties of increased noise level and decreased privacy resulting from open-plan office configuration."

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/science-just-proved-that-...

An article in the New Yorker summarizes some research on open offices. Besides the effects on productivity, there are also health effects. For example:

>...In a recent study of more than twenty-four hundred employees in Denmark, Jan Pejtersen and his colleagues found that as the number of people working in a single room went up, the number of employees who took sick leave increased apace.

>...In laboratory settings, noise has been repeatedly tied to reduced cognitive performance. The psychologist Nick Perham, who studies the effect of sound on how we think, has found that office commotion impairs workers’ ability to recall information, and even to do basic arithmetic. Listening to music to block out the office intrusion doesn’t help: even that, Perham found, impairs our mental acuity. Exposure to noise in an office may also take a toll on the health of employees. In a study by the Cornell University psychologists Gary Evans and Dana Johnson, clerical workers who were exposed to open-office noise for three hours had increased levels of epinephrine—a hormone that we often call adrenaline, associated with the so-called fight-or-flight response.

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-open-office-...
Becayse germany has been very rapidly ramping up wind and solar, and still they are struggling to replace the reactors. They have made no progress in decarbonising the grid because rhey've been replacing one zero-carbon source with another zero carbon source, instead of removing coal.
Does that mean that every government employee should not be allowed to avoid taxes?
I've been using a@b.com just because it's quick & easy to type. I just looked it up, and it seems all the single-letter .com domains are reserved, so it should be fine.
Ditto for scientific papers. I want the DOI and/or a link to the original (ideally open access!) paper which the article has been written about.
And they would have cut it to zero by now if they left nuclear plants alone.
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Machine translation feels like one of the quiet victories of the current crop of machine learning products.

It's getting to be within spitting distance of being completely adequate (though not excellent) for translating long-form articles, which is amazing considering where things stood ten years ago.
Are you… upset that the US is doing, in your mind, the right thing? Like if you just want to vent about the Chinese government then rock on but I kinda doubt you want the US government to start taking pages out of the CCP’s playbook.
You're the first person to use the word "peasants" to refer to non-legacy applicants and I in no way think there is some sort of "intellectual" superiority or elite class of people in the US (well, economic elite - but not intellectual).

All I wanted to clarify is that these legacy processes only really come into play once you have already hit some minimum threshold of merit, and there are different backdoors for super rich/connected applicants that require no such threshold.

Tests are not the same thing as intellect - they are often structured in a way that is unfair to people with low incomes (for instance: the more times you pay to take a test, you can then select the top scores). All of these are pathways that would still exist without legacy.

You're construing my comment as taking a stance that it wasn't - but in case it wasn't clear now, legacy admissions are unequivocally bad. Privileging class status in admissions is obviously bad.
Things are much cheaper when someone subsidizes them. If the state funds nuclear at below the rate the market would give, that's a subsidy. It could mean, for example, that the state is taking on financial risk that would otherwise have been accounted for in higher interest rates.
I learned a ton from the first 6 chapters of "How Linux works: what every super user should know", 2nd edition.

A 3rd edition is coming out on March 2021.
Unlike some other commenters below, I don't believe that this is a privacy issue. Instead, I believe that it is a national security issue because TikTok is controllable by the CCP which is ideologically opposed to the United States. The next global conflict will likely be one between the east and the west, with control of information being advantageous to both sides in the conflict. China already blocks the western Internet, so they have an advantage by default.

This position is covered much more eloquently than I put it above in Ben Thompson's "The TikTok War" [1].

[1] https://stratechery.com/2020/the-tiktok-war/
Newlines in file names screw up so many things (both on the command line and in visual output) that I think that anyone using them should just stop.
Has GDPR killed social media in europe?
> I certainty don't cook up elaborate schemes to avoid paying taxes. Does that make me stupid?

Tax avoidance is legal, and if you're overpaying, it means you're giving the government money which you could have used in the meantime. I prefer to keep my money.
First of all, congrats.

Personally, I once took a year off in my mid-20s and realized that without external requirements I tend to just sort of laze about. Did some random things but nothing really focused even in terms of personal growth. So if I achieved FI I would simply find a job that I find fulfilling and is low-stress. Maybe work for a non-profit for some small salary. Or consult with startups for equity since that tends to not require as much commitment. I feel regular consulting for money requires too much hustle and client management.
Doesn't that then make it easier to get to the bomb?
It sounds like OP is arguing for reciprocity. Why should we give due process to Chinese companies if American companies are not given due process in China? Chinese companies are taking advantage of our tolerance and fairness. We should be intolerant of intolerance.
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I think journalists will hesitate to equate sketchiness to crime as the latter is a legal finding after a formal investigation. They will tend to just point to sketchiness in suggestive language.
This death per TWh calculation is naive. In reality modeling and averages are not enough here.

If can tell a coal plant kills X people per year, then I can pretty safely deduce it will kill somewhere between 0.9X and 1.1X people next year. (Made up numbers, but the point holds)

For nuclear, we can easily estimate with the same models the damage. One miscalculation, or one disastrous outcome can cause 50000 deaths, or turn the entirety of New York City to radiated ground that has to be avoided for decades.

As long as the extrapolations for nuclear are prone to extreme outcomes, nuclear is more unpredictable and therefore has more danger potential. This is why small nuclear reactors which fail independently are the way to turn nuclear plants into common energy source. They can reduce our fragility to extreme Chernobyl like outcomes.
No, they don't, in most cases. And when they do (MOX fuel in some thermal reactors) it's a net economic loss. MOX fuel is difficult to fabricate; the Pu used has negative value compared to just using fresh enriched uranium.
Yes, but did they sell for $1 million? Or did these "premium" domains sell for something more realistic?
To me a Gitlab account, instead, would signify superior judgment.
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To be fair, themes are only grudgingly supported by gnome. KDE has more available configurability for color schemes, but the number of Qt themes that handle everything correctly and look good is small.

I think resolution-independence has made creating themes much more difficult, and not a lot of people are up to the task.
Sorry for the butcher title, it was a bit long when submitted.

I am curious if signal is going to be able to continue to have no data to turn over to law enforcement once they finish uploading all of your contact graph to SGX enclaves.
Usually my first instinct is to hate it but then as I spend more time on it I start understanding it better, sometimes takes a couple of months :)

I have inherited a couple of 10 years+ codebases at my current place, I would say that usually the best ones have small functions that are well documented instead of crazy abstractions. They also were built without trying to be too clever.

They use the bare minimum of the language to get the job done and do one thing only and well.

Some other code bases are much harder to grasp .. usually abusing abstractions everywhere or using libraries / programming constructs that aren’t widespread.

One that I despise is a huge asynchronous Python application built years ago with twisted.. nothing feels pythonic and it’s so hard to follow the flow of the program.
Neat article, as I was just using LT Spice today.

An emitter follower is non-inverting, hence the follow part. An oscillator is 0 degree phase for the feedback, approximately, as it depends on the gain and phase (margin).

I believe the phase shift is from C2 and C7, as that looks like feedback for a Colpitts oscillator, in conjunction with L11. That gives you a resonance of about 1.5 kHz. The 4.7 uF is to AC ground L11. The common emitter feedback is there to provide a high impedance buffer.

The bypass caps on the supply won’t actually do anything for an ideal voltage source, though maybe you have some resistance in the voltage source; I know LT Spice has that hidden in there.
To create more targeted advertising companies. Huzzah!
Typing those single quotes in a shell won't make any difference as far as rm is concerned (because it won't ever see them). However, some rm utilities are smart enough to remove files, even if they resemble non-existing options. For others, the idiom is (either) "rm -- -file" or (preferably) "rm ./-file" although you can combine the both of them.
There's a valid concern but the administration's approach is heavy-handed and impractical. They seem intent on simply stealing a successful company from China and letting american companies earn the rewards and maybe get a kickback in the process. They should use either their national security powers or, better yet, an act of Congress to ban the specific objectionable activities and let the markets sort themselves out.
Not inheriting, but I enjoy working on code that I wrote awhile ago. What I enjoy about it is 1) seeing how I've progressed as a coder, and 2) fixing my shit code before anyone else lays eyes on it. It also forces me to really think about my code, and why I did what I did.
Do you have a better single source for review, or are we stuck having to piece together information from the varied sources?
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Zero hyperbole: That first image from National Geographic ruined me for several hours.

I switched off my laptop and laid in bed.

No idea why. I've come back to this comment to post this. It's an eerie face like image (I refuse to look back at it) and it's seriously troubling.
If it's true that the minimum brightness is still too bright, that's an easy fix.

If you're on a Mac, there are several freeware utilities to do exactly that, Shady was at one point the most popular. I assume there are similar utilities for Windows and Linux.

They work by lowering the RGB intensities of all the pixels on your screen, instead of lowering the backlight further. It has exactly the same effect in the end.
> The number of websites for which I want notifications isn't zero.

It is zero for me! I consider notifications the greatest annoyance a computer can give me. Like, I hate it when a computer complains to me when I unplug a USB device without ejecting it.
Based on people flagging submissions. I flagged this for the reasons you cite. Surprised it’s lasted so long.
And therein lies the true motivation for blocking TikTok. This has nothing to do with privacy and everything to do with politics.
While not the same, you can use this to compare split layouts. https://jhelvy.shinyapps.io/splitkbcompare/
The buried lede from that article:

> But Japan relies on coal for more than a third of its power generation needs. And while older coal plants will start retiring, eventually reducing overall coal dependency, the country still expects to meet more than a quarter of its electricity needs from coal in 2030.

So this decade Japan's reliance on coal power will roughly drop from 33% to 25%. To provide even more context, Japan's energy consumption has been falling since before the 2011 disaster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Japan_energy_and_GDP.svg
How can anyone seriously support him being in a position of power if this is true. The opportunity to buy that debt and call it as leverage to extract political gain is so easy and obvious. Does any of this debt trade on any market? If so a hedge fund could basically have puppet strings on the federal government.
China is laughing at us while their shills feign ignorance.
Very true! That undercuts my choice to use snake_case, but strengthens my overall argument to advocate for light color schemes (assuming they are indeed better).
> After she graduated from law school, I wrote a one-line letter of recommendation for her to Justice Antonin Scalia: “Amy Coney is the best student I ever had.” He was wise to hire her as a clerk.

> I was teaching a First Amendment class at Notre Dame Law School. She was a student, just a face in the crowd. On the final exam, someone — the bluebooks were anonymous — had written an answer so impressive that I rushed to share it with one of my colleagues. This student, I said, gave a response to my own question much better than the one I had come up with myself. That student was Amy Coney.

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Something revealed in the recent court filings was how Bytedance spent over $1 billion in advertising on Facebook/Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat.

Apparently they were spending $10-$30 to acquire an active user and expecting to generate $5 of revenue per user in the US, implying a revenue payback period of 2-6 years.

Some ugly unit economics.
> stealing a successful company from China

Only its US operations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24611558
Wow. How do you manage to read 99% of what's published on the internet? Including commenting on HN? :P
As I recall, the Republican Congress actually cut funding to the IRS for tax enforcement during Obama's second term, so we actually don't know who's committing tax fraud. The audits just aren't being done.
I very much doubt Metal or Core Audio are implemented in ObjC. C++ or C are much more likely candidates, and is what Apple is generally using for low level code like that...
... which, being a header-only library, happens to place no restrictions or requirements of any kind on the calling program.
It’s an interesting argument that probably won’t end well for bytedance and other foreign controlled apps and software... if executive branch can’t control which of them are allowed to be present in country and distributed by us entities, it’ll be just a matter of time before a law is passed that would let them, or probably an existing one amended (similar to patriot act). I bet it would be bipartisan law as well.
Make hydrogen, store it underground, and have enough combustion turbines available to back up the grid. A simple cycle combustion turbine power plant is about 5% of the cost of a nuclear power plant, per unit of power output.
One of the key takeaways of this story is the relationship between business-ownership and income tax. This is of interest to the audience here because many are directly involved in small business start-ups. The fact that this discussion is also flagged is also absurd.

Are we not here to discuss things anymore?
It's a very different kind of simplicity and self-hosting. Vau uses rich features of a managed programming language in order to achieve lispiness.

The true beauty of something like SectorForth is its mechanical empathy. It relies only on the machine code of the system, and while it has quirks and shortcomings to fit in 512 bytes, it has everything you would need to bootstrap into a fully-productive Forth.

Of course, if Oscar Toledo feels inclined to step in and furnish a 512 byte extensible Lisp that runs on an 8080, I won't be upset.
Background: I worked on the NFL mobile app and then worked on a search engine app both of which were in React Native. Specifically I worked on the team that did the developer tooling side for other teams. I made it so experienced JavaScript developers who had no experience with native mobile could create features more easily. Both get millions of downloads.

React Native is a pain to work with when the scope of your app becomes any larger than an agency level project (e.g. an app for an event that's only going to be used one weekend).

Once you start getting into requirements for a prime time production app (setting up APM tool, setting up tracking, setting up Google Analytics, native specific features that don't have a React Native hook yet) React Native is an extra layer of abstraction that slows you down. The experienced native developers hate working with it because they'd rather just use the related native platform themselves, but at the same time for any slightly complicated app you still need their expertise. Also, out of the box animations in React Native is difficult to work with, especially with less experienced developers, so you end up having to do a variety of work arounds to get animations between screens to look nice which you'd get out of the box just using Kotlin/Swift.

In 2020 if I needed to make an app quickly, cheaply, that worked on both platforms, I'd make a great mobile website and wrap it in a native shell. Any screen that needed a little bit extra "magic" I would do 100% native code for both platforms. This also allows you to ship updates to screens as you go without a complicated "codepush" JavaScript setup, as it's just a webview on the other end.

I'm still maintaining the React Native search app now, it works fine, but if we need to create an iOS version of it I'd definitely pitch doing it in native code.
Yes it is totally ethical. What makes it unethical? America draws its leaders from the citizenry. Those citizens are allowed to borrow money, be in debt, and retain privacy of their confidential information. Entering politics doesn’t deprive them of their identity as a citizen.
>I get this, but I also see people I'd describe as real experts saying "SwiftUI isn't ready for production, too buggy for serious apps."

Well, there are all kinds of apps written in SwiftUI.

It might not be ready to write Photoshop or Final Cut Pro in it, but most apps aren't "serious" like that. Heck, apps written in even less supported/mature environments (like React Native) will be just fine...
>"And what would be the excuse when the new reactors fail disastrously? "

CANDU reactors are failsafe and have been for 50 years. Fukushima or Chernobyl style disaster in phisically impossible with their heavy-water, unpressurised design.
What exactly is the national security risk with TikTok?
Stealing implies one party enriches themselves at the expense of another.

A better term for this situation would be "costing."
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I thought the "large digital platform" would be AliExpress (which from experience I know does use MT extensively in seller-buyer communications), but it's actually referring to eBay. My experience with the former is that the MT is far from perfect, and even frequently causes much amusement, but definitely useful.
So it's like Chicago, but clean?
From this you could then make the case for instability in the current developed-world being a healthy phenomenon. Which is a nice thought if true.
If Uranium fuel rods where the only cost, nuclear would be ~50% as expensive as direct Solar in the US. Unfortunately, it represents 10% of of nuclear’s overall costs per kWh in the US. So compared to the perception or competing energy sources, refueling is surprisingly expensive.

With current US nuclear subsides it’s less expensive for power companies to use unsubsidized solar power and lithium batteries than build Nuclear. That’s not a question of which is more green, just basic economics.

PS: Numbers from a very pro nuclear article: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspec...
Articles on politics that affect the tech industry might be relevant but this has nothing to do with that. There are other forums for this kind of thing.
I'm not qualified to talk about business culture in general, but in Silicon Valley specifically there's definitely been a shift beyond just corporate culture. I've personally seen quite a few employees insist that their company should intervene in political controversies unrelated to how the office is run and how workers are treated there.
Thats a part of it.

There is also no one canonical linux stack. Different distros do things differently (sometimes drastically so).

E.g. systemctl flags and argument ordering differs from sysv style /etc/init.d/foo commands (as just one example)

So to learn “GNU/Linux” really you need to learn several distributions and piece together the common components and why different approaches are better suited to different environments.