skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have commented, mobile browsers appear to work well. Or disable plugins.

Testing websites in the the web browser ecosystem is a tedious job.
I have a question

If this was true:

tan maps (0, π/2) onto (0, ∞), and tan(π/4) = 1

Wouldnt it imply that

tan(π/8) would be halfway between 0 and 1 ie .5?

By my calculations it is 0.414 or √2 - 1

ALso with:

• f(x) = x/(1 - x) maps (0, 1) onto (0, ∞), and f(1/2) = 1.

wouldnt this mean that f(0.25) is supposed to be half way between 0 and 1 or .5. However f(0.25) = 0.25/0.75 = 1/3
I wouldn’t call “ex-president of the union being 15th person charged in conspiracy embezzlement” a low grade corruption: if that’s low grade, what would high grade corruption look like?
Fair enough, it exists in some regard... let's change that to pollution caused by the powerplant of the vehicle.

I'm not wholly informed here, but just by using common sense, I can only imagine we're talking fractions of a percent for brake pad and tyre pollution, so I wouldn't pick that hill to die on personally.
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The "invisible hand" of dang, but very much visible result that most every one appreciates when coming to HN. Thank you!
expecting someone to "give a shit" is realistic when % ownership and profit sharing is thrown into the pot...

even this however does not guarantee people will give a shit, a sane person however might...
But still a thoroughly contrarian personality may be defined as disagreement on maybe 10 separate issues, which is maybe one in a million possibilities. And if those are popular contentious issues, then it may be for good reason, given so much effort taken to convince everybody that one opinion is dominant.

And of course there are different types: the theorist, and the skeptic. Skeptics generally have an extremely good hit rate on the truth. There are many beliefs held by the vast majority of educated people, that require fantastic improbabilities and incongruences with normal experience, whereas the extremely uncommon disbelief requires only storytellers. I can see how this would be quite boring company. Theorists are the opposite. They tell great stories with attempt to explain, or influence, or gain social acceptance by conforming their story to the emotional needs of the group. You wouldn’t think them tiresome at all if the story was catering to your emotional needs. Or perhaps not, because you may be a tiresome skeptic yourself.
But it's not that simple. There are many things like social dynamics at play whenever people interact with one another, and the one with most charisma is going to be a leader without a title–and that can be good too.
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That's exactly where it comes from :-)
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Less code reaches a limit where readability and future maintenance costs more. The art is having just enough code to do the job without having too much or too little. Unfortunately, programmers are not often measured on their ability to write code that can be handed off to others and maintained for the next 20 years.
> categorize them into conventional and independent?

Replace conventional and independent with another word pairing and have you have 95% of most modern writing.
> You have to do something that sounds to most other people like a bad idea, but that you know isn't — like writing software for a tiny computer used by a few thousand hobbyists, or starting a site to let people rent airbeds on strangers' floors.

He's talking about airbnb here, but what's the other company?
You're mistaken, GA does have a Hodge star, as I've explained many times before https://grassmann.crucialflow.com/dev/algebra

The exterior product can be derived from the geometric product, so differential forms occur in geometric algebra.
There’s a revolution happening in global mental health
That is an interesting take on his position. He recommends intermittent fasting as a way to keep insulin levels down. There are dozens and dozens of studies on this, many posted here to HN. Highly recommended reading.
Is this that dude who made a company that rehires cheap labor in the third world for $5/day to help with classification while his team sits back and gets all the benefits?

https://twitter.com/alexandr_wang/status/1332059634606112768

The guy wants his company to be more of a cult than a value producing service. Makes sense.

People who care do put in more of their effort and get better results, but you have to give them an incentive for them to care. If your company fails, they get fired. But if your company grows and becomes 10x more profitable, their wages don't move. That's a great recipe for people doing the absolute minimum to not get fired.

This guy wants people who care more about him and his company than for themselves. "Ask not what your company can do for you – ask what you can do for your company"
Ask HN: What sources do you ignore?
When I’m browsing HN I tend to automatically ignore submissions based on their sources. Examples:

Medium and lately Substack: Often formulaic, low-effort, or self-promotional.

Aeon, Nautilus, Atlas Obscura: Long-form writing with little informational payoff, attention-bait.

The Atlantic: Culture war click-bait.

The New York Times, Bloomberg: Paywall, even if there is an outline.com or archive.[domain] link.

Conversely, I tend to check out submissions from personal blogs and more scientific/technical sources like Scientific American and IEEE’s Spectrum.

Does anyone else do this?
Even leaving aside kids, even decades ago when I rented, I really liked having a separate office. Also guest bedroom, hobby room, etc. Even as a single person I appreciated having a two bedroom apartment.
> Interestingly enough, shop-level organization at amazon scale gets somewhat similar to sector-wide unions.

Not really. If every Amazon warehouse organized, you would still need Walmart, Target, etc warehouse workers to organize to achieve something comparable. And in the U.S., they still wouldn’t have the same bargaining power because solidarity strikes and similar tactics are illegal. But I agree that labor laws are not deterministic, as the teacher strikes in red states have recently demonstrated.

We’ll also have to see what extent states will further block organizing activities if this starts gaining traction in places like Alabama. Given things like the extremely violent police response to protests, I’d wager “pretty far.”
Even for 2020 that's a pretty obtuse misreading of what he says.

Please let me know what stocks you're long on so I can short them?
Britain declared war when hitler took Gdańsk, sure... but after hitler took Czechia and Austria (and funded a coup in Spain). so it’s fair to say Britain’s declaration of war was initially mostly about stopping an expansionist power... but I don’t see how that’s the same as propaganda
I knew how I felt when I read this essay, but I couldn’t quite put it into words, even in my mind.

Then I arrived here in the comment section and discovered your refreshingly accurate comment; I knew, immediately, that I did not need to have my own “independent” thought, because you summarized my feelings perfectly.

I was put off by the essay so much; seeing your comment at the top gives me hope.
His linkedin says Tech Lead from 2014-2016. But it doesn't mean he was tech lead from the start. He could've become tech lead on his last 3 months at the company.
The legal thing and more common thing in the US is “Compare with <brand X>”, which doesn’t imply equality but does give away that it’s some kind of clone
It'd mean that working rules are set according to what feels fair rather than the minimum standards of the law. The security line thing is I think emblematic of the problem; anyone can see you ought to be paid during the time you're stuck on company property and not allowed to leave, but Amazon contractors (with Supreme Court support: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2014/13-433) say they're not legally obligated to pay so they won't.
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This is just one example of hundreds over the decades, painting a consistent thread of corruption.

The most famous example is Jimmy Hoffa, whose story has been made into films... including one in 1992 with Jack Nicholson.

“ Hoffa became involved with organized crime from the early years of his Teamsters work, a connection that continued until his disappearance in 1975. He was convicted of jury tampering, attempted bribery, conspiracy, and mail and wire fraud in 1964 in two separate trials.”

One example of many.

> This sort of thing happens in private corporations

Private corporations have a mission to make money. Unions have a completely different mission.
I saw that recently(AdGuard). I use both ABP and UBO for desktop. Often I'll promptly back out of a website due to the aggressive ads. Funny living without ads so long get triggered seeing them ha.
I'm left wondering if this is real behavior, or you're doing a Douglas Adams joke...
This article has an exploitative undertone in the hiring process.

The “what will you do to work here vibe” might work for inexperienced fresh grads but is something others will avoid like the plague. It seems like there no employee leverage at scale.
We need to start building tiny soviet style apartments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQgaCwrQQy8

Add to that some "coffin" motels. Once people have a place to sleep near a place they can work they can start moving upwards.

My mom grew up in one, and I stayed with my grandma in one every time I visited. Sure, I slept on the kitchen floor, but it's not that bad.
The attitude of startup CEOs in my area is that you should be crazy about their company, and work for 45+ hours a week for a salary that's marginally higher than what you would make on a 9-5 retail job. Sorry, I don't give a shit about your SaaS.
Also, mobile and embedded device SoCs carrying CPUs plus other functions fall into the category of ASICs in many cases.
This is incorrect.
Many of the factors that make the Japan real estate market what it is are codified into law. Furthermore the qualities attested to by the grandparent post are invariant with the current demographic trends, and have existed for a very long time. Long story short, Japan real estate is weird and unique, not a good subject for off the cuff generalizations.
My heuristic (which seems to be pretty accurate) is to accept anything that's vaguely related to the object that they ask for. eg. if they ask for "bicycles" and the picture has a motorcycle I select it.
Your comments are merely ad hominem attacks, and have no place in rational discourse. There is no priesthood of "subject matter experts" who are the only ones capable of studying and interpreting mortality data from the CDC website. There is a very clear anomaly here, that all non-COVID causes of death have reduced at the same time and by the same amount as COVID deaths have increased in 2020 (as compared with all previous years in available history). This is indeed a very interesting observation that requires explanation, rather than suppression by "experts."
Absolutely agree. At my workplace, we often have to balance immediate UX requirements with longer term reliability, extensibility and security.
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basically, "Dang moderates in a way that's good for me".
Yes, that's the recommendation I would give. I personally don't think that eliminating my 1cup/day of coffee has a major effect on my migraines (based on my long history), but I would expect it to be almost curative for some others.
Are there any existing FOSS tools that let you do a similar thing to what Excel does in the data layer but with Julia (or another programming language)?

i.e. I’m in my cell and want to type my Julia right in that cell and watch it live update when I hit enter, similar to excel
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That's the one! But it wasn't Epic.

Imagine being faced with this problem. It's not even visually clear what's going on in the picture. That's before you even get to solving the puzzle. Just "identify what we mean by a mouse" would be enough to be the captcha.

And then -- and I don't know how everyone else's brain works -- but, being the simpleton that I am, it's a linear search checking each one against the condition. There's enough time to look at about 3 of them before the clock ran out. No, I really don't want more time, either.

I'm comforted by the comments in that Reddit post. I haven't gone crazy.
It's a clever cultural move. Instead of actually being "the independent thinkers", you simply brand yourselves as such. You get to feel unique and wise without all that fuss of actually being unique or having wisdom.

I don't want to veer too far into politics, but suffice to say, if the institutions of power in your society hold the same values as you, you aren't the "counterculture", no matter how much you claim to be.
Trello.

https://trello.com

I use it to implement the processes described in other comments here.
It's a student paper, the author of the piece appears to be a neuroscience undergrad... I'm sure they're a fine student journalist but it's not exactly peer review.
Some of the highest levels of cousin marriage are found in the Middle East.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage_in_the_Middle_...

This must have some serious negative effect on the societies there, especially when done for 50 consecutive generations.
Not knowing length beforehand introduces a lot of complexity on the client side, going against 2.11.
Resubmit because last one got [flagged] for an affiliate link. I removed the one affiliate link.

This is just a list of "daily drivers" I use on Linux to stay away from Google.

The list:

Search - DuckDuckGo - An anonymized “wrapper” for Bing.

Browser - Brave - Getting flack for this but I still like Chromium over FF.

Mail - Fastmail - Protonmail is great too but personally I like FM.

Cloud Drive - Mega.nz - Also good, Syncthing.net

Desktop OS - Kubuntu - The best OS, change my mind…

Mobile OS - Sailfish OS - I’m sorry to say I still use Android :(

Maps - OpenStreetMaps - I love being able to add my own data!

Phone - Grasshopper - A case where I’m still using Voice but trying to switch.

Docs - Bear Writer - I use LibreOffice offline but in a pinch Bear is great.

Spreadsheets - AirTable - LibreOffice is best unless you need to be online.

Photos - Flickr - An oldie but goodie, especially if you don’t mind paying.

Calendar - Calendar.com - It’s… fine, but Apple and Google are still better.

Passwords - LastPass - I was slow to adopt to a manager but now love it.

Videos - Vimeo - I want to be able to recommend Lbry.com but just can’t, yet.

Authentication - Authy - A rare case of having no complaints!

Blogging - Medium - I actually hate Medium, but its easy and popular.

Meetings - Zoom - Discord is better but grandmas (and bosses) love Zoom.

Ads - A-Ads.com - The payouts are low but I love the anonymity they offer.

Flights - SkyScanner - Always trying to get you to “upgrade” but still good.

Web Analytics - Matomo - But I’d love to set up Umami.is someday.

Payments - Venmo - Honestly they ALL suck, use Bitcoin instead!

Music - Pandora - I missed out on the switch to Spotify and its too late now.

App Store - F-Droid and Aurora Store - An OK alternate to the Play Store.
Maybe the question of "How do I measure developer productivity?" is to broad to be useful?

Per the article, what managers often actually want to know is "How do I detect when a developer is so unproductive that they should not be retained?".

What are some behaviors that developers have when they've "checked out"? Not showing up to work or logging in is an obvious example. Lines of code might be a poor metric, but maybe the bottom 1% of coders in that metric is a sufficient detection for poor performance?

...at least as a detection mechanism to highlight for further investigation?
Agreed. Even if the company seems to care, they are one leadership change, product pivot, industry downturn, etc...away from that changing.
I use it for small scripted jobs on my own machine that have to go through a proxy, I start the built-in server on the proxy root and point the script to the localhost address.
> But it's not that simple

Neither regular management is. There's plenty of stories of failed management. At least if it's a whole team doing the management, toxic behavior by one individual can be controlled. If the toxic individual gets to be manager instead, then there's nothing to stop him.
"great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people" is a quote that discusses people
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A similar project is Maplets [1] which contains a database of "national parks, state parks, metro maps, bus systems, ski resorts, universities, theme parks". Some are georeferenced already but many are not.

You can also scan and upload maps yourself [2].

[1] https://www.mobilemaplets.com/app

[2] https://www.mobilemaplets.com/contribute
I got this vibe too. Now I know to stay away from this Scale guys if I'm looking for work one day. Work/life balance is just as important as taking pride in your work. Any mentally healthy individual knows that.
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I never understood that hate. R6RS is the only Scheme standard that makes it possible to write useful standards-compliant programs. R7RS-small is a big step back in that respect. The new standard is less of a burden on the implementer[0], and I guess that makes it popular in the Scheme community, as that mostly consists of people implementing Scheme and very few people writing Scheme programs.

I built a Chez Scheme backend for Idris (and Idris2 uses Chez as the default compilation target). I used it because it's so much better than the other compilers, and what's the point of being compliant with a standard that provides no interoperability anyway because it is so meager?

[0] https://weinholt.se/articles/r7rs-vs-r6rs/
> Housing crisis is only about the very few already overpopulated spots being hyper-attractive for people to move in because that's where opportunities are.

Why not build hyper-dense housing? If you have functional public spaces you don't need as much private space. We used to have boarding houses etc. I don't need my own bathroom, I need a bathroom. I rarely use my kitchen, I just need access to one.
If that Google employee spends the same proportion of their time on Hacker News as you then you’re definitely achieving more.

Agree with your point though, giving a shit is not about how many hours your work, it’s about how much you care.
> How many hours were you working a week? Why did you work so hard? Why did you care?

Oh weird. I work exactly what I’m paid to work. I thought that made me an adult but I guess it means “I don’t care”
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This is a problem that will solve itself. Sure, it will be a painful few decades, but we've already seen that shift. Toronto used to be the cluster of high prices homes, now it's spread all the way down to Hamilton. That process will continue - people will purchase homes in lower cost areas and businesses won't have much choice but to hire closer to those locations as well.

That's of course ignoring the potential for some major housing correction in Canada which resets the clock somewhat. It's not like it hasn't before. I had family buy a home in a Toronto suburb in the 1980's. They sold at the peak in 1990 and the housing market crashed hard. Prices didn't recover until the mid-2000's.
Come on now. The Homestead strike involved a firefight between the union and strike-breakers. Do you really think that's a plausible outcome of Amazon's anti-union efforts?
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Those are all equally hard for me as an American (except for the helicopter one, I'd be pretty sure that was put there to trick AIs).
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Now that you're firmly and repeatedly on record being skeptical of the author, what do you think is wrong about the content?
Although Tokyo ranks among the most expensive real estate markets, I’d argue it’s comparable to many mid-size American cities, and deals can often be found on the cheap side, whereas the US has seen the floor on rental prices skyrocket in the last decade. Places tend to be much smaller in Tokyo, but you can still find a studio for well under $1,000/month, which is not really possible where I live (Portland, OR). A studio in Shinjuku, one of the most central and popular wards, can be had for ~$1,000/month.

https://blog.gaijinpot.com/how-much-is-the-average-rent-in-t...
But then how would you find actual Feta (sheep/cow milk and original recipe) if everyone can call anything they want Feta?
To be fair to the Americans, it seems like the word originated in France
I wish this passionate-about-the-company, corporate BS that is under the guise of new age feel good advice, fad goes away. The number of founders I have met who show the attitude that they are trying to change the world and I should be grateful to have a chance to work for them is astonishing. There is nothing wrong with having a business that doesn't change people's lives in a fundamental way. But don't sell me BS that your another social media app is going to change the world in a good way, while you, being a founder, take all the winnings and I, being an ordinary employee, have to overwork without proper compensation and feel good about it.
Ok, I understand that, it's also exactly why my boss would say: please discuss this with your project manager ;)
Why would the American Left need to? Look, it's obvious how easy this is to manipulate. Tell people that every year people die at higher rates of these four causes, but in 2020 we don't see that happen but the Covid numbers are where we saw the increase. So covid is really just no big deal and Trump was always right." Am I getting the gist of where you're going with this? That the American right was always correct? Laughable.

What this says is that in 2020 they didn't see the same numbers that they've always seen. Heart disease death counts aren't as high as they've always been. But wow, take a look at covid - those numbers are WAY up. To the observer who wants to say that covid isn't bad and is just the left's fever dream, this is the proof in the pudding.

To the intelligent, highly educated left, this says "Covid is the biggest cause of death in 2020. The right is just looking for something else to point at because Trump said so."

I believe the article is saying something, but it's not saying the right thing. Covid, in 2020, has been the biggest killer. Trying to identify an alternative cause is just wishful thinking.
I don't really agree with the OP, but that's not true. It's a quote which discusses people as a category in the abstract, which is to say it discusses the idea of people and their behavior. As much as I'd like to dunk on the quote like this, it is consistent :)

My interpretation of the quote has always been that discussing people means something along the lines of gossip, i.e. specific people. That being said I think there's a clear difference between simple gossip and critical discussion of others, which can be very intellectually elevated.
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Have you ever wondered why you are suffering? Well, all the suffering comes out of the misunderstanding of who you are actually. You are God experiencing in biological form. You are the pure conscious electromagnetic energy, that is 100% creative by nature. You are never separate from God, instead, you are the one unique cell in God's body. You are Nature itself.
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He specifically said it is a spectrum, not a category and of course you can be more of an independent thinker in certain categories and more conventional in others.