skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that wasn't covered here is that productivity is about:

> the effectiveness of productive effort

and

> the state or quality of producing something

Those are quoted from the dictionary definition of productivity, and that definition in my opinion outlines a great insight. Productivity is about the "product" first and foremost.

One thing that's often missing is teams don't have ways to quantify how good the product itself is. Most teams will instead pivot to trying to measure their rate of change to the product. This doesn't mean you have become more productive, because software product is not like food production, more of it is not always better. Better software will instead be about it being more ingenious, more intuitive, more tailored to the problems of its users, more responsive, with fewer malfunctions, etc.

So to me, this whole thing of trying to measure "productivity" which disregards the product from the equation is incomplete. It's trying to measure developer efficiency at changing things, without care if the changes are for better or worse. This includes things like measuring velocity, or line of code, or ticket closed. But it also includes what this article proposes, number of meetings, time to complete code reviews, developer satisfaction with their tools, etc.

All these are trying to see how quickly can developer make changes without ever measuring if the change produces a better product, thus if it actually made the team more productive at effectively positively improving the product.

I'd like to hear about ways to measure software product state and quality. If we had those, you'd have an easy way to know how productive a team would be by seeing how quickly they can improve the product.
FaasD looks cool, but building with serverless framework also seriously simplifies developing for aws lambda or other cloud providers. Highly recommend it
I just hope Andy Jassy will not bring the AWS customer support to retail, because Amazon is screwed if he does.
You just made an insulting generalization about a country of 150M people
EA is getting back into college football without NCAA, player licenses
> do you think threatening to remove google as the default search engine is a serious threat?

It would be if Apple made a search engine. Media will spin this as a Search Engine that values your privacy from Apple. It is the best thing ever etc. Given Apple's consumer branding, as long as it isn't so bad people will use it.

The problem is I dont see that happening. $10B of pure profits is a large amount of money doesn't matter how you slice and dice it.

Making a half decent search engine is still very hard. They are happy to squeeze Google, making less information available to Google in the name of privacy, all while eating away all the profitable Smartphone market shares.

That is one reason I dont quite like current Apple. It reeks of hypocrisy. Stop attacking Google as evil, painting themselves as Saint, all while happily receiving Billions of dollars. But current media seems to like this idea, and it fit well with the current US political spectrum.
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Well, PSN improves as well. Plus there a whole two free games every month and you not required to have great internet connection to play games.

Also, money you paid to stadia are just as "frozen" (spent? frozen money implies they can be thawn) as money for online service.

While you can carry chromecast ultra with you it's PITA to setup - you have to configure the network on it and a controller. Without wired connection it's not a good experience. Meanwhile, ps5 you just plug in a play for the most part.
"I don’t know of another company with an
invention track record as good as Amazon’s,"
- Jeff Bezos

Excuse me?

Maybe we should consider -- oh I don't know, Bell Telephone, which had Bell Laboratories?

Which won 13* Nobel Prizes for revolutionary, groundbreaking research about the Transistor and created and funded a "Legal Typesetting System" on which 90% of overall computer operating systems are descended from!

Even ignoring Bell Laboratories, we could look at IBM, which created the modern home computer market! Or Xerox PARC! Or Apple!

* - or 9, my brain is giving me two numbers on that and I don't remember which one it was
Well, would you say that the proposition that e.g. Jupiter exists science, or not? I can't reach out and touch it, so I'm only ever going to have indirect evidence for its existence.
You can still do this with React, though. It's quite easy (and useful!) to have components which implement some dialog which pops up when you call an async function, which only resolves once the user has finished interacting with that dialog. The code could, for example, be essentially identical to your example. It also isn't in contradiction with the nature of React at all, projects that use React are full of imperative code. React just frees you from having to maintain the connection between UI state and your data manually in an imperative manner.
No kidding. I have a 40+ year old 565 my uncle gave to me that he got from god knows where. I’ve taken it all over the place, hell and back and it’s just still great. It even records well.

https://www.gearslutz.com/gear/shure/565sd
There are multiple theories for what killed Neanderthals [0] but violence by Homo Sapiens seems the most supported by the fossil record. It would be hard for climate change and disease to wipe out an entire species, especially since there was interbreeding with homo sapiens so if a disease was so virulent to span the entire half of the world with Neanderthals it would affect homo sapiens as well.

I’m not sure there are any modern tribal wars. I’m not sure I’d consider Rwanda a tribal war, but it was tribes fighting.

I was thinking more about pre-historic tribal warfare. Or at least pre-bronze age before Egypt, Indus, Greece, etc. The tribes in the Amazon, Africa, Papua New Guinea [1] frequently had wars of extinction that eliminated their opposing tribe.

This kind of brutal warfare seems in our genes as even other primate have these genocidal wars where entire communities are wiped out [2].

There were certainly many proxy wars and lots of death, so I don’t think MAD means absolute peace. But it did stop world war 3 (while almost starting it quite a few times) and it’s most likely the reason why there haven’t been any large wars with casualties that existed prior to MAD (ww2,ww1,sino-japanese,Napoleon).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_extinction

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemic_warfare

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
Yes that would definitely be good to add. Thank you !
This project and concept is really awesome.

However for me - I’ve never found one that has everything I want, and I haven’t taken the time to try to make it yet. However I really want the Logitech marble mouse with a scroll wheel. If I could have that combination I’d be pretty elated.
Nix also has a hosted mode where it piggie-backs off the underlying system: I’ve been using it day to day on macOS and various Debian installations, and it’s working pretty well.

Nix/lorri/direnv, in particular basically obsoletes nvm, rbenv, etc.
> but like golf where once you get to the tee, it's you and only you to get the ball in the hole

How many times a golf player has demonstrated an idea that upturned the whole field? But this is common place in engineering because it is essentially a creative task.
But is ALL proprietary software malware merely because I don’t get the source? I could get the Linux source but it wouldn’t do me any good because I don’t know how to compile it. The whole thing is a silly argument. I pay for some software precisely because it does what I want!
The sheets of stainless steel appear to have separated at the joints. This says the sheets are stronger than the joints, meaning they're overweight :-)
> Which allies did you meant?

Saudi Arabia?

> Under Yeltsin they had freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, separation of powers, state-independent business including large corporations, the federation, and independent press.

And how much good did it do to people of Russia? I'd say that going the "democratic" way Russia would end up pretty much in the same place where Ukraine is now, and surely Russians would not want that. And thus maybe Russia way is actually more "democratic". We are learning quite a lot about democracy and free speech here too.

> Russian government was caught cheating with doping tests of athletes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_Russia

You've got a point here, although nowadays after "Russia interfered in election", "Trump colluded with Russia" etc., I am not sure if I can trust in what is being reported on many issues.
You're a few years late. VIVE is a separate HTC headset now. Vavle Index is Valve's VR headset.

Steamlink has hardware is dead because it was bad. Steam controller is dead as well.

Steamlink now is an android app that might work and might not work on your device.
A better example is querying from a database or api where you can specify the returned properties. null === queried but no value vs undefined === not queried
> but I've never quite been satisfied with the "if we're thinking of it then they probably already tried it" explanation :)

Same here :) . I'm still unhappy with their decision to use toxic propellants on Crew Dragon - I'm sure they could use something much more benign.
the global medical raw material supply chain specifically for the kinds of chemicals needed for serological tests and the supply chain for equipment such as vials and racks are both incredibly fucked. the reason pfizer packaged its doses in larger than standard vials is because they literally could not procure the other kind in the volume needed and the time to retool the entire operation to load different sized vials only to unretool them wasnt worth the cost or time.
The acceleration of aerospace development costs started long before the Apollo program.
I think it would be better to use Profits percentage than revenue. There are COGS and other running cost with Services. Even App Store has curation cost, processing fees, hosting, Store Credit Rebate, Promotion and Marketing.

Search Engine Placement has literally Zero. It is pure 100% raw profit.

Apple reported net income of 57.41 billion U.S. dollars in its 2020 fiscal year.
Everywhere I've worked it was company policy that you are not allowed to accept anything from vendors you purchased through due to conflict of interest. You could be fired or go to jail for even the appearance of impropriety. It blows my mind that top people in our government can get away with taking huge amounts of money from the same people they are going to regulate. And even more crazy that they can just "get a waiver" and excuse it away.
Strange that they'd bother to disable the UART interface if the JTAG interface is open.
I don't believe they were the only ones. Maybe the most sophisticated, but Jamaica for example, doesn't even have to be sophisticated about it ;)
It sounds like a very naive and simplistic distinction. Neurochemicals and the structure of the neurons themselves are interrelated in very complex ways.
Is that right... at orbital velocity I think Mars entry is a problem.

Are they planning on landing starships on earth? with Orbital refuelling couldn't they just land it like a Falcon 9
(I mean I guess that'd be super inefficient)
> Trying to boil down a very diverse global population, which may or may not even be paid, into a single $/day seems a bit ridiculous to me personally.

This is not the method described in the world bank web site. I don’t think the intent is to boil down to a single measure.

Tracking data globally is really challenging, so a consistent and meaningful measure is required to even have a hope of a perspective across countries. It’s useful in eradicating poverty to both measure progress or failure as well as to prioritize investment for areas of greatest need.

This also isn’t the only measure of poverty as there’s many others and there’s quite a bit of literature in global health on other measures as well.

That being said, I think there is room for improvement both in developing more useful metrics as well as improving accuracy of measures.
I think there's two things here. One is the case of the said underpricing. That's the theoretical role that short selling. The second is that it's a fantastic weapon to use against less sophisticated, less coordinated retail investors.

From what I understand here, large quantities of short selling can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Drop the price with shorts and let panic set in. Retailers sell due to panic, dropping it further. This goes into a nice little spiral, which lets the shorters cover.

You could also argue that this current situation falls into a "short and distort" category as well if you take the media into consideration.
tldr: convinced the firmware to retry erase, instead of refusing to initialize.
The better way to do this is to use flatpak. The sandboxing will be a major benefit for your ancient firefox version as well.
>KF94

Can we please have a global standard on masks already?
>I've got no idea how you'd do that in React.

It's simple, you can place a component that provides dialogs near the root of your component tree and provide async functions which open such dialogs to the descendant components (e.g. via contexts). These functions can then be made to resolve only when the dialogs are closed. Thus, all descendant components can use dialogs in the same manner as shown in your example.
I understand that countries can license Sputnik V and produce it on their own equipment.

Unless there is political pressure from US to not do that - https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-01-29/ukrain...
In the West people suffered from their peers' indifference, in Stalin's USSR they suffered because it was the plan.

I wouldn't like to starve to death, but if I had to choose, I'd rather risk hunger from unemployment in 1930s England than dig the Belomor Canal in 1930s Russia.
> Are you advocating against SEC or stock exchange intervention? Remember that trading can be halted by stock exchanges also in order to decelerate massive movements. If the settlement happens on even a by-minute increment, then there is no effective recourse for these interventions.

Yes, I'm advocating against them. My position is that SEC and exchange intervention makes flash crashes more rather than less severe. (Also they're harmless; artificially suppressing the volatility of the stock market makes everything more fragile, we'd be better off embracing them and making sure all market participants are equipped to handle volatility. It's like how decades of suppressing forest fires has made forest fires much worse)

> It's an explanation but doesn't explain why other stock brokers didn't impose the same limitations, nor why RH is tapping its credit lines. I say it's a diversion because it's an attempt to deflect blame for its own poor business practices and policies - e.g. if my server can't handle the load, I can't just say "well, if I had a faster load balancer...." to my users.

If your hosting service suddenly cuts your server capacity down by 2/3, I think it'd be fair to complain about that to your users.
The F1 is a bigger (!!) version of the same engine. It's got the same crucial features:

1. turbo-pumps

2. the nozzle is cooled and the fuel warmed by making the nozzle out of tubes through which the fuel passed

3. holes drilled in the tubes so fuel leaked into the combustion chamber to provide boundary layer cooling

I think the pogo-ing was solved the same way, too - putting baffles in in various places.
I've used most of the Go code generated ORMs and would have to say Ent is now my go-to for new projects. It works really nicely with gqlgen, handles permissions, and does eager loading.
Ask HN: Are there any audiobook services that exclusively use text to speech?
I've been doing a lot of driving lately and have been getting into audiobooks. I've been using Scribd but I've found their catalog lacking and I'm not a fan of Audible's pricing method. Ideally I'm looking for an audiobook service that uses text to speech for the narrations instead of actual people. Those technologies have gotten good enough in my opinion that I could easily listen to a bot narrate for 8+ hours.
You wouldn't use docker, Flatpak would be the choice for containerized gui applications. I'm not an expert but it looks like the kde and gnome env gets shared between flatpak applications.
> The U.S. Spent $2.2M on Security System That Wasn’t Implemented

Nice lead, you couldn't even get a Tetris clone installed for $2.2 Million.

Talk on in-toto -- https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity19/presentat...

It would need explaining why it's not academia.
One thing I really like about this approach is that it creates strong incentives for engineers to write maintainable code. Code that is expedient but brittle or hard to understand will be noted as blocking progress for future changes, while robust code can be promoted as blocker-free.
Mary, Quite Contrary
Did you write that backwards? || checks for falsy, ?? checks for null/undefined
I think silverblue will take off because it seems a lot simpler to use. I haven't tried out either yet but it looks like silverblue simply asks you to use flatpak instead of dnf while nix requires you to learn a complex config programming language.
Which keyboard app do you recommend that can customize character locations?
The market was designed as a system for human interaction. I think the atomic unit of time should be at the clock speed of humans. It increases the transaction cost, but in a more responsible, sustainable way imo.
> you don't want a single individual to stand out

A study from 2016 at Google discovered that team effectiveness is related to the opportunity for "equal speaking". Similar to your conclusion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-lear...
What's missing from your assessment is how good the project itself is.

Maybe Evan is a liability, but he might also be the reason why VueJS is popular and valued in the first place.

It also seems pretty strange to me to count VSCode and GitLab in there, because those are worked on by companies with teams behind them that get paid and which will have constant churn.

If you took VueJS, and had a team at Microsoft take it over from Evan, it too would live on. So I don't know that your explanation for the "risk" here has anything to do with "very high impact" and more to do with a project being maintained by a community of backers, on people's free time, and a project maintained by a company that hires developers to work on it full time.
When was this paper published? Why do so many academic papers seem to omit or bury the publication date? I see the bibliography cites some papers with 2020 dates, so this paper must be from 2020 or 2021.
Understanding Core Data Science Algorithms: K-Means and K-Medoids Clustering
That would mitigate the problem of easily finding out what options there are, but it would still be a form of weak typing where a best guess is substituted for a mistake.

If the system administrator truly intend for a value to be default, he should explicitly declare it so in the configuration file.

Interpreting the system administrator's act of forgetting something as his intention for it to be a default value, seems like a bad idea to me.

As for merge, I find it as annoying if software not support configuration directories. `foo.conf` should exist alongside `foo.conf.d`, and if the latter exist, it's contents should be parsed as well.

On an update, the system can simply install a file in `foo.conf.d` which contains the default of any new keys added from the last version.
There's a Kensington trackball where you spin a ring for scrollwheel: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81T0oXLJoBL...
There is a certain cycle team that comes to mind as well.
By that logic essentially all cryogenic engines are “the same”.
And, admittedly, 90% view and everything seems to be how it’s supposed to be afterward.

My bigger problem is designers probably not using the website on normal machines, but instead on their 4K or 5k perfect color machines and assuming it works everywhere.
Inside the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency
We will see, joint AZ/Sputnik V trial is not causing any political storm yet:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-astraz...
An SF artist created a fake company that fooled thousands
how does this fair against syncthing? i use that and "it works"
It will be me. I am systems architect and last production code that I wrote was probably 10 years ago or so.

I am probably rather crappy programmer. I was crappy perl programmer, crappy php (starting with version 2), crappy in delphi, c, c++. Probably okay in Python, but mostly because Python allowed to concentrate on solving problem and not fighting the language.

Me been crappy was probably because I never really enjoyed to write code, as interesting part is figuring out solution to a problem. Rest is implementation details :) You can say if you want that I am simply too lazy to write code.

Me been crappy in writing code doesn't mean that i am bad in understanding code or understanding what is it to write code the easy way or the hard way.

In majority of cases when programmers come to me with design that will be easy for them to implement, turns out that they have a bunch of big problems that they missed, mostly due to lack of experience. Most of the time solutions that they come up with complicate things further and add even more problems.

And this is the point of time when I assist them to simplify whatever complex design they made to something much more simple and doable.

I saved many man/years of development time by showing programmers easy ways that they didn't know that they exists
They might let us go home at 2pm but we can't stop thinking about work problems even in the weekends - that's when we get a nice juicy project to think about.
No, you can't have it both ways. You didn't say you would willingly accept prison. You said you would willingly accept a mechanism to improve your deficiency. The way you have described prison elsewhere in this thread, you clearly believe that prison doesn't do that. So you wouldn't accept prison. You would only accept a mechanism that "improves your deficiency".

What I said is that I want to have the choice about how to improve. That doesn't mean I have the right to harm others with impunity. Choices have consequences, and if I make a bad choice that has the consequence that I get thrown in prison, well, that's the consequence of my choice. I personally avoid that consequence by not making choices that will predictably get me thrown in prison. Someone else might choose to do such things anyway--and yes, if they do that I won't stop the consequences from happening. Respecting someone's right to make choices doesn't mean choices don't have consequences.

If your objection is that the consequence of getting thrown in prison is somehow artificial, well, the natural consequence of attacking someone physically for no reason is that you get physically harmed or killed yourself. If you want to argue that letting that consequence happen is better than throwing the person in prison, given what prisons are like, sure, go ahead and argue that. But to argue, as you are, that respecting people's right to make choices means I should refrain from imposing any consequences at all on other people's behavior when it affects me is not only a non sequitur, it makes for an even worse society with even more suffering.
As mentioned above, sphinx-tabs will get the job done.
Why so much effort to sell that to the world? You've got a huge country with still very sizable population to protect against still very much active virus (plus the mutated versions).

It works well without the Phase III? So be it. Isn't it about the very people of Russia?

Now, they tell quantitatively that it has been just as good all along (wait, it's cheap too!). Well, even better - protect your people, maybe even start with the government. Russia is big!