skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you plug every single window into the same workspace no matter how many windows you have you are basically using it ineffectively.

Let us propose you have a really tiny 12" screen and you are using 5 windows that each really need your full screen area to be useful. It makes no sense to split it 5 ways so instead each window is its own workspace. This hardly seems to be a situation where a tiling window manager benefits you you could very well arrange the same thing on any graphical environment by switching to each workspace opening each application and maximizing the window.

However what it did do was keep you from dumping all 5 windows in the same workspace because the result would be painful and ensure that instead of alt tabbing an average of 3 times per window switch or taking your hands off the keyboard and clicking on a ui element to select the individual app from the taskbar. Instead when you want to go from app 1 to 5 or app 2 to 4 you go directly to the correct workspace.

It also automated maximizing the windows as they were created.

To put it succinctly it encouraged a certain workflow and automated the window management steps when using that workflow.

This is also true if you have 18 windows and 3 28" monitors. By far the most common arrangements are going to be simple arrangements of 1-3 windows on the same monitor which can be automatically applied as windows are added.

If we consult one of my favorite infographics

https://xkcd.com/1205/

To save 2 seconds 100 times a day (not depicted) we can spend 96 hours learning to use a tiling window manager and come out ahead over 5 years. In reality the time required is probably on the order of 2-4 hours and as it is a low stress, simple activity it can trivially be done during downtime in the time when you would spend on social media as opposed to when you ought to be working.

In effect you are trading a few hours of playtime for 96 hours of more effective work time which if you think about is a pretty good trade.

It's also entirely possible that you don't enjoy this workflow and thusly wouldn't benefit which is OK too.

Insofar as LibreOffice vs Gimp you are entirely correct. On a related note Bloom although not free claims to have great PSD support

>You say Bloom imports PSD files. What specifically does it import and does it support layers?
We understand why this question comes up. :) A lot of packages claim to import PSD files, but then either end up importing a single flattened image, or layers stripped of styles, masks, and blending effects. We are proud to have created the best-in-class PSD importer for Bloom, which supports not only layers and groups, but also masks on both of them, all layer blending modes, and even layer blending effects such as drop shadows and glows - even on groups! While we can't guarantee the documents will look pixel-perfect compared to Adobe Photoshop (they are completely different software packages, after all), they are very close in terms of their appearance, and all key information is preserved.

https://thebloomapp.com

I haven't tried it personally but it has a free demo.
No I don't think so because being first always pays more. Beeple was the first on Christie's and that's it. Some people were first in North Pole and the people after them were not as important. Basic stuff in my opinion. It just weird people out but again as I said, art is weird for the uninitiated (me included).
On WSL2, there are fewer reasons to go with any particular Linux distro, because the kernel is the same either way, there's no Desktop Environment, and hardware support isn't really an issue. However, I can see how someone who's used to typing `yum` to grab a package vs `apt` or the particularities of where Fedora keeps config files might want to run Fedora on WSL2. So, very awesome that it works.
Automation hasn’t put humanity out of work yet because humanity has been better at knowledge work. What happens when they’re not?
This is a thoughtful and patronising post. Since you give advice frelly, let me offer one back: every time you type the word 'slave', take a deep breath and consider the etymology of that word.
I appreciate these points, which are well-considered.

> But it's interesting why this is the case. Why us, and not chimpanzees.

As you admit, we could ask about exceptional adaptations in other species, e.g. "why do birds rule the sky, and not other species?". This might be sometimes studied, but there is not nearly a comparable level of interest in that form of exceptionalism. I'd say there's so little interest, that we often fail to even observe such cases.

It strikes me that we are really just interested in ourselves. (I have no problem with that.)

I don't think we will learn very much as long as we start with the assumption we are primarily exceptional above all other species. I think it immediately leads to circular logic, where any and all differences become evidence supporting the assumption.

I accept what you say about natural selection having a bias. I remain doubtful that we are truthfully observing that bias over the noise of essential randomness. (Edit: on further consideration, I'd strengthen this and believe it is statistically impossible to distinguish evolutionary pressure from randomness, if you are considering N=1 runs of evolution).
tldr; use bitcoin wallet as DNS
> I can't meet my deadlines otherwise.

working for free to meet deadlines is more a problem with the deadline than it is with your working additional hours
Good idea. I didn't know about ch units.

I experimented with setting a fixed vw width, which kinda works, but at the end of the day 80 characters is probably just too much.
They would be totally decoupled, but essentially they'd take risk of the underlying prices changes. Same as now with the USD, it's just not as pronounced.
It's such an anti-pattern for the world to adopt this approach. Sadly most people don't care nor should have to but the decentralization is effectively moot when payment processors like Visa get involved. Sadly, I'm less and less hopeful that crypto will be what the movement conveyed over last 10 years.
Curious how HN feels.

If you could work 4 days/week but your salary would be 1/5 less would you do it?
Love it. This is some great feedback Ranuko. Definitely going to consider adding domain limitations on walls and adding agency pricing.
I was only stating my understanding for why the association between slavery and black people is so strong in America. What I want is irrelevant.
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Only if there nothing else at play like a new good product. An increase in sales and decrease in productivity is not mutually exclusive.
LispWorks and Allegro work just fine on Windows.
> This change only affects newly created repos, how does it create tech debt? I suppose some tooling may need to be updated, but if your tools are to brittle to support a different branch name.. sheesh

This is overly dismissive. Build pipelines that interact with bespoke branches now need dynamism for backwards compatibility; a value that was previously static is now changeable. That doesn't really qualify as brittle to me; that any value in a codebase must be changeable is a ridiculous requirement from a codebase.
Great resource in colorbrewer2 - thank you!

I have several color blind colleagues and am regularly concerned I'm not displaying visuals in a way that is easy for them to digest.
Probably not a consideration for the vast majority of use cases. Honestly, why would you ever want to print out a screenshot of Google Maps? I remember my parents doing it back in the days of MapQuest before smartphones, but I can't think of any reason to do something so wasteful today.
Does anyone have any links to a different study on 4-hour work weeks?

I’ve seen this same 4-week trial shared on every discussion of 4-day workweeks for years. It was such a small and short trial that the results look more like an outlier than a long-term trend.

If I was an employee at one of these companies and management hinted that we could have Fridays off as long as it didn’t decrease productivity during a 4-week trial, I would definitely work extra hard during those 4 weeks. I don’t know if we can extrapolate much from this short trial among sales people.
Wow! Thanks for sharing these couple other instances of it happening, I wouldn't have seen them otherwise! This is certainly the first time I'm seeing this news.

I'm always excited to see more reason for us to shorten our working hours and I think it could help lots of the problems we've been or may soon be having in society!

Thanks for bringing more examples of the conversation for me to look through!
> I think it also burns a certain amount of political capital and good will. People only have so much "give a fuck" to spare, and if you force them to use it in meaningless ways, it's a waste.

Is that what you think is happening here? People are fighting against this change out of concern that if they support it, they won't be able to care about other, more important things down the line?
The site is titled "how to deal with difficult people..." Not nice, competent, or all people, just a specific negative subtype.

I totally agree with the comments about not stereotyping coworkers. The way this site is setup is naturally contrarian to that idea.
Nobody wants to be the bottom of a pyramid scheme. That's the scheme.
Your conclusion is not sound.

To you, it is a "genuine racial injustice".

To others, it is simply nothing of the sort.

Said another way, I also feel much more strongly about opposing woke excesses than I do about opposing genuine racial injustice--expressly since I very much support opposing racial injustices and do not find the master/main debate as a genuine racial injustice.
> Leftism is, generally speaking, those who want to move the needle especially rapidly towards "power to the people". Those on the right generally want to keep power with the established power base.

This is the opposite of the positions taken by those described as "left" and "right" in the US. Republicans are individualist, "power to the people", "states' rights", etc, but would never be described as "left", while it's the Democrats that tend towards centralizing power in the federal government.

> Many Americans today have forgotten what these terms mean, but that doesn't mean they're meaningless.

They are certainly approaching that point if people don't mean remotely the same thing when using them.
> Can they have a different privacy policy compared to the other companies in the same field? My understanding is that anyone dealing with healthcare data has to be HIPAA compliant.

HIPAA compliance probably means that while other care providers aren't allowed to sell your medical history to marketers, Amazon doesn't even have to do that, and can send you personalized offers based on your medical history all day long without violating HIPAA.

Furthermore, this may give them data they can use to correlate medical history with other behavior, and thus potentially infer medical events about other customers that aren't Amazon Care patients.
A Japanese acquaintance once told me that an office he worked at once instituted a strict "go home at the end of the day" policy to prevent people from staying late. I guess there's a sort of cultural pressure not to be the first one out of the office (which I can actually sort of understand; I feel weird leaving early).

Apparently it worked out really well. Either similar or improved output. However after a management changeover things went back to as before. It's a cultural hurdle, sounds like.
> While these maxims were originally meant to describe how people intuitively communicate, they can be used to actively guide the way you communicate in various situations.

This isn't something I'd endorse doing often. Grice was making a descriptive statement about the linguistic pragmatics of human conversation; he was absolutely not saying that this is how people 'should' speak. Reversing the principles like this turns them into listicle fodder instead of the rather insightful framework for understanding pragmatics that they are.

A parallel exists in linguistic syntax. The goal of linguistic syntax is to describe which sentences are recognized by speakers of a language as grammatical, rather than prescribe some notion of 'correct' grammar. If you take syntactic descriptions and interpret them as rules, you are profoundly missing the point - see "Don't end your sentences with a preposition!" nonsense.

There's more reading on Grice's maxims in their original, descriptive linguistics/social science context is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle
Because the alternative is she's hypersensitive without any reason. You can, of course, -decide- that the person is just unreasonable, rather than try and figure out what might have caused her to respond the way she did, and be empathic towards it, but it doesn't seem like it'll get you far in life.
I'm only part way through, it does seem like Sprinklr or the VP is in the wrong, but I'm curious how the author can say simultaneously that her tweets don't matter, and then also call herself a leading voice in her industry, and brag about the amount of twitter followers she has.
Looks impressive. Documentation is clean, simple, and easy to read.

Library looks small (not sure how many KB) and full features for a basic charts library.
Nicely patronizing!

With all that superior learning about what's true furniture and what's not, I look forward to seeing you attending a staff meeting in a plywood box chair. I'm sure the joy of its beauty will still be with you as you go to the chiropractor for weekly treatments.
Couldn't they trivially use QT and bundle the libraries needed with the software?

This doesn't seem dissimilar to how one could ship software for windows.
Definitely.

It even has an extra bonus: I'd effectively get more than one extra week of vacation each year, because despite the number of days being the same, the one extra day a week would mean a week and a half extra off, pretty nice!
2280 employees in microsoft Japan, let me wage without being too wrong that 60% at least of those are NOT sales people. So this metric is completely nonsensical if you mix sales and non-sales.
This is good to know. I think most of the modelling I looked at in the past used medium duration bonds as a proxy for the bond market as a whole.

I wonder what TIPS did during the same timeframe actually.

EDIT: I looked at VGLT and the mean annual return is extremely low, roughly 0.75%. I like the seemingly negative correlation with equities but I'll need to do some modelling to see if it's worth the massive hit in average expected return.
This is the poison pill for BTC in my opinion. I have a very small amount of BTC and this is the primary reason I don't have a larger investment, don't make more of an attempt to use it as currency, etc. The central banks/governments aren't going to give up their power so easily. They may have low-key destroyed crypto by considering them commodities.

The only way crypto can win* is if a plurality of people just choose not to follow the tax laws. It has to be enough people that it becomes unenforceable.

win* in this case is defined as being a 1st order currency largely unencumbered by central banking/government authority.
Whilst technically leading a software project, I worked with a contractor who was so arrogant it defied belief. He told me he was smarter than everyone else in the organisation, and repeatedly told me that he used to work "at board level" whenever he wanted to override my decisions. You know what - I'm fine for anyone in a team to express different opinions and happy to take them on board, but there's a way of going about this without being so hostile. You don't accuse colleagues of being "stupid" (which he repeatedly told us) and then go on to make massive errors in the codebase, over-engineer everything and refuse to read documentation because "I know better". He seemed to really have it in for me, which is odd considering I've worked with plenty of software contractors some of which still message me years after they left just to say "hello".

I was ready to walk out the org but then COVID hit and thankfully I no longer manage him.

I was ill SO much during the time I worked with the guy - my body was definitely trying to tell me something.

I guess he would fall under "The Diva"?
> Still, I'm trying to figure out exactly what my issue is with evo-psych claims that I don't have with e.g. physics claims.

Can you give an example of an analogous claim in physics that you have an easier time accepting?

Not flaming. Just trying to understand a similar situation that might arise from physics.

One of the main issues I have with evo-psych is that you can't run rigorous control experiments, so my "analysis" of the claims amounts to "Well, that seems like a reasonable explanation. But so do a hundred other models...."
Yes. I actually will do it after my paternity leave. Not sure if I would do it without a kid though but I want to believe I would value "life" more then money.
NOAA issues a rare “high” alert for severe US weather
One of the best arguments for allowing abortion is that we do not force anyone to risk their integrity and life for another person, which is what pregnancy is. This argument won't work anymore.
Could this be used to help save endangered species?
Which makes it seem not quite genius that they add as much feature churn again in their own app.
Yeah I agree. Not only have I seen the milky way, but I've seen andromeda with my naked eye from the right place on the right night, within a day's drive from very populated cities.
I had a “hostage taker” running devops and CI on a project last year that I had warned the product owner about multiple times.

This person would not respond to basic developer experience problems and could not get a release out the door without some manner of basic code merging problems.

Repeated direct and polite feedback would not move them an inch. It was like they knew they didn’t have to change and could keep their job.

The manager should have been able to identify this and handle it but they were distracted and not able to do it.

Eventually this hostage taker‘a failure to execute and complete sandbagging of any attempt to wrest control over deployments endangered a major new enterprise sale.

We went around this person, rebuilt what they had been responsible for and got back to work completing the product.

They were sidelined and let go eventually and the project is way better for it.
Visa would be providing 0 value if it exposed these drawbacks of Bitcoin's transaction network to users. Making cheap, fast transactions with fraud protections is exactly what a company like Visa has to offer.
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Ok, do you know if this was offered to all employees or sales people?
When I was at the top of my game, I knew third semester discrete math proofs like the back of my hand. Not memorized, but really grokked the math behind the proofs.

I noticed after I graduated there was a period of time when I would have to concentrate for ten minutes and the epiphany would return.

Now, several years later, I’ve entirely lost it.
Big business like Sony and Apple prefer BSD exactly because of not having to provide everything to upstream.
Plenty of people work 40 hours per week with a 1 hour (each way) commute. I think that is worse than 50 hours per week with a minimal commute. Maybe some people have a job that is worse than sitting in stop-and-go traffic, but I'm not sure.

My current commute is about 20 minutes by car, which is the longest commute I've had in almost 20 years and I really don't like that. Prior to COVID I switched to biking to work and that was much more pleasant (40 minutes of exercise beats 20 minutes of driving hands-down for me, and we have showers at work).
Japan’s Fintechs Are Unleashing Innovation and Fighting Poverty
Probably because there's historical over-working happening in Japan and that's less of a problem in the States.
Bottling the smell of happiness to help treat depression
This new museum reminds me of the Binarium, a small (1000sqm) computer/game console museum in Germany. https://binarium.de/
Not right now but we'll add that feature soon.
There's some truth in what you said, but also a few exaggerations.

First of all, while WebRTC has its share of complexity when using it for videoconferencing, here we are talking about using the DataChannel, which is really straightforward to use and doesn't need additional infrastructure.

> not forgetting WebRTC still relies on centralized components to coordinate

It needs a centralized component to setup the connection (signaling), if it fails later, your communication channel is still up. And the good thing if you have a websocket-based chat service, is that you can directly use it for the signaling purpose with zero modifications on the back-end side.

> routers in many scenarios hate it and even where they allow it, the combinatorial explosion in possible configurations to support and diagnose between peers is a problem nobody should willingly invite unless they can't achieve a solution any other way

When using the Datachannel, your failure mode is can't establish a connection, not some hard to understand Heisenbug. All you need is to provide a centralized fallback for clients who cannot establish a connection. This fallback will depend on the centralized service being up, but in case of failure you'll keep most of your users without disturbance (at least in the first world, the network is not as WebRTC friendly in other places of the world). And because the DataChannel's API is close to the WebSocket's one, implementing the fallback is straightforward.

Though, in Slack's situation there is a good reason not to use WebRTC: they can have several thousands of people in the same channel (IIRC IBM uses Slack and have most of their employees in a shared channel for official announcements). You won't be able to do that with WebRTC[1] if a user needs to establish a connection with every other users in the channel (there's just not enough ports available). And even worse, back in 2016, Chrome's implementation of the DataChannel was so poor, you could not establish more than a handful of PeerConnection before feeling the browser's becoming sluggish (this wasn't the case in Firefox so maybe Google fixed that since then).

Also, Slack's users are likely to be in some enterprise network, which makes WebRTC more likely to fail than when you customers are home, which reduces the opportunity.

Main takeaway: WebRTC-based chat is probably not a great fit for Slack, but don't be afraid of using it: it's not hard, it combines well with your already existing centralized infrastructure, and can massively reduces the load on it.

[1] unless you want to build some fancy sparse mesh network, but this is likely overengineering.
Please stop naming companies Somethingly or Boggl or Toddlr or Nameify.
Lowdefy looks great. I'm currently looking for something like Django Admin that isn't necessarily a part of Django (I'm an Elixir dev myself). Have you used Lowdefy extensively? Pros and cons? Limitations? Are you involved with the project itself?
That doesn't solve anything, it still has to be synced with the chain so that the balance can be useful to anyone else. The average transaction is around $20 USD and has been around this much for a while. Opening and closing second layer channels is even more expensive than an average transaction.

There is no universe where 1.5KB/s in transactions makes sense. Any other cryptocurrency works better, ethereum and bitcoin cash already have more transactions than bitcoin and any other cryptocurrency works better.
I'm not really convinced by the accepted logic that if you put more neurons in a room that they eventually start questioning the universe.
As the article notes, not all tweets from people that have large followings get guaranteed substantial engagement/notice.
An army of super soldiers would still take somewhere around 20 years to produce, and would cost a substantial amount of money. Said army would certainly not come as a surprise to anyone.