skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now my relationships with coworkers can feel more transactional.

That is not just about personal relationships, that applies to work effectiveness as well.

There were hundreds of conversations over a month I had, which came from someone noticing me waiting for a coffee, come up and ask me something somewhat arbitrary - knowing that I'm free right now without any actual broadcast.

The same sort of serendipity used to happen during lunch, with people mentioning their new idea which ends up being something that boils down "oversampling all the signals to 1MHz, but then store it in a columnar db as a wide table".

The interaction process was entirely additive, with no commitments to start a conversation.

Right now, every meeting is scheduled or preceded by "are you free?", which immediately triggers a priority conversation or scheduling conflict one.

Making things which weren't transactional, into a "I have set time aside for you and only you" which is where everything starts becoming prioritized around who to talk to rather than what they have to talk about in particular.
Yeah, I would gladly work extra hours for my employer if it meant not having to waste it on commuting. I see it as a win-win for both myself and my employer. I wouldn't mind an occasional trek to the office for certain meetings, etc.

Unfortunately my employer does not see it that way. Exerting middle-managerial control over employees is considered more important than productivity.
Ask HN: Best book/resources on business modelling?
Dear readers, I'd like to study the business side of software engineering: how to design a product, how to monetize it, how to study competitors, evaluate partners, make estimation of revenues and similar. In my ignorance I would call such knowledge "business modelling" but I may be wrong.

Are you aware of any good reputable up-to-date book/resource on such topic?

Thanks a lot!
> The US has the right idea with public domain, but that concept doesn't really exist anywhere else in the world

It does in my country, Portugal, at least: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom%C3%ADnio_p%C3%BAblico

And it sounds like it comes from some "Berne convention" in which a lot of other countries also participated.
I think the huge marketing campaign for a technology that most people do not understand is to hide the fact that it's for mass surveillance (let's call it "analytics") and end-user manipulation (we'll say "marketing").
> You’re probably not being punked; you’re being babied. So if and when you go fact-checking the experts’ recommendations, remember that they probably do have their assessment of your own best interests in mind. Think of them as an overprotective parent, not as an enemy.

But... we're not babies. I get that many experts have good intentions. But treating adults like babies is a good way to come across as an enemy.

> When experts make guesses about whether the public can handle the truth, they aren’t acting as experts; they’re acting as amateurs. They’re winging it.

This is a start, but it's bigger than this. Experts are amateurs at understanding all the nuances of anyone's daily lives beyond their own. It's not just that they say "I'll lie here, because it will be good for people," and they misjudge how people handle lies. It's that very often experts have revealed that they don't understand what it means for something to be "good for people" beyond their narrow expertise.
This is a phenomenal bug report.
Facebook wrote a new runtime and has, over time, changed the language rather significantly (eg strong static typing, async/await, generics, overhauled much of the standard library.) It's called Hack. At this point, I don't think you could reasonably say facebook's written in php any more than you could say various c++ projects are written in C.

https://hacklang.org/
Answered in https://deno.land/manual@v1.8.2/linking_to_external_code#but...

Also: Nobody prevents you from using a package manager anyway. Just because you can use urls in imports doesn't mean you have to. But it is very convenient that deno downloads exactly the code that is imported. A package manager will always just throw everything at you. Some packages in node.js try to fix this by splitting the project into submodules like @babel/core, @babel/env, .... But that made installing dependencies worse. Just let deno figure out what is required is way more elegant IMO.
That's because unions don't represent workers, they represent their members. If their members are easily replaceable, they don't have much leverage.

If you can't fire a union worker for not working (on strike), then you take away all the leverage of not just the company, but of the unemployed who may wish to work and is not represented.

I think people white knight for unions all the time but don't look at all the people who couldn't get represented at all. They saw jobs go to people based on connections rather than skills. They applied and simply couldn't get hired -- and were still expected to support the unions politically.
I fully admit that I didn't read the first line of the article because I need a nap, but I stand by the fact that I think all things that sleep dream. I would not be surprised if we find out one day if we are around for a bit longer that trees dream. They definitely sleep and I've heard them say they make plans.

In all seriousness though, I like Douglas Hofstadter's consciousness cone. If it is life, it has a mirage of consciousness. I think his term "mirage" doesn't fully illustrate the holographic nature of it, but I don't quite have a better grip on it than that myself. If it has a rest period likely where it sorts what it's done and turns that into new patterns... well, that's a dream to me. I think we will see dreaming things anywhere we find life in the cosmos. I think it goes all the way down and is fundamental.

The results from this paper are very exciting to me in that context. They illustrate my assumptions. I think it's important research for sure. I watched octopus sleep and change color in person at an aquarium in Seattle. A great pacific octopus. I've also been there when they were awake just before feeding and had one all wadded up watching me through the glass waiting for their feeder. They are incredible.
> New York is still a cultural center. People will want to live there.

New Orleans is also a major cultural center. Some people will pay up to live around culture. But the vast majority of people paying NYC prices are doing so because of access to high paying professional jobs. There's a reason that San Jose is nearly as expensive as NYC. There's not a single major city in the world that survives off culture alone.
I'll give you credit. The early Gen X is where most of my mentors reside and I've had a number of exceptional ones.

So, thanks, Gen X. You did good.
That's why its sad that this time when they seemingly behaved mostly like good citizen it didn't work out very well especially for them.
Wow. I was imagining the possibilities of being able to share some of the basic techniques behind the system, but being able to have an actual MWE of real racing stripes™ is cooler than I could ever have imagined would be viable. Thanks.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drop

> transitive verb

> 3 a : to utter or mention in a casual way

> // drop a suggestion

> // drop names

Doesn't seem that rare to me, but that's just my opinion. I viewed it somewhat similar to "name dropping" after reading the OP.
I am curious how advocates for source availability and free access to source code think about security through obscurity.

At my company, all our libraries are open source and all our server code is private.

There is something to be said for keeping architectural details hidden from would-be attackers to make their lives that much more difficult. I would go so far as to say that, if you run servers that handle sensitive data, then it is unethical for you to not take every possible measure to protect that data including hiding your server code from potential attackers.
Antarctica is actually not that difficult. Antarctica is cold because the sea currents around it insulate it from warmer waters from the north. The most straightforward way to undo this would be to fill in the Drake passage and turn it into the Drake Causeway. This is of course totally ludricous, just in case you're asking. There are deep sea trenches, ice bergs, and the waves can reach 40m high. And one would basically have to fortify a megastructure against the steady push of a sizeable amount of the Earth's oceans.
Looking through the top few, most appear to be intentional misinterpretation, one has to do with much of the Old Testament law not applying in the New Testament (see above or below somewhere), different focuses (i.e. something being mentioned somewhere but not somewhere else doesn't mean it didn't happen, the other may have just had a different focus), etc.; if you have anything specifically you want me to take a look at I can, but it generally seems to be a combination of poor understanding of the Bible, failure to let Scripture interpret Scripture, trying to use the human mind to understand the full mind of God, etc.
> In the UK it's a crime to not disclose keys or passwords to the police

Makes me happy I don't live there. At the very least, it saves me from having to resort to steganography and/or claiming amnesia.

Also: he's already committed a larger crime, so who cares.
? how do you explain the relative stability of largely secular nations then?
Nice try with the 'whatabout-ism', but nearly by definition the non-religious groups are less sanctimonious.
From the article, halfway down: "Conventional methods of excavation would be "prohibitively expensive," the memo said."

So, sufficiently astronomical enough.
To expand on my moral philosophy, I think someone should be free to do as they please unless there is evidence that it harms someone else. Harm is defined by the preponderance of evidence. A few contrarian papers sponsored by big corporate interests aren't going to change that. I take a fairly firm stance on what constitutes evidence, and when in doubt, lean towards individual freedom over society's view of something.
I should add it is already been attempted in 2015: https://qz.com/481164/ibm-has-built-a-digital-rat-brain-that...
You mean, the same Jesus who appointed only men to be his disciples, while the women in his entourage were servants? It seems that Paul was just putting into words his practice.
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> especially since the prevailing guidance for a year now has been to wear masks to reduce airborne transmission

That is just an appeal to authority. Which has been par for course. This whole mess is built on a tower of circular references where everybody says "well, the other guy said to do it and they must have a good reason for it".

That being said, I too share a hypothesis that improperly worn masks (aka 95% of all masks being worn) do more harm than good. I'd love to see studies that show it but in this environment good luck getting it funded, much less published. Authors of such a study would probably get death threats.

Also being said, it isn't upon the skeptics to prove that masks dont work. You cannot prove something doesn't work. The burden of proof is on the people who say masks work in a way that makes them work their non-trival costs to society. Logic has been inverted the entire time this mess has been going on... somehow it is up to the skeptics to "prove" that restrictions don't work, "prove" that masks don't work, and "prove" that it is safe to return to normal. Nope. That isn't how it works.
I think that unfortunately a lot of people can't separate "this code is bad" from "this person is bad".

We all have times when we don't ship our best work. Life happens. It's also worth noting to the readers that Donenfeld's criticism of bad code is completely dispassionate and that he isn't above criticising himself. He seems to be genuinely among the nicest people in the community.

This seems unfortunate for mmacy and unfortunately exacerbated by the behavior of Netgate.
/r/publicfreakout
/r/justiceserved
/r/whatcouldgowrong
Ebay or Visa could easily be a moderators on the platform.

And they would be safer than they currently are, currently they can theoretically run away with your money and your best hope is to sue them.
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26623320
A series of questions:

- What's the ratio of non-technical bureaucrats to engineer in the author list of this report?

- What's the plan for a unified market (incorportate anywhere, sell anywhere, just works). No special snowflake legislation for every city-sized market.

- What's the plan regarding engineer compensation, non-compete and equity ownership among engineering staff?

- What's the plan to address brain drain?

These are the real issues.
This is fantastic! Could use a "report bugs" feature as I found an issue on the first category I looked in, Keyboards:

https://recorank.com/review/drop-entr-mechanical-keyboard

I'm pretty sure that doesn't have a graphics card "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER / Intel UHD Graphics"

I'm sure you have a good algorithm for determining this, but I'd imagine games would be higher up, as that's something bought often vs something bought once a year (or once over several years) like parts.
> Accidents happen. Even if it was a lab accident, it's not a reason to be outraged with the Chinese government.

Agreed! Whatever did cause COVID-19, the outbreak was made worse by a lack of transparency by the CCP. It seems like no matter what, the WHO report is unlikely to discuss that much. Which is a shame, because with more transparency into what happened we would be better able to stop the next COVID-19 from happening.
I don't think people typically include 401k matches in what they say they earn.

That said, state pension contributions are a significantly greater part of state employees' compensation than 401k matches are for private employers, so it does merit something. Perhaps a phrasing like "Top Paid LA Lifeguard earns $270k plus a $60k pension benefit" or whatever would be most descriptive.
I think the important thing is this commit was blocked -- there was QA process that caught it. This statement reads to me that there will be more code review moving forward. The whole situation is embarrassing to the 13 release process, but a lesson was learned rather than a dangerous release being created.

I look forward to wg, and I understand the rush to want it out.
Couple of points from the video:

1. The regular expression simplifier (https://youtu.be/nlt4XKhucS4?t=1102) stood out as particularly interesting - I get the impression it was partly "mostly simple", and partly battle-tested/nontrivial/hand-tuned. Speaking not-entirely-rhetorically, this would probably be a very interesting tidbit to study.

2. You mentioned at https://youtu.be/nlt4XKhucS4?t=2272 in response to a question that you apparently pass PNGs and other binary content "straight through" (in the context of file upload), ie bypassing the WAF. Given things like...

- webpage in JPEG (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/squirrel/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12262470, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4209052),

- JavaScript in EXIF (https://blog.sucuri.net/2013/07/malware-hidden-inside-jpg-ex...)

- PHP in EXIF (https://web.archive.org/web/20130708132109/https://websec.io...)

- HTML+JavaScript+1021 byte demo inside PNG: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24824299, http://www.p01.org/MONOSPACE/ (general NB: "Packed version" link under "Additional links" actually loads the demo for me in Chrome, but clicking through from HN and loading the URL directly doesn't - some sort of bizarre CORS-related thing?)

...I presume the status quo has changed somewhat here. Hearing how/what's going on in this space would be very interesting.
I would suggest the LWN article instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26572370
Why so complex? Just hook your diggers up to the nearest high-voltage distribution line, similar to how the Bagger 288 operates (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288) and feed the grid with a nuclear plant.

For what it's worth, even this massive beast, one of the world's largest man made machines, uses "only" 16 MW of electrical power, about twice the power a high-speed ICE 3 train needs.
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You say that like they just got unexpectedly lucky, but all mariners are well aware of and take tides into account in their planning.
Doubt long TTLs matter that much, given that plenty of software also has a max TTL value[1], including all popular browsers (Chrome(ium), WebKit aka Safari, Necko aka Firefox, Trident aka IE) and the most popular mobile OS (Android). You could maybe get lucky with some caching on your router, but in my experience cheap consumer routers just act as DNS forwarders and have little to no caching (I could not find any explicit data on this however).

1: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/dns-client-ttl.html
Teachers in my school district in CA work schedules that rotate between 4 hour days & 6 hour days. At most that is 26 hours / week (MWF 6 hrs/day & TR 4 hrs/day). There is also the occasional teacher/department meeting, but the district shortens Wednesdays class schedule for the students & substitutes that time with a teacher on teacher meeting.

In essence, teachers aren't working >30 hr a week. They get 2 weeks winter break, 1 week spring break, ~2.5 month summer, most every Monday holiday off. So they work about 9 months a year.

On top of that, they receive the amazing lifetime CA Pension which is like 90% of your top 5 earning years.

I looked up my teacher's salaries from high school. They make more than my CA public university STEM professors make.

About 5 years into teaching, a high school teacher will make about 60k/year regular + 25k/year in benefits. Tenured will make 120k+ in base and benefits. That is pretty good for an average of 25 hour workweek, 9 months a year.

Nothing stopping them getting another job that works between the hours of 3-10pm during the school year, putting them closer to the hours a GS analyst would work.
Arch makes it pretty easy to recall:

# Who owns binary?
pacman -Qo /bin/ls

# What files come with package?
pacman -Ql coreutils | grep ......
You are sounding picky and you are projecting the problems specific to your life on the rest of us.

We don't all want to be your friend, we want to avoid the rat race.
" before throwing it away (I was young ~12 which makes it easier). My objection is to the broken nature of the reasoning and how that tends to corrupt evidence based reasoning elsewhere most of them time "

Age 12 is pretty young to come to that conclusion.

Also, it's not about direct rational inquiry, yes it can sometimes a source of aberration, but that would be missing the point.

Spirituality is about who you are, your relationship to the greater good.

'Reasoning' is just a tool of the mind.

Science is a tool, not a Truth.
I know I'm the only one who's reading news on the Kindle Voyage, but I'm definitely adding this to my bookmarks list on the e-reader. Super cool!
Thank you for making this point. It is important to recognize that the Bible does make use of a variety of literary techniques (eg. psalms, parables, etc. especially). However, there are vast swathes of history throughout; it isn't just a book of fictional stories.
Presumably the test designers designed it in a way hoping that if something can pass test X, then it must also be able to do Y, making it a good test of Y abilities. Then someone comes along and figures out how to pass the test without being able to do Y.

You see it all the time in ML stuff. "Only a true AI could X" (with an implicit "and that would imply Y") and then people figure out how to build a system that does X but doesn't imply Y.

Turns out it's amazingly hard to build good standardize tests that don't fall into "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
> She was pretty adamant that medical workers should get PPE first

Sounds like maybe instead of whining, her organization could have made sure that healthcare get the PPE by... manufacturing more.

Not like it's their job or anything.
Unfortunately this won't help those who add dependencies based on shared snippets, without the context of a project. Or the innocent mistake (or choice?) of not checking the lock file into version control. But yes good point, existing projects that have checked in the integrity file will be safe against future malicious modifications of the resource
>> "Land and gas tax are economically efficient."

Isn't the former already expressed in the form of property tax? And if so, I wouldn't say it's economically efficient. Calculating the value of land/real estate is a blackbox (at least at the local level) only to be known and determined by the taxing entity (i.e government).
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That's great hahaha. There are some who believe that's actually what Jesus was trying to say: the he was a son of god (there was no definite article "the" in ancient greek), and that everyone else is too (essentially what the Buddhists and Hindus claim); but that message was misunderstood, misinterpreted, censored, and modified to suit political ends.

There are a number of more esoteric quotes attributed to jesus like the one I posted above which make this case quite compelling
I'll hand in my geek card at the next AGM.
:D
I was briefly unstuck in time when I watched Bio-Dome for the first time since I was little (millennial) and the adults were complaining about Gen X slackers Bud and Doyle. The '90s don't feel that long ago, and yet...
Pretty neat. Curious how hot is it this close though? How does the equipment not feel the effect? Wind keeps it cool? I wondered about how that drone guy got his flyover too.

Also, anyone can just drop a camera there and hope that no one moves it etc? Shouldn't we be able to see this camera maybe on the other feed (might be just out of view)
> Imagine a world where you might once again say hello to your neighbours

When people complain about social isolation, that still doesn’t necessarily mean that they want to interact with their neighbours. It could just mean that they want to be able to interact with people who, they know for sure, share the same hobbies and interests and (in polarized countries) the same political and social views.

One of the supposed upsides of urban modernity is the ability to choose one’s acquaintances at will, which is potentially liberating from the gossip and judgement of small-town and neighbourly communities, especially for sexual or other minorities.
Yeah, right. I recall that too, it got to the point where shipping had gotten used to taking the long way around. Towards the end, everyone had become so used to the fact (and the delays) that we'd almost forgotten the canal existed.

Maybe there's now some virtue in dusting off the old proposal for second canal route via Israeli territory (of course, sans the nukes this time).
Wait, so you're running Sucrase in a Cloudflare Worker?

It compiles, and then caches the output I assume?

That's a really cool use case I hadn't thought of..
Is this also including medical insurance? I can't imagine it is cheap to insure a pool of firefighters and lifeguards...