skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it's worth it to start now. Sanderson is writing at a blistering pace right now and doesn't seem to be slowing down.

Mistborn and Way of Kings are in the same universe but separate worlds. I don't want to spoil too much but there is some crossover involved.
So how extremely could I exploit this? Could I write a program entirely in C, compile it with the D compiler, and use D's unit test framework? That would be insane (very good insane, obviously).
As a rule, there is no off-the-shelf software solution that you can simply use to avoid being detected by the NSA or other powerful nation intelligence services. Even if there were, they are not limited to tracking you through technological means - they very much know how to find people the old-fashioned way as well.

That's not to say that it is impossible to hide from them, but it's never simple, when they're actively looking for you.
Not sure what criteria / desiderata you have for a picture. Like, how do you want the different possible outcomes to be depicted together?

Are you asking for a picture of 2 spheres and then another sphere? What are asking for?
I like this approach and it has worked for me in some ways.
I couldn't even work efficiently without my custom setup (keyboard layout, editor configuration, hardware even).
First of all, I hope nobody gets software advice from a dipshit with PHP errors all over the page.

Qt is a commercial product with big licensing fees, not suitable for small businesses. Canonical did use it for a long time... but they're switching to flutter because it's superior. Dart is a much better language to write GUI apps (or any app for that matter) than C++ will ever be.

Electron is a performance nightmare compared to flutter.
Apple awards Corning $45M from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund
It's unfortunate though that medical professionals have a deep misstrust/hatred for new technology due to bad experiences from poorly run it contracting.

My mum worked for the NHS and I'd regularly hear her complaining for weeks/months on end about new IT systems that either didn't work, were hard to use or were months or even years behind schedule. All while knowing how much these projects cost (it's all public info here) and that the people working on it where getting paid in a day what she would be lucky to make in a week.
When will Microsoft learn nobody asked for appstores and systems that only distinguish themselves from Win10 by being more limiting for the user? Windows RT, 10S, 10X, ...people don't care about Windows without its vast software ecosystem, at that point any other OS does the same job but better. Nobody ever goes to the store and says "I want to buy a Windows laptop".

They should rather focus on getting their primary OS running flawlessly on ARM chips before both Apple and Google leave them in the dust, and give developers enough time to port applications.
DataScript is used by Roam, Athens, Logseq
Armchair take: The pipelines handle a lot of fuel, and the US needs / uses a lot of fuel; to move the same amount, you need a lot of trucks. And if that need is not met, the economy etc will be disrupted heavily, price of fuel will go up, and the price of fuel going up has caused massive issues in the past.
>Is it worth reading them already or does it feel unfinished?

Mistborn is a complete trilogy although he continues to publish other novels set in the same world.

Way of Kings is ongoing. It's on book four now. Each book is over a thousand pages so there's a lot there. I don't think it's a problem to start. Books 1-3 are great and stand alone pretty well. It's started to drag with book 4 in my opinion. Like so many other huge epic fantasies, it has too many characters, too many plotlines, too huge of a world, and it's difficult to maintain the epic feel with all that sprawl. I'm worried for book 5.

> Mistborn and The Way of Kings take place in the same universe?

They take place in the same universe (literally) but they are on different worlds. So they don't have anything (much?) to do with each other (yet?)
I feel like you ended the story too soon. Let's hear about the Real and how it worked.
It does, but it doesn't emphasize it enough to allay confusion, particularly for those unfamiliar with the "gotcha" in the problem. It's easy to overlook in that description unless you know that it is the important clue to understanding.

Kind of like the classic riddle "John's mother has four children. They are named March, April, and May. What's the last child's name?" which uses underemphasis for almost comedic effect.
IME you do not need to read everything thoroughly to get value out of it.

I usually go through several spurs in a year where I go through a series of books in a couple of days... I might not recall everything that's being said, but I get the main message, and assume a lot of information is stored subconsciously.

Simply knowing that there's more details available if/when I need it is usually enough for me...

The technique to learn to speed-read is easy, but it takes a lot of practice. I posted a reply explaining it; no idea why it got downvoted TBH.

Anyway, I'd strongly suggest you to start practicing; it tends to be a very valuable skill to have.
We are integrating benchmarks into RonDB to make it easy to compare to other products, currently Sysbench (standard open source database benchmark) and DBT2 (TPC-C open source variant) available, will later add more internal and standard benchmarks.
There's even specific "chaperone" proteins that help more complex proteins fold correctly. Biology is pretty wild like that :P
To stay on "The Office" universe, that specific CEO was more of a Robert California.

A bit creepy, intimidating, but still able to impress gullible people. He invited employers he thought were "winners" for diners (although the term the company used was "champions"). Instead of being fascinated by Sesame Street he was fascinated by DC Comics, though. I'm actually surprised at how fitting the comparison is.

All without the James Spader charm, of course.

EDIT: In person, however he was a great guy. I just don't think he behaved in a proper way as CEO.
From the gravitational potential energy, I would think.
In my experience, they're pretty poor in English too. Especially when it's ad hoc conversation where people don't finish sentences, repeat themselves, "um" and "err" etc
It was a flip remark. The point is it increases your chances of early death. Can't get Alzheimers if you're dead.
It’s cutting off branches from the decision tree.
My experience to increase book bandwidth is to read more, not to read faster. That is, allocate more time of the day to reading.
Haha. Arguably you got a really good entry after Elon Musk dumped Doge. ;)
> work enthusiasm and burn out

If you are enthusiastic there is one more thing that might burn out. I am usually quite enthusiastic when at a new job, but as soon as I start to despise the process or are forced to do a half assed job it the enthusiasm fades.

It got way less stressful for me when I stopped to care that much about the end result and worked less hard (I never worked overtime, I mean per hour) since I figured that I did not have the authority anyway to change most stuff. I guess that is some form of burn out of spirit.

In the beginning of my career I though I was way better then my colleges, but I realized that they had mostly just "burned out" before me and did the bare minimum.
Is there a leader who is know for their military conquests that you couldn’t say the same about?
Or we're in a simulation, and everything we perceive as "out there in the expanse of space" is just fake data like a background on a website...from a processing standpoint it'd be much easier to feed/render certain views only under observation, otherwise just nothing exists there...it's save resources for a simulation from a computing standpoint...

Like in a video game where new areas are rendered as you discover them....
And here is the issue with US labor unions. In the name of solidarity you will not: 1) do more work, 2) work more hours, 3) make your job more efficient, etc.
Get better books that are worth reading every single word carefully.
Google circumvents Roku's ban on YouTube TV
Same universe -- the Cosmere. But we really are talking about "universe" here. Different planets (galaxies?) that know nothing about each other, just happen to share some laws of nature (and some mysterious characters that seem to travel around). I don't even pick up on most of the connections without having them pointed out to me.

Stormlight Archive is 10 books in two 5 book arcs. 4th book is out now, 5th book will be out in 3 years. So probably a decent time to get into Stormlight. (Sanderson makes a schedule for each of his projects and has an incredible talent for hitting his targets.)
Shorter days makes much more sense to me than shorter weeks. Wherever I've worked those last two hours of the day are always a waste.
Question everything. Not just the obvious things like "how does crypto work", but also mundane things you encounter in everyday life: Why did they react that way? Could I have handled that better? Why was ___ placed in that location? Why isn't there a ___ here? Why is ___ more expensive than ___? What are they trying to achieve with ___? Why do I want ___? Etc.
Make sure the text is well typeset (most importantly, short lines).
Sounds like they were working in an environment will little / no psychological safety
With prices constantly changing, how were people compensated at work? What were the dynamics of the job market during that time?
I have learned about the perils of overworking the hard way - burnout after about 2 years of working too much. I've since learned to be more tempered.

However, maybe I am missing something in most of the comments in here. Everybody seems to agree with the article and against working longer hours.

However, how are you supposed to 'get ahead' if not by working longer and/or harder than your peers? There is obviously a balance here, but knowledge and, implicitly, higher income doesn't just happen. If you don't push harder, you won't get more. And I honestly don't think I can ever be satisfied with any given salary in perpetuity.
Makes sense, thanks! I appreciate the non-spoiler. These days I don't even read the description on the back of books anymore to try and experience it openly. It just makes it a bit hard to work out where to start sometimes.
Consider the power dynamics and that subordinate's need to earn money.
They don't scrape the sites but they do need you to trust them with your bank account login credentials.

They say this is because this is the only way they could work with banks to confirm your identity that was easy and also secure. And they claim that they don't store your login credentials.

I'll still never use it.

EDIT: It's been a while since I read up on them. Seems they actually do scrape the account data sometimes and other times they have agreements with the banks like I mentioned.
I disagree. If you the whole machine to yourself (colo/bare metal hosting) the vast majority of workloads you run wont run any untrusted code.
I'm suggesting talking with the doctor about it to check if it might be the case. Why do you treat OP like they're incapable of self-responsibility so that I must protect them?
My reading of GPs comment was more about the cause and effect of any corresponding price increase, not whether Netflix would actually increase their price in this scenario.

For a physical good, if you have a surge in demand as more people can afford you're product you start running into supply issues. This will likely result directly in a price increase as you can't increase profit by just selling more when you don't have anymore to sell.

In the example of netflix, the supply issue almost completly disappears. They don't HAVE to increase the price to increase their profit. Yes Netflix may decide that with the flood of new customers they can put the price up and maintain or increase their profit.

The point I think that is being made is that their isn't a physical supply issue in effect "forcing" them to increase the price. They are doing it because they want to, not because they need to.
This would something like Chatrooms only. No direct messages. I am trying to recreate the early IRC experience, with privacy in mind. I am not trying to upend Signal or WhatsApp. Would that change your opinion?

Edit: thanks for the feedback
That's a very narrow view of "human achievements and progress". Did Mozart achieve because he was forced by peer-pressure to work around the clock? Picasso? Miles Davis?

It's pretty sad if we consider Facebook, Google or Apple as the pinnacles of human achievement. Sure it's useful to have a phone in my pocket that can tell me at any time of the day what's the weather in Hong Kong or how to cook Pork Hock. Sure it's nice that I can connect to relatives in Spain or Brazil through Facebook or search for the number of current Covid cases in South Africa. But I could live with those "achievements" having come later if that had not meant a work culture that forces me into burnout.

Same for space rockets bringing robots to Mars, electric cars for the upper class and drilling tunnels under some Bay Area city.

And for those claiming the climate catastrophe is here and we need to act now .. yeah, let's think for a moment how we got here and whether overachieving and overworking have something to do with it.
What are the negative side effects of vitamin C supplements?
I worked at a place where pair programming was optional but suggested as a good practice. I worked there for 5 years. It was 4 years ago. My team did it and we still talk to each other almost everyday even if we switched jobs.
I think it's a good experience if everyone likes it. I don't think we actually ever did 8 hours straight of pair programming.
Between pauses and meetings it was more 4 hours per day.

I also have a friend a Pivotal and what is described in this article doesn't sound at all like what he usually chats about.

I think that what the author is feeling cannot be result of pair programming alone.
I have to say though that many people dismiss it without even trying like some of the comments on this thread sound like.
Asha had Java ME apps and was a borderline smartphone in 2011. Sure neither had App Stores but in 2007 no-one used having an App Store as the criteria for being a smartphone or not.

What we expect from a smartphone moves on of course but you have to judge by the standards of the time. I fact you could argue that by modern standards there were no smartphones pre iPhone 1 - that the poor browsing experience for example would disqualify the Blackberries and Motorolas of the time.
Last time I had a regular job the 32 hours per week already felt way to much. It may comes from my burnout in the past but I really do not understand why so many people who would have the choice opt for working more than less.

I don't think enjoying life when old (fire or rich pension plans) is a good plan either as it's not that likely to even get there without serious health issues (statistics, not because I'm unhealthy) and my today's money is worth nothing then when I would need it.

Working little but smart, don't be wasteful with your money and invest smart is kinda what I try doing.
A profound terror of their own personal insignificance and mortality?
Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?
How do you skip abusive comment or something which can get you in legal trouble?
If the messages aren't stored, they can't be subpoenaed. At least that is my idea.

Thank you for your feedback.
Any banking core system migration that's in the news is a gigantic incident. A testament to the state of IT infrastructure at big banks, and the people they trust with directing the development of these systems. A shitshow.
Free online anti-harassment training to make cultural change in the MeToo era
True! I think deep down we all want to be influential. They're just trying to cheat their way into it.
They can't. That's how the author got burned out.
To my experience PP is to a large extend a way (for the management) to make sure that people are not slacking. As for the burnouts...
BriskBard 2.5 Released
I look forward to my 45mins commute on the tube as it is the only time I have for reading. In fact I haven't ready pretty much anything at all on this year long lockdown and just restarted now as I went back to the office.
Why do you need to program at a higher level than assembly?
Out of curiosity, does anyone else find this really tiring? I can only do it for a bit before my eyes feel tired. Maybe it's all the moving?
Not completely sure on this one, for example how the Romans had better concrete than we have now, even despite all of our scientific advancements
Servas Secure Enclaves via RISC-V Authenticryption Shield [pdf]
That is a great question. The point of ImportC is to import the declarations from a C file. But it turns out you can simply give the C file on the command line, and it'll compile it and make an executable:

echo hello.c
int printf(const char*,...);
int main() { printf("hello world\n"); }

dmd hello.c

./hello
hello world

But then there's the question "should D features be allowed in the C code?" This is a very subversive question. Is it really C if that is allowed? Already, the C code allows for Compile Time Function Execution, which comes for free by passing the C code through the D front end. You can see it in action in the test cases in this file:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/12507/files#diff-b94776a02...

Scroll down a bit and you'll see it executes C functions at compile time. I decided to flirt with heresy and leave this in, because it sure makes adding tests convenient!

I'm less sure about adding unittests to the C compiler. Certainly, you can always add the unittests to the D code that is importing the C code. This will probably hold the charges of abomination to a minimum.
> I’m curious — how would something like a data-diode work in real life?

Low, fixed-bitrate transfer over unidirectional fiber optics. Unidirectional transcievers are the norm for long-haul fiber.

My local electrical utility is still running 11.52kbps RS-232 over fiber for exactly this reason. At those bitrates you don't need backpressure -- your disk will never fill up and if the CPU can't handle that bitrate you already have much larger problems.

It's kind of funny that they have sheaths where one strand is running this piddly dozen-kilobit protocol and other strands in the same sheath are doing 10gbit/sec * 16-channel CWDM.

Most electrical utilities are into fiber optics in a very big way; they already (usually) own the poles and unlike copper it's nonconductive. Many of them have vastly more strands of fiber between substations than they need.
There is a lot of advice in reddit at r/speedreading/ (some of it very good advice, some of it terrible).

Personally, I considerably increased my reading speed after using a speed reading application in my phone. I used the app only to read novels, but my reading speed with real non-fiction books greatly benefited too.

As many people have pointed out, reading faster does not always mean learning faster. However, reading is a skill that can be trained and, for most of us, there is quite some room for improvement. You can probably read faster than you do without any drawback.
People who have power over others begin to believe that the positive feedback they get from their employees (simply because they control a person's financial and career success) equates to them being a person of actual interest. They believe the attention means they are smarter, funnier and more charming than they actually are. Tie this to people with narcissistic traits, and you get a strong feedback loop where they never hear dissent, or critique so they fall further into this pattern of behaviour.
Moire patterns are related to aliasing: the gap between the lines on the overlay is your sample frequency, the lines on the underlying page is your signal frequency, with the angle of the two sheets modifying the relative frequency and the offset of the sheets changing the phase.
That would be the unstated subtext. Maybe I should write a whitepaper.
The set of "why's" is well put. But in a production environment, that pleasure is being squeezed out by processes, principles, capitalism. Programmer becomes like a machine that makes sure the necessary requirement is in place and then executes. Over time this flow brings cancer to the hacker soul. I fight it every day: sometimes by visiting HM to charge myself with ideas, sometimes by delaying the work and delving into some piece of the abstraction. The last bit just extends the delivery of a feature but brings long-awaited joy to the soul. Whether it is a new type of assertion in the testing framework or a more performant and elegant authentication logic or even an exploration of a new browser API. The rule is simple - for every piece of work for the devil, do something pleasing for yourself without any exception. Otherwise, the fingers of pleasure will tickle you only at night in your bedroom.
From (UK/NHS) experience handoffs are done I have certainly seen it when I have ben in hospital.
Why? Even Wikipedia has no summary of its teachings so what's in it?
Shouldn't we forget all of history then? Which ruler have not caused suffering or death for somebody?
Anti-Surveillance Wearables
The great thing with old tools is that it had decades of testing and most even obscure bugs are already found and fixed.

If I run 'cat' in my shell I know it will print/output the file content.

If I run 'shx cat' I get an interpretation of my file content.

One use of 'cat' is to concatenate multiple files into one. Works great with classic cat, not so much with Shelljs.

$ echo -ne "\0xac" > test.dat

$ cat test.dat | xxd

00000000: ac .

$ shx cat test.dat | xxd

00000000: efbf bd ...
I expected more dumb high-res TVs as a result of chip shortage, but strangely that has not happened.
If you are not used to it and you try to read really fast it will of course be demanding to your eyes muscles, like any exercise.

I find it good actually because it’s a good signal to drop a book if I was able to exhaust my eyes on it like this.
> Society (Gesellschaft)

In this context, Gesellschaft translates to Company. (GmbH=LLC)

The spelling also depends on whether you're talking about the historical Erste Donau-Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft or any generic Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft – note the ff vs. fff in middle; the old company name retains its pre-1996 spelling.

Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft without hyphens was as far as I can tell never officially used by the company, but used informally as part of the name of the Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänstango, a 1930s song.
His first book Elantris is also very good and well worth your time. A good starting point for his work and a self-contained novel (although he had mentioned writing two more Elantris books in the distant future).
There really is no reason why you wouldn’t be able to pair government intervention on the demand side (i.e. UBI) with government intervention on the supply side. Simply introduce quotas about supply (e.g. that shops cannot throw away more than 1% of the food they sell), and/or limits on non-productive assets (e.g. freeze rents & Netflix subscription). I’m sure there are many smarter interventions than I was able to come up in 30 seconds as wel.
It is a joke and a rather childish one at that.
The difference between "the FBI will look into it if they find some spare time" and "you've made the top 10 target list of the NSA".