skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Users (and this is what the blog's author is here, they aren't developing Firefox they just want a benchmark activity) aren't very interested in solving technical problems and so, as seen here, they won't tell you what the error was. They definitely won't admit to any suspicion that it's in any way their fault. It's your fault.

From their perspective, who cares what the error is? They formed an intent, and then your stupid computer software instead of fulfilling their intent did something else. This is your fault.

For example maybe I wanted to delete the old data, and I typed "rm new-data". Don't tell me that deletes the new data, I can see that now, it's your fault that the new data is deleted, I wanted to delete the old data.

For a UX point of view, where possible try to offer "Undo". The user doesn't care that shooting themselves in the face was a bad idea, and they definitely don't care that you made them click "Yes, really, in my face, I understand this will hurt" three times first, now that they've done it, and it hurts, they want to undo it. Adding a forth confirmation step will not reduce the complaints.

Sometimes it will be hard to "undo". But you should periodically revisit decisions about that over the lifetime of a piece of software as resources increase. If you have 64KB bytes of RAM it's understandable if I can't undo "fill circle" in v1 of your Freeware art program. It's much less understandable in version 16 of the $100 program on a 16GB PC...

Would it make sense to be able to "undo" a Rustup even though that's difficult? Maybe. It's worth at least considering.

And yes, it is nice that Rust has a helpful community who might try to help you fix problems if you explain what the problem is, but this isn't really about Rust, it's about Users.
I also not that supposed "fact check" contains a flat out lie;

They first say;

"false claims about the WEF have been conflated with conspiracy theories about the United Nation’s ‘Agenda 30’ framework"

then later on their "debunking" itself falsely conflates the WEF with the UN Agenda 2030, saying;

"False. The World Economic Forum does not have a stated goal to have people ‘own nothing and be happy’ by 2030. Its Agenda 2030 framework outlines an aim to ensure all people have access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property."

They claim the "proof" that the WEF is not promoting the "own nothing" society is that "their" Agenda 2030 framework promotes property ownership, but it isn't "theirs" at all, it's the UN's. They literally do the same thing to rebut claims about the WEF that they accused the "conspiracy theorists" of.
Well, fuzzy cute ones anyway. Surely we can test on E-Coli? How about slime molds? Maybe the occasional insect? What about shrews - they are nasty and mean.
Sounds like you want to play Eve Online
The entire business model of the management consulting industry.
I agree with you. However, I don't agree with the voices of managers. I manage a few engineers and haven't had additional trouble during the pandemic:

* People show up when meetings are scheduled as always

* While I can't get up-to-the-minute responses from people, my style doesn't really require them. If someone is on a walk, eating lunch, or taking a nap for 30 minutes, I can wait. I care more about happy and productive teammates than micromanaged ones.

I feel like having a productive team here is a matter of rolling with the punches. We have a policy of communicating OOFs if they are longer than 30 minutes but anything less is fine as long as you are getting the work done.
You could always just go for a bike ride, they're not soley for commutes.
So at what point would printing trillions of dollars have an effect?
If we just gave everyone 10k a month, would inflation occur then?
The study found no rise in productivity, neither did it mention anything about fall. So likely these employees are taking care of stuff at home during work hours and making up for it by working a little longer. I don’t see any issue with mixing some personal tasks with office work as long as the productivity stays the same.
> First, it concentrates on documenting calls within an API by individual function.

Isn’t this just a misread of what DocC adds?

I watched the “Meet DocC documentation in XCode” wwdc session and the very first thing they talked about is how it complies Articles and Tutorials as well as reference documentation and how they can cross reference.
I agree with you, but looking at what comes out of Silicon Valley these days, there is a fine line between "ponzi scheme" (in the broad sense) and "re-invest everything in growth and hope to get acquired". I'd push back that many traditional startups, most of which end up never being profitable but still exit in one way or another due to hype and investor relationships, are just as close to pump and dump schemes as many crypto projects are. It just isn't as obvious because the time scale is usually a bit longer.

> But a crypto project is not a traditional scalable company

Why is that true? There are DeFi crypto projects that are scalable companies with big revenue streams. Sure, the space is driven by speculation, but you can argue the same about Robinhood.
It decidedly does not generally lack these tools. A main point of many popular secular(ist) believe systems, e.g. such represented by humanist societies, is to question implicit assumptions and understand what fundamental philosophical believes one has, and they are built around how to do this.

People are often not secularist because they don't reflect, usually they have specific reasons that they are aware of and that they might question in the future.
This is something I have never heard of. But what most have heard of is the Black Sox Scandal:

"The Black Sox Scandal was a Major League Baseball game-fixing scandal in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for money from a gambling syndicate led by Arnold Rothstein. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was appointed as a response to the incident to be the first Commissioner of Baseball, and given absolute control over the sport to restore its integrity.

Despite acquittals in a public trial in 1921, Judge Landis permanently banned all eight men from professional baseball. The punishment was eventually defined by the Baseball Hall of Fame to include banishment from consideration for the Hall. Despite requests for reinstatement in the decades that followed (particularly in the case of Shoeless Joe Jackson), the ban remained."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sox_Scandal
According to Wikipedia the main organizing principle in suprematism is feeling, not rules. I don't know how much feeling you can get from rand(), though.
Cool collection of articles. One thing I’d like is a link to the HN discussion, for the articles taken from here.
> 60 degrees C is a lot above a really hot Mediterranean summer day. Average temp is 33 degrees in the hottest summer months, and in extremes it may be 40 degrees Celsius.

I was thinking 40 degrees. Given "average" isn't implied by "really hot", I'd say your 40 degree figure falls in line with what I had in mind. But you're right that it's still a big jump to 60 degrees.

Maybe I shouldn't have put vague comparisons in my post because it's rather distracting from the core point that the GP got their Celsius and Fahrenheit mixed up.
It's the Economist, the Cosmopolitan for middle managers...
The Satoshi Mindset | Bitcoin, a stoic response to a financial problem
>or being expelled from society entirely

So the main reason to exploit animal is because the other human hate it and that other human could harm you. I see so it has nothing to do with the animal suffering itself.
> This idea that science and technology is just another random religion is so frustrating

That's not my idea, take it to people who are treating science as such. You know, "believe the science" crowd, that will just take at face value whatever media happens to say at the time.

Electricity and the internet are out of scope for religion. Religion is closer to humanist subjects, sociology, psychology, ethics etc.
Wow, that's the first time I've seen a loading spinner that not only spins but is itself is spun around.

Other than that it doesn't look much worse than any other modern website.
I like it, but it is so much information that you it would be cool to have a systematic way to archive it and search it.
This was my thought as well. I spend about 1.5 hours each day in traffic when driving to work.
I mean more likely the OP is just being edgy and is only performatively apathetic at a surface level, but the only thing we have to go off of are their words, which do point to some deeper problem.
The US government once made a microblogging service called ZunZuneo [1] for Cuba in an attempt to encourage political change there. It failed to achieve its intended outcomes, but is nevertheless quite interesting because the it shows that the US government is well aware of how electronic media has great potential for exerting political influence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZunZuneo
No its because the presence of such people in society only increases total overall suffering (animal or human).
Not saying it is okay, but that it is this way, and we shouldn’t be surprised when publishers exercise editorial control or moderation on their platforms.

If I wrote the N-word here on HN, it would be downvoted until it disappeared, and if not, the mods would disappear it. Is this surprising to anyone? They don’t want that crap here. Facebook doesn’t want its definition of crap there. Twitter doesn’t want it’s definition of crap there. If you want to communicate without a filter, use a communication system without editorial filters.
Not sure if you're being facetious not, but that is an interesting question.

I'd wager that it isn't exploitative however, because plants are not sentient, and (AFAWK), do not have thought/feelings or emotions.
Well duh. If you have a race bike, of course you'll also keep a metro pass or a car. You still need to get places. But the race bike is your instrument of leisure and a place to unwind. This role cannot be fulfilled by a car or a metro pass for some people, because it just doesn't have the same relaxed atmosphere.
I have never got all these jokes. When my job switched from Subversion to git it took me about one week plus reading a couple of articles to become more productive in git than I ever was in Subversion. Yes, version control is a bit tricky but git is not that hard to understand and was much easier than contemporary Subversion versions.
Maybe not longer, but spread out their day to their liking. Like take a break where at the office is hard.
Thank you for the swift and polite reply.
Not related to the content of the article, but am I the only one bothered with the way the article spell ranges: "six to 15 minutes", "Twelve of 18 men", "six of 24 females" ...
Thanks! Soon I'm going public code to github, yeah it'll be open source
They may work fewer hours, but they won't be miserable and burned out from being stuck at home all week.
The blanket rejection is not at all the way you're characterizing it.

The vaccines were assumed unsafe until many thousands of people had received them.

The thing people are rejecting is your rejection of the sound science that went into proving the safety of the vaccines.

At this point, hundreds of millions have taken them and they're still proving themselves to be safe.

If you have evidence, cite it. You don't have any good evidence, which is why you haven't done that yet.
This looks great! I was in Hamburg and saw a show of Robert Longo, Goya and Eisenstein drawings. I was really fascinated to learn that Eisenstein drew a lot like Malevich. But you can see that sort of diagramatic thinking in both his movies and in the Suprematists around him.

This is a really interesting project, thanks for showing it to us!
I learned recently that you can make tea from roasted buckwheat. I googled it, and found a seven minute video of a man making tea with his daughters. And I don't mean an artful exposition or something, just full-on Youtube "yo what's up welcome back to the channel so since last time we've been really loving BUCKWHEAT TEA here's how to make it don't forget to LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE" drivel around pouring water on buckwheat.
I think the reality is regardless of what we want, that at most companies the people who write docs are the people who write code. That doesn't mean it's the best way but it does make it the way we have to deal with a majority of time. That's why building tools to help engineers be better documenters from high level through to the low level is I think in the interest of everyone.

In my last company before I jumped, I architected and implemented our full data infrastructure along with one other engineer. Which means I was responsible for high level conceptual documentation and low level documentation all the same and while I've written documentation before and for years I'm not formally trained in it so it was all still basically winging it. Since then I've actually taken a few short courses on writing better technical documentation since I felt it was a weak spot and having tools to assist in making that easier would have been great.

Documentation is hard and has been neglected but man does it have major underlying costs to getting it wrong.

Everything from on boarding being slow to misunderstandings that cause expensive bugs and everything in between. The root cause is developers have a hard time understanding complex systems and we as an industry are really hit and miss on writing the documentation that would make that understanding easier.
Its almost like fixing compiler bugs means no language is truly ever backwards compatible for long...
It all depends on the people. For lot of folks who love remote work, it frees up 3-4 hours every day to do things they like and at the same time increasing the productivity. There is no need for 19th century factory style work hours for most people.
That will probably change once EVs become more popular. All EVs I've heard of use either single-ratio transmissions, or automatic transmissions, even in Europe.
It really depends on the type of sauna, local customs, and even then there is still quite a large range due to individual preferences.

80 degrees C would generally be the hotter end of spectrum. Some go as low as 40 degrees C
I've been playing around with Swift/SwiftUI recently and while the documentation is still unclear in some areas, it is significantly better than the documentation for their Objective-C APIs was a few years ago when I was trying to make an iPhone app.

Edit: Why is this downvoted? Do people really think the documentation got worse over the past few years?
However, their kids will be at school or daycare, they will be able to run errands in half the time (service slowed way down during the pandemic due to safety protocols), and people at just happier with their social connections without a twinge of boding anxiety over every interaction.
Noted. I'll add to my to-do list. Thanks!
That is my takeaway also - the editorial staff at The Economist must have friends in commercial real estate.
Define efficiency and then I may agree. I not only work more efficiently from home, but work least inefficiently in an office setting. I don't have kids and my daily meditation helps me from being distracted. I personally think most information workers can work more efficiently from home.
Fully agree. Intellij and Pycharm together got 38.8% of votes, which clearly shows that the jetbrains cosmos is definitely a popular contender
I've used RabbitMQ on several projects over the last decade or more, and have never once known it to fail.

It can be tricky to configure it you want clustering, or have fancy requirements (e.g. client certificate authentication), but once running, it's solid.
The big quality of life thing I received from the Pandemic is that instead of procrastinating, I simply take a nap. No bullshitting. I know the elite companies have nap chambers, but WFH provided this for me - a regular ass joe the plumber developer.

No commute, rest when stressed by a problem, a deep dark secret that’s helped me just do the work or sleep. The simple rest has solved entire features for me. The humanity of it all is remarkable, but of course, a dirty little secret in this absurd world.

I’m human - come at me bro.

Edit: To deny the stress of the alarm clock, the commute, the theatrics of looking busy, like, I just can’t. We’re mentally healthier and I will absolutely not put up the bullshitters that say it isn’t true.
I recently learned pressing the number keys on youtube.com jumps to 0/10/20/...% of the runtime.
NVidia thinks otherwise,

https://www.adacore.com/company/partners/nvidia
I think the headline 'doing something is better than doing nothing' is a bit misleading. Based on my reading on the article, maybe it should be 'people would rather do something than not' because the researchers studied preferences, not utilities.
You don't see the point in condemning a private corporation for employing millions of wage-slaves throughout the world and abusing public postal services (while building their own distribution network) to make their boss the richest man on Earth and make sure no one can compete with their business? If that's the case, we have wildly different ethical standards.
First was where my dad told me his role models would get most of their knowledge from biographies.

In college I did really well up to a point. Worked longer and harder and that made things worse. The best students slept early and were relaxed. So I capped my study hours, took care of diet and sleep, and developed a system for note taking. Long story short, it's reading the conclusion of the paper/chapter first, keeping a glossary, and breaking it down to the skeleton facts.

Then freelancing. Time/skills converted directly to money. The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition worked best for this. There's an order to learning, e.g. you shouldn't start to learn a language with projects. Grinding skills gets you trapped as advanced beginner. There are multiple plateaus to mastery, and they usually require a mentor and some task.

Then after subscribing for MasterClass. It's not the classes themselves, but rather seeing what the top 0.1% had in common. Everyone had passion, a way of dealing with self-doubt, beginner's mind, and often some gaping flaw in their skill set which was transcended by some other skills.

Beginner's mind became a fascination - how does an expert see the same thing differently every day? Doesn't the expertise interfere?

The answer was in Thinking Fast and Slow's two systems. There's an intuitive system/muscle memory (1) and an active conscious mind (2). You can't let system 1 override system 2 - anger, fear, habit should not affect your perception. It's not a clear cut mental/physical separation either. Most of your learning will be done with system 1, including mental tasks like chess, debugging, algorithms. System 2's job is just to interrupt when it's on the wrong thing. This aligns perfectly with Dreyfus's model too.

I'd say the best way to learn is to totally trust your learning instinct. Don't think. Don't judge yourself. Just use your consciousness to observe. If you observe hard enough (beginner's mind), you'll be too focused to think, which puts you into flow.
I've noticed that shitty tasks make me procrastinate and interesting tasks make time fly no matter where I am.
I thought it was very clear, and I kept it on my bookshelf long after it had become irrelevant. I only chucked it to make space for other things on the shelf.
>The author insinuates that the breakage is intentional, but I'm not convinced that it is.

The author seems to do this a lot.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27385818
I think you may have confused venture capital with hedge funds.

The overwhelming majority of VC funds are set up with a 10y time horizon and option to extend to 15y. They make their investments in the first 2-3y of the fund and then hope to earn their carry by "returning the fund". For a typical mid-sized $200m fund this means turning one of their $5-10m Series A checks into a liquidity event far above $200m (valuing the company in turn at over a billion to return this amount to the firm), in other words counting on a >>20-40x return for the lucky breakout in their portfolio and taking the others mostly as a (relative) loss. While some secondary activity exists, it is rare for a regular fund to manage to achieve these kinds of multiples in a secondary sale versus an IPO or acquisition. And an acquisition that exits after 3-5 years is extremely unlikely to have this kind of multiple -- and consequently those are not deals in which the partners will earn carry. (And going from Series A to IPO in 3-5 years is extremely unusual - median time to IPO is 9-11 years, though SPACs may have at least temporarily changed some of the calculus on this.)

So no, I don't know of any VCs who target companies that hope to be bought in 3-5 years and don't care if the company ships anything.
Exactly! I suspect most of the folks complaining about crypto space in general are 'brick and mortar' investors of a centralized web. These people invest only in their closed network, in people they meet face to face and "like" in general. I wouldn't put much weight on this whining really.

Edit: Looks like I touched a raw nerve of some bay area folks. lol.
It seems that I'm only allowed to read if I subscribe...
what the hell is observable? tried to figure it out via their site, it's vague as hell
Some days I think about making a service that cuts to the chase.

For example: Put in the URL for that vid (or share-sheet it to the app), and it instantly returns “Click on menu > Item, then select size”
Northern Bulgaria counties of Vidin and Montana are basically depopulated, shrubs are starting to grow and I've seen lots of animals on the road.
IBM Selectric Golf Ball in slow motion
I personally find VSCode the easiest editor to set up for Python development and the most powerful. I tried to set up the remote debugging in PyCharm, but it didn’t work. The refactoring tools available via pylance, linting with pycodestyle and the remote editing in VSCode took very little time or effort to set up and allow me to use the same editor I use for PHP, Zig and Rust. I have been working to set up neovim for a similar experience, which has access to a lot of the same features, but it has taken me many more hours of configuration. I understand there’s a lot of reasons not to like VSCode, but in terms of functionality and ease of setup for Python it has been the best for me.
From the employee's point of view, yes. From the company's side, not really. Which may explain to some degree why workers are more likely to feel that they're more efficient working from home - they consider the commute part of the workday, and the employer doesn't.
Several 80's kernels had enough Mesa, Modula-2 and Object Pascal on them.
> There was nothing else to do but work and eat for many.

Though it's entirely possible that hurts efficiency.

> the number of hours they’ll work will go down

and it's possible that can improve efficiency.
They're not just transphobia-friendly; one of their new ops got opped right after uttering a transphobic slur in a very transphobic sentence. Their own staff are openly transphobes.