skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've mostly kept a couple work friends per job but I'm also more proactive than most people on staying in touch. When I was a kid I was awful at it and was a loner and eventually decided I would try harder to stay in touch with people and not let friends disappear because of a move.

But regardless of whether you keep them even with an active non work social life I want also want a work social life. I have your solution but that still doesn't remove my desire to have work friends too. I spend 40ish hours a week on work. I don't want that to be with people that I can't call several of them good friends.
FWIW, my newsletter usually has a few 'company dev blog' articles every week. You should be able to find some good stuff there. See https://bengtan.com/interesting-things.

Also, some related commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27492255
Only if the target was far and we did it in one shot. Otherwise you’d just measure the state of things and make corrections for your next maneuver, the way we do for trips outside Earth’s orbit today.
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The crux here is, of course, that one week of your time is a lot more valuable than 5k to your employer if they pay you 3.7k per week, and probably a lot more than you would be willing to part with or find reasonable (think 20k+ a week)

It's a pretty infuriating setup. From the employers perspective, the amount of money you lose by having someone not work is so obscene, so quickly, that you have to fight your monkey brain pretty hard to not be a total asshole about it.

Even in this well paying industry, you could give everyone obscene raises, before time off makes any financial sense for the average employer. I don't think enough employees realise this.
Small businesses?
I would consider top 10 on HN front page to be "going viral."
Modernizing the DOM Tree in Microsoft Edge (2017)
> SF public transit is de facto free.

Huh? I mean, sure, enforcement is pretty lax, but most people who ride buses in SF do indeed pay. The homeless generally do not, and drivers look the other way. (Frankly, I'm ok with this, as long as they aren't violent or using the bus as a toilet.)
The rich are getting really rich via real estate.

Rents are getting too high and people can't save to buy a place of their own anymore.

I believe if you fix the housing problem (fundamentally limiting how much property a person or corporation can own), then you'll make life easier for a huge percentage of poor people stuck in debt traps that leave them without a crucial asset for survival - a roof over there head.
"Enough to live on" isn't a great way to live, and I think people are plenty motivated by wanting a bit of discretionary spending.

That said, there are other potential problems with UBI, like incentivising anyone on it to move to the most affordable cities, which are often already suffering from unemployment and underemployment.
Whoa this is awesome.

I would like to buy/build one of these for my home office? What's the best guide or best pre-built?

Honestly I'd rather just throw money at someone whose built one for me. But either way is fine.
Also cars. Production lines are closed down for weeks due shortage.
OK so a build machine is owned and we have a sort of consensus for trusted builders, and if there's a consensus mismatch we know something's up.

I suppose that's reasonable. Sounds like reproducible builds is a big step towards that, though clearly this requires quite a lot of infrastructure support beyond just that.
Thx, sounds like his interest were mostly around protecting the rights of the users/customers, being able to use and modify the software as required.
This question comes to my mind as well everytime I see that abbreviation.
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By the way, here's the stats on Debian's herculean share of the efforts: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
hi, don't apologise - don't be a dck in the first place instead. you really come across like one :)
i mentioned 10 minutes a day direct sunlight on your eyes. If you, Karen, think it will give you cancer, stay indoors and only go out with sunglasses on - fair enough.
Some links for you to read:

https://neurohacker.com/what-years-of-being-obsessed-with-mi...

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2018/11/vamsi-mootha-harvard

Again, everyone is different and no one is forced to follow along anything here. BUT one rule is universal: do not be a dck. :)
Ah, arbitrary heap-allocated structures a human can supply a proof for. Thanks; makes sense.
People are still going to work more efficient when they work 32 instead of 40 hours in many jobs as fatigue sets in at some point.
Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why?
Just thought it'd be interesting to listen to others' opinions on browsers. My personal setup is Vivaldi for Articles, Wikipedia, any studies, and Brave for just browsing/doing anything else.
That's an excellent website, thank you very much for your suggestion!
Wait until you find out where the "Moomba" festival in Melbourne got its name.
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How do you type it?
Saturn's captured satellites might also be the result of incidental aerobraking or whatever you want to call smashing into a bunch of very tiny satellites during a close periapsis, no?
You say it yourself at the end, but it's really a case of comparing apples (eh) and oranges.

You can't build an OS or a chipset the same way you build AWS or a warehouse.

> it’s probably the most important single memo in the history of business

Maybe that's what you disagree with? I also find it a bit overblown. The memo worked wonders for Amazon, I'm sure it would work wonders for many other companies, but the world is more diverse than that.
Might work well as a patrol of private property in a “release the hounds” kind of way.
Property rights haven't been absolute in a long time. We have all kinds of laws and taxes that regulate and incentivize what exactly you can and can not do with your private property.
Gradual phase-outs are better than cliffs.

That said, losing e.g. $5 of benefits per $10 you earn plus an income tax of e.g. 10% is the same as a marginal tax rate of 60% in terms of distorting the market. Flatter cliffs are less distortionary, and a UBI is what what happens when you take that concept to its limit.
Also free tiers https://github.com/255kb/stack-on-a-budget
Unfortunately this is also a recipe of dropping an unpatched unmaintainable Linux machine on the network to provide interesting security challenges in the future.
Tangentially, a great lesson to Google UX designers.
You can't fight rust and degrading rubber. That's whats killing these old cars. My parents just walked away from a 14 year old Subaru. Headgasket was shot, fuel lines and brake lines rusted and shot, whole laundry list of other rusted and shot components like suspension, dash lit up like a chrismas tree, total bill was going to look like $15k for a car that wasn't worth $9k even before all this went down. A car is a wear item and eventually needs replacing unless you have years worth of knowhow and own expensive equipment like a lift and sometimes specialized tools for your vehicle.
>Something like "public source"

Somewhat similar to Unreal Engine Model?
This article would have been interesting about six years ago. I'm generally supporting the ideas Cowen shares. Even so, even six years ago it would have been possible to note that there's more potential in (for example) Ethereum than just as a "currency" or a speculative asset. Today, the article feels a bit out-of-date.
Ask HN: Do you know a framework to build a systemic approach of your startup?
Computers, Earth, bands, aquariums, and startups are systems. Like me, you might have also felt the need to visualize the global picture of the business somewhere else than in our head, a business plan, or in a business model canvas. I find out that the systemic approach can help with that. I might be wrong but I believe that this system overview might be relevant to prevent failure, enhance synergies, and help to lower the carbon impact of a company.

Graphs with nodes, interconnected by relations similar to a mindmap are well known to represent systems. This graphic representation is powerful as a communication medium and like I said could be useful to analyze your business and stay ahead.

I know tools to build mindmaps but no one is focused on business and startup specificities. Do you know a startup-focused framework to build such systems?
>The cost of rent and everything in the market goes up with the tide. The middle class, and even moderately well off professionals, get a quality of life and pay CUT (in effect, since they don't get the raise).

I disagree - a UBI means that anyone who's able to live frugally may, at any time, retire. This gives enormous bargaining power to workers, as if the pay is too low then they can say "fuck it, I'm moving to <insert rural ghost town>, buying an abandoned house for $1, and living off my UBI".

Not only does this put downward pressure on rent, it also encourages jobs to be more available in rural areas, as people will move to there for lower costs of living instead of moving away because it's unaffordable due to lack of jobs/UBI.

Your wage is not determined by your productivity, it's determined by your bargaining power (your Best Alternative To Negotiated Agreement (BATNA) being the main one, but how unique your skills are determines your employer's BATNA).

In other words, employers will employ you for any amount that still lets them make a profit off of your labour, but they will pay you the least they can get away with paying without you walking away. Some people literally can't afford to walk away, and they're the people who are paid dogshit wages. A UBI would let them walk away until their job calls them with a good offer.
Numbers (China = 1.01 Billion, India = 270.91 Million) do not lie https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
Whether or not Bezos is a colossal twat (seems like he probably is) is irrelevant.

The point was that this was not up for discussion. Sure, there are less twatty ways of phrasing it, but at least you know where you stand.
> then too many people who are capable of working will choose to instead just survive on it indefinitely.

Is this actually true? I feel like the research I've seen about this is mixed at best, and we really don't know if (meaningfully) fewer people would work if they didn't have to just to get by.

Intuitively it may sound nice, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a counterbalancing force at play, namely human curiosity and desire to do more than just, "get by".
Except hardly anyone reviews a single line of code.
With most SSDs, there's no special explicit step necessary to overprovision a device. Just trim/unmap/discard a range of logical block addresses, and then never touch them again. The drive won't have any live data to preserve for those LBAs after they've been wiped by the trip operation, and the total amount of live data it is tracking will stay well below the advertised capacity of the drive.

The easiest way to achieve this is to create a partition with no filesystem, and use blkdiscard or similar to trim the LBAs corresponding to that partition.
> For employers, while people working four days a week may become more motivated, this may not improve their productivity enough to compensate for the lost workday.

But why do we have to "compensate for the lost workday"? Let's just say that at this point in history we appreciate work-life balance more than before and we'll switch to 4-day weeks with the same paycheck.
I'm glad SpaceX didn't take your advice!
I suppose that makes sense... if something is in an orbit that's flattened down until it's only slightly off from being a straight line in and out, then any very slight perturbations could really affect how close it comes to the sun on the next pass.

The sun moves too a little bit, due to the pull of the planets. Maybe it's enough to make a difference?
This,

The policies that today make the rich richer ... well, make the poor, poorer - who would think!

It should be noted that a policies make marginal housing impossible and so create the situation of anyone losing ordinary housing sinking to absolute destitution. We need more mobile home parks, more residential hotels and so-forth. And oppositely, these are seen things lower home values and so relentlessly attacked (though SF seems to be allowing more of these to open up lately, according to what I see on craigslist).
Thanks for sharing all of these examples.

It is great to see that you are using Anylogic which I think is an excellent workbench for creating discrete-event models of production systems and entire supply chains even. Anylogic also comes with an integrated tool for parameter tuning using global optimization.

Now, the model that I was looking into was a stochastic economic lot-sizing problem with random orders. At the end of a production run or upon arrival of a new order, the policy decided which product to produce next on a single machine. Each change however incurs switching cost and any orders that met an empty inventory were lost (the backlog case was easier).

The difficulty with this problem was noisy rewards after each state transition due to order randomness, as well as for the training algorithm to communicate the future value of an action in a particular state far enough backwards in time. As said, it worked for easy problems but not for problems with 5 products or more (which I think is a ridiculously small and simple problem).

Now, I do not know what you guys are using, whether your policy is a DNN and you are tuning parameters using REINFORCE / evolution strategies or whether you are using value function approximation with fitted Q-iteration (FQI) or similar (like DeepMind's Atari players). While I think that policy search may actually work (despite rather slow with Anylogic), I'd expect that FQI will run into trouble on more difficult problems.

That said, deep RL is a great piece of tech, but I am a bit skeptical of the claim that RL will transform the future of manufacturing, as I have made the experience that it can easily struggle even with simple problems as soon as the action space becomes high-dimensional and reward information must be communicated across hundreds or even thousands of state transitions.

Btw: are there any scientific papers on this?
Could you relate your day experience to 2ndquandrant's (contradictory?) advice?

https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/postgresql-no-tablespace...
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I really don’t understand this comment.

At what point did I say or lead anyone to believe that we 1.) expect developers to be autodidacts? Because we don’t have meetings? Seems an odd way to measure engineering culture and 2.) this had anything to do with cutting cost? Our hourly wages are high enough to where the cost savings is negligible compared to fully loaded salaries. I’d be happy to share the numbers over email.

Your idea of the master-apprentice relationship seems overtly romantic. I never said we don’t train staff, or haven’t brought on younger engineers. I literally onboarded an intern last week. They’ll likely make more working less than any intern at any FAANG is making this summer.

> Your success in this direction to turn software development into some kind of cattle feedlot is only a mirage.

I have to straight up disagree on the premise that it’s a mirage. Nevertheless, this is certainly an experiment, and one where we’ll adapt as needed.

I feel as if you’re focusing too much on the contractor concept. Would you be as opposed to this model if say I hired FTEs at 20 hours per week? So essentially half salary. How is this any different (note my previous comments about benefits).
Probably. I think there was g77, but gfortran and g95 apparently have very limited relations to this.
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You just purchase another stock right away that correlates or matches the one you sold. Sell Vanguard total market and buy Fidelity total market. No need to stay out of the market for 30 days.
It's a functionallity in zoom, I believe.
Nothing is clouding the issue. You are fabricating a contrived scenario which doesn’t exist today.

The “surplus” is what producers use to pay back the loans they took out to be able to produce as much as they currently do. If they produce no “surplus”, they are trying to build a simple subsistence production which is not feasible in a modern society. No bank will loan them money and they can’t afford to insure against bad weather/crop/prices. They can’t produce large enough yields to benefit from Economies of Scale, so they work long hours using low tech and have small yields which have to compete against the high yields of their industrial-scale neighbors, so they make little return on their hard toil.

You are trying to remove free market mechanics without any discernible reason. For the same reason that most farms/ranches today are big industrial operations (at least in the USA where regulations permit it), small subsistence producers can’t make a living and die off unless they can find a brand niche. The same would happen in this hypothetical future where whatever event you think happened would drive subsistence farmers into bankruptcy and lead to consolidation.
Should have an easy way to suggest more services.

(Was going to suggest expo)
Firefox developer edition for everything.
If you would treat devs like warehouse workers right now,all devs would run away. I mean force them to be 100% effective all the 8 hours and track every move they make.

CleverControl employee monitoring pitch: "This software offers powerful features: keylogging, screen recording, live viewing, remote settings, clipboard control, Skype monitoring, and more. The software records time that was spent on this or that activity and shows you stats in graphs. Besides, the app captures screenshots at all important events like right-clicking and window change, and it can record activity near the device with the help of a webcam and microphone. Moreover, CleverControl records employees’ active and inactive time, letting you detect lazybones and reward hard work."
Or curry!
Tine's Heimdal factory in Norway did do 30 hour work week for a while - with good results in efficiency (and employee happiness). It was unfortunately scrapped due to cost concerns (workers kept same pay as for 37.5h work week).

Its not clear if the change back to "normal" week was entirely rational - there were other suggestions to make the cited target of 80M NOK/year savings.
> Takuya Hoshino, an economist at the Dai-ichi Life Research Institute, says simply introducing a four-day workweek may not necessarily encourage employees to use their time off in a way that benefits their careers or contributes to the economy.

The idea shouldn't be how this benefits their career and contributes to the economy, but how the individual can live a more balanced and healthy life.
But is your overall productivity higher with 55 hours than it would be with less hours?

It's the kind of question where I wouldn't really believe your answer, unless you've actually tried to experiment yourself where is the cutoff (for your specific situation) between hours / productivity.

Not because I think you would answer in bad faith, but because it's a really complex question. What if working less hours over multiple years would let you pursue some hobby, turn you more sociable and thus a better leader/CEO?

Or maybe it would make you just very slightly better at decision making. You would have less time to manage your company, maybe relying more on others, but in exchange you would have more energy for the really crucial decisions. Or enough energy for extending that 2-weeks international crowdfunding effort into a 3-weeks.
I fully agree with your comment overall, but as someone who lives in Japan I'd like to point out that specifically "people who fill in the holes in roads" is a running joke in Japan since small street constructions always seem way over-staffed.

It's amazing because they do finish a lot faster than in western countries, but you can definitely remove 20% of the people in street-level construction and would see little difference. An example: they hire 2 people on every sidewalk just to tell people to continue walking the way they are walking and make sure they don't fall into a pit while looking at their phones[1].

From what I've learned, this specific job is normally filled by people who have already retired but don't have enough to live, so they are paid peanuts (I believe they might also be paid a bit extra by gvmt to go back to work, but I'm not sure I understood this point properly). They have started to be replaced by "robots" though [2].

Edit: in general everything in Japan seems overstaffed compared to the western counterparts, not just road construction. I believe this is how they can maintain very low levels of unemployment here, but I don't yet know how the incentives work to make it possible.

[1] The guys with the blue shirt, notice one on each side https://c8.alamy.com/comp/HBJ2K1/japanese-people-in-construc...

[2] https://japangasm.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/rwintro-swing0...
Not vinegar chips, salt and vinegar chips. Perhaps not so popular in other parts of the world, but in Australia one of the top two flavours by a large margin (plain/original being the other; which of the two is more popular is unclear, with older people more likely to favour plain and younger S&V). Everything else is an also-ran.
At least for now you can still swap out head units in cars.
So is this still correct in regards to the Google doesn't get platforms stuff? I sort of have the feeling it is, but I mean they have significantly more stuff now than they did when Yegge wrote it but maybe that is not good enough.

Hey do these other platforms have developer support? Developer support is sort of the accessibility for developers - Google doesn't have it. MS definitely has it. I'm thinking Amazon does too but I try to avoid them.
That's patently untrue: most of my colleague working 3 or 4 days a week are more focused their days in.

The invert is true though: a task will evolve to take the time alloted to it, I see that regularly with "unconstrained" project running amok. Those with fixed time are way more efficient and finish with a minimum of overtime.
You've got it backwards - low-skill jobs are done manually because low-skill labour is cheap. Low-skill labour is cheap because most people in it literally can't afford to not work.

We don't need to automate away all our low-skill jobs: we could just pay the workers more. Most workers are paid well below the actual value of their productivity because they have a crappy BATNA, and there's no need for employers to pay much higher than the worker's BATNA.

The more you pay the workers, the more profit in a machine that can replace min-wage workers, and the sooner a machine will be cheaper than the well-paid workers.

You've got it backwards.
Can you talk more about how you evaluated career options for rust vs jvm and what kept you on the latter?
Although this is 1/200 the cost of the Willow Garage robot (RIP), you can look at the use cases and usefulness of the latter to understand the need more:

- the WG robot could fold laundry (after some programming), but it wasn't that useful

- the WG robot could fetch a beer from the fridge, more useful

- the WG robot could roll down the street and pick up a pizza, but it was a theft target (even an attractive nuisance)

I think Real Dolls have a much bigger market and utility than any robot, short of CP-30.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Garage
I've been enjoying BBC's podcast on this subject. Darknet Diaries also has an excellent podcast episode on it. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/72/
I just want the whole XP UI back. I can stand this new whatever it is