skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of the experiment is to be extreme, but after reading (a very large portion of) Deming's work, I don't think he'd disagree with your initial assertion that there are differences between workers.

The broader points he makes, related to this experiment at least: There are individual and systemic issues that influence the outcome of a process. The actual ratio will vary depending on what kinds of processes are involved.

If the job is to be a literal screw turner on an assembly line, then there is relatively little difference between the majority of people (assuming they are generally able bodied, sighted, and have decent coordination), the system (tempo, length of shift, accessibility of the thing being screwed together, tools being used) will have a much larger impact than the individual's skill. The system of the assembly line will influence the outcome more than the individual's skill (at least above a basic threshold, a supremely uncoordinated individual could flounder even with the slowest pace of work). Switch to more skilled work and you will find, increasingly, more differences in outcome based on individual performance versus the system of the work, but even there the system matters.

Look at software development offices that still favor things like manual build processes, code versioning control, testing, and deployment over automation. They provide many opportunities for human error (even just simple miskeying of data) that can reduce everyone's effectiveness no matter how skilled. (Fortunately these kinds of places are increasingly rare, at least outside of US defense contractors.)

The experiment, then, is an artificial construct (like most classroom experiments) meant to illustrate a point by showing one extreme. This acts as a counterpoint to the more conventional wisdom that the individual, and not the system, is what actually matters for the outcome. The conventional wisdom, of course, being wrong in many circumstances since it tends to place too strong a weight on the individual performance and too weak a weight on the system.

It would be unsavory if he had said, "See, stop evaluating individuals their contribution doesn't matter." But he never did say that (in anything I read, at least), and anyone who looks at this experiment and draws that conclusion would be an idiot.
This article is wrong on key points.

1. Larger ships are more efficient due to physics. There isn’t some conspiracy. [1]

2. Just a few years ago the shipping industry was struggling so much that there were calls to scrap ships. [2] The article implies that there’s some oligopoly with opulent profits, which is wrong.

[1] Large cargo ships actually broke some von karman efficiency records.

[2] https://www.economist.com/business/2016/09/10/profits-overbo...
does anyone know if there is a nice comptime function in the zig stdlib that will take a string with spaces and turn it into a [_][]const u8 array?
The flip-side of that is that PET is vastly multiple orders of magnitude far more sensitive than MRI. So while PET may not be able to localize as well as MRI, it can detect smaller things if the targeting of the radioisotope is good.
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Why stop at C suite? Stack rank the board of directors too for good measure, and do it by shareholder vote of confidence.
In what ways does an induction cooktop underperform compared to gas? It dumps more heat into the pan and less waste heat into the room, doesn’t produce any combustion byproducts, can be dialled into a specific temp, including very low simmering ones, and is safer as there is no hot element or open flame.
I read the paper and they do not contextualize the effects in terms of actual illness or life expectancy.

It’s as useful as saying the emissions from frying food is bad for you, which is true, but simultaneously not really meaningful.
I've gotten pretty good at deconstructing (a+b)c into ab + ac and working that out in my head - for example, 36 x 3 is (30+6) x 3 = (30 x 3) + (6 x 3) = 90 + 18 = 108. Couldn't do it if I didn't remember the multiplication tables up to 10 though.
Part of the cost factor is that it's pretty easy to find (even quite good) gas stoves on the used or factory dent-n-ding market. Electric, even easier. Induction, not so much. That can mean in effect 4x or more the price, for a similar-quality stove (effects on air quality aside).

Retail prices do also seem to be somewhat more expensive at similar feature/"trim" levels, too. Unless that's changed since the last time I was thinking about this (maybe a year ago).
Big +1. I think this is a really good distinction to keep in mind in general. Teaching and debating look very different.

E.g., it's going to come off as condescending if you try to "educate" someone on something where they already have a formed opinion and don't see you as an authority.
> I created the first every animated favicon on the web

Did you mean "very first animated favicon" or "first ever animated favicon"? Either way, very cool :)
As humans, we've opened more sinister stuff than that, way before having any clue about nuclear energy. No reason why our post-apocalyptic brethren won't do the same
It's how they sell everything. This behavior is shaped by profit motive first and foremost.
Does it?

May it be that HN is more or less known among tech workers in country “X” (eg: due to language, etc…)?
It's so common to see people arguing with an analogy, which should be obviously pointless. Proposing an alternate analogy is slightly better, but really you should just discuss the actual issue in front of you, it's much clearer.
I have mixed feelings about RDR2. The production value was top notch, but for an open-world game it was excessively linear and narrative-driven rather than gameplay-driven. The gameplay that was there was also a bit clunky/slow. People defend it as a "cowboy simulator", but all of the interesting outlaw/cowboy stuff you can do is mostly relegated to tightly orchestrated missions. I can't just ride my horse into a town and rob a bank if the story deemed it inappropriate at that time. I also didn't like that the narrative was about getting enough money to escape the law, but no matter how much I accumulated through the open-ended activities I COULD engage in, I could never move the needle unless the narrative dictated. Not simulator-ish at all.
Perhaps that’s true but USA wiring is 120V /15A per breaker without rewiring so your point isn’t really relevant. Older houses might even be 110V and not have dedicated circuits in the kitchen.

Not sure why you even brought up anywhere that’s not the US when the paper is talking specifically about US kitchens
That's very well thought out. Sadly feels overly aspirational when just "keeping the lights on" is often underrated and neglected in many companies. Maybe eventually a good business will have the foresight to think of their organization in terms of different lifecycle stages.
One of the defining features of GTA: Vice City was that it was set in the 80s, so the satire was through a retro/nostalgia/pop-culture lens that made it seem a little more lighthearted. If GTA VI is set there again as is rumored, I could see them setting a significant part of the game as a flashback and taking advantage of that again.
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I'm rarely willing to pay for subscriptions. In fact, the only games I've paid a subscription for are WoW and FF14.

But I also very very rarely buy skins. I used to play a lot of Overwatch and spent $0 on skins and loot boxes. I've played countless matches in League of Legends (There used to be a way to see how many matches you've played, but I can't find it), and spent ~$50 in skins.

If either of them were a monthly charge, both would have received $0 from me.
I think academic rigor is alive and well in the tech industry. Just look at coding interviews "aka questions from upper level algorithms courses".
> Why do people assume there have been no new technical developments since Satoshi’s invention in 2009?

Not sure where this came from, but certainly from me. Lightning is a joke, we have ~20 better solutions already. Still they have some way to go to fulfill Sathoshi's vision.
Sorry, but induction does not replace an open fire for much of the cooking that I do. I'm no luddite, we have an electric car, and ride bicycles most of the time instead.

This is all a big PR ploy to deflect blame from industry. Concrete, anyone?
I'm all for tumblr not breaking the back button.
The current stock price of the company is theoretically the present value of future cashflows. For example, if you had project this revenue growth a year ago, you should have bought Facebook stock and not Amazon and you would have bet correctly. Facebook stock is up 21% from 2/1/2021 to 2/1/2022 whereas Amazon stock is down 9.54% during that same time period.
American cell company workers make more than their European counterparts on gross basis. Is this adjusted for in the comparison? Cellular companies have a lot of employees and comp makes up a huge portion of their cost structure. (ATT has over 230,000, Verizon more than 130,000)
Sure, if that's the goal. What if my goal was to understand just how over-represented English-speaking regions of the world were in the HN demographics? Nothing wrong with having multiple goals
Any information if this can be turned to permanent residency?
All totally fair. But I guess what bothers me is the feeling we're playing at Environmental Theater, just like at the airport we play at Security Theater.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater
This surprisingly complete list doesn’t appear to contain a “Remote/Nomad/Airbnb” option … unless I missed it?
So you do no personal development on a desktop? Do you use your work's equipment? Are you using your phone?

I have three desktops on the go all day. Three keyboards in front of me and three mice. I run Windows 7, 10 and ubuntu and another ubuntu under windows 10. Trading that in for my mobile is very limiting.
Related: http://ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2021/05/wish-to-register-co...
What you just described sounds exactly like waking up from a dream.
This depends.

Well, kinda. We banned plasic straws to "save the seas", while most of the palstics in the seas are from industrial and fishing equipment, that are not affedcted by the banned straws.

Custumer wants a cooked burger, and sure, some emissions come from cooking burgers (and all the other processes, from the animals birth to a burger patty in the restaurants fridge), but I'm pretty sure none of the customers wanted gas leaks.

Same with plastics... we banned straws, so it seems that "the government is doing something", while most of the plastics in the seas are either fishing/industrial equipment, or trash from a few rivers in asia. Just look at the amount of plastic packaging that is used and discarded from production to retail of many items, even paper "eco" straws (if nothing else, the amount of plasic foil used to package the straws on the pallet).
> The big telcos btw always win

You are factually incorrect, if you really did study law you likely did not finish the course.
Nothing is inherently true, things are only true based on some axioms and hypothesis. What I meant with "results that are true" is things that are consistent with our physical world.
This reddit link had a petition of a pro pedophilia group (prostasia foundation) against it. I don't think it does any favours for people who agree dangerous information online needs to be dealt with.
I was also curious so I picked a likely-looking project on his github and indeed found an attempt to handle a channel "deterministically" at https://github.com/sethvargo/go-retry/blob/main/retry.go#L51

Honestly the whole first select seems redundant; any code that relies on this is broken as there's no other synchronization points to hang onto. You simply can't pretend the clock on the wall has anything to with the values transiting the program unless you introduce an actual synchronization point.

But OK, maybe you do have some strange performance case where this matters? In that case the whole thing could be more succinctly solved by looping on `for ctx.Err() == nil` instead of infinitely. Exactly as suggested at the start of the thread. (This would also likely be faster unless the context is under massive contention.)

It also leaks the timer until it fires if the context cancels, which seems like it would be more of a practical performance problem than any overhead to the additional select.
The answers to the poll are so the OP knows where we are from.

The questions in the poll are so we know where the OP is from.
I know next to nothing about musical keyboards but know about the DX7. In the 80s it was a rock star in its own right. MTV and the big DX7 label on the back of the keyboard made it as recognizable as members of the band using it. For that era, it was the Porsche 911 of keyboards.
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The analogy works — just replace “me” and “you” with “white people” and “Black people”. The Black Monopoly players had to give up their money and property to the white players. You are saying that it’s racist to redistribute the stolen wealth, but not racist to allow the white players to keep their ill-gotten gains.
UnRegretted Attrition.
Kendi's comments and the CRT framework in general are COLLECTIVE, not individual. That is the issue. It assigns collective blame based on skin color, not actual individual culpability. It also assumes oppression based on race/ethnicity, not on actual experiences of an individual. We know there were black slaveowners for instance, so how does that affect the calculus?

There is no non-racist way to blame people for something they had no part in simply based on the color of their skin.
I'm talking about the possible technology, and isn't US electrical code allows 220V outlets for high power applications like washer/drier sets? Do I have been lied to?
Idris?
Past related threads:

FreeCAD 0.19 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26533384 - March 2021 (60 comments)

FreeCAD Simulator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25098981 - Nov 2020 (13 comments)

FreeCAD BIM development news - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24951311 - Oct 2020 (23 comments)

FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24513340 - Sept 2020 (268 comments)

FreeCAD on Raspberry Pi 4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22347385 - Feb 2020 (36 comments)

FreeCAD BIM development news December 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18800484 - Jan 2019 (22 comments)

FreeCAD 0.17 “Roland” released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16790814 - April 2018 (58 comments)

FreeCAD Arch development news - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480294 - June 2017 (44 comments)

FreeCAD 0.16 release notes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11533435 - April 2016 (75 comments)

Free CAD-CAM Software Demos - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9893631 - July 2015 (1 comment)
Still, going by that definition, changing carriers is pretty frictionless. Even if you have a contract, competitors will buy it out for you.
My experience implementing FM in software is that CPUs are just so wicked fast, because FM is super easy to implement in SIMD. I implemented FM synthesis using SSE and when I measured the performance, I found out that the oscillators were memory-bound or close to it. You could compile a few operators into a function and work on small buffers in L1 cache, and and it just wouldn't show up on the CPU usage monitor.
Did you grow up with gas stoves? I did as well and really can't imagine using anything else. But I've got friends from the Midwest, where natural gas lines are less common that grew up with electric stoves, and they tell them they can't imagine cooking with anything other than electric -- the open flames on gas stoves actually scare them.
https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail

Helped me improve my understanding of last codebase and their design
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We should advertise cheese graters to people who search “good cheese graters” instead of trying to track people across the web panopticon-style and cross reference if they are a) moving houses b) making a cheese-based dish c) friends with chefs or cooks d) planning a dinner party e) physically located in a kitchen goods store.
[1] Assuming I replace 250 kcal from pork per day with Tofu (around 100g of pork which seems to be considered "one serving"), this would be savings of ~1 kg CO2e per day: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-kcal-poore

I think most people get more than 250kcal a day from meat. Seems like a strong argument to go vegan to me.
Yes, it is an implementation choice. I feel it's a choice that makes sense, too. But regardless, it's how things work right now in Go.
It seems like it should be easy for FB to pivot to the content graph. Their ability to serve relevant ads is unrivaled. They should be able to do the same with content. Old people buy stuff and love FB. MLM people love Instagram and buy stuff. FB should just roll out a new short video platform, pay influencers a lot to join, and use their algorithm to recommend the best content.
You -- fallible you! -- are not immune to propaganda.

Being able to understand the ulterior motives at play in advertising and PR more broadly does not absolve you of being caught under the spell. I had trouble reconciling this for a while after getting turned on to media criticism outlets, e.g. Citations Needed podcast[1]. But it is important to stay humble and remember that you are still a bag of electrified proteins that reacts essentially the same as other bags of electrified proteins, and so are subject to essentially the same forces.

[1] https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/
I think internet cafe's are pretty old school everywhere now. Anecdotally, much of the developing world leapfrogged the US on mobile/fintech. People had low end smart phones and banked with their phone carriers 5+ years ago in East Africa.

Latest anecdote (this week) is not seeing internet cafe's in Belize and government PSA's say to contact them on whatsapp.

That said, Facebook makes their money in rich countries.
It is even more important then.
Last time a recruiter at Amazon messaged me, for the umpteenth time, I told them "please remove me from your recruiting databases, I am not interested in Amazon" mostly because of stories such as this one.

Good luck hiring into a toxic workplace culture, Amazon recruiters!
You can't buy in game money with minecraft and it initially sold for 12 dollars. GTA5 gets almost full price across each platform coupled with in game purchases. Sure, minecraft sold more licenses, but I have no doubts GTA5 is the cash cow here.
My bank asks me whereabouts of Syrian Refugees to release my funds
I used CHASE bank pay to send money to a US Based 501(c)(3) organization. They had winter aid for different purposes including refugees. Affected by tragic pictures of Syrian and Afghan refugees, in the memo field I put "Refugee Winterization Syrian/Afghan" to cue them on my wish.

The text regexp raised a flag, and I was asked to provide detailed purpose of payment.
So, here is the conversation (in summary, taking away my expletives):

- CHASE: Remitter is to please cite the applicable regulation/authorization and/or licenses.

- Me: This is a 503 organization providing support for syrian and afghan refugees. (my error in mixing up 503 with 501)

- Chase: Please advise of location of Syrian refugees

(And they are threatening to confiscate if I don't send them a timely message.)

Then I tried the following in other payments with the memo fields:

## Other check

- Memo field: "Maya Youssef is a musician from Syria". (something I randomly picked from Google)

- Chase's comeback: "1. Please provide detailed purpose of payment and advise if there is any direct or indirect Syrian involvement in this transaction. 2. Please confirm Final Destination of funds and advise if these funds are intended to be sent into Syria"

## Other check

- Memo field: "Coffee table style Syrian/Afghan".

- Chase's comeback: "Please provide a detailed purpose of payment and explain the meaning of Syrian in the payment details. If related to goods, provide country of origin.. . "

## Other check

- Memo field: Sennacherib was an assyrian king

(This actually went fine, lol, their regexp looks for exact word matches for "syria" and "syrian")

Whose fault is it? Bad software that lacks basic NLP? Compliance officers who don't understand English? Isn't this a bit discriminatory? You should not use the word "Syria" or "Syrian" about anything on your memo fields!

And pray Columbia never gets a sanction, 'cause you cannot speak of "Columbian coffee" anymore. Or one day your Venmo send for "Turkish Coffee" or "Russian tearoom" could get "canceled".
wasn't it pkexec specifically, not polkit generally that was the problem?
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The point is that kitchens don’t have 220V outlets generally. converting costs money, a lot of it. Money better spent fixing industrial issues.
He didn't say exactly that, he said that he takes issue with his manager calling him the "least effective" person on his team. Which sure, there is some possibility that he wrote a lot of code, and it was all useless, but to be the _least_ effective while _presumably_ shipping at least some features...

Either he's incredibly, incredibly bad at what he does, or he just had the misfortune to step into the bear trap that is the Amazon PIP machine.

Knowing Amazon, he probably just got unlucky.
Not the thing you're talking about, but I remember having a lot of fun with these:

https://instructional-resources.physics.uiowa.edu/demos/10c1...

Just a stick with a 2-blade prop on the end. You spin the stick between your hands and see how high it'll go. But that got boring real quick! The real fun was trying to shred your friends' faces with it at 10 paces away.
I noticed that in games here in Brazil, in Hearthstone, a card game from Activision Blizzard a 40 cards pack cost 279,90 BRL ($52) in the iOS app, if you buy in the PC app it'll cost 99 BRL ($18), almost 200% increase, crazy.
Think of it this way: we can experimentally figure out what the probabilities are; they are an observed thing. The only way to make sense of these probabilities is if all protons are indistinguishable.

In my statistical mechanics course, we went through an illuminating exercise where we started by trying to take account of every atom in a gas cloud. We started taking limits and making assumptions. One of them was that all atoms are indistinguishable from each other. This decreases the possible states of the system by N! (factorial, not surprise). After making that assumption, out pops the ideal gas law.
The size of the proton is a very poorly defined measurement.

The amazing accuracy you have read about is the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron, which is a very clear cut measurement.
Switzerland has a minimum wage, no?
Might the timezone have a significant influence on the poll outcome, like during which hours of the day per place it is at #1? (How many polls would we need at different times of day to see what the effect of that is, just two?) Alternatively we could plan this, pin it at #5 for 24/48 hours on working days AoE, and then lock voting or something.

Or someone pulls up access logs, since I frankly doubt that it's a sizable percentage of users that use a VPN compared to the error bars of this poll. Countries with low English rates might just participate less, thus have fewer accounts, thus fewer people bother logging in or creating an account for this poll...
Assuming the game will be out on PC within the next 10 years.
aside from "that ship has sailed" yes.

The debate seems to be if they can actually do it safely or not, and from the article it seems like they think they can actually do it safely.
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