skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked at a company that did a four-day week, I'll chime in that it was both amazing and eye opening. I say that as someone who had read Tom DeMarco's now-classic book Slack[1] long ago, after a lot of up-close and personal with the antipatterns described therein. Intellectually, I expected something(??) good but the reality was even more suprising. With a four-day work week, I was able to complete (solo!) a production website application upgrade (Rails 2.x to 4.5) in a very reasonable timeline, and less than I'd heard competent teams failing the same task elsewhere. This wasn't because of any "10x developer" nonsense - it was clearly because I had a /three-day weekend/ every week and came in on Monday clear headed and ready to HIT IT, BABY.

Let me be clear: I later realized that this project would have been a soul-draining death march at many other places I'd worked in my career. Exhausted just a few weeks in, with management hounding the team for schedule estimates that can't possibly exist because management failed to fund maintenance for years.[2] (There were actually rational reasons for this, in this case. tl;dr the project got renewed interest and investment due to a new business case.)

To those who lament on this topic about "devs (in country X) just aren't motivated these days" or whatever, let me suggest something. If you have poor clarity of purpose, poor giving-a-fsck about humans, or a number of other culture failings then yes, you may encounter problems. Your solution is still not to tie your knowledge workers to their desks. You need to fix the root causes of your underlying productivity debt, not pave over them with an overwork-butts-in-seats mentality which just makes things worse in the long run (<--- read DeMarco).

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burnout-Busywork-Effici...

[2]: Pro tip: "evergreen" ecosystems, especially young and rapidly changing ones like early-mid Ruby/Rails and a lot of current npm/JS-based stuff, often have a wickedly non-linear cost curve if/when maintenance and dependency updates fall off. Some of the most expensive I've encountered of this ilk is when /test infrastructure/ incurred a lot of past churn that wasn't tracked, but suddenly (cough) needs to be updated.
Performance. It takes longer to access performance critical data on a stack machine compared to a register machine. You spend a lot of cycles rolling the stack to retrieve the value you need.

On the other hand, the circuitry is simpler and implementing a compiler for such an architecture is close to trivial.
Early stack computers, especially from Burroughs, were the first to be mainly programmed in a high level language, assembly was barely used if at all. This was revolutionary at the time.
> especially if it is supplanted by a descendant species

Don't see why you take that for granted.
Who cares about the west, thats not the topic. The people of a important part of the world had enough of there failed governments policies and want to get rid of it. Nobody cares about the west or the us in this news. They are literally headed towards hermit kingdom like north korea at this point, so this concerns mostly Chinese who want to chose there own destiny.
Thank you for that information! It is helpful.
Brainlet, it's mostly bots lol.
>Denmark's got a great solution

What's the solution? I skimmed the article and I'm left confused as to what exactly "co-housing" entails. Is it just a college dorm situation where multiple people live in one building with separate rooms and shared common areas?

>Too bad such a thing would be deemed "socialist" in the US.

I hate statements like these with a vengeance because:

1. it instills a defeatist attitude that we will never be able to get the change we want because of opponents

2. it asserts without evidence that the opponents are cartoonishly evil/ignorant
Those are basically contradiction of terms. Orienting the program structure around the data necessarily requires control over memory layout and how it is interpretted.
* open instagram

* see cool photo

* go to interact with it

* photo is gone, replaced with something else
Everything rerenders there is no partial updates at all?
ISO 9001 and most of ISO 27001 are Deming through and through. If you
tell some people you are going to use the principles of some old guy
from the 1980s they laugh and dismiss you. Frame the same thing using
some ISO numbers and throw in words like "compliance" and "best
practice", and they go moist with glee. The shallow anti-intellectual
fakery of some "management" sickens me.
What Do the Objects You Own Say About You?
Don't have to if they are going to file for bankruptcy. More info about the formation and ownership of UFI:

https://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/news/woodworking-industry...

They're a conglomeration of a bunch of other companies, owned by a PE firm, so maybe they had a lot of debt that they now can't rollover at low interest rates.
Ownership doesn't exist in the C language per se, but it is still an important concept you have to reason about when manually managing memory. I think that's what GP meant.

E.g if you add some object to a generic hash table as a key by pointer, you better treat that pointer as being owned by the hash table and not mutate it, or interesting stuff will happen.
> You say there are serious problems, but you have precisely zero personal evidence, like everyone else.

You state this as fact, without even checking with them what the problems are or how they know they’re there.

Perhaps check if you are yourself consuming distorted information from self-serving outlets?
https://archive.ph/DG0F9
> Of course, big business with better margins will probably be fine but a move like this would likely bankrupt most typical highstreet businesses. The economics just doesn't make any sense without some plan to increase productivity by 20%.

The assumption is that you inherently increase productivity, because realistically people can only produce so much in a week and they don't need 40 hours to do it. Whether that's actually true, well, we'll find out.

> And then how would something like this work in the NHS? Can we even afford to reduce nurses hours by 20%? Are we really suggesting that would have no economic impact or would we need to increase the NHS workforce by 20%? Could we even afford that?

Given how much of the NHS's workload is from fixing previous mistakes, hospital-acquired infections etc., a well-rested workforce that can avoid those could potentially "pay for" itself.
Airbnb has a plan to fix cleaning fees
Google with its 'related searches' that pops up because I clicked on a link and I am almost never interested in this extra information. When trying to filter the relevant javascript it breaks some other stuff on the page (last time I tried a few years ago). Grrmbl
U.S. Effort to Arm Taiwan Slowed by War in Ukraine
I guess there will be plenty of takers to be the who, but the how is more of the engineering bit. I am guessing if interplanetary travel does become a thing, some kind of open space network will need to be present to facilitate travel.
Instagram search is my daily frustration. 100% of the time I search I’m looking for a user’s account. Type type type, see the user come up in results, go to tap but now they’ve loaded in 10 possible autocomplete options for my search, pushing the thing I want off the screen. And of course now I’m in the “explore” page with a search term I don’t want, taking a bunch more taps to get where I need to go.

I agree with others that I think the incentives are against the user here. In the IG case they don’t care if I find my friend quickly. It does not help them in any way. But hey they got a click on the autocomplete suggestions (win for that PM) AND another view on the explore page. Clearly I love these features!
Anyone else try peeping the chat in Zoom?
>> [...] has been specifically designed and manufactured to suit the Australian market and conditions.

That's some hearty stuff, then!
He was right in the centralisation of certain services but wrong in his assumption that those services would be the gatekeepers to their user's total online experience. No matter how centralised the likes of Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and the rest of them are they can not keep their users from simply going to their competitor's site or app since they're all hanging off the internet instead of behind their own access networks. This is a very important distinction, had Gates' vision succeeded we'd still be paying by the minute and kilobyte and there'd be a price on everything.
It's easier and better to just make a new YouTube account or use incognito mode. The only benefit I see from FreeTube is no ads. This can be replicated by just using an adblocker.

Having watch history and other data tied to an account is more convenient since you can access it anywhere and YouTube can recommend videos for you to watch which is a killer feature that FreeTube lacks.
Ask HN: How's the Transition to Mastodon Going?
Hi, I am looking for an alternative to Twitter but after a brief review of Mastodon I could not find anything exciting about it.
I guess the ability of creating your own fork of the project is interesting, but not from a user perspective.
What do you think? Is it any good? Have you have any suggestion?
Sorry, crypto isn’t about creating trust. In fact it’s the opposite. It’s about creating a system where trust isn’t needed. The natural consequence is that anyone who does trust, is exploited, and subsequently trust is driven out of the ecosystem as this reality is accepted.

There is nothing to rebuild. A trustless world is what crypto creates.
Google hosted the Google decimeter challenge, which used post processing of data from dual band phones to try and get as good accuracy as possible. The top submissions got an accuracy of just over one meter.

I have a phone with dual band GNSS, and it's by far the best location accuracy I've had in any device. I can see which side of the cycle path I've been on, and it regularly works indoors. I don't live where there are tall buildings though, but even at fairly open space my older devices gave worse results. And I get a fix within seconds thanks to A-GPS.

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/smartphone-decimeter-202...
They’re also largely invisible - things like parking minimums or lower density requirements to reduce traffic don’t show up as a line on a bill or budget anywhere, they just make everything we do more expensive.
I only install extensions that are either have low permissions or are blessed by Firefox.

uBlock Origin is the only "access your data for all websites" extension I use.
I think it was Henry Ford that originally came up with the concept of a weekend because he wanted everyday people to buy motorcars for leisure time. So they needed to have some leisure time.
I wonder if a five/two day cycle is the balance that optimises production and consumption in a modern economy? Maybe the weekends should be longer… or shorter?
China would never be so Loas'y.
> Most places in the world with metal flashing, metal gutters, or other metal on an exterior will have aluminum.

For gutters that magnets won't stick to it might work to use pairs of magnets.

1. Drop a strong magnet into the gutter.

2. Place another strong magnet on the bottom of the gutter under the place you dropped the aforementioned magnet.

3. Attach a ferromagnetic metal clip to the thing you want to suspend and use the magnet from #2 to hold the clip.
The fix which increases safety is to replace traffic lights with traffic circles. Speeds are lower and more consistent.
There's also this one:

https://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/

I got a two-and-a-bit metre tall version printed by a poster printing place, and hung it in my staircase!
Protests erupt across China in challenge to Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy
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Code density is the biggest one. If I want to add two numbers with a stack design I have an add opcode. If I have 128 instructions that's 6 bits of opcode. I only need one because the add opcode will pop the two numbers off the top of the stack and push the result back on. If I want to add two numbers with a register design I need to specify which registers which means if I have 16 registers I need 4 bits per operand minimum which means 12 bits just for the two sources and destinations. If I'm trying to write for an embedded system you can't get higher code densities than using a stack machine.

The instructions can also execute faster because I don't have to do things like decode registers and look them up in the register rename table but modern CPUs pipeline this shit so well you never have to worry about instruction latencies.

For register based machines one big advantage is that it's way easier for compilers to optimize for register based systems. If I have a common value that I'm using constantly if I was using a stack based arch I'd have to keep pushing that value to the stack. With a register machine I just slap the value in a register and use it as an operand as many times as I need.
I've noticed this with JIRA, there is not much space to click 'safely' to focus on the window
Event sourcing is one way to approximate functional programming in the large.

STM provides (compositional) thread-safety within a single process. It requires FP but other than that I don't see the comparison.
> Why is this the only hate symbol you love so much?

Who said I loved it? I'm only asking questions to examine your position.

> Should we start flying confederate flags now everywhere

What prior meaning does the "stars and bars" have?
That’s not even necessary. We can have tremendous public transport for the mass routes and then tiny e-bikes/scooters whatever for the last mile, with safe streets because of fewer cars and better designed streets.

So really, everyone can use nice transport and rent the occasional car, the only thing that’s not sustainable is for the majority of people in a city to drive a car for the majority or sometimes all of their trips.
Only if you're reading directly from memory. Most stack machines will have a scratchpad of 16 values that are on chip much like registers. In the case of something like x87 you can even arbitrarily exchange them.
My pixel 6 pro has much, much better GPS accuracy than my pixel 3 had.

Here is a comparison between my pixel 6 and my S.O.'s pixel 2, from a hike we did recently:
https://imgur.com/a/5VibEUw

This makes it pretty obvious how much the L5 band can improve GPS. These were good conditions in general, but just looking at the bottom right portion alone shows how good L1 + L5 in a phone can get. I'm sure devices with larger antennas (bike computers, larger handheld GPS units, etc) can do even better in worse conditions as well.
I'm not sure what else you'd expect. Those things are caused by humans taking advantage of whatever system of value transfer exists, of course people will do the best they can to reinvent these things on top of new value systems.

On the other hand, unlike the actual infinite money printer central bank, nobody forces you to use obvious scams like tether. You don't need to use a centralised exchange because smart contracts make it possible to use decentralised exchanges. Smart contracts allow you to do things on a small scale that would have required enormous institutions in the past. The ability for any individual to create their own tokens obviously allows institutions to do it too.

Since cryptocurrencies are more powerful than previous systems, it shouldn't be surprising that they support a superset of the scams that previously ran.

They also support an unprecedented level of programmability, default to open api access, a new spectrum of choices for trust, the ability to run transactions across financial products from different providers, faster settlement, are based on actually modern methods of cryptography (unlike bank accounts), and have injected a massive amount of energy into some extremely interesting zero knowledge cryptography.

It's actually pretty surprising to me that the majority of 'hackers' on 'hackernews' don't seem more excited about the ability to create programmable tokens of their own.
I stopped cycling since lockdown. There's been a complete shift in attitudes. Every public space is adversarial.

But totally with you on phones. I've always made a habit of making eye contact with people so I know I've been seen (on bike & on foot). It's very difficult to do now - everyone's staring at their knees.

(Not in the US, and yes it's illegal here.)
To add to this, WAAS uses a combination of ground based equipment and geostationary satellites.

The ground based equipment is responsible for detecting the necessary corrections, which are then sent up to the WAAS satellites which will in turn broadcast those corrections.

Unlike GPS satellites, WAAS satellites are always located over North America due to the fact that they are in a much higher, geostationary orbit.

Edit - WAAS also provides GPS-based vertical navigation (e.g. descent profile in an approach) - IIRC this is due to the fact that the ground station transmit accurate atmospheric pressure readings up to the geostationary satellites, then the GPS receiver in the aircraft can use those to adjust altimeter readings. GPS-based vertical navigation is a big deal, because many airports don't have systems such as ILS.
I recently did a qualification in leadership and management, and I think it had the exact opposite effect from the one intended. It made me realise how much of management is about finding ways to squeeze more work from people without extra compensation - motivation theory, time management, mentoring, coaching etc. Very little is for the employee’s benefit.
I'm curious if we might see a [very] minor revival of these old devices since it's getting to be about that time.

I'm back to using mine (a monochrome model of the same vintage as show in the Archive screenshots) and, in 2022, I'm even writing apps for it. It's actually a ton of fun and ends up in my pocket far more than my phone.

Graffiti is still very intuitive. The display is a reasonable approximation of E Ink. Palm Desktop, hotsync, etc. all run fine on modern Windows machines, and I believe there are still viable Linux packages.

Turns out that TCP/IP is still TCP/IP and pretty much everything still "just works" provided you understand what it's trying to do (e.g. not be an iPhone). Mine automatically caches and syncs a few websites (including HN) as a sort of offline daily reading. You do need to appreciate the old Apple/iPod model where your computer is your hub and, for pre-wifi Palms, the network bridge.

They're just extremely focused little devices and excellent at what they do (calendar, notes, etc.). Treat it like it's a digital notepad, more in the vein of a pocket ReMarkable, and you might find it holds up better than you'd think.
Same here, every time I share something from YouTube --> NewPipe, the icon is in a different place, even when I'm adding multiple videos to my queue one after another. Every. Damn. Time. So frustrating.
I love the idea that people’s leisure time should be judged on its productivity. Netflix? Okay but only educational stuff, otherwise it’s back to the mine with you. I mean almost literally with your last paragraph. “We’re making you work more for your own good” is a capitalist/fascist dream.
Anyone who doesn’t want to risk jail, at least in the US.
Well, these are multiple times more powerful. Not exactly last century's tech.
There are other factors too, like the sanctions these countries are under. One might say that some friendships were harnessed over common enemies, but I digress.
They aren’t millionaires until they exchange their Bitcoin for dollars. Let’s see what happens when they do.
I want foo.

- Type 'f'

- foo appears in the search.

- Type 'o', because I type with 10 appendages and getting them to work together requires pipelining.

- foo disappears from the search

This should never happen.
This problem first occurred in the mid-'90s, and people saw it was a problem, and that's why we specified the image dimensions in HTML (before the GIF or JPEG header was loaded), so the layout wouldn't shift during load, when people were already reading and navigating.

Since almost the beginning, graphic designers were trying to layout Web pages like an advertising brochure, lots of bad ways, rather than as hypertext. When, in a sense, they finally did take control of the Web, HCI (usability in service of user) had evolved into "UX" (advertising-like graphic design in service of non-users).

There's often disincentive for things like "user can understand what the controls are and what the state is", "user can focus on the information they want", etc. UX won't care about these things until some time after users are so aware of the problems that it affects engagement metrics and eventually A/B testing figures out why.

I'm imagining a eureka moment, during which a UX researcher, trying to find a new, improved dark pattern, to screw over hapless users harder, accidentally lets slip in some old-school good usability, which wasn't even supposed to be in the test sets, but discovers that this strangely resonates with users.
Not necessarily. (a) They could be laying off low performers and still looking for backfill some of them. (b) they could be laying off in certain skill areas and hiring in others. (c) One division could be laying off while another is hiring.
Yep - I had some issues on the last network I was responsible for which ended up being trivial to solve thanks to Python. In a world without it... there would be a language with the same features and a different name by now. It opens up the world to mediocre programmers.
A lot of folks on HN seem to love Blitz chess. Correspondence chess seems like the the natural antithesis to that style of play. Is there anyone on here involved in the correspondence chess community? I'd love to hear how ya'll utilize chess engines in your gameplay.
Show HN: Hacker way to half app development time and cost
You didn't answer my question.

> Do you perhaps have some method by which you discover new human rights?

How does anyone "discover" moral principles? Every society has had some idea of how humans should be treated.
Cameras are notorious for being accused of being used for revenue but that’s mostly drivers not wanting to accept responsibility for their actions. The few cases where this has actually been backed by data (e.g. San Diego in the 90s had intersections below the legal minimum) are dwarfed by the number of times where it’s just people’s subjective assessments not matching objective data.
C++ already has vector and now has span. Your proposal doesn't add anything over those.
Fully operational in 93, but IMO the real slam dunk was disabling of Selective Availability in 2000, which made GPS significantly more useful. WAAS has been amazing for aviation, allowing for RNAV instrument precision approaches to airports with no RF equipment installation required onsite. And there are still innovations getting rolled out, including L2C, L5 and more!

https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/civilsignals/
There's also a story of Genghis Khan trying to impress the strength of unity on his sons by showing them how a single arrow can be snapped, but that a bundle of them is strong.

I don't think it worked, but that's a sort of fasces as a literary symbol.