skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today's productivity crisis is readily apparent to anyone who plays mmo phone games. There are always people on at work.

The crisis was there before that. I've seen many people do nothing work related for hours on end. It's a lot easier to hide it with instant messengers and browsers.

And finally, apparently one of the reasons construction has seen no net productivity gains is because regulations have grown more complex and expensive. I bet that's true of many industries...
> the opposite in garbage collected languages: accidentally holding onto a strong reference to objects that should be freed

So basically what I gave an easy example of. Sure, it won’t look like this in practice, you probably accidentally keep adding to a list, or a cache, but basically this is what happens. The former kind of leak can’t happen with tracing GCs.
Yup same, that's why I am sticking with Android as well.
I want multi-language auto-correct for my preferred languages _on the English QWERTY keyboard_.
I've written in C#. It's Java. If they're not the same language to you, you need to learn more languages.
I think what that phrase means is that the temperature in one or more of the seasons has been increasing over the years.
I loved this. Is there any post comparing Ruby performance with JRuby?
Only two "recent" purchases of modern technology gave me "gadget hype": The first was a GPD Pocket -- as it reminded me of old palmtops that I used to have and is still a reasonably powerful computer. The other was the Quest 2 VR headset.

I've instead been collecting vintage and retro portable computers. I have a few Sharp pocket computers that I'm working on interfacing with my desktop. I have a great condition Tandy Model 102. And I have a complete with box HP 660LX coming the mail next week.

It seems like technology is almost too powerful for gadgets to be hype-worthy now. I was hyped for the Pebble Smartwatch but now I have Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 that's way more powerful but doesn't give me gadget hype feelings.
Open source and sustainability – where’s the gap?
You sure? Have you asked?

Most of the people in my life have a strong interest in biology, my friends are nerds who are liable to use binomial names they picked up in Seek. But I doubt we're reflective of the broader culture. I think a lot of people couldn't tell you the difference between a kingdom from a phylum, and again, that's fine, it doesn't make them stupid or something.

See also this comment for some citations about how they are categorized in the context of commerce: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37542165
Not in the US where health insurance is tied to your job and career gaps are perceived as substantially negative.
Indonesian is spoken by 200M people (45M of which as first language), I bet they could find some text for it. When joined with the Malaysian family, it brings the total speakers to 290M.
In all countries the recommendation is now "75 years or older". Except that one Fauciland where it is "6 months or order". Very strange. Why is this?
IQ is a bad measure of the thing you're trying to quantificate here
To each their own. To me "Thanks" looks boilerplate-y and so will likely fade out as meaningless noise when reading the mail, whereas "Thx" looks like it has at least a (tiny) chance of being genuine.
> run through a VM

This is just incorrect use/understanding of Java’s execution model. It does have a runtime, but it is definitely not a VirtualBox VM.
Rails 7.1beta generates production Docker files automatically
Your analogy is flawed unless you are the one laundering money in the barbershop.

The producers of pollution would be irrelevant if they had no customers.
The tragedy of the Golden Gate Bridge’s $400M anti-suicide net
I'd expect that they tend to extract a lot of concessions, especially from the lower-tier stops.

* Were the quaint little towns, the ones adjacent to a natural feature, the fishing villages or historically relevant cities, ready to support a million-tonne liner with huge clearance requirements, even aside from any first-order pollution needs? Who's paying to build and maintain facilities, and when the programme changes and the service is abandoned, who cleans it up afterwards?

By comparison, cargo ships tend to dock at more purpose-built facilities "elsewhere"-- points specifically chosen for their capacity, but you can't really tell tourists "we're docking here, and taking a four-hour bus ride to the actual attraction city?"

* How badly does the town get coupled to the tourist economy? Will you end up with 82 trinket shops but no local grocer? Cruise tourists tend to be much more "captive" than most self-directed modern tourists-- so it can turn into a game of kickbacks to ensure that that the tour itineraries and maps showcase your business instead of your competitor, draining profits from the local community.

Aside from that, a damning factor of cruises-- and to a lesser degree international ships in general-- is the tendency towards "flags of convenience." It screams that the business isn't viable if they're held to first-world labour, operational, and environmental standards, and it means it will be virtually impossible to corral them for things like "you have to be carbon-neutral" short of raising huge international fracases and closing ports.
Or .map() as a for..of replacement. I always wanted V8/SpiderMonkey developers to make .map()/.reduce() "pure" in the sense of "optimizing away" the expression if its result is not assigned to anything, and see the world burn.
$3mm for curing a disease? This is fuck-you money material. The researchers should each get $100mm, to spend on themselves or further research.
Some religions use a different system for naming different kinds of edible muscle.
I'm building an app whose GUI runs in the browser talking to a local http server. The app (if and when it is ready) would be distributed as a standalone executable. A bit like Atom/Electron I guess.

What I haven't figured out yet is how the browser-GUI could talk to its local backend-server over https. Can an exe contain its own root-certificate-authority somehow in a way that the app-exe can work without having to update that certificate part ever?
If you perform marketing and/or evangelism for your project, it's not at all obvious that you owe your users nothing.
But... that's the idea behind communism!
Sounds like a big issue, better make a Jira ticket for it to get prioritized later.
Is this PC quiet? Actually been thinking about a Minisforum Venus last week ...
I don't get how people with knowledge like that are homeless, like find any IT job you will have above average salary, and at least you can pay rent then
It’s almost like there is even a CS law for this exact scenario.. but Java 8 will be around and will still work 10 years from now, plus it is not an insurmountable task to bump it up to the latest version at all. Tell me literally any platform that has a better backwards compatibility story, because honest to God there is simply absolutely none.
Check his 2nd question on this site. https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/183956/what-is...

This shows even more worrying imbecils as his managers. He should leave now!
Wikipedia says men are more often seriously impacted because estrogen is protective against the infectionthry think she had, so I would bet she's probably immunocompromised or has one of the other medical issues which increase the risk.
I love this, and wish other projects would follow suit and not be afraid to say "no" to people asking for changes/fixes.

The obligations that the industry places on open source project maintained by unpaid volunteers are unfair and unrealistic.

If someone actually cares about specific changes/PRs they should fork the library and implement or apply those appropriate patches/changes

A "no" is IMO infinitely more useful than an indefinite "maybe" (what most projects do, because they are afraid to say no to anyone) when it comes to these things.
Out of curiosity, what accent do you have? In my experience that can have a significant impact on how good speed to text works for you.
Well, it can be expressed with a one-byte encoding like cp1251, cp866 or KOI8-R which are commonly (albeit incorrectly) called ASCII.
Extend that to a full function and the Go code will be 2x more verbose than Java with all the `if err != nil` stuff.
Just not cheap.
Or you just buy stuff which is mostly zero sum, such as more real estate or more services which simply have no productivity gains to be found as they are based on time/the human being human.

You see that here in Canada and in the USA. The amount of dwelling space we occupy has soared even as families shrink. My Dad grew up with a family of 5 in 1200 sqft. Canadians today consider that a shoebox that barely fits 2.

I would bet that income gains are disproportionately directed to buying more house or additional houses, no matter the income.

Or you buy more massages or more tutoring or more other various services that simply cannot be multiplied 100x as the human is an integral part of the service rather than a stand in until the robot is ready. How does a massage therapist massage 100 people at once?
Maybe it’s better and I just need to keep typing so it can figure out what I mean.

In the last couple of weeks using the beta I’ve found myself fighting it more than ever. After years of typing by tapping at the screen, I’ve switched to swiping the words in because it seems to be more reliable.
I wonder why the author considers war as negative to productivity when the ultra-productive century included two world wars. Isn’t destroying and rebuilding stuff good for GDP?
He is working in the UK, so he has rights
I reset my gboard training data every 6-12 months since if I don't it seems to steadily get worse.
We might simply be a society in decline. Bureaucracy, Idiocracy, Cleotocracy all effect productivity negatively - and they're all present to various degrees around the world.

We have bullshit jobs, virtual economies, ideological education, inept politicians, and a shrinking IQ. So what else is supposed to happen to productivity.

The only possible improvement is in energy, where the incredible cheapness of PV and battery storage might massively drive down energy prices over the next decades. But even then, it's notably not the complex and marvelous nuclear power that would save the day, but a cheap mass-produced good made mostly from sand.
This is very neat! Feels a bit too early to rely on it, but could be very cool for lots of people if it was a bit more mature and easy to use.
At that point, why lambda?
Oh, I wouldn't think of fish when I hear "meat", but that's separate from thinking of fish as something separate from "animals".
I'd be interested to see if acarbose extends the life of obligate carnivores.

As far as I know the mice get a high sugar/starch diet, but afaik nobody ever stopped to see if they live longer on a high fat/high protein diet or not. not sure about this though.
Look at the positive side, it made you type less on your phone (strangely enough, I had to fight with my SE’s autocorrect three times in order to input “positive”)
The terminology here is confusing, you could say it really grates on me.
You cannot know the logic prior to reading and understanding the code unless you recognize the code immediately on sight. That is my point. If I see a nested ternary expression with beautiful indentation, I know I've scrolled too far when I'm looking for a certain method.

Method names are not logic. You really don't use distinctive method names or formatting to orient yourself and your colleagues? That sounds awful.
> if it weren't a predominantly Caucasian disorder, no one would be okay with spending this kind of money on it

It has nothing to do with race and everything with money. When ebola came to America, we didn’t find a vaccine because it was infecting white people. We funded it because it was impacting Americans.
> but a cheap mass-produced good made mostly from sand.

So? Making that cheap mass produced good is a productivity increase.
I would like this to strike a note with all of the amateur's who produce closed source software, and give it away free on their websites. When they die the software dies. I wish they would put it on Github. Culturally there is no problem sharing schematics, so why not code?
Well it’s fascinating /if true/, but it’s not really proven and that’s why the experiments are so disappointing to me. They put forward this grand theory and then are entirely unable to capitalize on it or make some kind of useful prediction from it.
The differentiation you've linked is about meat vs seafood, which I would go along with. This is about using the term "animal" for fish, no?
Is it though?

I have to imagine that the way this person describes fish is the least interesting thing about them, I don't know why we are subjecting them to such microscopic scrutiny.

It doesn't seem kind or curious to me, it seems like we're mocking them for having a slightly different conception of what category fish go into.
If you are leveraging Maven, use mvnd during development: https://github.com/apache/maven-mvnd
> The worry here is low winds and high waves.

Do you mean that the barely-rotating blade would dip into the oncoming wave-front and get snapped?

I imagine that depends on whether "waves without wind" are likely to occur, and whether we can expect waves sizes/shaped so that they clip the blade itself before their rising edge hits the buoy to bump the blade upwards.
Did you enable the Czech-English dictionary under Settings -> General -> Dictionary?

You can also add Czech as a language under Settings -> General -> Language & Region -> Add Language. This will let you switch your keyboard to Czech when typing and enable the language on websites and stuff. You can also switch the whole phone to Czech if you like, just by moving Czech to the top of the list of preferred languages.
You don’t think this learned helplessness is depressing?

Whether or not a team decides to own some portion of code is a complex topic. Sometimes it makes sense to leverage something external, and sometimes it makes sense to write it yourself.

In my business, we had a [ostensibly senior] guy insist we use an external technology because it would be too hard for us to own that piece ourselves, despite it being a core part of the product. Technical due diligence on the external technology showed that it didn’t actually work as advertised. Six figure price tag and apparently millions invested for a thing that doesn’t work (and “doesn’t work” in this case meant “corrupted financial data”).

Whether or not a team owns some technology is highly context dependent, and your comment comes across as reductive.
Totally agree.

And I’d like to add that the editing experience is also dire and getting worse.

Just trying to put the cursor where I want it to fix an error earlier in the sentence in ios17 is a massive pain in the ass.

You tap somewhere and it continually selects entire words - I just want to put the cursor there dammit!
> once they cure HIV

HIV is practically (i.e. not literally) cured, between treatments and PrEP, in the developed world. And it looks like we’re approaching vaccine.
Yeah, I've got a lot of Java experience and a wee bit of Go language experience and I agree with you. I like Go in almost every way except for it's error handling. It's just wrong to have to check every goddam function one by one
> And here I thought the foundation of functional programming was functions, which Java still doesn't have.

> Seriously, functional programming is about functions, not types.

Well it does have methods and it does have "Functions" (not to mention "Bifunctions", whatever those are). And there's certainly nonsense around exceptions and referring to outer variables. And no currying.

But if I understand you correctly, you real complaint is about not having effect-free functions, right? But then it becomes about the type system again, because that would be the mechanism to prevent effects.
Yet another reason why you should always use an adblocker.

Advertising companies are happy to profit from using the data they collect on you to allow malware distributers to specifically target you - so should be treated as hostile threats.
Are any of those, or a similar well-polished service, available for use with your own workstation, e.g. for 3D/engineering/video editing workloads? (Basically remote desktop on steroids)
I’m referring to this guideline:

> Variable names in Go should be short rather than long. This is especially true for local variables with limited scope. Prefer c to lineCount. Prefer i to sliceIndex.

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#variabl...
Isn't this an exaggeration ? I have a 100k line go project and it takes several seconds to compile. No idea how a 25m line project compiles in less than half a second.
If your language has a `for` keyword, I would just say use the `for` keyword.
With ios 17 it also greatly improved (at least the input, mechanism itself).
I'm not sure about that. It doesn't require a huge corpus to learn the structural features of a language. If you have that plus an English dictionary for the language, an English language model should transfer pretty well to any language.
Press and hold the space bar to place the cursor exactly where you want it. It took me way too long to learn this.
For me, it's the difference between code structure and resource usage.

Green threads are for a cleaner code structure. async/await comes quite close, but requires function coloring, creating high coupling. The threads have to have low overhead, so that I don't have to think about whether I should create a new one or not.

Kernel threads are for parallelism and scaling across cores.
If you hold down ‘space’ the cursor becomes Freeform. Works much better.
> “The ways you can get infected with this bacteria are one-you can eat something that’s contaminated with it the other way is by having a cut or tattoo exposed to water in which this bug lives,” said UCSF Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Natasha Spottiswoode.

I understand exposing a cut presents a potential risk, but why does a tattoo? Is this person am expert or not?
or live in a society with a decent pension system.
That's not going to stop some people from saying "The white people are throwing money at this because it's a Caucasian condition."

Historically, male diseases got studied more than female diseases, probably having nothing to do with sexism per se. Most physicians and researchers were male, so they were interested in things relevant to their lives.

But that doesn't stop people from crying "Sexism!" about it.
There are hundreds if not thousands of nuclear plants, it's not like it's an unsolved problem to build a nuclear plant
My own practice is to largely ignore instances. They're not hurting my Imaginary Internet Points much at all.

Very occasionally I'll ask if someone could clarify or substantiate concerns with a comment. But that's about as far as any notice should go.
Here's an experiment I performed, you can try it if you care to. I just went to my preferred search engine and did an image search for "animal".

I had to scroll down about thirty images to find something that wasn't a mammal. It was a lizard. Most of the animals were fuzzy. (I may have missed some marsupials, to be fair.) I believe these search results are reflective of what people are looking for when they search "animal," and it isn't fish.

Are fish animals? I would agree. Is it normal to feel differently? I believe so.
Is it complicated?

Whyy are not the externalities owned by the owner of the product?

I can think of only 2 reasons:

- the consumer was forced to purchase the product without an option with dire consequences. In this case, the dominator is responsible. This is pretty much anything your taxes buy.

- the producer lied or hid something about the product. In this case, the liar is responsible. E.g., the lies about recycling plastic, the outcome of using internal combustion engines, the safety of leaded gasoline. The list of that is simply enormous.

What other complications do you see?
Vintage Apple
Huh, that is big news. Especially considering that despite the v1.0 release recently it has performance problems on Windows.
> not going to stop some people from saying "The white people are throwing money at this because it's a Caucasian condition."

Some people will always say wrong things. I’ve found it helpful to focus on those who are speaking truthfully, and seeing if I can amplify or even help them.
> The US public are really just pretending that they don't use metric.

I also like the fact that feet are are composed of inches in base 12. The promise that decimal brings some deep utility doesn't really materialize in most other contexts, and time is still base 60.

In my view, people who use metric pretend they like using metric. I mean, the unit of temperature is often expressed in divisions that are 0.1 apart, both because the basic units range and scale aren't particularly useful for human experience, and because "centidegree" is pretty difficult to actually "conjugate" in the system.

Neither system is particularly great, they're mostly just familiar, and outside of a few peculiar cases aren't very distinguished from each other.
The example works on my MacBook if I replace gunzip with funzip. Also, I like to see the value. So:

curl -s https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-hist.zip | funzip | sqlite3 -csv ':memory:' '.import /dev/stdin stdin' "select Date,USD from stdin order by USD asc limit 1;"
Where possible I go third party on disks and ram.
The example output reads exactly like the existing output, I have had it get caught in exactly that cycle.
destroying and rebuilding stuff is good for GDP in classical Keynesian economics and most others based on that, but there have been criticisms that this leaves out the obvious part that there must be a negative side of the ledger indicating destroyed resources.
Not hard to do. It's auto-filling with an image tagger. That's not a technology so much as just a feature. There's 3 pretty widely used taggers in SD and you can combine them and then inpaint the region of interest.

Putting some UX shimmer on that flow it is the feature there.
Why? Numbers have directionality relative to the species.
> If you're going to veer into Economics 101 then you'd better reconcile with the fact that this "renting" only causes more surplus to be captured by the publisher, and not by the consumer.

Why should the savvy renters care? They aren't generating the surplus captured by the publisher.
Also, I guess it is an 80-20 thing - as they progress, a unit amount of change will be less user-noticeable.
Hasn't corporatisation/marketing of music always 'changed the sound'? I can't even think what non-commercial music would sound like, unless it's classic folk tunes, and even then...
For comparison, by simply using Gboard in iPhone you don’t need that and can type English and Czech in the same keyboard.
Objective truth doesn’t exist. Any system which defines truth can only point to objects within that systems language space.
You are not the first to think that. That is called the Broken Window Fallacy, obviously by people who disagree. But it makes sense to me that if you spend resources on repairing damages, or weapons which don't generate more wealth, you are not investing and growing. What happened to the US in WW2 is an anomaly.
Isn't that grounds for a lawsuit?
I'm sure sure about a hard limit in the x509 standard (would need to dig into the RFCs) - but the BadSSL site has two test domains that have certificates with 1,000 and 10,000 SANs respectively:

https://1000-sans.badssl.com

https://10000-sans.badssl.com

1,000 works in Firefox and Chromium, but 10,000 gives `SSL_ERROR_RX_MALFORMED_HANDSHAKE` in Firefox, and `ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR` in Chromium. OpenSSL won't connect to it either - it gives `read_state_machine:excessive message size:ssl/statem/statem.c:610`

So in practical terms, the answer seems to be somewhere between the 1,000 and 10,000.