jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Here's an article with a bunch of sizzling Instagram shots from people who got to take the first look: http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/web/news/a14830/face...

I'm really impressed by how non-gimmicky this Gehry building looks on the outside, and it seems like they really did a good job designing whatever space isn't consumed by the open plan.
Yup!

But it was too late to do anything about it. I was pitching like a money craze just to set up the company and get things going. I managed to get what the startup needed and start rolling.

But Ow Boy! Getting investment from a politician that is from a 3rd world country can go south very quickly. We are talking about like really bad south.

I learned few things on the way:

1- Bad investment can very easily kill the company.

2- Living rough and patching things together can be a better investment than taking someone's money that you know will cause you horrible outcome.

Edit: red flags:

1- He/she have no clue how proper investment is done.

2- No trust or believe in the actual entrepreneurs. I don't care how much he/she offers, you've got to see it in their eyes that they are willing to do this and you as an entrepreneur is the one.

3- Don't take a politicians investment! Bad bad money.
This [0] book is to mathematics what Feynman Lectures are to physics (debatable, but I think it's worth the read).

[0] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0486409163/ (Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning)
Fascinating; starts on page 25..

http://sas2.elte.hu/tg/ptorv/Parkinson-s-Law.pdf
The only redeeming feature of open plan comes from Hamming's essay, you and your research:

Another trait, it took me a while to notice. I noticed the following facts about people who work with the
door open or the door closed. I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work ✥
done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don't ✥
know quite know what problems are worth working on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in ✱
importance. He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets
clues as to what the world is and what might be important. Now I cannot prove the cause and effect ✞
sequence because you might say, ``The closed door is symbolic of a closed mind.'' I don't know. But I can ✝
say there is a pretty good correlation between those who work with the doors open and those who ✝
ultimately do important things, although people who work with doors closed often work harder. Somehow ✲
they seem to work on slightly the wrong thing - not much, but enough that they miss fame.
You forgot the part about exposing your finished database to unprotected elasticsearch http endpoint ;)

In all seriousness does anyone know why you can even host an elasticsearch database as http and without credentials? Seems to be the default. What is the use case for this?
It’s also apparently a closed protocol, so Zwift and third party apps can’t use it. Maybe peloton will open that up at some point, it would bring it a new market. I have a bike on a wahoo kickr core and it’s great, and I don’t have space for a dedicated bike. If I did, I’d totally go for one of the newer all-in-one bikes (easier, less hassle) and peloton is interesting if it can do the same things as that hardware.
The recommended pick from the Wirecutter is the Coway AP-1512HH Mighty (as of this post, the recommendation was last updated January 15, 2021) [0]. The CADR is available on Coway's product page in what I assume to be imperial units given the units of the other specifications: "233 (Smoke), 246 (Dust), 240 (Pollen)" (under "Specification") [1]. This CADR score puts it just between the BlueAir Blue Pure 211 and GermGuardian AC530B in the graph from the post [2].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier...

[1] https://cowaymega.com/products/coway-mighty-ap-1512hh

[2] https://i.cbc.ca/1.5902727.1612545406!/fileImage/httpImage/i...
> BTW, I am a huge fan of your writing: the Principle of Least Power is a sacred programming text to me .

That principle is actually directly from the CTM book, which seems to have been a great inspiration for Martin Odersky in the language design.
> sent a message to his team letting them know he would probably be “getting bugged more” by his kids due to his wife’s new high-level job

I don't get how this was supposed to work. He's just putting his employer before the fact that he is going to be working less hours for same pay? Or I'm misinterpreting and it's supposed to mean something else? Why didn't he ask for paternity leave or didn't try to negotiate for a different schedule?
Dyson the person had one very successful idea (the bagless vacuum) and brought it to market himself after being ignored by the then-incumbent manufactures of existing models.

Dyson the company has been riding that one idea since, and I agree the rest of their products are over-priced luxury items. In fact their vacuums are over-priced as well now.

Dyson rubs me the wrong way as well personally by purporting to be a "patriotic Brit" moaning about the current state of the country. Then upping sticks to Malaysia with the company HQ in tow.
I know many of this cases around the industry with friends that work at tech companies and no one really cares about it. On the news and marketing they picture themselves as really work-life balance but this is the truth about their work policies at the end of the day.
Inequality seems to be a completely pointless buzzword to me. The only thing that matters is if there are more or less poor people, and how poor are those people compared to similar percentiles in the past.

It shouldn't matter how rich the richest people on earth are. I really love seeing people on the Internet try to convince themselves that because Bezos or Musk are worth $100B, they must be stealing it from poor people.
podman 3.x natively supports docker-compose, but it requires running a podman daemon and has the same drawbacks as docker:

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-docker-compose

That says, you literally can use the same docker-compose app shipped from docker and it works using podman.
Do you know what the ID of "the medical director of Covid response since April" looks like? I don't and neither do you or the firemen/police he would approach.
Has that clause ever been actually tested in court? I can't think of any cases where one of the big companies went after moonlighting.
KeePass writes out a lock file, so the other instances will warn you and you can tell them to open the database as read-only.

Advantages? I guess I should try out LastPass. Free or $1/month premium is a good price.
Love that smart people are starting to tackle health problems. This is a huge global issue in need of significant innovation.
This feature request already exists.
That is exactly what I need. Many thanks for your help, and also for your for forbearance regarding my poorly worded initial question!
How about looking at the longer term performance of both currencies in terms of Swiss Francs, on xe.com. It looks to me quite clearly the opposite of your view.

That doesn't tell us what precisely you are mistaken about, and clearly many people have been agreeing with you for years and years, but something is off here.

Dollars:
https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=CHF&view=10Y

Rubles:
https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=RUB&to=CHF&view=10Y
Donated by Joe Beda himself.
The current government made the mess. Politically, it's hard for them to admit that it is a mess. "Everything is proceeding well and according to plan, citizen. There is no need for you to be concerned..."
> Down 6% after hours, for reasons that I don't understand.

A stock doesn't go up or down based on whether it does well or poorly, it does so based on how it performs relative to the expectations that were already priced into it. If it does well, but not as well as the market was expecting, then it will still go down.
> Even on a mostly non-algorithmic feed like Reddit, the highest upvoted comments on popular subs always feature an extremely predictable response, like a dad joke, followed by similarly predictable sub-comments written solely to garner upvotes.

The subreddit simulator is a good proof of this, especially once it was rebased on top of GPT-2. Generally, the closer a subreddit is to the top of the list the more it's content will look like the output of the language model.
Scala is awesome. It is meant to be a scalable language where you go from level 1 to say 5 as you learn. Problems arise when you put a level 5 guy into a level 1 team and letting him loose. No common style guide, no team training, just write those type signatures approaching tweets max length and let the rest wonder wth is going on
I love it! Now I'm less afraid of JavaScript
You can build applications like those that capture meeting notes or topics after a conversation on Zoom: https://github.com/symblai/symbl-for-zoom
But they get less experience with working with the alternatives. Gas certainly works, and so does electric, but how many people use both extensively enough to form an objective preference more than the convenience of familiarity?
I want this feature as badly as you do. In my case, to filter out any smart TVs when shopping for a replacement television. I recognize though, from working in retail and from looking at the front and back ends of the human process (and the front and back ends of POS, ERM, and other software that manages a business' inventory)... That the world itself will probably never be well ordered enough to support reliable logical operators with accurate results when searching most inventory out there.

You have to nail the software that developers have to write to understand the inventory it's keeping well enough for those operators to work. You have to nail the human process of keeping the inventory itself (and any tagging/categorization in the software) manually up to date. You have to deal with the malincentives of all the people selling product on to you at the distributor level, and how that affects the information they provide with the product.

I wish for consistent, comprehensive logical operators in product search but I just don't see it happening. I think it's an example of a 'wicked problem'[1], and one that someone could probably make a killing solving.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
Great find. If that's as bad as it sounds, that could make an it an illegal derivative work, which would make for an easy DMCA claim.
Innocent people are affected when almost anyone is sent to jail. Families and friends and dependants and so on.

The bigger and more important you are, the more people are affected by both you breaking the law and you being punished with imprisonment for doing so. A corporation is only different in scale.
The point of BD is to build robots that can move like humans in conditions that would kill a human.

Humans usually charge quite a lot for suicide missions.
You should read the descriptions[1] of those leadership principles, not just the titles. They're not what you think.

Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit is specifically about NOT being a jerk who digs his heels in, and sabotages projects or decisions that they disagree with. Rather someone who is a team player and embraces the decisions of the group:

Are Right A Lot is about constantly questioning your own understanding and being CAPABLE of changing your mind. We literally interview for it by asking about a time your mind was changed on something important.

Ownership is about not saying "That's not my job". If there is some work to be done, and nobody's doing it, don't have a high and mighty attitude about it being beneath you. Just get it done. (e.g. Developers doing QA, Ops, Documentation, etc)

Bias For Action is about taking calculated risks.

Insist on the Highest Standards is the only one that I know jerks abuse.

[1] https://amazon.jobs/en/internal/principles
That's awesome! Congrats to the RAD team and Epic! Epic certainly has acquired a world-class team. Also, I've been a long time fan of Jeff's podcast, it is irreverent and hilarious if you haven't checked it out!

https://jeffandcaseyshow.com/
Azlo is also closing. They just sent word today. I wonder if it’s coincidence or they are owned by the same parent company (BBVA).
I think you get the nerds with privacy. But you get others with the network effect. So you get the nerds first and that helps build your initial base that helps expand your network. Get your DnD or boardgame group to use Signal. Then get other peers, then get family. The problem of converting people is the network effect. Similarly the solution to converting people is creating a network.
The Saturn mission Cassini had 72 pounds of plutonium on it. The Pluto mission New Horizons has 24 pounds of plutonium to power itself.
Yea you don't hear a peep from the "hate has no home here" side when Cathy Griffin holds a beheaded Trump in effigy.

You could only imagine the pearl-clutching if someone made the same image with Biden.
They've already laid off 26,000 people in recent months - after spending almost all of its available cash on stock buybacks over the prior decade.

Src: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/28/investing/boeing-job-cuts...
> Silicon Valley isn't immune to the same virus.

I am not saying this to be snarky, but is it not the generally held belief that VC stands for Vulture Capital?

I realize not everybody shares this belief, but I think a lot of people do - maybe even most.
Isn't it sad that this type of news is at the top of any news website?
This needs central coordination to really work. You also need customer incentives to get buy in.

Power companies do something similar with air conditioning units in hot areas. Customers can opt-in to have a control module installed that modulates their A/C on and off at peak loads to control demand. Customers get some nominal discount on their bill for participating.

Worked better when people weren’t working from home and it didn’t matter if your house was a bit warmer than normal for an hour or two mid-day.

Controlling this on end devices introduces a lot of distributed systems problems, like stampeding herd when all of the devices switch back on. You could try jittered back off and such, but cold customers would just unplug and replug until it worked.
The difference between having 1:1 backing and “pretty good” reserves is that if they claim (as they do) to be 1:1 backed and it were to come out that they were not, it could spark a “run on the bank” type scenario for everyone to get their money out while they can.
Might be worth a search of court cases to see if there are any cases out there where Facebook provided WhatsApp messages to law enforcement.
It’s a “synthetic control” because they didn’t actually have a control group. So they tried to pretend their was such a group by taking data from elsewhere.

Yes, I read the paper.
it implies that the humans ate the fat and organs, while the lean meat was given to the dogs
They do: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
neat idea-- i had never considered MIDI as a low-data transmission method for live jamming
The New York Attorney General is going to look into the box on January 15.
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Is there anything like this for Chrome on Mac?
I'm not quite sure why I'm being modded down.

One of the reasons I mentioned that is that toys from the early 80s avoided the use of Plastic as it was a cost center.

Are crocs not made out of some kind of plastic compound? Or is it because the plastic is easily replaceable, and people are referring to the form factor?
A lot of people are recommending writing some open source software. I would advise against that. Instead I would advise writing some software that you find to be useful. That does not rule out contributing to an open source project, it just makes it less likely you'll waste your time. It's really really hard to figure out if people really need the features they ask for in open source projects -- and I think there are a lot of bloated FOSS products out there. Write something for yourself and it may lead you down a surprising path.
I’m puzzled by Google’s labeling decisions on their "Terrain" maps.

Replace "Terrain" with anything else and that's pretty much the subject of all of this blog's entries. I don't know why the naming on the terrain maps would be any better than the labeling on any of the other map modes.
I agree entirely that language designers should focus on getting language issues like scopes right — and that's why I don't think they should waste their time reinventing codegen over and over again unless there's a compelling need for it. I mean, if you're just playing around and don't really want to make a language, fine. But wasting your time on details that aren't useful is the best way to make sure your project never amounts to anything.
I see, so the argument is then utility operators can't install ACLs so we need to have the government do it for them?

For patients requiring treaments to stay alive, there are generators at every hospital and ambulances to pick up patients in dire need. Even taking your ludicrous scenario of total US power outage attack at face value...oil will still continue to burn without the internet. :D
I would not even think business, takes longer. Think infomercial. For example: That star wars sword thingy was just a flash light on the end of a plastic tube and made the
guy a million so I heard.
Wouldn't it make more sense to disconnect them from the internet than to try and shutdown communication to/from some sections of the world? The ability to momentarily create a strong perimeter defense doesn't make much sense to me- it would only work against an attacker that didn't plan for it.

As soon as the world knows you have a kill switch, any organized attack will have domestic components, and which means that you still have the possibility of the president screwing up the normal economy, but no additional defense.
The fact that a human has killed another human in the past is hardly sufficient reason for recommending Xenocide as de facto future policy, mein Fuher.
The two things economists know are hilarious -- square "no free lunch" with "gains from trade." Do the gains from trade have a price? Who pays that?

As for "incentives matter," what, because incentives incentivize?
Reposting the comment of chbarts, which has been killed despite being entirely appropriate. Moderating has gone completely out of hand lately:

chbarts wrote:

"
I think the potted example on the web page is somewhat poor, as it seems to be a problem existing package management systems already solve.

The more interesting aspect is the sandboxing, and how this is great for one-off software runs where it isn't worth it to install the needed packages on your base system because they're logically just a unit with the software you're testing. You mention this, but I think you'd do well to make it more obvious.

This is also, and this is something you mention, a way of preserving historic software and data. Bundle a full CDE package with an emulator and you can keep running that program for even longer; in fact, it seems a CDE package could gradually grow layers as time demands, from moving a (user-mode) kernel in, to adding device emulation, to going the final step and making the package more-or-less a ship in a bottle running in full hardware emulation.

This could also grow into a way to run untrusted (or minimally-trusted) software in an iron box, not just a sandbox. But that is harder and probably not your preferred direction."
Both Ruby and Python have interpreters implemented in themselves.

http://rubini.us/

http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/
Does the app produce a unique coded signal of flashing screen colours for each user? Otherwise, what's to stop someone from loading an image of their own face with someone else's barcode onto their smartphone and stealing sandwiches?
I am looking for a cofounder for an open source farm startup.

Mostly kidding, though if anyone is intrigued by such ideas, feel free to contact me.
Best definition of Steve Gillmor's work I've ever read.
M2 integrates with 0MQ too if you want browsers as message endpoints.
> to insight ire

Ouch. Nothing hurts your credibility quite like an egregious spelling mistake just as your rant is taxiing onto the runway.
A less modest, but more practical proposal: remove the USPS's monopoly protection and make it compete on the market alongside private carriers. Let the best business(es) win.
I never used DevonThink, can you tell me what are the your personal biggest pros and cons of this program? Also, what do you think is the biggest problem of this/similar systems?

I can sympathize with bookmarks problems, not only they rot, but after few years there is a lot of 404 (pinboard provides archiving bookmarks but that is a paid service).

Do you have a lot of Anki decks of just a single "random things from the bookmarks"? Do you use Anki every day or rather infrequently?
let's not forget .kkrieger - their 96k procedural FPS game [1]

also, ryg from Farbrausch (who works for RAD Game Tools) blogs regularly [2]. A story about their crazy .kkrieger code sprints at [3] (submitted about a year ago [4])

[1] http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036

[2] https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/

[3] https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7739599
Deep Neo Neo Cubism?
Don't most time zone databases store the date of rule changes? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#File_formats
> How does the photon know that we know about it?

The next sentence after the part you quoted is the key: "This is the first example we see of how measuring a quantum system alters the system".

To measure the system in order to know which slit it went through, we had to physically interact with it, and that changes its behavior. The experiment is no longer "send photons through these double slits and then count them over there". It's "send photons through these double slits, make them interact with our measuring doohickey right behind the slits, and then count them over there".

Take a look at Feynman's coverage of this in Chapter 1 of Volume III of "The Feynman Lectures on Physics". You can find them online in a beautiful HTML version here: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu
Awesome. Took a quick scan of that link and love the sharing of information.