skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can confirm. HOA software is big. It's mainly managing PDFs and sending emails out. E.g. https://www.condocerts.com

It's a decent industry my friend (not after this posting) makes ~300k a year working on it. However the race may be ending as these companies lock apartment managers into long complicated contracts. Not sure how many apartment managers at scale still need.
UX is usually worse for non-customers because the main product offering of many online services simply cannot exist without strong relationship with customer (probably Quora is not the case). Because of that, experience of registered users receives much more attention. Most of the world is happy with it and is not going to deprive themselves from cool stuff on privacy grounds. I'd say it's counterproductive to fight against collecting personal data by corporations, because corps do need it to make service better. Instead, it should be better regulated, possibly, similarly to financial organizations by requiring independent privacy audit etc.
The English Electric Lightning was incredible!
300 years ago, when Benjamin Franklin traveled from Philadelphia to Boston, the trip took two weeks. The fastest mode of travel was by boat, and he nearly died in a boat wreck.
Please stop posting this.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dinosaur&sort=byDate&prefix=fa...
I'll have to try them out. I love Etymotic earphones and their support so far has been nothing short of fantastic.
What I envision a solution to be like, would be something like an configurable/codeable OpenRefine (was Google Refine) with streaming ingestion/extraction, with a validation engine/parsing engine (something more elegant than regex, but you can drop into that if necessary) and maybe a pluggable event processor (i.e. a Spark or Flink). I would love to work on such a problem, and solve it.
Yes there have been a million attempts since the early days of 3D. Most of them are photogrammetry or structured light setups of some kind, that aren't fast enough and don't scale for sizing. Part of it is logistics of getting objects through a scanner, with the accuracy being poor or muddy at best.

IMO it should be done with a mixture image segmentation and procedural generation.
I can verify: he mentioned it in the thread on the sigtbd parallel brainfuck CPU paper (and yes, that was real: you can look it up).
They are like the ITT of the psychiatric care industry.
To be fair, Australian homes need to be larger to house all the spiders.
This. I'm not sure if the other user means better experience with the services Google et al. offers or if he directly means how Google/Facebook/etc. cater ads/search results/friend suggestions to your web behavior. If it is the latter, then I personally want none of it and I get creeped out in much the same way as meeting a stranger who knows a little too much about me.
> Imagine having to drink that water without the benefit of a water filter.

We don't have to imagine it. Plenty of people do.

Concentrate a year's worth of tiny impurities and you'll wind up a bit of sludge, yes. You'd probably get it even with pure distilled water from dust and microbes in the air.

Chances are you're breathing a lot more nasty in from taxi exhaust and human feces from farts than you're getting from that water.
Actually cmd.exe appeared in OS/2 first and Windows 9X used command.com instead. Windows NT has cmd.exe because it used to be Microsoft OS/2 NT 3.0 and got changed.
I'm not sure what industry you work in or what size company, but my old department had a similar situation.

It sounds like your processes are either immature (no one really knows what the best way to do things is) or tribal (you have to know the right guy to talk to to find the information or knowledge you need).

Premature optimization is god awful, because it locks you into a world of pain - your business is inefficient and the people actually trying to follow the procedure find it incredibly painful and limiting.

If your process is immature, you need to invest some time and money into finding out what the best way to do whatever it is you're doing. If your process is tribal, you need to find the guy or guys that understand what's happening and pick their brains about everything they know. Their implicit knowledge needs to become explicit. In my situation, I found that just agreeing on common definitions was a huge help.

If you're grossly inefficient, don't write a procedure for a bad process...you're just ingraining inefficiency. Once you've found a good process, then write the procedure so you can train your people to repeat good, efficient practice.

And maybe most importantly, train your people to the procedure but make sure they understand it on a level so they know where it doesn't apply and give them authority to deviate from the procedure when necessary.

Sorry if none of that applies to you. I'm just speaking from my few limited experiences.
4. I'm a bad teacher.
How the screens inside movies build fictional worlds
You can also make DuckDuckGo the default search engine in Firefox' location bar. That way anything that is not a URL is treated as a search query. I particularly like !wen for Wikipedia and !wikt for Wiktionary.
SGNL: Make Phone Calls with Your Fingertip, Literally
You are trying to extrapolate from particle behavior to the behavior of the entire system. This is provably intractable. Think of power as a collective property, like pressure or temperature. They are very important, very useful properties, but they are completely meaningless if you want to discuss the behavior of a single molecule. Complex systems are characterized by their quantitative intractability. Our math is simply too weak, so we concentrate on areas where it is meaningful, rather than try to build a universal theory.

> I believe that government intervention should ...

That's politics, and is really not my thing. But even if you are interested in social science solely from the political perspective (like an engineer who's interested in science just so they can build what they always wanted to), I think you should separate the more descriptive elements (the science) from the prescriptive ones (technology), as the latter do not always directly flow from the former, and also require a good dose of ethics, which is may be very personal.
I was going to say, I discovered a comment on that site when searching to see if it knew it was talking about phenomenology, semantics, semiotics, etc.

https://meaningness.com/fixation-and-denial/comments

On the one hand, this seems to fulfill Kant's definition of genius (independently arriving at concepts that would have to be taught to most people) but on the other hand it reflects a certain naïveté that people in the sciences seem to have about the liberal arts: that meaningful (ha) questions such as these have not been properly considered in philosophy even given the fact that philosophy predates positivist Western science and the enlightenment by a few thousand years and there's like a 90% chance that Plato addressed these questions of "meaningness" somewhere and possibly even that he came to the same conclusions at one point or another.

At that point of course it's sort of a psychological question for me: why are highly intelligent people often drawn to the same questions and the same answers multiple times independently over thousands of years? I think the answer lies somewhere in sort of the "death of the author" problem in that language ceases to be useful in discussing certain questions past a certain level of abstraction and thus abstract communication is doomed to be imprecise such that we sound like we're repeating ourselves when we might not actually be. The revolutions in philosophical understanding, then, would seem to happen almost as if by chance: somebody articulates a shared meaning so successfully that its presence is evident to other people where once it was hidden. This is sort of what Wittgenstein was getting at I believe with Tractatus and the proposition that philosophical misunderstandings are shortcomings of language and thus if you can manage to simplify language enough that overloaded, idiosyncratic, and imprecise meanings are eliminated then you can formally deduce all of philosophy from a few first principles. I'm butchering him of course but this attitude is similar among lots of analytics and (as far as I know) originates with Wittgenstein and Russell. A meta-narrative so to speak of the continental approach would seem to be something along the lines of creating and articulating original ideas with universal scope which are not perhaps falsifiable but provoke thought in the subject. (somewhat Deleuzian I think)
There was some discussion (on HN I think) a while ago where basically you flick/drum fingers at the base of your skull about 10 times.

I've tried it and it seems to work at least for a while for me. YMMV.
I never fully understood free market ideologies because no market can ever really be "free" in the theoretical sense. "Free markets" are based off of a set of assumptions that can never quite be true.
I wonder if that could be useful for people with misophonia. Having power over what sound one ears could have a dramatic effect.
that is a great idea!
Is your talk up somewhere? That sounds very interesting.
Monkey Mouths and Throats Are Equipped for Speech
Big fan of Jack Clark and his work, from what I gather he is really focusing on trying to help a wide and not particularly technical audience understand the near term implications of socioeconomic change caused by emerging technology.
rsync as well, especially the progress bars.
See other responses for the markets it would serve. Use 3D modeling by hand pricing as a comp (Low end $10/model, average in the $50-100/model range, sky's the limit for super HQ stuff).

Not sure what kind of datasets you're looking for. You'll see actual products to test with.
I have a (relatively minor) nit-pick with some of the language in the article.

Early in the article the author writes "Current and former employees from at least 10 UHS hospitals in nine states said they were under pressure..."

However, a few paragraphs later she writes "But scores of employees from at least a dozen UHS hospitals said those facilities tried to keep beds filled even at the expense..."

I don't understand why the employees are from "at least" a certain number of hospitals, unless her sources were unclear about where they worked. And why does this number change?
What kind of structural integrity do you have in mind? Something with the density of industrial packing foam? I've seen set pieces constructed / carved from such material and it can be painted quite well. Putting aside the environmental / toxicity concerns for a moment regarding the type of material to be used, I'm genuinely curious how "rigid" such pieces might need to be.
> Every single psychiatrist I've ever visited had the same policy, only their lock was medicine rather than a door (outpatient vs inpatient).

I'm confused, are you complaining about psychiatrists forcing medication on people? I thought the entire point of seeing a psychiatrist was to get on medication...
> You will still need an initial jolt (voltage source) to get the current started.

Yes, but that wasn't what I replied to. Your claim was this:

> There is no current without EMF (measured in volts).

That's false. There can be massive currents without any potential difference. Again, superconductors show this behavior.

>> For a constant-current source, the rise is linear

> You do realize there no such thing as a practical constant current source?

Oh, really? So all those power supplies I designed for NASA were not really what they seemed? Constant-current sources are a normal part of electrical engineering practice and have been for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_source

A typical, simple schematic of a constant current source:

http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/the-basic...

Also, by using a switching inverter and manipulating the relationship between voltage and current in reactive elements, a constant-current source can be made very efficient. This is the ideal way to charge a supercapacitor, and it is standard practice. But I think I already said that.

> I did say raise the voltage as long as you are within the safe operating area.

Yes, but that's not how you charge a capacitor -- you use a controlled current, not a voltage. The voltage follows the current, not the other way around.

>> Will I be able to charge the capacitor faster from a source of 200 volts than from a source of 50 volts?

> This is a resounding yes.

Quite false. For a given current that a capacitor can tolerate, the charging rate is the same regardless of the source voltage. The reason? You don't charge capacitors with voltage, you charge them with current.

The example I gave earlier was a capacitor rated at 50 volts and two current sources -- one that can deliver 200 volts and one that can deliver 50 volts. The charging rate is the same. The reason? You don't charge capacitors with voltage, you charge them with current.

> There is no reason why you cannot attach a voltage source to a capacitor.

No reason at all. But don't be in the same room with a large capacitor and a voltage source that will supply substantial current to maintain a specified voltage. But, you know what? I already said that.

I've been designing power supply circuits for 40 years. My man-rated designs flew on the NASA Space Shuttle. I hold several patents. You're arguing with the wrong person.

> Current sources are a theoretical construct.

Current sources are an everyday, trivial design task that all competent designers must learn to be regarded as employable. See the linked schematic above.

> Internal resistances have to be considered in a practical circuit otherwise you will have to deal with infinite currents at t=0.

That is true for a voltage source. It is not true for a current source, and this is by design.
Added, and since the title was too long to fit, we took out 'novel' too.
There's also an apache module (https://github.com/pingidentity/mod_auth_openidc) and some Lua you can plug into nginx (https://github.com/pingidentity/lua-resty-openidc) if you are going the reverse proxy approach.
I'm not saying the technology isn't useful, but this has been done before. It hasn't worked before, so when it appears at the top of HN I assumed (given the higher standards we usually apply here) there was a reason beyond an okay marketing website with vague details. Which I didn't expect from Bose (which in my mind == quality and the website wasn't) nor the top of HN.
That is pretty cool, and thanks for the detailed reply. Asking innocently, because I don't know much about this stuff and I'm lazy, but is it much more secure? The thing I liked about the qwertycards is that there isn't a single point of failure.

If somebody takes your card, you still know the secret, and that could be any number of characters you wanted it to be.
We're all economic and spiritual slaves now. Nothing will make a difference. All lights of hope will be stamped out when we get our one-world government. Have a great day!
For me too. Whenever I do need something from Quora I disable their register coercion with a ?share=fuckyou query param.

However, most non tech-users I know will simply enter their email and a password because it's so simple and they don't see the problem with this dark pattern.
The older you get, probably the tougher it is to adapt too. Wearing hearing aids is very strange for the first little while since you're hearing all kinds of strange things again. For me everything seemed sharper/harsher initially but that's just because it all had been so muted for so long! It took me months of continuous wearing to get used to the sound so that it now sounds unatural to not be wearing them. He really needs to put them in when he wakes up and take them out for the shower/going to bed and thats it. If he only wears them occassionally, he'll probably never get used to them (my dad/grandpa had the same problem).

His audiologist can also set him up with a "training" program in his hearing aids that softens the amplification while he's getting used to them and after a few months go back to a more normal program. If he's not happy, have him talk to his audiologist...high end devices are highly tunable!
> very specific and nonintuitive usage of "free"

Supposedly it is because the word libre isn't recognized well enough in English.

Quoting: "To emphasize that “free software” refers to freedom and not to price, we sometimes write or say “free (libre) software,” adding the French or Spanish word that means free in the sense of freedom. In some contexts, it works to use just “libre software.”"

And: "We stand for freedom, and we show it every time—by saying “free” and “libre”— or “free (libre)”."

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html

Perhaps liberty software or liberal software would work...
Looks incredible. I for one cannot encourage enough, dataflow competitors to the current JVM lockdown on this space. A few questions:

a) will Fractalide support dynamic dataflow graph change at runtime?

b) For reasons of clarifying your objectives further, could you elaborate on your target market's current occupants? Is this Kafka / Flink for Rust?

c) What is your estimated timeframe for a feature-credible, testable release, even if beta?
The GPGPU market is the polar opposite of the gaming market.

Game developers might like to see clean driver source but they don't get to choose what kind of GPU their customers have already bought. And 99% of gamers are not going to choose their GPU based on Linux drivers. So nobody has any leverage and vendors have no incentive to change.

Meanwhile thousands of universities and institutions are each going to be looking for 25,000 GPUs and they can choose what brand they buy based on what makes their internal developers happy. Hosts like Amazon and Google are each going to be buying millions of GPUs, and having better and more transparent drivers so they can more easily e.g. improve power consumption by a small percentage, can save them a million dollars/year in electricity.

Someone like Google could come to each vendor and say "first to have mainline kernel drivers gets all our business" at any point. Or the same result in the other order; once there are clean drivers third parties are more likely to make power consumption and performance improvements that give AMD the edge when the major customers crunch the numbers.

There is a significant competitive advantage in it for AMD to get this right.
Obama orders intelligence report on Russian election hacking
I think that's because the term "concentration camp" is so heavily associated with the Nazi extermination programs. Likewise, there were Nazi concentration camps that were not designed to kill their occupants, and they're sometimes referred to as "labor camps".
Walmart de Mexico invests $1.3B in logistics
I have a friend who works in construction glass. (It's NYC, that's a big market). They ship millions of dollars of complex, custom molded glass every year. Everything's kept track of by emailing excel spreadsheets.
I think the best approach for the Brainfuck madness is to write a compiler/transpirer from a high level language (e.g. LOLCODE) to generate Brainfuck code. Then you can write your app in the high level language and show off the generated Brainfuck code.
So, current market size about 10k * 14,070 = 140M.
Probably because this field is incredibly fad driven (like tech in general) and this stuff isn't trendy right now. Ignore that though... just because something isn't the current fad doesn't mean it isn't still useful. Explore, play around, evaluate things on their own merit.
I think of myself a pretty successful. Certainly I am by any global standard. But I'm not known for being the world's hardest worker. I make up for that with savvy. I know when to push really, really hard, but that's not the gear I live most of my life in.

I've spent significant time with people that run the gamut of the socioeconomic spectrum. In my anecdotal observation, hard work and success are only loosely correlated. But I guess that depends on how you define success.

One place where the hard work vs. success dilemma really plays out is in athletics. What's more evidence of success than winning a championship in sports or being in the Hall of Fame? And yet, even amongst elite players in a given sport, you'll hear about vastly different reputations for hard work and discipline. Take the tennis rivals Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras, for example.
My wife is a corporate attorney. They pass drafts of contracts around by email using MS word with change tracking enabled.

Some sort of attorney targeted simple revision tracking front end using git would be a mighty step forward.
Happy to see (with your comment and subs) that I am not alone. For my case, it is explained by the fact my right ear is deaf (I was born like that). The left one has perfect hearing, but I guess missing stereoscopic sound totally changes the game.
That's probably the result of using a VPN. Google undoubtedly knows that lots of accounts registered through VPNs are spammy.

I just registered billyjiminy123@gmail in a private browsing session and didn't get prompted. I even sent an email without being prompted for verification.
Don't get me wrong, for those of us who have to use hearing aids this is a godsend, it allows directionality that previously was impossible.

However, for people with "normal" hearing, this will be a step down in usability.

The earlobe is shaped like they are to allow your brain to pickout and isolate sound in three dimensions+. Firstly this is automatic, you've been doing it since before you were born.

Secondly, the design of the era plugs completely remove the "shaping" sound of the earlobe (for want of a better term. This is why stereo records still sound flat, they don't have the extra metadata the deformities of the earlobe provide. hence binaural recordings.)

Yes that means you can remove the background noise completely, and replace it with the "what's in front of you" but that is a 2d (if you're lucky) image, so good luck differentiating between two people close together. Ear plugs _shouldnt_ mess with the "metadata" because they should be in the earcanal. All they are doing is attenuating the signal, not re-writing it.

However I can't state enough how much this is going to improve people who are dependant in earphone's lives. For the rest of us, ear plugs are most likely far superior

+ Experiment: Stereo is sort of 2d. However, its complicated. you can describe a horizontal circle of noise, crudely by altering the two channels. However depth is replaced by loudness. (in the same way size of an object for 2d photos) Now, you know that in real life you can differentiate vertical sounds as well.

edit: ex sound engineer, so none of this is scientific. Please research binaural, and 3D sound. Criticism welcome
You've introduced an ideological talking point in order to refute it, but that's the sort of tangent we ask people not to introduce into divisive threads, because they usually turn into generic arguments/flamewars that overwhelm the (far more interesting) specifics of a story.
Verizon won’t push Samsung’s Note 7 bricking update
And there's nothing precluding someone in the industry from being a part of that team, to bring understanding of the problem space.
In my original post, I was more leaning towards member design software, such as spColumn and S-Concrete.

These are much more standalone, and don't have many of the issues you listed.

No one I know is using the automated concrete design built into analysis programs like ETABS, Tekla, etc.
That reminds me of Feynman's story about giving a talk to a HS physics club under a fake name, so that it wouldn't be overwhelmed by people who simply came to see a Nobel laureate, just people interested in physics.
If your expertise is organizational and can put together the right team with those that do have the domain knowledge, I'll concede the point. But domain knowledge is irreplaceable if you actually want to solve hard problems with scalable markets.
Re-read it sarcastically...