skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the secret might be just to ensure that work starts and finishes on a project as soon as possible, that both people and expensive equipment have work ready for them so they can keep busy constantly until the job is finished.

You gotta have buffers for bad weather, malfunctions, changing stuff when it turns out some worker did bad job, yadda yadda yadda. Otherwise your construction ends the same way as any software project with tight schedule - buggy, low quality and over budget due to subsequent three years of fixing.

Transporting large machines from place to place is expensive and time consuming, so if you need to lift something heavy once a day, you have to keep them where they are. The company that provides those machines also needs buffers between jobs - otherwise two days of heavy rain on one site would delay start of work on another site (which usually means contractual fines).

I don't mean to say that the construction you look at is the most effective possible, certainly not. But sometimes there are reasons.

> And maybe it'd help if people were cross-trained to do multiple trades, so that after one task is completed, they could immediately go work on another.

I would agree, but finding reliable high quality worker is hard enough. Finding one who is reliable high quality and knows two trades might be even harder.
Interesting to see that the Google Brain Residency isn't that much more advanced than other graduate work or fellowship programs out there.

I think they accepted residents from different backgrounds and different levels of experience.
Which is a kind of stupid way of measuring things, the detector systems at the LHC were developed by a relatively small number of groups at huge expense over at least 12 years, it took even longer until actual science experiments happened. A concrete example would be the Atlas trigger systems development until Higgs discovery was ~20 years, ultimately they received >50000 citations.
The best thing they could do beyond EliRivers comment is, if the circumstances for, have an open conversation about what the company can improve. And then say let's keep in touch if the new job doesn't work for you maybe we can talk.

Now you might think hey.. that is an exit interview. But exit interviews are formal form filling exercised done by a HR person that may or may not have a positive effect and there is not much incentive to be brutally honest. In fact the opposite.
Where are you getting 240 for google drive? It's only costing me 120/year. (Well technically through gsuite)
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It's definitely a thing. Once saw a great keynote by Greg Howell, co-founder of the Lean Construction Institute. Wikipedia page also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_construction
Those are jobs where physical strength is important, which is an area where there are significant biological differences between males and females. Human males generally are bigger than human females, and usually have a higher strength to mass ratio.

That doesn't mean that women cannot do those jobs well. It just means that given equal opportunity we would expect those jobs to remain heavily male.
I just got bitten by this. Changed plan to 1TB from unlimited for the same price. :-(
In all the photos I've seen consumer GPUs have power on top and server GPUs have it on the end.
Looks like it's really the plex people to blame. They were hosting tons of TBs of pirated movies/tv shows.
At least three.
referral link and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14229127

maybe you should reevaluate your behavior here?
It's 10 a month for unlimited. But to answer your question yes. I have three accounts on my business plan and it's been unlimited from the start when I was just a single user.
Ok, on the chance that you're sincere, I will try explaining this in detail.

You posted an inflammatory drive-by comment complete with gratutious Nazis (not literal Nazis of course, but in the same bucket). That's trolling: it destroys good conversation and provokes others into posting worse.

I explained this well enough for anyone who sincerely wants to use HN as intended to understand. Insead of taking that information in and adapting to it, you responded with the very most popular troll ploy in such situations, the "How is this trolling?" trick. That's where people seek to replace a pointless argument with a pointless argument about the pointless argument. I call that meta-trolling. Sorry the term wasn't clear.

I interpreted your reply as insincere because "a comment on exactly what happened" is such a silly misrepresentation of your original post. Posting something outrageous and then meekly playing innocent is more classic trollery. So is baiting people into wasting their time on obvious falsehoods. I've learned to decline the bait because all of this is so boring, and the overwhelming majority of sincere users don't do them, or drop them right away when we ask them to.

The past comment I was referring to was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12553831. It has the same combination of being unsubstantive and inflammatory. You post far too many of those to HN, though usually more unsubstantive than inflammatory, which is at least better than the other way around. That, plus what looks to me like sincerity in your reply here, makes me think that maybe we can convince you to use the site as intended after all; hence this long reply.

HN is intended for (a) the gratification of intellectual curiosity and (b) civil, substantive discussion. That means posting thoughtfully on topics where you have something meaningful to say, and otherwise not posting. Can you do that?
Wikipedia says that the -ta in Lithuanian and Polish is from Latin thea, from the phrase herba thea ('tea herb'), so there is still a morpheme in common with the other languages in this case!
Is this really true? I always thought this was due to the ridiculous real estate prices in Cambridge.
The autoscaler here doesn't solve the downscaling issues mentioned. We've seen it work fine for scaling up, quickly. For now we're not scaling down, as the job will finish quicker than individual tasks will time out when unlucky.
The good thing about Google is they've been fairly nice about grandfathering people in. Since gsuite is a business product I suspect they'll be a little more forgiving. Although it wont surprise me if they start more aggressively hunting down people using the service for plex.
>His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbours sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap," he counselled one and all, and everyone said "Amen."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
For a good etymological mystery, it's hard to beat "dog."

Not only is the word "dog" of unknown origin, its equivalents in Spanish and various Slavic languages also apparently appeared from nowhere.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=dog

If that's not fun enough, there's an extinct Aboriginal language from Australia which has a word for dog. That word is also "dog" - apparently pronounced the same as in English, and a complete coincidence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbabaram_language
I don't think Plex ever really worked with amazon. Plex advertised it at first but it didn't end up working out, sadly. See https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/02/amazon-isnt-playing-nice-w...
The thread is full of great answers and advices, but I haven't came across this one:

I was dealing with similar situation like you. I had a hard time to find peace after work at home. I was looking for advices around and once came across an article(I can't find the article) which recommended that you should not stop doing activities which you liked as a child when you are an adult.

When I was thinking about it, that was exactly what I did. I stopped doing things which I enjoyed when I was a kid. I used to play a lot of Age of Empires and loved that and did competitive swimming. So I started with the swimming and it helped me both mentally and physically. After a year or so, I started slipping back to the same routine as before and not even the swimming was helping. I tried to do some research on the Age of Empires thing and installed it to my laptop after 10 years or so. Since then the strategy for me in critical situations is:

1st - Go swimming/biking/running, try to sweat it out.
2nd - If 1. does not work(happens like once in couple of months). Play some freaking Age of Empires for 6+ hours straight
3rd - If 1. and 2. fail, talk with people

Firstly, this sounded really silly to me and I think once I have kinds this won't even be an option, but in my current situation this small hack works pretty well for me.
how dare you criticize consumerism!

think of all the poor rich people trying to feel good about their imense investment on a disposable toxic ton of battery. How insensitive.
> If dealing with a function, the evaluation will always be arguments from left to right are evaluated first, and then the function is called with the result of evaluating the args. This is 95% of the cases.

> If dealing with a macro, go read the documentation for it, because every macro is a DSL, and evaluation can happen in different ways. This is the 5% case.

Not arguing with your point, but just for fun:

CL-USER> (let ((functions 0) (specials 0))
(do-external-symbols (symbol (find-package :cl))
(cond ((or (macro-function symbol)
(special-operator-p symbol))
(incf specials))
((fboundp symbol)
(incf functions))))
(/ (* specials 100.0)
(+ specials functions)))
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This reminds me of Pathfinder:

http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2017/02/14/pathfinder/

How is it different/similar?
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You're not the only one. I don't want notebooks, I want my own damned editor. For Atom, there is https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen which embeds Jupyter/iPython output right inside of your editor, not so different from how RStudio works.
DO gives some great merchandise tho! :D
I don't understand the Silicon Valley philosophy. Why should people be rewarded for being reckless to such extent?

It reminds me of a point by Nassim Taleb which claims that if you look at the absolute top securities traders at any given time, they are usually ones who took massive poorly-calculated risks which happened to work out - The best traders in the long run are usually not the most prominent ones. They get smaller rewards over long periods of time but most of them end their careers with a net gain for their clients.

Unfortunately, because VCs are themselves reckless, they think that recklessness is a virtue and only invest in it. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The fact that 9 out of 10 startups fail is merely the result of this attitude that VCs have. They managed to turn this terrible ratio into some kind of industry standard. Maybe it's actually extremely inefficient.
FWIW (I work on the .NET Team and I wrote the mirror we use to keep TFS and GitHub in sync). When we started the project we maintained a mirror which kept our GitHub repository and internal TFS branch in sync. After a while, we decided that trying to maintain this was more harm that it was worth (the internal TFS branch used a completely different build system and there were other interactions between code which had been open source and code that hadn't that meant our internal branch was on the floor every few days), in addition it meant that we were carrying around a bunch of effectively dead code in the source tree.

We still do mirror some code (mainly the JIT) into TFS to make it easier to share code with the Desktop in an automated fashion. However, for the rest of the code (e.g. the VM and BCL), if there are improvements we want to bring back, an engineer will just port them manually.
because most oil producing countries can't have the luxury of also having hydro power. When they do, the comment you called a liar is very true.
I don't drink even if I'm with my gf, FYI I don't have gf.
Yea it's been great for my family. We've been backing up family photos and movies to it with acdcli. Close to 1TB of all that content there, so we're fine for now but I'm probably going to end up doing something else for the longer term.
I'd say the first three are completely off; "concern" & "care" better (I also heard "grit"), but not quite there.
said everyone of oil 100 years ago.

Can't wait for our fluvial polution with all those tesla batteries in a dumb, waiting to be recycled after a huge lithium reserve is found and make recycling unattractive.

its a lose-lose scenario. Either no new reserves or recycling not economically viable.
> women are more expected to just take it.

Or women, in general, just don't want the bother.

> giving the guys push back

Excellent. Too many women don't, in my experience. In my personal experience, I find women not standing up for themselves in the situation at hand, and then complaining about it for ages after.

> highly likely to get me banned, no matter how reasonable I am about it.

That seems unlikely. If you are getting banned, maybe you're not being reasonable about it?

> If you do, you can be actively punished for it.

This is not a women-only issue. Men get "punished" just as much for unpopular opinions. Just like they get talked over if they let themselves be talked over. etc.
Nice! Would you be supporting Volta GPUs when it is launched?
There was a thread recently around how acd-cli users were gaining access to other peoples' data - it was a legit concern, I think.
You need to double check the library you're using. For example, older versions of the Python standard UUID library would fall back to an insecure RNG silently.

It's easier to just read 16 bytes from /dev/urandom and encode it in hex/base64 yourself for a random token.
I meant that whatever was supposed to clear the wakelock didn't run, thus leaking the wakelock. I really do find your problem odd, I recommend taking a look at your extensions if you want to track it down at some point.

Safari's fine these days though, so you do you.
My most hated at the moment? Those ads that hijack page scrolling and don't let go until you've scrolled the ad past. Wouldn't be a huge problem if it didn't totally fuck up my browser's scrolling functionality and lag things out.
Tangential: George Dow[0] and Harry Beck[1] created the 'Tube map'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dow
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Beck
Except Amazon revoked rcloud's key a while back.

Any recommendations on the "plenty of apps" that sort your data for easy searching?
maybe use https://camlistore.org/ on GCE?
For fun, I just checked out Google Cloud Platform. 1 TB of regional storage costs $20.00 a month not including bandwidth which could be huge.

1 TB of egress bandwidth is $120.00 a month.
> Guess which one will give you a better return on average

Hard to say. Depends on inflation levels.

In particular, a home is one of the few leveraged investments most people can make. And if inflation is somewhat high (which it hasn't been recently), a leveraged investment that just grows at the rate of inflation can beat out an index fund that grows several percent above the rate of inflation but is not leveraged.

Just to put numbers to this, if you are levered 5 to 1 (20% down), inflation is 3%, home price grows at inflation, you are getting a 15% nominal return on your investment in the home, and a 12% real return.

For a more realistic estimate, say leverage is 4 to 1 (you've paid off part of the mortgage), inflation at 2% as it has been recently. Still 6% real return.

I will grant that the index fund is more liquid, obviously.
But a NP-hard problem is not necessarily hard to solve in a specific case. So most solvers try basically to enumerate possible solutions and prune them before solving them.

I would expect a smarter approach in solvers' design.
It doesn't seem implausible that like-minded people would choose to live near each other.
But why do public organizations in developed europe & co have infrastructure projects for cheaper then? Don't they have similar or even stronger public work cultures?
Living in 80 square feet (2010)
I've been thinking that a p2p backup solution (encrypted storage, storage cryptocurrency, occasional random requests to make sure they're still around) would work. I guess these guys: https://storj.io/. $15/TB of storage, $50/TB of bandwidth. and competitors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13723722
I don't think it's sinister, I just think it's looked upon as extra work, with no obvious upside.

For would-be competitors who want to send in spies, it's easier to move on to other companies that publish addresses.

In the big 5 companies, the more hush-hush the R&D activities, the harder the particular site is to find.
Relatively safe; we still don't know for sure whether there are no negative consequences. But definitely in another league than ionizing radiation.
The first one is.
Similar to Pineapple which is basically "ananas" in every language except English (pineapple) and Spanish (piña);
though "ananas" is also accepted, but rarely used, in Spanish, so English stands alone.

[0] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/134659/why-is-pi...
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For some reason this reminds me of how hard it is to design unsupervised learning systems that don't hit a measurable payoff for a long time, so they can't easily decide what they did right or wrong.

Also, I love your username :)
Or if you go to tap close but at that exact point an image finishes downloading, reflowing the page and moving the close button elsewhere so you end up clicking the ad. Grrr.
I feel strangely proud as well. My city never appears on HN, but Poetovio appears on here and it has only 20K people nowadays. In the Roman times, it had an estimated 40k population and it was a military camp IIRC.
Ask HN: What are the most used productivity tools in your tech job?
You shouldn't worry about ETFs and index funds being in a bubble per se. ETFs are structured out of holdings of other stocks. There are built-in mechanisms that keep their price in line with these other stocks: specifically, if the price diverges, it becomes profitable for the big traders and the like to buy other stocks and turn them into shares of the ETF, or vice versa. Provisions exist for doing this, so for a widely-traded ETF, the market will therefore be pretty efficient and the ETF itself will be priced fairly relative to its constituent stocks. (For a thinly traded no-name ETF, this may not be as true, however, and the prices may diverge - but we're still taking a few percent rather than, like, ten percent.)

So worry about a bubble in the stocks the ETF holds, instead. Unlike ETF-to-stock drift, that isn't something that day traders can fix: only big-time active investors, hedge funds and the like with billions in assets and insane risk tolerance who are seeking market-beating returns, can actually trade enough volume to move the price on big stocks like that, and if big-time passive institutional investors (like masses of individuals armed with ETFs, or pension funds, who are not in it to beat the market) happen to be too irrationally exuberant about stocks, the hedge funds may find it too risky or not profitable enough to trade enough that it corrects the stock price back to what that price should be.

But if you believe in a bubble in those stocks in general, you'll probably have to look beyond big names like AAPL and 3M that are already in your index fund, and you'll be back spending hours a day doing that beat-the-market research.
Just a guess: if it's carried around and powered off and on, it does not have a steady temperature, leading to a lot of additional noise in power consumption (as opposed to repeatedly testing power consumption of a desktop CPU, which can be done in short intervals at nearly the same environmental conditions).
1.28 billion daily active users on average for March 2017 [https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/]

would greatly disagree with your statement. It may not be the answer for everyone, but it could be that tool for a large chunk of the world's population.
Sadly hated != ineffective, so they're here to stay
Because of limited resources. A degree signals knowledge of a subject, ability to commit and see-through to a goal, and of intelligence.

It also decreases uncertainty in the outcome of your time investment.

>How would testing centers and degrees make them better scientists in anyway?

I'm not aware it's even possible to get accepted into a phD program in the sciences without aN undergrad degree.
That's not normal or healthy. See a therapist.

Also meditation will still help but what you're taking about is a broader and deeper issue with how you process frustrations and anger.

That needs professional help. No shame in it - it's quite useful! It's not like they teach it in school is it?
http://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectur...
Google Cloud Nearline storage is rather cheap, doesn't have as much limitations as Glacier and is AWS API compatible so NAS backup software works with it.
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