skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your role in a company is so removed from the business or stakeholders that you're being assigned tasks like "add 15 fields", then IMO you're already in trouble.

That's part of a larger issue though, where we actually let non-technical people dictate technical specs to us.
DX?
Not looking for specific advice right now but just hearing about people who went through a similar thing, what happened and what they changed for their next attempt. It's hard to give specific details without identifying yourself and competitors as well.
This is well worth a watch!
How big was the Runscope team at the time of acquisition?

Also, CONGRATS!
Some people would, and do want that.
> you might end up understanding an idea that is close but slightly off

Just like most floating point numbers

ba dum tss
Actually I've been able to use Best Price Guarantees many times. But it's not as easy to use as you say it is: each program has it's own set of complicated terms and conditions and often reject seemingly reasonable requests. Also, usually the chain needs to independently verify the rate, which can take up to 1-2 days, and by that time, the rate may have changed. Also, often you need to book the lowest rate for the guarantee, which could be a nonrefundable rate.

Easy/Lenient/Refundable:
Starwood (20% off)
Marriott (25% off)

Easy/Lenient/Nonrefundable:
Hilton ($100 certificate)

Medium/Nonrefundable:
Hyatt ($50 certificate)

Hard/Nonrefundable:
IHG (1st night free)
>How is this working for you? Where do you see it going?

It actually works quite well. I use it for processing large amounts of data quickly. I originally built this to process some data that would've taken ~14 days and shortened to a few minutes (so nice!).

I enjoy using it when I can find a way to fit it into a project. I've had it internally for a month so not a whole lot of time to see it in a variety of projects.

In terms of where I see it going, I'm not entirely sure yet. It is pretty capable for what I am using it for currently, it can use node.js libraries so it fits the current needs (which are pretty basic). I'll see what happens when more people try it out. :)

Do you have any tips on what should be added, since you've been down this road before?
It's a great editor,not everyone needs the superpowers of vim, the best part is that it's very easy to customize since Go is a very readable language (not on the level of Python but still).
If you're providing a consumer storage service, and users are uploading their own data for personal use, this is outside the remit of GDPR.

If you're providing a storage service to a business that handles personal data, your a data processor, not a data controller.

If you're the data controller, you need a classification technology that can identify personal data in those documents (amongst other capabilities).

As always, there are exceptions, but that's the general rule.
Screwing things into the wall takes some patience, knowledge, a drill and some skill. Not everyone is comfortable with that, or has time to research different types of wall, pick the right fasteners, deal with any surprises during drilling etc.

(e.g. the walls in my (rented) apartment are mostly really solid. Some parts won't even yield to my hammer-drill. Putting up my projector was easy (hollow wall) but I spent 2+ hours putting up my projector screen on the opposite wall (even though only 2 screws).
When my Symbols are done in sketch, I can build a mockup very quickly. Have you considered building a plugin for Sketch?

I meet with the InVisionApp sales team few months ago. Their phylosophie is to work and augment the current tools (Sketch 3...) instead of replacing them. I thought that it was a good approach.

I'd be worried that the designers will be scared by a command line based tool. This will be hard to convince people to move away from Sketch 3.

Thanks for trying to improve the designer tools, it's much needed.
I've always hated this show, in my PBS show rankings it's barely above Caillou, which was totally banned when my kids were little. Sir Topham Hat is such a fascist. I'd pay-per-view the episode where the trains revolt and Sodor burns down.
I'd love to know what the electricity cost is to do that versus their immediate market value. Are you mining lottery tickets or do they have immediate worth?
This is a foolish question, but that's the point. There is simply no objective way to analyze this.

It all comes down to which group the people signing the checks value. I often say "pay is a social construct" and this is what I mean -- there's no objective basis for any of it. I think devs are paid better in the Bay Area than elsewhere just because we're assumed to be more important here relative to other parts of the US/world.

There is no objective reality here, just a bunch of beliefs.
I think it's disingenuous to say that it's a more common failure mode just because you see more of those failures. More realistically, if an organization has a good sales ability but no product, with some rare exceptions where people are hoodwinked etc., they just don't get to step up to the plate, i.e. They are not given the chance to fail because nothing happens and they don't get funded.
>The pattern we use is to monitor the execution time left and queue up a follow-up once there's <30s left. Not every job we do can be composed this way but it helps a lot.

Hmm. Are you saying you can queue additional jobs on the same worker to use up remaining execution time?
Welcome to the Age of Cheap Overseas Information
Note that this has happened before -- Uber has left a city, then come back to it later, see Austin, TX (they returned in the last 2 months or so)
It indirectly does do something about the mortgage interest deduction by increasing the standard deduction to $24,000 for married couples. Renters who don't itemize will benefit, and will be on an even playing field with many homeowners who won't be able to beat the $24,000 standard deduction by itemizing, even with mortgage interest. It would be better to get rid of the mortgage interest deduction entirely, but it is politically impossible at this point.
> However, you could imagine an NTP implementation which hardcodes the approximate starting time to get the right era. You'd only have to recompile every lifetime or so to keep it up to date.

Yep, see "NTP pivot dates" [0]:

> When ntpd(8) receives a unresolved timestamp from an upstream server that timestamp could be based in any era ... To resolve this ambiguity, NTP also uses an internal pivot date ... An ntpd(8) instance’s pivot date will be the date it was compiled and built.

[0]: https://docs.ntpsec.org/latest/rollover.html#ntp_pivots
It's hard to imagine George Carlin would associate himself with anything repressive and authoritarian.
"Self interest" doesn't imply rationality, it just means that people generally do what they want to do, for their own goals. Adam Smith never claims that people's goals make rational sense. The efficient market hypothesis is a 20th century invention. "Homo economicus" is a 19th century invention.

Smith's interests were philosophical, not economical. His biggest contribution was the observation that self interest is a force for net social gain, because every person pursuing their own interests leads to greater prosperity for all. Hence his famous quote:

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages."
> Personally I think while China's interests are in maintaining a peaceful region, we must be wary of the relationship between NK and China. As there is a possibility of another game being played. Perhaps China wants to annex NK.

I don't believe this. I think China wants to avoid the refugee crisis that would ensue on their doorstep if North Korea collapsed.
The person you need to know to get promoted
Smaller is an ambiguous term when it comes to numbers. Is it the lesser value? Or is it the value nearest to 0? It depends on the context.

Either way, they cover the sign bit, and the brackets on the diagram show the graphs are not using the sign, just exponent and mantissa. So I'd assume the same principles stand but for 0 to -1, -1- to -2, and so on.
In the 2011 Japanese film Koi no Tsumi, actress Makoto Togashi plays a university professor who works as a prostitute. (Not even remotely out of poverty though, but rather depravity or something like that.)
"because that’s trivial. Of course it will."

Many in San Francisco (and other cities) argue against this. It's certainly not universally accepted.

"The question is: “what if you have to knock down N affordable units to build M market-rate units?” This “simulation” doesn’t even come close to addressing that question."

That's because housing units are virtually never knocked down in San Francisco, so this question basically never comes up. Almost all new housing is built on warehouses, parking lots, gas stations, and so on. See my analysis of all recent housing built in the Mission District:

https://rationalconspiracy.com/2015/05/25/new-york-times-mak...
> The question is: “what if you have to knock down N affordable units to build M market-rate units?”

No it isn't. No one is seriously proposing knocking down N affordable units unless they're also including N+X affordable units + M luxury units in the new structure. Any such plan would be a massive waste of time because it has zero chance of being approved.

This article is addressing protesters against "The monster in the mission!!!!1" who marched against replacing an empty warehouse and a Burger King with 16 stories of housing. It is also addressing people like Dwyer who thought they were untouchable and important enough to work against building more housing without suffering any consequences.

I've noticed some attitudes starting to shift out in Sunset as lifetime SF residents find their kids coming home from college or getting married, yet being forced to live hours away. Suddenly the anti-development stance is less attractive when it means never seeing your grandkids.

Ultimately I don't think the Bay Area can muster the political will to solve the housing problem. Too many people benefit from eternally-rising housing costs or have a "screw you, I got mine" attitude. The state government will have to step in and remove local zoning control.
Ask HN: Where can I host a 1TB DB relatively cheaply?
I have a 1TB DB that will grow over time and have been looking for a host that is relatively cheap. Everything I see is hosting with SSD so getting 1TB and larger is somewhat expensive. Are there any (cheap) HDD hosts out there?
Are you married yourself? Most people are pretty good on 1-5 most of the time. That's the key part though, "most of the time". The thing that gets a relationship is how frequently things fall apart, because they will.

90% of the time? Yeah, dump it.

10% of the time? Things are still bad, jettison it.

0.001% of the time? Who knows.

This also precludes the inevitable terrible boss, infertility issues and the hormones that come from 'fixing' them, MiLs, etc. Things in a marriage are also the things that happen outside of it.

So yeah, I'd say most marriages are 99% in line with 1-5, the trick is the 'error' rate.
In SF M >> N, to the extent you can assume N =~ 0. The results hold.
If you're mining with gpus, it's likely still worth it. I have a 1060 and a 1070, and it's definitely profitable even after electricity.
> No one is telling the students that they're spending 4-12 years getting an education which is worth less than what they're paying for it.

Because that would be like saying "hey, there is a big white elephant in the room!" to the room's occupants, when there is indeed precisely such a beast in that room.

Such as proclamation is rather more befitting of, say, the Economics faculty.
You can extrapolate from her result, that if M is significantly greater than N then it helps.
Visualising sound: Laser and mirror and sound
Lol why was Caillou "totally banned" for your little kids??
No, you can’t. You displace people, who then have to look for housing. Moreover, there are hard floors on new construction rent. It’s not linear, and the “simulation” isn’t even remotely accurate.

If you replaced every low income unit in SF with twice as many market-rate apartments tomorrow, you would raise those individuals’ rent to some value near market rate.
There are people who don't care to build their own Ikea furniture? How strange! I've always enjoyed building my own Ikea furniture! :)
> If you personally require someone in a sweater vest to stand in front of you and speak in order to learn it is not my job to subsidise that activity or his salary.

Even if one didn't require that many employers require exactly that from you in the form of a diploma or some other authority vouching for your claimed expertise and skills.
Embedded developer here, using 8-bit microcontrollers, so all our calculations are done in fixed-point/integers.

Here's a chunk of real code that converts results from the analog-digital converter to appropriate units. A lot of precalculated constants and things like using shifts instead of division as much as possible.

// - motor current from ACS723 (2.5V is 0A, +/- 400mV/A)
ADC_SET_MUX(motor_current_in_adc);
ADC_START();
while (ADC_RUNNING()) {}
uint8_t result_current = ADCH;
// result(val) * 5V/256(val) * 1000mA/0.4V => result*48.828 = current in ma
// e.g. 5A -> 4.5V out = 230, less 2.5V (128) = 102
// 102 * 48.828125 = 4980 mA
// for max precision, max multiplier = 32678/128 = 255,
// use (value * (48.828 << 2)) >> 2. -> 195
// value_ma = (result_adc * 195) >> 2
current_ma = (((int16_t)(result_current) -127) * 195) >> 2;

// - motor output speed feedback signal (filtered PWM, 16% (1/6.1) of actual value, so 5V in == 30.5V)
ADC_SET_MUX(motor_speed_fb_adc);
ADC_START();
while (ADC_RUNNING()) {}
uint8_t result_speed = ADCH;
// result(val) * 6.1 = actual speed setting
// result / 256 * 6100 = actual in mV
int16_t speed_mv = (uint16_t) result_speed * 119;

#if DEBUG
// calculate target speed mv
uint16_t output_speed_mv = ((uint16_t) motor_current_speed * 195) >> 2;
#endif
They're removing subsidized houses to build market-rate ones? How does that work? Is it the same owner demolishing their own house and replacing it - surely a violation of the conditions they had to agree to to get the subsidy. Why would the government pay a subsidy, then allow the very thing the subsidy was supposed to prevent? Does that money get refunded to the government - maybe allowing them to spend it on another subsidized house somewhere else?
The book concludes the same way, with the train, rusty and dirty, finally being allowed out of the tunnel. The tenor is very much that punishment has rendered him meek and docile -- nothing to do with confronting your problems.

Similarly, there's a story where one of the trains gets off the tracks in order to smell flowers, or play, or something of that sort. The cure is to hide people in the field, who jump out and scare him back onto the track.

Overall, the message of the books is that if you work hard and never question authority, you can avoid punishment. The odd thing about them is that the authority figure (the Fat Controller) is presented as mildly risible.

My brother and I used to laugh / shudder at how much our nephews loved these books. I myself never read them until uncle-hood, when I was well past the age when the mere fact that they were written about trains had any appeal.
(-1)^S 1.M 2^(E-127) is the concept not the implementation and the implementation is the important part, especially as a programmer. The blog is mostly about the details. How the bits are allocated, how they influence precision, etc...

And exactly none of that is included in "(-1)^S 1.M 2^(E-127)"
> the exact cutoff before the wealth would be shared

Wow. That is some really evil shit there. Maybe Levandowski is the reason they dropped the "Don't be evil" motto.
Tried not to alter the title too much, but it seems like HN transforms "+" into "and", which is why it looks a little confusing
Absolutely, there is a great Ezra Klein show podcast on this topic, I would recommend everyone listen. I'm on mobile so can't link but if you search "Ezra Klein show prosecutor discretion" it should come up.
No, that would be contractors :)
> The higher cost of delivering classes with a lab component is generally solved via lab fees.

That's fair. Just that (again, my experience) you were charged a fixed amount in lab fees every semester regardless of courses. It's probably varies between unis.

> If you started treating departments as P&L centers, I don't know that I'd want to be in Anthropology vs. MechE.

I don't know if you need to treat each department as a P&L center. There are bound to be departments that are important but perennially loss-making and knowledge shouldn't be reduced to just dollars and cents. But there does need to be more fairness in the money charged to students. The alternative is that humanities students (with lower earning potential) are subsidizing STEM students (higher earning potential). I know which one I prefer from a fairness point-of-view (speaking as a former STEM student).
With my limited (or next to none) knowledge of software copyrights, I am wondering how come the IP of a company ends up belonging to a single person. Is that the case?
Thank you for your candour, and likely repentance. If you have any insights from that time, that might help HN users' [maybe future] kids avoid your mistakes, I'd welcome your sharing
Well, technically RHEL7 runs httpd-2.4.6-67, which is RedHat's 67th patched version of 2.4.6.

They backport a lot of stuff from later versions, don't see why they could not have done this (they haven't, I checked).
If having that English degree makes the job more attainable than not having a degree, then in a way they do hire for English majors (even if not specifically, but by way of the class-instance relationship).
I agree with you about the value of good engineering, but I think you underestimate the value of good marketing.

> Sales and marketing, almost always give linear multiples at best.

Counterexample: Apple's famous 1984 ad.
It seemed like a wierd add on to the side.

It's like the article was about trauma cleaners, and more about the houses and stuff they deal with.

Then it switches tact to
'And who is Sandra, who does this work every day?'

Which is cool, but seems like a different article. Had awful childhood, has had a difficult time once they had left home.

The stuff around trans issues doesn't change how I felt about the article at all - which was, it seemed interesting, and it would make for some good before and after photos.
Correlating government debt (which is primarily owed back to it's citizens) to household debt is extremely disingenuous.
Amazon doesnt really give you any direct access to the underlying "worker" so it doesnt work like that. It's really as simple as:

- the active lambda decides to stop performing work once there's only 30 seconds left

- it switches to perform whatever cleanup is necessary

- it queues up a new lambda to be executed by pushing the lambda name and event payload to redis

- I have a special lambda that's scheduled for once a minute that scans certain keys in redis, pops the data out, and invokes the lambdas

To give an example, I have a job where I need to read ~50 files in S3 line by line and do some work over them. I spin up 50 lambdas, one for each file. Each lambda chugs along until it is about to run out of time. It then queues up a followup lambda with the byte # to start at in the event payload. The followup lambda then picks up where the last one left off.

I have some cases where instead of queueing up the followup lambda I just invoke it directly. The value in having a queue step in between is that you can more cleanly handle throttling and you can avoid event payload limits by just putting the payload into Redis.
How would you propose to "end poverty"? Paying all the debt of the poor?
But that wouldn't solve the actual problem, only a symptom.

Some view better education as a potential solution because poverty is often directly correlated with the level of education.
There's https://github.com/murarth/ketos which is not exactly that but related
> S is sign. M is mantissa. E is exponent.

That doesn't actually get you any closer to knowing what the formula means, though. You need to also define that M is unsigned & 23 bits and E is unsigned & 8 bits. And that alone still doesn't get across the resulting limitations like that precision reduces by half every time the exponent bumps. Sure you can reason about it if you devote the brainpower to applying the limitations to the formula, but it's not explained by the formula itself.
For a certain type of person, sales is much easier - if not completely natural. For others, the same could be said about technical pursuits.

I don't think it's possible to make general statements that one is harder than the other, because it depends very heavily on the person involved.
It's a hallmark of passive-aggressive behavior. Expect someone to know what you want and subtly imply it rather than just outright saying it, often becoming frustrated when people don't behave the way you want them to.
I hope you realise the product of your mining belongs to your company given its their electricity you’re using (compared to the computers just suspending).
Yes, of course not. I agree that everything in this affair should be considered in that light.
Solution. Add an additional unix control key to all keyboards.

Maybe actually instead of caps-lock.

I think I've solved all my keyboard related problems know.
This one?

https://soundcloud.com/ezra-klein-show/why-prosecutors-not-c...
Not that frequently.

Web forms are from 2002. It‘s ancient by today’s standard, much older than e.g. facebook or youtube.
Google is building a smart screen competitor to Amazon’s Echo Show
Nope! They are an indicator to work at a fairly long-term goal fairly diligently, and jump through various hoops.
Dream of satoshi is dead now
I think I just kind of assumed that churches and other qualified charities would not be required to pay taxes on the unimproved value of land, much like they aren't required to pay property taxes or capital gains taxes today.
I like this tool. Been waiting for something I could recommend to occasional terminal-users I meet and help.

I'm very glad it was posted here.
Yeah, they’re good, but more expensive than you’d expect given the relative pricing compared to other AWS services. $0.025/1000 transitions seems and order of magnitude or two high given it’s just ultimately a central job store with some very, very simple logic for changing state.
Why couldn't Ikea just use TaskRabbit for business when its customers ordered service. Why buy TaskRabbit and ruin it?
Plenty of scumbags take the founder route too. :) And I've met many engineers in my career who would fit the jerk description as well.

Having operated in all three roles, all are incredibly valuable. Great leaders enable their teams to be more than the sum of their individual members (employees). But I would opine that the leadership roles come with significantly more risk, which is at least partially responsible for the money / prestige.