skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was skeptical of this graveyard because it gets referenced a lot, largely due to how we humans constantly ignore the sunk-cost fallacy all the time.

BUT it turns out the FDA is what prevents that from happening, and yes less drugs are getting approved.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pharmaceuticals-success/s...
The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market
I made a quick demo of how the UI "representation" given out by Hawaii emergency management officials

http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/01/hawaii-distributed-phony-im...

might work.
I'm always surprised by the only-in-this-circumstance libertarian philosophy of people who support congestion pricing. I think if you took the exact same logic and applied it to say, schools, supporters would feel completely differently about it.

Example: It's really hard to get your child into certain public schools in NYC. Why not start charging $3k a year per child (much less than private schools) at high demand schools in order to lessen the overcrowding of those schools? There are viable alternatives to paying (less in-demand schools), most lower income people are already not able to send their kids to in-demand schools for reasons of geography, and after all, parents choose to have children, they should pay for the services and infrastructure to support them.

That example seems to essentially be the same as what is proposed for congestion pricing, with many parallel arguments. Why is congestion pricing okay when applying the same philosophy to other matters of public good isn't?

(by the way, I'm a reluctant supporter of congestion pricing, and not of what I proposed for schools, but I struggle with why I believe one is okay and the other is not)
I don't necessarily see it as a fallacy. Not because people are compelled by risk of starving to death but because why would they create when an AI or a machine can do it better? What would be the point? I tend to agree with Orwell:

"No human being ever wants to do anything in a more cumbrous way than is necessary. Hence the absurdity of that picture of Utopians saving their souls with fretwork. In a world where every-thing could be done by machinery, everything would be done by machinery. Deliberately to revert to primitive methods to use archaic took, to put silly little difficulties in your own way, would be a piece of dilettantism, of pretty-pretty arty and craftiness. It would be like solemnly sitting down to eat your dinner with stone implements."[0]

If a society is jobless thanks to automation, I see this as the inevitable fate.

And as for a society that values my happiness; I don't see being happy as a worthwhile goal for an individual to aim for. To be happy and content for a long period of time is, in my eyes, akin to being dead in the water.

[0]: In "The Road to Wigan Pier" by George Orwell (I think it's chapter 12?)
i’ve never found a country less racist than the us
How We Built a Tool to Export React Prototypes from Sketch
for now - do you really think they're not going to expand their ability to supposedly 'know when you've been bad or good' to every traveller over time if they're given a chance?
> and buy USDT thinking they are buying USD not realizing they are buying tethers

There are people buying $450M of USDT thinking that it's actually dollars? And just in the last round?

Let's think about how many people, and what average transaction $$:

1M people @ $450
100K people @ $4500
10K people @ $450K

Which of those is most plausible? That's a lot of suckers, no matter which choice. And remember that's just the last round, there's nx$1B out there already.

It sounds implausible really.
Thanks, that's really helpful. And thank you as well for providing something that's helpful to professionals and beginners alike!
We had Ken Schwaber come in to our shop early on in Scrum when we were struggling to get a new product going, and at its basics Scrum made tons of sense. Get a small group of people together to figure out how to make the highest priority items to ship to the customer (each written in a few sentences), then leave that group alone until the sprint was done. The "commitment" was on delivering the value in the few sentences, not matching mockups, specs or some never-ending chain of tasks.

It was a really simple and effective approach, but where it broke down was: there's a lot of people/roles/depts who have no idea how to work incrementally. UX "needs to work ahead", product "needs the whole backlog", Ops "have their own backlog", etc.

Scrum didn't work with everyone hawking over a few engineers - then it just becomes task tracking bullshit.
Yes, at a macro level that is how it works, but practically due to having an enormous number of distributions there are many more forks. For example, the CentOS distribution maintains their kernel[0] separately from RHEL.

[0]: https://git.centos.org/summary/?r=rpms/kernel.git
> so it’s more important than ever for you to pay close attention to the items you’re buying—especially if they’re being shipped to you from overseas. Watch out for massive discounts, learn how to spot fake reviews, double check who you’re buying from, and don’t hesitate to reach out to Amazon customer service if something seems amiss.

So it's my responsibility now to go into the minute details of these things? Why isn't CBP doing its job? Shouldn't they be looking carefully before denying TT status? Shouldn't they be paying attention to what they are doing?

I feel like more and more these government agencies just shrug and do the most expedient thing possible, even if it means screwing others over.
Using markdown, in a SublimeText project, with MarkdownExtended, Markdown Preview, project search (using ripgrep), imagePaste (to paste from clipboard to a file in a ./.images directory along with the image markdown syntax), and a folder hierarchy that organises notes into general topics and filenames with project/contents descriptors.

I also write all my lectures this way and output to slides using backslide (remark.js).

I have two text files always open, `_inbox.md` (all unorganized incoming notes) and `_work.md` (tasks list and dates).

I've tried a bunch of different things and this is the only thing I seem to stick to. I sync it to multiple machines with BoxSync and keep it all in a git repo (for when I care about tracking changes, usually my commits are weekly, with useless commit messages).
Oh interesting, in what country do you live ?
I would like to chime in as well :). Homebrew is and has always been awesome in my exerience. Besides just working all the time, I love how extendable it is by providing your own taps. For example, I use railwaycat's emacs-mac tap. Thanks to Homebrew mituharu's Emacs version is just two commands away.

I also regularly just local software in /usr/local/Cellar/<name>/<version> to be able to use brew link/unlink et al. to manage symlinks.

Keep up the great work!

Ps. I just noticed that it's possible to donate on a non-recurring basis now as well. Great!
The report says "None of those fees should be charged, the task force said, until repairs are made to the public transit system." so it wouldn't be like they'd be "surge charging" a necessity like schools.
does your note contain runnable sourcecode?
why Jupyter?

What's the benefit of datomic vs. filesystem?
Either there's a market-clearing price for the goods and services you want or there isn't. If you want something that someone would have to put themselves out to produce, then either you make it worthwhile for them to put themselves out by that much (perhaps by paying them money, perhaps by producing your own goods and services in the categories that are inconvenient or tedious to produce) or you decide the thing is not worth that much to you.

The belief is that this category of goods and services would be rare - that most things are not so inconvenient or tedious to produce, that most demand could be covered without making people put themselves out a lot. Of course it's possible this is wrong.
Building Is Not Creating
I'm also a bit surprised because per PEP-394, the "python" binary will point to python2 for the foreseeable future.
Yes, although I should probably haven't brought the correction up in the first place as it wasn't relevant to the main point.
Apparently WebCL was blocked by Apple who refused to let their OpenCL patents be used: https://www.khronos.org/files/ip-disclosures/webcl/Apple-Web... ("Apple does not agree to make available .. for any WebCL Specifications")
I already know that nobody cares what I have to say. I still want to say it.

In theory, my thoughts are just as worthy and as interesting as my conversational partner, so I need to at least pretend to pay attention when they speak if I want them to pretend to be interested in my words. If their story is painfully boring, you power through it and use that experience to make your own story less pointless and meandering.

I don't really want to know about how D is dating M with the fuzzy caterpillar eyebrows and the Stephen King teeth, and how V refuses to be in another one of D's weddings, and can't D just collinearize anatidi without continually leaning on someone that clearly isn't quite that interested, but there it is. Now I get to talk about that thing that happened today that was funny at the time, but is only slightly amusing in retrospect.

Some people don't ever stop to hear you, much less listen. There's no point in saying anything to them. You might as well draw a stick figure in chalk on a brick wall and talk to it--or write it up and post it to an Internet forum where nobody really knows or cares who you are. ...Twitter, obviously.
Because they add up to millions over time?
There's probably something to this. I doubt we're the best. But the rest of the world, including Western Europe, is surprisingly racist, misogynistic, and homophobic. The wrong lesson to take from that would be, "so we should all chill out about racism". It's just as likely (I think more likely) that the lesson is: "the freak-outs are working".
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Of course one shouldn't jump into a thread to say "I don't know", but if someone receives a response to a statement they made in a thread that points out a fact or point of view they hadn't considered, they should be willing to admit that they didn't know that, they were wrong, or that they realize they need to think more deeply about the topic.
A rich investor is complaining about how people are not working to their death so that his portfolio companies do better and get him more returns? Give me a break.

Why do we even have to have a discussion when all he complains about is how they work for 12 hours? They copied every SV company the moment it hit off, no real innovation besides the recent AI advancements. What good would come off by copying that model?
I think there's quite a lot of getting hung up on the word itself here... According to the Scrum guide, a sprint is just:

> a time-box of one month or less during which a "Done", useable, and potentially releasable product Increment is created. Sprints have consistent durations throughout a development effort. A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.

(http://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html#events-sprint)

There's nothing that says you need to "sprint" through your sprints, quite the contrary it's supposed to be a way of measuring your team's steady-state output by making the feedback loop short.

If people are really hearing the word "sprint" and thinking "ah, Scum is telling me to work at 110% all the time without stopping", then I put forth that no methodology or change of terminology is going to save them from themselves. However, I suspect there's something about the timebox structure that makes short-term thinking the default unless discipline is applied, and discipline is hard.
> great effort to compile relevant answers into a narrative

Don't confuse "StackOverflow Question&Answers" with "StackOverflow Documentation":

https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/

Goalkicker "only" provided formatting and beauty. They did not reformulate tons of Q&A into a documentation - that work was already performed by the StackOverflow Community.
Except NASA was never really making the rockets in the first place. The US military and NASA work through contracts. The only thing that has really changed is that there are more competitors in the market now.
I love when billionaire's criticize people who work for a living. The unmitigated gaul. It's amazing that someone... So many someone's...can be so blind.
> The most convenient way for us to apply the microcode update to our Broadwell servers at that time was via a BIOS update from the server vendor.

You can read this article with another point of view: there was a bug somewhere that was leaking costumer information. After searching for a while, they discovered that the CPU had a bug that had already being solved/patched, all it took was a BIOS update, that wasn't done before because of... well, whatever.
What font is this using? That weird mark on all the "st" pairs is irritating!

Maybe we need a number 11, "don't use weird fonts"
Those sound like pretty desirable destinations to me. That's the point here. People use this as vacation, I sure as hell have.
You can select, then press 'backspace' on your keyboard. That should do the trick :)
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Doesn't work for me, just a blank screen.
That’s the difference between a society where tensions are high because we’re actively trying to work through the challenges faced by our minority groups, and one where there are no tensions because the concerns of minority groups are completely suppressed.

This EXACTLY. Of course there is way less culture clash in China, cultures that aren't China explicitly get beat the hell down. That's not a solution, and I think China is going to be a lesson for the rest of humanity within the next 30 years or so as to why just telling everyone to shut up or they'll be killed isn't a sustainable long term solution to social harmony.
Does this data include commute times? Those are on the rise, which may not count as work but the time cost certainly should.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/02/22/the-a...

I have coworkers doing 2 hours each way. A 4 hour commute each day would certainly eat into your time.
The same came be said of so many things. However, computing has a long history of sharing knowledge freely. I applaud efforts like this to keep that tradition alive.
It loads a blank page for me when I start a new canvas.
Intel releases new depth cameras
> Capitalism, as a system, is awful at allocating this work that people love to the people who love it.

It's actually pretty good at it. The really fulfilling jobs like nursing or teaching go to those who are willing to sacrifice most other luxuries to do them; those who don't get a fulfilling job get more consumption to make up for it. Enjoyable work is a commodity like anything else.
In my experience this kind of Agile inevitably emerges when the desire to be agile is limited to a (small) subset of the organisation.
Yeah, that's what happens. Tons of reactor material gets released. Not by humans, but by physical processes.

And your comment conveniently ignores Fukushima.
Let's see what people will people will post on Twitter. Then I could fix that. Even make it canvas preloadable.
Hehe, didn't notice the username. :)

Might be, but what counts is the perception when someone goes to a given web page.

EDIT: Just tried your shader toy example on an LG Power X, with a Mali T720, it averages on 20FPS.
In the US at least, you could put together a profile with a lot of fairly mindless sitcoms, cooking shows, reality TV, etc. But I agree it's not as easy to just put something on in the background. And the streaming model and perhaps just the current era of TV shows, where a lot of subscribers deliberately select something to watch, probably encourages a focus on more complex--and often serialized--TV.

I just don't watch a lot but I definitely understand your point of view. Shows like Game of Thrones I'll sometimes doze off or get distracted and ten minutes later I have no idea what's going on. A lot of the series on TV today really require paying strict attention.
Why do you need to kill trees just because the internet is down?
Doing business in China is basically giving them your IP for free. China is due for a rude awakening from the west.
The free market at work!
Conference speakers being checked for political affiliation is crazy but not surprising - are there specific examples of this?

On sites like reddit you often see reasonable arguments shot down based on the author's political leanings gleaned from their comment history. The chilling effect is made clear when you see people having to preface their commentary with "I hate x, but... {insert argument here}"
I made a simple cryptocurrency in Python to learn how Bitcoin works
> I can't really blame anyone for deciding that 4 hours total commuting is not an option

I know people who drive from their faraway place to a train station outside the city and then take the Metro-North into Grand Central Station. From street parking to bridges and tunnels, New York City massively subsidises drivers.

I'd strongly prefer we raise tolls and congestion charges and use the proceeds to modernize our subway system.
>What does having discussions about ethics, morality or equality have to do with working 14 hour, six day workweeks (84h)?

Because the former is just cover for the latter, which is the real concern. He, like most of his type, wants his underlings to work as much as possible for as little as possible without any complaints. This has become annoyingly hard to enforce in the US, so off to a dictatorship where the drones don't have those options.
For clarity: perhaps emphasize the word drive.
Distros could speed this up. If the security team notifies RedHat, Ubuntu, etc and they can apply the patch for their kernels immediately. They probably need to backport it anyways, because no distro (well, maybe Arch?) just uses the latest Linux release.
While GPS is not a huge power hog in comparison to other things on phones, the cost of listening on radio is not negligible, which is why most low-power radio protocols put a lot of emphasis on only listening in certain time windows.
Completely apropos to the article, but why is it that when I pressed ESC on my keyboard, the article redirected me to try & log in to Squarespace?
It would have been all well and good if at the same time announcement was released a new linux mainline build with the mitigations would have been available. It has not been. Only Google's systems got the patches all the way back to September.

I'm not at all anti Google saying "We are Google. If you pay us to run your systems you would be protected. If you do not, then eff you, we don't care". I'm anti-fluffy "Google is awesome and does things for the community" garbage popular in tech circles, HN included.
He actually probably does. But he's a schmoozer, he's always working. Plus, the more he works, the more his net worth multiplies. It's not the same at all, even if it looks the same to him.
They can defend it by having good enough public transportation to not need a car in Manhattan. Unless you're carrying something large/heavy, there's no reason to go to Manhattan via car. It's something we Americans aren't used to and don't think about, but basing cities around cars instead of people is a bad idea.

In NYC, it's often faster to take the subway instead of drive.
A good way to remember energy levels is "longer life, lower energy." Things with a long half life are not decaying very fast. Short half lives, well clearly they don't want to be there, so neither should you.
Unfortunately for Apple, there's even more people outside of Apple who just wish Metal would die.
lol, this guy is simply too much.
Perception of reality is not the same for everybody, but there is a single objective reality that we all perceive in our imperfect ways.
There are two places where I found this approach problematic because I want to VPN to my home LAN.

First, client devices with OpenVPN don't support tap only tun. This means that when I'm not home, I can't e.g. my home NAS, etc.

Second, like most Americans, my home internet connection is dog slow. I get 80/5 Mbps. The 80 is tolerable, but the 5 is a drag. Surfing the web when first I have to VPN home...

Bonus problem: even with a business ISP setup, I am still under restriction with what I can do with my own IP address, can't get a static IPv6 allocation, etc.
I was hoping that someone had harvested every PDF cited in SO answers and culled it down to a definitive list of most popular reference works. Now there is an idea.
They're both common in society. Instead of the school directly charging more money, increase property taxes, or don't allow apartments to be built. That describes most of the public schooling in America, and why a child's future is most dependent upon their zip code.

NYC is different in that the city government covers rich and poor people and can't legally separate the two so a different measure develops, such as entrance exams where kids whose parents are able to hire tutors perform better on. We can't have a hugely unequal society and expect certain bubbles in it to pretend as if those who have advantages aren't using them.
_Science_, "Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines", Vol 347 Issue 6219, 2011.

Note also that you've unsubtly moved the goalposts. I'm comparing STEM fields, you're comparing all occupations (and: in Sweden, but that's less important to my point). I mean, whatever, make whatever argument you'd like, but modulate your stridency. With some satisfaction, I'll also observe that you're only able to marshal evidence (unsuccessfully, I think?) for _one_ level, not "so many".
Several years ago, I would ask StackOverFlow questions on esoteric topics like elisp, with the idea that by asking small, well-defined questions, you could eventually create enough of a trail that no topic would remain difficult to learn. For example, here are a few I could find:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2170528/writing-hello-wo...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1541682/lisp-script-to-p...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2264286/generating-a-qui...

While books are great, something more interesting would be a little app window in your editor, where you could type (or ask Cortana, Siri, Google) “How do I declare a set”, “parse csv“, “open file for writing”, etc., and you would see small examples. The language is known by the editor so no need to include it in the query.

So, for instance, if I wanted to write an F# program, which I don’t know, I could learn it on the fly.

StackOverFlow has the database of knowledge by now. Now, how to get your exact answer, faster?

“Siri, how do I round the corners of a view in iOS?”
Well, the idea is about 20 years old:

https://web.archive.org/web/19991128065121/http://openip.org...

However, CPUs are that complex these days and require a lot of equipment around it to be produced. The way is IMO much harder to open IP than to open Source.
Well, I'm sure nobody's ever walked up to oceanghost and said, "I'm not hiring you because you're an old(er) white male" (although, unlike every other possible form of discrimination, that would be perfectly legal), he just probably has a sense that this is what's going on based on the attitudes around him. But I doubt that the author of the linked article has ever had anybody come up to her and say "I'm not hiring you/promoting you/supporting you because you're a woman (or 'of color')", either - if they had, I suspect it would have worked it's way into her article somewhere. Instead, she just gauges the attitudes of the people around her and makes her best guess as to why things aren't working out the way she wants them to. If her suppositions are reasonable, then oceanghost's are, too.