skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pat yourself on the back for working a couple of hours then go online and write comments about lazy homeless people looking for handouts.
On the visualization part you can also check https://prometheus.io/ and https://grafana.com/grafana
Would an Ayn Rand inspired city reject states and promote individualism for decades, then finally accept help once it starts to fall apart?
Have you tried using Github repo? Kanban dashboard is excellent and you can use the milestone feature to add timebound projects.
I think it might be far, far simpler to simply demand that it's forbidden to give anyone loans with balloon payments, like student loans.

Clearly too many people cannot be trusted with the decision these loans require.

This article is filled with statement after statement after statement showing that it's somehow wrong to require a person to predict the consequences of their actions, or expect them to take it into account, like the oft-cited learning another job, or just ... not getting a loan.

Having to pay premiums from the second you have a loan would at least make the consequences extremely obvious.
It is in the hardware. You can take one apart and see for yourself. These devices will not activate unless they at least think they hear the hotword. Once activated though, nothing is stopping them from staying on. Although Im sure you can just watch their internet traffic to prove if its listening in the moment.
github readme has information on this
No no on measure theory. See below on Feller, Bersekas, Gallager. I think it's best to learn discrete prob first and skip the difficult math until you decide to become a mathematician or really need it for e.g. finance work.

One other objection: yes, those are fields in statistics. But statistics as a field is MUCH broader than departments called statistics. A ton of stats is done in engineering, psychology, and economics (econometrics). In fact I'd say the major research in stats for the past few decades has been done outside of "statistics" as a field. But yes, the books by Tukey, Tufte, and Casella are good.

If the OP is asking about statistics and probability needed for machine learning, he wants to focus on engineering statistics, like: estimation, stochastic processes, and filtering and mathematical statistics. The Wald rec is good and complements Feller.
Phacility
Phabricator

This is such an egregious name for a company and the product.
Whew, I thought I was just crazy.
> www.l-mobile.com

Your company's website is simply atrocious. It takes many seconds to load on my 100 MBit/s connection, the CPU fan immediately spins up, scrolling lags, opening the navigation / burger menu takes several seconds, further navigation again takes several seconds before anything but a spinner shows up.

Suppose I'm a prospective customer. If I saw your website, you're going to have a hard time to sell me your (presumably) web-based software, since I must conclude that it must be as slow and bloated (or worse, since it should have more functionality than delivering a static page) than your company website.
My advice is identical to this.

However, it’s worth noting that you should expect to not want to do things sometimes. Often pushing past the first part is the key.

Set. Minimum amount to accomplish. Nothing ambitious but something you can easily do. (2 hours if you don’t have kids. 45 min if you do)

If you find yourself not wanting to do it week after week then you might consider changing your role. Partner with a CTO, raise money, write about it etc.

You don’t have to do what you love, but you should avoid what you hate.
Netflix to Reportedly Spend $12B+ on Content This Year, More Than Any Studio
don't worry, someone above pretty much considers Rainman a documentary
It’s kinda more for operations monitoring but check out Prometheus (https://prometheus.io/) for monitoring and Grafana (https://grafana.com) for visualization to see if they would work for your use case. Both are pretty flexible. Also, I think Datadog is a roughly equivalent SaaS offering of the two though I haven’t used it myself yet.

I like Apache Superset for business intelligence type dashboards.
>- They mention that the tiers have 1, 5, or 10 users supported. Is this concurrent users? Does "user" even mean phone call recipient in this case, or is it just someone who's _dispatching_ the Upcall calls?

I assumed user to mean people who are the clients (the people paying for the service) who can login to see the progress of the "call tasks".

>- The enterprise tier seems like it should be subdivided; some of the things you pay for are really, really niche, but likely cost a small fortune to get set up on Upcall's end, justifying a much higher price. Looking at you, HIPAA compliance.

That's pretty common for this type of service offering. Basically the pricing is there to give you an idea. You see in the basic plan where it says "Ideal for Simple Tasks"? That usually means "you can have it your way, but don't get crazy." Think things like "call and ask Carl if he's coming on Friday" or "let Lakisha know that her order is finished." Everything else is a custom plan!

- What is, even, a "Logic Decision Tree" in this context? Is this just the fact that the caller should offer the recipient a few specific paths? Isn't it cheaper to do this using a robocall (and widely done this way by many enterprise phone support systems)?

My take away from the How it Works page leads me to believe that it's for use with the "scripts". The script changes when the callee answers a certain way.

>- "Custom inbound voicemail" is a weird feature for a company marketing itself as outreach towards clients rather than the other way around; my understanding is that this is marketing and reactivation, not support, and incoming calls should be minimal in most use cases.

They're banking on people setting the custom caller ID to their actual number. It's probably just their so there is no "hole" if someone calls back. Certain types of calls do generate a lot of callbacks.

>- All the email stuff is probably cheaper being handled by a specialized standalone service; why try to fracture your business's focus by trying to enter a space dominated by well-established players? (Not trying to say competition is bad, but this company clearly specializes in something other than email, so it makes little sense to me that they should be dividing their effort like this).

I think it's specific to the use case of contacting new leads. If I were upcall, my intent would be to scan the emails for specific types of customers that the client wants to call and start "call tasks" based on that.
or advice on what to focus on then? when ur a beginner its tough to know how much is just enough to get done. and its not easy finding a mentor either!
What's wrong with silly from time to time?

With the very small number of opportunities like this you only recognize a very small number of people and ignore a lot of others who are as deserving.
From a comment someone else made, I'm gonna guess you're red green color blind :P
Yeah coffee and sleep is the closest thing to artificial love in my experience.
It's nice to have light until late in summer, I'd vote to keep DST.
Play guitar to backing tracks on youtube. Plan my next workout.
I do chores - it's a great tool for gauging how unwilling you are to code at the moment.

Yesterday my bathroom sink received some much needed care.

Also eventually you'll get so fed up with this that you'll gladly return to your side project.

Conversely guilting yourself into programming when you really don't want to is one way to abandon any after-hours work altogether.
AFAIK, you don't even run interrupts off the NIC if you're doing DPDK; the overhead is too high. You poll instead, and just dedicate a core.
Always found seasteading to be strange solution given the three poles of a) taking over the government or emir-ship of an existing island, b) building a geographically independent trading network not unlike a mafia or narco-paramilitaries with some anarcho-hedonist themed cruise ships, and c) starting a cult where converts do business with each other and resolve disputes using a ritualized parallel legal and taxation system.

Given these obvious precedents, it's difficult to see the problem seasteading solves.
How does one accomplish the same task via text message? I'm asking this sincerely. I've often found myself attempting to provide emotional support over a text conversation and it's really difficult not to feel helpless and drained by it.

There's only so much you can write "I understand. I support you. Etc." It starts to make you feel like a broken record. Trying to just listen leads to them asking "are you still there? Are you mad at me?"
Why would you nuke them, that's (literally) overkill.

But I suspect its failure (to keep out international criminal orgs), not economic success, that gets them raided by traditional nation-states.
>moves out of range of the hydrophones in January–February

I would have thought the entire ocean is covered by now?
That's interesting! If I may ask, where do you host your email? And where do you hose your product? And do you use services like Intercom, GitHub, Basecamp, Trello, whatever?

Curious about your choices with stuff like this.
Thanks for that, that's a mistake, will get it corrected asap.
1x Monitor is only acceptable for gaming in my opinion. I cannot believe people are working on 200$ screens. I mean you can also code on an 80 char terminal in theory, but why would you
I've never heard anyone in the tech industry say that.
>5. You also would like to ship it ASAP too.

I suspect number 5 is a stress factor. I believe stress can cause fatigue and/or procrastination.

Try to accept the situation. Take your time and enjoy the task.
Time away from the keyboard makes you more effective at the keyboard.

Take a break, let your brain breathe. Do some other tasks, hobbies or chores and you'll find yourself thinking about code soon enough.
I don't see any DC positions on that page
https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-than-40-of-student-borrowe...

So $200 billion.

Assuming this doesn't double or triple when you announce the rule changes, that's 6% extra taxes to pay, per year.

Realistically, you'd expect this to double in the beginning, then rapidly taper off. So that would mean 10% extra in income and payroll taxes (and 10% higher corp tax, and all imported goods 10% rise in price), then dropping to, say, a 3% rate that lasts indefinitely.

I'm pretty sure people are in universal agreement that this is too high a cost.
retry option is pretty awesome
I still believe that a big problem MS had was their relentless commitment to backward compatibility. I agree at some point you have to dump last years legacy, but Apple seem to want to dump last _weeks_ legacy.
What is a law of nature? (Fermilab Colloquium)
Safe Autonomy: Robustness Testing of Autonomy Software (ICSE 2018)
Yes. But we wouldn't consider theater than don't privide the opportunity evil.
Why is implicitly ignoring the result the option you’re comparing with? Instead, create language features that encourage you to separate side-effectful functions from value-returning ones.

Also many languages use a very standard convention of assigning underscore to parts of a result value to be ignored, and discard has no clear advantages over this in my mind.
The World Cup of Healthcare Systems
We also blame the banks for 2008, when by far the largest responsibility (in total $ liability) lies with ordinary Americans taking "balloon payment" loans to pay for houses they couldn't afford.
Which is an out come of stem careers (except doctors) being treated with contempt in the UK.
https://youtu.be/ZUvGfuLlZus
> It is best to say that they just provide fastest way in between interrupt handler

I thought DPDK and friends don't use interrupts and instead map the buffer areas (for ring buffers etc.) used by the NIC into their process address space, directly polling those structures.
Seasteading solves the problem that (1) requires and (2) and (3) historically have provoked conflict with the armed (military or law enforcement) forced of existing nation-states they seek to displace or operate within.

Seasteading doesn't obviously share that problem yet (which may just be because it's not been done enough and at large enough scale for have provoked notable responses.)
"doing your own research" is by definition your own echo chamber.
The Disaggregation of Insight
I'm unsure. What I'm imagining is that NICs for which DPDK is made have option to do interrupts like "hey, we have just run out of 50% of buffer! Driver, go offload packets to RAM in bulk now"
nah the farming lobby will stop this dead
XDP can be offloaded to the NIC [1]. This is what I took the quote "the userspace loader, which loads the code onto the right network card and manages it" to mean.

But I think you might be right in this case, it seems more likely that the XDP processing is being done by the network card driver.

[1] https://cilium.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bpf/#iproute2
If you read the article, she mentions a sentence like this twice, then immediately drops it. By contrast, the responsibility of "society", "government" is given pages of text.

Clearly it's not the author's intent to accept responsibility. At the end of the article it is pointed out how the reasoning in the group works:

"After the food was served, a waiter came by with a stack of to-go boxes, which sat on the edge of the table untouched for a while as everyone cautiously eyed them. The group was reluctant at first, but then Ian said, “The chicken was actually pretty good,” as he scooped it into one of the boxes. Mira shrugged, took a fork, and added, “This is a little tacky, but I’d hate to waste free food,” and the rest of the table followed her lead. Maybe the next generation would do better, but I felt like we were broke and broken. No number of degrees or professional successes would put us back together again. For now, though, we knew where our next meal was coming from."

Knowing that making decisions based upon personal status rather than financial sense is what got this group into trouble this sentence is more than a little disheartening.
Inside India's streaming market, where Netflix and Amazon are struggling
Ask HN: Android launcher or that supports a dumb phone profile?
I'm looking for a way to set up my phone with just phone, texting, maps, and spotify, while still being a reboot or reload away from having distracting apps like amazon and a browser, so there's a decent bit of friction between myself and mindless distraction. Is anyone aware of a solution for this?
Chinese History: The White Tribes of Ancient China
lz4 and zstd are cheap in what? CPU cycles? Apple cares more about energy use these days (correlated but not equivalent), maybe it's not a good tradeoff?
I have been following this for the past few weeks in my off-time and would recommend it to everyone. It is also geared towards teaching C. I wrote in C many years ago but with the past 8 or so years writing exclusively C# it feels like a homecoming.

It does make use of the author's grammar parser, which is my only minor complaint. Does anyone know a good resource in which the author handcrafts a parser? I'm aware of the various parser generators that exist. I also read the dragon book in my college's compiler design course ~12 years ago. But we also used a parser generator in that class.
Sort of. Kinda. It's complicated. But insofar as Kubernetes becomes the container orchestrator, I imagine we will encounter some or all of those problems again.

Cloud Foundry's current orchestrator, Diego, is of similar vintage to Kubernetes. It now relies entirely on relational databases for tracking cluster state. Ditto other subsystems (eg, Loggregator). It scales just fine. MySQL, while not my personal favourite, has proved more reliable in practice than etcd. Some folks use PostgreSQL. Also more reliable in practice.

Paying customers care more about being more reliable in practice than being more reliable in theory.

I've ha-ha-only-seriously suggested we throw engineering support behind non-etcd cluster state. For example: https://github.com/rancher/k8s-sql
Masturbate furiously
> For me, forcing myself to work on something that isn’t putting food on the table just builds resentment.

I know this feeling. A lot of people burn out quickly on Github when their shiny new toy fails to make money at every turn. Even with clear and adequate payment channels used (Patreon / Paypal / Gumroad), the feeling of financial failure (can be) enough to kill a project.
Why does the farming lobby care? Is it because of wake up times tied to sunrise?
Do you travel a lot? The only upside I can see of the lighter form factor is if you have to carry it around in airports quite a bit.
Bit of an odd opinion on a forum inhabited 100% by professionals.
Oops, thanks! That's much better. Not sure why I stumbled on the svn link first.
Write documentation. I know that sounds the same as "keep working on it", but it's surprising how often going through updating/fixing docs gets me unstuck. And if it doesn't, at least I've done something productive.

If the docs are fine, there are usually other things to improve or experiment with (file organization, build process, tests, editor plugins...etc).
Why the heck is this is Show HN? It's a company with 2.2M in funding.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Also first time submitted was 2 years ago.
Researchers discover the coldest place on earth
Tried to read but the site is hot garbage on mobile.
The key here is the Brit said GMT aka UTC your the one that messed up here
So what you're saying is people would be robbing the banks, rather than the other way around ! That would be SO unfair !

Say, what happened in 2008, when lenders couldn't pay their bills ?

These arguments would make sense if they were applied consistently. But in practice, socialism for the rich, debtor prisons for the poor.
Daylight Savings being created by/for farmers is a myth. Most farmers don't support Daylight Savings, and farming groups have lobbied against it in the past.
On a Saturday? Come on. Point 5 can wait till Monday (yes, it can). I'd go outside and enjoy the sun.
Indeed. I haven't implemented support for those yet :)
Also, it looks like the pypy implementation is here: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/src/default/rpython/rlib/lis...
I can see a difference between pairs of each screen shot. I'm pretty confident though that I won't be able to tell when I don't have these nice comparison images, or care about the difference in practice.
If you feel like that constantly and it doesn't matter which side-project it is, you should consider that you may be going through a burnout. Only a long time away from the offending activities might restore your energy to do them again.
I'm very interested with the finding, but what is emotional support exactly? Can anyone give concrete example?
Humans reason based on personal status, and the whole article is full of personal status decisions ignoring economic reality time after time after time. Then, of course, society is blamed for providing loans, and for (I think) allowing personal status to exist at all ...

And the article is -unintentionally- terminated with a statement confirming that despite all these events, the author has not changed strategy since before he left high school: "M.H. Miller is the arts editor for The New York Times Style Magazine.".

Anybody who thinks this person can be helped is kidding themselves. This person can't be helped. Not with law changes, not with refinancing, not with financial education, not even with money.
Sorry if I came off that way. I was in a rush on the way to an event and I thought I was just being honest about the weakness in his argument.

What's the argument here? That stakeholders have requirements that don't have to do with robustness like budget and deadlines and that your software has a shelf life and sometimes it's ok if it eventually breaks, just like cars and even the laptop I'm typing this on will. Is that an unreasonable perspective?

And Facebook is an outlier? Really? Even when we add Wordpress, Wikpedia, Flickr, MailChimp and a long list of the most successful websites in the world to that list?
The past several years should be remembered as the time when Google has not only stopped "not being evil" but actually turned towards becoming your regular evil corp.

Let's do a short recapt:

1) started making Android more proprietary

2) stopped caring about end-to-end encryption

3) started wishing to become a military contractor

4) started abusing its monopoly power in certain markets (already convicted for one, another coming very soon)

5) stopped caring about free speech of its global users and banned anti-censorship tools

6) started wanting to go back to China (and compromise with whatever the new more dictatorial government is asking of them)

7) started hoarding bogus patents, just like Microsoft and IBM, and will likely soon start using them against competitors, too

8) started pretending to care about user privacy by quietly de-anonymizing users and tying their searches to their real names and IP addresses

9) stopped fighting for net neutrality, because now that's what suits it

10) started lobbying against privacy laws

These are just off the top of my head right now. I probably forgot a few. Google is no longer the bright-eyed company it used to be. Now it's all about exploiting users and entering whatever business it needs to enter or take whatever action it needs to take to increase that quarterly revenue.
“Other countries outside the EU” means USA and a handful of other countries. The vast majority of the world outside the EU never had DST or already got rid of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_coun...
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Suppose as indicated in the article that you want to do 500 interviews in a year and have about 10% success rate. That’s 40 candidates in a month, and assuming 6 person-interviews (3 interviews of 2 interviewers each) are needed per candidate, that’s 250 a month which could be split between 18 “seasoned interviewers” at about 14 interviews a month each.

The number of interviews by “seasoned interviewers” doesn’t say so much about the rejection rate as how much the company is attempting to grow and what proportion of engineers count as “seasoned interviewers.” If almost all people are seasoned then that’s a growth rate of 250%. If only 40% of engineers count as “seasoned interviewers” then that’s a growth rate of 100%.
If you've written any amount of Rust then that's provably not true. You've no doubt used functions & methods that use unsafe (somewhere down along the line), and you didn't need to deal with it. That's 'wrapping unsafe code' used in practice. You got to write safe because someone else wrote the unsafe wrapper.
Every time this subject comes up I can't help but feel like society does a somewhat reasonable job of identifying and discouraging negative masculine behavior but doesn't do the same for negative feminine behavior. Why is the feminine personality position assumed to be the "correct" one that everyone must adjust to? Sure, everyone is entitled to a little whining time, and hopefully your partner is empathetic when the need arises, but perhaps it would be better if we discouraged whining in favor of solutioning.
>Subpixel antialiasing is obnoxious to implement.

Yet, somehow, freetype guys did it all
Well anyone with even a casual knowledge of city politics in the USA would have said DUH - it still abit /lot like that.

Mafia involvement in this industry and local politics is not exactly news :-)
Soft skills aren’t really about likability (though many will like you if you have them).

They are about communicating clearly and concisely, listening carefully, respecting the people you work with, tolerating differences, disagreeing constructively, handing decisions that don’t go your way gracefully, sometimes going with the tide and sometimes fighting it, and knowing when to do which.