skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I try to take the advice on new from the 4 hour work week.

I use the pomodoro technique combined with keeping a list of what I need to get done. This has probably been the best strategy I have discovered so far.

At the end of each day, I plan everything for the next day so I can hit the ground running.
They kind of brought this on themselves. At one time they said that they were a neutral platform, and were fairly neutral. Now they very actively curate content, so naturally people are starting to want to make them liable for everything on their platform. Of course this will significantly reduce their profitability etc., but you reap what you sow.
Well if it's over several years that's fine. It's an interesting oddity and I'm sure the readership changes over time as well, making it new to plenty of readers.
If I start seeing ads, I will move back to regular SMS. It is that simple.
Funny, I find measuring opportunity costs much much harder than measuring engineering effort.

Even in your example, are those phone calls the substantial costs, or is it customer confidence in your product being lost the main motivation you should do something with the bug? If so, what's the dollar value of this confidence? Also, do you have monitoring good enough in place to see how many customers are hitting the problem every day without telling you? Do you think these customers are less or more frustrated than the one they are calling you?

Can you attribute lost customer to a particular feature not present, to a particular bug the customer experienced just before they refused to deal with your software anymore?
A recent podcast from the Commonwealth Club covered this somewhat with several scientists [1]

[1] http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.commonwealthcl...
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This work isn't remotely fun. It's stressful, and the people doing it often have to deal with depression and drug abuse later.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderat...
Amazon has people do this for Alexa inputs, to label whether responses were good or bad.
Confirmation from the Hollywood Reporter is here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stan-lee-marvel-comic...
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I believe the comment is referring to safe harbor law, which I think is loosely related here.
Another LastPass user of ~5 years. I was actually dreading the switch, just because of the amount of time I had spent using it (mostly always Premium). That and I have a workflow within the family for sharing, etc.

I planned on a week long switch over to make sure things went smooth. However after switching, and validating all common accounts has been imported correctly I just never had to open LastPass again. This took all of 2 hours.

BitWarden has the upper hand in three key areas for me: Android, FireFox and CLI. The LastPass extension for FireFox has become downright useless and that was the main catalyst for me switching.

I've switched now about a month ago and can't imagine going back. It just works like you'd expect in most situations. I'm fighting it less than LastPass and my store of passwords is all cleaned up and far more sanitary. LastPass lets you make a mess far easier, so a nice side effect of BitWarden is that the structure is more prescriptive but I've been yet to bump into an area where it's blocked me from doing what I need.

Highly recommend BitWarden if you're fed up with LastPass and FireFox.
I "worked" at the Xingda Hongye PCB factory in Zhongshan for a month. They let me stay in the factory dormitory and eat in the cafeteria for free, but didn't pay me.

It was good! Afterwards I got a job in Shenzhen that paid, so I moved. But the Xingda workers were from all over China, each with fascinating stories, and very happy to meet a foreigner.

I wish I could go back there now. I just finished 4 years working at a microSD card company in Taiwan. I've been trying to find a job since March; unemployed since August. I've given up on my dreams, and I'll take anything. I don't even know how to apply for jobs now. The only two interviews I had were from people who already worked in the company telling their HR to talk to me. Recruiters are ignoring me. Prayer hasn't worked. Sharing side projects on HN hasn't worked. Please tell me the email address of someone who can give me food and shelter.
It is just like a weather forecast. People want it despite it is useless most of the time.
If they can metabolize glyphosate does that mean it’s present in the plant?
"An SMS has just come in from his local Honda dealer saying “payment received.” He points to it on his phone.

Forgive my skepticism, but this sounds fake to me. Unless there are countries where you local auto dealer finances your car. Everywhere I've lived, financing goes through a bank or the manufacturer's bank/bank partner (GMAC, etc...).
How to set up PySpark for your Jupyter notebook
Blockchain – what is it good for? At the moment not much, DTA says
I've seen Keenan Crane of CMU give some great applications of differential geometry to computational geometry and manufacturing/fabrication. He has a book on applied discrete differential geometry available here [1] and also a good youtube channel [2] with talks showing applications. A good nontechnical talk giving an overview of the basics and the motivation for the formalism is [3]. A nontechnical talk showing an application to fabrication is [4].

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/DGPDEC/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/user/keenancrane/videos

[3] https://youtu.be/Mcal5Cy7r4E?t=408

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiekJeTEQ-U
https://www.tmz.com/2018/11/12/stan-lee-dead-dies-marvel-com...
No, "fascism" is not unpopular simply because of that association. It's unpopular because its core principles as stated by its own proponents - authoritarianism, nationalism, violence as a tool of policy (which the "fasces" visually represents) - were already in disrepute at its founding. It was meant to be a bad word to those who believe in democracy, globalism, and non-violence.
I use whatsapp for tons of foreign numbers and sending images. SMS is torturously bad for this use-case!

I would tolerate any amount of ads for this service, or alternatively pay maybe $10 a year.
Expensive, but yes, anycast solves it.
Squoosh: image codecs and compression in every browser that supports WASM
5-6 vulnerabilities identified but ‘no action at this time’ identified as only resolution for all of them. Worrying or is this common practice?
Building a Serverless Back End with AWS Lambda and Node.js
"proper road racers" don't stop at stop signs. it is also a strange assumption you made that GP doesn't already use a bike with gears.
I second this. I have made tons of mistakes estimating, but the fact is that for all the foolish mistakes I've made--forgetting things, not asking the right questions, and jumping the gun on making a prediction--I've probably never had enough information to make a good estimate.

Almost every project runs into an unforeseen roadblock. The less experience you have with a sort of project, the more true this becomes. You can't account for things you don't see coming, so the usual answer is to arbitrarily pad estimates, and of course arbitrary padding is usually wrong.

A project plan is more useful for finding bottlenecks than predicting an end date. So unfortunately, the best tip I can offer is to make sure people are aware of the uncertainty involved, and beware of people who expect it to be straightforward.
But we're not talking about illegal immigrants who have no recourse here. We're talking about opening up immigration so that these people, and others, can come in and do these jobs that as of now only go to illegals, while also receiving the benefits and protections that come as a legal immigrant. That seems to be exactly what you want, so why are you against it?
okay so I'd suggest changing the top level post URL to this URL, and not wikipedia. Seen dozens of wikipedia-edit celebrity death hoaxes in the last ten years.
Coackroach infested, health hazard, shithole filthy dishes
Which is why I am claiming that a comparison of energy efficiency of the two, as seen in most literature, is invalid.
I like the idea and I am trying to use it. On MacOS and using Firefox nightly.. if I click into the first time estimate box and hit my delete key... the whole app disappears.
My point is - they are demonstrably perfectly able to control what content is played and choose to ignore copyright to make more money.
So long, Stan, and thanks for all the stories. I always enjoy looking out for the cameo role in all of the Marvel films.
There's good material in that article, but it's not the AI part. This is the important part:

"In 2018 the common person feels increasingly irrelevant. ...
In the 20th century, the masses revolted against exploitation and sought to translate their vital role in the economy into political power. Now the masses fear irrelevance, and they are frantic to use their remaining political power before it is too late. ... Perhaps in the 21st century, populist revolts will be staged not against an economic elite that exploits people but against an economic elite that does not need them anymore. This may well be a losing battle. It is much harder to struggle against irrelevance than against exploitation."

That's not about the future. That's already happened. The US has a huge population that's just not economically relevant. They used to matter, but they were left behind. Hence Trump.

Two big trends in the US - a huge useless population, and economic centralization.

There are many towns and small cities in the US that have no reason to go on existing. They were built as service centers for a farming population that shrank decades ago. Many are limping along on retirees that don't leave. But the old people die off and that money source stops. Nobody moves in, and anybody with any ambition left for the big city long ago. The average age in rural America is 51. US farm workers are under 2% of the workforce. (90% before the industrial revolution.)

Economic centralization. Since banking deregulation, the US is down to four big banks. WalMart ate most small-town retail, and Amazon is eating the rest. (A sidelight: social activities have moved online. To massive centralized online services. Tinder and Facebook aren't running on the town's little server in the back room of the drugstore, like an 80s BBS. Teens don't go into town, or to malls, to hang out much any more. Another killer for small towns.) Most little stuff is coming from abroad, knocking out little factories that used to make spoons and toasters.

This is nos.
That's not realistic. Even remotely. There won't be some sudden influx because getting to the United States alone is hard. For most people, it'll be a transoceanic flight which is not very cheap at all.
> out of reach for the vast majority of consumers.

Everywhere I look people are walking around with the latest iPhone (this time they literally named it "excess max"). People you wouldn't expect to have it. As for me, I'm in the top 10% of earners and I carry an iPhone 6, of which I have replaced the screen and the battery.

So we want ethically sourced tech? Maybe you're right and we wouldn't be able to keep buying the new model year after year. But we could definitely afford to have them if we saved up and then took care of what we owned.

Maybe there would be a trend toward repairability, durability, and maintainability of tech, things of practical matter, and away from inane concerns such as fashion and emojis. Maybe the Apples of the world would have to disburse some of their two hundred billion dollars to the factory employees. Maybe then some of the hands that assemble the iPhones would be able to hold the finished product.

Maybe all of that would be a good thing.
It's already been submitted, so you can upvote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18434698

It's picking up karma faster than this submission is, so this is a problem that will shortly take care of itself.
I encourage you to get going--they are years ahead of you in lobbying. Basically, in the US, Europe, and allied countries, selling your seeds is forbidden (I guess with Bolsanaro, Brazil is next):

https://ejatlas.org/featured/seeds

> Seeds are under attack everywhere. Under corporate pressure, laws in many countries increasingly put limitations on what farmers can do with their seeds and with the seeds they buy. Seed saving, a millenia old practice which forms the basis of farming, is increasingly becoming criminalised.

> This map gives a picture of of the situation across the world today.
Perhaps the regulation should mandate support for third-party software, such as DD-WRT.
Rest In Peace! I have not been a much of a Marvel fan but seeing his cameo in Venom was pretty cool. Now I have to go watch some more Marvel movies!
I give feedback all the time in the hope that in influences the direction of the company or project. Was just asked today for feedback on my Apple Watch. Gave it. Also sent in feedback to SketchFab today.

If you want a product to be better how else do you expect it to happen if you don't give feedback? It's certainly better than just waiting and hoping some random improvements appear.

I don't do all surveys or even most but more than 0.
Marvel Mogul Stan Lee Dies at 95
For others, who may not have seen this reply to the same comment above, it's no longer required:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18434172
Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith – The New Enterprise Sales Guy
Yeah they're describing their current issue, doesn't mean that's all he needs or all that it provides.
Doesn't the ideas of book suffer from survivorship bias?
Yes, I'm pretty sure they would, but if they've gone out of their way to prioritize 7-11 corporate's requests, or prosecute them more aggressively than they would in general, then they're colluding in discrimination. And none of that absolves 7-11 corporate for calling them in selectively.
Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee dies aged 95
Personas always seemed like the worst of the standard UI design practices.

For one thing, they seem to usually just be an amalgam of cringey stereotypes or cringey attempts to invert stereotypes.

And look at the alternatives to personas:

A) Use your own head and think about what you would want. Use yourself as the persona

B) Use an actual living user. Ask a person

It just seems like in almost every situation one of those two is going to serve you better than a persona.

I do like the suggestion in the article of doing persona spectrums instead. Neat idea.
The SQL "protocol"† is a hairy one for a backend to deal with, state-wise. Each concurrent connection to an (ACID conformant) SQL-speaking server implies that that connection can have a transaction in progress.

A transaction, in SQL, requires the ability for the client (or the backend) to roll it back at any time before it gets committed—and thus, a transaction in progress requires keeping around at least two "world states" of the DB engine: the one before the transaction began, and the way the world looks after the current statement's modifications—but not those of any other concurrently-executing transaction.

Thus, a backend concurrent connection (i.e. transaction) cap of N, translates to O(N) concurrent MVCC "world states" that the DB engine has to keep track of. No matter how efficient the DB engine is at doing that, that's still a lot of state!

Imagine an RDBMS instance shared between numerous clients built and run by different companies. This RDBMS is locked down in various ways to guarantee each company an SLA on their queries. And, of course, the most important part of that SLA is that a query that is ACKed by the server as having gone through, must never lose data.

If you allow clients unlimited concurrency, they can execute enough transactions to fill memory and disk with MVCC world-states, causing potential data loss (since the full disk may have prevented the DB engine from writing down a committed world-state.)

Thus, ACID-conformant SQL-speaking databases are always going to limit the number of concurrent transactions, and so the number of concurrent connections; and so—at least for SQL-speaking databases designed for instance-addressable rather than cluster-addressable deployment—the responsibility for deciding how much concurrency a client wants/needs is always going to be pushed to the client, so that an enterprise with a DB cluster can set up its less concurrency-intensive clients to self-limit their pool size.

† SQL isn't a wire protocol per se; it's just a syntax and semantics of a formal language, without even a shared encoding. But the standard does specify per-connection and per-transaction state-machines the backend must have, and how these are affected by executing particular statements. So, in this way, SQL is an abstract contract for the semantics that any particular RDBMS's wire protocol must obey. A "meta-protocol", if you will.
More info to explain some of their marketing speak (Experience Management! Creating a category!):
They are by far the leader in being able to create surveys for serious research. However, since so much of this segment is owned by academics, they can only charge so much. They want to stay deep in the academic market because millions of undergrads and grad students every year do their first market research with their student Qualtrics account. Those students go on to be the decision makers in fledgling analytics departments/teams at many companies.

They expanded into Customer Experience and Employee Experience products with the big enterprise deals and fat margins that come with them but were much worse at those things than specialized competitors. They then came up with the concept of "Experience Management" to tie the data together. This is actually pretty cool stuff - Ford was able to find which crappy conditions at their dealerships were driving lower sales, etc etc. The strategy was basically if we can offer a total package where we're pretty good at everything, we'll beat competitors that are excellent at one thing.
That is not what he said though. He said there would be demand for gas well into the 2040s, and since most (all?) these bans only concern new sales, it will take ~20 years after the bans to get rid of a majority of the ICEs.

The oil industry already knows they will be done in the 40s. Their EUR (well estimated already 50 years ago) shows that growth will be extremely difficult past the 30s. They won't fight a ban on new sales except for the few who cannot diversify in other domains.
This looks great! I hope a capability driven multi-monitor api gets some attention in the near future too!
Personally, I can no longer even conceive running the standard firmware on a critical piece of my home's infrastructure.

Plus: good performance, a lot of flexibility, and a nice web interface (if one wants it).

OpenWrt has really been a good experience for me.
Laws might seem to need a lot of maintenance, but unless you live in a desert and have the native vegetation that hardly grows(cactus, yucca, and mesquite like bushes), any landscaping besides a field of rocks will likely require more maintenance.

You could let your yard go back to the wild and that would be cool by me, but where I live people who replace their lawn go with mix of bushes, flowers, and trees with paths and other landscape features that require a lot more man hours in pruning, trimming, leafblowing, etc to keep looking good.
Copyright infringement is just one of the ways platforms profit off illegal activity as a standard practice of business. Scams and malware are prevalent in paid advertising, fake news is propagated and shared on a mass scale impersonating legitimate sources and individuals, etc. all because platforms can hide behind blanket immunity for what's posted on their platforms.

I'm well into the opinion that if platforms can't operate within the law that they take some responsibility for what the environment they build and the problems they cause, they should be shut down. I think the world would be a better place without YouTube.

In the US, I think removing Section 230 is an absolute imperative. These platforms currently have no legal responsibility to police content, and many of our problems today stem from the fact that they aren't going to do what's necessary until they're legally responsible to do so.

If they're turning a profit on a user submission, and they aren't legally required to remove it, they have no incentive to do so. Platforms must be held responsible for their content, and if that changes the landscape of the Internet, so be it.
Perhaps the WhatsApp founder is not financing a Honda?

E: Actually, I guess he’s just paying for his minivan repair.
Take it another step. Dreadful conditions are allowed to fester due to a lack of human rights in China, which is maintained as a status quo solely because shareholders in western companies demand infinite growth and profit. These companies came to Chinese factory owners with a price for labor already in mind; they would have payed to move production to anywhere in the world with the lowest costs for labor and material acquisition.

Better labor conditions in China starts with western companies requiring better labor conditions to do business, and western companies accepting the resulting higher costs. Until shareholders accept smaller profits, this won't change no matter where in the world it occurs.
Not one mention of the movie - by the top anti-Putin Russian director - “the magnitsky files”

It took me two years to find a bootleg copy of it, thanks to Bill Browders efforts to bury that film.

(Before anyone asks, yes I am a Putin-bot working in a Moscow farm. Now go watch the f%%ing movie)
Anecdotally, it seems like the strongest driver for buying things is personal experience outside of marketing. Something happens to you at work, at school, or in a relationship, that makes you think "I'm not good enough", and you try to solve it by buying something. But BI isn't going to be able to divine that... at least not without some kind of always-on listening device.
The legendary Marvel Comics writer, editor and publisher Stan Lee dies at 95
pwn: the second derivative of getting owned
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What does this mean ? C11 already brought the u8 type
genuinely curious, do you have a source for that?
RTTY made me think radio and not remote. Still fun!
This is definitely true, I expect that users will spend a bit less time on Facebook today.

However, Facebook doesn't have a 100% fill rate of high value ads, so during the rest of the day they'll be showing somewhat more expensive ads to users, earning a higher average revenue. That will make up for some of the loss, despite lower usage.
At one point, I was maintaining clusters in AWS, Azure, and GCP. It was a more work than I anticipated, for very little benefit.

Cluster administration and identity management are unique to each provider and fairly challenging to get right.
Worth noting that their engineering org is in Seattle
While in college, one spring break 3 friends and I decided to cram into my small car and drive from Texas to the Grand Canyon. On the way we went through Los Alamos. At one point we were on or near the laboratory grounds and came across a sign that read something along the lines of "Dirt removal from canyon prohibited". I remember thinking it was so unusual that I took a picture of it (this was before digital photography, so you generally had to be more selective about what you chose to photograph).
I wrote an XLSX(spreadsheet) writer in golang a few years ago and still maintain it. I also deal with a bunch of other several hundred to thousand page docs semi regularly and the best advice I have is to make use of the index, bookmarking pages, and a ton of cmd+f searching for various keywords.

I was talking with a lawyer friend the other day who confirmed a good index is really a must for long documents.
Amazon is dominant online, but local retail still has advantages
You know that they have been working many years on a suicide net for the Golden Gate bridge, right? I believe installation began some months ago.