skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A tech solution would help the same way that google maps having info right there in app and visible for options for bussing / rideshare , etc helps people using maps to get around.

It's all out there already? Is it though? I am not aware of any source of jobs that do not test for drugs or felony. Maybe there is a reddit thread or forum somewhere I am not aware of? I have not looked for that specifically, only looked at the main job finding resourcing on the first page of google in my area.

So to make it work, I think first a need to find all the jobs that people can actually not waste time reading about and applying for - only list jobs that do not test.

Have additional options for selecting distance, transportation, childcare, which programs they will not qualify for based upon checkboxes like felonies - and all that that becomes barriers would be helpful as well.

I have engaged beggars / homeless in our city many times over the years (and I do not engage purposely most of the time). When I find challenges I don't know the answer to I look up what I can find.

Some things are hard (won't sleep / eat at the mission due to a real conflict with the forced religious sermon) - I get that. Some things are easy when you have broadband, a big screen, the mental capacity to search and call and find and put together pieces of the puzzle...

Easy for me to look up things does not make it easy for others to put it all together - and I have not seen any resource that adds a checkbox to filter options based upon drug test passabl-ity, felony on record, things like that.

One guy down the street says he can't get food stamps and similar things because of felony.

I'd love to be able to point to a resource and save time for people. At the moment I can't think of any resource that lists jobs people can get without tests. Even good resources like indeed which give you nice location based results, you still spend tons of time scrolling through things that sound great until you get to the bottom of the listing and the requirements, and most don't even list all the requirements (tests for example).

Certainly the bigger problem with people feeling they need to steal in order to eek out a living in the US society is going to take more than tech to fix - but here is something that should be simple to add some solution to the mix, and yet it's still not done - for many reasons I'm sure.
Of course there should be people who's primary concern is firguring out what to build, but the buck doesn't stop there.

If you're not solving problems you're just a medoicre code jockey. I want to work with people who build iseful things, not people who stop and understanding syntax and think that code is a goal into itself.
wine has almost no effect (and potentially some negative ones as well), as demonstrated following the original badly designed observational studies. This myth needs to disappear.
Americans live the same as Cubans and Mexicans. Health care is irrelevant as best I can tell. The issue is diet and lifestyle.

This leads to important realizations, such as that Americans should spend less than half as much as they do on doctors and drugs. They could work less on that basis, which would prolong their lives.
Calling https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says
Windows Defender is an abomination. It makes file operations on regular Windows also extremely slow. For example unpacking the Go 1.11 zip which is 8700 files takes a second with my PCIe SSD with Windows Defender disabled. Enable it and the extraction time rises to several minutes.
I don’t believe that’s right.
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Can this sample from an empirical distribution? (i.e. from a CDF, not from a known distribution family)
Speaking as someone still working at a big non-epic/cerner EHR company-that-might-have-just-gone-private: it's not easy. When the money is controlled by large insurers who care about government and billing minutiae, and big hospital/health-care groups choose which software solutions to use, it's an uphill battle to make stuff that is really, truly patient centric.

Everyone I work with cares really strongly about making a really good product. We have great designers/UXers, a lot of experience in building different pieces of the workflows that tens of thousands of doctors and hundreds of thousands of nurses, MA, PAs, front-office staff _and_ patients, but when you spend a whole year readying for ICD-10 and then some yokels in DC push the deadline back a year... I belabor my point.

Engineers wanting to start a health care company should try working for a big EHR company first. Then go start somewhere else using modern technology, modern development practices with just a little more wisdom. Maybe.
I agree, but US healthcare needs cost- and incentive-structure reformation, which medicare-for-all will not accomplish.

Also, SG's are very thin. A big contrast to Americans.

Another point: SG seems to have crazy-lax food service regulation compared to USA. Hawker centers are everywhere. Many make a living serving delicious, inexpensive foods this way. I would propose there is little to nothing to show for some of the US's hyper-aggressive food regulations leading to governments pouring bleach on food, or private charities holding secret events to help homeless people in America.
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A lot of Americans I have spoken to have the opinion that public transport is only for homeless people and is always slow and dirty.
You're really trying to nerd snipe, aren't you? I spent some quality time with elliptic functions as the solutions to the elastica, and also with the Fresnel integral which of course generates the Euler spiral. So yes, it wouldn't be surprising if there were a closed form solution, and that it might even be more efficient to compute.

So, this would be a good topic for someone else to show off their math skills :)
Not true. Flaring of natural gas will happen until it’s prohibited, as it has since the inception of the industry. Building pipelines and chemical plants is not viable in most of the cases where gas is flared.
I had a hard time understanding part of the explanation to Problem 6 [1]. The statement:

> Consider the following game. You flip a coin until you get a tails. The number
of dollars you win equals the number of coins you end up flipping. (So if you
immediately get a tails, you win one dollar; if you get one heads before a tails,
you win two dollars, etc.) What is the expectation value of your winnings?

And then the beginning of the explanation [2]:

> There is a 1/2 chance that you win one dollar, a 1/4 chance that you win two
dollars, a 1/8 chance that you win three dollars, etc. Therefore...

It took me a few times of reading it to understand this. If you choose to play this game, you have a 100% chance of making at least $1. Why state it that there's a 1/2 chance you win $1? It doesn't seem to help answer the problem because assuming you're playing you will always always win $1. The reason they say this (I think) is that there's really a 50% chance you win $1 and a 50% chance you win $2. But again, this doesn't help you with expected winnings - you know you've got something on the first pass. Maybe it help explains Part 2?

Anyway, cool concept!

[1]: http://web.physics.harvard.edu/uploads/files/undergrad/probw...
[2]: https://www.physics.harvard.edu/uploads/files/undergrad/prob...
Epic, Cerner, and their major competitors are actually a lot more open now and no longer putting up major roadblocks. The real roadblocks appear to be in the hospital and clinic IT departments. They have to upgrade to a current version of the EHR which supports SMART on FHIR (many organizations are several versions behind) and then enable the app store feature. Some organizations have concerns about using third-party apps due to training requirements, security, and malpractice liability.

I do think that SMART on FHIR makes it easier to turn clinicians into software developers, so hopefully that will spur some innovative apps.
Because that doesn’t scale, that’s why
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Because I like spending a long time coming up with the optimal message to send, and it's awkward if the other person knows how long it took me
”For me personally, it’s been fascinating to see just how much consumer demand scooters as an easy and fun option, and yet consumers don’t seem to want to charge or dock these items”

Alternative take: petty crime is so incredibly prevalent in SF, customers prefer rental scooters so they don’t have to worry about theft.

A big reason behind the popularity of Citi bikes etc is the same: it delivers the convenience of having a bike, without the headache of having it stolen quarterly.
BBC issues formal complaint to Russia over staff data leak
While not what you envision, I recommend looking at Go if you haven't.

I experience bliss while writing stuff in Go. It is not as fast as C, but it is getting closer with every release. Garbage collection in Go is so fast now that there may as well not be any pause at all.

It's worth a look, in my opinion.
Your real self can completely defeat your goals. Look how many people struggle with success in dating, for example. In such a position, you'll realize that you're the constant in all the failures and you owe it to yourself to evolve.
Singapore is an IQ meat grinder. High IQ people move there and have 0.5 children per woman.

IQ is the single best predictor of longevity. This is because IQ is a product of high functioning metabolic processes in general. The same people that have high IQs are going to to tend to tolerate toxins and stress better and live longer.
I'm avoiding politicians because sensible discussion points are obscured by emotion, to put it nicely.

Rather than a politician. try "Wendy's" burger joint twiter feed and it is largely the same point. Advertising works a hell of a lot better when you're not paying for the slots. I can't see a meaningful discussion of digital without addressing it. Musk hires talent from "the onion" - we can assume it isn't to design rockets and cars, right? Flamethrowers, awesome, right. Can't make money selling them obviously. How much did that campaign cost him? Nothing in placement slots right but there it was in a better slot than can be bought from facebrick all over facebrick. In a better slot than can be bought from google in newspapers with google ads being ignored somewhere on the same page.

Remember when google were hiring engineers like they meant it and had all that nonsense about secret codes and quizzes all around the web? Remember when they hired 17 year olds in a fanfare of publicity? Remember when they placed an ad-sense ad saying they were hiring? Well that last never happened as far as I'm aware and the cost to google would have been next to nothing, so maybe it wasn't worth even that. They hired a lot of direct marketers to ring us and tell us we should apply though, right?

Pick your successful ad campaign. It doesn't involve paying google, or facebrick, or does it? Do go ahead and list any examples that have escaped my notice. I can't think of a business that got on ad-sense or facebrick early and took a huge market share out of their competition as a result, can you? Do you even have to think to come up with a list for TV early adopters?

I can't see how digital advertising discussions can be fruitful without addressing these things.
This is such bullshit!

YouTube’s video streaming infra is a masterpiece of engineering and magnitudes of order better than a vanilla streaming setup!

You might not notice because you live in a place with great internet...but most people don’t!
Neat, what prize did you choose? I'm guessing the Delphi Pro?
For a while, the flowchart was basically ”Do you need funding?”. A lot of pitches were basically ”X, but on the blockchain”. Seemed to be a decent strategy, too.
Do you take the buffercache into account? If the server has more RAM unused by processes it probably uses it as a cache, which can be 3x quicker than a SSD.
In the call with Matt Christiansen they said this was entirely their decision.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U0mQjUA0T5INc_GDkwPJ2mfh...
what's the sum of n/2^n?

Edit: generatingfunctionology to the rescue
Default Browser Styles Should Be the New Quirks Mode
> A strategy that is so common these days.

Yes, just this last month there have been multiple false flags which led to cyberwars. /s

Are you a tinfoil, or a Russian?
But he did that study based on the data from many other countries. You are just addressing the small scale test he tried.
>IMHO anything that doesn't fit in one screen is "gargantuan"

This is a bit of an odd definition, but sure (I've seen C++ files whose imports alone were gargantuan under your definition). I just looked through a production python application, and it there were 2 non-test classes that were more than 100 lines long. Both were relatively verbose (well commented, use type hints so argument lists use significant vertical space, etc.)

In general, it seems like you're limiting yourself to, with the necessary boilerplate, one or two functions in any file that isn't "gargantuan". This makes it needlessly difficult to understand the structure of your applications since you are forced to split related logic up among multiple files. This, more than screen length or the import syntax, makes it much, much harder to "maintain intuitive vision of code and dependencies structure" as you say.

>Which looks ugly and feels a nasty headache if you want to maintain intuitive vision of your code and dependencies structure.

Not at all. It's more explicit about the dependency structure (`module.method(args)` at a call site gives you a much better idea of the structure than just `method(args)`), and so makes it significantly easier to maintain an intuitive vision of the code and dependencies.

It's incalculably easier to understand dependency structure when using the `import module` syntax than `from module import Class` or `from module import *`. So much so that the former allows reliable, large scale refactorings without any runtime information. The others, as you correctly recognize, do not.

>I know but even reading this paragraph hurts. Too much mess to manage manually.

Then don't! You don't need to. It's really only necessary for truly public/widely used APIs (like numpy) where understanding the internal structure of the module is not worth it for the average user.
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

Dude literally is, to quote the author, "the next Steve Jobs, but better". Is he occasionally an idiot? Yes. Is he occasionally an asshole? Also yes. But he's on track to have done not one, not two, but _three_ things others widely consider impossible (SpaceX, Tesla, StarLink) and may even squeeze in 2-3 more of those things in his remaining lifespan. If that's not genius, I don't know what is.
Well, it's an idea I've thought about recently. Why do we have to overwrite browser styles when in an ideal world, we should be able to disable them altogether?
So true. The only problem there is no really good cros-platform GUI framework so far. If only there was something like WPF (and in no way inferior to the original) easily and naturally usable with a good selection of programming languages on all the major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, Ios) I doubt many people would use Electron. The whole thing about browser-based apps is they run everywhere seamlessly while looking eye-candy, being easy to discover, one-click to run and written in a language with a steep learning curve and that all is for free in whatever a case (while e.g. Qt requires an expensive license if you want to make a non-free app).
I believe breaking the big goal/task into tiny chunks of work items in Todo list, paperbook is the most important first step.

And then day by day when I complete the tiny task, I strike them which makes me motivating.

This way has increased my productivity. Ofcourse I still browse but after completion of tiny task
IO loop necessitates OO unless you do some obscure tricks like passing closures and using a global event emitter. The most obvious way to implement UI is to do OOP.

Widget hierarchy does not necessitate OO. Hierarchies can be built with plain data structures. OO comes into play when you place methods within the data structure. Methods coupled with data is essentially an object as described by OOP.

Why would you need integrate a method inside data structures?

Because IO.
One brand I found nice is the the Chinese make Jin Hao, which makes all-metal bodied pens, at quite low prices.
More time? I wish I was given _any_ time with my users so I could actually understand what features would make their lives easier. I actually did get to spend about two hours with some actual users of my software a month ago and I noticed that they were scrolling up and down a lot. I asked if it would make their workflow quicker if I made the save button float in the lower-right corner of the browser (I.e. position: fixed). They said, “you can do that? Oh my God, that would be amazing!” It took two seconds of CSS and has saved them hours already.
So to be clear you're confirming that nothing works now and that not only use cases but also working tech is still entirely speculative?
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I wonder if their "real time protection" is making a network request every time you open a new file.
I assume the long dashes are replaced with a single character. For the colon and decimal points, they are slightly higher. For the time, the colon lines up with the middle of the numbers instead of the baseline.

The differences are very subtle (but nice).
> they didn’t spend any time learning the business domain

Weren’t given any time to learn it. FTFY.
Nobody else is doing the political/power play that made systemd widespread. As far as there is a well financed party interested on pushing its code into mainstream (what's not entirely a bad thing), I don't thing there's anybody capable of fighting.

Well, maybe I'll be more optimistic when we replace pulse audio for a start.
For the veterans. Can anyone make any ink recommendations for inks that don't bleed to the point of completely obscuring the text when the paper is later exposed to a little water?
“So, you physically carry the specifications to the developers?”

“Well, no, my secretary does that...”
Microsoft patents a clever magnetic USB-C Surface connector
If the character following a * is whitespace it will show up as an asterisk without implication of special formatting.

In code blocks *asterisks* don't need any special
escaping as they always show up "as is".
I wouldn't say PayPal is nothing, although lot of people hate it, I always prefer paying with it than giving my credit card number to a new merchant.

What's the most important for me is that Elon showed people that clean great electric cars are possible (and China already has a higher growth rate in electric cars than Tesla). I'm literally sick of the toxic air pollution that cars make, which is a problem I didn't have when I was younger.
This old article blames poor penmanship on ball point pens (rather than keyboards) and considers them a poor replacement for fountain pens.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-ballpoint-pen-kil...
As per initial announcement they will be shipping a level editor as a post release update, so that should improve the map situation.
When I was developing internal software at a big company, I went to observe some actual users at the company. (I thought what we were building didn't make sense, so I wanted to see if they actually used it that way.) I got a tongue lashing from management for that one! "You're a developer. You're not supposed to talk to users."

The entire project, of course, was eventually cancelled.
I have spent over 10 years obsessively thinking about the same project/vision, and I have not executed a single thing.

I spent hundreds of hours agonizing about every detail (name, domain, programming language, framework, database, text editor, operating system, computer). For weeks at a time, I'll seriously consider (without actually doing anything) designing and implementing my own programming language/operating system/IDE/database, because none of the existing ones are "good enough". I regularly come back to the old Vim vs Emacs debate. When I need some challenge, I look at the Millenium Prize Problems and take a stab at P-versus-NP. Rinse and repeat, ad infinitum.

Every time I buy a new computer, switch to a new Linux distribution, setup a new IDE, go through a new programming language tutorial, I think that's the last step. I think that I'll finally be able to be productive. This is never the case.

I think we use procrastination as a defense mechanism to avoid facing a reality in which we might fail. I think that's a problem with our ego. What if we're not good enough?

I don't know what the solution is. I'm still struggling with this.

I think people who actually build stuff just make arbitrary decisions and don't care if things aren't perfect. They'll stack a bunch of hacks and anti-patterns, and look at the output rather than at the process.

Maybe I'll try that.
It's not "nothing". I only listed the "impossible" things he's done or is in the advanced stages of doing.
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I would go that far.

If it’s all-digital and marketed to audiophiles, it’s a scam and/or absurd. You can’t improve upon bit-perfect. (Room calibration being a notable exception.)
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The article is focusing on trading gas at low prices, which means that the transportation infrastructure is there, to get it to a useful place (otherwise it wouldn't be low-price gas, it would be unsold gas). Gas is flared when it can't be sold, but in this case we see gas being sold at extraordinarily low prices.

New ethylene plants are being built in the US gulf coast area. Here are some links:

https://news.exxonmobil.com/press-release/exxonmobil-starts-...
http://analysis.petchem-update.com/supply-chain-logistics/in...
http://analysis.petchem-update.com/supply-chain-logistics/us...

New pipelines are presently being constructed:

https://napipelines.com/oil-pipeline-report-new-administrati...

The coming increase in gas prices off the absolute bedrock level they are at now cannot be priced in to present-day gas prices because gas is so hard to store. However, it is probably already priced in to oil company shares, so even though this information is true I doubt there is any money left to be made off of it.
But the source of the warming should be completely open for debate. I for one am looking at the sun as the source, starting with the sunspot maximum event of 1958 that sparked the US government to create Nasa.
I'm sorry I wasn't clear. This would be a binding in your local tmux configuration that sends the prefix command to whatever is in your current pane, allowing you to have a key act as a 'remote prefix' button.

I agree that bindings still don't scale incredibly well depending on the number of host machines you need to ssh from. I think your screen workaround is a pretty neat solution.
Excel has named cell ranges. So instead of

=A5*A6

you could have

=interest*principal

You can create them easily too -- can name the individually, can assign names from existing tables and so on. You can have constants too, that is, they don't have to point to any cell [1]. It is a godsend when working with bigger tables having lots of formulas.

[1] https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/2017/07/11/excel...

[2]https://www.contextures.com/xlNames01.html
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They have UX designers. The problem is those designers don't necessarily understand clinical workflows. That takes years of experience.
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