skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree, have had so many frustrating experiences lately. Recently my phone was water damaged, so I went to the Singapore Apple Store and was told there aren't any genius bar appointments available for a week, and that's as far as you can schedule out. I said OK, no problem, I'll buy another until I can get an appointment and then return the new one once mine is replaced under Apple Care. I was waiting about 40 minutes to buy an iPhone and then the sales specialist noted that I could, in fact, probably wait for a cancelation and have my phone serviced. I waited upstairs working on their (fairly good!) wifi for about 1.5 hours and then when I saw a Genius who confirmed my phone is indeed toast. The Genius then explained they don't have any phones in stock in my color, can only do a like-for-like replacements and it'd take 48 hours for it to come in stock (why can't this be identified ahead of time?).. so then I waited another 30mins to buy a phone and returned it 48 hours later. Similarly, replacing a damaged or lost AirPod is way too difficult. IMO, it shouldn't require a "Genius", especially in the latter case

(I'd also love to be able to just order a replacement piece online)
> Absolutely nothing fundamental has changed. I feel like if "Office Space" were being re-made today, open floor plans would be one of the horrors that it would lampoon.

It was remade, essentially into Silicon Valley.
Thanks, I’ll definitely check out Gogol and Chekhov.
It can always be solved with weak references.
It also doesn't have the regulatory hurdles of medical devices or aerospace. So that's nice.
Ask HN: Who is hiring for interns? (Summer 2019)
I am thinking to start just a separate thread to hire the interns. You can post you company name, location and type of intern you are looking for over here.
You dont even have to take it literally. I learned from Asop's fables and I acknoledge animals can't talk. What I got from Noah's ark wasnt that God is a genocidal maniac or he loves us all very much, but that if you know what needs to be done, do it and don't care what others think.
I don't think that is a good comparison.

Setting up a mechanical assembly line is very different from setting up a software pipeline, although, as you can tell already, they use some of the same words and metaphors.

It isn't possible to build a mechanical factory in weeks with readily available tools [0]. We just don't have that kind of concentration of knowledge, we don't have the skills, the know-how etc. to accomplish that. Whereas with software: you have OSS, you have the Cloud, and all kinds of numerous tooling that helps you get started immediately, and iterate on that until you get to the final product. That kind of iteration, debugging etc. is just not possible with manufacturing. Which is why in manufacturing you need great designs and processes: bad decisions are very costly. They are costly in software too, but... your MVP will still churn out value, even if its not efficient. Once you prove that your product satisfies a need, you then make it better, you make it more efficient, scale it out, yadda yadda. But getting started is absurdly easy. And thats why lean works.

The designers of lean realized that all that worry about scaling, about automation, planning, QA... while its important, it doesn't provide the most value for everyone. For a smaller company, its more important to get out a product that solves a problem even if its janky. Once you prove its usefulness, you attract more money, more people etc.

So lean solves two problems:
* gets you started quickly and fails bad ideas fast
* lets you justify bad design if it provides more value

One could argue that the technical debt built up by this kind of process has to be paid down someday. If your product survives for long enough, you will have enough resources to do that. And then you have a core product that brings in revenue, and you repeat the same lean method for other products. Rinse and repeat, ad infinitum.

[0]: where this assumption fails, you see a lot more manufacturing. e.g. in China, the fruits of this kind of aggregation in manufacturing skill is visible, and that's why Chinese manufacturers are so adept at responding to changing market conditions.
It well might have been. I was beta-testing it the North American publisher (and got it for free, although they made quite a bit off me on Calamus SL and plugins for Atari TT030 I had before), even for a while after they sold to... Roxio was it? I can't even recall by now, but development was done in Europe.

They did some really nice things with virtual objects, being able to zoom in down to a printer dot, stochastic rasterization and all that.

There were some other very high-end packages for Atari as well --Didot, Retouche Pro, TMS Cranach. For some reason European developers really went wild developing professional-level DTP software for Atari with some very impressive results. Too bad Tramiels didn't do much to support them...
Sure the title may be jumping the gun a bit, but you're severely overhyping SF and underestimating NYC with your comment. The fact that Fog Creek and Reddit (moved to SF) were the companies that came to mind shows that you don't know the NYC tech landscape well.

On top of the condensed list below NYC has Columbia, NYU, and Cornell Tech in terms of talent pool, and one of the most extensive transit systems in the world.

1. Bloomberg
2. Oath (AOL + Yahoo)
3. Blue Apron
4. Buzzfeed
5. Tumblr
6. Etsy
7. AppNexus
8. Flatiron Health
9. Oscar Health
10. Shutterstock
11. Squarespace
12. IAC (Tinder, Match.com, OKCupid, etc)
13. Zocdoc
14. Compass
15. Casper
16. MongoDB
17. Warby Parker
18. Vimeo
19. Betterment
20. Classpass
21. DigitalOcean
22. Foursquare
23. Fanduel
24. Stackoverflow
25. SeatGeek
26. Birchbox

etc.
I'm arguing that it's meaningless to try to pick a demographic that a non-empathetic person can relate with...since by definition, they struggle with that very skill across the entire population.
On contrary, there's tons of papers published today referencing Z3, Why3, and so on. I immediately knew they meant the solver since that's the Z3 people use most today.
Yeah, I remember reading something about that in some introductory Bayesian statistics article. They asked a whole bunch of doctors the P(cancer | positive screening test) question and their answers were way off. Which is fair because it's pretty unintuitive, but also not good because they're using that intuition to make life-and-death decisions.

By weird coincidence, I think one of my friends was recently diagnosed with EDS after a long, long search to find out what was actually going on with her.
Have you heard the old design joke?

If you really hate someone, teach them about kerning
Every company should be "hit by a bus" resilient if it expects to last.
that sounds great for ergonomics..
Too late, you already clicked the clickbait anti-science journalism and the journalist can get paid another day :-)
And how much time did you spend updating your new information with the government, your banks, your work, and other services that you interact with?
It's better this way.
The Chicken Tax. Because of it, US auto manufactures promoted and sold the one market segment where they had 0 to no competition. Even today, the big American automakers suck balls at making Sedans and focus exclusively on Trucks and SUVs.
English does use pitch in prosody, but it's not phonemic. (There aren't pairs of English words that are distinguished only by their pitches or pitch contours.) We'll never get a full-scale English equivalent of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...

A more precise way that the author could have made this point might be something like this: "In English, we do sometimes use pitch to convey meaning, for example to show which word in a sentence is most important, to show whether a sentence is meant as a question or not, and to show certain kinds of emotion. But it doesn't cause one word to turn into another. In Chinese, it often does."
I got interested in what parameters they were computing, I guess cosmological constant or anything space expansion related.

Anyways, cool stuff, wish they had a peak in the results.
I think this isn't giving Pinyin enough credit.

The biggest problem with English pronunciation, and the biggest reason everyone says English spelling is a mess, is the Great Vowel Shift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

So when you're writing a sound in the Latin alphabet, you have two choices:

- spell it like English (the only language with spelling so confusing, spelling bees are a thing)

- or spell it like every other language (relatively consistent)

Pinyin... chose to be consistent, like every other language.

A lot of the other weirdness is based on other languages, too: for instance, "x" is pronounced "sh" is Portuguese as well.
Victims of Fashion
its not for everyone espescially if your a social butterfly type. There is also stigma and elements of danger, if you go all out nomad. there are places where this lifestyle is tolerated, and others where you will be in a bad spot espescially if you have an encounter with some good ol boy trooper. Its a good "lifeboat" to have in the case of wildfire, volcanic events, or just simple job loss as long as you have a good cash reserve, or are not shy to do some handyman work for food and gas money. It comes in handy knowing how to procure and keep food and water when money or buying is not available. a small crossbow/slingshot and some outdoors skills go a long way and extend your range. its been 35 years for me so far and im still alive.
I thought Z3 is some cousin of the Z80 microprocessor.
...and in other news, a child pornography ring comprised entirely of elephant seals was discovered near the Piedras Blancas State Marine Reserve and Marine Conservation Area and dismantled, when one of animals defecated in front of a park ranger, who then discovered illicit data on a microSD card embedded in the droppings, and called animal control to have the entire rookery detained indefinitely, pending further investigation.
[Shameless plug] My own take on the birth, evolution and Mao's simplification of Chinese writing: https://al3x.svbtle.com/on-chinese-writing-1
If you’re interested in these sorts of topics - feast meets west is a great nerdy podcast about the Asian food scene in nyc http://feastmeetswest.com
I had a boss that absolutely freaked out when he saw that the printer was set to scroll “SELF DESTRUCT IN”, “3...”, “2...”, “1...”, “MAYBE NEXT TIME!” every few minutes. I had a cron job set up to run a Python script every minute with a 1:10 chance of displaying it.

He stood there watching it for probably an hour, before running to his office and making a panicked call to PC Services about how our network had been hacked.

I messaged a friend in that department and owned up to it. He later told me he logged an hour “solving” that problem and requested a copy of my script.
Traditionally the HPC community means double precision when they talk about FLops, which consumer GPUs are not super great at (somewhere around 400GFlop or the GTX1080 Ti). The V100 is better at 7 or so TFlops, but also an order of magnitude more expensive. The smaller of the two machines in the article (Cori) is a ~20 PF (Float64) scale machine. However, even then it is quite challenging to get anything close to peak performance out of these systems (a bit easier if you're doing DL will is more amenable to hand-optimized vendor libraries).

Of course for DL, people routinely use reduced precision as you have alluded to. There, we're looking at exascale at the moment. The second machine mentioned in the article (Summit) has ~3EF of Float16 performance (of which their application reached ~1EF). For comparison (and assuming about 50% MXU utilization - which is about the maximum I've seen), you'd need about 200 TPUv2 pods (at $384/hour/pod for the general public) to reach the same scale on this problem. Now Google does have that scale, but it's certainly non-trival.

Half-precision petascale is fairly routine these days. You can get that on the cloud for < $100/hr and I do routinely spin up such systems for ML training. However, petascale fp32/fp64 and exascale (b)f16 as discussed in the article are still fairly rare and usually preceded by months of planning to make sure things go right and the computer power is used usefully.

Disclaimer: not involved in the work, but working closely with the folks who are and I've used both the mentioned systems myself.
I don't know if you pronounce "missy" differently than I do, but I pronounced the second syllable "see".

And to me, Mandarin 'xi' sounds a lot more like "she" than "see".
He's doing something illegal but I think it's rational. The woman can do everything the man can, but the man won't take paternity in practice.

He can also convince a man wanting to leave with money or opportunities but he can't convince a woman giving birth.

It's kinda super skeevy, but I'm not seeing the inconsistency.
I can post a video of an impala giving birth, and then a panther coming moments later and eating the newborn. From a human perspective, this is shocking and incredibly unfair, but the panther doesn't care, it just got its next meal. This is what I mean by "fairness".
When I took C at University of New Mexico, and later Data Structures and Algoithms from the same professor, Emacs was required. Period. He even provided a download of his .emacs file (still tucked into my init.el). He also stressed make, gdb and valgrind ("It's not fully clean until it's valgrind clean.")

No emphasis on git, but I used it anyway.

A decade later, and my Emacs easily surpasses most VS Code features.

A decade later. Heh. Co-workers use VS Code OOTB and I'm like, "Yeah, but can you tangle or play Tetris?!"

Truth is, whatever works for you and gets out of your way is the right tool. I'm invested and happy with Emacs, but also I get why it's not the first choice for a lot of devs.

Even though it should be. :)
> Imagine you had a company that was trying to start a video service and the expert on ffmpeg goes on parental leave half way through

Typically you get like 3-6 months notice on a parental leave, so you've got plenty of time to find a contractor/consultant, compared to the standard 2 week notice from the much more likely scenario of your expert quitting for greener pastures. If you have such high risk riding on a single employee, you're probably the one to blame: why aren't _you_ (or an equity partner) the expert? Do you not have anything else whatsoever that could be done in the meantime if core development halted/slowed for 6 months? Do you realize an ffmpeg expert can earn twice as much just about anywhere other than your yet-to-be-profitable startup and gets recruiter spam from big tech companies on linkedin every month? Can you even afford benefits and severance for a full time employee in the first place? etc.

Blaming a hypothetical business failure on a parental leave is really just finding a scapegoat for one's inability to take responsibility for their own failings.

Being in a tech hotspot is irrelevant. I've worked remotely for people in Boulder with a coworker living in Vermont. Again, if you want to run a high tech business from rural Wisconsin with no remote workers, that's on you, and has nothing to do with parental leaves.
I'm part way through this now. But definitely recommended reading for sure.
What downsides of a large open office are eliminated with an 8-person room? 8 seems like a lot of people if you really want the peace and quiet of an isolated office, and it doesn’t seem like a 50-person open office is going to be much louder or worse than an 8-person office.
Did you just link 9gag as if KT was a reputable source?
That does seem to fit with the "all bosses are idiots" theme of the movie.
> I always say that computers are easy, humans are hard. Would love to see more recommendations about this topic.

I wouldn't go so far :). They're both hard; and need talented individuals to function together and come up with great ideas and processes on how to build, maintain and scale them.

And as nerdy engineers, we often discount the humans, which we ought not to do.
People often don't consider the ostracism and uncomfortableness that a standing desk preferred policy makes for those with hidden disabilities. There are many people for whom standing desks are good for their health. There are other people for whom being peer pressured to stand is extremely uncomfortable and that are too embarrassed to share the details of why. At least in closed offices people can work the way they are most comfortable without the pressure of other people seeing them work.
I'm all for making it quick, but the article doesn't inspire confidence that this process is quick. By the time this procedure is carried out, the fish has been hooked, drawn up and out of the water, dropped on the ground, and wrestled into position. That must take at least 2 minutes.

If adrenaline and other transmitters were going to be released, that process should do it, regardless of what happens afterward.
I think this is true. I learned the Emacs keybindings and now they're muscle memory. I can't transfer that to Vim, but I could have transferred the other way and be proficient in two great editors.

Nobody wants to die on Emacs Keybindings Hill, even diehards like me and my pinky.
I find it funny that there are way, way more counterfeit stuff on Amazon than Alibaba, and despite of that it is Alibaba who is placed on the US "1000 notorious marketplaces list" and not Amazon
There are several different Romanizations of Chinese and each one had different priorities.
... in the vernacular. Proper pronunciation is more like “she”.

This is an issue lost on most native speakers of mandarin, and it’s hard as hell to teach to learners.

pinyin —> proper sound —-> actual sound

xi —> she —> see

si —> suh —> suh

shi —> shuh —> suh

chi —> chuh —> tsuh

ci —> tsuh —> tsuh

There are more, but I’m too many beers in now to remember.

The best test is to ask someone how to say 四十四是四十四 (44 is 44). It’s a good test for tones. This is properly something like /shuh suh shuh shuh shuh suh shuh/. In vernacular, this usually becomes something like /suh suh suh suh suh suh suh/ with tones being the only hint at different words.

Chinese is fun.
I read a lot of books. I also listen to a lot of books. Listening to Audiobooks in the shower is a true power move if you haven't tried it. I was sceptical until I realized that my medium-term memory was as good or better than for books I'd read.

Anyhow, few books have made as significant an impact on my life in both personal and professional circumstances than "Difficult Conversations" by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen.

A learned habit to stop and empathize with the motivations behind people's emotional upset has completely changed the way I interact with everyone in my life. I used to think that I was rational and a great communicator. I've come to understand that I've missed countless opportunities to comfort those I care about while saving myself literally years of stress.

Many of my regrets are based on retroactive realizations of how avoidable some of my communications failures actually were, given the long term damage that they helped to cause.

Please, read Difficult Conversations and give copies to people that you love.
Not an assumption. Look at the world. Read history. Most times power structures are challenged the challenge isn't successful or it is overthrown and the same or worse power structures replace it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices

Shockingly less blue than you might hope.
Inter – open source and legible typeface
Count me in as well. All of my career has been at VC-funded startups in SF with team size between 8 and 30, and the idea of me sitting in an office by myself is honestly laughable.
I'm sorry but I fail to see how most of the items on your list have anything to do with living in a tiny home or a van. I suspect you have made assumptions about my lifestyle and priorities based on my comment and if I am correct you'd be wrong.
It's also possible that you're the one that's completely out of touch in a school bus shaped bubble. Devops is big, but no most people have not "long since moved on to a DevOps style of engagement." Also, 50% of the 90% of people who say they would prefer working out of a bus are probably being nice. Finally, as you can see from the unscientific poll here, most people do not prefer open offices.

Of course I could be wrong, but you could be too. Don't cite anecdotal statistics with such an air of uncertainty.
I went a different route due to wanting to keep a home location.

We purchased a travel trailer (25’, 80 gallon fresh water capacity, 40 each gray/black) just in time for the 2017 eclipse, and I’ve since built it out to function as a mobile office for work as a remote developer. I have a reasonably high battery capacity, solar, a whole-trailer inverter, an entire LAN complete with wired network cabinet, and the capability to bridge onto a WiFi uplink, cellular, or satellite internet.

I’d estimate we live out of it a cumulative total of 2-3 months of the year, though I’d love to increase that.
I was under the impression that all widgets are equal in Amazon's inventory and logistics system, so items from all FBA sellers and Amazon itself are intermixed. That is, buying from Amazon or a specific seller is no guarantee of a genuine product. Is this not the case?

(This is worse than eBay, since you can't even choose your supplier by reputation.)
The decline of history departments in universities is not the same as the decline of "hitorical thinking", though the two phenomena might or might have a common cause.

One can have a keen appreciation of history without ever having set foot in a history class in university. If this weren't possible, historical thinking would be doomed anyway.

If historians really care about historical thinking as an ability, they should stop complaining about the size of their departments and actually go out and find a way to encourage the general public to take an interest in history, not just the small subset who choose history as a major. Ditto for literature, philosophy, and most of the rest of the humanities. These are things that every educated person should be familiar with.

Disclaimer: I haz a Ph.D. in the humanities. I don't work in academia.