skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a couple different ways to interpret "feel like robots". This article specifically says:

> feeling like "robots" due to intense surveillance in the warehouses, while others described how their coworkers would urinate in trash cans because they didn't have enough time to rush to the bathroom

I'm of two minds. I can see the need for surveillance at a warehouse full of consumer goods, but excessive surveillance can feel oppressive.

Not having time for bathroom breaks is a real problem, though. So is getting hurt doing your job. These aren't normal, even at warehouse jobs.

> It's hard to make ends meet in a rough economy and a lot of people don't believe they have any say in current democratic process, one vote is what you get but the whole management of the system is hardly controlled by the electorate.

That's quite insightful and I think it comes very close to the real "feel like robot" issue without mentioning the "U" word that is so controversial here: union.

In a warehouse job, you're always going to act pretty much like a robot. That's just what it is. You don't have to feel like a robot if you get reasonable working conditions (e.g., regular breaks, overtime pay) from a collectively bargained contract. Being a member of a democratically run group can make all the difference.

(This might also help with the surveillance issue. Having worked under a union, there's definitely a sense -- occasionally spoken -- that you do not screw up, because you'll make the union look bad.)
In one of my past lives, I managed an IT group where we processed ~50 point of sale transactions per second and did it on a two smallish application servers and a single "large small" Oracle database server. Our entire infrastructure only had about 10 servers... (including things like email, file services, redundancy, etc. and this was almost 15 years ago.) A few years later I was brought into another retail company that only did 500 orders a day... with damn near 150 servers. My jaw dropped on that one...
Let's take the terms,first :prinicipal , second :component , third :analysis.

Principal is kinda mathematic's way of saying something is important or critical.
Component is basically referring to parts
Analysis is basically referring to ability of this method to help you understand what's going on with your data.

So the main idea here is like actually pretty simple.

Let's say you want to understand what makes a difference to a person's SAT score. You track number of hours of study, maybe the average school SAT scores, age of the person, average of mock SAT scores.

Now you know that some of the columns of data are more important than other and you want to know which one?

So in regression what you would do is fit a line that best lies in the middle of these points by playing around weights or 'importance' of the columns till you get least distance from points.

What PCA does is it tells you which variables are important and gives you a sense of ranking of these variables.

So it has the ability to select variables, rank it's importance and tell you what columns of data matter more than others.

Ergo it tells you which components are principal and helps you analyse them through their importance ranking.

Because this method does so many things you can a do a ton of cool stuff.
If you have a ton of data, this method can tell you to focus on these 3 or 4 columns which have the biggest impact. So it can help you prioritize

Second if you are looking at optimizing your system,let's say SAT scores, this system can tell you a better school can make a bigger difference than just brutal hours of practice.

In networks like social networks, it can tell you who is the most important/ prestigious/ coolest person by looking at friendship or social messaging links between people.

So to sum up, it gives you an idea of what is important in your data, gives a sense of the quantum of its importance and hence gives a deeper feel for what's going on.

One big point with PCA is that it's a linear method. Which means variables which have exponential impact on your study will not get signalled well. So transformation and processing your data is critical for this method to work.

Hope this helped.
> most of the consumer market relies on reviews to discern which products to buy

Leading -- almost inevitably -- to a huge market in fake reviews. This doesn't seem to be a solved problem yet.
Thanks, that's a helpful example. This does sound like a great way for residential solar users to offload excess production, particularly if they can't tie it back to the grid directly (e.g., SDG&E's Net Energy Metering program [1]), or if the service rates can be higher than the grid-tie rates.

I guess that underscores that the napkin math gets pretty complicated and local use-cases can vary greatly. I'd be very interested in user-focused calculators that could help in guiding these napkin-math decisions the right hourly price to set locally, and/or whether the combo of residential-utility rates and local average public-charging prices makes it worth providing the service at all.

[1] https://www.sdge.com/residential/savings-center/solar-power-...
A "Pedant's" take. Don't forget the apostrophe.
It's pure NIH. dtrace is GPLv2. (Also ZFS (CDDL) run fine on Linux.)
I'm 100% on board with that if the return process is pretty frictionless. I need to be able to test out the vehicle for a few days without making a full commitment just based on online product reviews
A journey from Elm 0.18 to 0.19
I'm using the Logitech K830. I don't have many issues with the trackpad on that model. It's not great, like your average Windows laptop's trackpad, but I nowhere near throwing it out cause it's so bad.
Your points 3 and 4 suggest that no answer to points 1 and 2 would satisfy. To me, that's a problem-- it means that no action they take or promise they make can satisfy, because promises can be broken and actions undone and you don't trust them not to. As a result, it is illogical of Google to address any concern you raise. I think that's a loss.
To be clear, the work referenced in this article is all JPL. JPL is not exactly the same as NASA. JPL is an FFRDC administered by Caltech on behalf of NASA. This is not to say that other NASA centers aren't great; but they do all have their own cultures and processes. The article focuses on JPL's.

IMHO, JPL is the greatest engineering organization in human history.
"Our investors include Reid Hoffman’s charitable foundation and Khosla Ventures, among others."

I'm assuming these investors have already provided capital.
Not sure if I agree, but what do you think would be a fair price for something like this?
1. This is not restricted to newer build, I am on v65.0.2 and remember the last version also had this issue

2. Not too sure where this button is, i don't remember anything about it so i guess it went flawlessly

3. Refreshing usually fixes this for me.
Tesla has a terrible track record with returning money. Stories of getting the run around and in one case bounced checks...

And for those financing returning a loan is not loan easy as returning the car.
The Future of Battlesnake
I'm curious about what one of the comments asks. Anyone know the answer?

>How dangerous is this? If the insulation fails and you touch the plate, will you be killed directly or just receive a harmless shock like from static electricity?
Rethinking BPMN and UML Design for Workflows
Electrostatic would be an adjective here. What they are replacing is the adhesion.
the name is a reference to the original name, cute

Also @jack's first tweet said something along the lines of "just setting up my twttr"

edit: the truth
Preface to Frankenstein
For years I struggled to become financially independent (as Mr Money Mustache). Years upon years of watching the clock until it hit 17:30, hating the dumb coders who made a mess for me to clean up (because I know FP, and if we had types these bugs wouldn’t be here in the first place!).

A year ago, I pulled the plug, and retired. Finally, I could work on my dream project every day.

I did so for 6 months, and travelled, and had fun.

But the following six months were full of waking late, getting stoned (sometimes waking and baking), having a liter beer a day (Germany), being bored all day, and obviously falling into depression. Lounging around in long johns waiting for the evening so a friend would be off work and meet for dinner.

Then I answered a recruiter who contacted me about a job in a big boring government office. A place with endless dumb scrum bullshit processes (wasn’t it about having less process?), suits, good bye cakes, clueless managers, and all what I earlier resented.

But without that I was depressed. So now I go to my boring government job with a huge smile, and I honestly love the phony agile coach, coffee machine talk, and coding up things the stakeholder wants. Legacy code - what a joyous load to lift.

No one of my coworkers know I don’t have to be there, they just know me as the smiling guy.

I don’t know what to spend my salary on - I guess I can invest more maybe? I make sure to treat my friends to rounds at the bar, and concert tickets, and pay for dinner with this girl I asked out.

I learned that it is good to have something to aim your bow at, and a place to go every morning, and a heavy load to carry with your mates.
Difficult to implement, by way of being difficult to agree with in some places. It advocates a level of self-blame that feels like it would be effective from a self-motivation perspective but is not necessarily always reflective of reality.

Of course I have responsibility for my reaction and my mindset in situations, but it seems that the book creeps into "taking the blame for everything". Though I get the feeling that fuzziness comes from my worldviews as much as Jocko's.

I've got a background that involves a good amount of shame and anxiety, so I think I have problems with the distinction between feeling "responsible" for situations in the "shepherding" sense, which is what I think Jocko wants, and feeling "culpable" for situations which is what the inner voice of shame freaks out about.

The difference between "culpable" (bad?) and "accountable" (good?) is a very nuanced one, and I haven't been able to fully reconcile those ideas.

It reminds me of this SSC post, about different people needing different things or getting different things from books.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/09/all-debates-are-braver...

It's been a year or so since I read the book. Sounds like I need to revisit it and get some clarity on my stance.
Imagine some one else builds AGI and it does has that kind of a runaway effect. More intelligence begets more profits which buys more intelligence etc. to give you the runaway profits your suggesting.

Shouldn't it have some kind of large scale democratic governance? What if you weren't allowed to be on the list of owners or "decision makers"?
> "You can now return a car within 7 days or 1,000 miles for a full refund. Quite literally, you could buy a Tesla, drive several hundred miles for a weekend road trip with friends and then return it for free."

> This is how buying a car should be

No it isn't. How realistic and practical would it be to choose between multiple makes, models, and option packages if you had to buy all of them and return the ones you didn't want within 7 days (or be stuck with them)? The only situation where Tesla's model makes any sense is for a customer who's already 99% committed to buying a Tesla, but most buyers aren't like that.

One awesome thing about the traditional dealer model is that you can try cars out at a leisurely pace with absolutely no obligation to buy. Tesla's model is twisted so that you have a Sword of Damocles handing over your head.
(You have no contact info in your profile, so I'll just post this publicly.)

I've been thinking a lot of similar thoughts and have been wishing I had more people to discuss this with.

If it sounds good to you, reach out to me at the email in my profile. I'd be interested in hearing more about your diagnosis of how systems are malfunctioning, what systemic fixes might look like, and how it could be practical to work on that and still pay bills.
The secretary problem and the stable marriage problem are not the same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem
two man rule?
WDYT:
Would it have been better for AWS to initiate Open Distro for ES as part of e.g. Apache Software Foundation, whose mantra is "community over code"?

(or if not ASF for some reason, then Eclipse or CNCF for example)
Interesting. Test driving one is what killed all the hype for me. It was definitely fast but it just drives wierd and I found the interior feels cheap compared to similarly priced cars. Still, definitely more interesting than any of the other mainstream electric cars out there currently.
This comment is going to be the "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." of 2029.

EDIT: Just to hedge my bets, maybe _this_ comment will be the "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." of 2029.
That's another point of difference, then. I love the mouse! And the default window behavior is appealing to me.
Yes, we have a ticket in the back-log to offer a feature that recommend pricing for the hosts. Taking into account public charging rates, utility rates, and traffic.
The smart switch also has the purpose to distinguish charging vs just parking. So in some areas, we want to offer a separate rate for parking in the future.
I've worked in warehouses. I've never worked in an Amazon warehouse, but I have worked with people who have, who've told me it's the worst warehouse they've ever worked in, and they refuse to buy anything from Amazon.com today because of that experience.

I've also worked in offices, and while it can be stressful I've never seen anyone urinating in a garbage can because they weren't given time to go to the bathroom. I think I would have noticed that.
Downvoted because I don't like jokes in comment sections, but agreed. This person took the existence of mathematical preconditions, and decided that means that the algorithm is wrong and useless.

It turns out there are variants of the stable marriage problem that allow for accounting for all sort of changes in the preconditions, but I wouldn't expect a random blog author with a bone to pick against math to actually look into it.
>Or are you asking a different question?

I was asking whether those protections applied to only landlines, or all telephone conversations (eg. cellphones).

>If it's not on a phone line, then it's not afforded those legal protections.

This sounds problematic considering that for PSTN, "phone lines" only cover the last few miles of transport[1]. Does that mean you can't tap outside someone's house (where it's a phone line), but you could tap outside the CO, where it's fiber or even public internet?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_switched_telephone_netw...
They need billions and OpenAI has implemented this type of LP structure. I don't imagine they'll as picky with investors.
It's the absurdity of fearing death and/or loathing life that is almost humorous when you think about it.
I missed out on a tour of Fifi back in the mid 90's when I was working on my private pilot license. Didn't know she was at the airport until I was getting ready for my flight and in hindsight, I should have postponed it just to get a chance to be on that beautiful piece of machinery.

Somewhere I have a link to hundreds, if not thousands, of Kodachrome images of the work: machining, fabrication, and wiring done by those women back in WWII. I'm kind of a machinery geek and it's mindblowing to see the machines I've only known with decades of dirt, surface rust and patina, shown brand-new and gleaming.

Check out /r/cableporn if you're into OCD-grade wire harness building :-)
While traduora is also aimed at the use case you describe, the focus is on enabling small and medium teams to easily translate their projects without much overhead.

For example via automatic translations of your project or delivering translation updates over the air.
NTFS is in some ways arguably still more advanced than ZFS: think reparse points, alternate streams, transactions, BitLocker integration, and shrinkable volumes, to name a few.

Also, NTFS already has snapshots via Volume Shadow Copy.

ZFS is great but it’s not going to be a viable replacement as it exists today.
Anecdotally during some linux distro shopping i had a bout of contant firefox tab crashing in kubuntu. xubuntu doesnt seem to suffer as much. Could have nothing to do with kubuntu, perhaps the youtube servers had a bad payload that day.
This may not be the intended use of your application, but I organize a local bdsm group (if unfamiliar, do not Google this at work), and we appreciate the security offered very much.

We can even think of a few "fun" uses of this new feature.
Sounds like another missile gap to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap

I wonder where these exercises are simulated to take place, probably near China/Russia's home turf where their A2/AD capabilities are greatest.
Why isn't AWS paying to use it, then? It's not like they don't have the money?
Sprint steps up fight against AT&T’s “fake 5G” with full-page Sunday NYT ad
Yes and no. There is a stark difference between Texas and California (I've lived in both states).

Here's a recent story shared by a friend who moved from CA to TX: He took his son (who are Indians) and another bunch of kids, two were Indians and the rest white to a water park in Austin. One of the Indian kids cut the line and moved to the front of the line where my friend was. He asked him why did he do that and he should not cut the line; the Indian kid responded "We are Indians and we need to stick together". This is in the so called liberal oasis of Austin.

I doubt if this frequent in the Bay area; sure you can point to PC culture and all that but this story is a sobering reminder of how segregated Texas espcially when you have kids acting like this.
Perhaps an even simpler analogy is a light switch. Each person decides randomly either to flip the light switch or leave it where it is. This is basically what random XOR'ing is.

If you're one of 10 people doing this to the light switch, then as long as you choose randomly, it doesn't matter what the other 9 people do. It has a 50% chance of ending up on and a 50% chance of ending up off. Even if the other 9 people are cheating together.

Of course this has the problem that whoever goes last wins, which is why the commitment ceremony is necessary.
Forget carbon cost, and focus simply on taste. Does fruit that ripens in storage appeal to you over local?

While I can understand your garden-path re: fridges, the kenyan flowers is a strawman.

The vast majority of local produce will cost less, taste better and keep better than ones shipped across the border or an ocean.
I bought my last car from Hertz and they let me rent it for 3 days before I bought it. When I bought it they refunded the rental price. Much better than a 15 minute test drive. I agree Tesla should do this.
Make it work, make it fast, make it scale.

Sticking to that order is critical.
Probably agreeing, yes.

The problem here was me hearing what sounded like a knee-jerk-y reply to commenting on a stereotype, which usually means the conversation will descend into a horror pit. Language and behavioral conditioning does weird things.
I do not want to be overly harsh, but this is just lazy clickbait. Nothing new is said here, just a hipster developer making sweeping generalizations about companies he does not work for, and does not know their requirements.

Honestly, I do not even agree with his premise that you should start at bare metal with manual deployments. Getting some basic automation set up is STUPID EASY between Travis CI, Jenkins, Google App Engine, etc. I feel that toiling to deploy your services is a massive waste of time.

Obviously, the reality of this lands somewhere in the middle. I feel like Kubernetes is the whipping boy for "over-complicated infrastructure" undeservedly. Hosting it yourself I am sure is a bear, but there are a LOT of great hosted solutions available.

Google Hosted Kubernetes makes my job easier.

I write a few Deployments, Services, and Ingress controllers, set up keel.sh to update my deployments based on docker image uploads, and BOOM: Awesome, absurdly automated infrastructure.

Log aggregation? Comes out of the box with Stackdriver logging.

Monitoring and alerts? Comes out of the box with Stackdriver monitoring.

My developers can edit the Kubernetes resources through the Google Cloud GUI.

Deploying to an environment is as simple as pushing a docker image with the correct tag and letting Keel take care of the rest.

We have looked at alternatives, including bare metal, MULTIPLE TIMES, but in the end, we keep on deciding that Kubernetes is doing a lot for us and we do not want to stop using it.
Yeah. I think the motivation there was the same. Judging by https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8/graphs/contributors and https://github.com/corretto/corretto-11/graphs/contributors there is some adoption... Not a lot yet.
That shouldn’t be normal
If you are comparing 2 values, sure, maybe. But 40% versus 60% still won't be the most obvious thing other than "60% is larger", understanding the magnitude of the difference will involve more thinking, flat out. Taking more mental processing power to understand a visual chart is a bug, not a feature!
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PG&E's EV-B tariff is specifically for a dedicated EV meter, but the installation cost of a dedicated meter + box + charger is so much that it really doesn't make sense for residential applications.

eMotorWerks especially is experimenting with chargers that have wifi + a lot of smarts built into them.
Seems like the right moment in time to legislate a maximum acceleration for street legal cars.
In TX I got quote for $500-$800 for installing charging panel anywhere I want. I am confused why wouldn't somebody who has a house, and can afford EV car with $7500 credit, not make ONE TIME investment of $1k (US average pricing) to _permanently_ setup house for EV charging?.

Also there is a high chance of pissing neighbors off if you have constant stream of new cars coming into the street, I know me and my neighbors would be, as we have kids playing outside.
There's a slight variation on this that I had pondered for designing a distributed election algorithm. I'm sure the idea is not novel, but it would be nice to know what work has been done on it.

The goal is to fairly select some candidate from a set of candidates. Each candidate `Ci` generates a UUID `Ui`. The hash of their UUID `hash(Ui)` is published by each candidate. Once all hashes have been collected, each candidate reveals the verifiable original UUID to all the others.

Each candidate then concatenates these UUIDs together (after normalizing the sequence in some way - e.g. sorting), and produce a selector code: `H = hash(U1 ++ U2 ++ ... ++ Uk)`. Finally, the selected candidate is simply the one whose UUID is the closest to `H` under some distance metric.

I tinkered a bit with adapting it for situations where the candidate set could shrink during the selection process (i.e. a candidate drops out), but didn't really pursue it much.
First not publishing the GPT-2 model, now this...hopefully I am wrong but it looks like they are heading towards being a closed-off proprietary AI money making machine. This further incentivizes them to be less transparent and not open source their research. :(
As a voip guy, this was a fun Monday morning read.
Thank you for making the point I was trying to with less words.
I cannot help amused at experiences like this, and surprised that people all miss the point of the article tries to argue.

You do not need the infra, because when things go wrong, the big complex infra will become an enormous abomination that no one understands

It's not about the happy cases, people.

It's about the other cases...

And your experience is irrelevant here...