skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may also depend on your company. I have written a bunch of SBIRs (http://seliger.com/Should-your-startup-seek-Small-Business-I...), and, for hard tech companies, they may be more desirable than for other kinds of companies.

The time involved and bureaucracy is true.

Government agency usually gets perpetual use license of your product.

Is that true for non-STTR applications? I'm doing some command-f through some old SBIR RFPs and am not finding the language (could be there). I am finding language like this:

Copyrights—The grantee may copyright and publish (consistent with appropriate national security considerations, if any) material developed with DOE support. DOE receives a royalty-free license for the Federal government and requires that each publication contain an appropriate acknowledgment and disclaimer statement.

But that's for a copyright to a publication.

Also, this applies to patents, not to the product itself:

Patents—Grantee may retain the principal worldwide patent rights to any invention developed with Federal support. The government receives a royalty-free license for Federal use, reserves the right to require the patent holder to license others in certain circumstances, and requires that anyone exclusively licensed to sell must normally manufacture it domestically. Information regarding patent rights in inventions supported by Federal funding can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations, 37 CFR 401.

As I said, I'm not sure that you're correct, but the statement does not jibe with my immediate memory.
You appear to have missed the point. I'm singling out a genre of music where you might only listen to an album a few times. So repeat plays are irrelevant.
So you adopted a dog. How did you go about buying all the things you need when you suddenly have a dog? Stores? Online? Amazon? Did you use a credit card? Did you research dog food? Post on Facebook or Twitter about how you were getting a dog?
Whole30 or Paleo.

No sugar. Read labels.

If you are just getting started I recommend trying the Whole30 plan. If you can power through for 30 days it really can change how you eat.
"I think Kuhn goes so far as to say that sometimes the old paradigm can only be laid to rest when its last proponents die."
Or sometimes the old paradigm turns into religion
Not really. This has more to do with the fact that whatever you state you do as part of your service, you should comply with actually doing. If Wealthfront said “from time to time...we monitor...” it may have been ok. Wealthfront’s testimonials were second to none, and largely against what would typically be allowed so it seems like Wealthfront escaped pretty lightly versus alternative punishments the SEC has used in other cases.
I too love making dog-whistle comments, and then accusing people of racism who call me out on it.
This fine of $250,000 to Wealthfront means that their violations were 100% worth it. Their fund is 11 billion+ and they got an advantage over competitors by posting testimonials. SEC rules are very clear on this point and at the time other robo compliance officers were lamenting, “I don’t understand how they are able to do that legally.”

Well, guess what? They weren’t, but they took it as a calculated risk and the SEC announced they made the right choice when this fine was announced years later.
ransomware-as-a-service toolkits have been for sale for at least 5 years now.
Simple, old-fashioned calorie counting worked for me. Eat less energy than you need each day, and your body will draw on fat reserves to make up the shortfall.

I used the NHS 6-week weight loss plan [0] as a general guide and inspiration, calculated my daily requirement in kcal based on a steady rate of weight loss, then used MyFitnessPal to track everything I ate and drank. The first few days are really hard work and frustrating, weighing out everything and checking nutritional values everywhere, though scanning barcodes in MFP does make that slightly easier and after a few days it becomes more natural and as a stats nerd it's very satisfying to achieve a day under the target calories and with the right balance of macros (protein/fat/carbs), and even more satisfying to watch the weight reducing as the weeks go by. Try not to lose more than 2kg/month, it's not too healthy or sustainable.

[0] https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-weight/start-the-nhs-we...
Checking responses in production is also a good idea because it reveals all the edges that may not be exercised in an artificial test suite.

There is still some performance cost for checking a response against a schema though, so a nice compromise is just to check a small % of outgoing responses — the vast majority of requests stay as fast as possible, but given a reasonable traffic load, it's still enough to eventually reveal any places the schema doesn't match reality. (This is an approach we use at Stripe for checking our OpenAPI specification.)
The sites are probably not indexed, so Airbnb would have to run its own crawler/spider to find them. But since Airbnb got its start crawling classified ads... they have the tech.
This is unlikely to happen because of the performance penalty it would incur (e.g. defining outcome of all out-of-bound memory accesses).
What if you have poor speaking mannerisms or public speaking/story telling mechanics (e.g. applying emphasis to words, voice inflection, intonation, etc.) to engage a crowd or simply lack social awareness from being on the spectrum, will the drug make you confidently make a fool of yourself in front of a crowd if you haven't practiced the art of public speaking?

Thanks for sharing your experience!
How’s that even supposed to work?

I call bullshit.
I think the natural next question is how does a bug in R3 check if its part of a 4-dimensional manifold?

This is related to people measuring the curvature of the universe right?
Also https://www.zenrobotics.com/
If you use Spacemacs, it can define a similar set of keybindings for you with its ‘osx’ layer (https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/tree/master/layers/%2B...). To enable that layer, open your Spacemacs dotfile with ‘SPC f e d’, then add ‘osx’ to the list within the ‘dotspacemacs-configuration-layers’ variable.
That might sound like the most obvious thing ever written here to the point of sounding stupid, but:

In my experience as a manager, ANY kind of micro-level timekeeping or micromanagement is not only dehumanizing, but also an utterly unsustainable waste of time and resources and a recipe to let deadlines slip by.

How much time someone spends in front of their computer, how focused they are, and how their process works only gives bullshit metrics and teaches bad employees to game the system. By "squeezing productivity" you teach underachievers how to fake work while still underdelivering, while overachievers will get burned out quickly.

You'll fool yourself into believing that everything is "in control" but productivity will lower in a boiling frog effect that you'll only notice after several months of having everyone glued to their screens.

What I learned after failing: You need to sample a large interval in order to have ANY confidence on employee productivity data. So, it is better to allow employees to just be adults for longer periods of time (say, a sprint, or even a month) and measure them by their macro output and only act when they need you (aka be a real manager).

EDIT: Oh, and one more thing, if you don't have good metrics in place (like every programming shop ever), letting the OWN WORKER pick their metrics and give their own deadlines. This is a completely valid approach and will weed out under-performers like crazy.

EDIT 2: If you don't actually act on those macro metrics and pretend everything is fine, your team will resent you start looking for other jobs.
This assignment, in particular, has a reputation for being difficult, even nightmare inducing. I think it's a combination of I like challenges and I like development, while my peers might not like challenges as much or they might find it stressful.
Their numbers have shrunk, though. There used to be a 1-1 relationship between middle-managers and secretaries, now you have a PA for the boss and maybe a couple admins every hundred people or so (hr, facilities).
I've found a couple of SBIR/STTR RFPs while I was responding to another question, and the ones I've found read:

Has, including its affiliates, not more than 500 employees and meets the other regulatory requirements found in 13 CFR 121.

That's from a DOE SBIR/STTR Phase I application.
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I think the idea is that the scams in the OP originate on Airbnb and then take you off-site after you've made contact, and they probably steal someone else's pictures for that first fake listing on Airbnb itself.
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This is pretty nifty! I never considered uBlock's cosmetic filters (nor looked into how they might be implemented actually). TIL!
Not vanished, but close. Telephone operators.

I worked at a company that had an entire floor of telephone operators. Now they have none. I wouldn't be surprised if they are all gone from this company in the entire USA.

On site techs? Also all gone. Replaced by commodity equipment and installed by people making $12 an hour.
In section 2.2, the author claims that the intent of a programmer is knowable when the programmer writes something that could result in undefined behavior, but this claim does not hold up for the example given. When a program attempts to read from beyond the end of an array, it is rarely something that a programmer intended to happen, and it is rarely the case that any action the program takes as a response to that event (even if it is a segmentation or general protection fault) is in conformance with what the programmer intended to happen after the sequence of inputs that led up to this event. It is much more likely that the programmer did not even think that this could happen, and expected that the program would continue to run and produce results conforming to the purpose they intended the program to serve.

If I can divine what the author of this article actually intended to say, I think it is that, in at least some cases of undefined behavior, programmers commonly have intuitions about what would happen if that behavior occurred during the execution of their programs. I don't know if the rest of the thesis can be salvaged by substituting that reading.
In times of upheaval, musical chairs will be played. As a group, the elite stand little to gain from that.
This is precisely the purpose of the OpenAPI Specification[0], an extended subset of the JSON Schema specification. Plus there a whole family of supporting tools, such as Swagger UI[1], and lots more[2].

[0] https://swagger.io/docs/specification/about/

[1] https://swagger.io/tools/swagger-ui/

[2] https://openapi.tools/
VC funding is completely inappropriate for early stage startups, and it's a last resort even if you're mature enough.

Aside from that, there are entire industries that VCs don't touch until after SBIR, such as life sciences startups, where you're looking at 10 years of R&D and regulatory approval processes before you can launch on the market. That's way too long for VCs.

I empathize with your general sentiment, but non-profits and governments exist to fill in gaps that the free market cannot.
Still up for me, weird - I wonder if they're region-locking by IP address or something?
That works if you can ever get to the "everything is fine" point. I was always able to get through speaking, but it was never fine. It was always a battle to keep the anxiety at bay, and occasionally I would lose that battle.

Beta blockers were the only thing that let me experience public speaking where everything was actually fine. Now I don't need them anymore, but I never would have gotten past it without them.
From the article:

"Those disparities can sometimes be a matter of life or death: One recent study of the computer vision systems that enable self-driving cars to “see” the road shows they have a harder time detecting pedestrians with darker skin tones."

Just think about the consequences of deploying such systems.
It’s easy to postulate that advertised vacancies largely belong to two macro groups: scarcity-driven (IT, R&D) and churn-driven (sales, marketing, customer services).

Many (most?) jobs are never advertised.
Glad you find it useful; while on some level there's a temptation for us to say, "SBIRs are the best! Hire us!", the real situation is more complex, and there seems to be a fair amount of misinformation or just misunderstanding about SBIRs and their strengths and weaknesses.
Capitalism destroys the environment by design. I mean the profit-and-loss equation literally works out to "sacrifice everything". Check out the coast of the Dominican Republic : https://gfycat.com/mistyacrobaticbonobo-r-sciences
I didn't actually adopt a dog. I merely spoke about the idea of doing so to a friend.
One personal observation I can make about my own journey... there are foods that I never would have touched 10 years ago that today I find enjoyable and foods that have become more palatable and even decent over time.

I was never a “salad person”. Now there are several salads that I enjoy. I would never touch beans, now I recently found I can sub them for rice in some dishes and still enjoy it.

This is something that happened over years of trying to eat better. There are little things you may find hit more quickly but the macro stuff just takes time.

For example, cutting out soda completely for a month. Not even diet soda. Just find something else to drink, ideally which isn’t fizzy. It’s a relatively small ask as far as “diets” go. After a month or two, you may go back to taste a soda and wonder how the heck you ever liked it.

There are diets which focus on deprivation. And if you actively trying to cut fat then you will need to be in a deficit and you will feel hungry.

But there is also the long term “diet” of just trying to eat better and the good news is that the more you eat healthier foods (e.g. lower sugar) the more your palate will adapt and you will eventually find the sweeter things too sweet and the less sweet things more pleasing. Which makes the whole thing much more sustainable.
Good Driving Habits
Funny, I was just talking to an experimental quantum physicist today and one of the other people there asked him, doesn't the complexity just make your head spin? He said, "no, once you get the hang of it and you are dealing with it every day, it's not that bad.
Not sure if this is based on their earlier pricing, as I know there was a price reduction, but I'm calculating ~$9 per month at 0.25 vCPU + 0.5GB memory.

(0.25×$0.04048+0.5×$0.004445)×24×30=$8.89

https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/pricing/#Pricing_Details
It’s 2019, CDK is almost there
I wonder how this would affect stuttering. Appears it’s been investigated but I can’t access it: https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1176/ajp.143...
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Side note @brandur, I always look forward to your blog posts, time for a new one!
That's an example of what I'm talking about: for example C has no facility for expressing instruction timing, so if you are on a microcontroller and need to generate a signal you have to keep an eye on the assembly. Ideally there would be some facility for telling the compiler that a certain variable needed to have its value computed after N cycles, then you could use it for those specific cases and not abandon the optimizer for the rest.
I would expect that it would still be faster and use less memory than most of the other popular languages today (e.g., C#, Python, or JavaScript).

It would be just another option to choose from. Solving some of those undefined behaviors may even provide other benefits (e.g., better compiler error messages, optimizations, or portability).
I have just recently found Org (last week) as I stumbled on spacemacs and then fell down that rabbit-hole, which had a branch off into this rabbit hole.

Now I'm having experiencing some Baader-Meinhof phenomenon as I've seen two org-mode articles on the front-page here since and never noticed any before.

Anyways, this seems sort of obvious to me as a total org (and emacs) beginner... the sheer flexibility and power from this being built on top of the emacs system is the real killer feature, though lots of other organization apps would do well to copy some the base features. I really don't understand why repeated tasks is so hard for other task management apps to implement well and is yet easily done by whoever put them into Org:

https://orgmode.org/manual/Repeated-tasks.html
...

** TODO Call Father
DEADLINE: <2008-02-10 Sun ++1w>
Marking this DONE shifts the date by at least one week, but also
by as many weeks as it takes to get this date into the future.
However, it stays on a Sunday, even if you called and marked it
done on Saturday.

** TODO Empty kitchen trash
DEADLINE: <2008-02-08 Fri 20:00 ++1d>
Marking this DONE shifts the date by at least one day, and also
by as many days as it takes to get the timestamp into the future.
Since there is a time in the timestamp, the next deadline in the
future will be on today's date if you complete the task before
20:00.

** TODO Check the batteries in the smoke detectors
DEADLINE: <2005-11-01 Tue .+1m>
Marking this DONE will shift the date to one month after today.
Sounds like a branding mishap, Microsoft created the same type of hard to understand mess with the Microsoft Dynamics branding.
Okay, listen. BBC is not the outlet to entertain such questions.

Anyone who has read BBC pieces like this knows:

A. It's opinion & editorial

B. It's there to promulgate an agenda

This isn't an innocent question being posed. The BBC knows there is anxiety gnawing at the frayed edges of what remains of the rest of society yet to be digitized.

The agenda:

"[The] right way to carry out workplace surveillance."

In other words, this is going to happen to you, and it's not going away. It's going to progress, and become more pervasive and granular in detail. You are expected to cope.

The BBC commissions pieces like this to be written, purely to placate those who might still presume the BBC to be some benign information source.
I've done so in the past (intermittent fasting). Once with success and once without, so it's not really a silver bullet kind of thing.
Forget all the fad diets. Eat sensible. Eat low glycemic foods. Eat smaller amounts, more frequently. You will feel full all day. AND, give yourself a cheat meal once a week to reward yourself!

The trick to weight loss is doing a variety of exercises that make you breathe heavy but not pushing your body too hard. You don't have to train like a pro athlete or do cross fit crap. Take your time. If you lose it slower there's more likelihood it becomes habit.
Why are there religious exemptions for vaccines?
I haven't used it, and don't know how it compares to heyfocus.com, but you might find https://focusme.com/ helpful.
I think dieting follows an 80-20 rule where you can get 80% of the results with 20% of the effort required to get max results. Most people's issue is simply that they eat too many calorically dense foods, so they need to eat more calories to feel full. A lot of people fail at dieting because they recognize that they need to cut out calorically dense foods (e.g. potato chips, pastries) but then fail to replace them with less calorically dense foods, so they start feeling very hungry and go back to eating unhealthily.

So, I recommend following the typical advice of cutting out junk food and drinkable beverages (alcohol, soda, juice) but also to EAT MORE VEGETABLES. Vegetables are simply amazing, usually high in fiber, packed with micronutrients, low calorie, and they keep you full. Don't be afraid to add some butter/oil (in moderation!) and salt to them either.
They used to have their own VCS, but moved away fairly recently, 1-2-3 years ago
German doctors have much lower school debt and relatively lower tort exposure. Salaries in Germany are significantly lower across the board, so German physicians enjoy similar financial positioning relative to other professionals, and high social status.

Any attempt to reduce physician salaries in the US is going to have to also address medical school debt and physician insurance requirements & administrative overhead.
Humanity is taking into consideration what the other person may be doing, whether you are disturbing them and whether it's nice to make them wait for your question after typing "Hi". It's a very cultural thing whether and how much greeting is appropriate (I've heard this varies widely even within the USA). But empathy for the other is universally cool and appreciated.

So you take a moment to consider the other, and you put your preferred greeting first, and add the question in the very same message. Bam! Best of worlds! Polite, nice, collegial and not making people wait and lose focus and switch context (which clearly is less of a deal to some people, but when it is, it's a big deal for some others).

Reading the comments in this thread from the people defending to split the "Hi" and the question into two messages, I really wonder what is their reluctance to just type everything in one go? Because I'm not buying that saying "Hi" in a separate message and then waiting is somehow more polite than saying the very same things but in one single message.

See, it sounds to me that it is them who don't like waiting. Sending a "Hi" first makes it more likely you have the other's (waiting) attention by the time you finished typing the question, so that you get an answer right away, not wasting any of your precious time. If you were to type your "Hi" and the actual question in one message, you spend your time and effort typing that question but the other person only gets the notification as you press <send>, and now it's you who has to wait in idleness. Much easier too, to quickly fire off a "Hi" first and only then start thinking about actually formulating your question.
"Capitalism is boring,” said the founding father of National Review, William F. Buckley. “Devoting your life to it,” as conservatives do, “is horrifying if only because it’s so repetitious. It’s like sex.”
Assange can't even get a hostile media to report what he said correctly. The idea that he is running a propaganda campaign is as fantastical as the idea that you are running your own personal propaganda campaign.

Assange cannot frame narratives, suppress journalism or push talking points through media outlets under his control. He didn't control anything except one twitter feed.

The only thing that people really pay attention to and the only reason he has a platform at all is because of what he leaks. Most people don't even have any idea what his opinions are - although the effect of the leaks is felt far and wide.

This absolutely SHOULD be seen as an ideological clash between proponents of journalism (it's not even about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of journalism) and war hawks. And taking the side of the journalist murderers? Not a good look.

It is that simple and you can tell it's that simple because Assange is getting prosecuted for exposing the murders and the murderers are going free and nobody even disputes (except in a very legalistic sense) that they were murderers.

The idea that he's a stooge for Russia? There's your propaganda - it's pretty much no different to the red scare of yesteryear.