skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh, the use of they/their is very confusing in your last sentence. You refer to OP and to Apple using the same “their”.
Meritocracy is something natural. Maybe less obvious today when we live in relative wealth and the fact that life is a struggle is obfuscated.

But in older times when failure led to starvation, increased vulnerability and death it was probably more clear. Those who contributed most was highly regareded by the simple fact that their existence increased your own chance of survival.
Of course NATO is part of the equation... or was, since now your president is basically tearing it down. Guess why?

(edit for that: I'll answer for you: Trump is sowing chaos because that's how his kind grabs more control and more riches.)

Btw, there are 2 nuclear powers in the EU as of today.
Call Me by My Name: Deborah Abrams Kaplan
"they aren't nearly as money focused as you seem to believe"

If by 'money' you meant 'profit' - then yes, they re-invest.

But Amazon is very deeply 'money focused' - they are a low margin business, growth oriented, they have innumerable competitors - everything is accounted for.

"What I suspect but do not know for sure is that their reviews were/are a massive part of their business model."

We can suspect a lot of things, but ultimately, what we know with certainty is that they are willful participants in tons of fake reviews. They 100% know about it, and 100% allow it to happen because there are several alternative paths for them to choose. They are complicit, by choice.

I suggest they would just rather have the fake reviews, than the cost and burden of higher business friction. They've calculated that the fake reviews are net better than hunting them down.
This is true - I've seen the pictures and it wasn't pretty.

But surely the lead ins to the houses (the fibre in people's front yards) is useful still? That is, after all, the costliest part of a fibre rollout.
Unpopular opinion, but had this happened at a company that hired H1-Bs, people would’ve jumped on the incompetent immigrants band-wagon immediately.

This here is a fine example of the classic American work ethic devolving into sheer laziness. FWIW, I saw this happen at another Military contractor (Northrop Grumman) too!
Yep. I still remember my first manager, who doubled every estimate I gave him. He was great.
it's not "infrastructure" it's small cuts in the road(which is the reason why it failed). if they left it as is, it would probably turn into potholes that the city would have to fix
This would be rather a different order of magnitude of cash than a 10 year old "startup" with 203M in funding, > 100 employees and no revenues would have. From what I understand the current 7nm TMSC capacity is already maxed out by the likes of Apple, NVIDIA, and AMD. And then TMSC also has just screwed up a bunch of wafers through chemical contamination as well.
Why does anyone listen to crazy political idealogues like this?
I started by checking how you can write HTML using Kotlin DSL. Here is the source code https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.html

Now, I have to generate different languages once the DSL is finalized. To achieve this I use Flask framework architecture. There we have routes with HTML templates. Here each generator has its own templates.
Next, increase following distance to improve the situation.
EU is a thing, and is a dynamics too. What we have today is the consequence of what's been put into action right after WW2.
Have you looked at XPP AUT? It provides a mathematically oriented DSL which also allows you to generated GIFs. IIRC one of the examples is a pendulum, but there's no reason you couldn't do an N-body problem.
KiX is funny, had to look that one up, and it wasn't easy to find: it's apparently some closed source "careware" batch scripting language developed by an MS employee.

Yes, most environments use several programming languages. Done right, this can be Google's blessed languages approach. Done wrong, it can be every technology Microsoft ever brought into existence, ending up with a triplicate solution for each problem.
That happens indeed, but the point (!) stands: the fibonacci scale ensures estimates are rounded up, and that small abstraction merges time and complexity into a single number, whereas it feels more difficult to bump a time estimate based on unknowns/complexity.
2.2 is just an arbitrary number.

e is also just an arbitrary number, but it looks like someone calculated it using sophisticated math.
Make these web pages run on a crappy VM. Yank most of the JS bloat and the JIT compilers out and you're good. Maybe insert arbitrary nondeterministic delays into the interpreter as well for good measure. Compared to sacrificing total desktop performance, this is a perfect tradeoff.
Globalization is a big word.

At least in the context of the last few generations, this is not an unusual avenue to globalization. It's pretty much the template followed by auto manufacturing as it globalised, for example.
You missed some:

>> But that explanation ignores what many in the astro-verse consider the major turning point for Big Zodiac: The election of Donald Trump. It changed everything, according to Aliza Kelly, the astrologer-in-residence at Sanctuary. (She writes its horoscopes and conducts some of its readings.) Watching The New York Times’s forecast needle tip from Hillary Clinton to Mr. Trump raised people’s doubts about certain scientifically proven systems, Ms. Kelly said. “People became so much more receptive to the idea of there being different ways of seeing the world,” she said. They turned to astrology “in order to create some sense of structure and hope and stability in their lives.”

So for “many”, we have one snake oil salesman claiming that Trump’s election changed everything, and one snake oil salesman who decided to follow her dream and sell snake oil, obviously inspired by America’s choice of Presidents.

I did not vastly overstate anything and stand by what I said: of all the research, interviews and commentary they had available to them, Erin Griffith of the New York Times and/or her editors made a decision to include this as part of their article. They did, from what I see here, twist the 2016 election into the narrative of the story they were trying to tell when their story probably could have stood up better without the two paragraphs you and I quoted.

You could say it is only two paragraphs, and you would be right. However, if you write it into your article and publish it on the website or in the print of the largest newspaper in America, you are choosing to tell that story. Subjectively, maybe it was worth telling? I don’t think it was, but you or anyone here is free to disagree.
I do not think Mozilla can keep that secret.
Fraud and fake reviews are a major strategic concern, it has been since the start, i.e. for 20 years. Leadership is intimately aware of the problem.

There are many easy things they could do to reduce fraud, #1 being only allowing reviews from actual purchasers, or at least now allowing the others into the rankings.

As mentioned on this thread, there are 3rd party companies that do a decent job at detecting the crap reviews. This means either Amazon is incompetent, and is not even capable of basic filtering, or they are competent and complicit.

It's the later.

Yes, there will always be spam and fraud, but not remotely the levels we see on Amazon. It should be relatively rare.

As it stands, it's pretty easy for a regular person simply to go on Amazon and literally find fake products. This is totally unacceptable. They are trying hard not to find the spam and fraud.
I'm sympathetic to the argument in principle, but it hinges on the system for assessing income of/collecting taxes from individuals being adequately rigorous and efficient.

The presence of loopholes, tax havens and other mechanisms (including corporations themselves) for hiding personal income means the bucket is very leaky.

Given that corporations have to maintain complete records of their cashflows and disclose them to investors and authorities anyway, using this data for intermediate tax collection seems reasonable.
"danced inappropriately and made uninvited physical contact with another employee" seems a bit vague. What actually happened?
Thank you, I don't recall finding this when I studied it last.
In supercomputers, there are such mechanisms for reactive congestion management: messages are sent to emitters to temporarily reduce flow. It works at small network scale but doesn't scale up, because congestion can happen often and for short times, and the latency of reaction is similar to the latency of events means you are not reacting to congestion anymore, you're just reducing global bandwidth. To this day the best practical mitigation strategies are great deterministic load balancing, QoS through virtual channels and fine-tuned adaptive routing. The analogy with traffic doesn't really hold though, because we can theoretically propagate throttling instructions faster than the vehicles involved, and the problem lies more with getting instructions applied at all. Just thought giving some overview of a similar problem would give some food for thought.
there is an uncharitable response to this thread, which is marked dead. I do think there is a kernel of truth in that response, which is nothing more than mocking.

why fibonacci? I think it's reasonable to say time includes an exponential error. an estimated 1 hour task is very different than an estimated 1 week task. i see that 1 hour, 1 day and 1 week estimates are progressively, and likely exponentially, worse.

Is it just the ease of doing the math? (totally reasonable answer, in my humble opinion). or is there something specific about fibonacci that's actually relevant? I think it's the former not the latter. but if you have any evidence to the contrary, i'd love to hear it.
> Second, from following the fediverse (not just mastodon, but also pixelfed, peertube etc), i have a feeling that they aren't into mainstream, general audience anyway.

Ultimately this is kind of a problem, as we desperately need an general audience alternative to FB/Twitter that isn't about turning outrage into dollars. Right now I'm sure it's nice to hide from the Eternal September, but in the meantime Facebook is enabling ignorance, wasting everyone's lives on purpose, and proposing laws that only they can afford to comply with.

OP is about Keybase, which is trying to solve the problem of why the whole world isn't using GPG. I'm just pointing out that Mastodon has some public adoption issues still, despite the benefit that it can bring to the world.
An important aspect of being a professional software engineer is having the backbone to sometimes say things like:

- “I don’t know yet enough about the problem to give you even a rough estimate. If you’d like, I can take a day to dig into it and then report back.”

- “This first part should take 2-3 days. 5 on the outside. But the second part relies heavily on an API whose documentation and error messages are in Chinese and Google Translate isn’t good enough. I’d need to insist on professional translation in order to even estimate the second part.”

- “The problem is tracking down a bug rather than building something, so I don’t have a good way of estimating this. However, I can timebox my investigation and if I’ve not found the cause at the end of the timebox, can work on a plan to work around the bug.”

You need to be willing to endure the discomfort of looking someone in the face, saying “I don’t know”, and then standing your ground when they pruessure you to lie to them. They probably don’t want you to lie, but there is a small chance that they pruessure you to. If you don’t resist this pruessure, you can end up continually giving estimates that are 10x off-target, blowing past them as you lose credibility, and your running your brain ragged with sleep-deprivation against a problem you haven’t given it the time to break down and understand.

But when you advocate clearly for your needs as a professional, people are generally reasonable.
And you had to point this out why?
That's not a solution for illegal or harassing content.
It will certainly not satisfy all your needs, but you cannot avoid spending some time with "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" and its companion scheme code.

There is also a neat appendix, slightly simpler and more modern, aimed at the mathematical details, titled "Functional Differential Geometry", by the same authors.
> When an intersection light turns green - all cars should begin rolling together.

Agreed. I've always suspected/known this. Just play with the acceleration settings in the simulation for proof.

I hate when the light goes green and people wait for a gap before driving. Just go, you are barely going 20km/h at this stage.

If everyone accelerated quickly until they were on the other side of the traffic light, you could get double the amount of cars through. No need to break the speed limit.
That's what happens, its all tranlated to hours and cost instantly. I have seen that at several places during poker sessions. The fun starts when management hears this and starts to calculate with it.
Learnings after 10 years of curation
> I retain IP and the right to post it elsewhere, but grant DC a perpetual, non-exclusive license to the course material in return for royalties.

He is still free to monetize it how he sees fit. DC could choose not to post the material, but that seems to be his endgoal.

https://twitter.com/noamross/status/1117050638955892742
I've seen a similar model that I've adopted for my own projections which is 30/60/90 - the 30% chance scenario which is highly successful but less likely, 60% chance scenario that is good with a relatively decent chance of success, and the 90% chance scenario that is the lowest outcome but will almost certainly happen.
Challenges and Pitfalls of Development for Multi-Core Systems
The first remote kernel exploits. Will signal the beginning of the end.
Look at the news. Look at the outcry over teen suicides and how facebook/twitter didn't do enough to protect them. Look at the laws around child abuse imagery and how much popular support they get.

It's not just my opinion.
Not the GP, but I think this complaint is about workatation and on-premises server performance. There, the software fixes intended for cloud servers are already throwing the baby out with the bathwater for little to no security benefit. All these changes are accomplishing in that space is waste time and energy by ruining hardware performance.
It is very easy to answer. Different people have different efficiency, therefore, a task completion does not depend solely on its complexity but also on who is executing it.

You should think about it (even though there are no actual physical units you can use to make this work):

Time to deliver a task = complexity / developer efficiency

This is why it is hard to develop a method to estimate time for development tasks.
I think that lumping Musk with either of the other two is quite harsh.
That's part of the business plan of most consulting busineses and especially of big name consulting companies.

Principal consultants, who actually really know their shit, are called in for the contract negotiations. Those are of course not the folks, which you get to work on the project.

The actual contractors are usually rather junior, often fresh of a plane and range in quality from quite good to absolutely abyssimal. With big name consulting companies they can still be billed at a daily rate of 2K +.

In other words, and less politely put, the consulting business is pretty much a bait and switch.
This gives me a newfound respect for variable speed signs on UK motorways (NB. not the actual speed limit signs, the black signs with the white matrix of bulbs giving advisory speeds).

To-date, if you see a sign saying "40", that basically means there's no traffic flow and you will have to come to a stop very shortly.

If you see a sign saying "60" that means that you probably won't need to stop but you're going to slow to a crawl.

If everyone just did as it said things would probably improve massively.
It’s £50 a month in addition to getting ripped off on the exchange by the bank. Using a service like CurrencyFair or Transferwise would save someone thousands a year. There is also the hassle of having to physically deposit the check.

Also checks in general have gone the way of the fax here. I’ve seen only one in the last fifteen years. I would be surprised if people in their 20’s have never seen one.
There would be great to have predictions that use ML to estimate how long something will take.
This kind of tracking might be worth it, given informed consent by the user. If the user does not consent, it is spying. Especially if you have to bypass intentional privacy protections, in this case the disabling of the ping feature.
It can't be very pleasant for his employees to have a CEO that throws around those numbers publicly though. It seems like at some point down the management hierarchy there must be a disconnect where people above the line are on board with the official timeline and people below the line are quietly planning a more reasonable timeline. Like "Elon thinks that we'll launch the Heavy in two years but that's obviously impossible, so don't burn yourself out trying to get it done." This sounds like a recipe for organizational dysfunction as people above the line are frustrated by the apparent lack of progress and wastefully provide the wrong level of resources given the actual status of the project.
Sometimes I wonder what'll happen if the United States ever has to fight a war against an opponent whose industrial base is not 150 years behind it.

Then again, I've heard Russian military equipment is in just as sorry a state. No idea what the Chinese military is like, but I'd imagine the real money is in selling to Americans rather than killing them.

We're in this interesting place where it's entirely possible that the best military equipment is actually in the hands of private, ostensibly civilian companies. SpaceX has ballistic missiles with a CEP significantly smaller than a drone ship, for example, a feat that was unheard of during the Cold War. For that matter, the very concept of a drone ship would've been awfully helpful during the Battle of the Atlantic.
Have you tried Algodoo ( http://www.algodoo.com/ )? It's very easy to use and at the same time, also lets you script things. I think it's limited to 2D problems only though.

If you find any good tools, please do send a pull request to add them here: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn-awesome/blob/master/p...
GNU Awk 5.0
It's a neat simulation and great for seeing traffic ripples. But, I'm finding putting a cone in a single lane blocks cars forever. That would never happen. The car at the cone would force their way into an unblocked lane.
By "disabled", you mean using `launchctl unload -w`? I would be surprised if apsd launched after doing that; macOS is pretty consistent about having all processes managed by launchd and not spawning things at random. Though since that works by modifying the plist file in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons, rather than setting a preference somewhere separate, a software update could end up resetting it. No idea about Little Snitch.

Edit: Actually, launchctl apparently does use a separate preference these days; it used to modify the plist. Not sure when that changed or when you tried this.
100% this. It's not your job to say something that will make your client happy. It's your job to tell them your honest assessment of the task.
The light is redshifted when it "climbs out" of a strong gravity field but still moves through space at a constant speed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_redshift
COCOMO and Function point models use regression. That's ML too.
This is not the internet you promised us
I let my Prime lapse this year, for similar reasons. Gone are the days when Amazon tended to have medium- to high-quality items. Now it's a 50/50 chance I will get some cheap tat which has been expertly misrepresented by the seller (i.e. photos which make the product look bigger than it is).

I don't miss Prime and I'm not buying much from Amazon and this is fine.
Thanks. I wasn't aware that a shard key is mapped to a partition key.
In the UK, bookmakers offer 'accumulator' bets, where a punter can select many outcomes, getting a big prize if 100% correct.

This takes advantage punters' failure to accurately multiply probability - 10 events with 80% probability have joint probability <11%.

Something similar happens with planning, where people fail to compound many possible delay sources accurately.

Dani Khaneman covered this in Thinking Fast and Slow, also showing that people overestimate their ability, thinking they will outperform a reference class of similar projects because they are more competent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy
I was curious so I tested the 'on ramp' strategy that seems to be in place on UK motorways at rush hour - namely that they are traffic light controlled, but that they always seem to be Green for ~3 cars, Red for ~6 cars.

Always seemed really pointless.

Turns out that was the only way I could get traffic going again on the curved road with the on-ramp (even though I could only control the main traffic, not actually the on-ramp). Even dropping the speed limit had no effect on clearing the congestion at the junction.
I've worked on twice my gut feel for years. It's generally pretty near the mark.

Humans are optimistic by nature. Even somebody as pessimistic as me.
There were a lot of failures and accidents back then.

But in general, designers did get more experience because there were more aircraft programs and they were way faster. So if you designed, say, landing gear, you might have done quite many during your career. It was more "agile" in that sense.

Nowadays companies can not go so quickly to production. The whole business has turned into oligopolies both in the main integrators and the suppliers.
Yeah that's ridiculous. A real penalty would be for example to not allow them to appoint new employees for 5 years.
With the obvious warnings about limited sample size, anecdotal evidence and so on...

I've encountered a few people with this trait, and the general trend I've noticed is an excess of optimism and a hint of complacency.

"I have the utmost faith that my team can do 100 hours of work in 25!"

"We did 75 scheduled hours of work in 15. That means we can easily do 100 in 25." (completely overlooking that the team - by that point - had been working from 7am until 9pm for the entire week, ordered food in and had to take several days PTO to recover)

Curiously these are usually the same managers who demand crunch-time, but "have a prior engagement" when the team asks if they'll be helping too.
It's not only that. The main problem is that it's virtually impossible to come up with specifications, which are precise enough that they can be implemented 1:1.

Outsourcing companies will aim for the lowest common denominator, which the contract allows and with which they can get away with.

Case in point? I can exactly tell you what the specs for the first time reporting system I worked with at MajorCorp said, without ever having seen those specs:

Must be able to enter hours

That's exactly what we could do. Enter hours. Not minutes, not ten minute intervals, not quarter - or half hours, no; hours.

When I get such a spec I hit back with questions. Send that to an outsourcer and they won't see any need to provide a yota more than what the spec says.

In other words: You entering a world of pain, which looks good on spreadsheet but really only that.
For product sellers it's also very frustrating. Hard to compete against tricks. For sellers the fake reviews are only 1 of many similar problems with fraudsters, trickers, scammers, etc.
> This is yet another use-after-free in C++ code.

Use-after-free is the least common case of CVE in C++ : https://resources.whitesourcesoftware.com/research-reports/w...