skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our conception of micro time is also modern. The Babylonians (who came up with the excellent system of 12 hours in a day and 12 in a night) divided the day into equal increments or hours, but the length of a day's hour changed from day to day as the length of the day changed. As far as I know the modern, fixed-length hour was an invention of the English (pre British) navy who used it to manage watches.

When clocks were developed the hour length became fixed, and the modern invention of the divisions of minute ("tiny") and ultimately second ("even more tiny") became first feasible and then, as the Industrial Revolution progressed, became useful. I've always assumed we had RPM and not RPS because of this, although very slow rotations would be easier to work with with a more find-grained denominator.
Especially odd because they are so unsuitable for use with git. Someone needs to find a way to fix this.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/ from 2002 talks about it a bit:

> Sun is the loose cannon of the computer industry. Unable to see past their raging fear and loathing of Microsoft, they adopt strategies based on anger rather than self-interest. Sun’s two strategies are (a) make software a commodity by promoting and developing free software (Star Office, Linux, Apache, Gnome, etc), and (b) make hardware a commodity by promoting Java, with its bytecode architecture and [write-once-run-anywhere]. OK, Sun, pop quiz: when the music stops, where are you going to sit down?

Sun had all sorts of good tech, worth paying for, and couldn't figure out how to make people pay for it.
I think it's pretty reasonable. It forces people to ask if their relationship with Uber is worth a claim that they're making. If Uber doesn't add $100 of value to your life, then claim the $100.
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Book here: https://smile.amazon.com/Close-Encounters-Communication-Laur...

I didn't use it as much as lectures/notes which were very good but the reviews seem positive. I'd probably pirate it to test drive before buying given the price of academic textbooks. Different editions also tend to save a bunch of many so look for older editions too!
Not sure why this is downvoted (maybe unnecessarily flamebaity?). I definitely agree there's a big tension between "temporary" and "17 years". I mean, jiminy, even revoking the visa would make more sense than keeping them in the country that long with the pretense that it's temporary. And seriously, by that long you've probably assimilated.
nice marketing, kyso.io team
what's wrong with Azure?

I mean, if you're against cloud hosting that's fine, but what is wrong with Azure specifically?
Sure. Each of these false starts were implemented before being abandoned. D'oh.

First: I planned on delivering outside the Mac App Store. This involved updating via the Sparkle cocoapod framework and fulfillment through Stripe. What I found was that the whole process, from downloading and getting going to paying, was very high friction. Every middleman was scaring the potential user: Chrome would warn about the .zip file. MacOS would warn with a scary dialog (even if the app had been notarized). As someone who is wary of downloading apps off the internet, it crossed the line from what I would have done.

I'm also a one-man shop, so I was spending an inordinate amount of time working on fulfillment infrastructure, not improving the app itself. Enumerating other considerations: outside the store I'd have to know more about my user (a bad thing for me since I'm privacy-first), the long-term drain on resources (time and server costs) is higher, system complexity is way higher than through store.

You can always decide to launch outside the store at a later point in time if it's justified, and i've already round tripped the fulfillment process, so that wouldn't be too hard to roll out. All that said, I decided to target an App Store launch in early February.

Next up: I implemented Free Trial. Users would have 14 days to try the entire app for free, then have to make a decision. Ultimately, this also proved high-friction because Apple requires users to "Buy" (not "Get") the free trial as an in-app purchase before they could start using the app, which meant another ~90 seconds and potential confusion on the user's part before getting to try the app.

I landed on freemium for a few reasons: 1.) I know the basic free app can stand on its own as something users would enjoy, 2.) it was frictionless for users to get started, 3.) the install base would be higher because there's no "buying cliff", 4.) it allows me to package two completely different power user sets into distinct upgrades-and therefore, hopefully, capture more total value.
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His golf clubs employed undocumented workers for years FFS
Yeah I'm aware of the biological reasons for why I feel the way I do when I fast. There's a lot of science backing why fasting is good for you, and it has to do with mTOR and the science behind apoptosis, for which Yoshinori Ohsumi won the nobel prize in 2016. Fasting isn't a 'trend' like say 'cleansers' are a trend. One is backed by science, and the other is just a catch phrase to sell products to people.
Is that not code, for me?
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I found this an interesting read.

NOTE: the title is the original one, but it is quite click-baity.
As expected there's another side to the fake news above. He was in school until 2014 pursuing his PhD so he wasn't eligible for employer-sponsored Green Card until then.
The blatant disregard for privacy is what bothers me the most.

Like when I started getting push notifications from Android for my credit card payment with my exact balance due, which they could only have gathered by parsing my emails from the bank. It's easy to resolve that by changing the contact info/settings with the bank, but just the fact that engineers at Google thought users would appreciate having their private financial information parsed and stored by Google services is absurd.

It should never have crossed anyone's mind to even do that, let alone advertise it as a feature.
Java in the browser almost had the staying power of Flash, or even the Javascript + Canvas we have today.
Lots of people saying they would leave US if Trump be voted, but none of them actually doing that. So, that's the reality.
I believe the huge majority of debt in china is held by the chinese themselves, very little is actually held by foreigners, so were they to cancel debt they could easily do so with little knock on contagion to international investors.
Mostly so you don't need to convert to PDF and so that you can host the reports in a central place where everyone can read them technical or not.

Like an internal wiki for a companies data-science where the technical people can communicate their work to the non-technical people with a pretty seamless experience
I totally agree with your sentiment. However, I also think that the popularity of Jupyter is largely due to the fact that it does appeal to a certain type of user.

I do believe that we have room for more than one option. The work that we've done in interactive programming in the Python VS Code extension is one possible approach that folks have seemed to like, and that aligns with what you're saying.

We're going to continue to explore that direction in addition to the Jupyter work that we're doing. Stay tuned!
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I think what you're missing is that it isn't the absolute numbers of green cards and H1-Bs that matter, but the number per qualified applicant or per source country population. If each country has 1000 green cards allotted, it's going to be far easier to be a top 1000 applicant from a country of 1,000,000 (or 1,000) than from a country of 1,339,000,000.

Or put another way - India, the country, might not be discriminated against, as it gets the same allocation of green cards as everyone else. Indians, the people from India, are discriminated against, as there are far fewer green cards per person allocated.

(the situation is of course more complicated than each country getting a flat number of green cards, but the idea holds)
No, this is a feature. The point is to keep a highly skilled immigrant workforce as precariously as possible, so that they have absolutely no bargaining power when profits dip. This is capitalism.

Edit: I should point out, in case it isn't obvious, that capitalism is bad, folks.
On the last part, I think a major part of why therapy can be helpful is because you have the choice to not adopt different personas, which makes me wonder that issue is a large source of problems.

I'm not the first to say this, but I feel most like "myself" when nobody is watching.
100 years will anyone care that you had the flu on May 7 2019?

Epidemiologists? Researchers? Academics? Governments trying to model future disease response based on historical trends?

Just off the top of my head.
Compare and contrast with the Guardian's coverage of Confederate statues, which memorialize atrocities as well.
Sun was a colossal screw up, though. IBM is still around, making billions. As is Microsoft.

Google will probably bury me.
Sandboxing to prevent malware installation and password managers to prevent phishing are excellent technical workarounds for this.
Personally I could see myself using org-clock in isolation, even if just for the fact that I end up with a non-proprietary log. I've lost too much history to various different tools (some of them turned out less than ideal, some just went belly-up).

It's difficult to know though, because I started using org-clock alongside org-mode, and if you combine time-tracking with outlining, journalling, todo/project management, and a calendar, all of it well integrated, it's hard to imagine switching to something else.

EDIT: also, just remembered that one reason I quite using Toggl was that clocktables turned out much more powerful for analyzing/reporting my hours.
Compare the number of deaths due to nuclear accidents to the health effects of us all breathing in coal pollution.
Thanks for mentioning that project. I'm wasn't familiar with it, but the difference seems to be that Jupytext is a tool to convert notebooks between ipynb and text formats, while VSCode supports the same format (#%% cell delimiters) but enables you to edit text-based notebooks similar to how you would in the browser, including keyboard shortcuts to execute individual cells, it'll render the markdown, and so on.

I'm not sure if I understand your kernel question, but VSCode's Python extension has everything built-in. As soon as you add a #%% comment it considers what follows to be a notebook cell and automatically gives you a "run cell" button that uses your chosen Python interpreter.
Mostly my point was about basic arithmetic: 25% sounds like a big deal, but consumers are not paying anywhere near an additional 25% on goods they buy because so much of the retail price of a good is made up of things other than production cost. That is something anybody who has run a business that sells goods can tell you, I was just using my personal experience to illustrate the point.
This story reminds me of a quote from Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

I've met many people in my life just like your classmate. They're especially common in the real estate industry. You're right, the world is crazy.
Ah yeah ok - we are not planning GPU support soon - what if we created one of those one-click deploy a VM to aws/digital-ocean buttons and from there if you wanted to post to Kyso you could do it with git or our jupyter lab plugin.

You get most of the same experience and you can even customise various of the steps?
It's an alternative interface for Tensorflow (the existing one is Python). The core of Tensorflow is still written in C++.
Google is notorious for abandoning past projects. They are of the "try everything and fail fast" variety, and I wouldn't trust my money with their hardware. Not even software, except for Docs and Gmail.
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or simply ask them to take out a second mortgage. with everything their house is worth, i'm sure their net worth is high enough to afford it.
I gave a big fat donation right before the creator added paid features, and I'm not even mad. Love the app.
I think one thing that works in Stockholm's favor in this regard is that the island and coastal perimeters form matural neighborhood boundaries, while in Copenhagen, like in most cities, the boundary of, say, Nørrebro is not sharply delineated.

But indeed I assume the Stockholm Tourism authority appears to be doing its job well at the moment.
Apart from the privacy concerns I'm rather hesitant to switch to anything they make, only to see them kill it off again later. But well that also happens all the time when they buy other companies, so you cannot really avoid that from happening to you. Just like the nest news from yesterday.
Every major company has company wide inventory. They have specialist buyers for different departments.

They either know, or have purposefully arranged things so the people who know enough aren't burdened with knowing everything. Neither is acceptable.

They could be idiots who don't know what they're doing, but then they wouldn't still be in business.

I returned cheap electronics to a UK store recently, it was very clear the entire batch didn't work, indeed it was probably why they were on offer. People will say "oh it was only a couple of quid, won't bother taking it back". Still on sale. I wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't reshelved the non-working ones I returned.
I think they can when the vast majority of the debt (nearly all of it) is locally owned and denominated in their own currency. What stops them simply saying "all this debt we owe to ourselves is cancelled"?
No, because they read these papers and wrote the story on them. Wikileaks just provided mostly unprocessed data dumps. Explaining the story is a very big part of a journalist's job.
Google is also holding the plunger that helped create the dam breakage. Not to mention the pry-bars being applied to any attempts to fix the dam.

EDIT: For those who want to downvote, consider that the vast majority of Google's revenue comes from the use of your personal information to target you with ads, and that most of the advances in ad targeting using personal data have been made by Google.
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Also

> our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible

to Google
Google pivoted? When? And from what to what?

Still a company that collects and sells consumer data and ads right?
That's just a safe excuse which can expose on the media. The real reason is for profit.
If you can raise prices without losing business that sounds like a good idea. I doubt everyone can.

Also there are big players in the market that don't support PayPal at all, e.g. Amazon.
The only solution is moving. Your place probably violates housing code from the sounds of it.

But if you want to be sure, you can get a decent co2 monitor for less than $100. I use this one: https://www.amazon.com/Hydrofarm-Autopilot-Desktop-Monitor-L...

People on this thread mention co2 monitors can't be so cheap, but I'm under the impression this is actually measuring co2 and not o2/vocs. Can anyone confirm?

You're likely living there as your economic circumstances compel it. I would say that if the sensor shows a high co2 number, you should carefully consider all options you have in your life and see if there is any way out of this situation.

If the studies are correct about high co2's effect on cognition, sleep etc then this home environment is likely contributing to keeping you in whatever situation you struggle to escape from.

(If $90 is too much, you can perhaps borrow one from someone local)
Not necessarily. It depends on why the arbitration agreement was considered binding in the courts. If it's because it's assumed to be a parallel legal process then I could see a class action being undertaken with the argument that Uber is using the arbitration clause to deny the class their due process rights. I am also not a lawyer but I'm assuming that the courts are presided over by reasonable people which is usually the case.
Moore's Law died 5 years ago. And services completely negate Open Source.
Only the ones committed by minorities.
I reject your rejection.

Are you going to provide any alternatives, because if not my rejection overrides yours. I would also point out that outright rejecting something without presenting either an argument or alternative why leads up away from productive discussion.
> I would quite like to own an EV, but are still too expensive for me!

Without providing a specific use case or criteria then it's impossible to say.

> I also read that the batteries do not like repeated full-throttle accelerations as it causes excessive heat build-up and accelerated degradation on the cells

That's true and so is the statement "internal combustion engines used in automobiles produce heat during operation that will cause them to fail after a short period of time". But we know that ICEs don't fail because they have cooling systems, so to do EV's batteries and motors.

> To reduce this the car will often enter limp-mode before then

If someone said "my ICE vehicle won't allow me to red-line it and reduces my max RPMs when it's close to overheating to avoid damaging the engine" would you see that as a bad thing? Would you assume red-lining and engine overheating issues were common when driving an ICE vehicle?

If not, then why do you assume such behavior is bad in an EV?

While it is true that rapidly discharging batteries produces heat, it is also true that most EVs have thermal management in place and most have active temperature control systems for their battery packs. The Nissan Leaf is one of the few EVs that does not have active temperature control systems, their packs are air cooled. Also note that I said "temperature control" and not cooling, Tesla's and other EVs can actively warm their batteries to increase performance.

You should read up on the Tesla Model 3's track mode to get a better understanding of what EVs are capable of: https://www.tesla.com/blog/how-track-mode-works
A bit clickbaity. "A high sugar diet decreases sweet taste sensation and blunted sweet taste promotes overconsumption and obesity", but that only applies to sugary stuff, and not to any kind of food; I'm sure it could apply to everything (like people who have to put too much salt in food because they've gotten used to it).
So you take the Bible to be a literal historical account?
Oh man, that's basically org-babel [0] but with working jupyter server support!

0: https://orgmode.org/manual/Working-with-Source-Code.html#Wor...
> But they anonymize it, so you are safe

For now...
Any idea what typical gym numbers are? I would have guessed they aren't as bad as office buildings, as they are large spaces and generally have ventilation systems. I'll bring my co2 monitor when I try the new gym in my neighbourhood though.
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Yep, I'm going for my Greencard through the EB program, and because I'm from New Zealand my priority date (which is where the queue starts), is "current" which means the day the paperwork gets approved, things can move forward. If I were Chinese or Indian the priority date is years ago - the current Indian priority date for the EB3 is 2009.

It's already more difficult, expensive and time consuming to get a Greencard vs. permanent residency in comparable Western nations. My Greencard will take 18+ months, $15k and a very flexible employer and I'm walking into the system with a lot of advantages. I feel for Indians and Chinese people in the system.
Your claim about MS not focusing on their retail side might be accurate, but that in and of itself doesn't really mean anything. The stock market (i know .. i know.. ) seems to have accepted MS's "broken" model, and its stock price has tripled (or something like that) under Nadella. Certainly, its not a company that people seem to think is broken in any mainstream way of thinking about a business.
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Even in the Bay Area with a large family $500k/year is more than enough to live very comfortably. Maybe not a billionaire lifestyle, but certainly well above average.

$200k/year is middle class in the most expensive areas.
It’s increasing at about 1.5 ppm per year.
Human is part of nature too, if these species extinct due to human then its means they are not good enough to adapt to the changing nature.
Not a myth at all; what you just described is generally a result of crony capitalism, in bed with the government.

When a true free market is allowed to operate (which happens all the time in many aspects of our economy), it is the most democratic meritocratic and fair way to exchange goods and services, and accumulate wealth. Pure capitalism has brought more people out of poverty than any other system or system of government in the history of mankind.
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If it's, say, 10 instead of 100 years and something more serious than a flu, insurance companies or future employers for instance might care?
"...high CO2 concentrations in the helmet can be really dangerous to an unconscious person's brain function"

Yes but no helmet is even worse for an unconscious person's brain function :)
The problem is cost, which electronic voting solves to some degree.
I'm wondering if CBS bows to pressure (real or imagined) from China over a news story, if a US company would do so as far as who they hire or fire when it comes to personnel decisions.
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You fill in the blind spots in your vision.
Payments. Simple, secure and effortless. Just like how it should be
Unless you know how to code there are few options that enable you to take online payments in a manner that is frictionless, stupidly easy to use, low in cost and simply beautiful. That's where we come in.

Just some quick points:

- we are not a developers product
- we do not have an API

https://superpay.it/

Interested? hello@superpay.it
I can see people willing to put up with inconveniences for the sake of supposed environmental reasons, and some people just like the shiny new thing with touchscreens and computers and Elon's reality distortion field...

What is funny is when they try to convince people that a Tesla actually is a luxury car, which it quite obviously isn't. Model S lacks some meaningful amenities that a Hyunday at half the price has, build quality would make a Yugo gag, and if it does break down or gets in an accident you might be waiting months for it to be fixed. But I guess it's nice to convince yourself that there were some reasons you've paid $60K for for something less practical than a Yaris...
I have two of these. They seem pretty accurate, and respond quickly to breathing on them, window opening, etc https://www.amazon.com/Hydrofarm-Autopilot-Desktop-Monitor-L...

Can anyone confirm if they are actually measuring co2 directly? Some people in this thread say actual co2 sensors are more expensive than this.
> Same with the silly apology tour multiple companies did over merely including Taiwan and Hong Kong as a separate country from China...in a dropdown menu on their websites

You say it's silly, but I imagine if we had the internet during the civil war and some European company listed the United States as two separate items for North and South, that could very easily end up being a political issue and politicians might threaten repercussions over it. I don't actually think it's silly, whether I agree with it or not. It is lamentable because I'm not sure there's a "right" way for a company to handle it other than going where the money dictates until it's mostly settled politically (which may never happen).