skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think four hours is unreasonable for any type of shop (with 4-8 being CYA estimating). One or more resources likely have to do most of the steps below.

* Document the customer request

* Investigate the customer request

* Create and document the requirement

* Assign the task

* Switch current context

* Deploy a dev environment

* Make the change

* Submit the change to QC

* Test the change

* Deploy the change

* Clean up dev environment

* Document the change

* Bill the customer

Ideally, you would encourage the customer to bundle multiple requests, so that most of the tasks could be shared among them. However, if they insist that they need it now, then they need to pay accordingly.

This story seems like it could be solved with improved up-front communication.
There absolutely is a platform sh interpreter. That is why when ksh came out, it was called ksh instead of sh, so that /bin/sh would still function as expected (same with csh, bash, zsh, etc).

And many of these will emulate /bin/sh behavior when called as such.
Robert Moses on building infrastructure that specifically kept blacks and Puerto Ricans out of the Long Island suburbs:

> The legacy of segregation in the suburbs, too, can be attributed in part to Moses’ personal biases, Caro says. The city planner didn’t want poor people of color from the city accessing Jones Beach, which was established while Moses was President of the Long Island State Park Commission, so he made it illegal for buses to travel on the parkways there. Furthermore, Caro says, “Then he had this quote, and I can still hear him saying it to me. ‘Legislation can always be changed. It’s very hard to tear down a bridge once it’s up.’ So he built 180 or 170 bridges too low for buses… this is how you can shape a metropolis for generations.”

Moses built the NYC Metro state park, expressway and parkway systems. He wasn't a fan of blacks, puerto ricans and poor jews, and deliberately built highway bridges about 4 feet too low for busses to pass, to keep "undesirables" out of Long Island beaches. This was also motivated by the attitude on Long Island, where the KKK was a major force at the time.

There's no core principles around business, and particularly at the intersection of business and local government. Realpolitik rules the day.

In terms of redlining, here's a great starting point about the city that I grew up in: http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2017/02/16/albany-redlining...

Key quote to ponder:

> "Yet New Deal housing policy also underwrote racial discrimination. The FHA refused to guarantee mortgages in neighborhoods that were under the threat of "infiltration" by black, Hispanic, or foreign families. This policy remained in force until 1950.

Although the HOLC wound down its operations in 1951, its legacy long outlived it in the form of redlining maps. Between 1935 and 1938, HOLC consulted with realtors, builders, and bankers in cities around the country. Until the passage of fair housing and fair lending laws in the 1970s, these maps (and later versions of them drawn up by local lenders) determined where mortgage money went -- and to whom."
Old guy taking up programming
Im an old retired guy new to programming apps, made this puzzle app “To Mars” after seeing the spacex launch last year. You can download it free on iphone. Thoughts? Id like to keep improving. Thx!
Zabbix is a bit opaque to tune and the support forums aren't super helpful unlike say Nagios.

That said it does some really cool stuff like tree walking across all the HP switches on our network, auto monitoring all ports it finds and then reporting on their stats and on any UP/DOWN states for every port.

Good for detecting unauthorized usage or a device which is rebooting itself.

Its IPMI support is also pretty good, we had it monitoring Supermicro IPMI interfaces with zero issue.

It handles vSphere and auto scans the entire cluster, adding all guests and monitoring them without needing to install an agent on every VM.

All in all a very good solution with some very cool features, but a steep learning curve and not much help on their forums although the docs are pretty good.
It's pretty much why the green movement lost me. When I was growing up - we were supposed to have no snow by 2015, and all the wales were supposed to dead.

I see the value in clean water, clean air, biodiversity, and living in harmony with nature. However scaremongering and wild predictions (the latest one I heard seems to be that we have 12 years?), is an easy way to drive me away from the movement as a whole. Even though I agree that emissions should be cut, fuck the crazies I ain't dealing with their shit.
Or like many other corners of America, aircraft boarding, etc, military personnel are given some extra perks for the risks for which they volunteered.
>Maybe that was true in the 1980's, but at this point, it requires an incredible level of expertise to generate and implement profitable quant trading strategies. //

Are you saying there is no luck in the market any more? Doesn't that mean it's deterministic; and doesn't that mean that market trading is unnecessary as we can allocate needs perfectly?
Just for curiosity's sake what was the issue with the keyboard?

Because I work at a repair shop. Not an apple one (we're way too small for that, they want something ridiculous like $100,000 a year in used apple sales before they even consider letting you apply to be a reseller/repair store). People bring apple stuff here because there's nowhere else to take them except a three hour drive to the nearest big city.

The only issues I've seen on MacBook keyboards in my 8 years working here, required a full keyboard replacement. And I just did one a couple weeks ago. That's a good hour or two's work, just getting the thing disassembled far enough to get to the keyboard in the first place, then pulling all of the hundred or so screws for the keyboard, replacing it, and rebuilding everything.
I am not a trader (and have zero knowledge about it) and what I'm about to say might be utter garbage, but hear me out and correct me where I'm wrong.

> This is a big red flag. A lot of AI/ML people have this arrogance that trading is easy and that you don't need any financial knowledge to make money. Maybe that was true in the 1980's, but at this point, it requires an incredible level of expertise to generate and implement profitable quant trading strategies.

If they were making the trading bot via training it on past data and what they call 'sentiment signals' generated from social media reaction, etc, do they need experience with trading?

Is there something else that a human trader knows that the bot (which has been trained on past data and accounts for live reactions) doesn't?
Missile defense systems have always had a very basic and fundamentally insurmountable weakness that people just willfully ignore. It costs almost nothing to make more decoys, and it costs an astronomical amount to upgrade your system to track and handle more targets. Building any missile defense system is a nearly guaranteed way to destroy yourself. The enemy just builds more decoys for almost nothing, and then you go broke.
Uber loses an average of 58 cents per ride – and says it's ready to go public
Everything that you said is right, my problem with this kind of policy is that they sell it as the solution, I think that is better to fight organized crime with intelligence instead of with raw force.

The weapons and the drugs that finance the traffic do not come from the poor communities, the crime in rio is deep within the society killing the poor that is already marginalized it’s not a soluction.

I agree with you on the other side, people with weapons should be treated as the threat that they are, but the public policy should not be just “kill theses guys and we are good”.
Thinking about this a bit more, I can definitely see how it's immoral to put out suggestive pieces of art.
Yup, noticed the same in the UK. I can't help but feel like the prices are intentionally kept high to pressure people to replace rather than repair.
Why not building photoshop or visual studio etc on top of jupyter? Seems to be the right direction at this point
Simple: such a company isn't likely to be highly profitable. They can go work on CRUD apps for some enterprise company for a very reliable, solid paycheck, or they can work at FAANG companies for really huge paychecks, without the risk of working at some gaming company that might not survive a year, and has to compete with the big gaming companies that exploit their workers.
I believe the person above was saying that those who are most inclined to believe in the concept of a soul would find the importance of a definition of what a soul is to be on the low end of the totem pole.

I'm not a huge fan of things that get that close to all or nothing, but I do know quite a few religious people and they aren't particularly concerned with the definition of it so much as what it represents. Whether it is a fear of questioning something or just finding it of minimal value, I do not know.
Look around you and you’ll find at least 40 things that are made in CCP controlled China.
...and yet, even a machine at this scale, or even 100 times that, could not come close to being on par, in terms of neural/neuron simulation, with that of the human brain.

We are definitely "doing something wrong" when it comes to artificial neural networking; even though are models are much simpler, it still takes an enormous amount of computing power, both in terms of raw CPU as well as actual electrical needs, just to be able to simulate things at a small scale (and if we use more accurate models, based on what we know about the brain and neurons, then at best our simulations can only be run to simulate, over our actual-time, what would be in actually fractions of a second in real-time).

That our brains can do so much using so little power (wattage), with such a high number of nodes and interconnections that dwarf anything we've so far have managed to simulate - it's a bit mind-boggling and humbling.

I just wonder where and what the issue actually is.

Why do our current practical models of a neuron, which are vastly simplified, require so much power to run at scale?

Is the issue related to the fact that they are simplified models, and actual neurons with their complexity are able to do things we don't yet understand or know about?

All of this is also related to back-propagation; such a thing doesn't seem to exist in nature (jury is still out on the theory, though) - so how do biological neural nets "learn"?

If we could eliminate or reduce the need for backpropagation, would that lower our power requirements for artificial network implementations?

As someone who has merely dabbled with artificial neural networks, these questions and conundrums fascinate me, and cause me to attempt to think up potential solutions, however far-fetched.

I highly doubt I will be the one to solve the issue, but I do hope to see it solved within my lifetime.
I can't understand what's so amazing about tiling window management/managers. Reddit's r/unixporn seems to be so much dominated by posts featuring that kind of WM, they should already change name of the sub, I believe.

So again, are there any specific advantages in everyday work for ordinary user or it's more convenient for people who need to idk, monitor lots of things at the same time without overlapping windows?
The guys that are selling managed services on AWS?
Nice :-) Back in the day in the UK the RAE royal aircraft establishment twinwoods had a direct line to a local power station for their wind tunnels and used to control the speed form the power staion
I believe it. A significant number of the developers on my team that visit from Hyderabad take at least one new iPhone home with them. Lack of sales tax combined with the prices Apple charges in India (IIRC they don't sell directly, which may be part of the problem) make it attractive to buy them in Portland.
Yes she was. Because she refused to get out of her vehicle.

She was only asked to get out of the vehicle because she was self-admittedly "agitated" and began increasingly berating the officer in a way that was keeping him from finishing writing the citation.

So again, if an officer asks you to get out a vehicle, comply and ask if you're being detained. Don't grab your phone, don't tell the officer he doesn't have a reason to ask you to get out of the vehicle, after just admitting that you're agitated.
That's bad, but just because they're allowed doesn't mean they should do it.
> You make the perfect point that fair trade advocates push for.

Totally get it. There's a line between a country being good at making a product through "natural" causes (having a climate to grow grapes for wine) and the government subsidizing the production of wine because they want a wine growing industry. Where that line is depends on a lot of actors, but some things fall on one side of the line and others on the other.

However, for the end consumer in the importing country, they win if the government of the exporting industry wants to subsidize wine production. The consumer gets cheaper wine.

Now the argument for fair trade is that the local producers of wine will be hurt. And I get that (especially when you are talking about job losses and/or loss of strategic capability around food production or technology).

But overall the consumer in the importing country wins. If China wants to give dollar bills to the American consumer for umbrellas, why shouldn't the consumer take them?
Nice for them!

We launched a web application for construction companies in Switzerland a few months ago. And quickly learned the hard way that we have to improve the IE compatibility.
The last 90 days IE11 was used for 36% of all traffic.

Too bad the new Edge isn't called IE12 and automatically deployed as a replacement through Windows Update :-)
There's no way the T&C doesn't have a clause about the creators not being responsible for the trading bot's actions.
There is a small subset of devs that will rush and get the work "done" in the underallocated time. The catch is in, of course, the Definition of Done. This is why we spend time aligning teams on exactly this.

Sure I can fire off that one line change and tell you it's done. But, does it work? Is it right? Do you care?

Typically this sub-par work is done by inexpensive outsourced development shops being managed by a client rep without the capacity to see through the lies until the project goes sideways in the future. The developers who rushed the work are paid and out of the picture and never have to fix the problem or touch that code again, so they don't care.
>Why is the Brazilian police officer wrong when he kills someone and why is any other officer in any other country right when he does the same?

Who said that? They are wrong in many cases, whether the country.

>Mistakes happen it's part of this duty of being the police.

Killing urban poor indiscriminately whenever crime is suspected (or even widely overusing open fire even when crime is actually committed), are not mistakes, are policies. Fascist policies.

Brazil is as bad as the Philippines in this regard (and US trigger-happy cops and SWATing overuse are bad too, yes).
That's still just pixels[brightness >50] with numpy. Which brings me back to what I said before: if I want a powerful array manipulation dsl, I still have it, but I'm not limited by it.

To your statement "you can't use the built-in multiply without adding an overload": yes, but that's because apl forces everything to be an array. If I want to work with something with non-array syntax (as an example, where addition uses a l2 norm), if my objects support that, that's just x+y, while in apl you have to do something more complex.

Note also that you're being unfair to Python. List comprehensions, array index notation, and numpy methods cover pretty much everything you've mentioned in apl. And they funny require matching weird syntax to operations.
Why would they stop for regulation (as opposed to the track in front being occupied, which is obviously a good reason to stop at any place) at anything else but a station?
To speak popular manager jargon.

There are some 2D conversations that are necessary. Dates, times, places. That sort of thing.

This is solidly 3D communication. It needs to absolutely be face to face. Otherwise the receiving person on that e-mail will (a) not read it, and (b) take it as a passive aggressive way to get out of work.

Oh, and (c) look at the length and complete unnecessary detail of that email that should be a meeting as another reason to accuse you of wasting time.
Thanks for the shoutout! We are actively developing on ShareDB (https://github.com/share/sharedb) and if anyone is really interested in this, please reach out to me (https://github.com/nateps). Also, Lever is looking to hire someone to work full time on our internal + open source frameworks including ShareDB.
It depends on the store design, Waitrose in the UK doesn't bother with the weighing thing, and you can scan as you go around the shop and just pay at the end. It is way more convenient.
Journey launches its Real-Time group ‘Peloton For Meditation’
How does this compare to pybind11?
Is this something they were expected to do on company time, or personal time? If company time, then it doesn't matter how long it takes, that's the company's prerogative to have their employees burn billable time playing their game. If personal time, forget it.
People in charge complain about the lack of wage inflation.

Yet they end people's careers and throw people in prison. People with nothing, trying to make the world better and get through the day.

Maybe stop saying how great you are while you burn through other people's lives like firewood with eyes, and start making their failures your failures.
That's up to you. I'm just here to make sure you have firearms available for when you decide it's time to use them.
Totally agree it's a reasonable time. I think that it's a waste of time to argue why it takes time to do your work. You'd only write that letter because you feel bad about charging your client for your time.

A better letter if you wanted to write one would be about the benefits you provide and the completeness of your work. I wouldn't even mention the time it takes.
Why would anyone take Tesla seriously? Anyone that follows the field know they are far far behind the big ones doing this for years (Waymo, Cruise, Zoox,...).

They did a huge PR//Marketing push, but didn't show anything yet.
Being guilty of anything doesn't mean you get a death sentence by a cop.

There are courts and procedures for that.

When police just open fire, even when they're not in danger, or kill people by supervisor's suggestion, it's still murder.
I wonder if it would be possible to pass the ownership of a structure that contains the buffer to kernel, passing a pointer in the user_data. The application could then `std::mem::forget` the buffer, and re-construct it from the raw pointer when the completion event arrives. The Future that originated the IO job could then be dropped independently from the buffer.
Every time only the flat cable was faulty (in fact I could always boot the HDD from usb with an adapter). They replaced the other components because they were thinking that those were damaging the cable.

Design flaw happens and Apple relatively quickly sorted it out. On the other hand, I will never forget Acer's screen hinges and how we were supposed to fix them [0]

[0] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uhe4i2yLFTY/maxresdefault.jpg
It depends. I'm pretty sure it is possible to layer an unlimited number of contrasting win/lose conditions; distinguishing essentially different "endgames" seems slippery.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes hold inside service related business units.

I saw a strong trend where good leadership in those business units simply leave that area and move into other business areas (engineering, sales etc) when it became clear that any initiatives they started that didn't involve cost cutting were not going to happen in any support related department.

There was a serious brain drain as far as leadership with vision, a backbone, knowledge as far as support organizations went. I had conversations with several who recognized that there was simply no future / chance of them being able to do much of anything in those roles so they simply moved on.

Meanwhile what was left were largely yes men who embraced the endless (often counter productive) cost cutting, and in doing so didn't really need / care to understand how things worked if all you had to do was slice out X% and hit some arbitrary metrics.

I fear that fundamentally support related business units are just not likely to have anyone who knows how to do it right (even if suddenly given resources), let alone care.
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You're missing a critical part of the equation: the inexperienced software engineer.

Inexperienced software engineers are less expensive, so you can hire more for your payroll budget. These juniors tend to think "yeah, that sounds pretty straightforward. I can do that in a week." It actually takes two months. It takes experience to estimate even nearly correctly. And MBAs love to buy some less expensive, less experienced engineers with their money.
Project management usually has a component of org/people politics that aren't (quite) as present in the IC role.

At the end of the day your goal should be having impact (usually) by shipping something and people who do this glue work are literally the reason something does/doesn't ship. Routing them to job roles that don't align with what they want is the quickest way to drive them away.
Yeah, simply the playground of rich Americans instead of a piggy-bank for a corrupt government that executed political opponents and routinely jails dissidents.

But yeah, it was a darker time in the 50s.
Lyft's IPO was a little awkward
> War is always a good excuse to ignore ethical concerns.

On Both sides
I find this comment to be highly cynical.

Not only you are proposing someone to trade off their health for some money but also you get to trade off your children's health.

Poverty sucks, but is it a really an ethical choice to give to anyone, it's almost a biblical choice you're giving in this case -- sacrifice your first born.

Is this what people in power, want to be?
Give devil's bargain to anyone who has only bad option to save a few percent on environmental scrubbers; or continue a business that is at very core environmentally unsustainable.
Post hoc rationalization. The powers that be typically go out of their way to shield you from this kind of stuff when you're "too valuable on the floor".

Last software shop I worked at, they promoted a guy to "project manager" for being the ineffective programmer that no one had the heart to let go.
Back when I was a physics graduate student there was an old guy who ran the stockroom who sold candy bars for half of what they cost in the vending machine. This meant he was buying them for 40 cents and selling them for 30 cents on the honor system.

One day he saw there was less money in the till than he expected and I told him that he should have expected to lose money and he said "I expected to lose money, I didn't expect to lose that much money!"

Unless you have a profitable business plan there is no "cost to acquire a customer" which is low enough. This is particularly true when it comes to internet advertising where you are competing against app installs where people expect to make money (either in terms of the cost of the app or in-app purchases) and also where it is scalable. (You could spend 200, 2000, 20000 or more pounds advertising it.)

Here is my crazy idea, which the app store probably won't let you do.

One way to make people stick to a commitment (say not smoking) would be that if you screw up you have to make a donation to some organization you hate. How about some app that charges you for breaking your commitments?