skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're mixing up several different things. "Productivity" is a measure of GDP created by labor. That has several significant implications:

First, productivity is heavily influenced by technology and financialization of the economy. A programmer working 8 hours per day creates a much larger GDP than a factory worker working 8 hours per day. So you can't compare the productivity of workers in a place like Mexico, where there is a lot of manufacturing and agricultural work, to a place like the USA, where a lot of the work is in fields like finance, software development, media, etc. (In your article, that's why Luxembourg has 50% higher GDP per hour worked as compared to Germany or the US--it's a heavily financialized economy.)

Second, there is a difference between productivity per hour worked and total productivity. Working more hours can lead to diminished productivity per hour, but still lead to overall higher GDP. The chart in the article actually proves that. Each American worker is responsible for $119,000 in GDP per year. Each Danish worker is responsible for $96,500 per year. Americans work about 23% more hours and produce about 23% more overall.

Third, even if there are diminishing returns to working more hours, they're not huge. Americans work a full quarter more than Germans, while maintaining higher productivity per hour. Part of that is due to America being more of a high-tech/financial economy, but in any event it doesn't seem like the extra work is tanking productivity.

As to the point about cultural homogeneity: the success of flexible work arrangements are predicated on social consensus, and building social consensus requires homogeneous values and attitudes. If you want to build a work culture where people feel comfortable taking 4-5 weeks of vacation, having a bunch of Americans who think it's better to work 25% more for 25% more money is going to undermine that. If you want people to feel comfortable working from home, having people who are culturally pre-disposed to associating face time with commitment to the job is going to undermine that.
For (iii) you're probably thinking of Rodney Brooks (aka the co-founder of iRobot).

Since the 80s, he's generally been a proponent of the idea that you can't have human-like intelligence without placing that nascent intelligence in a human-like world, with human-like sensory perception.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-based_robotics

Which more or less bears out our experience with deep learning. If you place intelligent algorithms in a world where their sole sensory inputs are matrices then what you get out doesn't look anything like human intelligence.
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And the games it's evoking would have been mostly experienced with crisp pixels, since they were late enough in the home computer era that people had dedicated monitors rather than TVs.
While two weeks is the norm, there are circumstances under which it need not be followed.

I've worked in a toxic work environment in the past. I don't think any less of the people that I watched quit on short notice after continued mistreatment from management; in fact I respected them for not putting up with any more crap when the didn't need to. Assuming this environment is as toxic as described by OP, it's important to remember that many of your coworkers around you will empathize with your decision and respect you standing up to the manager that they too resent.
god i hope so
It's a mostly-Reddit abbreviation.
> 2) the expected user bases and interaction methods between platforms is not at all comparable.

Exactly. Pictures visible through normal use are not the same as an inbox you have to go out of your way to read.

At the very least, the sensibe thing is to make messages opt-in or whitelist only. Removing the feature to prevent harassment seems like a scapegoat. I wonder if this was being utilized as an illegal communications channel and YT\alphabet is worried about legal exposure
There's a secret to art this person hasn't realized.

Art doesn't have to be detailed to look good. Minimalism proves this. Those Geneforge games have just enough detail to look like shit. It's possible to scale back and keep the art good with less effort but better design sense.

Take the game: Thomas was alone. The guy probably didn't hire a single artist yet that game looks way better than any gene-forge game. It's all in the style. The author of this article really just doesn't have a sense of style.
This is something I've wanted to do for a long time-- and they've taken a particularly simple approach where the extrudate volume doesn't vary wildly over the nonplanar layers.

One potential shortcoming is it looks like their model of nozzle geometry (they need to be able to detect interference) assumes it can be modeled with an angle plus a distance where there's bigger things. But real nozzles are more complicated than that.

The worst thing is that the bottom of the nozzle is flat, and any Z movement downwards is going to smush the just extruded trace.
Ask HN: How to learn more about internationalization as a developer?
I recently changed teams at work to start working as a developer on the internationalization (i18n) team at my work. The team has some non-technical folks who deal with operations of translating and localizing day to day. But I'm inheriting a project whose devs left the company and now I am reading through the code to make sense of it but I am always playing catchup.

I'd like to find some resources to learn more about i18n best practices, industry standards, and popular/well-liked software that is built for i18n purposes. Any help is appreciated! Thank you!
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because f Y f.
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this is why I wish typescript added runtime checks in development. Worst case, it would throw a TS error in your browser any time a function call or a network request didn’t match what you typed
And Vim and Emacs users laugh uncontrollably. History has yet to learn.
It’s not the Palantir that are bad, but Sauron and Saruman. They were created by elves for useful purposes.

Possibly the Palantir saved middle earth when Aragorn used it to scry events leading up to the final battles.
Current situation map from INPE:

http://queimadas.dgi.inpe.br/queimadas/portal/situacao-atual

The http://queimadas.dgi.inpe.br site also has links to a lot of raw data on wildfires in Brazil.
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Then how about Motorola, a US company in the same market segment, which also failed?
Interesting to me is that Google's Privacy Model suggestions of
"Identity is partitioned by First Party Site" and "Third Parties can be allowed access to a first-party identity"[1] come off as more coherent and effective than Apple's ML based Tracking Prevention policies[2].

Issue is Google's third suggestion, "A per-first-party identity can only be associated with small amounts of cross-site information", is clearly advertiser-focused, not privacy-focused.

I hope all can rally around the partitioning concepts and leave the others behind.

[1]https://github.com/michaelkleber/privacy-model
[2]https://webkit.org/blog/8828/intelligent-tracking-prevention...
At the risk of taking the fun out of this, you can recover "failed" text.

After you fail, close the tab. Then restore the closed tab from browser history. Your text should rest ahead of the prompt.
Yeah, this technology looks great. I'm working on https://devev.com which will allow users to import JavaScript/TypeScript libraries and use their exported functions in flow charts.

I'm pretty early stage but I got a desktop app running last night. I've got some documentation work to do but I have a PoC of Devev as a webapp which I'd like to deploy soon. I haven't resolved all of the security issues yet so this article is a goldmine for me.
It's kinda interesting how people are just now realizing that all the big tech companies are government contractors and not this imaginary utopia of 'making the world a better place' they were sold on.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft are all US gov't contractors. It's hilariously ironic seeing the political views of the employees suddenly clashing with their employers views of making money as if it's a new thing.
What gets me is that you can very easily have personalized ads just by showing an ad relevant to the content on the current page.

There's no need for harvesting any data on the user, or tracking them across sites in this case.
Would this application stop writers block? Or would it just frustrate you further? I see some immediate value as my eyes are drawn to the status bar inching closer and closer to the end of the page. I am now wondering, "will it delete when complete too?" that would be extra cruel as I am so far maintaining a high and continual writing pace. This actually is fun in a way, not just nerve wracking. Did I spell 'wracking' right? No time to spell check with this app! Well now, let's be sure to not run out of source material. Keep the creative juices flowing brain!! We're strating to get sloppy and we can not avoid another deletion. Our ego is on the line here! DO NOT MESS WITH THE EGO! I am convinced one day I will be a writer of some esteem and failing to write a page on demand would really poke a whole in that story. So let's default to a childhood memory for the reader's entertainment. Maybe the time I ran around the house naked for a stick of gum? Or the time my dad shot a water moccasin snake's head off as it charged us? Perhaps a sad story would due better. Like the time I took my prized BB gun outside to hunt birds before elementary school one morning. I managed to sneak up on a bird feasting on seed at the feeder outside the kitchen window. Quietly I raised my rifle and aligned the site with the small featherly creature and squeezed the trigger. BBQ guns make a dull sound, really a inconsequential noise compared to the death it brought that morning. The tiny bird fell to the ground and I realized I had not only hit it but killed it. When I picked up the ball of blue and brown, I cried. Hard. I knew I had done wrong.
Among the dozens of systems I've borrowed from others in the field, I have one system I haven't seen elsewhere. Although, I have read about what's happening and why it works in neurological texts. If anyone finds this explained better as a how-to...you know what to do!

The concept is based on the idea that all learning is relational. Meaning, the more a new subject relates to an already understood subject, the easier it is to assimilate; for use - to learn.

So, if you wanted to learn Latin, start with all the overlap you can find. Alphabet is almost the same, list all the words you already know that are Latin, define the ones you have heard but didn't really know the meaning (e.g. for example), if you know some Italian - look at the crossover, if you are Churchy - think about Sunday mass. The idea is to get a core comfort with the relationships between the new subject and the old subjects. The more the better / faster / deeper.

Also keep in mind the subjects don't need to be as similar as two languages. Sometimes it is easier to pick something very different. Like learning how to read an EKG tape and music - a few percussion instruments timed and played differently based on the condition of the heart. Over time you learn to "hear" the heart beat you see on the paper and increase the sensory experience from just visual to aural - which a heart beat is anyway.

Another example I used as a kid was for trouble-shooting. I studied battles and wars and understood the idea of divide and conquer. This is more of a metaphoric relationship. When I would ask, "which side of X is this problem?" I would know pretty quickly what my choices are - cable, OS, monitor...etc. From there you can visualize problems in ways that are often really helpful. If I could find the right point to ask the question, I could get VERY close to the point of failure VERY quickly. Taking as much ground as possible.

Drawbacks - Finding the right parallel subject matter can be tricky (and fun). Even the act of trying to find associations can be really helpful since you are characterizing the subject matter you want to ingest. That alone creates handles where there were none. Another possible drawback is the personal nature of these associations. They don't always work for everyone. My examples might have sounded pretty useless to you - but that's okay - they work like gangbusters for me!

For general advice on learning I'd throw out my autoruns:

Chunking information into 25 minute learning periods
Chunking your time to 25 minutes on, 5 minutes off
Build off of what you know
Preview your subject
Immerse yourself in the subject - all senses
Regularity - daily, with reviews
Teach someone as you learn - this is my personal secret sauce
Neatly write down with pencil in cursive what you need to know
Watch Learning How to Learn on Coursera - her voice alone is worth it
Keep notebooks for each subject - one subject 5" x 8" Oxfords are nice
Keep an index card in your text books for notes, quotes and page numbers

If you add some specifics of subject matter, I bet the crew will have gobs more to offer.
Uhh, but unlike other tech companies palantir’s core business model is violating the privacy of individuals to support the governments of many countries. Protesting your employer doing what it has always said it did is a bit rich.
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“Busy”
I don’t have kids but my wife and I have discussed having an explicit shift rotation where one of us stays home with the baby during the day while the other works, sleeps in the early evening when the working parent gets home, and gets up at night when the working parent goes to bed. I always wonder if it would actually work.
nobody wants to depend on another continent for energy, let's be realistic
Yes, architecture is important, but you can't architecture away neither errors nor domain complexity.

Besides, your language is the largest constrain you'll have on your program architecture.
> But we can't even make a sustainable replacement for it that wouldn't require 4 kilograms of external batteries that you'd need to recharge multiple times a day.

There's no magical solution.

The heart develops several watts of mechanical power 24/7 [1], i.e. that's what is required even if the pump was perfectly efficient, and I doubt pumps are that efficient.

[1] https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/IradaMuslumova.shtml
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Oh yeah, there were multiple networks like Carbon, The Deck, etc. The only kind that doesn't suck.

It's weird that tracking-based ads have taken over. Logically, contextual makes a lot more sense. But apparently statistical data is telling ad companies that tracking is worth it :(
Doesn't seem that weird to me. Since landing in tech I haven't had to buy a single t-shirt- I just wear whatever they hand out.
I like using levenshtein distance for building out bayseian networks. Its works well in conjunction with other distance/ similarity metrics that are better for continuous data.
It's a mathematical-philosophical question, I suppose.

Can one use computers to simulate an environment with such fidelity that another computer doesn't notice the simulation and optimize around its quantum quirks?

Nvidia seems to think so. They claimed (a couple GTCs ago) to use virtual driving simulators to train their autonomous vehicle systems.
> This means also those who are billionaires must have worked very very hard and so deserve their wealth.

This is called the 'just world hypothesis' and is behind may of our victim blaming impulses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
Never liked the sweets names because they are confusing and is hard to tell how old a given release is from the name. I'm for the numbers, also the new logo is better. Good changes IMHO.
I majored in industrial design and the large automotive companies and several makers begin recruitment during our 3rd years summer holidays. They call it internships or summer workshops, but having attended those gives you a leg up in the process. I attended the Honda’s winter internship/official recruitment and the summer participants were on very friendly terms with the recruiting staff. Not HR, but regular employees roped in to interview and judge their worthiness.
Well, it'll stop after a while.
This gets posted at least once a year now :D https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mvanier.livejournal.c...
Punting was my first exposure to cyber warfare, miss those days
I don't see any long and well documented recored there, just a few declarations and an affirmation that Brazil "preserves more [rainforest] than anyone."

Blaming is bad for both Bolsonaro and the ones spreading the Propaganda.

One thing is clear: no one spreading the news will care in a week how it started and what can be done for preventing this happen again.
So, presumably you find the nearest teenager and give them 100K yen or whatever to write up some resumes? :)
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So, what can we do about Yellowstone, and what should we do?

I suppose preparation, including protection and then self sustainability within that protection. But that seems like a huge investment for something that likely won't happen in our lifetimes. Are we better off using our resources to become an interplanetary species, where the fate of earth has less of an impact?
Talk to the devs and express the concerns. Ask them to document the edge cases as future tasks/cards/stories, whatever you call them. Prioritize as you see fit. If you are a dev lead, work with them on different ways to approach problems. If you are more on the product side, work with their dev lead on why you think their approaches are not getting the results you hope for.

In short, this should be resolved by having open conversations with the team.

As a side note, do not blame devs for a project failure. If they did the work they were handed, and the project doesn't come together, the project leadership needs to own that. There is nothing that will trash morale on a dev team more than leadership throwing blame downhill.
This is missing the point entirely. The point is much closer to: don't worry about art and focus on making the game.

People will always get upset about graphics, and will always have their own "suggestions" on how to make your art not terrible. If you listen to one person, you might just alienate every other player that doesn't like that person's style.
The amount that insurance will cost depends on how much we want to insure against, there's no fixed value for that. Currently each US nuclear power plant has a minimum of $375 million in insurance, as compared to total plant costs often in the several billion dollar range. If those estimates above didn't include insurance, the total cost would not increase very drastically

Contrary to popular belief nuclear power plants have historically been the safest forms of power generation. Even more so if you restrict the analysis to nuclear power plants in developed western countries, where there are zero deaths due to radiation and only a few during construction. We could take 1/5th of the 16 trillion to construct the plants and have over 12 trillion left over to insure them.
Singapore doesn't operate consideration camps or have political prisoners, they just don't allow chewing gum.
I became intimately acquainted with Levenshtein's distance for my summer internship project, and have implemented it myself a few times for interviews. It was central to an event de-duplication system I built. Amazing how such a seemingly trivial idea can actually be a) non-trivial to implement and b) be so powerful.

EDIT: By 'seemingly trivial', I mean that if you explain it to a lay person it seems easy at first blush - not that it is actually trivial.
Maybe so, but how many people knew that the names were assigned in order?
Miss my ex :'(

... my ex president Dilma!
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I'm glad they mentioned Ijeoma Oluo's recent swatting. I'm glad that she has had the wherewithal to discuss what it is like to have your home swatted when you're on a plane and teenage son is at home alone... and I'm especially glad for the King County Sheriff's pffice which has the professionalism to work with her on this.

https://twitter.com/IjeomaOluo/status/1162454404043141120
This isn't a new debate though...

My grandfather started a company which was a smaller player in the military contracting space.

It was somewhat large and his argument was that he was always 'helping democracy' but he was willfully blind IMO.

It's always going to be a bit fuzzy but it's another thing entirely when the organization you're selling to is just flat out evil.
Does it really matter what people on a forum think of you?
I do want to roll my own for learning sake, I do fallback to iex when I need it for historical data and backtesting.

Did you write the medium article? I’m curious on the first leg of the architecture - cloud scheduler to cloud functions would only make sense for longer periods between injestion right? Something 24/7 would be most efficient on an instance running 24/7 via compute/kube/app engine since it’s not request based right?
> 73,000 fires have been recorded so far this year. INPE is seeing an 83% increase over the same period in 2018.

Number of fires doesn't seem like a good measure. A simple change in how you distinguish between two fires in close proximity can dramatically change the numbers. Higher resolution measurements can allow you to distinguish between two fires that might have looked like one in years prior.

A much better measure would be to look at the quantity of surface area on fire.
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Trimming the tree in one of the world's most fraught DMZ, is still going to affect sight lines, so framing it as an "innocent gardening job" elides the truth.
Civil Law, my guess.
telegraf supports some summarization https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf#aggregator-plugins
Just gave the leadership to Biden.
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Exercise helps you sleep better, so if you don’t exercise, you already sleep like crap and the other stuff doesn’t make a difference.
Those are valid concerns, though at first glance it doesn't seem to me like any of Google's actual proposals[1] have those issues. In fact, FloC seems like a rather promising way to achieve "personalizing content without identifiable tracking". Perhaps that particular problem isn't as hard as you thought?

[1]: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...
Because dealing with proprietary software is a pain in the ass. Have you ever written code for a prop operating system that required a prop compiler and a prop framework? It was impossible to do anything other than begging the owner to write a better documentation or fix their bugs. Today, I just open up the source code of whatever package I'm using and supplement the doc with the code itself. Open source makes software tolerable.
Most people need a job. That's not the same as being unable to switch employers, or being unable to move to a better market.
I do this all the time and nobody cares.
PNG is lossless. There is no adjective or qualifier needed.