skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I somewhat agree, but at the same time, it feels as if I've missed making prerequisite good memories that most people have and that makes it hard to make good new ones. Without any family or friends it just makes sense to put all my time and effort into takinh my career in a direction I (hope) I'll enjoy so that I can salvage at least some resemblance of satisfaction with life.
And as someone living in Chicago or any similar metro area with strong seasonal weather can tell you, there are far higher crime rates in the summer than in the winter. Young people have more down time in the summer and people are outside and get restless in the heat. People stay inside in the cold winter and keep to themselves more.
Huh? The Forbes 400 have a number of non-Americans on the list. They don't pay US taxes at all.

And doing a study where you look at the top 400 because "Forbes has a list of 400" makes zero sense.

Hack job!
Uber to acquire grocery delivery startup Cornershop
More Elixir programmers than Elixir jobs is not an incentive to learn and/or use a language.
Looks a bit similar to focus fusion.

See Google talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhKB-VxJWpg
Typing this from my desk in a WW. The location is great, building is good, the facilities are good, there's quite a nice dynamic about the place. No complaints, it's very smooth and well-organized. Lots of staff to run the place too.
> It's recommended to avoid pure white for text, and I chose likewise to avoid pure black for the background.

This is such nonsense. Pure black is never pure black on a monitor and neither is white. And the link he provides just restates the assertion with no additional reasoning.

See, I get it. If you create work as an artistic statement, you deliberately pick not-quite-blacks/whites because the defaults are not your artistic choices if you just default to them.

However, once you take this as a given rule and you pick some not-quite-white because "it is recommended", that defeats the entire purpose.
Waze sees carpooling as the new ride-hailing
In Vancouver, somehow "brunch" has morphed to a massive obligation. Everyone should bring a dish, all the dishes are high effort, and people secretly hope to skip the whole thing so they don't have to get up at 7am to cook.

Same with dinners parties too, and the only alternative seems to be placing the whole burden of cooking on the host. Whatever happened to just making a giant stew and someone bringing a few loaves of bread?
Pay, HR, and expense tracking are extremely complex areas due to federal / state / local labor laws, collective bargaining agreements, and individual organizational policies. Any application which deals with all those complexities will inevitably be full of defects and usability problems. There is no solution, it's simply reality.
Prior art doesn’t apply in foreign jurisdictions. A country that is first-to-file can file the patent then stop your domestic company from using the tech.
From the full paper:

"Pollution and crime rates may have common correlations with location and time-varying unobservables. For example, PM2.5 or ozone levels and crime rates may be correlated with county-level covariates such as traffic density, population density, demographics, and industrial activity. Failing to control for such covariates will lead to biased estimates of γPM and γo.

Our identification strategy explicitly addresses omitted variable bias in several ways.

First, we show that endogeneity with respect to violent crimes and pollution can be addressed by including a series of high-dimensional fixed effects. In our primary specification, we include county-by-year-by-month-by-day of the week fixed effects to control for county level unobservables that are either constant over time, such as state and county-level policies, or that are time-variant, such as changes in population density, demographic composition, seasonal variation in pollution or crime, or changes in state and county-level policies that limit pollution or crime enforcement. These fixed effects also control for cyclical within-week, within-county variation in pollution and crime. Thus, our data allows us to compare for example, the effect of changes in pollution within a series of Mondays within a given county within a given month. We argue that changes in pollution across a series of Mondays within a county-month, conditional on weather controls, is random and thus exogenous to crime.

Second, crime has been shown to respond to changes in temperature, and temperature is generally correlated with air pollution (Field 1992; Jacob et al. 2007; Ranson 2014). Thus, failure to adequately control for temperature, and weather more generally, will lead to biased estimates. To address this concern, we include temperature and precipitation splines in our primary specification, we provide robustness checks with alternative functions of temperature, and in Section 5.3 we perform a series of tests to show that our results are not confounded by unaccounted for variation between temperature and air pollution. For
example, we show that effect of PM2.5 on violent crime is larger at lower temperatures, opposite of the effect of temperature alone."
Gases are plenty bad, long-term & for the overall climate. But I'm pretty sure the particulates are even worse, in terms of causing both immediate discomfort & diagnosable illnesses in the short- and medium- terms.
No matter where I worked they have the pay/vacation/taxes/expenses pretty much locked down and always working. It's usually everything else.
> the contractor who acted as a middle man between Credit Suisse and a private investigation firm took his own life.

Damn. I wonder whether there was any foul play involved, or just too much pressure to handle.
No, this is about an ex-employee credit suisse spied on.
Copernicium Is a Strange Element Indeed
Disclaimer: I work at Instructure, the company that makes the LMS Princeton is moving too. Opinions are my own, etc

First things first, Blackboard is some of the worst of enterprise software and a huge part of why they have lost so much market share is not only because they had a difficult and obtuse to use product, it is also because they were extremely aggressive in buying out any competition and EOLing their products and forcing schools against their will onto Blackboard.

And I think this is the bit that is often the case about the worst enterprise software is the it gets to a point where customers are so entrenched that the company behind the product has market forces that drive it to grow through unhealthy means that are often hostile to customers.

To his conclusion about all software tending towards these same problems, I can't agree more. It is a HUGE challenge to continue to deliver software that remains easy and friendly to use in light of the real need to add real features. You simply can't just ignore the market that thinks differently about a given problem and the workflow to solve it.

I think the right answer to this problem is not just really great product and UX (though that is critical), the real challenge is to figure out the underlying technology platform and engineering process that makes it cheap to build new features and compose them together without the complexity becoming overwhelming for your average engineering team. From what I can tell, this sort of architecture looks vastly different from how most software is started and how we think about software in general. Making that transition is one of the hardest things to do in engineering and it is what sets apart companies who continue to deliver well liked software and those companies that tend towards being defined by worst tropes of "enterprise software"
Failed entirely to work on my first attempt with:

curl -XHEAD https://google.com

It is just flat out wrong on:

curl -X HEAD https://google.com

In that it does a GET request:

import requests

response = requests.get('https://google.com/')

Clever idea, but my first totally valid example failed (it does OPTIONS, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH successfully)
So this is part of it but I've also met people who agree with me but are still resistant to action. The most obvious time for this is protests, I've met so many people who agree with what the protestors are protesting for but don't like how they are going about doing it.

Though I will say using protests as an example here while valid is a little of a unfair because people always criticise protestors for their tactics, regardless of how reasonable (I know I have in the past)
"Here’s the kicker, though. It's extremely likely that whichever vendor emerges on top will fall into the same trap. The incentives almost guarantee it."

Why do all bug trackers start out as "simpler than $TODAY'S_DOMINANT_BUG_TRACKER", only to become the thing that tomorrow's bug tracker is simpler than? Why do programming languages almost all start as a "simple alternative to $X", only to be the thing that needs a simpler alternative in 10 years? Why are there so many UNIX shells that start as "simple alternatives" but then grow too large? Why are there so many libraries and frameworks that started out as "lightweight" but grew into monsters?

Because the problem is in the incentive structure of the problem space, not the terrible programmers who just couldn't resist adding so much complexity.
Colorado Authorizes Transfer of Xcel Assets to Boulder, CO
Who’s Bob Lazar? The guy from that hokey Netflix documentary?
ExistentialSort()
> but there's a much bigger one from your whole country having large amounts of cheap, clean power

Thorium reactor's are supposed to deliver more cleaner energy than uranium reactors but the technology was ditched because you cant fit a thorium reactor in a sub.

When it comes to nuclear power the needs of the country have always been second place over giving the military an advantage, there is no reason to believe this has changed.
This is a reach.
This would explain why they hunger for explosive growth, to make up for the majority of their investments.
https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

This is fantastic.
> they’re glorified custom development shops with a few high paying customers

That's true, but sort of necessarily so, though. How else do you build a product that meets such a broad set of needs? Someone's got to do the work. At some point, features are going to drop linearly.
The "uncurl" library[1] does something similar and can be used in the terminal. I've found it extremely useful.

[1]: https://github.com/spulec/uncurl
On the other hand, I’ll spend 4-8 hours on a coding challenge for free. Give me an interesting problem and why not?

I was asked to write an AWS integration tool once, and I declined to proceed with the interview process, because I didn’t feel like spending hours learning the Amazon API and re-learning a language with a useful library (I’ve since come to appreciate Python and Boto3, even if I’d rather be Erlanging).

It also wasn’t a sufficiently interesting problem to make the time worthwhile.
No, you’re misreading what I said. My point was that the metric AMD has Intel beat in is “performance per watt under load”. With Ryzen, each watt you spend will get you more FLOPs than the same marginal watt will get you on an Intel chip. It’s like Ryzen is a car with more torque, that can turn each cc of gasoline burned into more force, and so get you further down the road. But that doesn’t mean that Ryzen idles as low as an Intel chip; i.e. that the Ryzen car would end up burning less gasoline over an hour of city driving.

Ryzen can be more power-efficient in e.g. a server (constant near-100% load profile) while also being less power-efficient in a laptop (constant near-idle load profile.) People who talk about the Ryzen power efficiency numbers are only talking about how it performs in the server-like test context (or, often, a gaming context, where the measurement they’re using is just “what sort of PSU do you need to power this thing at max load.”) As is evidenced by sibling posts in this thread, Ryzen doesn’t fare so well in the laptop-like test context in practice.
Sure, but looking at the patent itself, it seems true that it "explains nothing about the proposed fields and ion motion."

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190295733A1/en?invento...
was thinking.. the complaints listed above sound very much like an aerospace manufacturer/defense contractor i worked for before. little silos everywhere, and further complicated by gov security clearances. getting anything done was like mud.
True to some of those (I think that some of the aerodynamic feats can be perspective and size) but I'm not saying "all UFO's are drones" - that'd be ridiculous, just as I'm sure you're not saying that all the claims are real, and the more extraordinary, the more reason to doubt the claim.
If you attended a university and still have an email address associated with it you can probably use the library to access many academic articles.
Collection of tutorials for learning machine learning
Linking the need to sleep with synaptic function
“Fireflies” in my vision and then peripheral movement are the two effects that hit me first, usually around 24 hours.

I will often hear what sounds like voices from another room. The first time this happened I freaked out a bit, searched the entire house, peeled outside through windows. When it was clear, I put my ear close to my radio thinking it was on at a really low volume. But of course no matter what I did the sound stayed the same. Then the irrational state of my mind lead me to believe the house was haunted.
Amazon has dozens of different models. If the physical stores don't have it, that is an indicator that they are low-volume items, i.e., only few users have this problem at all.
I agree completely with your comment.

> What do you think about the critiques of our understanding of merit - specifically the idea that our cultural experiences bias our understanding and perception of excellence?

I think everyone is biased and that objective thinking is a learned skill that you have to constantly re-evaluate. No one will ever be perfectly unbiased or anywhere near it. Even when you are practicing objective thinking honestly and correctly, there are undoubtedly deeply ingrained biases that you can't shake and you may not even be able to know what those biases are.

However, I think through effort we can improve and minimize the impact of bias. Furthermore, over long periods of time, if we adopt a culture of doing this, it may actually reduce bias overall in the generations to come.

The simple version is I think we are not going to be perfect, but surely we can be better than we are if we try. I think that's better than attempting to prevent bias by introducing extreme forms of bias in the opposite direction.
This reminds me of an often quoted passage from a review of the book Armada:

"Do we want to tell stories that make sense of the things we used to love, that help us remember the reasons we were so drawn to them, and create new works that inspire that level of devotion? Or do we simply want to hear the litany of our childhood repeated back to us like an endless lullaby for the rest of our lives?"
No! Not the most magical unicorn!
I have a very old Macbook that I keep around for occasional use. The latest version of Chrome has a serious performance problem with it. Every click on a web site brings up the spinning cursor and there are several seconds of latency. Safari on the same computer has no such problem, so it's not the age of the machine.

I reported the issue, after navigating several-second UI lag, but not holding my breath for them to fix something on an old OS/hardware.

It seems like every release of a Google product(the ones that I use anyway, gmail, Chrome, Voice) brings some downside/regression.

Can anyone recommend script blockers for Safari ? It was the main reason to use Chrome for me.
People are being hypocritical sure, but it's for an alright cause so I'm good with it in this case. I file that under:

"If I can get someone to do the right thing, for the wrong reason? Then score one for me!"

Also, a lot of the hypocrisy stems from the propaganda that our government puts out. The US just doesn't put out much propaganda about those other conflicts. Let's be honest, people think they are acting freely and being critical thinkers and open minded, but we are all controlled mainly by the propaganda we absorb in whatever society we live in. We Americans are no different. So really, if you have a problem with people not talking about those other conflicts, you should bring it up to the government. The people are just following where the government leads.
I understand now. Thanks for the clarification.

> Second, damages from having your illegal actions uncovered aren't recoverable when there's a valid warrant, it would be clearly against public policy.

As I said, some of them are innocent and don't have any illegal actions to uncover.

> if somehow there was a theory of liability it would be capped at the cost of the phone, which is negligible.

They can sue for additional damages due to loss of privacy.

> It doesn't add up as a motivation for Apple.

The direct cost of the lawsuits includes not just the damages but the legal costs. On top of this, the press that Apple would get from the lawsuits would possibly do more than completely reverse the free press from its initial lie.
I thought the same thing at first, but the site actually gives an indication of why this would be useful. The developer tools in at least some browsers can export a request as a curl command. So I can thus easily get the code to reproduce any request I see in my browser. That would have been useful a few times in the past, and more useful than the inverse.
By that definition this company doesn't belong your list in the first place.

edit to clarify: I mean Quintillion doesn't belong on the list.
Did Magic Leap manage to ship it?
I agree that the article doesn't reflect the reality of the situation. One must understand that the Wikipedia acticle's content is controlled by gatekeeping-editors who collectively agree on what they want it to say. Trying to change the narrative there is an uphill, literally rigged battle.

I am also suspicious that reporting on this new "spygate" story might be an attempt to muddy the SEO waters.
To "soar like the birds" would mean to be able to fly at will and land at will, wherever and whenever you desire, as effortlessly as walking. You're absolutely right, mankind will never be able to soar like the birds. Even if we could figure out the technology, it would be a privacy/safety/liability nightmare and they'd make laws against doing it.
> climate change is the cause of carbon emissions

?
This is the exact opposite of the advice I've heard about how to successfully deploy SAP - while it is endlessly customizable and you can staff a large, doomed engineering project to customize it to fit your business, you are a lot better off adopting the workflow and processes SAP wants you to use than adapting SAP to what you've been doing internally.
Optimism doesn't make for sexy comments I guess. All I said was I was excited that it seemed possible lol
There are so many mid-tier companies in my mediocre city paying (for the area) absolutely stupid money and so desperate for developers that they wouldn't dare ask that much time of a promising candidate for fear of losing them to somewhere else. It is, to an incredible degree, a seller's market for software development. There are two whole different worlds of software interviewing, as far as I can tell, and outside of FAANG and friends the pay difference is just about non-existent so it's not worth putting up with humiliating or time-wasting games.
Does Southern Turkey also has a history like Kashmir?
In all the places I've worked over the last decade Dave would have many, many incident reports against his name, and all the root cause investigations would not look good for him either.
Before I heard of Chesterton's Fence, I had read of the Hurrican Lantern Effect. Pretty similar

http://quichemoraine.com/2009/06/the-hurricane-lantern-effec...
Did you really just compare Catalonia: A bunch of rich, entitled Spanish brexiter equivalents to Kurds who are being slaughtered by ISIS, Assad, Russia, and Türkiye?

Really???? I spend 2 months per year in Catalonia. There are no kids without legs in the streets. There are not 4 million refugees there.

Catalonia is identical to a bunch of Rich British wankers feeling that they are entitled to "more".
On point! And so begins the large IT company lifecycle...

- Those hundreds of sales engineers weave a spaggeti junction of pseudo products around the core application to suit the whims of the C-level clients and their buzzwords of the month

- The company gets frustrated when this begins to break down leading to sales delays and embarks on a disasterous rearchitect which pits the sales engineers (microservices!) and core engineers against each other.

- The sales delays lead to cost cutting and the old guard make a timely exit with a nice package. The laid off sales engineers get a better gig due to the buzzwords on the cv.

- At some stage in the old guard are brought back to maintain the old core that is still running the company, but now charge a hefty consultant rate.
I think the author is distinguishing between intent/agency/free will in the case of mental action and the empty, meaningless quality of material "causes".

For causality and the slipperiness of it, read Hume.
You want an older version to support all new features.
That's not possible unless you just change the ui on each version.
If you look at the actual data, average hours worked has gone down steadily in the US over the past 200 years:

> 1830 69.1 hours per week

> 1880 60.7

> 1929 50.6

> 1988 42.4

> As the twentieth century ended there was nothing resembling a shorter hours “movement.” The length of the workweek continues to fall for most groups — but at a glacial pace. Some Americans complain about a lack of free time but the vast majority seem content with an average workweek of roughly forty hours — channeling almost all of their growing wages into higher incomes rather than increased leisure time.

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history/

In my own estimation, spending time with friends may be less emphasized in the current era due to the increased role of social media and the personal atomization it unintentionally prmootes.
Some Benefits of Short Games for Adults
Other than the fact that Facebook and Google know that you’re looking for therapists...
For my senior project, they had us prototype a replacement for Blackboard. This was not just an exercise: the CS department was seriously considering building and maintaining their own alternative.
Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first
yea and if you live for today you could be in the street tomorrow
Having lived two hours from Gaziantep, Turkey did this quite often, this isn't anything new. Often times many sites were blocked, then unblocked depending on the whims of the government.
And we're currently in this weird situation where older criminals are more violent than younger criminals, in contravention of how things typically go, because older criminals were exposed to lead as children.
I just started working out of a space in Boston last month and it's been sublime. There's always a WeWork in whatever city I'm traveling to and at 25$ per day (beyond my usual credits), it's really affordable to have an office while traveling to both work and host clients.
Coding challenges as your barrier to entry are an optimization for a certain type of employee - low demand workers who don't have the leverage to by-pass who start hiring funnels that start with coding challenges and recruiter calls.

You may be gaining access to hidden gems, but you're definitely turning away proven and experienced developers from even entering your hiring funnel.

It all depends on what type of employee you're wanting to hire.