skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have found that our daily standup calls are fairly therapeutic for those involved. Occasionally, a call will start with a very salty conversation regarding some topic from the prior day or concerns around schedules, but every single time it eventually evolves into a productive call. Sometimes this takes 20 seconds, sometimes this takes 20 minutes. I have a bad habit of trying to pre-empt or quench a salty exchange in progress, which usually escalates the situation further. I've found the best thing someone on the sidelines of a heated or otherwise pointless exchange can do is to come up with a completely different topic, or propose some sort of compromise. But, at the end of the day it can really help some people when you just let them yell it out for a few minutes on the phone. Doing this all the time is obviously not healthy for team dynamics, but there is always some happy medium between extremes.

One other thing that can help a lot is to have structured calls and ways for people to flag things for mandatory discussion. If I am on a call that starts going sideways, having some established process where I can say something like "Hey guys, can we take a look at <some bucket of flagged items>?" can very quickly right the ship. What this does is effectively remind everyone that we are here to do a job with certain degree of professionalism and diligence. Everyone also has a vested interest in getting to the bucket of review items, because these are usually the topics creating the most stress day-to-day, and talking through them with the team is an excellent means to relieve much of that stress.
So when does Yelp see spikes in traffic needing a custom Autoscaler? I guess just the daily time zone based sine wave type load?
Roth/Updike
Allow me to be a bit self-deprecating on behalf of my fellow Hoosiers here: I'm from Indianapolis, originally. We have a rule about going into "other" Indiana:

Don't.

More seriously, no you're not really that far off. Most of the wealth concentrated in NWI specifically exists to and from Chicago. In this case, not speaking for anyone else by me and my own experiences: I have many friends who live in towns like Hammond, but with the exception of groceries and utilities spend a lot of their time (and money) over in IL (these are the well to do types, I should clarify). My job is in Chicago. Personally I'd be curious to see if anyone's ever done the numbers on how towns like Merrilville and Hammond are doing fiscally against how many residents hold full-time jobs in the second city.

Brain drain is a real thing too, if kiddo isn't going to ND, IU Northwest or State (or even traveling down to Bloomington or Lafayette), they're probably heading up 55 to Chicago and going to one of the many schools up there. And not returning because...well, there's not much here, big wheel in the sky keeps on turning.

All that said: Housing is affordable. Indianapolis is slowly transforming into something really interesting. Have fun getting there with these roads but..
While the cohort tables seems easy to understand, it’s not actually easy to write SQL queries that generates those graphs because of the way SQL works. That’s probably the main reason why most of the companies continue to use the tools such as Mixpanel and Amplitude. If you don’t have the raw event data, it’s probably easier to use one of those tools.

That being said, we’re actually focusing exactly that use-case at https://rakam.io. If you have the customer event data in your database, you model your data and run ad-hoc funnel and retention queries. The product is free for individual users, feel free to try it out.
ITT, proof that nvidia hates linux users. I'm flabbergasted that it still takes so much effort to get this driver running on new kernels. Even more of a problem when you need to sign the module (not much exists for straightforward docs).
WTF?

Don't some people have credit cards from different countries? Legally, I mean.
At least the "Hyperbole" as you put it is based on scientific studies about the carrying capacity of the earth. It appears to me a perfectly rational position. In fact isn't it irrational to ignore these kinds of studies?

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/scientist-warmi...

Seems it is the economists who are the optimists, and we know how well economists are at forcasting anything...

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/03/13...
The Open Connect program is maybe 10 years old. Is there anything new here?

I remember Comcast whining about their transit traffic getting saturated by Netflix during the first big Net Neutrality fight. Open Connect solved their problems for the price of electricity to run the box. That wouldn't allow Comcast to hold their customers hostage from Netflix though.
Can you expand on your process? or provide the original HN posts that helped you form this process? I've struggled with conceptualizing a proper routine for approaching work/study and incorporating it into my life properly sans dreading it/procrastinating the work.
Who are they making the apps for? Are they making the enterprises work better? Are they meeting the actual users and identifying their pain-points while developing solutions?

Or are they just getting a list of requirements from a middle-manager (rather than the user) who doesn't actually know what needs to be done?

The former can help motivate them and also help them develop better systems (that fit the real user needs, not management's perceived needs).
As an old school liberal, it pains me to see these activists described as "liberal". They don't even believe in freedom of speech for pity's sake, formerly a hallmark of being far right.

Call them progressives, call them identity politics advocates, but whatever they are, they are not liberals. Don't lump us in with them.
My husband is an Optometrist, and it did not do LASIK for his own eyes. Actually, I do not think I know one Optometrist in our circle of friends who did LASIK. They pretty much all wear either contact or glasses.
It does not seem like we should ban LASIK, but LASIK is not for everyone. And here in US, LASIK is a lucrative business. I would not be surprised that some LASIK have been done on people who were not good candidate at the first place. And now those people are disappointed, after spending several thousand dollars.
You definitely need cash.
Could a researcher chime in: is it possible that smaller models have a higher potential for mapping activations to abstractions that are present in our own language understanding and if so, could we use these makings to make our models more transparent and explainable?
Well, that's the price of expecting people to spend their whole life at work. If everybody knocks off at 5 and goes home, they can keep their politics at home. Google feeds 3 meals a day, and if you eat dinner at work, you're expected to return to work afterwards. They have lockers and showers at work. They'd have adult dorms if they could.
I am sure some of them also have friends and family in the various American security forces who would have benefited from those projects, not to mention many other Americans protected by those security forces.

This is exactly the point, in a big company there are many people with various interests, if you want to lean to a certain political side you will always alienate a lot of people so better just to keep politics out of it as much as possible
If I could summarize "Why We Sleep" in a single sentence though it would be:

"Sleep or you will die"

That grabs readers' attention. While the hyperbolic tone of the book can be justified given that sleep is so misunderstood ... it does invite skepticism at the same time so I appreciate that the author of this article has done such a thorough lookup.

-- edited for clarity
The GP talked about a diversity of viewpoints, but you're talking about diversity of race and sexual identity. At the very least, most persons don't consider race to be a viewpoint.
> All belief is self-delusion.

Do you believe that?
seventy people, including the film's stars, were seriously injured during filming as a result of animal attacks.

Wow.
Worker rights and working with the military and police are not left-vs-right politics.
It's also possible to like someone even if you don't like their views. There's one former coworker in particular that comes to mind whose views on politics made my eyes roll nearly to the back of my head, but he wasn't a bad person. He was still a decent guy with interesting hobbies who would probably be there for you if you needed him.

I find odious people in general hold a wide variety of beliefs across the entire political spectrum.
How exactly does the article contradict that?

The article has very few specific examples, a few mentions of some draft and "suspicious" discrepancies between bing and google.

None of which really mean much, except that it sounds like the typical liberal bias meme.
So you're saying we need decals for a scooter rental company that could plausibly exist but doesn't.
This infiltration and chaos making by SJWs in the tech companies is just a continuation of Dutschke's "Long march through the institutions"[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_march_through_the_ins...
The problem with that is it is very easy for someone to get a lot of work done in something useless. It is very easy to keep adding more and more features to product X not realizing the the product will never sell enough to make the investment in releasing it worth it: you would be just as useful to the company by taking a nap. Meetings are how you get everybody on the same page on these things. Of course if it is obvious the product won't pay off you send a memo to everyone. However more likely it is a combination of the marketing person doing some productions of sales, engineering projecting how much effort is left, and then someone senior deciding if we need to invest anyway because the loss leader is still worth it for other reasons...

None of this is to say you are wrong though.
Which browser are you using for the Elsevier trick? This doesn't work for me in Firefox.

Edit: Middle click doesn't work for me in Firefox, but opening in a new tab via the right-click menu does.
2kliksphilip vs. Data Stealers
I would pay $1/mo for a chronological feed of my friends' updates and posts.

I found Twitter and Facebook to be frustratingly unusable after they removed their chronological feeds in favor of feeds that prioritize ads and engagement.
Dang doesn't understand any of what you said, and makes zero attempt at improving, neither himself nor the site at large.

I am certainly not guiltless, but consider the fact that I have none of these problems anywhere else I interact with others. Why is it just on HN that I run into these struggles? I am in lots of communities through my daily interactions, and I successfully navigate those, so what's special about HN, other than dang and the site's mechanics?

This place cannot handle dissent. That's literally the definition of a toxic environment, and dang does nothing to create safety for people who might not agree with the mainstream view. That's on him.
That core point is like a variation on a lemma in a paper I recently published (Lemma 2 in [1]): There can be no single deterministic interactive reward-giving environment which can, by its lonesome, serve as a good proxy for general intelligence of deterministic agents.

The proof is fairly simple. Suppose E were such an environment. I claim that every intelligent agent is exactly as intelligent (according to intelligence as measured by performance in E) as some "blind" agent, where by "blind" I mean an agent which totally ignores its surroundings.

Let A be any deterministic agent. If we were to place A in the environment E, then A would take certain actions, call them a1, a2, a3, ..., based on A's interaction with E.

Now define a new agent B as follows. B totally ignores everything and instead just blindly takes actions a1, a2, a3, ...

By construction, B acts exactly the same as A within E, therefore, as measured by E-performance, A and B are equally intelligent. So, for any particular environment, every agent is just as intelligent as some "blind" agent. But that's clearly a very bad property for an alleged intelligence measure to possess!

[1] https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEIVU.pdf
Am I one of the lucky ones? I see quite a few negative comments about dry eyes, halos, etc., but for me that really only lasted about a week or two. It healed so quickly that I actually don't even remember now how long it took, exactly. With that said, I made sure to go to a surgeon with a lot of experience, using the latest proven tech. I spent $4500 on it and I feel it was worth every penny.
if my memory serves, the difference is an overhead of O(1), with a C that is large enough to prevent it from being practical
Anyone know of any organizations working to repeal Intellectual Monopoly laws? I know there are organizations that try to counter the influence of the IM industry
like EFF and FSF, but I’m looking for groups that have come out and said Intellectual Monopoly
laws need to go, period.
Fucking Love Live Music
Why would your life change so much/in an instant? Does your state mark your arrest for such a minor warrant in some permanent record or such, without being able to do much about it? You’re not being charged for a felony.

DUIs are more serious as one example. I don’t know the extent to how you need to inform people like employers about it, but it hasn’t seemed to affect life in the medium or long term for people I know irl. The biggest issue is losing driving privileges for a decent amount of time. Which isn’t likely in your situation. Or the ones I’ve been in.
obligatory comment that uBlockMatrix or any similar content blocker is good, but would anyone tell me if that is sufficient as well?
I have used the same "indendation" in the past. Because there are always review comments that his would be weird/confusing/unconventional I have given up on using it :(
...this might save megawatts of power world wide...

Since when saved megawatts bothered programmers? If that was the case we would see far smaller usage of scripting languages and electron apps.
Ok. I see our definitions diverge too much for me to work on your assumptions.
I learned long ago I only have about 30 hours of good code per week in my. So I need more than one hour of meetings every day just to make up the 40 hours I'm expected to be at work.

It helps to remember that I'm paid the same to attend a meeting as to do work.
I get you! Apologies if what I said came across negatively.
There are a couple other mentions in this thread about PRK. I went the PRK route instead of Lasik, and don't regret it one bit. I chose PRK because it was less risky, and was more durable. Look it up yourself, but brief summary:

- no flap, they remove top layer of cells with a scraper, then laser
- no flap means stronger eyes. if you box, mountain bike, work in a high risk environment, it's the procedure to get
- long recovery time, and it's pretty painful for the first week. ~ 2 weeks to reasonable vision, 4-6 weeks for 20/20 or better.
- less chance of dry eyes (still a semi-common outcome)

My eye doctor, the casey eye institute, pushed lasik, but that was purely for what people commonly want. They were enthusiastic about PRK, considered it a better procedure for people who were OK with the recovery time, with less chance of complications.

My complications:

- dry eyes, but nothing worse than contacts get midway through a day
- sensitive eyes. meaning, a scratch on the eye becomes eye wateringly bad
- slight halos at night, but again, nothing worse than contacts at the end of the day

I am happy with the results, would do it again, and am currently advising my wife to do PRK instead of lasik (she's on the fence of doing anything). I ride mountain bikes, dirt bikes, and do lots of building, so chances of complications with a flap are non-zero. If you haven't read, those complications are pretty bad - get lazik, take a stick to the eye a year later which causes the flap to dislodge, you now have potentially uncorrectable vision in that eye.

Search the rest of this discussion for PRK. If you aren't afraid of pain, discomfort, and a long recovery time, it's the procedure to get.

Also there's a HUGE difference in lasik or PRK providers. As you can imagine, it's worth spending extra. My procedure cost $4k total, which is $3k more than budget lasik providers. However, I worked with some top eye doctors that regularly perform serious eye surgery, and are at the forefront of optometry. Strip mall discount lasik has less time spent on planning, comes with less experience in recommending procedures, and has less experience working with complications. Definitely don't cheap out!
Why Less Is More with a 4 Day Work Week
Imagine a von Neumann who didn't drink and kept himself in shape.
More like “anyone who says racist, homophobic, sexist things is probably a racist, homophobe, or sexist”.
I really wish all the best upon this boy, but I wonder what becomes of these gifted people.

From time to time, we see articles like this of a gifted children.

And then we never hear from them ever again.

It seems to me that having a gift is not synonymous with being (moderately) successful.

Am I totally biased, wrong on this notion?
It’s for a charity of your choice, so if you have the money, it’s an option. That’s why the base is $3
> ...would focus on beancounting and running Google as a "mature" firm, with little or no innovation to speak of.

Surprising that folks would think along those lines given Sundar's background as head of product with Chrome browser, Chrome OS, and Android before he took over as CEO in 2015.
The only reason to land on the moon would be if you could find fuel there.

Which you can't. So that's a no for the moon, but something from orbit could make sense.

Have a staging area and just accumulate tons of fuel from multiple launches.
SCOTUS denied the petition for writ of certiorari, thereby leaving the 2nd Circuit's ruling in Google's favor intact.

However, the 2nd Circuit's ruling is not binding on any other federal circuits.

Also, as Enginerrd stated, the holding is not nearly as broad as the article makes it out to be.

The holding was:

1. Google’s unauthorized digitizing of copyright-protected works, creation of a search functionality, and display of snippets from those works are non-infringing fair uses. The purpose of the copying is highly transformative, the public display of text is limited, and the revelations do not provide a significant market substitute for the protected aspects of the originals. Google’s commercial nature and profit motivation do not justify denial of fair use.

2. Google’s provision of digitized copies to the libraries that supplied the books, on the understanding that the libraries will use the copies in a manner consistent with the copyright law, also does not constitute infringement.

Based on the above holding, I think the article's conclusion is a stretch for general training algorithms using copyrighted data because: (1) there would not be a library supplying the information to the training algorithm, (2) there would be no similar display of snippets, and (3) we do not know if a training algorithm would provide a market substitute for the copyrighted data.
As someone who went to college early (some community college classes at 14, then university at 16), and was partially homeschooled (freshman-junior year), I wouldn't recommend this.

Socializing is huge. I really cannot emphasize enough how important it is, especially for younger kids. If you're really smart or gifted in a subject, there are multiple other avenues to take that still let you hang out with peers around your age.
Where did I say $240/ year is the baseline
Stirring up political arguments with your officemates is one thing. Objecting to your employers (and thus, potentially, you) building censorship systems for oppressive regimes is something entirely different.
You get adoption by datamining and autoenrollment so that when people do finally sign in/up.. they already have a network.
A nice history for the development and support of the Alvarez' hypothesis!
Having been in grad school back then, I recall talks taking both sides of the paleontological questions.
The civil debate described in this article is the way science (Earth science, at least) progresses.
I have large pupils and no halos more than 2 years post surgery.
> It's going to be a simple dollar value equation for companies like Amazon, and make no mistake, they have the data and have made these decisions consciously.

I suspect they're not counting the damage this is doing to their brand. I've kept items that were slightly damaged, but it slowly eroded my trust in Amazon. Now I avoid Amazon if I can help it.
I was wondering why it needed to be such a jarring price.
$13 per month? Really? What’s the bandwidth cost on text and a few images in S3?

Critical mass is obviously the barrier to building something like this but I’m inclined to agree that charging $1/month and $10 a year should be able to turn a healthy profit.

I do kind of wonder if the public is even aware of the problem, though. Anyone I’ve spoken to outside the industry seems to genuinely believe that folks with different opinions to them are stupid (rather than sorted into a different branch of Facebook/Google’s great graph of knowledge for their daily programming).
Tons of people had access to PDP-11s at the time, they sold half a million or so of them. It was super common for high schools to have one or two for instance. And vast majority of them were running UNIX since you could get it for the cost of the blank tape at the time; AT&T was forbidden from selling it due to antitrust regulations.

And you're acting like it's some impenetrable tome. Give it a read, it's a better intro to OS dev than Tannenbaum, IMO.

And a RPi has tons of still hidden bits, and an Arduino is even less powerful than most PDP-11s.
> and when "anybody who thinks that it's okay for there to be consequences for racism / sexism / other bigotry is a worthless California leftist and should be ignored" became the default modus operandi of many right-wing extremists.

That was always the MO of right-wing extremists. But after Trump's election is when people whose views were once considered moderate-left to moderate-right suddenly became "far-right", "alt-right", or "Nazis".

I think it stems from a mentality that someone else pointed out: not wanting to discuss the matter is tacit support for the status quo. A.k.a. "if you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem." A.k.a. "Until they are free they are part of the System, and that System is the enemy." If you aren't anti-racist or anti-sexist enough, you must be racist or sexist.
You are right, I have no rigorous scientific study to offer as evidence, just my personal opinion based on 4 data points (me and my siblings).

But, anecdotal evidence is still evidence, weak as it is. I'm sure there are others here who have experienced something similar which is partially why I took the time to type it up - to see if that is the case.
That doesn't really work though. According to the calculator, 74 dog years is ~100 human years. There are plenty of humans who are 100+ years old, but there are no dogs that are anywhere even close to 74 years old. The longest lived dog known died at 29.
I think it also depends on the person (their vision/health/etc.) as well as the surgeon's experience plus the equipment. The hours/days following the procedure are also pretty critical. You have to be very careful to not rub your eyes or anything like that and get plenty of rest while using the eye drops as prescribed.