skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a maker (individual contributor), I have been having this issue a lot, but my attempts at pushing back do not seem to be going so well. Any time I reserve a large chunk of time on my calendar, people set up meetings on top of it anyway, or message me asking if that block time is "real" (as though quiet focused work isn’t a thing).

My days are filled with little dabs of 30 minutes here and there that are barely enough to remember what I had been working on before another meeting started, so I normally end up getting my actual work done late at night after an early dinner, which my wife is not particularly happy about.

Any recommendations? I’ve broached the topic lightly with my manager but don’t want to come across as whining, so I’ve generally just been trying to push back on meetings in the friendliest way that I can.
That works in Python but this idea would fail in languages with fixed with integers.
A quit is different from a "will do it on the side."
This is awesome, my only suggestion would be the ability to rearrange the order of the employees, or maybe hiring order is part of the strategy :D
I think you are wrong about this, there are so many variables and sea conditions can affect things, for example older engines and maintenance at sea. AIS data is also known to be wildly inaccurate.

Source: built an engine performance model at a maritime company.
You may be able to reproduce the effect for yourself, at home; try it and see. I have reproduced it occasionally.

The curiosity is not that it is not reliable, but that it can happen at all; the effect experimentally can violate Newton's Law of Cooling, which means that there must be some interesting non-classical (quantum or electronic) effect.
An impending loan crisis could be the canary in the coal mine for the whole tech “bubble” blowing up.

Sequioa shared the “Rest in Peace Good Times” presentation in 2008 with their portfolio companies:

https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/rip-good-times
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The answer is yes. Yes, you can be locked out from your whole google account for violating the policies of any google service.
How prophetic. This was written just before the Great Recession of 2008.
orbits in space are geometrically perfect, you can reasonably talk about 1cm accuracy there.. On earth, variations in a long list of things, including physically moving land (due to seismic activity), make "1cm accuracy" something that does not actually hold.. no doubt it has a lot of positive measuring ability .. but the real truth gets messy..
They are particularly horrendous..I've had the misfortune to work with government-provided PDFs using custom font glyphs in lieu of proper encodings. In some cases this was the only way to encode particular languages/scripts before Unicode (Jawi was my personal experience). There are now better ways, but poorly-exposed operating system support means most people with these needs still have custom fonts as the entrenched method of text entry.

Some of the encodings were so esoteric we resorted to OCR instead to extract the embedded text. It was quite frustrating to know that somebody - somewhere - knew what each octet represented, but it wasn't remotely Google-able (in English, at any rate).

(Tamil was also problematic, and still is, even with Unicode, as I understand it)
would like to add one more point, you can actually improvise your "flow" by practicing Journaling. Being yourself will also help.
IPFS Storage Provider Moibit Is Providing Free IPFS Storage to First 100 Users
Theyd kind of have to if they were being paid to ... whether what they charge FF etc is reasonable would be the question
The replacement cycle of cars has been getting longer since about 25 years ago. The average age of cars on the road is now about 12 years. This fact is often overlooked by folks who predict a rapid shift to electric cars.
Related from Feb: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/02/12/record-mi...
Thank you for this resource. I'm planning to write a Control Surface Script for the MidiFighter 3D.
I've never checked but I don't think I've ever been underwater on a car loan - I finance but not 100% of the price - it's more like 50% - whatever the value of the trade plus at least a little bit of cash that I bring to the table.

That said I tend to agree that "underwater" isn't really the right concept for a car loan. Unless of course you total a car right after you get it. Sucks to be putting $ towards a car note with nothing behind it.
Because gluten-free probably means adding other lectins.
There are a few autism cases on meatheals.com
> the government would be left holding 80 billion dollars worth of stock, which they can't really do anything with.

The government seizes securities all the time and sells them with no problem. They probably couldn't sell all 80,000,000,000USD of stock all at once but neither can anyone else.
Using Technology to Improve Employee Engagement
Reading some of these stories makes you want to smack your forehead on your desk. A lack of basic financial literacy + materialism sometimes have some pretty brutal results.

One example:

> Nicole-Malia Tennent and Shyanne Fernandez, both in their early 20s, wanted to trade in the car they shared for something less expensive last year. The friends, who live in Hawaii, ended up splurging on a new vehicle and moving the unpaid loan balance of $12,500 from an older GMC into a new loan for a 2018 GMC Sierra truck.

> The rollover debt helped drive up the new loan balance to more than $66,000. The friends now split the payment of more than $900 a month, which they owe to Pearl Hawaii Federal Credit Union for 84 months. Their old loan was about $500 a month.

How do you go looking for a vehicle that's less expensive and end up with a vehicle that's nearly 2x the cost?
I think this is the most direct way to increase visibility on a project.
I'm sure it does. Whales evolve slowly though, since they can live for centuries.

Then again they're fairly smart, so they might figure out strategies.

I expect we'll also make ships easier for them to spot.
Mobile Marketing Trends in 2020
>And seemingly, the two foremost use cases have become to captivate people’s attention to sell them ads, and to threaten the lives of people we disagree with ideologically.

In my highly unscientific observation those use cases are minuscule in comparison to entertainment (Netflix/Hulu/YouTube shows, funny cat videos, arguing with idiots on Reddit, reading the news, reading blogs, pornography, reading HN, etc, etc).
The article reads like it's been back and forth between several languages in Google Translate.
Maybe link them this article and phrase it as an experiment. If velocity increases then your manager will know it is worthwhile.
Wow, it's really fascinating to see the differences in the targeting strategies between different parties:

- The Conservative party rarely targets large groups of people in comparison Labour

- The Brexit party's targeted audience is 76% male with an average age of 58

- Recently (last 4 days), the Conservative party's marketing skewed proportionally male (from 45% to 70%)

- None of the average target ages are below 36

- Conservative messages are longest, and Brexit party messages are shortest

I'm not sure if we can draw many conclusions from this data though since:
- It doesn't include all the parties

- It includes only Facebook ads, not all political ads
Yes. But if they deal with the low-hanging fruits, this change on TOS means that they have covered their asses when the banned people start complaining
Losing access to ALL Google services happens because of abuse signals. I don't know of any other instances where global bans happen.
None of my friends here have Alexa. I've heard of its quirks as some of my US colleagues do but based on their stories I've consistently failed to gather why would I ever want one myself.
The hedge fund featured in Billions is entirely unlike typical quant trading firms in culture and operation, let alone RenTech.
These die remarkably young. I remember a doctor who ate only plants you can find in Finnish nature all-year-round. This implied severe calorie restriction too, while this term was not yet popular in 1970s. He died 72 years old. There was some definite component missing in this diet, and many plants were found poisonous when consumed en masse.
Fun question: did the translators use green or blue for the green translation? Green (midori) is a newish word and semaphores, traditionally, use blue (aoi) when referring to the green light.

This is something I assume translators would be able to catch that would be much more difficult for translation software.
It's not that easy:

There could be a XSS vulnerability in the management interface.

There could be a vulnerability in any component which is internet facing.

The router is handling packets. There might be a vulnerability in that logic allowing for maliciously crafted packets (in the answer of a request).
Dupe:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21476304

23 comments, 65 points
This article was discussed last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21476304
As shown in this thread, you should be very uneasy about relying on this for arbitrary inputs. Non-trivial floating point math (such as log10) + rounding almost surely ends up with off-by-one errors.
Yeah, you're definitely the exception. The vast majority of people are not putting 50% down on a car..
> I’m concerned, of course, that Americans have built a society with so few buses that everyone has to buy a car on credit. But being “underwater” is not the main problem here.

More specifically, we've built cities that are pretty awful for bus (or rail) transportation, if you thrown any sane amount of money at the public transit system. Most of our cities have been relying on inefficient (i.e. very spread-out, low-density) growth patterns to cover costs, while the long-term expenses demanded by that growth (maintenance, for example) outpace the revenue it brings in. It's musical chairs, and when the music (growth) stops most of the cities in the US are going to be Detroit, with way too much city for their tax base to support.

Huge, low-density cities lead to shitty, expensive services (bus service being but one example) and crippling, indefinitely-ongoing maintenance expenses.
> And, again, studies are not required to find large impact.

They are if the impact only shows up over time, for instance, because it's cumulative. Smoking unquestionably has the largest impact on your chance of developing lung cancer, but it still took decades of careful study to demonstrate that causation beyond a reasonable doubt. Nowhere near this level of study has been applied to the benefits of static typing (really, no question in CS has enjoyed a comparable level of empirical study, which is a shame).

>> Furthermore, the selective pressures you speak of aren't really driven by functional correctness ("worse is better", first mover advantage), so I frankly expect to see little correlation between economic success of a software company and the functional correctness of its software products, which in fact seems to be the case.

> Wait, but before that you said that if there was no impact on functional correctness then we wouldn't do what we do.

There's no inconsistency between those two assertions. As an overly-reductive example, if my company's revenue consists of 70% inertia from first-mover advantage and 30% from having a product with fewer bugs than my competitors, then functional correctness is not the primary source of revenue. As long as I satisfy the minimal viable product threshold, inertia will keep me alive.

Even so, as professionals we presumably ought to be motivated to minimize our contribution to operational costs and maximize our contribution to revenue. If improved code organization, improved documentation, and improved tooling had literally no impact on functional correctness, then we'd be wasting considerable resources for no observable benefit. There's some slack in there to make your employees's live more enjoyable, but not as much as we focus on these other qualities.
question: Is transporting cargo via airplanes more environmentally friendly than ships?

Because, one thought comes to my mind: If speed of ships go down, then airplane cargo industry would probably benefit. So, I am not sure if this move would be beneficial for environment at the end of day.
I've actually heard that french translations of shakespeare are "better" than the english originals, as they modernise it a bit, whereas the english version is left in an archaic form of english where a lot of the rhymes and puns no longer work
But their marketing is great! That's really all that matters anymore.
Fun fact: the pprof tool that comes in gperftools can read perf data files, so you can use them together if you prefer pprof’s reporting.
This is kind of true but the article is pushing it a bit far. In the schema there is an afternoon with block of two hours. One would hope that a maker could do something in a two hour block...
It depends where this is going to happen. Libraries, OSes, RDBMSes, etc. will have to be optimized for sure. But actual apps? There's way more app writers than library writes.

And most line-of-business apps don't need to be faster, they need to be easier to use and more stable.
I am optimistic that Moore's Law will eventually recover, with a new technology, perhaps silicon-based, perhaps not. Information processing is not intrinsically limited by silicon - for example, mammalian brains are more powerful.

But that's lomg-term, big-picture. Technologies can remain stagnant longer than you can remain alive.
This article refers to valgrind's profiling features (callgrind) and not its more common/popular 'memcheck' feature.

Sanitizers and memcheck are unrelated to the profiling discussion here.
I use OpenWRT and couldn't be happier.
That is actually a good way to hide public information. Even the best search engines might fail you here.
So you're saying that you find it odd that someone would express their desire not to listen to someone else by actually not listening to them and just continuing to insult them?
Reminds me of the audio API mess. If you want to stream arbitrary sample data to an output you can either use ScriptProcessorNode (simple API, well supported but deprecated) or AudioWorkletNode (over-engineered API, largely unsupported and experimental).

The stall in that case seems caused by the overly ambitious design of the Web Audio API altogether. It's utterly useless for audio processing or synthesis except when using the aforementioned APIs because it mandates a bunch of underspecified high level concepts. Just let me fill a buffer with floats for the speakers and read a buffer of floats for the mic. That's literally all I need, and literally the only way you can build, say, a compressor and have full control of its characteristics.

When researching the best option I found this, so I'm not alone in thinking this: https://blog.mecheye.net/2017/09/i-dont-know-who-the-web-aud...
I think he thinks that Kashoggi's murder was something like a situation that had gotten out of hand, or that it was decided by some low rank official. Otherwise, as you say, it wouldn't make sense to compare it to an actual accident (however caused by reckless behaviour).
J. Michael Straczynski Message Archive 1991-2010 (17,000 messages)
Kshama Sawant was just elected to her third term on the Seattle City Council. Here is the Wikipedia section about her economic policy:

> Sawant has advocated the nationalization of large Washington State corporations such as Boeing, Microsoft, and Amazon[62] and expressed a desire to see privately owned housing in "Millionaire's Row" in the Capitol Hill neighborhood turned into publicly owned shared housing complex saying, "When things are exquisitely beautiful and rare, they shouldn't be privately owned."[63] During an election victory rally for her City Council campaign, Sawant criticized Boeing for saying it would move jobs out of state if it could not get wage concessions and tax breaks. She called this "economic terrorism" and said in several speeches that if Boeing moved jobs out of state, the workers should take over Boeing facilities and bring them into public ownership. She has said they could be converted into multiple uses, such as production for mass transit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kshama_Sawant#Economic_policie...
Whales are also intelligent enough to learn that ships might be harmful, but it will still take time. ~70 years is nothing on an evolutionary scale
Car loans are a relatively small component of overall consumer debt in the U.S.[1]

By far, the largest amount of money tied up in debt is in mortgages. The highest number of borrowers are credit card users.

Underwater car loans are a problem for some borrowers, maybe, and could portend a slowdown in car buying, but people have many options when it comes to cars. They'll buy used, if they hit a debt wall and simply can't afford new, then later trade up for a new vehicle.

It's unlikely that this is a sign of recession, in my opinion.

1. https://www.lendingtree.com/debt-consolidation/consumer-debt...
To add to this, ads are currently the best way to collect micropayments from users online without requiring you (the website maintainer) to have a database or profile on each customer, or to handle complicated return processes, or to deal with merchant accounts. You just make an adwords account, serve content to people, and that's it.

I'm convinced that in a world where collecting anonymous micropayments was as easy as serving ads, the web would look at lot different.

People look at this as a choice between paying $5 a month for every website they visit, or getting it "free" with ads. But in a world with good micropayments, most websites wouldn't cost $5. Outside of the biggest players, most sites aren't currently making $5 a month per user via ads.
> directions from MapQuest

Heh. When I was traveling in Europe in the mid-80s we had to use actual maps. :-)
When I Bing Jeff Bezo's net worth, it gives me $155 Billion.

I don't know what number should be used to say "this amount will fundamentally change someone's life", but I'm going to arbitrarily pick $50,000.

$155 Billion / 50,000 = 3.1 million.

That's approximately the population of Arkansas.
There's something related called the bullwhip effect. I think that throwing away requests under load rather than putting them in some overflow queue prevents it. The effects aren't magnified down the chain of services as each scales up because it's only incoming traffic.
> The system is likely the service's new "ODIN" laser dazzler that is meant to blind enemy optics on ships, boats, aircraft, and missiles.

Couldn't you now just home in on the laser? I feel like I'm missing something.
Electronic devices != giant diesel engines with very very specific use cases.
If you can find another individual (or two) who's dealing with the same problem, you can schedule a block of time with them (a meeting) and work side-by-side. May even collaborate.

Name it something important: critical feature optimization, application security audit, system integration... do not call it focusing on your work.
Also see r/combatfootage

Citizens should aware of what happens without passing through the media's filter/framing.

Also, a lot of the value in that sub is also from the comments. It's like the experts we have on HN, but for armed conflicts.
I'd be pretty surprised if anyone intentionally programmed in gender discrimination, so I'm curious what factors have approximated it here.
Just use a join on a temporary table. IN with a thousand clauses is an abuse of SQL.
It's not even about standing up to power, it's about standing up to author's ideological enemies.
Was the display that low-res? You couldn't watch video, browse the web, read pdf's, lookup maps etc?

EDIT It was 640×360. 360p is low, but typical for mobile youtube not so long ago. You can get an 80x45 xterm, with an 8x8 font.
Yup, in a reasonably, but not entirely optimised setup, the spinup time for a new node from scale-up event launching to it being able to serve traffic may take 2-3 minutes. And trust me, after a couple of mishaps with very aggressive scale-ups, your system will not launch the full demand absorption all at once.

In a fully optimised setup each service image is itself 100% preconfigured, and only provisions node secrets during the boot. Even one of these types of nodes takes easily 30-40 seconds from launch event to actually serve traffic: it may join the load balancer just 25 seconds in, but the load balancer will want to see at least two good health checks before allowing any traffic to it.

The problem with aggressive upscaling in the depicted scenario is that your plumbing layer is also likely scaled down. Hitting it with a cascade of new nodes has the risk of going all thundering herd, crippling the system for both existing and new nodes.
Thanks so much! This is really interesting. I think acloud.guru has a similar set up and they pay basically nothing for their millions of QPS. Going to research this more for my next project.
If my experience with the IT world has taught me anything, you'd be surprised for how long :-)
Now this article is marked as [dupe] and won't appear in HN's pagination. Shouldn't the comments be merged into the original then?
I am more of a traditional instrument(guitar) guy yet sampling does intrigue me a lot.

Might probably fool around in Ableton Live to get a feel for it :)
Acquired by https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/ALU:AU

Their market cap is 4b, so very unlikely. Probably ended up with a few million each, with a large chuck of it being some type of shares.
It seemed that all hedge funds in Billions were trading in insider information. It does seem prevalent, but I am not personally in the industry at all: https://medium.com/@malwarwick_98471/insider-trading-in-the-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_A._Cohen
can't you just comment them out?
Thanks for your analysis Todd!

Yes I agree it's fascinating to see how the campaign is playing out. Your statements are really insightful - glad you could glean this from our tool.

To answer your other points - the reason other parties aren't included is that they haven't paid for any Facebook ads yet (somewhat surprisingly perhaps).

Also, given Twitter is banning political advertising, Facebook now has the lion's share of the audience on social platforms at least. Instragram & Messenger ads are also included in this analysis.
> Q: Would created apps work offline?
> A: No.

> Q: Do miniAppMaker support push notifications?
> A: Not right now, but we’re planning to.

Great attempt at building an alternative though, but right now not having notifications and offline support are significant deal-breakers for me.
Wouldn't this just move more goods that need to be delivered time-sensitively to the air, which pollutes even more?
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> This article is about the American hedge fund management company. For technical advancements during the European Renaissance period, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_technology
I believe this is true as well. I also know that certain institutions will track things like job/salary internally as well. Think about when you apply for a loan or mortgage you fill out “employer/salary” sections in the form.

In the case of say DHH or something, idk what his wife does/did but let’s for a second suppose that she doesn’t have a job as founder of Basecamp making $millions yearly. There would be a different attribute for the algo to differentiate.

Honestly, what’s the quick fix here?

if spouse == super_rich and other_spouse == not_so_rich_directly:

return use_rich_spouse_stats

??
That’s just time-shifting. You paid in opportunity cost to move those payments backwards in time. This may have been rational for you, since it lowers the risk of the loan I.e. you can always walk away from such a loan when it is backed by a sufficiently valuable asset. But this doesn’t change the fundamental equation.
I just want to hire a project manager :)

Great game.