skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've noticed a lot of drivers say they get more business on uber,........

Not from US, could it be Uber being more widely known?

( Why hasn't Lyft expanded beyond US ? )
> no reasonable person is saying cannabis is as safe as air (well actually some air might be worse)

Maybe none of them are reasonable, but there sure are a lot of them. I've met a lot of people who think consuming cannabis is more healthy than not consuming it. I think this is becoming a more popular viewpoint and might even become a mainstream belief in a few years.
Paper on the process at [1]

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/11/1/6
The way dweis never responded to batmansmk was disappointing to say the least.

kentonv was willing to engage on the points and came out much more reasonable in the whole thing.
Your point about the length his true on other platforms as well.

I was recently automatically warned by a bot when I asked a question on a discord channel. The question was detailed, with some code and about 20 lines long. I got slapped because it is "spam" (and apparently hard to read on a mobile which is not true after checking on my phone) . Others channels are fine with that.
PCI vs. CABG for unprotected L main stenosis: updated 5-year outcomes from NOBLE
I've written and published myself. Keeping manuscripts handy is part of the job. The problems mentioned in the twitter thread didn't exist before digital distribution, so what authors did beforehand is a bit of a non-sequitur. There were fewer of them, and the ones that made a living by it had real support on the business side of things, something vanishingly rare nowadays.

Accountants are required by law to maintain a minimum of seven years' worth of records for exactly that reason.

Fundamentally, if you want to sell a book you've written, no one is going to care more than you. That means that if you're a small, unsupported author (the vast majority of cases), it's on you to take care of the annoyances that come along for the ride. That's the nature of work. That flagging can be used as a form or harassment is a genuine problem- this is an inevitable side-effect of systems designed for pure automation, without a human in the loop to provide feedback. Over-reliance on automation is an issue that goes far beyond the world of publishing. That is orthogonal to the issue of being responsible for one's own creation, in terms of having needed resources on-hand.
It really is quite incredible.

I took a tax law class in grad school, taught by an expert's expert. The class is taught in such a way that you end up with a good feel for the conceptual topology of tax law.

I've done my own taxes awhile now. Then, last year, I helped my girlfriend (a management consultant) do her taxes. She had three client projects that year, all in different states. There were multiple issues in navigating that hall of mirrors, not the least of which was understanding how 'residency' was understood and impacted her taxes.

Simply filing them was also a chore. Some states didn't have e-file. Others sort of had it.

I do not wish the unique hell of U.S. tax filing on anyone.
Some of those are just because the bus is badly designed.
There's no reason you shouldn't be able to buy your ticket online, or through a Oyster-like card.

Also, it's something that really surprised me when I was in the UK, there's absolutely no maps anywhere. Especially inside the bus. I was on GPS the whole time just to make sure I stopped at the correct place.
I can understand not wanting to have a paper/hard coded map inside the bus if it does not run a regular line, but I'm sure they could devise something electronically...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit...

In general, most companies want to scope SOX as narrowly as possible. So if you can, only things that your auditors think will affect revenue reporting.

Querying ads performance data? Sure, we'll SOXify it.
Querying user accounts writ large? "Meh, our engineers need to be productive."
It's an interesting article. I was hoping for some alternative suggestions, because proto is "just good enough" at structure and wire to become the one tool a project will reach for so it doesn't need two tools.
Meanwhile, there are resources available for people who are stuck in areas of high visual pollution, which require only a small investment in tools and mindfulness of personal safety.

http://brandalism.ch/take-action/
http://www.billboardliberation.com/ArtAndScience-BLF.pdf
http://www.billboardliberation.com/
>The audience for this book is quite diverse: anyone who finds the above description intriguing. This could include a motivated high school student who hasn’t seen calculus yet but has loved reading a weird book on mathematical logic they found at the library. Or a machine-learning researcher who wants to understand what vector spaces, design theory, and dynamical systems could possibly have in common. Or a pure mathematician who wants to imagine what sorts of applications their work might have. Or a recently-retired programmer who’s always had an eerie feeling that category theory is what they’ve been looking for to tie it all together, but who’s found the usual books on the subject impenetrable.

Gives the idea this text should be accessible to those that haven’t seen calculus yet, presumably that would also mean those that haven’t had abstract algebra either. But in reality this book is more advanced than what the average retired programmer or average high schooler could understand on their own. It’s better suited for those that already are familiar with more advanced mathematics. I am not knocking the book. As mentioned, it is probably one of the best introductory books on Category theory currently out there.
I've been working in finance for years, and a couple of startups. From my own personal experience and from the experience of many people I know, you get stock but the stock is viewed as a 'nice little bonus' versus something that you expect to change your life.

In New York City:

Small tech startup -> very low salaries, questionable options

Fintech -> higher salaries (than tech), "nice to have bonus" type of stock options, plus a bonus

Banks and Hedge Funds -> For tech people, this is the "FANG equivalent". High salaries, big bonuses, and stocks that aren't theoretical. The pay is probably is not in the millions, but close to half a million if you're a Director or above on the tech side. Bankers always make more than tech, and tech is always viewed as a cost.

Now, Amazon and Google are expanding. I'm not sure how this will change the landscape.

I read a substantial part of this thread, and honestly I don't know a single person making 200K a year in equity as per some comments here.

Maybe I'm in the wrong part of the country.

Fintec
Yeah, +100 I have this same problem in general. FWIW, the only real practical example I've seen (which has been rather serendipitous for me) is the "Seven Sketches in Compositionality" linked in the comments below applying category theory to databases. You can even play with the actual an implementation (written Java) to see some real world code here: https://github.com/CategoricalData/CQL Dunno if that helps your needs much but it was at least some kind of concrete starting point for me.
You might also find this apt: you must omit all fifth glyphs on this mastodon social forum

https://oulipo.social
I'm not exactly against paying subscription fees.

What royally pisses me off with Adobe is that I now have pay them monthly to maintain access to my photo catalogue (edits/keywords/etc), but they don't use my moneys to improve their products.

I don't even remember when was the last useful new feature to either Photoshop or Lightroom, but I doubt it was within this decade.
Verifying Sorting Networks Off of Wikipedia (2019)
‘Money talks, ethics walks’ might be more appropriate
There are certain industries where you need to care. Or many lives will be lost because of it. Always follow the standard, even if it takes extra time to implement.
Unforeseen dangers of ignition interlock devices
Not a Cloud Kitchens employee, but I interviewed with them. They have bright talent, but the offers aren't all that good, especially for the level of experience they were looking for: they want the cream of the crop of this industry, and they do not want to pay top numbers.

The valuation has the "implicit" success baked into the price already-- and I don't think you could say Uber is a guaranteed success story yet. With CK, you take the risk of being an early employee with very little, if any, upside. This came up in other threads recently, but it's likely better odds to stick with Big N companies.

One angle people might be missing is how much CK is a real estate play. There's real technical problems to tackle, but it requires spinning up these dark kitchens in dense, pricy real estate markets. Conceptually, it's the WeWork of restaurant kitchens, though I'm hesitant to draw that comparison due to the many other connotations of WeWork that I wouldn't associate with CK.
That's not exactly typical, to be fair.
Esp8266 is way more powerful than an arduino Uno. It's got a 32bit 96MHz proc with 96k of ram and Wifi, often coupled with 4MB flash. Uno has 32k of flash 2k ram and (from memory) 20MHz 8bit cpu.
Particle Life
I think aspects of this should be fixed in the standards. Firefox should definitely fix it. Make it readonly or even non-readable by default when the child domain is different to parent. Have the parent decide.

Security issues need secure solutions, right?

I don't actually see the utility in allowing open access from child page to parent page, especially when cross-server is a factor. There are similar other issues that have been closed. Why not this one?
InstaSize
Gah, I would love to be able to use Darktable, but it doesn't yet support the CR3 files my camera outputs (since I opt not to use JPG). Once that's supported, Darktable will have a couple more users in my household.

https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/search?q=cr3&type...

Congrats on the release!
To the point where semis typically have more digits on their odometers.
No. But you should be concerned if you choose to give your phone number to people, because if they know it they might leak it through any combination of malice or incompetence.

Other than my banks, none of the systems I've enabled MFA for required a telephone number.

That includes: Dropbox, GitHub, Slack, Facebook, Nintendo, Google, Login.gov and the Digidentity.eu variant of Gov.uk Verify.

Everywhere it was possible I used my FIDO Security Keys which are phishing proof, impractical to de-anonymise and foolproof because the site has no secrets to leak. Whenever I hear that a site I already used MFA for gained WebAuthn or U2F I go back and switch that site to Security Keys.

Everywhere else I used TOTP (Google Authenticator) which can be phished using a live proxy and the site could leak their copy of your TOTP secret (not the changing code, but the secret that drives it) but other than those two concerns it's pretty safe. At least nobody can work out your real world identity by knowing your TOTP secrets.
Key to good app performance starts at the data structures used in the app. If those algorithms have good run / insert time the app will run good. Cache layers is another key to good app performance.

It is important to test the code base.

The central bank system is making every day people poorer as they print new debt. They got wage inflation imported from cheap globalized goods wrong. This part is annoying to know since most do not understand this flow fully. It’s engineering but financial such. New printed money is flowing to automation and are deflationary. Understanding other engineering areas other than your own field and seeing strength/weaknesses in those.
> For a short period of time, because of a blog post someone else wrote, I had a huge waiting list

Why is this short opportunity window unique? So you realized you missed this window but then the environment was already one where this "5x" demand no longer existed? If that's the case would it have been wise to ramp up that quickly? Maybe you did the right thing.
Yeah exactly. I am interested in practical applications for programmers.

I know a thing or two about the prevalance of categories in Mathematics (https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.3121).

I heared many people talk about Haskell, Monads and Types <=> Proof duality, but I never heard anyone saying: "I applied the Yoneda Lemma to build this API.", or "I read about Category Theory and now $CONCEPT_XYZ started making sense to me."
You talk as if you have information to share, why don't you share it?
For comparison of costs and dollar figures, $1000 was a huge amount in 1973. I recently did the inflation math on a 1978 advertisement for a $699 TRS-80 bundle (with cassette tape drive!), adjusted for today it would be equivalent to almost $2800, enough to build a really powerful gaming desktop.
Pay $2 for shipping to their home.
While all these metrics show progress, nationalism is on the rise. Echo-chambers are on the rise. People do not listen to each other, especially when it comes to politics. Social media has eroded privacy. Advertisement is king. Global warming is a huge "soft" risk to humanity. Surveillance is rampant as we heard from Snowden in 2013. China is a complete totalitarian state with 6 million cameras and a social credit score. Indian democracy is tearing apart.

Good stuff: Private space industry's progress is jaw dropping. SpaceX, RocketLab, BlueOrigin, Boeing, etc are all doing incredible things. Incredible progress in ML/AI. NASA is planning for a moon mission, there is excitement to go to Mars.

My hope for the 20s: The intellectuals form a world-citizen class movement, nationalism would be shamed and looked down upon (regardless of nation), citizens wake up to privacy issues and next round of politicians have libertarian ideologies. I hope.
I agree with all this (except I don’t understand the need to use the word “sexy” so many times), and it’s probably more true today than when it was written.

Lottery tickets do sometimes hit, though. :)
I'm guessing you were trying to use it with Stubby?

Admittedly the networked-RPC use case is not a particularly compelling one for zero-copy (the mmaped-file case is much more so, and maybe even shared-memory RPC).

Still, I'd expect that not having to parse varints nor allocate memory would count for something. Wish I could see the test setup.
A bit of a tangent, but am I the only one that thinks there are... too many conferences? Sometimes it seems as if almost any new sufficiently large JS framework now has a conference. Slap the word "conf" or "con" on the end of whatever random noun you chose for your framework and boom, start sending out ticket invites and request for papers.

Conferences were originally for leading experts in a particular field to share new research and present papers that were going to be published, and give people the chance to ask questions and find out more from the authors.

Conferences now feel more like a show and tell with blogpost level quality writing. Most non-academic conference talks I see could have been summarised easily in a blogpost and a few screenshots or at most a slide deck.

I recognise the networking aspect of them can be useful, but I couldn't justify spending the ticket price of some of them, to go to a conf based around one very narrow tech (unless it was a narrow but widely used and lucrative tech, and I was looking for work in that area currently).
There are always weaknesses and internal vulnerabilities in every system.

If it was from the inside more likely a privileged user was compromised. It could also explain why Twitter is being quiet, especially if the investigation is ongoing.
The question is, why UK politicians didn't use encryption which is available to ordinary people? Like Signal or even Whatsapp.
Broken website on mobile
Have you ever worked in a polyglot ecosystem with rapidly evolving schemas?

Tools like protobuf and thrift were designed to facilitate schema evolution since interfaces in these ecosystems evolve quickly and independently. Generics undermine this by creating strict dependencies on a few types, making it difficult to evolve a single type without breaking things.

Poorly implemented generics would undermine one of the design goals of this project. In addition, there aren't nearly as many opportunities for generics in an IDL as in a programming language, so what would the upside even be?
you say pessimism I say the experience and better insight how life really works YMMW
No, it is caused by ignorance and foolishness.
"3 Bad Tools for a Job, which is least bad?"
Plasma isn't free, you are literally selling the energy it will take your body to rebuild that plasma
That's a good reference article indeed. I remember that. Seems Chickenshit Minimalism is defined as "the illusion of simplicity backed by megabytes of cruft" — which is not in play on the article. But yeah... need to make that page work on non-JS browsers. Thanks!
I'm listening to Here and Now for the first time. Amazing stuff.
I think daily (or nearly) is much easier than you think, mainly because it's so much harder to form a habit like that when you have to make a conscious daily choice between "easy" and "hard".

Context-dependence like "not raining or icy" does make sense.
He was ousted from the company, what do you mean no consequences?
I remember seeing limits for withdrawing but not depositing.
That's exactly my point, nuclear is not some magical exception to this rule
There’s always a risk to give advice via blog posts and such, and also to decide which advice to listen to.

I’ve been on both ends of the stick and can honestly say it sucks to give advice that didn’t work out for someone, or receive it.
You linked to the 1166.pdf twice, did you mean to link to http://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/informatics/notes/unorganized/P... for "Category Theory as Unifying Database Formalism"?
> "Gee I have to get me some CBD cookies and massage oil to take on the airplane with me."

Where they THC cookies, they'd probably make the plane flight a lot less uncomfortable with a lot of people. I'd wager they're trying to cell CBD to people who hate flying and are willing to try anything to make it less unpleasant. That their products are ineffective, at least in this application if not in general, kind of takes a backseat.
I'm amazed he did this for $3. I've been struggling to get my cheap electronic Christmas ornament under $15. I guess I need to find an alternative toolchai that's cheaper
A minimal core with just enough functionality to be useful, then a plugin framework with hooks for all the other features that everyone else needs to build in.

A minimal phone with just enough functionality to be useful, then an app store to get all of other functionality you need via downloadable apps.

Its a model that works well, providing an ecosystem to anyone who wishes to extend.

Code is kind of the same now.. Get the basic thing going, then people fork it, improve it, submit patches, sometimes over decades.

The worst software imho, is a closed architecture that has the kitchen sink included that nobody can extend.

Modularism and a pluggable architecture is much better than just minimalism on its own.
You answered your own question yourself it that thread it seems:

> API hole explanation is excluded as people with 100% private accs got police visits.

Still, thanks for sharing, that's hell of a story. I don't speak Chinese and have no idea what's ShadowSocksR and why this Doubi guy was so hated by Chinese govt for that. Would appreciate more details.
Thank you for sharing your experience!

I think of Category theory and Abstract algebra as great upgrade kits for brain. If, say, a software engineer manages to learn, understand, and internalise those fields up to some level, she will be able to see her daily work - algorithms, architecture, approaches to solve problems - through the mental models those areas of mathematics imprinted into her brain, think and express solutions in those categories. May feel a bit like a superpower :)
Occam's razor supports this one. Which would also bring liability to Twitter for not taking adequate steps to secure their servers.

It's not like they get l337 h4xx0rs to pwn their internal systems; they probably just have login credentials or permissions they shouldn't have, which aren't audited, and they can sneak things out in plain sight.
I had my PR accepted.
Works for me. Mostly due to not having space / wanting to travel with books.

Plus Amazon's daily 0.99 usd deals occasionally have decent stuff. At a higher rate than I can read so that works

Edit - Bad blood (theranos) is on sale today
Merry Christmas to you too!
It's comparing the size of the code.
I park it in my office. The boss bought us a 4-bike storage rack. Nearby this rack my colleagues and I maintain a small collection of repair needs: Tubes, patch kit, tools, and a decent pump.

I've participated in bike related web forums, and talked to a lot of people about cycling. I'm trying to be somewhat of a bike evangelist without being too annoying. What I've learned is that like unhappy families, cycling stories are all widely different, and each person has to figure out a way of adapting to their own circumstances. For some, it's bike parking / theft, like you say. For others, it's arriving at work, drenched with sweat. Weather is an issue. Even specific routes have their own peculiarities. Traffic is a huge deal.

I'm seeing a lot more e-bikes.
Sounds like similar challenges with hosting companies. Huge capital float and long payback period.

If you were selling/leasing compute commodities you were probably more of a logistics company vs tech.
Do smaller banks/credit unions tend to file these reports? My guess is that only Chase, Bank of America, etc. do this.
This touches on the topic of doing something yourself vs getting someone else to do it for you, and I would recommend anyone interested check out Wardley Mapping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardley_map It's a way to generate discussion in your company/project/whatever about when it's appropriate to custom-roll, and when you should use commodity.
It doesn't really make sense for him to do this, if his reputation is to carry with him to Cloud Kitchens. People would be quite wary of future business dealings. If "getting back" at Uber is acceptable, he may decide to "get back" at Cloud Kitchens -- in other words, it sets a bad precedent.
> Why would we evolve a transceiver for something that obviously [does not increase probability of] survival?

(made an edit to your quote there, because as written it didn't make sense, but LMK if I messed that up)

As to your point.... I don't understand what you see that makes that obvious. Can you explain?

To me, there is plenty of room for an unobservable but survival-influencing signals:

1) There are many stable extra-terrestrial signals. The position of the sun and moon relative to the Earth's surface at a given position are the most obvious ones, but there are obviously lots more.

2) A set of these signals is observable by Earth's graduate student population, as of 2019

3) A set of these signals is observable by Earth's biomass, as a whole, as a result of a billion years of each species evolving in very specific pockets of those signals.

4) Set 3 is probably not a subset of Set 2

Ergo, it's probable that we gain some survival benefit from unobservable extra-terrestrial signals.

But maybe I've got a mistake in my logic. Let me know.
We repeatedly tune our JVM apps to acquire only memory they need, so we can run more apps on the same machine, and thus pay less.