skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A PM that worked on Excel in the late 2000s explained it to me like this:
Most people use about 20% of the features in Excel - which should make it easy for competitors to copy, right?
The kicker is that different people/industries tend to use a “different 20%” of the features, making the barrier to really compete very high.
They were held to the standard of "Get it done, yesterday."

And will likely eventually be held to the standard of "How dare you let this happen?" as they're fired, to demonstrate how seriously Boeing takes safety.
Economist's Plan to Fix Capitalism
The ISO weeks are also big in automotive, especially on projects that span over a number of years. It automatically aligned most activities to have a duration measured in whole weeks. Sure, you can use fractional weeks, but then it gets really messy really quick.
I made an intentional decision to refuse to work such insane hours about 15 years ago and limit my standard workweek to 40 instead (if there's an unusual situation that calls for extra time, I'll work the extra time of course -- but that's pretty rare) when I'm working for somebody else.

What I've found is that not only has in not harmed my career in any noticeable way, it has improved it in an unexpected way: the companies that really only expect 40 hours per week also tend to be companies that produce higher quality software, have a better working environment, and look better on my CV.
Julia is most comfortably used in the manner of a traditional Lisp: with a REPL open the entire time, sending snippets of code from your editor to the REPL for compilation, and then testing things out at the REPL. Sometimes people don't even write out a "main" function meant to be run from the outside world, but leave a few different entry point functions to be called from the REPL.
This can backfire. Robocallers used my local pharmacy's number so much that I had to tell the pharmacist to add it to my file that I shouldn't be contacted via phone.
Oh absolutely. IMO - If you're _not_ like this that's a clear advantage at work.
I've caught myself doing this as well and also questioned why this was happening. My initial guess is that it is just manifestation of phone addiction, but perhaps it is also selective boredom. For instance the majority of the time when I look at my phone is when the show I am watching switches to a scene that is showing some plot line I don't care about. As an example, when I am watching a Sci fi show, and there is some romantic sub plot. I simply don't care, and will look at hacker news while it plays out.
This is what amazon x-ray does, but it would be nice if you could connect a phone app with the streaming app so you could look up xray data on the second screen.
> I skimmed the doc, but going by that understanding, I'm not at all surprised that they'd propose a regulation that would effectively eliminate entire products because they'd be impossible to build in a compliant manner.

Well, given that we continue to have fire control flights grounded because of idiots flying drones, the FAA is going to keep ratcheting up the regulations until that stops.

So, either people can start getting on board with some tracking and actually provide some useful feedback and advice, or the FAA is eventually just going to ban all drones and make it a major felony to possess one.
There are options to save money yet provide good care:
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ActiveAging/story?id=3487260&p...
No. Things you need to do to make the site/service function at all such as your login cookies or shopping carts don’t count. Non essential cookies is what it’s about.

Sadly, some sites seem to interpret that (incorrectly) as “well out business is to show news paid for by ads so the ad network cookies are essential”. These are the players I wish would be fined out of business.
What 2020 Would Look Like If Automakers Had Seriously Invested in Hydrogen
For a similar take on the problems, but with some different solutions, take a look at the UWP [StreamSocket](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.networking....) (etc) classes.

Specifically, StreamSocket will happily go through proxies for you, will handle TLS / SSL (either at start up or after the connection is established), does IPv4 and IPv6 transparently. We also do service discovery using DNS-SD, although that's technically in a different class, as is the other network information. The SteamSocket class is designed to be very similar to the other socket-style classes like StreamWebSocket, so your code will (mostly) move from one to the other.

I've found from my own experience that the real key to a smooth network experience is the magic technology called "caring". It's easy to test if your code handles network disconnects; just run your code and yank the ethernet cable (or switch off Wi-Fi).

Source: am PM for the Network Developer Experience team at Microsoft and helped design the socket APIs.
People watching a twitch.tv stream on their tv would have the livechat on their phone/tablet. Seeing the people in the chat react can make even the dullest stream fun.
TensorFlow 2.1.0-Rc2
$30k/year is not a lot of money - definitely not enough to raise your own kids on
That is obviously not "full STD screening". Missing:

human papilloma virus (HPV), mycoplasma genitalium, trichomoniasis, chancroid (haemophilus ducreyi), Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), molluscum contagiosum, scabies, crabs
I might be mistaken but I believe Windstream, a rural legacy carrier, is planning to implement STIR/SHAKEN.
I assume you're meaning Bill "Maher," right?

And I'm sure you're probably aware of it, but you're not getting "both sides" from the hosts you've listed.
The right to not publish anything is just as important a part of the freedom of the press as the right to publish something. If the leader of the Proud Boys writes a white supremacist manifesto and the Washington Post declines to publish it, that's the freedom of the press in action. If the government were to step in and say "no, you have to publish this", that would be a massive violation of the freedom of the press.

When we apply the exact same scenario to reddit or youtube, everybody is up in arms about how they have a duty to free speech to publish every piece of racist garbage that gets posted.
And the cure they "created" was in reality from a university or government lab. Paid for by the citizens.

Ain't regulatory capture and 'release' great?
I took ethics courses as part of comp sci. Definitely left an imprint on me.
The thing specific to Vietnam is that purchase prices are very high, while rental prices are comparatively low. I believe it's due to the vicinity to China with rich investors looking for places to deposit their cash.
I am an only child, which likely has something to do with my preferences...

At the risk of sounding bougie, it seems kind of trashy to me to just constantly keep the TV on. Echoes of 1984's mandatory viewing, coupled with ignorance of advertising's effect on your brain.

But I've certainly observed that people fall fairly heavily into one category or the other. Either they can't stand it not being on, or they can't stand it being on.
This is correct the 15k per year is just a reporting limit.
The programmer is told to implement a spec. They didn't write the spec. If the spec is flawed, do they even have the necessary domain knowledge and experience to identify those flaws? And, if they can identify them, and they speak up and nobody listens, what do they do next? Implement it anyway, or quit and let somebody else implement it instead? Especially if they don't even work for Boeing, but for some subcontractor.
I love this. You wouldn't happen to have a blog post that details your setup?
SSL was a miss during the recent re-design, but it's added now.

Also, give a chance to the Android app, I'm sure you won't have complains there :)
A progressive ESOP sounds intriguing!
No, it is natural to us because our working rhythm is based on a week. It just seems logical to think in terms of weeks.
My mom used to record all her soap operas (on VHS) so she could FF through the ~1/2 of storylines she didn't care about at all. I think this is, or at least used to be, fairly common.
The term is "product validation" which isn't core marketing of course. But for that you need initial users and to get these you need limited marketing efforts early on. No rocket science :-)
Probably unpopular idea on HN, but my company synchronize digital ads with TV commercials for this exact reason.

When we detect a commercial on the TV for a brand, we run instantly ads on Facebook for the same brand.
I am aware... and Yes I forgot how to spell his name.

Just that the late night shows dont usually have a bunch of pro-trump comedy...

Regardless, its all garbage.
I haven't seen any evidence that the coders were doing anything other than accurately implementing the system design that the control systems engineers dictated.

What ethical safety standards would you have them implement?

I assume that you would agree that the control system specification is the ethical responsibility of the control system design engineers.
Jab at this... right?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Evaluating phase separation in cells: diagnosis and functional consequences [pdf]
Nice! It is definitely a very easy way to understand the different matrices involved in 3D rendering.
The next Samsung foldable phone may solve the biggest problem in the Galaxy Fold
> borrowers will have to either not get the money

If credit shrinks, asset prices decrease so borrowers would need less money anyway. In the end it's all about who owns the capital.

Mesopotamian civilizations had to forgive debts periodically because the economy was heavily leveraged: farmers had to rent the land. A bad harvest could mean they'd have to sell their children to slavery. They were also surrounded by nomadic tribes. Social unrest would spiral out of control pretty quickly as broke people would join the nomads and turn to pillage.

That's a lesson every Abrahamic religion learned.
The last show I did that with was Lost, albeit not in realtime. So I get what you're saying.

If you don't mind me prying (I'm honestly fascinated), does it feel different watching while not having that simultaneous feed? If so, how?
Remembering the startups we lost in 2019
This obsession with cheap places to live intrigues me. In Memphis, TN you can rent a decent apartment in a shitty part of town for $300 a month. And Memphis isn't even close to the cheapest big city in the US.

In Birmingham Alabama, you can't get just as hot as you can in Vietnam, and your rent will be pretty similar.

Yes, healthcare and food are more expensive, but not that much. And you'll spend less on those two things over the year than if you come home once a year to keep your citizenship.
Spend more Time in Nature ;)
Frequent PubMed user here. Congrats on the launch! I'm enjoying the new UI, very shallow learning curve even for someone with a long time on the old one. The updated MeSH term display is particularly nice.
This may sound weird, but my goal is to smile at people more. For some reason, I am not completely comfortable doing this, and it is a nice, friendly thing to do.
Just for interest sake, do you ever read news on the internet, and if so how do you pay for it?

I personally read a lot of news online, most of it is such utter trash that I would not want to pay for it. I have paid for some specific sites intermittently - currently I pay about $20 USD a month to one specific content creator that produces news content - but that is mostly because it is rather niche news that nobody else (that I know of) is reporting on. For the rest of the news I consume I feel that it is of such a low quality that the ad revenue is all they deserve.
Russia starts testing its own internal internet
Which will win the crown for destroying more Californian livelihoods & wasting more citizen time in 2020, CCPA or AB5?

(AB5 is the anti-freelancing bill whose intended targets, Uber & Lyft, may escape its application, while many other California freelancers have their traditional contract work patterns made illegal.)
You see the same thing with wage-theft in large chain stores. Corporate HQ always says that they don't support it, but then they setup sales and payroll goals that can most easily be met with wage-theft.
True, but I feel you can do a lot better without having to move all the way to Vietnam.
> Of course, they're also 24 episodes long so they run for most of a year,

This hasn't been true for shows I'm interested in for a long time, and to be honest I kind of miss it. Especially for shows that used to have longer runs but are now shorter, the pacing seems off. There used to be a season-wide arc alongside individual episodes that may or may not have anything to do with that arc in particular.

You might say that episodes that don't tie into the season are filler, and I get where you're coming from. But in sci-fi specifically, I'm so sick of the trope of "there's a thing that threatens the very fabric of the universe", and literally everything the main characters do between learning about it and resolving it are related. I miss lower stakes episodes that balance out the larger stakes in the overall season.

I'm thinking specifically of Doctor Who in that last paragraph. (which to be fair is not US TV, but I can name some US/Canadian shows that took a similar route) It used to be that the doctor could have a romp around a new planet or an interesting period in history, the doctor or his companions would learn something new, and then they'd move on. Those kinds of one-offs are what the show is built around IMO. But now with fewer episodes every season, the very fabric of the universe is always threatened, and every companion is the most important person ever born, and everything you see on screen reinforces those two ideas. They keep mentioning adventures off-screen, I think because the writers recognize that they're losing something by not having those unrelated adventures happen where the audience can see.

(The latest season of Doctor Who is at least a step back from that, but it had plenty of its own problems, not least of which is a very crowded main cast that ended up underdeveloped as a result. The only character that I felt was interesting in the first episode didn't make it to the main crew, which is probably why they were developed so much better than the rest.)
Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus
Unfortunately there's no concrete timeline, it's being worked on on-and-off by the community.

If you have free time, or free money, it'd be a great help to the effort.
I hate “learnt”
In my experience that's significantly less common in Vietnam than in Thailand or the Philippines (having been to all three, and dated women in all three).
Soccer stars score big with Instagram
The reason the engineers are given ethical training is because engineers (like accountants, appraisers or similar people) have historically had an institutional independence from their employers. A civil engineer in particular can choose and will not to sign off on a given project that they know will be unsafe. Given that engineers are certified by their profession, their employment situation is not precarious and so they can reasonable make this refusal (this is degrading like all professions naturally but still).

Programmers have no such institutional support. If a programmer refuses a job, it goes to someone else that's it. Programmers may have ethics but ethical training a la engineers isn't going to give them any leverage for choices.
Way to tame Big Tech isn’t necessarily to break it up
Had no effect on Firefox for me, I opened Firefox's task manager and it said the site was using very little resources.

My mileage may vary from yours since I use Ublock and uMatrix and I also block add sites with my own DNS server.
> Did they define what the "geographic areas established under this rule" are, or is that something that the FAA has to publish, later?

There's a process defined in the regulations for submitting an area for consideration. It's not clear how easily they'll be granted, we'll have to wait and see.
Passing things by reference is safe. Any other use is mostly just pointless; it what reference types are for. If you are doing something else with them, it easy to stop.
The logic follows that if a malicious company deliberately subcontracts all their development, then they've completely indemnified themselves against all claims. While simultaneously providing no opportunity for subcontractors to bring noticed issues to their attention.

Which seems a pretty bad state of affairs to trust when building things like airplanes.
Anything in excess is simply unhealthy. Advising people who aren't addicted to quit is not good advice.
Not if you are living south of Tropic of Cancer.
I think this onEnd callback is what allows you to spam the button and nothing changes on screen https://github.com/countable/cats-of-jasnah/blob/master/inde...

This is cool though. I never thought to build something to help teach my son anything
This sounds more like an issue with how the code & tests are written and lack of developer discipline wrt pre-commit checking.

That’s not a problem caused by tests. That’s a problem caused (IMO) by subpar developers.
How are they supposed to pay themselves in that case? It’s an incredible service.
> tourists who want to disembark straight into their destination

Hoboken, New Jersey and Red Hook, Brooklyn are roughly the same distance from the city.
CCPA isn't just about warnings, though. CCPA also affects the data-harvesting abilities of businesses, and requires that a business be prepared to explain which personal information is stored and for what purpose.

I suppose that, to draw a better analogy with Prop 65, the requirements of Prop 65 did supposedly cause some manufacturing materials, certain dyes, rubbers, foams, and plastics, to be drastically removed from the marketplace. The story of lead alone is worth considering; as usual, lead was in the pipes. [0] We are not expecting a wave of cookie warnings, and indeed CCPA's language doesn't allow for it. Some businesses will have to alter their practices; some products may have to be withdrawn from the market entirely. The worry that children might get used to clicking through EULAs and giving away their data has already been shown true by the previous generation of Internet users; at this point, we are merely trying to curb the damage continuing to be dealt and done.

And remember: For every ingredient that needs a warning label, that ingredient also can't be dumped into streams or rivers. It's not just about a prettier warning label on the product, but about real improvements to the manufacturing process.

[0] https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
I'm fairly convinced that there's a bimodal distribution of knowledge work in the world. In software, but not only in software. In any field whereby individual workers can make a significant difference to the bottom line (e.g. it's not commodity work).

People stuck in sick system jobs think that's just how the world is. The managers there are stuck in it too, so it becomes worse. The people who stick around tend to become bitter and think the world is all underpaid long-hours bureaucratic corporate shite.

I figure that the 'middle' path, of jobs that are sort of alright but not actually 'good', doesn't really exist, because there are feedback loops at both ends pushing companies away from the mean.

I have no real evidence for this other than it matching my personal experience and interacting with other people in various circumstances. It's happened more than a few times that I've interviewed somewhere and been offered half the market rate for silly amounts of responsibility by managers who seem surprised that I turn them down.
Because I have allowed my phone to absolutely ruin my attention span. If a show isn’t immediately engaging enough, I find myself reflexively reaching for my phone to fritter away time.

In the same vein, I have to consciously avoid taking my phone out while sitting at a stop light or going to the bathroom

It didn’t used to be this way and I hate it
> Are [you] literally saying we should live a society without either values or institutions that make judgements about values?

No, I did not say that literally or figuratively.
I spent a lot of time with Chimps in West Africa, getting to play with, carry and interact with them a couple of different times [1]

Sitting with a fully-grown chimp on your lap with her face inches from yours while she grooms your beard is a very, very special experience. It's impossible to spent more than 10 minutes with them and not clearly see they are us and we are them. Their facial expressions, they happiness, their playfulness, their grief. Everything about them is like looking in a mirror, or watching a ~5 year old child play.

Absolutely amazing.

I have no doubt they would dance to music, and do a lot more things that show intelligence and higher thinking.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfdo3s8tPUk
Blender Endorsed Mouse
The linked py2nim github is basically empty, though some forks of it show substantial content. Was this project intentionally pulled down?
>I decided to quit Twitter this year after tweeting a joke about neutron-bombing a journalism school.

Sounds more like he was forced off the platform.
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You don't need to take an ethics class to see that cutting corners when human lives are involved is a bad idea.
The government isn't an "at will" arrangement from which you can be sacked?
I play music through my TV, often by finding a recorded musical performance on an app like YouTube. Does that count as “having TV on in the background?”
The basic foundations of a Windows port are already in place for Crystal, merged into master. In fact you can can already cross-compile a "Hello World" on Windows.

This means the port is in a place where the community can pitch in and help port little bits of the standard library, and help bring it into a release-ready condition.
One of my favourite examples of this is from "the today show" on NBC where they're discussing a flood and a reporter in a canoe is describing the events when two public citizens walk through the shot and the water seems to be less than 1/2 a foot deep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm3_jzcNm4
Someone, somewhere, said "let's butcher the design of the 737 and try and patch it up with software".

That person should be in jail.
Back in the day, it made sense for someone with enormous influence to make such a decision. Imagine if it wasn't, the world today would have many more implementation of calendar that it does have.
4.99/month for unlimited snips isn't exactly onerous. Grad students are known to be able to afford Netflix and Spotify.
Definitely going to be unpopular. But good to finally have a confirmation that this is actually being done, and done automatically. I guess there's no escape now (at least for those who don't use ad blockers).

Myself, I'm going to add this to my ever-growing article about negative impacts of advertising.
The market is crazy in Ho Chi Minh City. Considering average wages are $5-10K per year, housing is outrageous there.
I’m often times checking the live match thread of the game I’m currently watching on /r/soccer (or on /r/baseball if I’m watching a baseball game). It definitely adds up to the basic “watch TV” experience, for better or worst. I’m also actively checking for live scores of other matches playing at the same time.
>I'm sure some places in Western Europe may also qualify.

There are places in Spain that are essentially senile British colonies.
There are probably ways to speed it up significantly in plain Python. For example, if you're processing strings you'll probably want to avoid iterating over individual characters and rely more on regular expressions, str.translate or other higher-level mechanisms.

Did you profile the Python code?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_fraud