skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a link to some photos on my last trip to Tokyo. This is in and around Akihabara and Asakusabashi, and I think there might be one in Shibuya. I realize this can be considered anecdotal or "cherry-picked", and I'm sure there are parts of Tokyo which have way more traffic (most likely closer to the outskirts), however, this was the experience that I've had in many parts of the city the multiple times I've been there.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/MnZphrfcZNB2GvW26
so i don't leave all my friends and family in my cozy town with secure, meaningful, low stress & low paying job to take that GOOGL job?
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Disclosure: My company, Pathmind, works in a space adjacent to digital twins.

Digital twins are an interesting idea that, like "cognitive computing", is easily abused by marketing, and will probably rake in a lot of consulting fees for people like the authors of this piece (Accenture Research) and companies like IBM.

The essence of a digital twin is a simulation complex enough to be useful in making predictions in the real world. (That's the "twin" part.) Making complex simulations, as you might imagine, is difficult. It requires effort, deep domain knowledge (rare talent), good feedback mechanisms with the real situation in question, and some means of managing that complexity.

Digital twins do exist in deployment. What differentiates them from, say, any old machine-learning model you might use for predictions is that a "digital twin" is probably used for a more complex task than just classification. That is, it's probably used to direct the actions of a system. The words imply a larger solution.

So one thing you see is simulations that embed machine-learning models and predict what actions to take in a given state. Think of it like AlphaGo applied to business scenarios.

What are the pitfalls? Real-world data in these environments is non-stationary and messy, so signal may be low, or the ways you find signal might change over time.

To make the "digital twin" useful you are probably integrating with large software systems not entirely in your control, which may be hard to reason about (ERP systems like SAP).

The digital twin idea, insofar as it includes large parametric models that depend on algorithms like deep reinforcement learning, matters now, because those models are able to find structure in complexity, and make ever more accurate predictions about what to do. That is, we're able to identify optimal actions in more complex situations, with techniques more sophisticated than expert systems.

All that aside, this sort of thing is already getting deployed under the right circumstances, and you could argue that it is the future of a lot of business operations in supply chain and manufacturing.
For my MSEE, my RA position paid (not a lot, but enough for food and rent), and gave in-state tuition. I also TA’d one class which gave me free tuition. So essentially I was paid to go to grad school.
At gas stations, the cash price is shown on the signage to lure in customers. They can advertise a lower price (the cash price) than the actual price they charge (as people almost always pay by card, especially when they pay at the pump).

I don't think they expect or want customers to pay by cash.
Users demand browsers support Netflix and other streaming services which, unfortunately, requires supporting DRM. This is a case of Mozilla putting users first, despite it violating some of their core philosophy.

This is how it should work, users come first.
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This is called a leaky abstraction. I can't find a good behavior for a high level language to do it this way. If you use index in a string you always will get something that's invalid, at least in Python or Java you get code points.
Ha! Strong opinions!

I think my failure here is that I did not fully explain, that this applies mostly to the corporate environment of technology companies, where the risk of failure is much, much smaller and you distinguish yourself from the rest by having appetite for risk.

I of course totally forgot, that there is a whole startup world and convincing people to chase moonshots without any risk analysis should be indeed illegal.
Young entrepreneur: YOU SHOULD WEIGH YOUR RISKS BEFORE YOU GO INTO THE WILD!!
Being dockless sounds like a really simple difference but makes a huge difference for me. There's a low level anxiety to using docked bikes because you have to do the work to figure out if you can even dock somewhere close to where you're going. And if there isn't one then you have to worry about the ticking clock costing you more money every second you don't dock it.
> That's generally prohibited by the credit card merchant agreement.

That is not true.

> Cash Discount programs are legal in all 50 states per the Durbin Amendment (part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Law), which states that businesses are permitted to offer a discount to customers as an incentive for paying with cash.

https://www.quantumelectronicpayments.com/implement-legal-an...
Agreed. Are Kurzweil's predictions holding true? I've not read any of his work, but I recall many doubting whether it would stand the test of time due to similar concerns around physical limitations.
Thanks for confirming! Thought I was missing a method for years. Oh well.
I grew up driving a 1996 Honda accord. Later graduated to a 1992 Honda accord...

Those things were monstrously durable.
Definitely not a "Trump" problem. Obama wouldn't have started it either. There is no stomach on either part of the parties to upset the banks.
I'm not a manager, but I think I might have been where you are now a year ago. My agency and I ended up separating. At the time I felt a tremendous sense of relief, but now, I feel mostly regret because of the potential of that job and how ideal it had been in the first 2-3 years. I miss everyone terribly and wish I could magically go back to the good times because they were truly wonderful, like something out of a dream.

If I could do it all over again, I'd completely omit the technical from my decision making. Odds are that you're probably doing just fine and suffering from something like imposter syndrome. In my case, my billable hours had started to fall, which is the one thing that can't slide for long. I was having doubts about my project and my contribution to it, for personal reasons stemming from my financial troubles after the housing bubble popped. I should have asked for a sabbatical.

Maybe you can step back for a moment and imagine that if the technical needs of the project are being met, what is your vision for the future of the company and the prospects of the other employees? Have some of them been snatched up by Fortune 500 companies? Will some of them benefit greatly by having your company on their resume? Have some of them been able to grow as individuals, perhaps continuing their education or even finding happiness and love? If you feel a resonance with those types of things, you might be surprised to find an interest for it reflected in your own bosses. Maybe they are focused on making payroll and haven't had the support they need to consider those other things. If you have an HR person, maybe you can sway the conversation in those directions. If not, maybe you can talk management stuff long enough that people start to want you in that role. Please don't underestimate vision like I did.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/01/cryptic-rumblings-ahead-...

"This component was introduced into Windows more than 20 years ago — back in Windows NT 4.0. Consequently, all versions of Windows are likely affected (including Windows XP, which is no longer being supported with patches from Microsoft)"

You're not safe.
That project page is really short on details. I'm left wondering when did it start, what the projected "long-term" target might be, how the results are going to be compiled, and if any of the data collected so far might be available.

Any idea if there is more info somewhere online without having to email the professor?
Not if the user is logged in to the Chrome or Android
True. The Nonda Zus car charger has reversible USB outlets for charging.

https://www.nonda.co/products/zus-smart-car-charger
I’m having something like this for a copy-shop in a pop 200k city. In 2020. Not an account number, and essentially a manual debit account. The owner has a book with balances of people who pre-paid, when you print something, he looks you up in his book, edits in the new balance and then edits the balance on a piece of paper I have :)
I know your probably joking to some degree. But, there's no guarantee that society can continue to innovate and progress.
How would the supermarket save money by charging a separate service fee? Many of the items sold in supermarkets (e.g. bread and milk) aren't subject to VAT, whereas (almost) all services attract VAT at 20%
I remember when Segways came out, and I thought "This is stupid." Outside of airport and mall security, they are nary to be found.

When e-scooter-shares came out, I thought "This is stupid."

In the last several years, I've been to dozens of cities. Never saw anyone taking an e-scooter.

Haven't heard anything about Uber's 'self-driving' cars recently. Another total was of money.
> - Leading bigger headcounts is comparable to competitive sports 24/7 and shouldn't be underestimated

Would you please expand on this point? What do you mean and how so?
Have you ever gotten to read The Systems Bible by John Gall? Take a look, I think you'd really dig it
It's not particularly hard. Just never accept a leadership position :). As long as you keep your technical skills sharp, you should never be short of a job. However your income will likely plateau very early in your career. You can try to become famous as a way to counteract that, but it is substantially harder than just going into leadership.
> then you get a picture of an extraordinarily complicated system, and the nuts and bolts of exactly what that system is running on fall away into irrelevance

I think this is a common failing of thought experiments. Gedankenexperiments help us ask better questions and design better real experiments, but if you're trying to use them to make fundamental conclusions about reality in an a priori way, you're likely going to fail.
'Tis the dream of every programmer

Before his life is done,

To write three lines of APL

And make the sucker run.
Right, and it’s not just Safari. This is the current complexity of User-Agent sniffing that the SameSite change requires if you need to disable it:

https://www.chromium.org/updates/same-site/incompatible-clie...
Can we just stop for a second and ask whether advertising is required to support publishers at all?

Even if this question sounds naive, I feel like we should from time to time take a step back and review our situation.

> Speaking about Google: when you're (unlike Apple) making most of your revenue from ads, any hostile action to ad industry will be considered hypocrisy and unfair competition

I can agree with that (esp. given their monopoly), but the truth is not black and white here: there's a difference between applying the same measures equally to everyone and leaving a bunch of escape hatches for yourself, e.g. that time when Chrome decided to exclude certain Google cookies from the "Clear all cookies" screen.
Oddly, I find the most prestigious companies are the ones who care the least. Probably because they have the skills to assess candidates properly, whereas LOCAL STATE BANK manager doesn't know why she needs someone with Spring Boot experience, and has to rely on the much noisier degrees and years of exp.

I think the biggest problem our industry has is tying internships to 'enroled in college or university'. Eliminate that requirement, and now people have a path in. Software development is a somewhere between a trade and an amateur mathematics program.
Maybe it’s a Turkish thing? Because the owner of the copy shop I mentioned [0] is a Turkish immigrant ;)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22047151
It's strange how he describes grep as "a set of dynamically linked libraries" as a more accurate replacement of "a standalone executable".

It's a dynamically linked executable, just like so many other programs.

$ file /usr/bin/grep
/usr/bin/grep: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, stripped

Such an odd choice of language.
Google says new AI models allow for ‘nearly instantaneous’ weather forecasts
I remember way back, I think 2006 or around that time, Google forgot to register Google.com and someone (I think from microsoft) had registered it, then gave it back.
The NSA has built absolutely fuck off massive datacenters in multiple places in the United States. The parent is suggesting the telemetry from Windows 10 is mostly getting passed off to the NSA
It may be against Visa's ToS, but it's still a very common practice, especially among small businesses, probably because of enforcement challenges.
Hmm, the list is a little strange, as it includes a few entrants that are shadows of their former selves. I can speak to one that I'm personally familiar with: A Small Orange is a hosting company that sold to a conglomerate and the entire staff was cycled out after the sale. Now it's merely a shell corporation with a website with some branding, the same as every other Endurance International Group brand. The infrastructure and whatnot is all EIG, and the staff is intermingled with the staff from dozens of other small-name web hosts, and not to mention that that whole industry has been bleeding money since the advent of AWS. I guess it was started as a small business, but it's not one that prevailed. The owner made some money when he sold it -- in 2010 or 2011. Now? It's barely a company at all.
I think that you're right. Regardless, these moves (as weak as they are so far) are beneficial for privacy in general.

I'll take that benefit even if it tilts the advertising table in favor of Google. I don't care even a little about the overall health of the advertising/marketing industry.
Check out ewheels.com. There are lots of interesting options available.
This is no longer true as of ~2013.

See rules on surcharging: https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/global/support-legal/documents...

And minimum transaction amounts (minimum can't exceed $10):
https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/minimum-tra...
It's also a choice users are empowered to make.

Just as all this tracking protection stuff is optional but ships out of the box in a configuration that's deemed the most beneficial to the user, DRM, while enabled by default, can be disabled by simply uninstalling the plugin.

As I say: it just smells of whataboutism.
>> People can master nearly anything and stand out;

But a lot of it is just for show. Not really that impact-full on the work done.

People do it because they get a sense of achievement out of it.

But isn't the psychological sense of achievement suppose to be a reward for completing meaningful goals ? Isn't this "empty calories" in a sense ?
Cambridge bans facial recognition technology
Why do people make mistakes at all? Everything would be much easier if people would just be less fallable.
I think there will still be some niches where scooters make sense. I live in an area adjacent to downtown but not extremely dense (mostly 3-4 story rowhouses). traffic moves slowly because the streets are very narrow and there's never quite enough people on scooters to clog anything. I find scooters are great for going out to pickup takeout. there's also a nice walk I like to take along the waterfront. I usually take a scooter to the beginning of the path (about ten minutes), then walk back in the direction of my apartment. I also live in a rather large building, so there's always a couple scooters sitting by the entrance.

once you actually get into downtown there are just too many people for scooters to work well.
E-scootering around Berlin as a tourist this past fall was incredibly fun. Fast, cheap, and the lack of responsibility to lock up a bike or find a specific bike rental return spot is very freeing. It's such an effective way to explore cities that suit it, that I'll now factor their availability into vacation travel planning.

So I'll be sad if these die off. I just learned how amazing they are!
> A business thats lots of tiny transactions might come out slightly ahead with cash, but now youre losing customers

Why would businesses that offers a cash discount (which means they also accept credit/debit) lose customers?
Back to Microsoft: Using Windows again so I can use Linux effectively
Depends on the person :)

Joking aside, I agree with you. My point was simply that we're very ignorant about the brain and its workings, one way or another.
Cash discounting is fine in all states. Surcharges are typically prohibited. Gas stations may be exceptional in that some will publicly advertise the dual pricing where allowable.
Additionally they pushed against it initially, and implemented it late. And now it's downloaded separately the first time you approve it's use. Users can disable it in settings.
> s that you don’t need to keep digital data’s metadata attached to the data “at the hip.”

You don't have to, but it's still mostly a good idea. But this stuff isn't either-or. We can have both.

This is especially true for research oriented files, where consumers are often unable or unwilling to maintain a functional metadata store, and do a lot of manual file handling. Saying "well, somebody could have set up a super-awesome metadata system that track this" doesn't magically make those resources exist.
> learn your way into the 20% of that field

Agreed, but how do you do that though? My experience is that there is only so much you can learn without the challenge
Isn't there a 1 month period where you don't own the domain anymore, but no one except for you can buy it?
Announcing the Dbt IDE
Nice to see we're going back to simple counters like in the 90s.
B2G for small startups can work out if you can supply something that the government needs under a small business area. Look at SBIR (Small business innovation research) programs. The need for a network/capital depends entirely on the topic, and I think thats true regardless of B2B or B2G.

Sustaining B2G after the SBIR wins may or may not work out - its best if the area ties into some longer term need/consumable so you have some businesses with the gov't after the SBIR phase ends.
What is an executable?

A miserable pile of libraries!
Hmm, that's an interesting perspective I never considered. I wonder if it gets easier to get admitted to (med/law/top undergrad) schools if there is a population drop.
GoAccess is great nowadays.
Exactly!

You also get quite comfortable "putting the parachute on your way down"!
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This is getting a bit too deep now. I didn't say that I didn't enjoy it. I like challenges, my initial notion was just to express that words like 'fun' are far away from what leadership is. Btw, you didn't answer the question if you led 100+ people for a longer time. Besides and no offense, military, authoritative leadership styles might not be the right approach in tech environments (like those where engineers work).
I use X via ssh at least once a week
I bought from ehweels and Jason is awesome. They honored the 1 year warranty on my Dualtron Spider.
Interesting! I have seen that supervillain, but I had always interpreted the amorality as the flaw, not the justification they use.
Working around browser bugs only helps to ensure that those bugs will never get fixed. Better that things like the UA are removed to make that impossible. In that world, sites would be best served be coding to the standard and putting the work of fixing incompatibilities/bugs back onto the browser makers where it belongs.
When I was at college in the mid 80's and studied relational databases (and stuff like CODASYL :) ) we pronounced it "sequel". This was long before I was aware MS had their own SQL product (edit: which first shipped in 1989 on OS/2). As per our lectures, the "sequel" pronunciation dates back to when there was a database language named "SEQUEL"; and despite the name change, "sequel" stuck as the pronunciation.

In all my years in the industry working with SQL databases (since the early 90's), virtually no-one familiar with these products spelled out S-Q-L as the pronunciation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#History
> I wish I did. I think programmers deserve a little more than managers, because the work is harder.

Let me guess, you're a programmer.
Luckily I think day-to-day corporate dynamics and complex LOB business apps, where I think most of us earn our daily bread, are less likely to confuse our intuitive powers than something like mathematics or physics or philosophy.
> tpxl and you are using different definitions of "work out fine".

I suppose we are. I'd argue that mine corresponds to reality in every modern nation that currently exists on the planet. I think they're all doing pretty well indeed overall, compared to the historical record and the current conditions of some of the countries and places that aren't doing so well. Comparing current reality to an imaginary utopia is a whole different ballgame.

There's nothing wrong with recognizing the problems, mistakes, and injustices that we do have now and working to fix them. We just need to keep a little perspective - despite the problems, things are still going pretty well one the whole. Plans that talk of tearing the whole system down to fix a few small problems aren't a good idea, and have historically mostly led to things getting much, much worse.
There are simply fewer kids, people have been having less children, getting married later or not at all etc:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/12/06/high-school-g...
Having pointfree functions and curried application makes the functional example more readable, as it removes the obscuring lambdas:

(reduce (+) . map (^2) . filter ((==1).(%3))) [1,2,3,4,5]

The above is pseudo-Haskell. If we want to
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Anyone who's ever set up direct deposit knows how this works. It's almost common sense.
Such is the way... universally apparent, yet difficult to see.
All good, I hope my comment didn't come off as snarky because I have 110% been in similar environments!
Alice: We can agree the brain is conscious, yes?

Bob: Of course.

Alice: But what if you scaled up all the neurons in the brain a factor of 2? Would it still be conscious?

Bob: Sure, if it's the same system running the same way. There's no reason to expect it to matter.

Alice: Then if it was a factor 4 larger?

Bob: Absolutely. Human brains are sized as they are as a matter of evolutionary coincidence. Bird neurons are much more compact than ours, and still manage much of the same work.

Alice: Right, but if every neuron also contained chloroplasts?

Bob: Which did what? There isn't much light there.

Alice: Nothing, they're completely ancillary.

Bob: Then yes, evidently it's still the same system... at what point does this become a hard question?

Alice: Just hold on a few orders of magnitude...
In social science there is a law along the line of:

50% of the work is done by the square root of the number of people in your organization.
I prefer inline. References at the end break my concentration. You're not writing academic papers so you're free to do what makes sense for you.
Yes. Clojure doesn't have cons cells in the traditional sense. But as long as you don't need dotted cdrs, you can "think" of using cons, car, cdr in the ordinary way. You can use existing lisp idioms of recursively taking apart, editing and rebuilding a complex form.
NSA Takes Step Toward Protecting World’s Computers, Not Just Hacking Them