skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep wondering whether there's a job scheduler for me too, but not finding much. At work I'm using/writing a custom one: with multiple schedules in crontab format for each task, frequent automated task updates (by an identifier) from multiple sources, additional flags for some jobs to not run if the parameters didn't change, and/or to rerun every few hours to ensure that proper states are set. It still felt like a generic enough task to use an external tool with those requirements, but then additional functionality appeared, such as changing task parameters according to certain rules (and internal state). At this point it seems that the way to go is either a custom scheduler or just regular cron, crontab editing, and wrappers akin to cronic (or otherwise handling the state-related configuration in the tasks it runs) -- that is, also a custom scheduling system, but incorporating cron. Here cron's simplicity seems fine: say, prevention of duplicate tasks should be by those "task group" IDs, rather than just jobs listed in crontab (so even if cron had the latter, it wouldn't be useful).
China-made programming language Mulan is false propaganda by a scholar
As Publilius Syrus put it, "everything is worth what it's purchaser will pay." Why should google be willing to pay less for continued labor after relocating if profits are unaffected? And if they're not, why would anyone keep working there?
No, that's not it. The world is not run by functional programming languages, despite their "leverage". The word you are looking for is "quirky".

Of course, the same is true for the programmers. They are not extraordinarily smart, they make quirky technical decisions. Interest in functional programming solves technical problems as much as your choice of editor.
During a game, the catcher and the pitcher have to both know what pitch is being thrown so the catcher can catch it - it’s hard to catch breaking balls unless you know to expect one. So the game has evolved that the catcher normally “calls” games, eg decides what pitch the pitcher is going to throw. Catchers make careers on how well they call games. They are the smartest players on the field, and have to remember the stats and approaches for every batter on the other team, not only for the starting pitcher that day but also all the relievers that might be used in a game. They communicate the pitch to be thrown to the pitcher using hand signals, normally with the non-catching hand on the inside of their thigh so the batter can’t see the sign.

But anyone behind the pitcher can of course see the sign, and after seeing a few tens of pitches at most can figure out which sign corresponds to which pitch. Knowing what pitch is coming is a significant advantage to the hitter.

It’s legal for a runner on second to watch the catcher and convey those signs to the pitcher, but in MLB it’s strictly illegal to use “technology” - meaning, mostly, optics or electronics.
Point taken. I missed that.
So unless cars can navigate without roads then they are not self driving?
I always thought that self-driving technology is one of the schemes devised by researchers for getting a long-term funding. It has an immense appeal to the public and sounds plausible enough to laypeople. We've seen a bunch of promises like this: nuclear fusion energy and earthquake forecasting. In Japan, trillions of yens were (and still are) spent to these two technologies but their practicalities are pretty much questionable. I think self-driving tech joined this.
The people we're talking about are people whose entire job is communication. They're people persons. What don't you understand about that? I don't get to dictate how they work.

Anyway, I have other reasons for not wanting to work remotely too. I've seen many comments on HN from people that are very sure that the ideal for anyone technical is a private office that's utterly silent and undisturbed for concentration. That isn't me. I do get irritable if someone is having a long non-work conversation that's barely loud enough to be distracting, but I don't want to be shut up in a closet. People derive value from asking me stuff and vice versa.
I will feel like my note-world is my kid if I spend a year putting notes into this. Will I lose all my notes if you shut down the app?
Hi, I'm a fan of PayByPhone! If you're partying with friends, you can exchange PayByPhone QR codes and pay each others' meters when the time is up without moving your cars.
One of the reasons you monocrop is that it makes it easier to harvest and plant with machines— starting with the invention of the plow, probably, but imagine if we developed intelligent robotic plant harvesters that could tend to entire ecosystems, instead.
Why is that better than any other method? Why not have legacy factor in after they've met the admissions standards?
I love all the options we have today.

At Cronitor we are seeing a lot of users migrating to Airflow, Kubernetes cron jobs, and scheduled lambdas.

Like databases, different workloads will benefit from different guarantees. Look for the right tool for the job, not the right tool for all time.
It’s worse that that even. Lots of people who have experience and “know” are selling their opinion (trying to influence) to the audience. So often it’s their half of s story.
Opera(browser): Phantom of the Turnaround – 70% Downside
I’m not sure I get your argument. It doesn’t appear the Economist article is claiming that the dominant currency has only just started imposing costs.

Their claim is that the recent increased costs, and more relevantly their almost arbitrary nature, hasn’t just led to the usual suspects grousing, but has also started causing allies who didn’t grouse in the past, to actively seek and build alternatives.

As a result, the USD may potentially lose its status as the dominant currency much sooner that it may have otherwise.
Interesting article. No knock on the author, but paste this in the console to make it a bit easier to read:

document.body.style.maxWidth = '50%';
document.body.style.margin = '5% auto';
document.body.style.fontSize = '120%';
document.body.style.lineHeight = '150%';
Yeah I don't see the connection there either. I think an equivalent salary adjusted for cost of living with maybe an extra 10% to show good faith would be plenty.

People with the 150k-300k salaries FAANG provides would be making a surgeon's salary in Kansas City.
Anarchy means no ruler, not no rules.
> no salary cut

Unlikely. A lot of the reason the pay here is so good is because of the high cost of living.
Thanks, and also to the others who replied. It seems a bit crazy that anybody would try that given that sooner or later somebody would surely figure out what was going on.
I read an article today from 2018 that mentioned the Astros banging trash cans. Apparently MLB has known about these allegations for a while and didn't investigate. It took it coming out on social media for them to finally launch the investigation.
@dang - is this some kind of marketing post that was promoted? There’s very little chance that there are this many people this excited about some note taking app where you drag your notes as trees and park benches on a windows 95 looking map UI.

Also, the number of people requesting a native app for purchase and talking about pricing… Something isn’t right here.
Sure it's not a panacea for poor work. But it does allow one much more flexibility in terms of working conditions. Having a private space is now the default. That alone is an incredible change especially for knowledge workers. Not being subjected to the noise and distractions of others is huge as is being able to set up one's own office as one wants. As far as moving to smaller cities, that's hardly related to remote work or anything but labor laws when they favor employers so heavily as they do in the US. With zero job security, of course you'll stay in or around a major metro area. That's just common sense and won't change without legislation. It's not tech specific either. But in tech, you can pretty much move to any city in the world that will allow you to work. Hardly immobile.
Not a Doyers and Kershaw fan, but I agree with his legacy. Glad to see Darvish vindicated if only a little bit.
You present a false dichotomy to represent my view as one end of "ad tech bad" with the other "ad tech good" or something along those lines. However when contrasted with helping explore the solar system and helping to build an ad-bidding platform, I think there's a clear winner in which pushed humanity forward as a civilization.

You also attribute to me beliefs I don't state. Lamenting the tremendous talent that has gone into ad tech instead of what I would consider more worth while endeavors doesn't mean I don't value it at all. Ad tech has facilitated robust sets of nominally "free" tools that certainly have some value.

My opinion of the field, however, is that the "hard" problems it contains are neither as hard nor as meaningful as other areas that have attracted less talent. It seems you'd like to attribute to me opinions that are "black or white", but I'm afraid my views on things are not so simple, and as such not so easy a subject for simple rebuttal.
Damn well that's something interesting to learn. Have an upvote.
Microsoft's AI Bot XiaoIce to Create 999 Virtual Women
Two points, according to the article (unless I misread something):

They were hopping off the center field feed. This is the feed that viewers at home see when a pitch is thrown. If someone spent the time at home, you could catalog all the signs between a pitcher and a catcher just fine.

They were looking for offspeed pitches, i.e changeups. This is a pitch used to fake out a batter through a speed change. Most standard pitches are thrown in the 85+ mph range, including the breaking (curve, slider) ball types. Fastballs, with current players, are in the mid-90s+ with a few throwing 100. A changeup is significantly (relatively) slower than these pitches so a batter will swing much earlier than normal and completely miss the ball. However, if the player guesses right or is told this particular pitch is coming, it’s pretty much like hitting a ball off a tee, for all intents and purposes.
How about magnetic hematite mixed into the road building materials; especially as its a biproduct of iron mining...
First, I agree with you - it's bullshit they took away the features they did.

That said, of all the people you know in the Apple ecosystem, how many people know/do the following: know what an id3 tag is, manage the metadata of their digital audio content, listen to audiobooks. Maybe I'm wrong, but most non-nerds I know don't and would not ever want to think about 1 and 2. Plenty of people who fall into 3, but again all people who don't like or work in tech that I know use audible or the public library or some other service.

I like so much about Apple products, but my big and growing fear is that my needs and the needs of the kind of person who edits ID3 tags are constantly being subsumed by the much larger portion of their customer base that has no need and no desire be involved in anything like editing file metadata.
I would recommend you to consider the following "simpler-than-Kubernetes" containerized workload orchestrators: Swarm (https://github.com/docker/swarm) and somewhat more complex Nomad (https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad). Perhaps, even simpler orchestrators exist. If you're OK with having some vendor lock-in, you could also consider Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) or AWS Fargate or Azure Container Instances (ACI).
The Road Roomba 9000!
Sydney is one of the airports with runways close enough together that they require special training and procedures. Nothing like SFO though.

Given how much Sydney traffic gets routed over populated areas at relatively low altitudes I can definitely sympathize with wanting a curfew. In fact the noise itself has a cute little term 'Marrickville Pause' because it's so damn loud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoYikXvnU6M
This statement could be made in a job where remote work doesn’t exist, but thankfully it does. There’s more than enough work out there.
The device itself is a Nest Protect fire alarm connected to 120VAC. It has a built in battery back up.
In this case, no.
This kind of fallacious blustering is exactly what I'm talking about.

"if" statements existed in FORTRAN (hell, even FLOW-MATIC), which preceded Lisp. The earliest Lisp implementations didn't have garbage collection, and while mark-and-sweep was being developed for Lisp there were other high-level peers like APL experimenting with similar ideas. Same deal for dynamic typing. First-class functions were explored in the Lambda Calculus decades before Lisp programmers applied them, and mathematics has known about recursion since antiquity. Programmers were expressing recursive algorithms in machine language in the 50s.

None of this sprung fully-formed from the head of John McCarthy: Lisp borrowed from a rich preceding tradition of mathematics and computer science, and the rest of the world wasn't twiddling their thumbs while McCarthy worked on his machine-algebra system.
To add to this, the Astros has basically installed cameras in their stadium that allowed the coaches and players in the dugout to know which sign the catcher has signalled (the dugouts are behind the catcher, so you cannot normally see the catchers sign from there).

The dugout then used the drum banging method to convey that information to the batter.
Yeah binding with C is a general JVM problem. Hopefully project Panama will solve that soon :)
I feel like this thread is made of the kind of hard-line stances that lower the overall quality of HN. Both sides present a rhetorical question designed to paint the other side’s position as nonsensical, without engaging in any actual discussion.

Google’s profit clearly has to do with salary because salary is a negotiation between employees and employers, and “my work allows you to make $x more dollars than if I hadn’t done the work” is a basic tenet of salary negotiation.

But this is a negotiation. If Google moved to a lower cost-of-living location, they’d be making themselves available as an employer to new employees, for whom their current locations are undesirable. So if there are other potential employees who are willing to do the work for less salary, Google has the option to hire them instead.
The feigned shock at steroids. The shakedowns of cities for ballparks while offering a suite to the city council and other politicians. The corruption is just a local flavor.
Why not do it based on their favorite color?
I started reading this article, then found myself skimming more and more as it became flakier and flakier. Now, because I just skimmed most of it, I may be missing some important points -- but my impression is that the authors are so bound up in the details & statistical tests that they can't see any big picture.

For example, in discussing household moves they talk about which zipcodes people choose to live in, as if they had perfect freedom of choice. But I don't see where they account for median income. How are we to know if people in a "harbinger" zipcode can even afford to move to a "Group 1" zipcode? Or if it would be a convenient distance from their employment?

I simply can't see putting much or any faith in these "results".
Just... eliminate the private housing market. Unlike companies that produce things, there's zero value add by landlords and banks. Rents and mortgages far exceed the value of construction and allow the richest people to snap them up. Make it more fair, and cheaper by eliminating landlords and private sales of land. The land was all stolen anyway.
Scott and Scurvy: How the cure for scurvy was lost (2010)
You don't get the throughput major airports require without vectoring planes to land before other planes have taken off from the same runway. If the plane taking off takes too long you tell the landing plane to go around. This happens daily - I've had planes I'm a passenger on do it twice. It wouldn't have been a big deal at all except for them both having been directed to turn right in conflicting ways.
Correct. While this law certainly enables you to send “nightmare letters” and generally make yourself a PIA for Google and all other companies, it does not require them to register as a data broker because of the consumer’s direct relationship with them.
Such lawsuits are a net detriment to society. It's why light airplane design remains stuck in the 1960s, and why vaccine companies are protected from lawsuits.
Hopefully someone who actually knows baseball can correct me if I get this wrong, but:

In baseball, the pitcher stands in the middle of a diamond-shaped field. They throw the ball towards the opposing team's batter, who tries to hit it. The pitcher's goal is to get the ball past the opposing batter to the catcher, who is squatting on the ground behind the batter.

The catcher, having full view of all the players and being close to the batter, can opt to signal to the pitcher how best to throw the ball to get it past the batter. For example, they may raise 1 finger to throw it as fast as possible ("fastball"), 2 to make it _seem_ look a fastball but actually slow it down ("changeup"), 3 to curve the ball, etc. The catcher does this such that only the pitcher has a good view of it. This is called a "sign".

It's legal for the opposing team to try to see what the catcher is signaling and inform the batter, but not to do so with electronic equipment. The Astros were using video cameras to get a close look at the catcher's signs, then banging a metal drum to inform the batter of what kind of pitch was being signaled.

The article has an embedded Tweet which has a good video demonstrating all this.
> But Tesla's fleet is getting more driving experience every day than you will get in your entire life, and every time they train on one of those exceptions, the entire fleet will benefit.

That’s not how machine learning works. You can “train on exceptions” as much as you want, and you have 0 guaranteed results. It can help, it can make no change or it can cause unexpected regressions.
I sold my first thing on ebay when I was eight. It was my christmas gift; a Rio 500 MP3 player that was signed by Snoop Dogg. Saw him at the mall in Bellevue after christmas and ran up to him. Sold it for 4x MSRP. Yes, this was late 90s.

The full circle sales process was so empowering.
I guess I'll date myself and say I had good old tape backup via a Colorado drive.
Navigating off-road might actually be easier in practice for AI than navigating on roads, since off-road there are generally many fewer other cars to deal with.

As a rough rule of thumb, I'll call a car fully self-driving if, without any changes having been made to the road system to accomodate self-driving cars, I feel comfortable getting in the back seat, telling it to drive me to a certain house in a city a few hundred miles away, and falling asleep.
Of a few million people, some will oppose manna raining from heaven.

As much as these companies may try to present them that way - these factories they build are not "manna raining from heaven."

A significant Tesla presence is just about the best thing imaginable.

We get that there are potential benefits to bringing a major manufacturer to the area. So do the people protesting, I hope you realize.

The question is whether these companies are willing to pay the true price for the resources they need. And whether they're willing to respect the environment (and yes, regulations) in doing so. Or whether they expect some kind of a free free ride.

Quite often, the it's the latter that seems to be the case.
Hasn't this been proven false by googlers living in other high cost cities yet earning significantly less than those in SF?
There are countries waiting to join the EU. Some go, some come. Since 2000 thirteen countries have joined the EU.
That's why they should be tightly regulated and directly responsible for incidents involving data leaks à la Equifax
> The Iraqi government voted to remove US troops in response to an unprovoked assasination on an Iranian top general on their soil while performing what is claimed to be a diplomatic peace mission (another war crime).

I’m not sure if this is satire. The Iranian General was coordinating attacks against American forces with the Iranian-backed militia forces in Iraq.

It’s true that lame-duck Iranian-backed Shiite politicians passed the non-binding resolution on US troop withdrawal, supported by an Iranian-backed lame duck Prime Minister, which many outlets fail to report was incidentally boycotted by the Sunni and Kurdish lawmakers which will have a much larger share of the vote after the next election.
If somehow I can't work on this any more for the rest of my life, I'd probably still just keep it running. The amount of credits we have for these hosting services is enough to keep it running for a long time.

Also, it's quite unethical to just shut the app down without giving people the ability to export the notes. I can't really see myself doing that. And I don't think neither of my 2 teammates would allow that to happen.
Some people would disagree with you.

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/569688211158511616?...
> True, but once you've pegged the currency to gold, it can't fluctuate very far from the price of gold.

I think this depends on what your definition of backed means. If you include the government not just buying the currency for a given amount of gold, but also selling the currency for the same amount of gold, I agree.

But, otherwise, if the government guarantees it will only buy the currency for gold and not vice versa, then I disagree. For example, I could state tomorrow that I will guarantee to give anyone 1 oz. of gold is they give me $100 trillion in USD, and then technically USD would be backed by gold (by me), but such an offer would have no real effect on the how the market would value USD.

I might be wrong about what backed means, but if so, then I also don't understand what is meant by partially backed.
One plane landing shortly after another departs is standard procedure, provided they have sufficient separation [0]. However, the separation in this case became too tight after the previous landing had vacated the runway, so ATC issued a go-around - but the missed approach procedure and standard departure route for that runway coincided, resulting in the close approach [1].

Note that not enough separation in this case (for the landing) is probably about a mile.

[0] http://tfmlearning.faa.gov/Publications/atpubs/ATC/atc0310.h...

[1] http://avherald.com/h?article=4cb85fbe&opt=0
Like a lot of technologies. Nuclear plants still happened.
Well I was quite shocked with that name

Xenobot - Cheat for Tibia: 2 decades old MMORPG.
Electronically speaking, it’s worth noting there’s a current rumor and image hunt going on on Twitter of the Astros possibly using “buzzers”, small radio—activated vibrating devices taped to the body, to steal signs back around when this was going on in 2017.

As has been said, teams have been stealing signs since the beginning of the sport and it’s an understood or “gentleman’s” rule that it’s acceptable — as long no technology is used and it’s not blatant. However, teams have used body buzzers, buzzers and signals buried by the bases and similar electric and radio devices for close to 100 years or more now, since electricity itself became ubiquitous.