skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One key difference: "over a period of years". Current they get stock options they can exercise if the share price is over the strike price. I'm saying to give them actual shares over a period of time--what they end up getting is based not only on the current performance, but what it is 5 or 10 years down the road.
There's a flipside, where certain writers get to be read with infinite charity, while everyone else has to take their lumps. Feyerabend really did make that argument -- it's right there in black-and-white in "Against Method". But since he's an "important thinker", we have to read him with more care than he wrote with.

"Against Method" is a fun book, and I enjoyed it when I read it back when the stakes didn't seem so high. But he chose to write a fun book rather than a serious one, and he can't complain when people take him seriously.
This is why contracting is much better when building your company on the side. I have nothing in my contract that states anything about the ownership of my code (that's not company property) or about my time.
This is why I started guitar lessons at 41. At 30, I didn't because I was upset with myself for not starting when I was 20, and now it was "too late" somehow.
I don't find this proverb convincing.

The best time may be only marginally better than the actual second best time. It's main value is that it's a personal Schelling point (see also [1]) for doing the thing.

"Now" is not a good Schelling point because it's the same as "in a minute" or "in an hour".

[1]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Kbm6QnJv9dgWsPHQP/schelling-...
Fellow user here. Is it forbidden? This user submits mostly content from his blog (sometimes twice), but I can't find anything against self-promotion in the guidelines.

This is the closest guideline:

> Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions. Users should do those things when they run across something they personally find interesting, not because someone has content to promote.
> Having lights there defeats a lot of the roundabout.

You're not wrong, but roundabouts degraded the busier they get:

> As at other forms of unsignalized intersection, when traffic flows on an approach exceed approximately 85 percent of capacity, delays and queue lengths vary significantly about their mean values (with standard deviations of similar magnitude as the means). For this reason, the analysis procedures in some countries (Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom), and this guide, recommend that roundabouts be designed to operate at no more than 85 percent of their estimated capacity.

* https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/00067/...

1-, 2-, and 3-lane RAs each have different capacities, and it may not be easy to expand one size to the next larger one depending on what else is in the area, so signals can allow for the general architecture of RAs to be extended without major changes besides putting up some poles and wires.
Try a European bank, but I get the impression that they firmly wait until local regulation allows what they’ve built for elsewhere.
I think my favourite was the woman with the emotional support peacock:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2018/01/31/emotio...
This. Also, some of those eyes are going to belong to people who make purchasing decisions on the behalf of their employer. Those people are exceptionally valuable to advertisers.
> That assumes that working like a dog is more efficient

Naw. Efficiency is only one variable. Working like a dog is usually marginally inefficient, but the first 6 hr/day are still roughly as efficient to the 3-day-weekend-er. Working more hours absolutely increases productivity even if per-hour-productivity decreases (except in extreme cases of burn out). This is pretty obvious when you look at how any high-achiever spends their time. It's amazing how often people claim the opposite on HN.
None of these "alternatives" ever fixes bipolar,schizophrenia, borderline, adhd, etc.

When you have those stuff, you need to take meds AND join the gardening club.

You can't go manic at the gardening club.
Everyone complains about Amazon selling counterfeit goods - so GE comes up with something like this so you know you've got legitimate filters.

I love the concept, the execution is horrible. Give me a button to enable or disable filter verification. If I want to spend money on an official GE filter, I'd love for them to verify I got what I paid for. If I want to buy third party, you shouldn't be stopping me...
Thank you and the OP! Even adding a new mov2 instruction as exact copy of mov into gnu assembler was a big struggle for me i had to go to their IRC channel, i looking forward to dig into those resources
Ironically, I was nodding along in complete agreement until:

> Perhaps try to unplug for some months in the woods and see if the symptoms persist? If they do, I stand corrected.

Sure, moving to Walden Pond for a few months would probably reboot your brain, but that's not a realistic possibility for 99.9% of people.
Agreed.

I guess where it becomes a problem is when we try to find the most suitable treatment for it. I know from experience that these labels can dictate the whole treatment plan in public hospitals/clinics without much further investigation whether that label's approved standard treatment plan really is suitable for your particular case or not.
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this is your brain on weed
It's never to late to collect sand, but don't be a hoarder. Did you know that sand is a precious commodity? https://www.businessinsider.com/global-sand-shortage-could-c...

Don't have regrets, they move the focus away from today and your future. Mostly, live in the now. Things are just things, appreciate the living. All things can be replaced, the living can not.
A siblings results was enough for me. We share the same ancestry. There were no surprises in their result.
When working on most things, I ask two basic questions: how does it fail? how does it scale? I picked that up years and years ago.

Any line, function, workflow, etc can fail. You need to have worked through all the failure cases and know how you are going to handle them.

Somethings don't need to scale, ever. But most things I work on do. If I don't know the story on how I can ramp up an implementation a few orders of magnitude, then I can't say I've designed it well.

Aside from that, measure everything. Metrics, telemetry, structured logging. Design for failure and design for understanding what happened to cause the failure. Data will tell you what you are doing, not what you think you are doing.

There was a post here yesterday about a neat map thing. I hit a bug and the author could only rely on their experience with it being potentially slow at times but saying it should work. If there were proper metrics in place, they would know that N% of calls exceed M seconds and cause a timeout. He could then relate this to the underlying API and its performance as the service experiences it. With proper logging, they see what the cache hit ratio is and determine if new cache entries should be added.

Build, measure, learn.

Oh, and automated tests. So much to be written on that.
Azure Functions runtime versions overview
what can this data be used for?
Realizing that I can roll my own framework.

Why? Because I’ve tried to actually think about my underlying data structure instead of defaulting to convention but reflex.

The best example? Marcel Weiher Ch 13 in “iOS and MacOS Performance Tuning” explains how to improve lookups in a public transport app by 1000x.

What more? The description of the the data (the code) and the the application (the intended use) are probably way better because thinking about performance is similar to thinking about your data. You want answers fast. Fast answers, fast code.
Definitely right. Sometimes I look at notes I made for myself, telling myself what to do, and then ultimately rebel against my past self because I don't want to do what I'm telling myself to do.

Systems are better when they're an augmentation of your memory that you can appreciate. For example, I always put events in my google calendar so I can remember when they are and catch overlaps early.

I've had a bad relationship with todo lists. They get stale really quickly. If I look at a todo list that's a few days old, I might think, "Why should I do that now? Why should I factor the work in this way? Just so I can say I'm done with this item?" In practice, the way I factor a task changes constantly. So now the way I do todo lists is more like an aid to my memory. When I have time to do stuff (which is rare) I'll write down the things that are most important at that exact moment. Sometimes I'll skim through todo lists from previous days to jog my memory, but I won't copy over everything. I'll arrange the things into an itinerary for the day and see how many of them I can get done. Usually it's not all of them. And that's OK.
Miniature horses are used as service animals in Muslim countries, as they have religious biases against dogs.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30155540/ns/health-health_care/t/s...
I wonder if they would use his iphone data (assuming he has one)?
Lakatos was a great philosopher of science, while Feyerabend is a gadfly. His "Proofs and Refutations" doesn't really hold up -- once mathematics reached the modern standard of rigor the process he described stopped -- but his notion of progressive versus degenerating research programs is very powerful.
And some people have religious objections to dogs.
This is a solved problem in the EU thanks to PSD2.
Here is a tip: Use an interaction designer.
I'm getting skeptical about the developer tools. The cynic in me says it's just a ploy to gain market share before forcing everything to an online subscription like they're doing with Office.

Things like Visual Studio Online, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, etc. worry me. Once everything's a subscription and you're paying to spin your mouse wheel, you lose the ability to spend time in lieu of spending money.

I think it'll happen slowly, but it'll happen. Eventually they'll have a complete, online only development solution that's charged based on usage. Development on local tools will get de-emphasized so they lag behind and suck by comparison and there will be "donations" of subscriptions to educational institutions to ensure no one ever learns to deal with, or even think of, a local development environment.

I think it's ok to have ongoing costs like IntelliJ's products. I don't like the way they screw you with an outdated perpetual license if you drop your subscription, but it's a hell of a lot better than something like Visual Studio Online which is literally pay per hour.

Based on the willingness to pay astronomical markup on CI minutes, I wouldn't be shocked to see people paying $1000 / year (no joke) to use VSO.
Show HN: Ward, a modern Python 3 test framework
Everything in this article is correct, at least for me.

I got fired for performance at my last job about 2.75 years ago. The first two years of working there I had great performance reviews, things went well. It was a high performing YC-backed success story, and I felt just as successful. I was promoted to Lead QA Engineer, and oversaw several projects going at once that I was interested in.

About two years in, it started going south when I lost my Adderall prescription. Eventually I got fired. It was devastating, and the best job I ever had.

I guess after some change at Kaiser Permanente, my primary care doctor was no longer able to write me Adderall. He sent me to psychiatry, which at Kaiser is less than stellar.

Psychiatrist said that unless I can provide proof from elementary school or doctors from my childhood, he’s going to have to reevaluate me; from the looks of what he said I might not get a diagnosis. Offered me Wellbutrin. The entire visit was a slap in the face. He thought I was there to get stimulants because I have a drug problem.

Indeed! I do have a drug problem in that no longer am being prescribed the drugs that make me function. I never abused drugs.

Even after talking to a manager, Kaiser refuses let me switch psychiatrists. This was about 2.5 years ago. It took me two months even get an appointment with that Dr; only to have him tell me get lost.

Meanwhile, I’ve been doing the best I can given the situation. ADHD Affects me greatly and I’ve lost so much since then.

For one, disorganization resulted in me missing out on exercising my stock options. I thought I had three months, it was 90 days. Missed it by a day!

This was problematic because the company was purchased by Autodesk about a year after I got fired. Would’ve been a nice liquidity event. ($600K)

I’m still falling incredibly short. I have a lot of trauma around getting fired and feeling like I am insufficient. I have not even applied for a job since leaving. Once unemployment ran out I started ridesharing; i’m doing that off and on for about two years. It barely pays rent but better than being broke and homeless in San Francisco.

Today, it’s a struggle to stay relevant. I have pretty much given up on finding a psychiatrist in San Francisco as they all appear booked for months. I have found success in self medication although it’s harder to find therapeutic pharmaceuticals then street drugs; not a viable alternative for me.

I’m sort of losing interest in tech. I find enjoyment in many things technical but cannot seem to get myself together. Thinking without finishing my college degree, no relevant work for the last 2 1/2 years, and no treatment for my condition; nobody will want to hire me. Even if they did I am not sure I’d be able to be successful.

Where am I at now? Still ridesharing, trying to make ends meet. My resume is almost rewritten, I have looked at some jobs but not applied for any yet. My world has gotten a little bit smaller than I would like.

Absolutely I need some more structure than what I have.
The Art of Squatting Is a Revelation for Bodies Ruined by Sitting
UXM: A modular library for collecting front-end performance metrics
I was diagnosed with ADHD 10 years ago. Tried a few drugs, and while it definitely helped with the ADHD symptoms, the other side effects that affected my daily life were too much.

I switched my diet from a high carb to high protein, high fat. Instead of a bagel for breakfast, I'll eat a couple eggs, a breakfast meat, and every once in a while a piece of toast. Tons of whole fresh fruit all day. Lunch is similar: think a chipotle style meal with a base of protein and rice and some light veggies. More fruit and raw vegetables and nuts for snacks. Dinner is the same thing - protein base but fewer carbs and more veggies. I'll have some candy in the evening from time to time.

I also started lifting weights 3x a week. I love it cause it's the most efficient way for me to exercise - I spend 60-120 minutes in the gym three times and work my whole body. Heavy squats, deadlifts and presses - strengthens the back and hips, makes sitting in a chair much easier, and is a really great vector for activating that hyperfocus we love so much. I read a book called Starting Strength that basically gave me all the info I needed to get started.

Since starting this routine about 8 or 9 years ago, I find I'm sleeping better, my focus is way better, I'm much more pleasant to be around socially, I'm way less impulsive and interruptive, I make fewer stupid rash decisions, and I'm generally in a better, chipper mood a lot more.

Edit: Might add: I drink coffee like it's going out of style and don't find that caffeine really affects my focus all that much - more my energy levels. They're similar but on different axes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. [...] Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
I 100% agree with this, as an active Mint user. The integrations lately are terrible. I have to reconnect most accounts almost weekly, and they usually still fail after that. It's incredibly frustrating.
Under the heading: "Private and safe, like it should be."

"Copilot protects your information with bank-level security and has read-only access from your financial institutions. We treat your personal data like we’d want ours to be treated, which means never selling or sharing it with third parties. Ever."

Source: https://copilot.money
All aluminum cans are coated or you'd get aluminum oxides into your food.
This should be treated as warning for people on the part of spectrum:
most women's non-STEM communities (and some men's, though I found much less examples) are places to synchronize emotions, not to exchange facts.

If you forget this simple observation and force your opinion you'll get in trouble there ten out of ten times. It's possible to introduce cold facts but that also needs form of emotional synchronization which many autists fail to reproduce without training.
Cogent Question:
So are you saying you have a theory on how to build a business model here that continues to help people after they've gotten their budget sorted out?

Tangent:

Twice, I've had coworkers - developers, mind you - tell me in a meeting with the whole team that "We're not going to turn away money." Both times I was left speechless, and silently judging like mad.

Because if you really dig into what a statement like that says about their character, you're going to be very, very disappointed, possibly lose respect for them, and once you have no respect the temptation to say something unpleasant is much higher.

Which is not to say, "I'm surrounded by scoundrels." There's something systemic there. When we have to repeat back what we've said or how we've behaved it's often a lot easier to see that we're disappointed in ourselves. That this is not the person you want to be. You know someone who has done this to you, or rather, for you. You might even hate it a little bit at first but they've done you a huge favor. Eventually you see it.

Problem is, there's no incentive or even huge disincentives to try to do things like this in a business setting. I'm sure this has been playing out in slow motion at Google, if only for statistical reasons. It seems to happen most places.
I agree with you in general that Williams overstepped reasonable bounds on what he could do in planning his new venture. But the one phrase that jumped out at me was the "duty of loyalty to the company". I am reminded of all the articles I've read that describe companies that exhibited no loyalty whatsoever to their employees. I'm also reminded of the articles describing the working conditions of the people who are actually manufacturing Apple's iPhones. I know that these aren't actual Apple employees, but Apple has to know about the working conditions, and it seems to me that Apple just doesn't care.
VCs hit on women, and as a rule also do not give women money - the numbers quoted in this article are 2.2%: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/change-har...

I will never try to get VC funding because it's just not worth the time investment for those odds. Therefore I welcome communities for women entrepreneurs because we unfortunately on average must have different game plans compared to men.

We also have to deal with different BS, such as employees hitting on us. Fortunately this has not happened with me with any customers yet. I put forth effort to avoid that.
There's no reason to panic about Coronavirus – yet
Very nice project, I hope you can drive up engagement some more. It will be great to see more discussions and projects on there.
Thank you for being so patient, and for engaging in good faith. If your use of 'wtf' suggests a growing frustration, please know at least one person both sympathizes with you and hopes that you won't let any frustration damage the quality of your discourse.
Opening up search is an ethical imperative
At the danger of DOX'ing myself I'll just say I was a hair's breadth from closing the loop on full online voter registration in 2008 but apparently local offices are not REQUIRED to accept faxed registrations and might FORGET to change the toner or turn them on.

This is not my first brush with radical voting ideas and I'm not afraid to put them into practice when legal signs off :-p

These days I settle for election judging. Isn't that a scary thought?

You should google project Houdini, narwhal, and orca
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) specifically prohibits health insurance companies from denying coverage or setting rates based on such tests.
Wouldn't a job queue solve both issues? You could either make the data science stuff async (and spin up more servers as necessary). Or, with a job queue, you could use a go webserver to push requests into the queue for processing in python.
Reposted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22132464
Luv 2 watch 10yr bond yield inversions and increasing fed interventions in overnight repo markets to protect overleveraged institutions. Also luv to read about family offices switching to stable assets. Recessions are basically caused by rich people deciding they can make more money by crashing the economy than by lending.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-23/world-s-w...
You might as well make this point about all software. Can't people just use Excel? Why write something bespoke?
I was somewhat recently diagnosed with ADD and the diagnosis has truly changed my life. I, for the first time, in roughly 12 years of writing software professionally, am able finish a project enough to open source it-- and I am days away from being able to do so. It feels insanely good. Like something I've only dreamed of as silly as that is, and I don't even care if folks use it (it's not that good), but it's the fact I have even been able to do so...

For years when I would sit down to work I would go into an endless loop consisting of roughly three-four websites, almost back to back, where it was driven by muscle memory anytime something distracted me. I would almost like "wake up" finding myself in this endless loop.

On good days, I would look like an insanely talented and driven engineer, on bad days, I would look like the laziest piece of shit folks could know. It wasn't by choice, it wasn't because I was trying to "cowboy" or "rockstar" a single fucking thing, it's because that's how my attention span worked (or didn't rather).

"Smart and lazy" is almost an insult to me now, because its a moniker put on folks who are probably having trouble with something and "lazy" is rarely positive (even when its supposed to be). It kept me from believing I might have ADD for years despite tons of signs.

The downsides are of course that people don't believe you, or judge you for it (I switched pharmacies because they were treating my like shit when I would go to pickup my ADD meds)... but the upside, as the author said, is you have a life back you didn't know you were missing. You can choose to read a book, watch a movie, program, etc. you're not longer just forced into a vapid reflexivity of the world around you.
Hugged to death, I think.
but you were able to lead the group into a chant in the first place so how would that have happened if you would have instead favored being in the background from the beginning?

Maybe your sentiment can be enhanced by not gatekeeping participation - but by promoing a handover of leadership to more symbolic choices once the work of buuilding momentum is done. This is a rule that could be applied to any demographic-based leadership that needs to organize its aesthetic as it grows
Advice from a GraphQL Expert
I get it. It's hard to maintain hardware forever but the current trend of making hardware obsolete is just wasteful. These companies need to find a business model for old hardware. I'm open to paying a maintenance fee that would give me critical updates after a certain point in time. Maybe 5%/yr of the original cost after 5 years.

Sending working hardware to the dump is not a long term fix.