skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the article states that the delivery drivers are paying $nothing and driving off, leaving the restaurants with a loss of $CorrectPrice and leaving the service with a marginal loss.

Which is why the restaurants are pissed, and why these services (GrubHub, Door Dash, Uber Eats) are losing 9-figures or more every year.
> Creating value with your knowledge is evidence of learning. I see learning as a by-product of trying to achieve an intrinsic goal, rather than an isolated activity to become educated.

> Early evidence of practical knowledge often comes from usage metrics on GitHub, or reader metrics from your work blog. Progress in theoretical work starts by having researchers you consider interesting engage with your work.

> Taste has more to do about character development than knowledge. You need taste to form an independent opinion of a field, having the courage to pursue unconventional areas and to not get caught up in self-admiration.

When I study abstract interpretation or lattices, I'm doing so because I find those subjects interesting and beautiful, and studying math relaxes me. I can lie to myself and say that it's improving my problem solving ability and that it's like doing mental yoga and will make me better at my job or some baloney, but that's not why I do it.

I can spend time with a plant in my garden, take a cutting, root it and replant it, and watch it grow, learn the ebbs and flows of its watering needs through the seasons, learn what its seed pods look like, and eventually watch it die through some misstep of my own or otherwise.

And in doing so, I am learning, and building a mental model for this plant and an intuition for it, but I'm not "creating value" in some weird capitalist sense, which I feel always underlies these sorts of opinions about learning and education, and people who self-identify as "makers" in general. It rubs me the wrong way because it encourages a very narrow view of the human experience and what it means to learn and why we should learn.
With MATLAB/Octave in particular I think the value isn't familiar syntax or "how people write math" (because even that is quite varied). It's more that the REPL and language are fast enough to make it a CLI calculator that allow for rapid prototyping and development/exploration of mathematical ideas.

It's one thing that Julia currently does "ok" with, the syntax is fine (albeit slightly more verbose and often more abstract), but the iteration speed gets fairly nasty when you're not doing big computations or need to rapidly iterate, in which the JIT can take awhile to warm up. There are things you can do, but it's still a lot slower for day to day work for a lot of MATLAB users.

At least in my opinion. I tried to switch to Julia from GNU Octave (from which I moved from MATLAB proper) for a lot of hobby controls/DSP work and it was just a pain to iterate and explore ideas with. Same with Python imo as well.
We built our ML platform on AWS–and why that may have been a mistake
Which of the two has a trillion dollar market cap with monopoly like market share in multiple business to consumer product sectors?

There’s nothing novel about what Epic or any other B2B enterprise software company does (for the most part), other than total addressable market (and profits) being far smaller than the B2C FAANG giants - the market caps reflect this as well.
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Let's stop revising history: Reagan didn't win the Cold War
How’s a former President?

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/remarkable-cancer-treatment-he...

(Although there’s no indication his status led to his cure, of course. With immunotherapy, the requisite status seems to be “can become patient of a decent clinic,” not “former leader of the free world” and/or legendary rock god.)
Those numbers brought about something I'm surprised I haven't noticed before.

I don't know a single person who actually uses twitter regularly. Where as I know loads of people who use reddit/discord/facebook. And yet twitter is where all of the media attention goes.
I only was willing to look at the article because it was Ribbon Farm and the series on the Gervais Principle was really good. I know a lot already about social stuff. I don't often get big epiphanies from reading things.

People sometimes make up terminology because they are trying to communicate ideas for which there really aren't popular terms. I struggle with this myself. I get accused of being idiosyncratic, using words to mean something they don't to other people, etc.

New ideas require new terminology. It's part of why living languages grow, change, add new vocabulary, etc.
For my first miscarriage - no heartbeat, no detectable embryo - the idea of a “failed pregnancy” somehow made the loss more manageable, like something that never got off the ground. My next miscarriage, which occurred after seeing a heartbeat, was devastating for both me and my husband. A year later I found myself in the emergency room with my daughter, two days after I’d found out I was pregnant a third time, and almost had a panic attack right then and there. It was completely unexpected and really shone a light on how traumatic the loss and the D&E afterward had been.

https://medium.com/messy-mind/emergency-room-flashbacks-871e...
All I see is a generic page plastered wall to wall with ads.
Also, if that was true, why would they only complain about the 3rd biggest cloud provider?
But I don't think amateur works if you are being paid or are charging for something. Even if you are new. Amateur is fine for a hobbyist, but if you call an unexperienced "professional" an amateur, I think it would usually be considered a slight.
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As a FreeBSD developer, perhaps you know what tunables are being talked about for specific use cases?

Unrelated, I find it surprising that any major operating system these days need rebooting because "every third day or so otherwise the performance degraded a lot". Or maybe they just didn't increase the sysctl var kern.full_performance_days high enough ;)
You're exactly right. It's even in the article:

> Postmates told the team at Hardena that the only way to change the prices would be to become a member, which meant accepting delivery orders and paying the company a percent of their profit. The listing is still live, and still reflects the 2001 menu prices. Grubhub, Doordash, and Postmates did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

(In this case "a percent of their profit" is actually 30% of each delivery order's total revenue.)
That's extremely overstated.
> (For what it’s worth, I think the latter matched his level of inspiration but not quite his achievement, though I wouldn’t be saying that if Beethoven, like Mozart, had died at 35.)

If "achievement" is to be read as influence, that's most likely due to Beethoven's compositional process being tractable and, therefore, imitable by mid- to late-period Romantic composers (and later, 20th century composers).

A young composer can be taught to take a motive (short pattern of intervals and rhythms) and transform it to accumulate a phrase of music that is greater than the sum of its parts. If you add to that the possibility to interrupt the flow with related melodic fragments so that the melody seems to "comment" upon itself, you already have a rich set of tools from which to create a dynamic section of music. It's unlikely it will sound anything as sophisticated as what Beethoven wrote. But it will likely be coherent.

Now compare that to this:

* learn to read, remember, improvise upon, and mash up all the musics of continental Europe

* when asked to write a piece, think of the most fitting styles and textures from what you learned (and sometimes, mash them up to make new ones), improvise some new content for that, and then write it down

* if you know your musicians, tailor the music specifically to any special skills or limitations (including yourself)

* put in various types of musical jokes to amuse yourself and the performers

So suppose you are a budding composer and want to express your support for universal human solidarity. Do you chose as your model music from a composer who masterfully employs Romantic irony for the singer to interrupt the symphony that was previously in progress (Beethoven's 9th) to sing about universal brotherhood?

Or do you choose the composer who masterfully mashed up three dances in three disparate time signatures showing how three different social classes could all make merry together in agreeable harmony (Mozart's Don Giovanni)?

Keep in mind that if you choose the latter you need to conduct and cue three different groups from the orchestra so they know when to start and can remain synchronized.

Given hundreds of years the musical legacy tends toward Beethoven more than Mozart for this reason. Still, I'd bet if you measured 9th Symphony references to Mozart's Requiem, the latter wouldn't be too far behind. Heck, Mozart died after writing only eight measures of the Lacrimosa and I've heard that in at least 4 different Netflix shows this year.
Especially when Amazon is making moves into insurance and pharmacy spaces
AMD https://jobs.amd.com/search/?q=compiler
Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are all trillion dollar companies operating in multiple sectors. Why is Google special in this regard?
If you work for a company that must follow regulations, then you should be aware of your impact. You will learn this as you advance further in your career.. however this post was written as though the regulations are there to cause you grief, but that can't be further from the truth. Think of it like this, the Boeing team is finding out the hard way what happens when you skirt steps in a highly regulated field.

SOX is the standard for change management for financial companies to prevent shadow changes that could enable another Enron, Worldcom, or Adelphia style cooking-of-books financial scandal. The idea is that all changes should be fully analyzed for their impact. If a change is found to have been made without going through the controls process then a review and an emergency after-the-fact change record must be created. This leads me to believe you did not just login to a server, unless you weren't supposed to have access in the first place (separation of duties requirement), but actually made a modification to that server without an approved change.

All this means that the system is very resilient and will not suffer random outages but most importantly, in the SOX world, there is no avenue for malicious changes to be introduced to critical financial systems and their data.
Not understanding the incentives of those you tie yourself to is a quick way to endanger any endeavor you attempt.

It's not insecurity to paranoia to worry about today's partner being tomorrow's competitor when it's so common. In fact, this is exactly one of the things China has used to jump start many industries. In their fervor to enter the Chinese market, many companies have given over intellectual property in exchange for access (an excahnge only really on the table because the Chinese government could and did constrain that access otherwise), and found that after some time they had local competitors with similar advantages (and possibly government consrtaints again to boot).

That a company might recognize that a deal may have long-term consequences that vastly outweigh the short term gains is not something to deride, it's exactly what they should be on the lookout for if they intend to survive and grow.
> It uses a Mach microkernel that originated at CMU,

The macOS kernel is derived from what Apple chooses to release as XNU, which is Mach-ish.
That's a good point actually. You'd need the internet to install the app too.
I used WD RE3s back then, and never had problems.
I'll admit I know very little of the culture in Japan so there are quite likely other factors. I am just talking from personal experience as a 2x year old in Australia. I would happily meet up with friends regularly but it never happens because they live too far away, most of us do not have cars and because most of us live with parents, meetups tend to be in the city where the only activity is drinking. Video games perhaps allow us to have fun when we might have otherwise forced ourselves to go out but I think the primary factor for me is how difficult it is.
I tried many unsuccessful times to convince recruiters at different companies to recruit postdocs, especially those coming from the more quantitative sciences that were not computer science or adjacent to computer science.

The main reasons are inertia (they never recruited postdocs before), aversion to risk (postdocs did not work in industry before), and a sprinkle of laziness here and there. They were much more open to interviewing postdocs that had spent a few weeks getting up to speed (or so recruiters and hiring managers thought) on industry practices in boot camps (such as Insight DS for my field).

Some forward-looking companies could organize one-month boot camps specifically for hired postdocs, but the interviews should also change (e.g., you cannot ask a postdoc on how to put a certain model in production, since they never did that before). And there is nothing more solidly written in stone than the way of interviewing for tech positions, apparently.
It's this fraud? The delivery services claim sell an item for a certain price, then are unable to do so because the restaurant's actual price is higher.
Yes, but also a potential privacy concern since if you have temperature data for a female, you could use it to pinpoint when ovulation may be occurring. I can only imagine that due to some of the recent privacy issues with cycle tracker apps that information might already be exploited for some nefarious advertising campaign.
It'x a brilliant piece of marketing from MS, if you think about it. Many decision makers, even in spaces with HIPAA data, have no real idea what it entails. They are frightened of screwing it up.

What Microsoft sells is a "good enough" solution that speaks the right language for the decision makers. In turn, this makes their decision less risky while still satisficing the requirements.
it’s unclear to me what delivery customers are being charged, and for me the companies tried to leverage the “look how much business we’re sending you” into signing contracts. i refused and they took the listings down. so i didn’t really get a chance to find out where the customers are getting angry...

to be clear, i don’t think i’ve ever had a problem with payment - the couriers generally just paid whatever amount we rang up and asked for a receipt. i assume that gets passed to the customer.

would if i could look into the legality of things. i’m usually so swamped with life and i’m such small fry i get left alone fairly easily.
Companies tend to only want regulation when they need to block out competitors by raising the bar to compete. Maybe they're worried about stealth startups that may already be ahead of them?
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The older you are, the less value you can extract from learning new things, the more easily you can extract value from what your already know. This is explains the endless debate between young people and old people who bicker on forums instead of building.
It's called "Regulatory capture". They're trying to slow down / hinder competition, while at the same time benefiting from loopholes sewn into the legislation their lobbyists helped to create.
I have been curating this list [1] for the last little while, and made it public about a month ago.

While not a list or positions as the URL suggests, ands to help remind people that compilers are in way more companies than you think!

[1]: https://github.com/mgaudet/CompilerJobs
A lot of new tech, especially frameworks, are not actually much better. They're just cleaner and neater.

They argue that this causes less bugs and time to transfer information to another developer, but the overall cost to learn and implement exceeds the losses. They also tend to be less flexible, which also increases the costs further.

Older devs are much less likely to make mistakes, whether it's Java or SQL, and the new technologies designed to reduce mistakes by tripling code size are less appealing.

It's different to, say, C vs Assembly, or Java vs C, when there were substantial gains.
I had to go through this with my wife 2 years ago. I’ll never be the same. It changed me. I was an exuberant person. When we first came to know about the pregnancy we were so happy but it totally changed my outlook on life after the loss. I did not know how to cope, I developed a deep interest in philosophy and spirituality, spent next 1 year reading and thinking which helped but it changed me as a person. We now have a 10 month old but we did not tell even the close friends ( we live in a different country) until the day of delivery. My blood pressure was 150/90 through the last trimester. I love my son and I know it is supposed to be fun and exciting but but I live in fear.
> EPIC is a perfect example of the walled garden ecosystem that extracts every last drop from its clients and keeps anyone trying to innovate out.

Google doesn't do this?
> And yet women managed to exist in outside society and participate in all kinds of actions in the 60s and 70s for example (including protests, acid tests, trips to India, and all kinds of stuff), under much worse conditions (re: average societal sexism, etc), without all today's drama.

But that doesn't mean that it wasn't there or that there wasn't a problem - just that they were less able to talk about it without more severe consequences to themselves, and we've hardly moved past that now. Dismissing it all as just "drama" sounds like implicitly wishing that the situation would go back to suffering in silence.
>What's keeping them inside?

I would guess they've shut themselves in and away from the shame and rejection by society and have found the tiny inkling of happiness possible in that hole. And as society continues to rejects them further for being in a hole, the hole only gets deeper.

Understandable, since the minute they go outside, everything is stacked against them and even with help, they probably won't be able to compete on the same level as the normal people who didn't fall into the hole. I can't win outside, but I can be happy in my hole. Hole good, outside bad.
Unproven that doing less is synonymous with less useful.
Is radiology still so profitable now that it is so easy to outsource?
The University of Alabama-Huntsville satellite temperature record is one of the highest quality measurements of global temperature. It works by measuring the vibration of oxygen molecules around the globe. Since oxygen is evenly distributed at sea level (at ~20% of the atmosphere), it's a damn good measurement. It's a co-designed project that has operational since 1979. Dr. John Christy is also involved in the project. Fuck off with Skeptical Science. It's a smear campaign run by a guy with a quarter of the credentials of Christy and Spencer, who worked with NASA to produce the first ever global satellite temperature recording. They invented the process for goodness sake. Anyone can write a blog. Show me John Cook's groundbreaking achievements. Better yet, argue from an empirical standpoint about the methodology UAH uses instead of spouting off copy-pasta ad hominem attacks. And quit judging people based on their religion. Isaac Newton was a creationist for God's sake. Get over yourself.

Also, here's more research for you to chew on:

The Key Role of Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation in Minimum Temperature Over North America During Global Warming Slowdown

Shows minimum temps dropping during the last couple decades in North America:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...

Also:

The dynamics of the warming hiatus over the northern hemisphere

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00382-016-3085-...
Ask HN: Is anybody still on a Soylent diet?
You don't read much about Soylent in the news these days. It used to be discussed on HN frequently. Has anybody here been on a Soylent diet since 2013-2015 now? How has it been for you?
> Principal investigators are notoriously stubborn about how they do things

I've come across things a simple as "I wrote a Perl script that does that, but it uses KEGG not GO terms" for their reasoning. That, or – if they're okay with using gene ontology – we have to also use the other system in parallel. And then the results becomes a discussion of how the two different annotation systems display the results.

Life science could use a benevolent dictator.
Why is your uninformed guess better than data?
> Unless you are a superstar, there is no way you get a TT job without a postdoc in math.

Seeing that my institution and lots more do have assistant professorships for new PhDs in math, and I even have friends who have attained such positions, this is very much true. Of course one needs to be relatively successful.

Edit: Okay, it appears that some people consider those positions “postdoc in disguise”.
Your `xgb` and `xgbutil` libraries did exactly what I needed, and helped me write a nifty little window management utility for myself. Thanks!
>we’ve had a couple losses so it’s hard to get excited yet

Am I misunderstanding or are you saying that is generally what you try to tell people when they tell you they are pregnant?

I truly hope not. That has to be one of the worst things to say to someone who confides in you that they are pregnant. Unless of course they have already shared a similar thought with you, of course.
Thanks for replying! I don't tend to do that type of work anymore, but I'm still stoked to see a solution to the problem I had frequently. I think there's a great service to be built (and maybe it's yours!) that deduplicates data.

Specific models might be an interesting addon. Address parsing, normalization, and deduplication (with potential covariates like phone number, email address, etc.) is a massive pain in the ass for any data engineer who works with sales or marketing folks. Their databases (CRMs) are awful -- it was always a chore to clean these up, but measurably saved money (imagine you mail physical cards, and only want 1 per customer... but you have 5 different contacts at that company for 3 unique individuals).

I would have paid for a deduplication service -- say, quarterly batches at somewhere >$500/quarter for e.g. 20-50k contacts.

The 1-size-fits-all isn't really a value add for me, that wasn't so much my issue. For other target users, I can see that use -- for them, the interface is the value add. Especially if you can read/write Excel files directly.

Stop words aren't something I used in my deduplication efforts. How many of your users request or use this? What kind of stop words do you want to exclude from comparing two entries? I would be worried that stopwords still carry information: "The Store" versus "Store" might be significant.
They are just disrupting the food delivery industry /s
> Honestly I don't think FreeBSD should focus on desktop story at all.

Lest we despair, macOS was based on FreeBSD. Also, lest we become overly enthusiastic, macOS is about the only successful desktop based on FreeBSD (apologies to y’all Dragonfly folks).

I wish there was more diversity in this regard but I think it’s an unfortunate instance of collateral damage of the GPL vs permissive licensing wars.
Right. And while Epic does the heavy lifting of crafting software to support healthcare provider workflows, integrating dissimilar systems (PACS, etc.), and storing all that data, the companies you mentioned feel they can create value by attempting to automate diagnosis and potentially offer some integration point for genetic counseling.
> no rational actors should be ordering and then not paying for enough food to seriously hurt a business

Who says it's one actor, instead of a town full of people trying once (or even once every couple of months to see if the issue persists), and failing?
Absolutely. |
Also EPIC is spectacularly unfit for purpose.

Total garbage software that essentially functions as a billing tool.