skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is explicitly wrong. It turned out they distributed the app on the free tier of TestFairy, meaning that they were limited to 200 users
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21122737/iowa-democractic-...
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Unfortunately I cannot update my comment. But looks like my browser was blocking “known trackers” which is why they were not showing up.
Good to know. I might have to do that. Thank you.
if you weren't well paid, you could be one of the various state/federal welfare programs such as Medicaid and your bills would be much, much lower
No worries!

I also enjoy the opposite: when people pronounce words incorrectly because they've never heard them aloud, only in writing.

I've embarrassed myself several times in this regard.
FWIW there is a law in Sweden that prevents any assisted motor transport going over 20KM/h, which is pretty normal cruising speed for a cyclist.

There is definitely a different perception here regards to safety because of it I think.

However, people are absolutely awful at parking these things. They're almost more dangerous stationary; because people just leave them in the middle of the walkway or cycle path sometimes.
To me it seems unlikely a newly hired C developer could overrule Elon Musk on things like releasing the product to customers or having LIDAR.
"Industry" is precisely where the incentives are highest to pursue quantity over quality. Managers are biased to treat having more people reporting to them as a good thing, not a cost for the business. And junior developers are also cheaper to hire, so it's win-win for them.
Interesting viewpoint - also achieving profit through massive scale is their DNA as well I would say.

Still though, enterprise is a tough domain in my experience, AWS did a great job
The fact that they made probably the best puzzle game ever made and then never made another sequel for 10 years.

This is something only Valve could do, because Steam makes so much more money. No other company would leave such a lucrative franchise for so long.
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Pretty sure e-reader devices like Kindle, Kobo, Nook, etc. have baked-in Google Analytics too. Why isn't there an outrage about that?
So I've come to the conclusion that the US model of private health care is ultimately doomed and nothing will save it. Of course it's going to kill people in the meantime but it is doomed.

While on vacation recently I ended up listening to the Bear Brooks podcast [1]. It's a little longwinded at times (but it is aimed at non-technical people) but is not a bad way to spend a long drive.

The interesting thing about this story is how advancements in DNA testing have taken us from the simple case of is or is not a match (used in paternity testing and for forensics) to figuring out how much of a match you are. This has created a new field of genetic genealogy that famously led to the identification of the Golden State Killer [2].

So there's a lot of talk about privacy and your DNA but much like having your contact information uploaded by someone else, this is showing that that will be insufficient as your DNA will ultimately be inferred (at least in probability terms) by people who aren't you. There's really no putting this genie back in the bottle.

So take a disease like Cystic Fibrosis. Currently this requires life long medication and care. Depending on the severity, you may require one (or more) lung transplants. All of this is expensive.

So if you have CF and want to get private insurance in the US this may well be a pre-existing condition and excluded. Now this disease is usually quite apparent from birth but there are other diseases that are not (eg Huntington's). If you'd had a test and know you have it the insurance company has a "right" to know it (if you accept the premise of the US health insurance system, which I, of course, do not).

But this is only going to get worse. Ultimately health insurers will able to figure out if you're much more likely to have certain expensive conditions by knowing, say, that a sibling is a carrier (which greatly increases the chances you have it).

Taken to its natural conclusion, the system of private health insurance cannot survive. The only workable solution is group health insurance. Sufficiently large groups statistically even out. That's how insurance is meant to work. This could be a fully public health system or something in between (eg state-level).

So back to the medical credit score. There will be fights over this. At some point you'll have a right to see it and get corrections. This will probably be championed by states since the Federal government seems to have forfeited, well, governing. But all this is just arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Of course there's still the separate issue of costs (in the US) to deal with but one step at a time.

[1]: https://www.bearbrookpodcast.com/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_State_Killer
Most of the organic traffic is content SEO, yes. Around ~2k of monthly searches is branded search (people looking for the company). And, well, it IS pretty reasonable - the company IS ranking for most BPM / workflow keywords.

I do get why you'd think SEO is snake oil. Yeah, useful website, service + good content is the way to go. You can't just "SEO" a mediocre website and expect anything to happen.
I have corrected this, despite some discussion back and forth, for clarity.
Give your team ownership. Let them be in control of the product as much as you are. Your team should be made of people more skilled than you.
I guess that makes sense. I have been doing it just because I figure it's an easy way to limit my potential data breach exposure. Didn't know about this medical credit score thing.
Ah, Elon needs more sweatshop programmers?
Yes, it's a different problem with universal health care. Here (Canada) the problem isn't oriented around the question of are you rich enough but there's a trade off in wait times. From the Fraser Institute[1]:

> There is also a great deal of variation among specialties. Patients wait longest between a GP referral and orthopaedic surgery (39.0 weeks), while those waiting for medical oncology begin treatment in 3.8 weeks.

Still, the Canadian system is demonstrably better when it comes to outcomes. Canadians live longer than Americans, and have lower infant mortality rates for instance. Canadians also pay half of what Americans do for health care, when everything is accounted for. My partner is diabetic; like most medicines its a fraction of the cost of in the US. A universal system brings with it purchasing power. No system is perfect, but this one seems much better than the American one for the average person.

It's a choice. In my case, I'd much rather the Canadian system over the American. Even when it comes to surgery, I had a vaginoplasty (took 8 months between GP consultation and surgery; $25k surgery paid for by govt). My friend got her tubes tied (took a month; paid for by govt). My other friend was in the hospital for a month (admitted immediately; paid for by govt). My uncle had heart surgery. He did not have to lose his house. My step-dad had hip surgery (took 4 months; paid for by govt). Not to mention all the doctor's visits and tests accrued over a lifetime.

[1]: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa...
> phone calls are impossible

And woe to those who need to take a conference call with multiple of their desk neighbors but no conference rooms are available. Nothing like a bunch of people all sitting next to each other talking on the same phone call.

Why companies would implement an open office without a plethora of private meeting spaces is beyond me.
There is a difference between 99% and 99.99% assurance in this field though. You can test your self-driving AI to a reasonably high degree of certainty before ever testing in a public uncontrolled environment.
I agree you should be able to communicate with friends/others, especially if it makes you uncomfortable. You shouldn't be able to flee any situation that causes some anxiety.

At the same time it is surprising that you can't even a little bit relate to the anxiety of trying to figure out how to get out of a social engagement. It is very reductive to recommend that you just 'find new friends'.
I don't think it's fair to say that dummies are working at Boeing. Their recent scandals seem to at least partly stem from organisational/political problems.
And FB "genius"'s mistakes are still far less visible than Boeing engineers'.
Maybe it’s contentment. They’ve had a good life being a factory worker (or replace with any other formerly good earning but now dying job). Had the house and 2 cars and raised a family on the work, so why change things now. I know intellectually yes you can say this industry is dying and the wages are going down, but it’s probably not as emotionally connected a thought process.

Most immigrants never had that luxury. They came with no credentials and worked low wage jobs at or below the poverty line. They want to get out of that situation and maybe more importantly want their children to get out of that situation.
Focused customer service directly meeting the needs of your existing customers, and serious attention to the products and features they need.

It's not a guaranteed formula---AWS, Google, even Azure have big moats around their offerings and significant table-stakes features implemented. But "focusing entirely on the needs of the customer" is the thing their scale makes challenging; they have customers with multiple disjoint or competing needs.
Why twitter doesn't encrypt the phone number?

what is the purpose for twitter to keep an api that someone can query phone number?
Or Java? /s
I wrote before that semiconductor industry economists were awaiting a crash for a very long time.

At least since 2016, I saw notion of a coming crash coming from very esteemed industry publications that cost few thousand bucks to access.

Everybody in semi knows of the cyclical nature of the industry, and the non-stop long bull run since 2008 looked very unusual to many.

Why is this so important?

The reason is that few years ago, the industry committed itself to the biggest capital infusion in history with EUV.

Those fabs costs tenths of billions, and take years to build. They are never ever constructed without an extremely thorough research done with top tier economists.
use a raspberry pi for your webserver. save the big iron for anything that won't run on the pi; and get free "nose rubbed in it" lessons on what really needs to be done on what part of "backend".

having a httpd covering file shares is so useful for so many reasons like this that i would always recommend it.
TIL indeed. Must be industry jargon or trade usage as another reply put it. As a lay person I’ve only ever heard it referred to as “emergency services”.
Very happy about this. I used a broker (and paid a fee) to find an apartment in NYC and I naively thought they would show me apartments only they had access to. Imagine my surprise when I found out my apartment was in a no-fee building the day I moved in...
Congrats, sincerely, but it seems very wrong that an arrangement can exist where if you lose or leave your current job, you might die.
How so? Last I checked there are massive laws about who can open a hospital, who can operate as a doctor, who can sell what kinds of insurance, who can sell drugs, and what can be sold as a drug. This is government granted oligopoly.

Edit: Technically oligopoly, not monopoly, though it may tend towards one.
More than Agile?

Snark aside, I have a personal office and I love it. I don't like to listen to constant noise/music to cancel out the other noise/music. I like being able to have private calls without all of the noise in the background. If I'm working on something particularly difficult I like closing my door and having peace and quiet. I also enjoy the sense of ownership and prestige. It's nice feeling like I matter and my space and attention are worth something.

Working in an open office is too chaotic for me. Being around people is exhausting and distracting. I like to have a space I can retreat to for a few hours and get some deep work done. Silence is usually what I appreciate the most.
I've learned to get any deep focus, I need to eliminate emails and Slack for this time (including things by the closest collaborators, directly on the project, life partners, anyone).

There are exceptions and emergencies (then, and only then - unscheduled phone calls), but only in case when it is worth canceling all daily progress.
Not to mention that as knowledge workers, a lot of the value+ideas you provide come from reading and research that is not explicitly work related. I encourage my team to spend time doing non-related research and work/tinker on finding new things they are interested in, and to not feel guilty if I walk by and they have reddit or hn open/visible. That being said, working in an open office is like being stuck in a plane of purgatory.
This is all just another example software devs' parochial belief that because software is eating the world, any problem in software is terrible, while ignoring the whole stack of hardware in meatspace that supports the software in the first place.

Like the whole 'internet-connected-cars' panic that occasionally grips developers. You know what's more dangerous than putting a car on the internet? putting a car on the road. There are other drivers out there who could kill you. Thousands of people actually die in accidents. And you want to worry about the infotainment system containing a remote execution vulnerability?
Using such a big machine for running a home server is wasteful I'd say. Also, exactly why do you want to use a home server? It's definitely not the easiest nor cheapest setup.
In economic terms: if your main compensation is a fixed yearly salary, the most efficient use of your time is to expend the minimal amount of effort required to merely retain your job.
The logical conclusion to private markets + unrestricted lobbying + Citizens United. They literally made the laws that restrict competition. They were only capable of this because of the insane amounts of profit they extracted from an otherwise public service, which they spend on schmoozing lawmakers.
It was originally. Now I think there is no reason anymore, it's just the default option.

When the company I work for was looking for an extra office close by, they were all open plan. Changing that was never a topic of discussion.
In situations where one has little voice. Having someone more powerful speak for them usual results in them still having no voice but the person speaking for them can use this to further their voice.

We must allow others to use their own voice. Teach them.

In the past many of sins have resulted in assuming someone else's pain. The rich do gooder's action doesn't always help and frequency hurts.

I will give you an example. A shoe factory in India employing children and offering a dollar a day pay. Twitter campaign mounts company closes plant. Twitter folks rejoice and feel they have done good. But back in India everyone loses their job, the kids working were supporting sick parents who cannot work and get sicker. Children are forced into the sex trade. People on twitter are still rejoycing because no one followed up on the people they were speaking up for. In fact they were not speaking up for these workers they were speaking against the shoe company. After they caused the shoe company pain they didn't care about the rest.

The question becomes are you speaking for the voiceless or yourself? If the voiceless wanted to reduce immigration because they want to increase the chance of getting a good paying position would you share those voices if they didn't match your views/voice? Or would you try to mute that voice but increase the volume on some other aspect you believed in?

Speaking for someone else is probably a bad idea.
The only way to make an open office tolerable is to give its inhabitants a lot of space. You can resist the temptation to cram people in by giving them really big desks.

My comfort level is, if I can smell my coworkers, then we're sitting too close.
healthcare is getting so bad that eventually medicare for all will be a republican position too. They will call it something else, but it will happen. the party has fundamentally changed.

Oligarchs know that money has to be spent to keep the plebs just well enough to prevent revolt.
> Null Safety is just overhead imho.

Not having null safety seems like overhead to me.

> I know when it is appropriate or neccessary to check for null, otherwise i can get rid of it.

How do you know? Do you have the entire code base in your head. What about when someone new works on the project?

> And its more easily grep-pable the Java way.

What does this mean?
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Join the Rands Leadership Slack group [0] if you're into slack communities. This question gets asked a lot and there are dedicated channels to chat about exactly this and overall it's a supportive community :)

[0] https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/
A randomized controlled trial with some clear prospectively defined measure of detriment would be how to prove that. Actually running a trial like that is going to be logistically near impossible though.
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They're "like PCs" in the sense that the instruction set has of the CPUs has caught up and in theory you can attach more complicated peripherals. However, unless your embedded product has MMC flash attached (for many applications it doesn't due to cost + physical size) you're SOL for the following reasons:

1. For M4s your storage is typically some kind of SPI flash which doesn't act like the traditional desktop flash you're dealing with. You have to manually specify the address you're reading/writing & you have to do it on block boundaries (multiple KB). You're generally looking at 8-64MB.
2. For M0 your storage is typically flash built-in with potentially even more restrictions.
3. These devices have very little RAM. Decompression means you have to have a way of enforcing constraints on the amount of space you'll need. Aside from the space needed regularly for decompression you may need to buffer the decompressed content in-memory to align with block boundaries. All of this means development time, increased costs & risk for something you may not be able to pull of.

If your vendor actually internally compresses their image then great but generally they don't for all the same reasons (+ sometimes this is touching ROM code in the chip).
Absolutely this. There's a lot of nice talk in this thread about empowering and enabling your team - but in my experience, that's not what companies are hiring tech leads and managers for. They're hiring you to get stuff shipped!

So understand your own manager's approach to management, and make sure you're aligned with it. Recently I was in a job where my own "servant leadership" style clashed quite badly with my boss, who was much more focussed on management "driving delivery" of projects. It did not end well.
Or maybe they catch use the tech to launch a competitor to the holographic chocolate. http://www.morphotonix.com/chocolate/

Edit: Oh sad day, it seems the chocolate may have just been a demo of the etching and molding technology.
There is one difference: violence. Laws are enforced on threat of violence. A business cannot force you to follow their procedures, at most they can deny you business. If I start selling drugs I import at a cheaper price, the government will use violence to stop me (including potential enslavement for a few years).

That one difference is all that matters.
GWR has recently shifted its business to consulting companies countries and other entities with image problems.

They hand out records to them and make a show and everything, as to "record-wash" their image.

You're damn right GWR is a scam
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or roleplaying games like dungeons and dragons. because of its theme it is pushed into a corner as nerd culture, but if you look at it from another perspective it can also be summed up as improvisation and math. dungeons or monsters are not actually required.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they follow a “creaming” strategy. That is, hire a ton at a lowish bar, monitor their performance, and fire 75% of them relatively quickly. Ruthless, perhaps, but consistent with what I have seen from the outside.
Karpathy is building the NN backend in PyTorch, for which C++ is the most popular deployment language.
I don't think this is accurate. Aside from the minister, they're all civil servants. For example, the current Deputy Minister of Finance was appointment by a different leader (from a different party) over 5 years ago.
Minor point, but it's HIPAA with two A's, not two P's.

HIPAA pertains to PHI and PII (protected health information and personally identifiable information, respectively). The fact of your office visit is not either of those if it's not linked to health information (labs, medical records, notes, itemized bills).

Further, it may be allowed under permitted uses and disclosures as-is, without authorization under the language for payments. I couldn't tell from the article, but the health systems could simply decline to treat you without your authorization for the credit check.

Separately, people love to make healthcare into the bad guy, but it's not a monolith and there are hospitals closing down because they are losing money. There is a systemic problem in the US here, and I bet this is those 2nd/3rd tier markets in smaller systems that can't absorb defaults like nationals can.
I'm starting to think it's better to not be born (into society today) unless born into a rich family. The sociopaths have no checks & balances and everyone can just watch everything get worse.
As well, the pivot point on the front wheel of a scooter is much further from your center of mass than on a bike, so you're going to go over much easier.

The same can absolutely happen on a bike, but in my experience you need to be going much faster (or be much heavier) than on a scooter for the reason I mentioned above.
I've pretty much accepted as a rule of thumb the higher up you are in management the less you actually know about what your business actually does
Hey thanks for this. Something interesting to consider! Made me think.
Amazon S3 and DynamoDB come to mind are good examples. They are model-checked in TLA+ though the applications themselves are not written in TLA+.

A large portion of Microsoft's in house developed device drivers for windows are formally verified.

Boeing together with DARPA built an autonomous helicopter on top of the formally verified Sel4 microkernel
https://ts.data61.csiro.au/projects/TS/SMACCM/

Another one:

Wireguard uses formally verified implementations of ed25519 https://github.com/project-everest/hacl-star
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> Do you have any experience with GCP as an enterprise customer compared to AWS or Azure?

The point is that that doesn't matter. Even if it's not always logical, the reputation of your company as a whole sometimes matters, even in the case of corporate accounts ("nobody got fired for buying IBM" after all). Moreso in the case of startups where you have one tech guy who might have gotten burned before.

Amazon has a stellar reputation since nearly everyone has gotten a refund from Amazon for some cheap DOA $2 cable but meanwhile Google stonewalled them on some random glitch in Gmail. Even if it's not logical, those things stick around in people's heads.
What is your background? If you know how to use a REST API or React components, you should be able to build a Health Care app on the Commute platform.
According to an article I read they're planning to outfit the conference rooms with the infrastructure to support eSports tournaments. Otherwise it's an ordinary hotel with retro-gaming themed decorative elements designed to appeal to Gen X and Baby Boomers.