skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your company is an inspiration and are doing a tremendous service to the world. I am a federal consultant and have a couple of companies in the medical space that I help find and write solicitations for. I'd love to help your company free of charge on anything and everything. I have alot of infrastructure built such as pricing tools, automated solicitation writing, a ton of outreach lists, etc. One such outreach list is of clinical labratory's nationwide with emails to executives and a ton of other information. I also work with a company that sells reagents and contract kits. I've also worked at Tesla on the Supply Chain, Capital Equipment team in the past and can help you procure any reagents or automated Sanger sequencers/ labs who have them. Additionally, I am fairly adept at SQL and Python (Pandas for data) and why I am a regular on Hacker News and how I found the comment. Let me know if there is anything I can do as I would be very proud to contribute anything to your mission.
Name it Ruth so Elm and Ruth can be in relation like in the poem "Elm" by Sylvia Plath:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49003/elm
But mostly to those who give something back to the check writers. The government equivalent to giving you a table with a view if you promise to leave a good review on Yelp.
Vimeo has one
Coordinate in general should be in an explicit and documented coordinate system (I suppose you mean GPS coordinate system, EPSG:4326/WGS 84)
> without building this huge drama oriented narrative.

One person's distress is another person's "drama", I suppose.
I've seen the opposite, but I'm in embedded engineering. I imagine lawyers and physicians are less tech savvy and more susceptible to Marketing.
I often advise students to start with a sort of flowchart of ideas, instead of an outline. This consists of boxes with ideas, keywords, phrases, or diagrams, connected with arrows in a sequential order.

When the student pitches the plan to me, I start by looking at the items in the boxes of the flowchart, to make sure they are all relevant and that no relevant things have been missed. So far, this is no different than looking at a bullet list in a conventional outline. But the next step is the key: if the diagram has A->B->C, for example, I propose some other ordering and ask the student why that couldn't work. And I also ask whether we actually need that B in the middle.

This directed-graph approach can help to reveal a good logical structure for the overall composition, often saving an great deal of time at a later stage, where the pieces being moved around are not just phrases or ideas, but rather paragraphs, sections, or even chapters.

Quite often, the best way to come up with a diagram of this type is to explain the goal of the written work to someone else, drawing the diagram as part of the explanation. If the listener says "I don't see how you got from that idea to the next" then the diagram might need another box.

The other hint I give to students is to keep updating this flowchart as the writing is being done, because the act of writing can so often uncover things that were not envisioned at the start.

PS. when I say "my student", I include myself, for the teacher who is not also a learner is missing an opportunity.
Not without generics it can't. I know a lot of people seem to think that generics aren't necessary in Go, but I vehemently disagree with them.
The last time this policy was threatened (by Belgium?? IIRC) Google merely cut those websites completely out of the search results. In a matter of weeks those websites were seeing their internet traffic drop to practically nil.

Then it was "Google, please!"
It’s also not a “data shaping” language in any way. The shape is defined entirely by the server in the schema. The client can only choose to project selected fields and traverse down selected collections. GraphQL has useful projection capabilities that help, but you can’t select an attribute of an subobject as an attribute on its own and you can’t condense a single-item collection into a single item. It also cannot re-shape a sequence into a map keyed by some field in that sequence.

I like it over REST for allowing client control over traversal and data returned. Client has control over quantity but not shape of results.
There is also no rule enforcing people to write mail in English. They are legally allowed to use made up languages, codes, encryption, etc.
> You don't need to know the contents of a chat to glean massive amounts of metadata.

Signal is actually working on fixing that (https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/).
The question of knowledge is indeed tricky. Your specific objection has kind of already been answered by science: you can't trust your senses, so you build instruments to extend your senses into domains you can't sense, you translate that data into sensory data you know is somewhat reliable, and you adhere to a rigourous process of review, replication and integration of all observations into a coherent body knowledge. Eventually, you converge on a reliable, replicable body of knowledge.

And so far, this body of knowledge suggests strongly that we can't trust our perception of consciousness.
> The better solution is to coach people on more effectively using company time.

Have you done this in a managerial capacity before? Is what you're saying borne out of experience?

I'm skeptical because while "just coach people" is a nice sentiment - it is extremely hand wavy and ineffective at solving the actual problem.
This was fairly useful, if not amazingly insightful.

I think that "give yourself some space" is by far the most helpful tip. At any given moment, in any given state of mind, you'll only ever have an imperfect perspective on what it is you're trying to say, and how well you've succeeded in saying it.

Waiting until you're in a different frame of mind, then revisiting the piece, is the best way of "layering" your own ideas – filling in gaps, considering new perspectives, coming to new realizations.

I think it's something that has to be done with every piece of writing. You either get someone else to look at it and do it for you (if you don't have time), or let enough time pass that you have (in a sense) become "someone else" yourself, and read again.
Although their shed is quite nice looking, the idea is definitely not new:

https://shedsunlimited.net/collection/home-office-sheds
> If there is any long-term profit to be made, a wealthy investor will come in, buy up the assets at a low price, hire the employees who are now jobless, and pick up the torch where the previous ownership left off.

This makes the assumption that at least one of the following is true:
1. There are wealthy investors to fund the purchase
2. There are wealthy investors who realize there is a long term profit to be made
3. That wealthy investors care about long term profit

> A government bailout is bad for every other American, because it introduces an incentive to making poor decisions and not planning for market downturns.

There are events which no company can plan for, either because they are once in a several lifetime events or because they are so cataclysmic that they shake the foundations of a global economy.
I'm using the Dasung Paperlike HD and I really like it for writing code. 13 inches, but it's real nice.

I imagine in 5-10 years or so, we'll see what you're imagining.
Shipping is very cheap in the era of globalization and containerized shipping so it doesn't mean much.

Companies focused on cost cutting, outsourcing and the like, but in doing so sacrificing agility and deep knowledge, and sometime even cost.
Chrome custom tabs have access to your passwords and autocomplete history, for what it's worth
There's a ton of in person work to be done. You could get it down to maybe 5 people/team in person and have the audience remote, but that's about it. 2 drivers/operators, 1 mech, 1 electrical, 1 programmer. With maybe some overlap with drivers, but that's often a separate skill ladder.

Not only would you have issues with remotely controlling the robots, as most of the competition isn't autonomous, but things are constantly breaking and need physical intervention. These aren't NASA rovers.
anecdotally, but comparisons of model 3s produced in China showed a much higher attention to detail than those in the US. There appeared to be a strong focus on the product as it represented those who built it. This level of "pride" if you want to call it that is a cultural issue that some nations have lost. While I am not saying workers should put the manufacturer before themselves many have taken that so far as to put themselves before their fellow employees as well.

that didn't happen overnight, that happened by politicians playing people against each other and invoking the all too common negative traits of envy, jealousy, and even anger. The mantras of you did not win life's lottery, its not fair, you deserve, they stole, has really done a number at not just manufacturing levels but in all aspects of life.
I don't know if the incredible agricultural diversity coming out of the Valley of Mexico has an equal[1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_plants_of_Mesoa...
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm worried the day the U.S. dollar will no longer be the world's reserve currency might happen in my lifetime (in the next 80 years). This was unthinkable to me just a month ago.

It's not just the fact that the Fed is buying crap. To me, that's old news. I don't think there's any currency in the world that can rival the dollar of a united U.S. Ultimately, the dollar is backed by the faith of the U.S. government to honor its debts, and nobody else comes close.

But...news that the Federal government is pitting states against each other, between public and private parties, and between state and federal government in its response to this national emergency I think is something we haven't seen. It's like chained Black Swan events. I don't think state governors will let this debacle go unanswered if they have any real authority.

If it threatens the Union, if people in Massachusetts or New York or California ask each other whether the people in Oklahoma or Georgia or Mississippi will stand by them during hard times and if the Union still makes sense, then investors might start asking whether the country will exist to service its debt in the future. A tipover event like that would immediately put on a stopper on debt renewal and the gravy train, at an absolute minimum.

That's a spiders-on-eyeballs hades-says-hi level of scary, but I wouldn't discount the significance of socio-economic or political effects on economic and financial stability, given how this biological risk wasn't priced into our economic or financial grand strategy.
I'm not sure which side of the issue you're coming down on... cancelling them all will quickly stop the unnecessary ones, yes. Some will be rescheduled quickly. But if your organization culture is bad enough to require this step, then it means in some cases people didn't know if they're meetings were useful. Some will believe them unnecessary until enough time goes by and you have a preventable disaster that would have been caught if people were coordinating properly.

So whether it's meetings or money, my point stands: If the nuclear option of cancelling everything is necessary, then things are being poorly managed to begin with, and after pushing that nuclear button you need to take a big step back and assess just how you screwed things up so bad that you had to drop a nuke on your enterprise to fix it.

I'm not speaking from a theoretical arm-chair stance on this either. I've been somewhere that took the nuclear approach in various policies. One expense-driven decision was to fire every single worker of a certain type because they thought the classification was being abused. It probably was, in maybe 15% of the cases. For the responsibilities being performed by the other 85%, it was a massive disaster. Essential things went undone. Part of my own job involved analysis of customer trends, and the resulting loss of revenue. Millions of dollars were lost to the nuclear option, not to mention countless hours of busy work justifying re-hires and jumping through hoops for them, all to save a fraction of the money & time represented by that 15%. Did the nuclear option work? I guess? Sort of? Was it worth it? Not in the case I'm speaking about. But even if it had been worth it, it still spoke to systemic issues that went above and beyond the particular problem solved by dropping a nuke on it.
> Over time, of course, the price of labor evens out because the resource is no longer underutilized.

The price would have evened out if labor could cross borders as freely as the goods that it produces - then it would flow to areas where it's in high demand. But with borders and immigration controls and different laws (esp. environment and labor) in different jurisdictions, it's not really a free market. Instead, it looks a great deal like a contraption that's deliberately designed to allow transnational corporations to extract massive economic rents from otherwise pointless brokerage (outsourcing).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-spectral_camouflage
Create a knowledge graph without writing code
"Theres only two kind of programming languages, those everybody hates and those that nobody uses." ;)
What are Americans buying online during the Covid-19 pandemic? (infographic)
Yeah I totally agree. I need to be useful to other people to feel happy and maybe I should be OK with that...
> Have you jumped into a large old codebase with no access to its previous authors or maintainers?

Written by juniors, who doesn't really understand their codebase and writing ugly hacks all over the code? With code regularly failing at critical moments?

And you are suggesting to hire a bunch of new juniors who would finally fix this mess? I would rather fire half of the developers and hire new seniors instead who will refactor the codebase.
> Many corporations took free 0% loans from the government to buy back their own shares; often for the purpose of tax evasion.

[citation needed]

Buybacks and dividends have, more or less, the same federal tax revenue implications. The difference is that dividends incur a taxable event in a window outside the shareholder’s control.

Beyond that, I’m curious where the idea comes from that the government is giving 0% loans to corporations. Yes, the Fed overnight rate is effectively zero, but you can’t have your cake and eat it too. If I borrow from the overnight window, I have to pay it back the next day. Very hard to do that if I already spent it. Or are we talking about the repo market, where banks can get a longer low-interest loan by putting up security in the form of Treasury bonds?

Both of these facilities are to manage liquidity and don’t provide a 0% loan capability to run-of-the-mill corporations.
Ed has line editing, regex and i/o.
This makes me sad. I honestly thought ICQ will make a come back one day as retro. Not any more.

Interesting read about the old one:
https://medium.com/@Dimitryophoto/icq-20-years-is-no-limit-8...
The big issue here is that garbage bags do not have to be food-safe.

They could be made with materials that would leach harmful compounds into the food, or packaged in unsanitary conditions.
Supporting the secondary market allows firms to place new issues, and raise the capital they need to sustain themselves through this. Essentially, you just don't want the market locked up.
No, they're right. We have 53/435 (12.18%) of the House, which is roughly equal to our proportion of the total population (40mm/330mm, 12.12%, numbers will change with the census).

The "at least one" rep has a bigger impact on some of the medium/small size states. My point was more on the senate/electoral college.
jackfoxy's second paragraph was referring to the California House, not the US House. You're disagreeing with something he didn't say.
I wonder if a phone OS will move to Google Stadia-esque offer: your device is just a remote viewer, everything including rendering the UI happens on their backend (Marketing has a field day touting Cloud-features), and is streamed to your device.

Of course it'll be limited to places with high speed cellular Internet, but hey 15 years ago no one thought we'd be able to stream 3D games over the Internet..
I haven't written any Java for a very long time, but I know that C# code I wrote back in 2004 targetting .NET 1.1 would still run substantially unmodified today on the latest .NET runtimes[1] - in fact I'm pretty sure some of it is.
California's our breadbasket? Um, no. Salad bowl, perhaps, but that's not the same thing...
> Many corporations took free 0% loans from the government to buy back their own shares; often for the purpose of tax evasion.

This is wildly false.
If you oppose the EARN IT act (I do), and you're a US citizen (I am), then you need to contact your US House and State representatives. It's generally easy, fill in an online form. Obviously there's no guarantee that they'll do what you ask, but that is the minimum thing you should do.
These intuition pumps are useful philosophical tools to test the limits and cohesiveness of a particular idea. Mary's room is intended to challenge materialism because it's very difficult to exlain using materialism how Mary could not learn something new upon seeing red for the first time, even in principle. So it's about the logical cohesiveness of the whole theory. That said, there are plenty of strong refutations of Mary's room, but intuition pumps typically just confirm your own biases, so materialists accept these refutations and antimaterialists are not convinced by them.
Try the "track motion" feature, mind blowing doing that in the browser.
Zoom sued by shareholder after security issues tanked its stock price
This is a pretty pedantic definition.

Plenty of excellent programmers are not mathematicians. How would that work if programming were just math? That’s like saying physics is just math while ignoring all of the experimental parts that have nothing to do with math.
> it remains widely popular in Central Europe, Russia

It used to be popular in Russia to the point of being synonymous to instant messaging, but it's since been largely forgotten. My current circles use VK and Telegram. WhatsApp is also somewhat popular apparently but not so much around me. If ICQ ever pops up in conversations these days, it's always something nostalgic (also, back then no one used the atrocious official client).
Could be. Although I think it'll depend a lot on how long this lasts. I could see some places not reopening their offices until a vaccine, at which point people may have gotten pretty comfortable with not commuting.

It also depends on how hiring happens. Right now I'm involved with a startup that intended to be fully collocated. But since right now the people we hire are regardless working remote, it's very tempting to hire people wherever they are.

Even if most companies end up nominally back in offices, I think this is going to break the inertia that supports a lot of the "you must always work in the office" rules. So I think we'll see a lot more flexibility in scheduling.
How are the Go leadership style and what OP described even remotely the same?

Language safe-guarding, maybe.

Imagine having your production code hostage to your relationship with the language authors...

Go leadership makes me feel like the language is safe and reliable.

The Elm leadership, as described by OP, just triggers my "its a sect" alarm
Kind Words
I really liked the approximation algorithms from a french university
> 1. 30k/year is REALLY high for tuition. Most state flagships -- which are some of the best universities in the entire world -- aren't that expensive.

So what? Prestigious schools are notoriously egalitarian toward the students. If you get accepted to Cal Tech, you are guaranteed to be subsidized. Nobody "can't afford" to go to Cal Tech, but there are people who don't test well enough.

> 2. Most private universities do have sticker prices in that range, but a) why go non-elite private

Because most people aren't even average collegiate level intelligence.

> 3. It's definitely possible to make >$10K each year while doing university full time.

Not sure what this is supposed to say, but surviving is hard out there. Especially around any school (public or private). Most people in massive debt, try to work it off.

This whole post seems a little holier than thou. Least of which is the perspective that people could (or would) attend "best universities", which is more than a little presumptuous. This debt hole is so common it appears in US media from TV (eg Grey's Anatomy, Devs, etc) to the newest films.
I think that phrasing is more ambiguous, not nicer (nor meaner.) "Won't win reelection" is phrasing that's compatible with a 'loses the election' scenario, which I consider implausible (If she's still alive in 2024, she'll undoubtedly win.) Adding ambiguity to my comment doesn't make it nicer; it only increases the chance that I might be misunderstood.
FYI: there was a powerful, contagious flu-like disease circulating already in SE Asia between Dec. 6 and Dec. 15.

If anybody in public healthcare seriously wants to know more, contact me and I'll narrow down the dates, symptoms and locations and you can verify if it was corona virus or a different illness.
Have you written about this experience transition? I'm interested in reading stuff like this
Indeed. vim³ is great, but it's hard to compete with nothing.
The way I see it NLL added a huge number of edge cases. Pre-NLL it was clear what kind of lifetimes were possible; now I have no clue what the different lifetimes are and every keyword interacts with lifetimes in a different way.
I'm going to very very slightly change the programming so whatever output it's producing which is proving, my opponent claims, the computer is conscience, starts to degrade.

[...]

Then I'm going to diff the conscious program and the unconscious program and ask him if he really thinks those slightly altered lines of code are the difference between consciousness and a humdrum computer.

Is that not equivalent to giving a human being alcohol, observing that they become progressively less conscious, and asking if you really think that a few centiliters of alcohol is the key to consciousness?
I think Clojure is actually a good example of strict stewardship that works well
1M Habitable Planets Could (Theoretically) Orbit a Black Hole
Corporate catering is a market that is mostly not serving “tech.” Businesses of all sorts use catering. Car dealerships have promotions with “free barbecue,” random offices have lunch meetings with catered food. Retail stores often cater food for employees during inventory. Holiday parties are huge business.

Thinking that corporate catering is “food for overfed tech workers” is a ridiculous simplification. Corporate catering is worth billions and it isn’t even a majority of “tech companies,” who buy those services.
That's really a fantastic tool. More than just tweets, I am trying to learn to summarize my writing and be more to the point. I was really surprised at how great the result was. Sure, room for some improvement, but, I've added the plugin.

Might be nice also to have a gmail plugin, as it's often in email where I want to be more concise.

Great work!