skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it was a short-hand way to convey the categorization and could have been more more precise. In reality, every region has its own culture that is somewhere along this spectrum.

I’d also note that I think “school/university quality” != “a high pressure environment”. There are plenty of places that have one but not the other. In particular, there are lots of places where high schools are providing excellent education and public university options are good, but students don’t feel like they are in a pressure cooker.
It’s a bit of an environmental nightmare when you think of how much material is used in creating dumb junk mail, how much carbon is dumped into atmo from the movement, all for it to go _directly_ into the bin when it arrives. Even if you say it’s recycled (is it??) it was unnecessary. Even if you say there was a plane/truck headed there anyway (was there?) it was unnecessary. Physical junk mail is a wasteful, _wasteful_ exercise that I would not be sorry to see curbed.
Protein Folding
Here is the function standard: https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-31/#func-format-intege...

Number formatting is really complicated
This is true, I interpreted that to mean with the Earth, rather than against. But as you say, the direction isn't actually specified.
Most systems like Condor have a concept that a job or task is something that "comes up, runs for a while, writes to log files, and then exits on its own, or after a deadline". I've talked to the various batch queue providers and I don't think they really consider "services" (like a webserver, app server, rpc server, or whatever) in their purview.

In fact, that was what struck me the most when I started at Google (a looong time ago): at first I thought of borg like a batch queue system, but really it's more of a "Service-keeper-upper" that does resource management and batch jobs are just sort one type of job (webserving, etc are examples of "Service jobs") laid on top of the RM system.

Over time I've really come to prefer the google approach, for example when a batch job is running, it still listens on a web port, serves up a status page, and numerous other introspection pages that are great for debugging.

TBH I haven't read the Condor, PBS, LSF manuals in a while so it's very well possible they handle service jobs and the associated problems like dynamic port management, task discovery, RPC balancing, etc.
Enterprise software PM here: this is wrong. Customers absolutely ask for complexity. They may not say "give me a complex piece of software" but they sure do provide an onerous list of requirements, plus they need you to meet their security/PCI/HIPAA/whatever other standards. Then over time their needs change and they need the software to change (or worse, they need to be able to make changes to the software themselves, so you have to build in flexibility).

This is like saying customers don't ask for wheels and a motor, they just ask for a car that is capable of driving.
They've had an ad free* version for years. Six dollars extra and you don't get ads.

*Three shows still have ads since they signed a deal before they released an ad free tier, and the only alternative would removing those three shows from the ad free tier, which is lose-lose.
Understand but the quote from the article is wrong.

Edit: actually it seems in Italy is also reported every day.
Getting the Restart Right: How to Lead When Nobody Has a Map
Not to mention the fact that the American people were advised not to wear masks...
This is purely a thought at this point, but I have seen a few small companies in situations like yours be able to get some adoption by:

1. Having a product that solves a real need for the buyers (and preferably one they already know they have)

2. Getting that product "certified" with a partner, such as OpenShift.

I cannot get specific, but there are a few companies I've seen that developed a clever solution to a problem, packaged it into a Kubernetes Operator, got it certified with OpenShift, and because they had that logo they got the audience with the people with purse strings. At that point it's classic salesperson strategy.

A lot of big customers right now want to be able to point-click install stuff easily into their existing platforms/stacks, and then "check a box" in their list of requirements. If I were in your shoes, I would look at how people are already using it (OpenShift? AWS? Azure? Google Cloud?, etc and go from there. Getting "certified" is usually a mutually beneficial arrangement. It will take a bit of work with bureaucracies (which will annoy you greatly), but the payoff can be huge.
> It's not an opinion. I'm an engineer who also trained as an economist, and I know the answers to these questions. It's just math.

Considering how many economists seem to disagree on what the proper response here is, I highly doubt it's just math.

And regarding nationalizing healthcare... That's a whole truck full of worms, and seems unrelated to an economic recovery. Couldn't you also argue that seeing the government nationalize an entire industry would decrease entrepreneurial spirit in other industries in fear of the same thing happening there?
> Nobody wants complex, cumbersome tools, but they do want every iota of flexibility they can imagine

Wanting virtually unlimited flexibility inherently already dooms a project to be complex. That's before talking about timeframes and budgets.
Your own comparison between mods for KSP and this article doesn't make much sense, even if you take the technical aspects of it.

One is hacking at a compiled code that is not well documented, and talks about the subject.

The other is a mod, for a well documented game.
Quantum stuff
Are you talking epigenetics? It's relatively closely related to mendelian inheritance. At a high level view, if genes are present in your genome that aren't "on" in a previous generation, but due to changes in behavior become more active, then in a future generation that gene could be expressed more. It's not that the genes have changed their code, they are just flipped on or off.
Complexity is essential, without it we wouldn't know anything about anything. Complexity is not an excuse for poor structure/performance/high price, but it can be exactly that.

It's like there is some moral code of some devs out there not to use it for their personal advantage. Others are doing it casually and exactly like that.

We should all fight it, and learn from it. There is no silver bullet, and we probably don't have programming languages that good that we can struggle with it with ease.
We use Condor. Oh and did you know it can run docker containers too? And it's constantly being updated an improved. What is lacking is in my opinion is a cool GUI to monitor and spawn things.
Sad that you use Hacker News, but are insecure enough to avoid a new technology because it's "too nerdy". I don't really understand what's more nerdy about it than socializing over Fortnite or something.
Yep. This should be step 1 to n of designing software for end users. Understand what the users problems and needs actually are by watching them do their actual job rather than working from a description of what a manager three levels up thinks their job is.
In some tall old apartament buildings here there are chutes for waste - the problem with them is that they are cockroach highway.
and what's wrong with that? the client is asking for an ML solution. or, more basic, a stock person still has to stock the shelves, so they can scan as they stock. or customers themselves can report inventory locations. just tell the customer a random (at first) location for pasta. when you sense they've gotten there, prompt them whether it was there or not. amortized over time, this is an immeasurable fraction of customers that would have to do the inventory work.

i get it, you're trying to give an example of an impossible request, of which there are many, but this just isn't one of those.
Why tardigrades are so hardy, how their biology is so different?

How immune system and medications work.

Why some plastics are recyclable and others are not.
> when you shouldn't do this directly in the first place.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with accessing the content of a same-origin iframe.

I am sorry that you cannot admit to being wrong.

> after their 6 weeks of some random bootcamp

I have a Computer Science degree and 20 years of web development experience, long before npm existed. So fuck off.
UK government says Dyson's ventilator is useless.

(both are true, as far as I can tell)
I have an Oculus Quest but I haven't spent much time in social apps like Rec Room and Bigscreen. I've found these experiences pretty awkward due to the lack of facial expressions and lack of social objective, but maybe that's just me. Also, there's often more kids in these apps than people my age, so it's hard to really relate.

As for my friends who have the Oculus and being social with them, again I find this missing something. It seems like despite Facebook being a social media company who's stated purpose is to connect the world, they've really done a lackluster job in the ability to have decent group experiences in Oculus. For example, I'm often not aware of when my other friends are using the Oculus, they could make it easy for me to see who's online and what they're playing. And when I start a party with friends to play games together, there's no native features to help us join the same game, make sure we're seeing the same thing. It would be cool if I could virtually see what a friend is seeing so I can at least help them get into the same game as me. Coming from Steam, it seems rather basic.

I'm curious how the social experience compares with other VR devices.
Double dipping is immoral and the redistribution of wealth is theft. The ultra wealthy did not become ultra wealthy (think Bezos, Gates, etc) by paying the taxes we CURRENTLY have. Why do you propose adding more taxes would help?

I am reminded of Milton Friedman's "Social Security Myth".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCdgv7n9xCY

Social security is a tax on the young, the group that should be saving money, to give to the old, the group that should _have_ saved money. Social security (and things like it) have to generally be forced down people's throats because the very premise they are based on is flawed. I highly recommend watching the above video.

To attack your point directly:

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2020/01/06/what-it-cost...

It's not a great site but the only reference I could find related to the discussion. It would appear that for most states you would need at least 1M - 1.5M to retire. This includes social security.

Moreover, the money that you are proposing we tax has already been taxed. This not only is immoral on a fundamental level, it will encourage those of us who saved diligently in tax deferred accounts to spend some of that money either leaving the country, or hiding the money elsewhere. You can say "well the IRS will be left to enforce that" but the reality is the problem would be so wide spread you wouldn't be able to stop it. Think about how hard small business owners fight to keep money through various tax advantaged accounts, expenses, etc. Now everyone will be working just as hard, and better yet, be capitalized and motivated to do it.

If your proposal is "people can't make enough so naturally we need to tax the wealthy to pay for the poor" you are simply robbing Peter to pay Paul. A more salient solution would be to propose pegging the minimum wage to inflation (which would have it around $12 nationally), or implementing a VAT tax that would directly effect the ultra wealthy by taxing the _production_ of goods.

However your proposal as it stands is reprehensible in the fact you are punishing a group of fairly average savers for the misdeeds of 1/10th of a percent of the wealthy people in America. It makes no sense.
The third wave of open source software is no software at all. It is only a matter of time before Amazon doesn't care whether it's licensed Apache2 or not. They will just take software and sell it. You have a problem with that? Have fun suing them... Year 1..2..3..oooo. you are quite the fish..4..5. broke. Out of money.

Tech is dead.
To add to all this, the double-slit experiment. What exactly does it mean that light moves as a wave or a particle?
The Coriolis Force
Yes. Odoo is open core, and many components are closed, and those are far from being free.
I like it. The pilot sits at home using the joystick to control the jet. Or many at once. In the end, that is, what the military already does. And when he has to go to lunch, he just lets the jet fly idle in circles.
Yet somehow this POS app sold for $19+ billion and it's one of the most popular apps in the world...
I disagree. While to be a power user you might have to learn all the syntax of the OS, I have been using NixOS for a couple of years, and have my configuration set up by borrowing other configs from the Web.

Additionally I'm a heavy Emacs user, and couldn't type a single line of elisp. I get that I'd be better in Emacs if I knew elsip, but that doesn't stop me configuring my text editor by borrowing code from others.
I'm not sure if micromanagement is that bad for the final product, as long as the manager has deep technical expertise and respects the people who he micromanages.

Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are famous/notorius micromanagers (though they have some problems with the ,,respect'' part). At the same time as they understand the problems with the product development deeper, they are able to plan more iterations ahead.

One example is the autopilot hardware. About 10-12 years ago I was working at Google, sitting in a self driving car in Mountain View when it was a secret project. I was already at that time amazed that the car could do some offroading tricks that I wasn't capable of, and I was quite certain that within 5 years it would be self driving without safety driver.

Now it's 2020, and it seems to me that in no more than 10 years Tesla will win the autonomous race, as Elon understood that the computer needs lots of deep learning instructions (more than what NVIDIA could provide) and HD maps and lidars are not just unnecesary, but they are the wrong direction, as the visual sensing problem needs to be solved for safe self driving.

In Google there are so many product managers at this point, that they themselves are actively hindering the product development itself, as they don't want to get into the details of the real problems.
I appreciate this insight so much. I'm in the thick of working through the feelings of failure that are associated with an honest preference. There is a voice in my head that says "you're a failure" or "you just can't hack it" when I honestly just don't have the preference to keep learning in that direction.

Someone else in this thread mentioned therapy and that has helped me immensely in this pursuit but.. It also helps to relate to other people in the same situation.

May we all feel some peace!
Taking a look back at the book, I think you're right. They are misrepresenting him in this one quote. He was referring to the gross mindset he was trying out.

On the other hand, I'm in one of the departments Feynman had an appointment with for a few years. Some of the older faculty overlapped with him and have fun stories to share. However, one of the lasting memories of his stay was how he was predatory towards the undergraduate women. In fact, it was to the point that some people speculate that he was forced to the leave the department after sleeping with too many of his students.

I still look up to Feynman for his science, but there were some real problems with how he treated women. Even if the article didn't do a great job of presenting the evidence for it. Besides Surely you're Joking is Feynman as portrayed by Feynman. He's famously a showman and isn't going to create an image of himself in the book that he doesn't think is likeable. Interestingly, from what I remember reading, he also did a lot to support the female scientists in his life including his sister.
apparently it needed saying--the parent post by @MattGaiser claimed customers, and even developers, at apple didn't get a direct say in product because of jobs. but that's clearly not the case. yes, jobs had great influence, but so did thousands of other stakeholders.
I found this article interesting.

HN readers in general have a wide range of interests - example: 73 points, 62 comments on a link to an article on the history of Macaroni and Cheese: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22951281
You are correct! Cosmological redshift does violate conservation of momentum (and energy as well [1]). But conservation of energy and momentum does not actually apply if spacetime itself is globally changing.

The underlying reason for this is that Noether's theorem tells us that every physical symmetry implies a conservation law for some physical quantity. Conservation of energy and momentum comes from the fact that the physical laws are the same throughout time and space. However, cosmological expansion violates that assumption, so there is no reason that energy and momentum should still be conserved. [2]

[1]: One side note here is that relativistically, energy and momentum are not really separate physical quantities, but instead two components of the same underlying physical quantity. Unfortuantely, this quantity does not really have a good name (despite Taylor & Wheeler's attempt to call it "momenergy"). It ends up being called the momentum 4-vector, but the temporal component of this 4-vector is energy.

[2]: This is only true globally. Locally, the laws are approximately the same from one moment to the next, so conservation of energy and momentum hold for small distances and short times.
No, more things that are modifications without any genetic basis - like myopia. Doesn't seem to have any genetic/epigenetic basis. It's purely a physical use case, where the eye matures improperly if it's only exposed to near-field work.
I did today - I was hanging out with two friends in Australia. We used the free game Rec Room and all had Oculus headsets.

What I find great about VR is the directional source of the voice - you can talk over each other in a group setting and not miss anything, unlike video chat.

It is still uncomfortable for longer periods though.
And you still have to find a time when everyone is free
I would wager most folks that use word have never been the two space crowd. Especially not people that learn on word.

Just like most people that write on paper don't leave extra space after a sentence. We do indent paragraphs commonly. At least, if you are writing somewhere you want it indented, it is incumbent on you to do so. :)
I've been meaning to do a bit of blogging about this since my thesis work was on gravitational dynamics. Is there anything in particular you would be interested in seeing explained?
That’s why communicating a ton and delivering small chunks of fully working functionality helps so much.
Have you heard of / played the game Kerbal Space Program?

I believe even folks at NASA have even said it helped cement their mathematical knowledge with a better intuitive understanding.
> Best case: you make a ton of money by selling to actual businesses (rather than annoying geeks and other weirdos who dare use uncommon clients); slightly-worse case: you sell it to MS.

And worst case: MS change how things work and block this sort of thing happening again. You now have a bunch of angry customers with a hack that doesn't work.

I'm no lawyer, so I'd also check the legal implications of selling something that builds on top and modifies Microsofts application without their explicit consent.
Unless you think deaths are going to go to zero next month, we can put the "is coronavirus killing people that were going to die in only weeks anyway" theory to bed. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
What you're describing would be a nonstarter in retail in my experience. They care too much about customer experience to amortize the cost of a bad experience. Typically, step 1 is capturing data via added company process about the thing you're gonna automate. A lot more boring than what you describe.
If you liked Deux Ex, I highly recommend checking out Prey (the 2017 one) and Dishonored. They share the same game design philosophy, the so called "immersive sim".
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>>It seems that you're implying I'm a massive cunt.

?? Nope, I'm not, the opposite actually.
It's a very reliable app despite some of its flaws. It mainly sold that high due to high market share in some countries.
Feynman is not known as the "Great Explainer" for nothing. It occurred to me recently that one of his great gifts was in setting the stage for the learning process. He had a knack for a visceral initial presentation of the subject matter that was going to be discussed, often with analogies to the physical world we experience. This had two main effects on the listener, 1) the feeling (whether true or not) that the subject matter was somehow going to be relatable and familiar, and 2) providing a strong central mental image around which to further hang ideas as the discussion went on, rather than staying in the realm of the abstract for a long time with no grounding point.

In this sense he was a guide, saying, "Don't worry, this is a journey we can go on together, and parts of it you have traveled before". He makes you believe you can understand something (or frankly tells us when we can't), which seems the ideal mental state for difficult subject matter.
I have tried to grok it multiple times but escapes my feeble mind. I have developed some intuition, but not sure it's quite right. Hopefully someone can correct me:

1. Subatomic Matter is by default both mass and a wave, but when "observed" it becomes a particle as we know it i.e. with mass.

2. Atomic bonds are formed due to electrons (waves) being shared between adjacent atoms.

Hope I have some parts correct. Perhaps someone can shed some photons.
That's why we patent the rod.
That's anecdotally interesting, but the numbers don't bear it out: there's a consistent negative correlation between degree of educational attainment and number of offspring.
They claim to have sent billing emails but I cannot find them.

I found out when my bank informed me that my account was overdrawn (it was an account I was no longer using, due to an international move)