skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I also want to remark that in many ways, building a company is also a silly thing that in fact requires skill.

It is - Tikej's point isn't that it's not a skill - but rather that it's not the right place to share these. Think of the difference between a "Startup News" and "Hacker News". Hacker news used to be very deep on tech topics, now those deep topic have become more rare.
Absolutely, not disputing that. I just took offense to the "Calling yourself an engineer when you studied Computer Science is a bit odd to me" statement. I don't think the degree makes the difference, the licensing does.
And what could the police do for that really besides tell you close your blinds if the person was not on your property?
I don't think it's that easy. See https://www.pymnts.com/visa/2018/non-compliant-cash-discount... for example.
I don't. At least the ones I got gifted[1] fight you every step of the way.

The silicone is very thick and stiff. It's hard to remove air by submerging them, depending on what you put in there, there are always some pockets of air remaining. And the way they seal is very fiddly. One of the sealing clips broke after a few uses. Maybe it gets easier with experience, but some things just shouldn't be that aggravating.

On the other hand, a cursory search shows that there are many other products available that may be more sensibly designed.

[1] PureSiliconeWare is the brand name
“Desert Solitaire” by Ed Abbey and “Ishmael” by Daniel Quinn. Both are wildly different but explore the question of how different the other forms of life on this planet are from ours. “Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?” By Franz de Waal et al explores this from a scientific perspective.

Abbeys about more, of course. He had that rare ability to turn his book into something that felt like a direct conversation with me, the reader. I read him in my 20s and his viewpoint definitely connects with someone wanting to examine and express his/herself first before society’s overwhelming influence. He discusses trying to free himself from the conceptual confines of the human individual and societal experience while isolated in a national park. Quinn uses a hypothetical conversation between a gorilla and a person to highlight the fundamental us versus them approach humans take with the rest of earth. Then Franz de Waal really drives home that animals are likely to be much more mentally capable than we give them credit. They’re good books if you want to know something more about the universe than what your human experience is.

Edit-corrected book title.
As I note above, Google hired a wardriving expert onto Street View. Assess for yourself how accidental you believe that collection to be.
If you live in NYC, there's a nonprofit that helps you to easily find restaurants still open for pickup / delivery and to order directly: https://www.eatnyc.org/. Restaurants keep 100% of the commission, so it really helps our favorite restaurants stay alive.

They seem to have solid coverage in Manhattan.
Not yet :) It's just a recursive drawing function. I'm thinking of making the tree actually "exist" though, so it can grow more slowly over time. Thanks for the link!
You are correct. See edit.
It's pronounced Kyle. X is Greek "chi", the "ae" ligature is pronounced like a long I, and A-12 is the 12th letter from A.

(Yes, I'm aware that this isn't true.)
> It invalidates your point. The whole area is deeply interconnected.

I agree that they are interconnected, but the places with higher population and population density (the 7 Bay Area counties) are even more interconnected on a human basis. The idea that Bay Area counties should compromise their lockdowns for San Joaquin county commuters makes no sense. Their policies should be driven by their shared public health priorities.

> You know nothing.

Vitriol is an ineffective argumentative technique.
Restaurants and delivery contractors should figure out very quickly if they come out positive on this. Maybe the restaurants won't figure out how much was cannibalization, but they'll know if it's a net loss. If you're losing money with, say Grubhub, you stop working with Grubhub.

The only question is if delivery services can find scale and a price point where they're profitable.
Thanks for looking those up. I wonder why it never took off - adding surface interest without adding colourings seems like a no-brainer to me.
Yes that's true :)
Pretty sure Mau handing out eviction notices to all those landlords helped China, did it not
It’s great to see this many opinions. I suggest you take a look at the book Peopleware. Part II of the book goes over the office environment and cites several studies and makes a really good case against open plan offices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution#Long-term_im...

Just skimming this, it seems the french and the entire world was left better-off actually
Isn't that covered by the 3rd paragraph, or are you asking about something else?

> They found that when spouses were physically together, they showed higher similarities in brain responses to the stimuli than when they were separated. This effect was only found in true couples and not in randomly matched study participants.
I did delivery for a slightly upscale pizza restaurant about ten years ago. For lower tier chain restaurants I think delivery driving was a scam in which the restaurant relied on the employee being unable to calculate that costs of gas + vehicle depreciation made the effective wage of driving delivery very close to zero.

I think the old world was restaurants squeezing delivery drivers. Now it's the app squeezing both the restaurant and the delivery driver.
That's a great idea! Gardening is so relaxing...
When I first read this I thought this did the inverse of what it actually does. Let you interactively draw out diagrams then it would generate the boilerplate code to achieve that diagram.
In dezoomify-rs, the place where the file is saved is displayed when the file is downloaded.

In dezoomify, the application cannot know where you saved the picture, since the browser does not share the location of the download folder with webpages.
With respect, if your takeaway from reading Watts is that we've "mastered" the environment, I implore you to read the Rifters series and/or his blog. That's about as far from his view as it's possible to get.
If you live in NYC and care about local restaurants, there's a nonprofit that helps you to easily find restaurants still open for pickup / delivery and to order directly: https://www.eatnyc.org/. Restaurants keep 100% of what you pay, so it really helps our favorite restaurants stay alive.

They have solid coverage in NYC, especially Manhattan.
What sort of opportunities are available for someone with little experience/qualifications in a poorer country?
In Praise of AutoHotKey
> Out of the 700+ in my graduating class of Computer Science, less than 70-80 are still associated with computers in some for or manner.

I can back that up with my anecdotal stat as well, that number is rather generous, not even 70-80 would be doing it still. There were some which hated it and it showed. They were pressured into it and they were just struggling all around to develop any interest at all in the field.

> I can't wait for Indians to realize just how much easier it is to get employed today if you are willing to let go of the traditional path.

I am skeptical about this. Unless you can actively demonstrate competence (select few) you are not going to be favoured against someone with real degrees in the pile of resumes.
You are totally right. There are many different meditation exercises, ways to control anxiety and calm down, as well as mindfulness tips and tricks. In some ways it does point towards discovering your own path to happiness, by trying different things and seeing what works for you.

Given that humans are wired to be social and we pretty much all live in society, a lot of the things that afflict us have to do with the way we relate to others, which is exactly what the book is about :)
Have you ever shot a firearm? Have you ever played a video game where you shot a firearm? Given some assumptions of your demographic, based on your being here, this example should illustrate the issue Baudrillard foresaw in comprehending 'the real' in modernity.
I know that I want remote workers stocking my shelves, driving my buses, and building things in my factories...

Access to technology is not the issue. Low income jobs are as a general rule more physical than higher paying jobs. You can't remotely do physical labor.
> AFAIK Aperture never had such a hardcore following and didn't offer such a unique product. The photography market is clearly dominated by Adobe anyway.

At the time, sure - but none of my friends and contacts who do part-time and professional photography have anything good to say about Adobe Lightroom - the move to Lightroom CC left a bad taste in everyone's mouth, as have the many Cloud-related SNAFUs (apparently a couple of years ago Adobe screwed-up Lightroom's non-destructive edit files and caused a load of people to lose all their Lightroom work - and times when people are unable to authenticate with Adobe so they can't even open the program). Apple would be on to a sure-winner by re-launching Aperture, especially if they give it the visual indexing features present in Apple's existing photo-management products.
I struggle with this since I also want to read something I enjoy and not make it a chore. I tried reading Moby Dick recently and was so disappointed. I wanted to read the original but the old English threw me off and I found it boring.
Agreed. First sentence: "A Directed Acyclic Graph will let you run pipeline steps out of order." That's simply false.
Interesting question. The backends will definitely be merged, but on the ordering side? Maybe it still makes sense to maintain separate brands. Expedia kept Orbitz up.
On Firefox mobile the page spawns about 10 print options dialogs.

Works perfectly on Safari mobile. Nice work!
IMO, developer and programmer are the same.

Engineer implies a higher level of skill WRT establishing and following processes designed to minimize risk. A software engineer, like their mechanical or civil equivalents, has a strong sense of duty WRT building things that are useful, safe, reproducible, etc.

No doubt the line is gray. But, your stereotypical web app developer (failing fast while chasing a unicorn) is not an engineer.

In the real world, I'd expect Boeing to employ many software engineers [insert 737 Max joke here]. Google and Apple would employ a mix of engineers and developers. And a company that builds CRUD apps on contract would be almost exclusively developers.

All of this ignores the licensed engineer's opinion, which is often that none of us are engineers because we don't have to pass a licensing exam. And often don't even have to pass a particularly rigorous academic program.
A'I' in racing games is already a cracked problem I think (unless you mean forza horizon?).

The AIs in Rfactor2 are even pretty good wheel to wheel on some tracks - definitely a lot better than online rookies who are quick but blind. The only noticeable thing is that they don't learn over the course of a race. They seem to be programmed to make mistakes realistically, i.e. if the car loses grip in the wet they don't lock back onto the track.
Who decides whether the gulf war happened?
It was Scientific American. When I was an unemployed pre-internet late-teen, I went through my local library's entire collection, right back to the first Mathematical Games column, and photocopied everything I found interesting. That was one of the articles I snagged.

I did successfully make some iridescent chocolate after that, with a diffraction grating I bought from Edmunds Scientific as a mould.

By the by, you may be interested in this: https://www.litiholo.com/ I'm probably going to buy one at some point.
Well, i see relation between compsci and software engineering similar to relation between physics and mechanical engineering, or biology and medicine.
Why spend $4.5 billion to be competitive when you can instead buy a company that already did what you want to do?
This reminds of an online I loved called The Quest for the Rest. It was a Flash game featuring soundtrack by the Polyphonic Spree. Actually, I think it may have been designed to promote the release of one of their albums.

Such a sweet little game. I imagine you can still find it online and play it (if your browser supports Flash). Here's a Youtube run-through of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g_0SAjfU3o
This seems to depend on the country, for instance https://medium.com/@joelleparenteau/why-uber-eats-is-a-neces... in Canada have higher prices on uber.
To me, those are roles that describe different aspects of software creation. Depending on the job, those roles are needed in different proportions.

Engineers apply math to create systems. Without Newton and his math there wouldn't be engineers or the other way round: engineers are those who create the stuff that is only possible with Newton's math.

Since only few software needs math to that degree, rarely any software is developed by software engineers.

Software developers on the other hand are like real estate developers. They don't build walls, they don't do structural analysis. Instead they combine systems. Unlike real estate developers, they mostly do the plumbing by themselves.

Programmers are to engineers what words (Greek: grams) are to math. They focus on the language and care about expressing ideas in program code.

Then there are also software designers and architects who care about the overall system structure.
It was clear back then that they didn't want Logic in order to improve it, as being evidenced here by with this hodgepodge of 'catchup' features.

Tbh, I'm surprised they hadn't dropped the product already.
It is best just to read the first book. It is complete in itself.

And then there is Whipping Star, which is best skimmed through so that you can get to The Dosadi Experiment.

In fairness, Whipping Star is a fabulous take on what it would be like to attempt to communicate with an alien species that does not share our basic assumptions.

Dosadi Experiment is filled with fascinating ideas. Little gems like: “Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?”
ROS is already mostly in C++. I find it very enjoyable to use with C++. Python documentation and support is lacking, and Python 3 support is very recent. But yeah; ROS has problems and they don't have anything to do with the language. Saying "rebuild that in Rust" is missing the point. How does that address the parent's complaint which is Python support?
I, on the other hand, try to write technical document to not have to answer the same questions twice. When some one ask me anything that I have a doc cover it, I give them the link. If I don't, I answer, then check and update my doc. That works well for me so far.
Hopefully I could bring you a deep tech topic !
There is no wind
there is no flag
there are no monks
only your mind.
Its really not just semantics. Skip the Buddhism and go read Andy Clark's Surfing Uncertainty. Its humorously written, its current science and it'll blow your mind ;)
How is this random? Uber has been making significant investments in the food delivery space via their Uber Eats offering. Consolidation makes sense given industry-wide razor thin margins and intense competition.
This. While Uber might also want to be a monopoly in this space, growing market share is a lot harder than buying it.
He named his own blogpost of the incident "How to Accidentally Stop a Global Cyber Attacks". He thought it was trying to spread like a worm, and they followed standard procedure to register the domain and black hole the traffic.

https://www.malwaretech.com/2017/05/how-to-accidentally-stop...
weird to see leetcode solns on HN frontpage
Yes I will add a speeding video !
It's either this or another Greg Egan book that has simulated people reprogramming their own consciousness. Changing their thought processes, personal motivations, and memories. I think he goes into some depth on how they can do that safely and what the implications are. One character programs himself to be obsessed with carpentry and spends lifetimes of subjective simulated time trying to craft the perfect table, but has a timer to turn off that motivation after some period of time. It's a fascinating idea that has stayed with me, and I think of it every time I see another depiction of a "brain in a computer". I'm disappointed that nobody else has tackled that idea, I think people are still getting used to the concept and it will be a few years before we see something like that in some more pop-culture sci-fi.
Of course. This kind of converging brain activity is an important part of how empathy works: by inferring what another person's brain is doing and replicating that in our own brain, we feel what they feel, and this 'synchrony' lets us understand and respond to them. It's basically the closest thing we have to telepathy.

In a co-parenting situation, the activity you see is each parents' brains emulating both the child's brain and their own. That results in a higher degree of similarity than each co-parent on their own, because in that case they're only empathizing with one other person (the child).

You would see the same result in other highly emotional three-party situations; a co-parenting situation would just be a good way to trigger it.
Minecraft is so open-ended that it can be molded into almost any genre. But the way I play fits entirely within this.

I play in survival mode mostly to make the world feel more grounded, but I sleep every night and rarely explore caverns. The game is mostly me building living spaces, mining for supplies, mapping the world, and collecting items. It's really satisfying.
That would possibly explain why some people have trouble with oxygen deprivation in high altitudes while others inexplicably do not. I wonder if people who see a lot of benefit from breathing techniques like Pranayama and Wim Hoff have issues with that mechanism.
And I saw that this, too, was meaningless.
You're not supposed to spoil it. The whole point of these puzzles is the joy and knowledge you gets from solving them on your own. Publishing the answers is selfish.
The Fed Will Buy Bond ETFs Now
Situational Awareness for Cybersecurity: Tools for Monitoring and Response
sentdex did something similar a year or two ago:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVvvaa0QuDeETZEOy4Vd...
Sure. Stuff like Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness" or Caldini's "Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion" stand out as much better off the top of my head. There's more, but I'd have to go back to my notes.
Semi-related thought~ I find myself often dreaming about the AI-assisted development processes of the future. I'll frequently be writing code and start thinking "this task I'm doing is pretty formulaic and constrained-- it should be automatable someday, even if we haven't figured out how yet."

Examples:

1. I memoized the arguments for a util function. Repeat this on the very similar functions defined alongside it.

2. I need to put a wrapper component around six similar components. Just do it for me after seeing me do it once.

3. I imported a new logging mechanism and called a specific method from it in one of my class's methods. Repeat for four similar classes.

Basically I want a "repeat after me" functionality that can intelligently infer which part of thing I just did is generic and can thus be replaced with the next item in the series. In a dream future it would also infer what the next items in the series are.

I haven't a clue how such a thing could be created though, or I would already be on it myself. It would have to understand the code not just syntactically but conceptually.

God it would make development less tedious though. The difference between today and that future is the same as the difference between today and the days of punchcards.
> If you have open source voting machines that can be and are audited,

It's extremely hard to verify that whatever code you audited is the one used in the actual devices.

No such problem with pen and paper
I don't see how you do anything differently than networthify, Personal Capital's Retirement Planner, and everyone else.

In fact, you make the exact same mistakes they do, and more, which are critical ones.
I've been told that C.S. Pierce wrote some interesting stuff. A lot of the theory behind the semantic web is also relevant.
For inputs, roundabout but easiest ways I know is to either just get a Pro Micro and use the gamepad library in Arduino IDE to make it a serial-to-gamepad adapter, or use it in conjunction with a cheapest no-brand knockoff Xbox 360 controller(which are easier than genuine controllers to mod as well) and solder digital/analog out from Arduino to digital/analog sensing pads for the same effect.

The latter allows real Xbox 360 to be used(don’t go online with it, that is cheating). Xbox 360 is past EOL so I bet they can be had for cheap, steps to capture is well explained by millions of wannabe streamers, and probably less tedious to set up at the same time than a PC.
Hi Luna Team,

Seems like you're facing some tough choices. You have a few choices:

1) Accept the company is going to shrink, and do so cleanly. Engineer the product to be maintainable by a small team. Acquihire away some of your engineers (although that's tough in the COVID19 job market). Etc.

2) Find a way to pursue major growth. This almost certainly requires you to do major pivots and take on major risks.

3) Do nothing, and watch the company go from black into the red. Have successive rounds of demoralizing layoffs, and watch the software bitrot into obscurity.

You can:

1) Continue to provide the existing product under the existing pricing model, with a much smaller market. You'll have less revenue, and less means to improve the product; you'll basically wait for Sidecar 2.0 to eliminate that vestigial market.

2) Continue with the product at a lower price point. I'd never buy your product for $80 / year, but I'd definitely do it for $5/year. I have an older iPad 2 I could repurpose as an additional monitor, or better yet, a digitizer tablet.

3) Go sleazeball and maximize short-term revenue: mine your user's private data, false advertising, the works.

4) Pivot into a changed world, and introduce something to add a lot of additional value. That requires vision, aggressive engineering, etc. Most such pivots fail, but some do work.

By far the biggest risk is to do nothing. That's a choice in itself.

Personally, if I were in your shoes, I'd think through remote work and remote teaching right now, and see how to best support that. That's the growth model. iPads have digitizers, spare cameras, etc. all of which can be awesome for this sort of work. So do many other devices. Cross-marketing can be huge here too (cheap software, expensive hardware up-sells, or expensive integrations). You can often make more money as part of a solution in an ecosystem than as a solution.

Best of luck.
Normally you only need to adjust autovacuum settings per table if your tables have a very large number of rows:

https://lob.com/blog/supercharge-your-postgresql-performance...
Not exactly. It is much more common than it was a couple decades ago for jobs to require a bachelors degree as a minimum. You can argue that the intrinsic educational value of a 4-year-degree has become diluted, but the (unfortunate) reality is that having a degree is a baseline requirement to even get an interview.

That's different than a computer science/engineering degree being devalued to the point where it's no longer more attractive than any other college degree.