skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not sure what this has to do with the situation at hand, where a user who was a part of a human data entry team dealing with metrics around oil rigs and live oil pipeline data decided to automate their data entry dayjob.

You keep bringing up the oil fields, oil pipeline, etc. The original commented did not indicate that this is the purpose, and nor did he indicate the importance of said data, or the cost of the loss. I think I have an idea to what he is referring to, and the data is not that critically important. If it has some importance, there will be a paper trail. As another commenter said, they either have a process to audit the validity of data entry or they don't. Whether it was hand entered or automated is irrelevant.

Throughout this thread you've been arguing from extremes, invoking cases where such a thing could be disastrous, etc and using that as a general purpose argument. No one is saying there aren't occasions where IT should not interfere - I've acknowledged that there are cases where they should. There's nothing to indicate that the original commenters use case is one of those.

And this is what people in the thread are caring about: Someone who has no idea about the problem interfering with a perfectly fine methodology.

I could go on and address your other points in this and other comments, but I don't want to discuss this with someone who doesn't seem to understand the problem domain at all.
non paywalled:

https://eresearch.fidelity.com/eresearch/evaluate/news/basic...

Exchanges all adhere to KYC, so this is relatively low risk for established financial institutions who are already familiar with commonly accepted methods of money laundering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer

Tinfoiled among us could see the limited incursion of federal oversight into this venture as a natural progression from the existing system by which corporations and dynastic elites funnel wealth into traditional Cayman/Geneva strongboxes which have a tedious habit of being exposed to the press, to a system of truly untraceable laundering.

Combine this with the 2020 creation of Privacy ICAO Addresses in ADS-B transponders and it becomes clear that the cloistered elite really do not want you so much as thinking of them.
Yeah, calling this a trend would be stretching this a bit. From what I have seen myself and heard from friends in other FAANG or other medium/big tech companies, a lot of
employees prefer to work from office and are not liking the current WFH situation. I know of one survey inside a big company where majority of the people voted for being in the office for at least a few days of the week once the situation is better.
As someone who has a B2B startup there is almost nothing in the open source space for Marketing/Sales Ops. And anything that does exist is really low quality.

And it's because (a) most developers aren't exposed to non-Engineering parts of the company so they have no understanding of what problem to solve and (b) it is incredibly lucrative to build a proprietary SaaS solution.
The two camps are "those who believe humans are special" and "those who believe strong AI can exist". The only reason you see people even arguing computers can never be conscious, is so we don't have to face the possibility of creating and enslaving a machine callable of suffering.

The authors are certainly moving the goal posts when they concede that 4/5 humans in a vegetative state have no consciousness, but a full simulation of a healthy human mind never should be considered self aware. And yet in the same breath claim this lack of consciousness allows you to destroy a robot in your front yard, but stay startlingly silent on what that means for those same in the vegetative state.
People who require "print, sign, scan" do so for the purpose of avoiding forgery, not because they benefit from any other aspect of the procedure. So long as you aren't putting someone else's signature onto the document, everything is kosher because you've deprived them of nothing given that forgery was successfully avoided.

It's like if all devices in your house have no internet connection, and your ISP support rep asks you to reboot your computer. You say "Ok it just rebooted" without rebooting because the reason for the procedure is simply to ensure that it's not an issue local to one device, and you have ensured that for them (albeit by alternative means).
Sagemath is a big package that includes sympy.
Sorry, I phrased that wrong, I'm not talking about the numbers exactly at 10% and 90%. I mean the total of 0-10 and the total of 90-100. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...

It's not the people at 90% that are getting way too much money. It's the people above them.
> Why would create react app add more run-time dependencies? Isn't that just Babel and stuff used for building?

You can see all the dependencies it installs by running:

$ npx create-react-app my-app

> Also, with TypeScript, Babel becomes completely unnecessary.

Right, as per my comment it's also my preferred approach:

> My preference these days is to avoid npm/yarn all together and just use TypeScript watch

In general I prefer Vue over React, but I prefer to use vanilla TypeScript & UMD deps to develop with either.

> Many templates still include it by default to match the JS version

It's what the React team is recommending to start with [1]:

> Create React App is a comfortable environment for learning React, and is the best way to start building a new single-page application in React.

[1] https://reactjs.org/docs/create-a-new-react-app.html#create-...
As someone who already programs in multiple high-level languages, I feel that the Rust book hits the sweet spot for me. It doesn't go over basic programming concepts which I already know, and focuses on fundamental, unique concepts of Rust. I feel that the scope is pretty close to perfect as well, it doesn't try to cover every single detail. (The Rustonomicon serves as Part 2 for me)
How to Use Linux Screen
If your employer thinks you're in California, they'll tell the California tax authorities that you are. CA will use that as evidence that you owe them a big chunk of your income. If you don't pay, you'll have to fight. To win, you'll probably have to prove that you misled your employer, which will probably result in your getting fired for it. If you lose, CA can force your employer to take the tax out of your salary, so you'll pay California anyway plus you'll probably have to pay the place you actually live if you've done anything to establish residence. Along the way, any number of other unpredictable problems can arise (bad credit rating, legal threats, ongoing disputes with entities that don't understand or care that you've surrendered, etc.)

Good luck with all of that.
Why not healthcare while we are at it?
It’s been in the complaint list for over a decade now.
Well, if you look at it that way then Powerpoint is just one of microsoft’s acquisitions. After a certain period an acquisition becomes fully native to that business. In my view BusinessObjects passed that point with SAP a while ago.
“20 Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation” or “ Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect“ both By Ian Stevenson.

I’m a heavy duty skeptic but these books pushed me over the edge away from scientific materialism towards a broader view of reality where consciousness survives death.

Excellent Well executed research.
Research shows that eating food puts people in the mood for romance, but no one is going to claim that lunch is required for sentience.
I'm also strongly suggest these three animes you suggested for iyashikei than moe.
Other good stuff: Yuru Camp, Is the order a rabbit?, The helpful fox Senko-san, Nekopara
Huh, hadn't considered this. But it absolutely makes sense. United Fruit Co. used to be larger than Google in today-dollars.

"The Fish That Ate the Whale" by: Rich Cohen is a phenomenal read.
Sorry, I'm a long term Windows user but not very proficient. That can't be there entire contents of the bat file, can it? What else goes in there?
I wondered about this as well. How could they (non-extra-legally) forbid the job move?
This is wild. Apparently there's an additional allegation where they're listing restaurants they don't represent as closed.

https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1272537/bar-says-...
They're too tasty to ignore the edible aspect. Also knowing which ones are edible (and ones that are not) is a survival skill.
Upon reading again I think it is clear what you meant, and I should apologise for jumping in to comment a bit too quickly!
> When I send a payment through my bank, PayPal, or even Western Union, I am always aware of how much the middleman charges and what their rent is.

Maybe for sending money and gifts, but not for payments. PayPal doesn’t list merchant fees when you check out.

If you pay with your bank account’s debit or credit card, you don’t see those merchant or interchange fees itemized anywhere either.

> Food delivery is a middleman: it processes orders on behalf of restaurants.

Food delivery also brings the food to your house. An ordering system processes orders.
Just bought the wonderful native git client Fork, even though it works for free and the Electron GitHub Desktop is also free.
why did you make it public?
Something it took me a long time to learn is that meaning isn't a "thing". You can't quantify it or find it through reductionism. Reductionism leads, eventually, to nihilism. But that doesn't mean meaning isn't real; it just doesn't survive the translation. You have to be present in the momentary reality and open up and see it in front of you. It isn't the iron waiting to be purified by process, it's all the other stuff around it.

(I'm making a lot of assumptions about what you're talking about and what your background is; if you're truly struggling with this, I always recommend therapy)
They are a remote distributed team. I don't think their employees would value having to arrange their workspaces to accommodate a big screen set up high and at a distance from their workstation.
Open for profile feedback – Mentoring – Sharing past jon-hunting experience
In this uncertain times, I want to try & help out people who are either laid off or looking for job. I am no expert in any of these but I can try by giving back some of my time to help in anyway I can. I'm posting a link below to my calendar with 15 minutes slot.

Please feel free to reach out to me:
1. If you want to know about my past experiences with job-hunting (interview prep, strategy or resources)
2. Resume/profile feedback & proofreading
3. To chat or share anything that's on your mind.
4. Anything else that I didn't cover above & you feel I can help with.

You can book the slot using
https://calendly.com/utsav-p-shah/15mins
or you can book a slot via the Github Pages website.
https://utsavpshah.github.io/
I don't know. Maybe this time is different.

I have this book from 1880 about steam locomotives, where the preface talks about how all the most ambitious people are going into steam engineering. Which they were, for a while.

The answer might be, until something better comes along.
How is it different than trickle down economics? Won’t those coffee shops just be starbucks and grocery stores be Whole Foods and all the profit from them returned to shareholders?
You're imagining wrong
This. I simply cannot even begin to go into the sheer magnitude of the number of ways the fundamental state of a neural simulator changes once you understand that nothing exists monotonically. It's all about the loops, and the interplay between them. So much of our conscious experience is shaped by the fact that at any one time billions upon billions of neural circuits are firing along shared pathways; each internal action fundamentally coloring each emergent perception through the timbre it contributes to the perceptual integration of external stimuli.

It isn't enough to flip switches on and off, and to recognize weights, or even to take a fully formed brain network and simulate it. You have to understand how it developed, what it reacts to, how body shapes mind shapes body, and so on and so forth.

What we're doing now with NN's is mistaking them for the key to making an artificial consciousness, when all we're really playing with is the ML version of one of those TI calculators with the paper roll the accountants and bookkeepers use. They are subunits that may compose together to represent xmcrystalized functional units of expert system logic; but they are no closer to a self-guided, self-aware entity than a toaster.
As far as desktop software, the only software I pay for are subscriptions to Office 365 and JetBrains R#. I don’t really use my personal
computer for too much of anything besides Office and a Plex server - I paid for a Plex Pass solely to support the developer.

On mobile, I’ll pay to remove ads and I won’t use any software or games where I can’t remove ads.

With the economy in the crapper, I’m starting to voluntarily pay more to support my favorite content producers.
Yes but who am I going to go after if another car hits me if its autonomous? The manufacturer which is a 10 year plus lawsuit taking up a large portion of my life. I definitely think keeping the responsibility to the person driving the vehicle is the only reason the death toll is somewhat acceptable to society.
> there is almost nothing in the open source space for Marketing/Sales Ops

There is https://erpnext.com/ which is completely FOSS built on Frappe framework. If anything, it is rather higher quality than most SASS solutions out there.
Facebook is worse than delivery companies. No way I'm doing that.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23123088
I'm getting redirected from www.sdf.org to sdf.org, but now I'm curious.
In isolation, maybe. But in reality students are competing for limited educational resources. Cheating can mean the difference between admission and rejection to courses, majors, scholarships, and matriculation at top schools.

It’s no different from cheating in sports. Yeah, the sports cheater is probably damaging their body and potentially harming their natural potential. At the same time, cheating may let them make the team and even the big leagues. That can change a person’s entire career, just as cheating to get into Harvard can.
Perhaps, but keep in mind that physics is a human description of the universe, not the universe itself. So it may also not be data and computation, as those might just be useful abstractions we create to model reality. Same with math.

But that gets into metaphysics, which is notoriously tricky.
Make a note for the support people to ignore fraud attempts matching the details.

Then move on.
What about the people who use the app instead of ordering directly? They lose 30% on that sale for no reason.
It might feel native on platforms where 'native' doesn't mean anything (Windows, Linux), but the only native thing about it on macOS is the fact it has proper global menu bars — which is something provided by Electron for free.

Everything else is custom.
IMHO, Prometheus is not complicated. In fact, it was designed to be simple and dumb. I mean, it does not provide any production grade scalability out of box, and people have to implement their own add-ons and external storage solutions (thanos, cortex, M3DB...) to make Prometheus even usable in big clusters. Just because you can buy DataDog and be done doesn't mean the paid product itself is easy to understand.

What I like most about Prometheus, are PromQL, pull-based model, and its open source ecosystem. I use it both at work and in my homelab (which is just a bunch of Intel NUC bare metal boxes), and it has been great. I can't speak for any other individuals or companies, but there are tons of learning materials and active community where you can get help.

Also, when it comes down to application level metrics, you have to educate your developers to add instrumentation in their own code anyways. And I think exposing a small HTTP server is far easier than pushing data to a remote server.
Internal access to developers is absurdly structured a lot of the time.

One company a friend worked for billed internal developers at twice what IBM would charge for projects.

At other companies, dev time is allocated without any kind of cost analysis whatsoever. It reminded our Romanian business analyst of the Soviet Union.
See https://app.diagrams.net/ -- you'll recognize the style.
My understanding is that those "days leading to the lockdowns" were the days after the first lockdown was announced in the US.
Where is most of your adoption coming from? Which verticals? Which horizontal groups?
Low-carbon power around the world (map, charts, ranking)
Surprised that no one created this before
As far as I'm aware, the arbitrage mechanism works both ways. Continuing your analogy, authorized participants are able to trade the underlying turkeys for new tokens, or redeem the tokens for turkeys. When the price of a token is bidded up, its price becomes attractive relative to the turkeys. Authorized participants buy the underlying turkeys, create new tokens and then sell those tokens to take a risk free profit. This continues as long as there is a price mismatch, and ensures that ETF prices are in sync with the underlying assets.
This looks quite good and pricing seems reasonable. I wonder why I’ve not come across it before. Anyone have experience of this vs Electron?
I think a lot of smart or upper middle class people would still want to live near other smart or upper middle class people even if jobs were remote.

Humans are social animals and I think it's common for people in privileged positions to want to associate with others like themselves.
Consultants, lawyers, physicians, engineers, architects, designers, board members... lots of occupations with high status and/or pay without managing people. The 'how many people' you manage metric is just a heuristic, and maybe believed by people stuck in the middle of business hierarchies.

Agree on 'Staff' and 'Senior staff'... military terms that never caught on generally. Not sure why they have started being adopted by some companies... I guess in larger companies people want their hierarchy and pay scales and whatnot.
Suggestions welcome! This was only my 3rd interview since taking over the show, and I have a lot to learn.
This happens to me a lot, but it's basically a kind of technical debt. Most of the time the upfront time investment to automate something properly versus doing it manually is hard to justify. Especially if it's a task that only I understand and now I need to document the problem and the automation instead of just the problem.

Business logic doesn't make for elegant APIs that I can hide behind a script and throw on a server, even if it's repetitive or tedious.
> Is the US effectively pushing their dept to other nations?

It's actually the exact opposite of this. Other nations, such as Germany, are hungry to run an export surplus. Since the USA is only willing to buy foreign goods with dollars, this means that Germany must accumulate dollars as a result of its export driven economy.

The whole notion that being a net exporter is virtuous and being a net importer is reproachable is obvious nonsense. Everyone can't be a net exporter after all, a counterparty is required. That said I find the notion that a nation could grow its GDP by "exporting" in the form of producing goods and then launching them into space comical, to say the least.
Maybe a generational thing? Not sure when you went to school, I went to a midsized state school 3 years ago and mostly referred to professors by their first or last name. I think this is more common in CS perhaps? I don't think my physics friends did the same thing as often though.
Actually in the context of racial discrimination, I think ethnicity is correct. The true nitpick is that it should be “Indian ethnicities”, plural.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/tempfile.html

>>> tempfile.mkstemp(suffix='.pdf')
(4, '/tmp/tmp0g7l3uq7.pdf')

one could take it a step further...

>>> tempfile.mkstemp(suffix='.pdf', prefix=uuid.uuid4().hex)
(5, '/tmp/7b7881400a2348bfae63d37b970d4489pqhz_1g2.pdf')
Cal State Will Keep Classes Online in the Fall
How to Install and Switch Desktop Environments in Fedora
True. Looks like only 81 people took it in 5 years. IEEE also seems to offer a certification.

In any case, software engineering seems to be considered a legitimate engineering discipline.
I don’t see it happening for the US that way. The increased cost of infrastructure would probably be too much? Unless the US figures out how to lower construction/maintenance costs reliably, I don’t see those features being added. It feels like we’re already pretty low on features... It takes years for faded lines to be repainted on the road.
As I see it, processing isn't visual programming, it's a text language for making visuals. Certainly though, it's a superb project.
How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (2018)
The fractal flowers and recursive roots:
The most lovely hack I’ve seen.
Admittedly I'm in "consider a cow to be a sphere"-territory here.

For clarity's sake:
I'm comparing (roughly) stats like Italy and UKs deaths/known_cases ratios (which are closer to 10% than 1%)
and
Like a new New Zealand which is between 1% and 0.1%.

But looking quickly at the data one order of magnitude is totally justified.

"Hospitals are pretty good at surging" must break down against exponential growth at some stage. I doubt whether exponentially increasing your treatment capability would be possible in most cases.
This is similar to Gell-Mann amnesia in that I had relatively little to do with writing this law ;) (For what it's worth, I think it's likely descriptively accurate, but not sure it's an observation worth the namespace.)
Your post is quite good at explaining half of the problem. But you're ignoring the other half and, despite some excellent snark in the first paragraph, the other half of the problem is also real.

The money will be used to buy food - if there is any. The food can be eaten - if there is any.

We need the people who are close to the edge to not fall off because they miss some work. We really do. But we also need the economy to continue to function to produce things like food. That's ars's point and, despite your snark, it is also a valid one.
What Shape Recovery?
Ironically when I worked in a deli, we actually were told the dates the health inspector would turn up. You can imagine the day before was spent cleaning and scrubbing!
> The perspective “of you haven’t worked with SAP you are in a small org” is wrong.

The fact that you are arguing against this might be why you are getting downvoted. The original comment was saying “if you are in a small org you probably haven’t worked with SAP”, which is not the same thing.

Edit for further clarification: I can see how it might look like they were arguing what you stated, but it was more of a Bayesian inference. Many HN readers are at a small company, therefore a plausible reason that an arbitrary HN reader might not have heard of SAP would be that they are in the large pool of HN readers that are {in small companies and, therefore, do not work with SAP}
Actually, I'm really wondering how all these cryptocurrencies are legal. Algorand also started by selling its initial coins, how is that legal?
That kind of software is not fun or sexy, so people have to be paid to write it. Same goes for accounting where there are few open source solutions. Boring as hell, and profitable.
They aren't allowed to have racial quotas anymore, but it was commonly done before the 2003 supreme court ruling that ended the practice.
It should still be strictly easier than opening up a branch in another country, which large tech companies are already doing a lot. When the gate of remote working opens, you no longer need to fix a head count with a particular location, and that opens up tons of possibilities.