skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do the same thing: I value a 100% effort let's say at 250k, if I get paid 100k I give my ~40%.

So far it has worked well. I get paid similar to my peers, and doing the same amount of work takes around ~40% of my day, although it's really variable.

I tried to work harder, but it's not worth it. I got small pay rises, but far bellow my effort. It was also psychologically harder as people would try to stop me one way or the other. With this dynamic, I can have peaceful work days now: I learn new technologies or spend time in the games room (with my family now), and almost never need to stay longer. In contrast, I see my peers working at home at
10-11pm or even on weekends to finish off things for the sprint. I even realized giving more difficult solutions makes my work life much easier, because people can't keep up :) (I have tests I don't commit and other automation projects that make my work much simpler).

It's ok when companies say this, but I have to hide my situation as I probably would get fired (or given more work) if people get to know what I do.
Not OP but I think it's more about the importance of the said data, number of collections to think about and so on. Regarding your point, I would guess some index changes might have had a significant impact here.
> Most people work more than they need to because they realize that the future is uncertain and having savings will be beneficial if there's trouble at some point in the future.

It really does contradict the above statement. This "random singular statistic" is a broad survey of the American populace which concludes that 58% of Americans do not have savings worth mentioning. Those people are clearly not working more than they need to because the "future is uncertain and having savings will be beneficial", otherwise they'd have savings. And 58% is in fact a majority, so the "most people" in the above statement makes it unequivocally false.

If you have "better" stats that don't falsify your premise, I'm happy to look at them.
Researchers show transport of mechanical energy, even through damaged pathways
Well the health related lockdown means they can enact unpopular legislation or make unpopular moves and the opposition is cornered. They can’t protest and risk health, giving authorities a proximate reason to crack down even harder in the name of health... so nice opportune time .
Yes

Our use case is dynamic dashboards generation where a document contains multiple components for our frontend to render. Having a simple unstructured database really helps us build the dashboard efficiently. Using a relational database would increase the development time of each dashboard tremendously and having relational integrity would make it even worse.

Having a simple document with everything needed is a much nicer experience. Granted, our use case is very limited and it is read only.
Edit: I'm an idiot.
I don't think that's what he is saying, but that is true. transfer learning for domain adaption is quite common, not sure how it works for behaviors, but if you were using say... a common controller for both the games then yes, I imagine it would take significantly less iterations to train.
Does the judgement of record dealers of what a good collection is match what an archive wants? I.e. what does define a "garbage LP"?
Not sure what you mean. I didn't mean to undermine dolphins; they are highly intelligent species and definitely altruistic. The point is simply that they don't save a drowning human because they care about a random drowning mammal, but because they mistake it to a drowning dolphin because we both have lungs. Not sure that has anything to do with what you said.
This reminds me of how Jonathan Franzen writes on a giant old laptop with no internet. (Forgot where I read this.) Different dimension of keeping it simple.

Interesting to contrast with the likes of grammarly or google suggestions. I can’t stand having that stuff in my ear while writing. However, I did have a friend who was a non-native English speaker and he liked it because he felt less self-conscious about screwing up grammar elements when writing.
There is no information that he is sole survivor. There is no information about how many survivors there are exactly.

Is he really lucky? Any person taking part in plane crash is unlucky in my view. Also "survived" does not yet mean he is unhurt.
Yes. Though we don't really "need" oil for that. You can make plastics out of any source of carbon and hydrogen.

Oil is just convenient, because you need less energy to make the plastic than if you start with eg water and CO2.
Ha. Same thing for me. Made me rush to the phone as I heard the number it wanted to call.
I've never found those memorable. On the GitHub project I've contributed most to I can vaguely recall who has and does not have a user-specified avatar and what that looks like, but I can not recall any details of the auto-generated avatars for other people.
This is cool! In the spirit of "an app can be a home-cooked meal", I wrote something similar in the last few weeks: https://github.com/jasonahills/wemustgoforward
Unemployment is pre-funded through unemployment insurance taxes for the working years of the recipient. Social Security is pre-funded through SS taxes for the working years of the recipient.

UBI is pre-funded by...? Nothing?
Where did 'six feet apart' come from?
Uh, they invented it. I guess they forgot.
This called transfer learning and is an active area of research. It doesn't work nearly as well as it "should" if "AI" was really Artificial "Human Intelligence".
Yeah, this is a great tactic for those inclined. I'm afraid I'm too impatient. I can type much faster than I can write long-hand, and there's a better chance of my being able to decipher it later. :)
Well, and it's further complicated by the context of what's being asked. Coming from Waterloo Region, if I ask what time it is in London, I almost certainly mean in England. But if I ask for directions to get to London, I probably mean the one that's a few hours away by car.

So it's not as simple as just fitting these queries into generic templates and sending all instances of $LOCATION to a common geocoder.
The modern day equivalent of writing a stern letter and just leaving it in a drawer.
Yes, I understand that. It is indeed far more common to hear the term negative income tax than with "bracket" at the end. I was giving an extra detail to distinguish the term from the truncated jargon the above poster appeared to misunderstand. (It is NOT a "negative income tax rate" but effectively a bracket that owes a negative tax liability thanks to the tax credit/UBI/call it mana if you want to.
I worry that it's not as easy as just tricking some cells into growing into what they want - you'll likely also need to replicate appropriate flow of energy, nutrients and signalling chemicals - i.e. basically fake the rest of the plant.
Sure, if they wanted to risk a war. That was the benefit of the agreement to the CCP: it gave them everything they wanted without having to risk war to get it. The only downside was that they just had to wait 50 years for the prize to fall into their lap.

What we’re seeing now is even just that extremely minor inconvenience is too much for Xi. He could get China everything he wants just by waiting. But he would rather tear up a signed treaty than wait.
From Cambridge (UK), you can take trains either to Liverpool or to Liverpool Street Station (in London). Refugees would often be released from a nearby detention center with a ticket and instructions to take the train to Liverpool. More than one ended up lost and befuddled in Liverpool Street.

[2nd-hand story from, likewise, 15 years ago. Accuracy not guaranteed]
Rich and poor don’t recover equally from epidemics
I wonder what the copyright implications of this are. Obviously it's Pacman, but none of the source is the same.
But do we have evidence that privately owned airlines have a smaller record of accidents and incidents than those not?
Religious belief can help relieve pain, say researchers (2008)
BP worker wins after Hitler meme case goes all the way to Federal Court
As someone that loves the "How it's made" videos: Do you have some videos or explained graphics of your work that can post here? (As another submissions.)

One of the problems is that making these videos require a lot of time. This video is 6 minutes long, but I guess it was at least a week of work, perhaps more
It is an unmitigated disaster.

Prior to the lockdowns, there were ~120 million people in the workforce. One-third has been knocked out, so the current workforce is 80 million, thus 50% of the current workforce has applied for unemployment. The last week's numbers indicate that just over 2% of the workforce was lost, which is the lowest percentage yet, but only a little lower than the previous week's. It is only so many more weeks we have left to have a percentage that can leave the workforce. There have never been millions of people losing their jobs in a week, now it is every week.

There are regular stories about restaurants opening, but when I read them I can see clearly the restaurants are unlikely to be able to survive profitably under the new rules. I'm not sure what the rules look like for other employers.

Are manufacturers going to be required to retool their entire production line to meet these requirements? This is more likely to lead the manufacturer to at least temporarily shut down, if not permanently.

How are apparel stores supposed to make money? And wedding gown makers? Is no one to try on clothes before purchase any more? These businesses will likely remain closed until the full ramifications of the new legislation are made clear.

I'm sure there are many examples of these things everywhere, so likely what will happen is businesses will just open and ignore the rules, and with such rampant rule-breaking either entire city staff are converted to rule enforcement, or the rules are selectively enforced (e.g., cronies shut down competitors), though even that won't work out because employees will sue employers out of business.

Employees let-go due to lockdowns are making some nice free money, and incentivizing them to go back to work before their free money dries up is incredibly difficult. It's not a clear equation, but the employee is looking at incremental earnings, meaning that going to work for 40 hours may not be worth an extra $150 in take home, so either the employer has to offer more or wait until someone comes in to work.

There is also the still undiscussed issue of the rolling regional lockdowns that Fauci and others described earlier in all of this. I suspect most people, including business owners, did not catch these stories and it seems like they've been a bit memory-holed, but if they do enact such policies, then I suspect there will be a domino effect where other businesses choose to close before they are further in arrears.

There are also secondary effects coming in the form of incredible government budget deficits. The likely policy response will be more debt and increased taxes, but this typically makes business growth more sluggish.
Oh, we will have more geopolitical crisis too, for sure. Borders are easy to close but hard to open, and closed borders increase geopolitical friction. Even in mild-tempered Scandinavia tensions are currently rising, you can imagine how things will get in other areas.
At some point about a year ago I noticed that I could no longer ask my Google Home devices "what's the weather?". I'd just get a generic "I don't understand" response. But more specific queries such as "What's the weather in Seattle?" would work.

After a couple of weeks of this, I somehow got the idea that it was related to the devices' configured locations. And sure enough, telling the Home that I lived in the next city over fixed the problem.

So I started a binary search and eventually found that the issue was limited to my ~10x20 block Seattle neighborhood - basically the outline shown when I search for its name in Google Maps. I then also realized that it applied to weather queries on my phone as well, but since the phone uses GPS rather than a specific location setting, I could only reproduce the broken and working behaviors by crossing one of the neighborhood boundary streets.

Turns out it was some long-standing configuration issue with Knowledge Graph's entry for my neighborhood, and some recent code change in location-based weather queries began butting heads with it. Luckily I worked at Google at the time and was able to track down and pester people that could help fix the issue.
C-X C-Z cat > my.txt

-- S'il vous plaît
My approach is to do heavy writing in a plain text editor, then I paste into a word doc and format. Having to worry about spell correct and auto-indent doing weird stuff, grammar suggestions, all very distracting when you're trying to brain-dump words into a document.
> One thing I will say as we do make a lot of “IN” queries as a result. You fetch a bunch of rows with a data loader and then you want to fetch a bunch of rows from some other table based on those first results so you end up with an IN query where you might have had crafted a JOIN if you were writing it by hand.

I don't know if it's common across other GraphQL implementations, but the graphql-java library lets you peek [0] into the selections so you can opt to limit data you select, execute a join instead of using an IN query, etc.

I've used this with good results when making a prototype graphql interface to our billing software, anything that had a 1:1 relationship with a parent record would get JOINed by the resolver, while 1:N or N:M relationships would execute separate queries.

[0]:https://www.graphql-java.com/documentation/v14/fieldselectio...
If only they had oil, we could do something...
That the whole shooting match right there. "just convenient" is meaningless - we don't make anything unless the cost/benefit works out. If we didn't have oil, it'd be safe to say we'd never have adopted ubiquitous plastic at all.
Discovery about the edge of fusion plasma could help realize fusion power
What made it interesting to gamers was that its sprite handling was well in excess of that offered by the 16-bit consoles of the time, allowing some very accurate ports of early nineties Japanese arcade games. Combined with the big box packaging, this led to many of these ports becoming expensive collectors items.

Being one of the earlier instances of a fully integrated CD-ROM computer with x86 underpinnings, it also saw a lot of PC ports, some of which were enhanced in interesting ways, such as a fully voiced version of Ultima VI.
I think formats with month and day before year are popular (and possibly emerged originally) for cases in which the year's only really included in case you're not sure whether you're reading something old and the date's already passed, that is, the date is referring to something 12 months or less away, which is probably a very high percentage of dates people encounter day-to-day. This puts the most useful information up front. The alternative being dates that omit the year entirely, which are also very common.
Nice. Some people buy old Alphasmarts off of ebay.

Tools like Grammarly are great, but when I'm writing, I need to be left alone with the words. The squiggles come later, when I'm editing and revising.
Well, Tesla currently sells a 50kWh battery that also happens to have a really nice car attached to it for $35000.

That’s $700 per kWh. It stands to reason that home charging systems will soon come down in price, even if they don’t end up largely being eaten by BEVs with bidirectional charging ;)
My understanding is that NATS (a protocol) and NATS streaming were related but separate:

https://github.com/nats-io/nats-site/issues/217

(The issue is from 2017 but illustrates a distinction)
Netflix will start cancelling inactive members' subscriptions
I have the rarer luxury of an early gmail address with a first initial last name prefix.

Lately I’ve been getting emails for things like trip confirmations, flight confirmations, appliance repair receipts, medication ready for pickup emails. The person is clearly on the side of the country and shares a common last name for where they live.

Anyway, turns out it’s an older gentleman who shares my same first initial and same last name. For whatever reason he signs up with my email address. Not sure what to do because I don’t have a way to reach him.
Unless you can hire Cassandra engineers who have enough experience maintaining clusters, or you can afford to pay DSE to do that for you, working with Cassandra will be quite the burden.

The advancement of PostgrSQL has been amazing, and much credit is due indeed to the NoSQL community’s innovations. I cannot comment of MongoDB except to say that it is quite different than Cassandra.

To summarize, be sure you really need Cassandra and are able to dedicate the appropriate resources to it before taking the plunge.
Anyone who thought that agreement was going to be respected was a fool.
> Where does such unpredictability come from? How can Siri transcribe the words correctly but fail to deliver the right answer?

Voice assistants generally use both the text transcription and a bunch of contextual metadata as input. That metadata could include things like what's currently visible on the screen, your location, your recent queries, etc.

So even though the underlying algorithms powering the assistant may be deterministic, the input data between two seemingly identical queries could vary quite a bit.

For instance, Siri almost certainly has context around the previous questions you've asked. It would be reasonable to assume that if an assistant received two identical questions back-to-back the initial answer was wrong.

In that scenario, the assistant might decide to use the a different answer (perhaps one that had a lower ranking) in an attempt to get it right.
Once again, "but America".

What in the world does the US being in the South China Sea have to do with the topic at hand: China sending their secret police into Hong Kong to "police" the protest movement (ie. detain and disappear people with impunity).

This knee-jerk reaction to complain about America every time China's misdeeds are reported on is growing tiresome.
You get arguably better results (though mostly the same) if you leave out the '+=':

https://www.google.com/search?q=operator+python

Edit: Let me walk that back a little. The highlighting may be helpful in some cases and it follows that the operator search is better than I'd noticed in the past. Still an indexing and security nightmare to have loose user-def'd punctuation running over data. Go Big-G, doing what's hard.
Another huge problem for these assistants is unusual band names. I have yet to successfully convince either Siri or Google Assistant to "play Einstürzende Neubauten".
Same story for education [1]. I won't be moved by cries of "we're exceptional" until the US actually tries adopting the policies that have worked so well for Europe and Canada.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/pisa/PISA%202018%20Insights%20and%20Int...
A fun fact about the FM Towns - several American games, originally for DOS, had unique and arguably superior FM Towns ports.

Big ones off the top of my head include LOOM (CD music, 256 colours, uncut dialogue), Wing Commander (fully reprogrammed as a 32-bit protected mode game that actually runs at a consistent speed) and Ultima VI (with Ultima VII-style keywords and a highly questionable voice track).
New pygmy seahorse species discovered, first of its kind in Africa
I'm a bit confused by your wording of your first sentence, honestly. Also, what's probably not the case? I feel that working at a big tech firm is akin to working in IB/consulting/law at this point in terms of pay/bonus (bonus at big tech being the RSUs as opposed to cash, but a "bonus" nonetheless).

I'd just like to best understand your point, as this is going to be an interesting topic we're going to see more and more in the coming months/years I think.
It really highlights how all language is incredibly ambiguous, and depends on all sorts of cultural and semantic contexts to disambiguate, despite the inherent ambiguity not being at all a problem for its users.

There's so much more to language than just a string of sounds or characters.
Sort of. Instead of mnemonics, I find it easier to remember when I know how a concept is derived from basic principles. So, first we observe that 1am and 1:00 in 24h format are the same time. Then, we consider the hour before that. That hour is 0 in 24h format. It also belongs to the same day. Since the day is split in two equal halves by AM/PM, then hour 0 in 24h format is hour X am, where X is the hour before 1 am. That is hour 12. Therefore, 12am is 0 o'clock.

The other fact that helps me remember is that 12 hour clocks were invented before the number 0, and afterwards 24h clocks are 0-based, so 12 on an old clock is the start of the am or pm cycle respectively because there is no 0. Really 12 should be 0 and then it all makes sense.
> I never understood the appeal of the JSON to SQL columns workflow.

The appeal is non-technical.

Writing good migrations, having tests around them to ensure they didn't leave the DB in an inconsistent state if a subset of them failed requires good understanding of a RDBMS and the specific product.

You'll be surprised how many engineers don't meet that criteria.

The JSON to SQL columns workflow allows any developer to offload what a RDBMS does into the client/server/bootstrap code.

At that point the DB is like a key-value store and you get to claim you are using Postgresql.

Is that what I would use if I had reliability and performance in mind?

No... but it's way cheaper (and quicker) to find devs who can do this (JSON to SQL columns workflow) than devs who can write well tested, reliable and non hacky migrations.

Often at a startup, reliability and performance have lower priority than getting some features out the door in a day.
khuey's interpretation was my assumption too having seen the Twitter pictures of the damaged nacelles, and lack of landing gear, during the first go-around. The RAT being deployed suggested to me some sort of hydraulics fault too; or maybe engines had failed at that point?

So, what would you say caused that damage?

https://mobile.twitter.com/PlaneSpottersPK/status/1263810587...
They buried the lede here:

> While Care19 does not rely on the recently released Apple-Google Exposure Notification API, Apple was involved in the vetting of the app

The way the article was written, it seemed like the app was using the Exposure Notification API but doesn’t say it wasn’t until half way through, and then says that the app was “vetted” by Apple.

Well, all apps are vetted by Apple, that’s how the iOS App Store process works. The article (and the Washington Post article this is based on) really don’t give details about how involved Apple was, making me believe that this was likely treated as a normal app and was vetted as a normal app.

In other words, I get the frustration with the app sending data to places it shouldn’t like FourSquare, which is pretty irresponsible for an app that’s supposed to be just for contact tracing, but I don’t really see how Apple is part of the problem.
Hands-On with Feature Engineering Techniques: Imputing Missing Values
It depends what you're writing. I find the writing time to not be a big impediment - for creative writing, I have to think about what's coming next anyway. If I were writing other things, it night make more of a difference.
Parallel invention! Do you want to be Newton or Leibniz?

I'll be honest. Your typewriter has a better enamel finish. :)
2018 video on Valve's use of deep learning for anti-cheat in CSGO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObhK8lUfIlc